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Catalogue description ROYSTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
This record is held by Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
| Reference: | NR7 |
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| Title: | ROYSTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH |
| Description: |
The United Reformed Church was founded in October 1972 by union of the Congregational Church in England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church of England. However not all the churches belonging to these two denominations agreed to accept the 1972 Scheme of Union. The records of those Hertfordshire churches which remained separate are catalogued under the reference NC. CLASSIFICATION SCHEME NR7/1 Church Books NR7/2 Church Meeting NR7/3 Deacons NR7/4 Registers NR7/5 Church Committees and Organisations NR7/6 Church Finance NR7/7 Church Property NR7/8 Sunday School NR7/10 Membership NR7/13 Miscellaneous UNITED REFORMED CHURCH RECORDS NR1 Barnet, Wood Street United Reformed Church NR2 Bushey United Reformed Church NR3 Barley United Reformed Church NR4 St Albans, Trinity United Reformed Church NR5 Letchworth Free Church NR6 Ware United Reformed Church NR7 Royston United Reformed Church NR8 Hitchin United Reformed Church NR9 Radlett United Reformed Church NR10 Wheathampstead United Reformed Church NR11 Hemel Hempstead, Adeyfield Free Church (affiliated to the United Reformed Church NR12 Bishops Stortford United Reformed Church NR13 Harpenden United Reformed Church NR14 Hertford United Reformed Church NR15 New Barnet United Reformed Church NR16 Knebworth United Reformed Church |
| Date: | 1794 - 1951 |
| Related material: |
For Walkern United Reformed Church see D/EX838 Further Reading Urwick, Non-Conformity in Hertfordshire Kingston, A History of Royston |
| Held by: | Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 34 files |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
The records were deposited in the Record Office on 18 July 1977 by the Church Secretary. Acc 1583 |
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Introduction There had been a meeting of Protestant dissenters in Royston since 1700. In 1706 the Old Meeting House was erected in the Middle Row in Kneesworth Street. In 1790 a dispute arose over doctrine and a group withdrew from the Old Meeting, to form a new Meeting. In 1791 a New Meeting house was built on another site in Kneesworth Street. The two Meetings continued to worship side-by-side until 1841, when a new building was erected for the Old Meeting in John Street and opened in 1843. The former building was converted into private houses. The two Meetings combined in May 1922 to form the Royston Congregational Church, which continued to meet in the New Meeting House in Kneesworth Street. The buildings in John Street were sold. In 1972, Royston Congregational Church, became Royston United Reformed Church, which closed c1982. The buildings in Kneesworth Street are now used as a museum. |
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