NGMH Archive

Here is a selection of items from the Newington Green Meeting House archive.

The complete archive is being catalogued and stored at Hackney archives by volunteers. It will shortly be available via Hackney's online catalogue for those who want to research our history.

Commemorative Material

Photograph from the first Women’s Circle (founded 1923) at Lincoln Unitarian Chapel

Photograph from the first Women’s Circle (founded 1923) at Lincoln Unitarian Chapel

Fourteen Newington Green Cricket players with perpetual league shield plaque

Fourteen Newington Green Cricket players with perpetual league shield plaque

A framed B&W photograph of the interior of the church, looking towards the pulpit. E Warren, photographer

A framed B&W photograph of the interior of the church, looking towards the pulpit. E Warren, photographer

Certificates awarded to Stoke Newington Green, later Newington Green Sunday School for singing and perfect reports

Certificates awarded to Stoke Newington Green, later Newington Green Sunday School for singing and perfect reports

Certificates awarded to Stoke Newington Green, later Newington Green Sunday School for singing and perfect reports

Certificates awarded to Stoke Newington Green, later Newington Green Sunday School for singing and perfect reports

Certificates awarded to Stoke Newington Green, later Newington Green Sunday School for singing and perfect reports

Certificates awarded to Stoke Newington Green, later Newington Green Sunday School for singing and perfect reports

Certificates awarded to Stoke Newington Green, later Newington Green Sunday School for singing and perfect reports

Certificates awarded to Stoke Newington Green, later Newington Green Sunday School for singing and perfect reports

Early documents and history files

An account of the foundation of the meeting house drawn from original documents and written up in 1847. Includes marginalia and pasted sheet of names of ministers from 1714 to 1838. Andrew Pritchard’s personal copy

An account of the foundation of the meeting house drawn from original documents and written up in 1847. Includes marginalia and pasted sheet of names of ministers from 1714 to 1838. Andrew Pritchard’s personal copy

Agreement between Mrs A.M. Enright and the Trustees which allows pillars already erected to stay; includes plan of front elevation of chapel [1]

Agreement between Mrs A.M. Enright and the Trustees which allows pillars already erected to stay; includes plan of front elevation of chapel [1]

Agreement between Mrs A.M. Enright and the Trustees which allows pillars already erected to stay; includes plan of front elevation of chapel [2]

Agreement between Mrs A.M. Enright and the Trustees which allows pillars already erected to stay; includes plan of front elevation of chapel [2]

Agreement between Mrs A.M. Enright and the Trustees which allows pillars already erected to stay; includes plan of front elevation of chapel [3]

Agreement between Mrs A.M. Enright and the Trustees which allows pillars already erected to stay; includes plan of front elevation of chapel [3]

Certificate of redemption of land tax and associated correspondence, includes plan of church and boundary

Certificate of redemption of land tax and associated correspondence, includes plan of church and boundary

Copy of admission of Joshua Locke. Traces the title of the two messuages or tenements (formerly three messuages or tenements) through various wills, and transferring the property to Joshua Locke

Copy of admission of Joshua Locke. Traces the title of the two messuages or tenements (formerly three messuages or tenements) through various wills, and transferring the property to Joshua Locke

Receipt (surrender) from Richard Lyford to Rebecca Harrison for a messuage (plot of land) [1]

Receipt (surrender) from Richard Lyford to Rebecca Harrison for a messuage (plot of land) [1]

Receipt (surrender) from Richard Lyford to Rebecca Harrison for a messuage (plot of land) [2]

Receipt (surrender) from Richard Lyford to Rebecca Harrison for a messuage (plot of land) [2]

Surrender of Percival Lewis to Philip Mallet & Samuel Rogers of the Moiety of the Meeting house and its appurtenances at Newington Green/ Witnessed document of Percival Lewis’s meeting with John Bowles, Steward of Manor

Surrender of Percival Lewis to Philip Mallet & Samuel Rogers of the Moiety of the Meeting house and its appurtenances at Newington Green/ Witnessed document of Percival Lewis’s meeting with John Bowles, Steward of Manor

 Preacher and service records

Book of Common Prayer Reformed

Book of Common Prayer Reformed

Scrap book of Reformed Liturgy, together with the Psalms of David, selected by Rev Theophilus Lindsey and published by Essex Hall for use by the congregation of Essex Street Chapel, repaired,supplemented by pasted scrap book pages

Miscellaneous (gender equality)

Newspaper article about church ban on conducting weddings until law permits same sex marriages

Copy of Islington Tribune with front page article featuring the topic

Trustee and premises records

Declaration of trust document

Document describing the building of a church to protestant dissenters and the governance under their trustees

Declaration of trust document [1]
Declaration of trust document [3]
Declaration of trust document [2]