Catalogue description BOX LANE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH BOXMOOR, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD

CLASSIFICATION SCHEME

NC1/1 Church Books

NC1/2 Church Meeting

NC1/3 Deacons

NC1/4 Registers

NC1/5 Church Committees and Organizations

NC1/6 Church Finance

NC1/7 Church Property

NC1/8 Sunday School

NC1/9 Choir

NC1/10 Membership

NC1/11 Charities

NC1/12 Church Magazines

NC1/13 Miscellaneous

NC2 Barkway Congregational Church

NC3 Crossbrook Street Congregational Church, Cheshunt

NC4 Hoddesdon Congregational Church

NC5 Wood End Chapel, Ardeley

For Hertford Congregational Church, Cowbridge see NR14 - Hertford United Reformed Church

Box Lane Congregational Church, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire

The records were deposited in the Record Office in May 1975 and May 1992, by the United Reformed Church History Society and the Thames North Trust.

Accessions 1468, 2716

• Boxmoor, Hertfordshire
• Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
• Religion

Introduction

It is thought that Box Lane Chapel had its origins in a small conventicle built in Box Lane in about 1662, when the non-conformists were being persecuted. However, the building which the church occupied until its closure in 1969 was built just prior to 1697, as the first trust deed of 1697 states that the chapel had recently been built.

It was always a small fellowship but in 1967 numbers had reached a low level and closure was discussed. Closure was finally agreed by the Church Meeting on 28 April 1969 and the final service held on 29 June 1969. The buildings passed into the care of the Hertfordshire Congregational Union.

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