UNION CHAPEL ARCHIVES CATALOGUE Reordered and added to June 2009 Revised and box nos added May 2010 Within each category arranged in approx chronological order Numbers in square brackets are box nos, the letters refer to how deep in the box (A being at the bottom) What appear to be duplicate entries from the previous catalogue are retained in case they refer to different items, but are queried in italics Accounts 4 octavo bound volumes of Union Chapel accounts annual reports and miscellanea 1858 – 1876 [3A] 1876 – 1888 [3B] 1878 – 1889 [3C] 1890 – 1899 [3D] Tennis club – see under Minute Books – Tennis Club Account (?) of bazaar committee (?) References to Richard Cloudesley trust. Register of Derby and Joan Club (payment records) 1/9/1965 -- 10/1966 Brown hardcover ex government indexed volume 13" x 8" [8] Band of Hope Union Chapel Sunday School Band of Hope Pledge Book 26 cm by 21 cm bound volume with half leather cover and spine and marbled boards, labelled in red leather 1/3/1879 – 1921 [2A] Bills Of Quantities [all in the safe] Prepared by SIdney Young (Quantity Surveyor) of 15 Duke Street, Adelphi W1, for James Cubitt, Aug-Sept 1875 Memorandum note ( to the Building Committee?) from Sidney Young 24th Sept 1875 with notes on the conditions of tender. These are unpriced Clients’ copies: The Main Building 1 Bill 1 Sept 1875 “2 “ “ 3 Aug 1875 “ 4 Aug 1875 Aug 1875 Masonry “ 5 Sept 1875 “6 “ “7 “ 8 Aug 1875 “ 9 Sept 1875 “ 10 “ “ 11 “ “ 12 “ “ 13 “ “ 14 “ “ 15 “ “ Preliminary + Sundry Excavator + Drainage Bricklayer + Waller Mason Sketches to Illustrate the Labours on the Tiler Carpenter Joiner + Ironmonger The Seats Floor of the Chapel Founder + Smith Plasterer Plumber + Zinc Worker Glazier Painter + Stainer The Tower + Spire Addendum Bill Summary The School Buildings Etc Bill 1 Aug 1875 “2 “ “3 “ “4 “ Excavator + Drainage Mason, Tiler, Slater + Slater Mason Carpenter, Joiner & Ironmonger Founder + Smith Completion of Tower and Spire Bill of Quantities “ June 1888 “ Preliminary + Sundry Completion of the Tower + Spire Buildings sub-committee Richard Stone's letter book (chairman or secretary of building committee?) 4/11/1874 – 5/11/1875 [7H] 8/11/1875 -- 13/7/1878 [5A] hardcover, marbled end papers, alphabetic index in the front 28 cm x 24 cm a lot of letters to Cubitt Richard Stone's letter book (chairman or secretary of building committee?) 18/7/1878 -- 29/4/1886 hardcover, marbled end papers, alphabetic index in the front 28 cm x 24 cm a lot of letters to Cubitt 2 [5I] Hardcover minute book marbled boards, decayed green leather spine 19.3 cm width X. 22.8 cm height from one end one finance committee meeting 8 November 1875 then "sub" (i.e. works sub-committee) 24 January 1876 to 16 January 1878 from the other end "General Committee" 5 November 1875 to 28 November 1877 [in the safe] Log book Manuscript, octavo Log book of 32nd North London Scout Troop June 1919 -- Easter 1929 Misleadingly bound in the cover of "the Diplomacy of the Great War" by Arthur Bullard [1G] Magazines A quarto bound volume of the Primitive Methodist magazine for 1873 London, George Lamb [2F] Printed magazine, Folio Illustrated London News 17 August 1895 (apparently kept because of news item about and photo of visit of nonconformist ministers to York)??? The Congregational Magazine Vol XVI new series vol IV 1897 Labelled on front cover "Union Chapel Magazine, May 1899 vol II no 24" [1B] The Congregational Magazine Vol XVIII new series vol VI February 1901 Bound in buckram cloth H 24 cm x W 19 cm quarto Labelled on the front "Union Chapel Magazine February 1901 vol IV No 45” and gilt on spine [1A] Illustrated London News 19/6/1897, 21/10/1897, 6/1/1900, 31/3/1900 + supplement on the siege of Ladysmith, 14/7/1900, Micellaneous sheets c 1899/1900. All folio magazines Illustrated London News, 19/6/1897, 21/10/1899, 6/1/1900, 31/3/1900, 14/7/1900 3 also miscellaneous sheets from about 1899 or1900 and a supplement on the siege of Ladysmith of 31/3/1900 all Folio printed magazines (duplicate entries?) Union chapel newsletters 1966 and 1969: see Minute Books – Teachers’ Membership, baptism etc records Baptismal register of Union Chapel 23/4/1805 -- 26/4/1860 13" x 8¼" hardback, marbled cover [9] Baptismal Register of Union Chapel 29/4/1860 -- 3/8/1873 13" x 8½" hardback marbled [9] Baptismal Register of Union Chapel 14/12/1873 -- 1/10/1973 Green boards 13" x 8" [9] Members to 1823: see under Minutes--Deacons’ 1806-1809 6½ x 8¼” Leather bound notebook “List of Communicants at Union Chapel” to 1836 (with minutes of admissions). [9] ‘Union Chapel Islington—Church Records’ inscribed on front. Bound in board and green leather. 240 x 380 mm. Jan 1851—March 1852. Lists members from 1804 to 1859 with minutes of some admissions 1850-52 and records re illness and death of Rev Thomas Lewis, including a copy of the letter of condolence from the deacons to his widow. [On shelves RH alcove – too large for the boxes] 16” x 11” Membership Book. Gold embossed ‘index of members’ Red leather spine cloth cover Marbled end papers. Pre-printed lined with columns dates: 1874 – 1876 – 1877 – 1878 – 1880 crossed out and inserted 1883. Alphabetical arrangement by surnames. [Left hand shelves 3rd shelf down] 11½” x 17½” Book – board cover lined with tooled leather cover. Embossed gold title ‘Register of church members 1880 – 1888 Union Chapel Islington’. Pre-printed lined paper. [Left hand shelves 3rd shelf down] 1915 to 1963 transfers to other congregations. A quarto bound volume of transfer dockets for transfer of congregation members to other congregations. It contains counterfoils for transfers which took place, recording names and addresses of transferees, date, date of admission to Union Chapel, and the name of the 4 congregation which they went to, but not all are fully filled in. They run from April 1915 to October 1963. [9] Applications for baptism 1984 to 1985 quarto spring bound, linen covered, Bamptons instantaneous binder, label on the cover [9] Marriage registers– not yet catalogued [in the safe] Minutes – Bazaar Committee Memorandum or minute book inscribed chapel 1937 half Folio 19 cm x 32 cm h Bound in red morocco with black morocco spine minutes of bazaar committee inserted inside piece of notepaper showing the minister (Paxton) and officers [7] Minutes—Choir Choir committee minute book in board red marbled paper with black leather spine (back missing) 7/6/1900—23/10/1936. 200 x 250 mm. [4E] Choir committee choir minute book bound in board and marbled with black leather spine. 2/10/1902—14/2/1936. 190 x 230 mm. [4F] Minutes – Church meetings 8 ½ x 12 ½ h Leather bound board with tooled spine. Marbled end papers. Church meeting minutes (no inscription) plain paper handwritten in ink 11 Aug 1821 – 5 Dec 1834 1852-55 see under Minutes – Deacons Church Minutes 2/1/1861 -- 13/11/1864 hardcover, marbled end papers, "Church Minutes" embossed in gold on cover [4I] 9” x 11”h Tooled leather black inscribed in gilt letters “Church Minutes Church meeting Record from Feb 1871 – 1877. List of new members – proposed and admitted. All handwritten and signed by H Allon. Building Committee Report 11 June 1875 (In these minutes the Building Committee report to the Church 5 meeting, Mr Waterhouse’s assessment of the competition designs and the appointment of Cubitt was approved” [5D] 8¼“ x 10”h Tooled leather black (inscribed in gilt “Union Chapel Church Minutes”. Feint lined notebook. Marbled end papers Feb 3 1877 – 28th November 1889 Included 1878 ‘Historical sketch’ bound in at the front Numbered pages handwritten all signed by Henry Allon (it is the introduction to the volume of sermons preached at the opening of the Chapel—see under printed books. [5E] Minutes of Church Meetings, 2/1/1890 -- 20/11/1907 26 cm x 22 cm, hard covers, green morocco, "Union Chapel Church Minutes" embossed in gold on outside press cutting inside, report of service of recognition of the Rev Harwood 23/3/1892 [5C] 8¾” x10½ “h Leather bound card inscribed in gold letters “Union Chapel – Church Minutes Nov 27 1907 – to 28 May 1924, feint lined paper written in ink with added loose sheets for meetings on 2.7.1924 and 3.9.24 stuck in at the back. [4H] Church meeting minute book bound in board, red morocco with leather spine. 5/9/1924 – 19/11/1944. 200 x 250 mm. ‘Minute book’ inscribed on the spine. [4C] ‘Church Meeting Minutes’ inscribed in gold on black buckram binding. 10/2/1945— 25/9/1958. 260 x 210 mm. [4G] ‘Church Meeting Minute Book’ in gold on red buckram 26 x 21 cm 25/9/1958 – April 1978 [8] Minutes of Church Meetings 6/1/1980 to 22/3/1985 [7B] Minutes of Church Meetings 2/5/1985 to 21/4/1988 [7D] All manuscript, quarto spiral wire bound notebooks (each in a separate book?) Minutes of Church meetings 6/1/1980 -- 22/3/1985 Minutes of Church meetings 2/5/1985 -- 21/4/1988 (duplicate entries?) Foolscap red morocco hardbound church meetings 15.12.1988 – 15.07.1993 and (loose sheets) 1993 – 1998 (a note ‘missing Ch. Min. Oct 92 May 93 June 93) 6 Six exercise books, comb bound, soft red laminated covers, minutes of church and deacons’ meetings (not always clear which) 25.2 cm x 21 cm 19 May 1988 to 17 May 1990 12 January 1989 to 11 March 1991 17 May 1990 to January 1991 deacons 1 March 1991 to 3 April 1993 20 February 1992 to May 1993 11 March 1991 to 3 April 1993 [6E?] Minutes – Deacons’ and management committees Management committee 29/8/1806—March 1809 at the front and lists of members down to 1823 at the back. Calf bound in white, ‘Minutes’ embossed on one cover and ‘Members’ on the other. 325H x 200W mm. [9] ‘The Committee’, minute book with decaying brown leather binding 14/8/1821— 31/10/1834. 320H x 220W [6C] Minutes of the Officers and Minister 5/9/1834 -- 30/5/1848 hardcover with brown paper cover 33 cm x 22 cm [5B] Deacons' and church meeting minutes 3/3/1852 -- 12/9/1855? Softcover, marbled 13" x 8" [8] Deacons' meeting minutes 2/1/1856 -- 3/3/1858 21 cm by 32 cm leather bound thin volume with tooled margins, marbled end papers [3L] Deacons' Minutes 31/12/1860 -- 25/4/1864 30 cm x 24.5 cm three letters loose in the front [5H] Deacons’ minutes Embossed in gold on marbled covers, 30/5/1864—21/1/1869. H300 x W250 mm. Copy of a letter to Dr Allon (?) at the end. [6A] 12” x 9½” Deacons minutes inscribed ‘Union Chapel Islington, Compton Terrace, Upper Street’ tooled in leather embossed in gold ‘Union Chapel Minutes from 22.2.1869 – 20.2.1882’ Marbled end paper [8] 7 12 x 9½” Cover lined with tooled leather lined plain paper, embossed on cover in gold title ‘Deacons Minutes’, marbled endpapers Deacons’ minutes 22 Feb 1869 to 20 Feb 1882 (hard covers) ? Duplicate entry with previous? 12” x 9½” Book card cover lined with tooled leather lined plain paper, embossed in gold title ‘Deacons Minutes’, marbled endpapers Deacons’ minutes 27 March 1882 to 20 May 1890 (list of Ministers and Deacons in the front) [7] 12” x 9½” Book card cover lined with tooled leather lined plain paper, embossed in gold title ‘Deacons Minutes’, marbled endpapers, water damage Deacons’ minutes 27 May 1890 to 27 June 1898 [7] 12” x 9½” Book card cover lined with tooled leather lined plain paper, embossed in gold title ‘Deacons Minutes’, marbled endpapers Deacons’ minutes 25 July 1898 to 30 Sept 1907 [8] 12” x 9½” Book card cover lined with tooled leather lined plain paper, embossed in gold title ‘Deacons Minutes’, marbled endpapers Deacons’ minutes 28 Oct 1907 to 1 Feb 1915 [8] 12” x 9½” Deacons minutes inscribed ‘Union Chapel Islington, Compton Terrace, Upper Street’ tooled in leather embossed in gold. Deacons’ Minutes from 1/3/1915 to 5.1.1922’ Marbled end paper [8] 12” x 9½” Book card cover lined with tooled leather lined plain paper, embossed in gold title ‘Deacons Minutes’ inscribed in flyleaf ‘Deacons Minutes Jan 1922’ Minutes from 28.3.22 to 4.9.1933 [8] Deacons’ meetings minute book bound in board, green morocco. 4/9/1933--16/5/1945 190 x 240 mm ‘Minute book’ inscribed on the front. [4A] Minutes of Deacons' meetings 30/8/1945 -- 3/12/1971 quarto volume bound in morocco [8] A quarto Deacons' Minute Book Most pages blank but 10 pages of Deacons' minutes May 1970 to September 1971 A further 340 pages are blank [2B] 8 Minutes of Deacons’ Meetings 25/6/1980 to 16/5/1985 Quarto Spanish school exercise book Minutes of Deacons’ Meetings 25/7/1985 to 8/12/1988 Manuscript, quarto spiral wire bound notebook [7F] Minutes of Deacons' meetings 25/7/1985 -- 8/12/1988 Manuscript quarto spiral wire bound notebook [7E] Foolscap red morocco hard card bound ‘Union Chapel’ Minutes of Union Chapel Directors’ Meetings 6th December 1999 – 4th November 2002 (or are these Project minutes?) Foolscap red morocco board hardbound Union Chapel Minutes of Deacons Meetings 11th May 2000 – 1st Oct 2003. Minutes – Islington free church council Minutes of Islington Free Church Council 8/7/1948 to 13/3/1991 quarto linen bound [7A] Minutes – missions Minutes of the "Union Hall" committee, a Mission Church in Station Road Highbury 22/12/1881 -- 19/6/1902 7½” x 8¾” soft covers, reddish brown leather [3J] Missionary committee minute book bound in paper/black leather with gold line. 26/11/1903—1945(?). 180 x 230 mm. Minutes – Teachers’, Sunday school etc Union Chapel Sunday School committee minute book Quarterly meetings 5/4/1860 -- 9/11/1878, inserted handwritten “rules passed at the committee held 28/9/1859” 19 cm by 23 cm, leather bound with closing flap Outlined in gold, marbled endpapers [3F] Manuscript, quarto Minutes of the teachers and their accounts 14/2/1879 -- 28/4/1903 Inserted at September 1902 are two of the Rev Taylor's newsletters left inside, September -- October 1966, and July -- August 1969 9 [1F] 8 ½ “ x 10”h Leather bound card tooled with 2 brass clasps feint lined notebook Marbled end paper Inscribed on inside flyleaf in pencil “Union Chapel Sunday School Minute Book” April 1903 – October 20 1919 with loose correspondence from and to teachers, excursion tickets, Sunday notices – letters to Sunday School Union etc [5J] Minute book of meetings of the Sunday School teachers 20/10/1919 -- 13/3/1938 with index at the front, many inserted letters and leaflets 25 cm by 20 cm bound volume, marbled edges and endpapers [3E] Minute book of ‘LYW’ 29/11/1931 – 10/2/1936 and minutes of Sunday School 26/1/1941 – 10/9/1947 [7I] Hardcover lined exercise book, manuscript 20 pages or so of history of the early Church, then notes for Bible School 19/9/1945 to 20/11/1946, 23 cm x 18 cm [5F] Minutes – Trustees’ Union Chapel Fund Trustees' quarto minute book 20/03/1916 to 16/07/1965 remarks: there is a note in the front that it was damaged by enemy action in 1941. [2D] Minutes – Tennis Club Scrapbook one end minutes of the tennis club (?) 1920 – 1935 committee meetings other end accounts of the USAC & Harecourt Lawn Tennis Club 1920 – 1936 25 cm w x 38 cm h Folio sheets mounted on plain paper Bound with spine buckram Centre pages blank, no title [1D] Minutes – Union Chapel Project Quarto black morocco card bound Union Chapel Project Minutes of Meetings of Board of Directors 10th March 1997 to 4th September 2002 10 Miscellaneous Card bound annual 23-28 with photo on front of chapel front ‘Calendar, blotter and year book 1932-33’ Bundle in folder of miscellaneous letters re demolition of Chapel application in 1981 Bundle of photocopies of photos and drawings of the Chapel For scrap folder of correspondence concerning patrons and interested parties Alexandra Palace and Park Report 1981 typescript, A4, comb binding Foolscap catalogue of the Spitalfields Festival 1984 Quarto book bound in morocco and card Donations made by individuals, businesses, Trusts and Foundations to the ‘buy a tile’ campaign 2004. 320H x 230W. [6D] (Pulpit) lectern top approx 145 x 110 brass inlayed in copper and silver (?) ‘IHS’ inscription given by WM Williams 1899 (inscribed top edge) A4 loose-leaf in a plastic wallet Report ‘Union Chapel Project Fundraising Strategy (1993)’ Typescript of ‘150 years not out’ by the Rev Ronald Taylor in a red folder [8] Trowel used to lay the foundation stone, showing an earlier design for the tower (different from it as built) [in the safe] Music, hymn books, concert programmes etc ‘The Congregational Psalmist’, 2nd Section, Chants Sanctuses etc, ed Henry Allon, Hodder & Stoughton, 1889 ‘The Congregational Psalmist’, Chants, revised and enlarged edition, second edition, ed Henry Allon, Hodder & Stoughton, Novello Ewer and Co, 1889 8” by 6” octavo linen bound (? The same publication as the preceding?) ‘The Congregational Psalmist’, additional third section, ed Henry Allon, Hodder & Stoughton, Novello Ewer and Co, 1889 11 8” by 6” octavo linen bound The Congregational Psalmist, 2nd Section, Chants, Sanctuses, etc Ed Henry Allon, Hodder & Stoughton 1889 Hymns Ancient and Modern old edition 1889, London, William Clowes & Sons Ltd 15 cm by 19 cm bucram bound, embossed brown fron About 60 copies of "Evenings for the People" -- 4-page programme for an evening's entertainment in the schoolroom, 14 December 1895, including a Chopin nocturne, songs "tell me my heart", "the last of the boys", "by the river". Also a humourous sketch "Mr Snorkins’ debut", and on the piano Scotch airs and the Toreador’s song from Carmen, and life's lullaby. Bundle of “ Evenings for the People” programmes 1890s (duplicate entry?) [8] 11 copies of Handel's Messiah, vocal scores, octavo, ed E Prout, Novello 1902 Provenance -- ILEA loan collection Jude's Mission Hymnal Reid Brothers Ltd, London, only date USA Copyright 1911 9¾" x 6¾" Service of Song, entitled Negro Spirituals Paperback 8¼" x 5½" Pub WJ Gibbs no date 26.05.06/2461F The Daily Express Community Song Book, edited by John Goss quarto printed book, Daily Express Publications, 1927 Petition Printed petition to Parliament against proposed G. N. & City Railway, 1892, (eventually built as the Finsbury Park to Moorgate line) by the trustees of Union Chapel, including Richard Stone, Henry Spicer, William Henry Willans (who was one of Asquith’s uncles). School room described as seating about 800 persons, lecture room 350. Cost of building said to be £42,000. Said to be divine service three times on a Sunday, congregation mostly about 1400 people. School room described as used twice every Sunday as a Sunday school, average attendance 450. Also refers to many purposes during the week including science and art classes, gymnasium, penny bank, and lecture hall used every evening in the autumn, spring and winter for services, singing classes etc. Plan 12 Ground plan of the chapel before the present building (with portico) and the two houses adjoining the chapel, the chapel in red and the houses in pink, listing the levels of various parts of the complex relative to the level of the pavement in Compton Terrace 79 cm x 58 cm cloth mounted and dissected with marbled backing no date, before 1873 and after the date of the portico, possibly a surveyor's plan In Morocco dark green slipcase [in the safe] Press cuttings Scrapbook of press cuttings letters etc, linen bound with brown paper cover, Folio, c 1862 to c 1980. Decaying leather spine. [LH shelves 3rd from top] Press cuttings of obituaries stuck into scrapbook The Rev Henry Allon DD Memorial volume 27 cm w x 32 cm h Special leather bound with title embossed in gilt lettering on front [1C] Printed books The Book of Days A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the calendar edited R. Chambers published W. & R Chambers, London and Edinburgh 1869 2 volumes Remarks: both volumes have stuck in the front cover the book plate of Dr Nathaniel Rogers (who donated the rose window in the chapel) with a coat of arms, possibly his. [2E] Sermons preached of the dedication of Union Chapel Islington by various ministers with historical sketch by Henry Allon DD London, James Clarke & Co, 1878 [7G] Printed book, quarto Memorials of the Revd Henry Allon DD Hodder and Stoughton London 1892 [1E] "Comfort in the Wilderness" Dr Allon’s last sermon 10 April 1892 published by W. Williams & Co (possibly the donor of the engraved metal plate on the lectern) printed, single fascicle, stitched, 21.6 cm X 14 cm [8] 13 ‘Our daily Homily’ by FB Meyer Printed books, 5 vols in case, smaller than octavo Undated but after 1897 (see advert on last page of vol 1) Pub Morgan & Scott, London Printed book, quarto Union Chapel, the Story of a Hundred Years Hazel, Watson and Viney, 1899 [8, in a brown envelope] and there was a 2nd copy placed 16 June 2006 in the drawer of the desk in the vestry (missing as at June 2009) Wake's Apostolical Fathers Printed book, tooled morocco, 19 cm x 13 cm, front cover falling off, no date, late 19th century or early 20th century (?), Routledge [5G] Part printed book, quarto Calendar, blotter and yearbook 1932 – 33 [3G] The Truth and Error of Communism, H. G. Wood MA octavo printed book Student Christian Movement Press London 1933 Marriage Act 1898 octavo, HMSO 1936 Lectern Bible, old and new Testaments, authorised version book plate: "in memory of Richard Price Jones who died on 9 January 1957" 22 cm by 28 cm leather bound Oxford, Geoffrey Cumberledge Lectern Bible the Imperial Family Bible with concordance illustrated with engravings 27 cm by 38 cm, leather embossed boards, tooled inner face Blackie & son Glasgow, 1862 ‘The Nichol’ 1836 – 1936 – centenary souvenir pamphlet about the mission in Bethnal Green, paperback 18 cm x 12 cm [8] Union Chapel 1799 – 1944 by Rev Ronald Taylor 13 cm h by 22 cm w thin paperback in green cover, has illustration of the exterior portico of the previous chapel [8] ‘The History of the First Nonconformist Congregational Church in Hinckley’, by the Rev Clifford Thomas Printed book, octavo, paperback 14 "The history of the first nonconformist Congregational Church in Hinckley" by Rev Clifford Thomas, 1962, printed octavo paperback (duplicate entry or two copies?) The History of 58th London Company Boys' Brigade part 1 1892 -- 1952 and part 21952 -- 1967 quarto paperback [7G] ‘History of 58th London Company Boys’ Brigade’, Part 1 1892-1952 and Part 2 19521967 Quarto paperback (2 vols ?) (duplicate entry or two copies?) Slides, lantern About 49 lantern slides, 3.25" x 3.25", in a wooden box, of the holy land and Greece from photos, and labelled. Probably early 20th century. About 70 lantern slides of the USA, especially New York and the northeastern area, also 3.25" x 3.25", in another wooden box. Also probably early 20th century as it includes a slide of Theodore Roosevelt. Visitors’s book Manuscript visitors book, 20.5 cm h x 26.5 cm w "Guest book" May 1934 -- May 1949 Contains signatures of some well-known persons. It is not clear whether it is someone’s collection of autographs, is a record of visitors to Union Chapel, or is a record of visitors to some other place or person. [3H] 15