Catalogue description STOCKWELL GREEN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

This record is held by Lambeth Archives

Details of IV/167
Reference: IV/167
Title: STOCKWELL GREEN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Description:

Introduction

 

Stockwell Green New Chapel was built as a congregational chapel in 1798, although it did not acquire its first pastor, Thomas Jackson, until 1801. In 1816 the freehold was purchased by the trustees of the Hackney Theological Seminary. The chapel was rebuilt in 1850 as the Stockwell Green Congregational Church during the ministry of David Thomas.

 

The church was active in providing charitable works for the local area, including the Stockwell Institute which provided day schools and a lecture and meeting hall, sunday schools, benevolent society and coal club.

 

In 1972 the church because a congregation of the United Reformed Church. In 1987 the church building was sold to the Khatme Mubuwaat islamic organisation; the congregation moved temporaily to St. Andrews church before occupying its current building at 60 - 68, Stockwell Road in 1991.

 

Contents

 

IV/167/1 Minutes

 

IV/167/2 Church Membership

 

IV/167/3 Finance Records

 

IV/167/4 Buildings and Administration

 

IV/167/5 Church Organisations

 

IV/167/6 Miscellaneous

Date: 1799 - 1986
Held by: Lambeth Archives, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Stockwell Green United Reformed Church, London

Physical description: volumes and files
Access conditions:

Open; church minutes open after thirty years.

Immediate source of acquisition:

1991/26

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