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Records of the Victoria Park Baptist Church
Catalogue reference: W/VPB
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This record is about the Records of the Victoria Park Baptist Church dating from 1867-1986.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- W/VPB
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Victoria Park Baptist Church
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1867-1986
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records include the following series:
W/VPB/1 MEETING PAPERS
W/VPB/1/1 Minutes of Deacons' Meetings
W/VPB/1/2 Minutes of Church Meetings
W/VPB/1/3 Sunday school Teachers' Minutes
W/VPB/2 REGISTERS
W/VPB/2/1 Membership Registers
W/VPB/2/2 Communion Registers
W/VPB/3 FINANCIAL RECORDS
W/VPB/3/1 Ledgers
W/VPB/3/2 General Cash Books
W/VPB/3/3 Sunday School Cash Books
W/VPB/4 PRINTED MATERIAL
W/VPB/4/1 Manuals
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- TH/8617
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <corpname>Victoria Park Baptist Church</corpname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 28 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 on indefinate loan in August 1994 and catalogued by Malcolm Barr-Hamilton in June 1997.
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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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The present Victoria Park Baptist Church (then known as Grove Road Baptist Chapel) opened in December 1869. The church's origins can be traced to the early 1860s when the Reverend Allan Curr (who subsequently became minister of the Presbyterian Church in Bow) opened Peel-Grove Hall for preaching purposes. In 1865 he established a church at the junction of Roman and Grove Roads which was called "Union Church" and was open to communicants of any denomination though members of the Baptist persuasion were preferred.
This venture proved unsuccessful and in 1867 the church was purchased by the London Baptist Association. The building was sold to the Church of England in 1868, becoming the church of St. Barnabas, and a new site was aquired a little further north in Grove Road.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/c908e658-1b9f-4671-bd2a-c39e6750a94d/
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Records of the Victoria Park Baptist Church