London Branch of the Welsh Family History Societies
Cangen Llundain o'r Cymdeithasau Hanes Teuluoedd Cymru
Methodistiaid Calfinaidd - Calvinistic Methodists
Ref. | Name and address | Founded or moved to this site | Moved from this site or closed | Records | Records held at | Notes |
MC1 | Cock Lane, Smithfield, E | founded 1774 | moved 1785 | births & baptisms 1799-1839 [RG4/4400] | TNA, NLW | first chapel in London |
Wilderness Row, east of Clerkenwell Green, EC1 | from 1785 | moved 1828 | indexed by IGI | |||
Jewin Crescent, Barbican, EC | 1823? | moved 1879 | copy held by chapel 1799-1874, indexed by David Oliver | Jewin Chapel | bombed Dec 1940 and rebuilt | |
Jewin Chapel 70 Fann Street, Golden Lane, Moorgate, EC1 |
from 1879 | active 2011 | later registers kept by chapel | Jewin Chapel | Image at LMA Collage Jewin, Fann St showing bomb damage | |
MC2 | Deptford (Falmouth Road) - branch of Cock Lane (#MC1) | c. 1783 | closed 1866 | baptisms: 1852-61 (Cambrian); 1861-88 (Crosby Row); 1889-1979 (Falmouth Road). [CMA 8: EZ1/256/1] also other records | NLW | see Source 2, p.39 |
MC3 | Mission to Welsh Seamen (later called Cambrian Union Society's Chapel for Seamen) Fair Street, Bermondsey, SE1 |
founded 1820 | moved 1861 | is this the same as #MC2? Cambrian Union Society Chapel for Seamen, Fair St, Bermondsey and Interior of above (Images from LMA Collage) |
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Crosby Row, Falmouth Road, SE1 | from 1861 (1854??) | moved 1889 | ||||
Falmouth Road, Deptford, Southwark, SE1 | from 1889 | closed by 1991 | same as #MC2? Since 1991, the building has been the main London home of the Nigerian church of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. |
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MC4 | Grafton Street, W1 | founded 1849 | ? | baptisms: 1850-87 [CMA 8: EZ1/249/1] | NLW | |
Nassau Street (now Gerrard Place), Soho, W1 | ?? | moved 1887 | baptisms: 1850-87 [CMA 8: EZ1/249/1] | NLW | demolished | |
Charing Cross Road 82 Charing Cross Road, W1 |
from 1887 | 1976? | marriages: 1927-76 [CMA 7: OZ1] | NLW | became the 'Limelight Club' in the 1980s and, from 2003,
an Australian 'Walkabout' pub listed: grade II Interior of Welsh Presbyterian Church, Charing Cross Road (sketch) Image at LMA Collage |
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MC5 | Poplar | founded 1857 | ? | |||
MC6 | Chichester Mews, Shirland Road, Paddington, W9 | founded 1857 | ? | not sure if this is one address or two. See VCH Middlesex Vol 9. | ||
22 Braden Street, Paddington, W9 | 1871 | closed by 1989 | building renovated in 1989 as the The Amadeus Centre for the Subud community. | |||
MC7 | Holloway Sussex Way, Holloway, N7 |
1865 | last service: 8 Feb 2004 |
United with Wood Green (#MC14) 1960; united with Moreia,
Leytonstone (#MC13) in 2002 to form Eglwys y Drindod,
(#MC25) |
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MC8 | Sunday School at Hammersmith | founded 1879 | became a chapel 1885 | |||
Hammersmith Chapel, Southerton Road, Hammersmith, W6 | from1886 | active 1956 | ||||
MC9 | Willesden Green 265 Willesden Lane, NW2 |
founded 1898; registered 1900 | closed 1999 | marriages: 1911-1982 [CMA 7:OZ11], other | NLW | building became the True Buddha Temple |
MC10 | Sunday School at Wandsworth | founded 1896 | became a chapel ?? | |||
Clapham Junction 30 Beauchamp Road, Clapham Junction, SW11 |
? | active 2011 | baptisms | Lavender Hill Local Studies Library | ||
MC11 | Sunday School at Peckham | founded 1899 | became a chapel ?? | baptisms, burials, membership records | at the chapel | first minister 1901 |
Lewisham Chapel 289 Lewisham Way, Brockley, SE4 |
1924 | active 2011 |
Welsh Presbyterian chapel, 289, Lewisham Way Image at LMA Collage |
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MC12 | Walham Green 2 Effie Road, Fulham, SW6 |
founded 1897 | closed 1988 | members transferred 1988 to Clapham (#MC10) building now the London home of The Haven charity |
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MC13 | Moreia Church Hill, Walthamstow, E17 |
founded 1903 | moved 1958 | moved to Leytonstone and building taken over by the Church of the Nazarene | ||
881 Leytonstone High Road, Leytonstone, E11 | moved 1958 | merged 2002 | merged with Holloway (#MC7) in 2002 to form Eglwys y
Drindod (#MC25) building now Forest Baptist Church |
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MC14 | Wood Green Palace Road, Bowes Park, N11 |
founded 1904 | merged 1960 | VCH Volume 5. No minister until 1950; joined with Holloway (#MC7) in 1960 |
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MC15 | YWCA Uxbridge | 1903 | 1904 | VCH Volume 7 | ||
Swift's Assembly Rooms | 1904 | 1909 | ||||
Seion Ealing Green, Ealing, W5 |
founded 1907 | active 2011 | ||||
MC16 | Sunday School Welsh Hall, Elm Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey |
founded 1930s | ? | |||
MC17 | Sutton Lind Road, Sutton, Surrey |
founded 1933 | active 2011 | 1956 address: Dashwood Hall, 25 Carshalton Rd, Sutton | ||
MC18 | Croydon, West Croydon Methodist Mission Hall |
founded 1949 | ? | |||
MC19 | Barnet | ? | ? | |||
MC20 | Wembley, London Road, Wembley, NW |
founded 1939 | ? | VCH Volume 4 - mentions a Welsh Presbyterian congregation, established in Wembley in 1925, which opened a hall in 1927. Active 1956 | ||
MC21 | Cropley Street, New North Road, N1 | 1848 | 1849 | VCH Volume 8 | ||
Wenlock Hall, N1 | 1849 | 1853 | ||||
Cropley Street, New North Road, N1 | 1848 | 1849 | VCH Volume 8 | |||
Bethel Wilton Square, N1 |
1853 | closed 1956 | re-built 1884-5 - destroyed 1940; for a short time
services held in St Phillips, Arlington Square, N1 Welsh Chapel, Wilton Square Image at LMA Collage |
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MC22 | Y Gorlan Langley Road, Watford, Hertfordshire (in St Thomas URC) |
? | active 2009 | |||
MC23 | Name?? - services held in Felix Institute, Lavender Hill, SW11 | founded 1903 | ? | active 1956? | ||
Battersea Rise, SW12 | opened 1906 | ? | ||||
MC24 | Stratford | 1890 | mid 1940s | building destroyed 1940 | ||
MC25 | Eglwys y Drindod Freston Gardens, Cockfosters. |
2004 | active 2011 | Eglwys y Drindod |
Annibynwyr - Independents/Congregationalists
Ref. | Name and address | Founded or moved to this site | Moved from this site or closed | Records | Records held at | Notes |
AN1 | Gravel Lane, Borough, SE1 | founded 1785 | moved 1806 | |||
Little Guildford Street, Southwark, SE1 | 5 Jan 1807 | needs to be checked | rebuilt 1873 Welsh Chapel, Guildford St, Lambeth (in 1826) and Interior of above Images at LMA Collage |
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Y Boro 90 Southwark Bridge Road, SE1 |
? | active 2011 | see VCH Surrey listed: grade II Borough Welsh Congregational Chapel Image at LMA Collage Capel Y Boro |
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AN2 | Woolwich (Parsons Hill), Willenhall Road, Plumstead, SE18 | founded 1806 | ? | active 1956 - no minister since 1937 | ||
AN3 | Aldersgate Street | founded 1846 | 1870 | see VCH Middlesex Vol 8 Plan of Aldersgate St with Welsh chapel Image at LMA Collage |
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Cymry Hall, Hackney Road | 1870 | 1875 | ||||
Ware Street, Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, E2 | 1875 | ? | ||||
John Griffith Memorial Chapel Barretts Grove, Stoke Newington, N16 |
from 1885 | 1941 | members moved to Kings Cross March 1941; property sold 1947 | |||
AN4 | Snow Hill, Holborn, EC1 | founded 1847 | moved 1850 | |||
Fetter Lane, EC4 | from 1850 | moved 1889 | ||||
Y Tabernacle Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, N1 |
from 1889 | closed 2006 | listed: grade II | |||
AN5 | Belgrave Hall, Pimlico, SW1 | founded 1859 | ? | see VCH Middlesex Vol 12 | ||
Union Chapel Pavilion Road, Knightsbridge, SW1 |
1871 | ? | 1876 - room in YMCA, Sloane Square, SW1 | |||
Cadogan Terrace | 1877 | ? | Huws, Ifor O., "Hanes Eglwys Radnor Walk Chelsea, Llundain, 1859-1959", London: Lewis, 1959. 72 p., illus | |||
Radnor Walk Chelsea, SW3 |
1880 | final service: 1 Oct 2006 |
active 1956 listed: grade II In 2009 the building was purchased by Hill House International Junior School |
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AN6 | Sunday School in Haringey formed by King's Cross | founded 1930s | ? | |||
AN7 | West Hampstead | founded 1930s | ? | |||
AN8 | Dollis Hill | founded 1930s | ? | |||
AN9 | Capel-y-Lôn Stoke Poges Lane, Slough, (in St John the Baptist Church) |
founded 1938 | active 2011 | |||
AN10 | Harrow, Lower Road, South Harrow, Middlesex | founded 1937 | active 2011 | other | NLW | VCH Volume 4; first minister 1946, chapel built 1949 |
AN11 | Lambeth | c.1791 | 1820 | services held in room close by Bishops' Palace | ||
AN12 | Back Lane | 1800 | ? | Congregational? | ||
Barns Alley | unclear, but not active by 1866 | Congregational? | ||||
AN13 | East Ham - Katherine Road | 1899 | ? | VCH Essex: Volume 6 | ||
Sibley Grove, E12 | 1901 | 1940 | founded by the King's Cross Congregational church. the iron building was sold to Welsh Methodists in 1945 |
Bedyddwyr Cymreig - Welsh Baptist
No. | Name and address | Founded or moved to this site | Moved from this site or closed | Records | Records held at | Notes |
BE1 | Eldon Street, Moorfields | founded 1823 | 1887? | accounts 1846-87, Pew rent book 1817-71 | NLW | inconsistency between start date of pew rent book & date of founding. ANW says 'active 1846-87' Baptist magazine says that it reopened in June 1834, after enlargement |
BE2 | London Welsh Missionary Society Providence Chapel, Tottenham |
founded 1859 | moved 1889 | |||
Castle Street 30 Eastcastle Street, W1 |
from 1889 | active 2011 | listed: grade II The Welsh Church of Central London |
Methodistiaid Wesleyaidd Cymreig - Welsh Wesleyan Methodist
Ref. | Name and address | Founded or moved to this site | Moved from this site or closed | Records | Records held at | Notes |
MW1 | Wilson Street | founded 1863 | ?? | marriages 1899-1940 | LMA | |
City Road | by 1878 | ?1940 | ||||
MW2 | Chiltern Street, Baker Street, W1 | ??1861 or earlier | closed 2004 | (1) marriages 1956-1999 (2) baptisms 1861-1933 |
(1) WCA (2) LMA |
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MW3 | City Road, St Mary Axe | 1812 | moved 1848 | same as #MW1? | ||
Friar Street, Doctors' Commons | 1848 | ? | ||||
Wilson Street, Finsbury Square, EC2 | 1863 | ? | ||||
City Road | 1883 | closed 1940 | building destroyed by enemy action 1940; members joined sister church in Chiltern Street | |||
MW4 | Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Holborn |
1899 or earlier | ? | marriage register 1899-1933 | LMA | where was this? |
MW5 | Sibley Road | 1945 | ? | VCH Essex Volume 6: In 1945 the London Welsh Methodist
circuit took over the previously used by the Welsh
Congregationalists (#AN13). Some members had previously attended the Welsh Methodist church in Cumberland Road, Plaistow, West Ham |
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MW6 | Poplar | 1880 | ? | VCH Essex Volume 6 | ||
Horeb Welsh Church Cumberland Road, Plaistow, E13 | 1915 | church sold 1939 | some members joined the Welsh Methodist society which in 1945 took over Sibley Grove church, East Ham, E6. |
Anglicanaidd Cymreig - Welsh Anglicans
Ref. | Name and address | Founded or moved to this site | Moved from this site or closed | Records | Records held at | Notes |
AC1 | St Benet's St Paul's Wharf, Queen Victoria Street, EC4 |
founded 1879 | active 2011 |
St Benet, Paul's Wharf Image at Collage St Benet's |
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AC2 | Dewi Sant St Mary's Terrace, Paddington Green, W2 |
founded 1886 | active 2011 | VCH Volume 9 | ||
AC3 | Santes Fair Ascension Church, Malwood Road, South Clapham, SW12 |
founded 1897 | ? | VCH Surrey | ||
AC4 | Sant Padarn Salterdon Road, Seven Sisters Road, Holloway, N7 |
founded 1894 | 1969 | baptisms: 1919-1931 marriages: 1960-1969 |
LMA | started as an iron church opened in 1903 (Source 3) present building 1910 sold 1982 |
AC5 | East End Welsh Mission Whitman Road, Stepney, E3 |
founded 1893 | ? | |||
Sant Rhystyd 9 Whitman Road, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, E3 |
founded 1914 | ? | demolished | |||
AC6 | St Mary's Welsh Church Camberwell New Road, SE5 |
Feb 1912 | Jan 1936 | register of baptisms [P73/EMM/10] June 1928 - June 1935: microfilm [X96/149] pp. 126-141 entries copied from register of St Mary's Welsh Church |
LMA | VCH: Surrey |
AC7 | Ely Place Episcopal Church Ely Place, EC1 |
1843 | 1874 | register of baptisms on microfilm 1839-1904 | LMA | formerly St Ethelreda's, bought by Welsh Episcopalians in
1843 but sold to Roman Catholics in 1874 (Source 4) see 'Ely Place', Old and New London: Volume 2 (1878), pp. 514-526. Ely Place Episcopal Church (now St Ethelreda's RC Church) Image at Collage |
Cydenwadol - Interdenominational
No. | Name and address | Founded or moved to this site | Moved from this site or closed | Records | Records held at | Notes |
CE1 | King's Hall, South Road, Southall | founded 1939 | ? | |||
CE2 | Dagenham | ? | ? |
Notes by Mari Alderman, supplemented by Theo Brueton.