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Records of Bexleyheath Methodist Church
Catalogue reference: NCM/BH
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This record is about the Records of Bexleyheath Methodist Church dating from 1903-1985.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- NCM/BH
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of Bexleyheath Methodist Church
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1903-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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This collection includes minutes, registers, account books and correspondence
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <corpname>Bexleyheath Methodist Chapel, 1860-</corpname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 31 files
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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The records were deposited in 1987 and 1990
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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As early as 1843 reference can be found of cottage meetings being held by "Wesleyans on the Heath", and from 1845 to 1850 a wooden chapel on the north side of the Broadway was in use. However in 1850 the chapel was sold, though in 1857 prayer meetings were resumed in a cottage in Royal Oak Road. In 1860 the first established Bexleyheath Methodist Church was opened in North Street with a capacity for 150 people.
By the beginning of the twentieth century the church had become inadequate for the increasing number of members and in 1903 a new building fund was inaugurated and by 1909 a new site was acquired at the corner at Church Road and the Broadway. The present church was completed in 1926 and a new school hall was added in 1939.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/b703b83d-05f4-4888-bc78-2e3a1e172f3b/
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Records of Bexleyheath Methodist Church