PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY.
Highgate,
the home of Parliamentarians (fn. 96) and just beyond the
limits imposed by the Five Mile Act, was a natural
resort for dissenters. John Storer, formerly lecturer
at Stowmarket (Suff.), was licensed as a Presbyterian at his house in Highgate in 1672, when
Hezekiah King, ejected from Fowlmere (Cambs.),
was similarly licensed in Hornsey. (fn. 97) The Quaker
William Mead entertained George Fox at Highgate
in 1677 and 1678 (fn. 98) and Daniel Latham, ejected from
Orsett (Essex), made his will there in 1691. (fn. 99) A
meeting-house in Southwood Lane was said to have
been founded in 1662, (fn. 1) although the first recorded
minister was Josiah Sprigge (d. 1684). (fn. 2) His successor William Rathband had property in Highgate
from 1662, (fn. 3) was registered as a preacher in 1689,
when he had no particular charge, and was buried
there in 1695. (fn. 4)
The 18th-century congregation in Southwood
Lane (fn. 5) claimed descent from that of 1662, although
the next known minister, Thomas Sleigh, was
recorded only c. 1729. (fn. 6) Among its regular members
was John Wilkes's father Israel (d. 1761), a rich
Clerkenwell distiller. (fn. 7) Ministers included David
Williams, founder of the Royal Literary Fund,
Rochemont Barbauld, husband of the writer Anna
Letitia Barbauld, the biographer John Towers, and
the philologist Alexander Crombie. Many were
unorthodox and none stayed for long: the deistic
Williams withdrew in 1773, Towers left on the
opening of a rival chapel in 1778, and dissension
grew when a successor introduced his own liturgy. (fn. 8)
The old and new meeting-houses, on opposite sides
of the lane, were described as Presbyterian and
Methodist respectively. (fn. 9) The first closed on Crombie's departure in 1798, to be reopened briefly by
Unitarians in 1806 and sold to the Baptists by 1814.
Its later history was that of a Baptist tabernacle,
while the rival meeting-house, where Methodists
probably did not worship for long, was replaced by
a forerunner of Highgate Congregational church.
At Crouch End, a village previously 'without the
gospel', a small building was opened for worship in
1806. (fn. 10) It might have been the place attended by a
few Methodists in 1810 (fn. 11) or that registered by
Baptists in 1819, (fn. 12) and was later known as Broadway
chapel. (fn. 13) John Wesley had preached at Highgate in
the 1780s (fn. 14) and Independents had registered rooms
at Hornsey in 1794, 'Highgate House', jointly with
Baptists, in 1797, and a greenhouse at Hornsey in
1806. (fn. 15) At Muswell Hill, where the Baptist Dr.
Samuel Stennett (d. 1795) had lived, (fn. 16) part of a
house was registered by dissenters in 1822. (fn. 17)
Stennett's house was bought in 1826 by the philanthropist William Brodie Gurney (d. 1855), who
attended Highgate Baptist chapel but held Sunday
evening services in his own drawing-room until
1830. Worshippers at Muswell Hill, led by Gurney's
missionary friend Eustace Carey (d. 1855), were
said to number 150-200 in the summer months. (fn. 18)
Baptists, (fn. 19) at Crouch End and in Southwood Lane
from the early 19th century, Methodists, earlier but
more briefly in Southwood Lane and at Crouch End
in 1810, and Congregationalists, arising from groups
of Independents, were the longest established
denominations. All three opened chapels as housing
spread and in 1873 the Methodists created a Highgate circuit out of part of the area served from
Islington. (fn. 20) The Hornsey and Highgate Free Church
Council was formed in 1896; it was renamed after
the withdrawal of Highgate's churches in 1901 and
a separate council for Muswell Hill was established
in 1903. (fn. 21)
The attraction of churches just outside the parish,
such as the Methodist churches in Archway Road
and Holly Park, obscures the strength of nonconformity in Hornsey and the relative popularity of
the sects. In 1903 slightly more than half of the 29,329
worshippers were Protestant nonconformists, the
Anglicans accounting for 13,015 and the Roman
Catholics for 598. Baptists had as many as 5,056,
followed by Congregationalists with 3,983 and
Wesleyan Methodists with 3,566. Presbyterians
numbered 1,652, Brethren 674, and Primitive
Methodists 428. (fn. 22) Later arrivals included the Moravians, the Salvation Army, Christian Spiritualists,
and Mennonites. A few churches were closed or
rebuilt after the Second World War and others were
closed on the union of Congregationalists with
Presbyterians as the United Reformed Church.
Crouch End chapel, afterwards Broadway hall, was opened by Baptists in 1806 and soon
used for two Sunday services, a weekday lecture, and
a Sunday school. (fn. 24) Dissenters at Crouch End had a
small place of worship in 1810 (fn. 25) and 1816 (fn. 26) but it is
not known if they used the later Broadway hall or the
meeting-place registered by Baptists in 1819 (fn. 27) and
made the centre of an open communion in 1822. (fn. 28)
The later Broadway hall was used in turn by Congregationalists, by Anglicans during the rebuilding
of St. Mary's, and again by Baptists from 1879 until
the opening of Ferme Park chapel in 1889. The hall
had once been a farm building of Crouch Hall and
had only 170 sittings in 1851 when under lease to
the rector, (fn. 29) who added Gothic windows and a
short tower with a cupola. (fn. 30) Broadway hall afterwards served the Universalist Church and the
British Legion, until a fire in 1923 led to its demolition in 1925. Its site was covered by the forecourt of
Hornsey town hall.
Campsbourne Road church first met in an iron
chapel, leased in 1873 and registered in 1876. (fn. 31)
After dissension (fn. 32) a group left to found Westbury
Avenue church, Wood Green, (fn. 33) and in 1892 Campsbourne's remaining members joined Ferme Park
church, which rebuilt the chapel in Campsbourne
Road as a mission, started several institutions, and
by 1903 had raised the attendance to 158 in the
morning and 195 in the evening. (fn. 34) In 1907 a brick
hall, seating 600, and two smaller halls were opened
in the Campsbourne, next to three houses (nos. 3 to 5)
which had been given to the mission. The hall in
Campsbourne Road was thereafter used for adult
education and, later, as an institute and a scouts'
headquarters. In 1954, with help from Ferme Park,
Campsbourne chapel again became independent. It
retained the hall and two converted houses in the
Campsbourne in 1976.
Ferme Park Baptist church was formed largely
through the efforts of John Batey, minister at
Broadway hall. Land had been bought at the corner
of Weston Park and Ferme Park Road in 1888 and
a chapel, with schoolrooms and seating 630, was
opened in 1889. A building on the plan of a Greek
cross, seating 1,250 and with marble baptistery and
vestries, was opened in 1900, when the older one was
converted into halls and a flat. Ferme Park, which
administered many societies, had Hornsey's largest
Baptist attendances in 1903, with 1,052 on one
morning and 1,036 in the evening. (fn. 35) Members, who
belonged to the London Baptist Association in
1928, (fn. 36) numbered 1,205 in 1914 and 1,029 in 1939.
From 1973 they worshipped in Park chapel, belonging to the United Reformed Church, while awaiting
the rebuilding of their own church, which was
demolished in 1974. (fn. 37)
Archway Road Baptist church, on the later corner
of Wembury Road, was promoted by the London
Baptist Association. (fn. 38) Building began in 1885 (fn. 39) and
continued in 1888 (fn. 40) but the congregation temporarily
disbanded before the opening of a new chapel, on
the same site, in 1894. (fn. 41) Attendances numbered 323
in the morning and 398 in the evening on one
Sunday in 1903 (fn. 42) and there was seating for 700 in
1928. (fn. 43) The chapel had closed by 1941 (fn. 44) and later
was replaced by Highgate district synagogue. (fn. 45)
Emmanuel church, Duckett Road, probably
originated as Hornsey Park Baptist chapel, registered
at no. 114 Turnpike Lane in 1892 but vacated by
1896. (fn. 46) In 1903 there were 166 worshippers on one
Sunday morning and 178 in the evening at Duckett
Road. (fn. 47) Emmanuel church had closed by 1928. (fn. 48)
Muswell Hill Baptist church was also promoted
by the London Baptist Association. (fn. 49) A chapel in
Duke's Avenue, with a hall beneath, was founded
in 1901 (fn. 50) and registered in 1902. (fn. 51) It was attended by
314 on one Sunday morning and 372 in the evening
in 1903 (fn. 52) and had seating for c. 800, (fn. 53) later reduced
to 750. The building is of red brick with stone
dressings, in a Decorated style; its tower is surmounted by an octagonal lantern, with a spirelet.
A hall for young people was opened at the rear of
the church in 1957. (fn. 54)
Strict Baptists.
Highgate Baptist chapel or
tabernacle originated in a mission sent by the church
of Eagle Street, Holborn, in 1809. (fn. 55) The old meetinghouse in Southwood Lane stood empty in 1811 (fn. 56)
but had been acquired for worship, with help from
Eagle Street, by 1814. (fn. 57) It may have been the
Ebenezer chapel registered by Christopher Miller,
a Highgate butcher, in 1829 (fn. 58) but was later rebuilt (fn. 59)
and was registered by Particular Baptists in 1861. (fn. 60)
In 1851 there were 190 sittings, 50 of them free, and
a congregation on census Sunday of 95 in the
morning, 55 in the afternoon, and 118 in the
evening. (fn. 61) By 1903 attendances were 66 in the morning and 122 in the evening, the smallest at any of
Hornsey's six Baptist churches. (fn. 62) After numbers had
fallen further, (fn. 63) the chapel was registered as Highgate tabernacle (fn. 64) by members of the London Baptist
Association. (fn. 65) Although refurbished in 1960-1, (fn. 66)
the building was disused in 1971 (fn. 67) and served as a
photographic studio in 1977, when it retained its
galleries (fn. 68) and presented a stuccoed and pedimented
front, with round-headed windows, to Southwood
Lane. It was bought by Highgate School in 1977. (fn. 69)
Stroud Green chapel, Stapleton Hall Road, was
established in 1878 (fn. 70) and registered as Crouch Hill
chapel by Particular Baptists in 1884. (fn. 71) A red-brick
building in the Gothic style, with adjoining halls,
was founded in 1889. (fn. 72) There were 280 worshippers
in the morning and 396 in the evening on one Sunday
in 1903. (fn. 73) There were 475 seats in 1928, by which
date the church had joined the London Baptist
Association, (fn. 74) and 460 in 1975. (fn. 75)
Congregationalists.
Highgate Congregational
chapel was founded in Southwood Lane, where in
1827 a site was sub-leased by the Revd. John
Thomas to trustees who were to erect a chapel for
the Village Itinerancy or Evangelical Association for
the Propagation of the Gospel. The chapel was
built in 1834, when the neighbouring building of
1778 was demolished, and in 1844 was called Highgate Congregational church. (fn. 76) In 1851 there were
400 sittings, 300 of them free, and the average
attendance was 320 in the morning, including 70
Sunday-school children, and 200 in the evening. (fn. 77)
It housed a British school from 1860 until 1874. (fn. 78)
A building in South Grove, with a schoolroom
underneath, was opened in 1859 (fn. 79) to replace the
chapel of 1834 and was later enlarged. (fn. 80) It seated
720 by 1894 (fn. 81) and was attended by 312 in the
morning and 203 in the evening on one Sunday in
1903. (fn. 82) Under Josiah Viney, minister in 1859, the
chapel was active in local life. (fn. 83) The building was
retained for regular worship, with seating reduced to
600, (fn. 84) until the formation of Highgate United
Reformed church in 1967. The stone Gothic chapel
in South Grove in 1976 temporarily housed Highgate district synagogue. (fn. 85) Highgate chapel established a mission at no. 33 North Hill in 1872; (fn. 86) it
was described as undenominational in 1936 (fn. 87) but
again as Congregationalist in 1951, when it seated
180. (fn. 88) The hall was later acquired by Jehovah's
Witnesses. (fn. 89)
Park chapel, (fn. 90) at the foot of Crouch Hill, was
opened in 1855 and registered by Independents
in 1856. (fn. 91) Alterations raised its seating to 1,017
in 1877 (fn. 92) and 1,430 by 1894. (fn. 93) After further
extensions it had 816 worshippers in the morning
and 671 in the evening on one Sunday in 1903, the
largest Congregationalist attendances in Hornsey. (fn. 94)
The chapel and its halls formed a popular social
centre, accommodating Hornsey British school until
1877 and later being described as a 'great church'. (fn. 95)
From 1973 Baptists from Ferme Park shared Park
chapel, by then a United Reformed church and still
seating c. 1,400. The original Gothic building, with
a corner turret and small spire, (fn. 96) had faced east
along Haringey Park. In 1976 it formed part of an
impressive stone range and was the northern end of
a larger north-south chapel; at the southern end
stood a church parlour, built in 1886, and on the
north the Corbin hall, dated 1892. The Grove
mission was apparently established in 1881 and
served from Park chapel in 1951, (fn. 97) although a Grove
united mission was also listed as undenominational. (fn. 98)
Mount View Congregational church was founded
to serve Stroud Green, where land on the corner of
Mount View and Granville roads was acquired with
help from Park, Highgate, and Tollington Park
chapels. A hall was opened in 1887 and used for
worship until the completion of a building in the
Decorated style, of red brick faced with terracotta,
which in 1893 was to seat 1,000. (fn. 99) The pastorate was
said to be prosperous (fn. 1) and on one Sunday in 1903
there were attendances of 330 in the morning and
231 in the evening. (fn. 2) The church was closed and
demolished in 1935. (fn. 3)
Muswell Hill Congregational church presumably
originated in Union church, Tetherdown, registered
in 1891. (fn. 4) Union church stood opposite Page's Lane (fn. 5)
and may have been only a hall, as a church at the
corner of Queen's Avenue was begun in 1898 and
the first registration of 1891 was cancelled in 1912.
The new church, on land given by James Edmondson, (fn. 6) was registered in 1901 (fn. 7) and was a Gothic
building of brown roughcast with stone dressings.
There were 850 sittings (fn. 8) and attendances on one
Sunday in 1903 of 603 in the morning and 568 in
the evening. (fn. 9) The building accommodated members
of the former Presbyterian church from 1973 and
seated 257 in 1976. (fn. 10)
Methodists.
Middle Lane Wesleyan Methodist
church (fn. 11) was founded in 1873, with help from the
new Highgate circuit. The iron Trinity church in
Hornsey High Street (fn. 12) was used until the opening of
a brick building at the corner of Middle Lane and
Lightfoot Road in 1886. It seated 1,000 and on one
Sunday in 1903 there were attendances of 322 in the
morning and 427 in the evening. (fn. 13) The church, in an
early Gothic style, was demolished in 1975 and
replaced by one of red brick and concrete, seating
200. (fn. 14)
Finsbury Park or Wilberforce Road Wesleyan
Methodist church opened in 1871 in an iron building
on land bought by Sir Francis Lycett at the corner
of Wilberforce and Seven Sisters roads. A permanent
church was used from 1875, being assigned to the
new Finsbury Park circuit, and near-by stables,
acquired for a Sunday school, were replaced by a
hall in 1901. An offshoot was founded in 1878 in
Gillespie Road, Islington. (fn. 15) The main church, later
in Stoke Newington, had attendances of 630 in the
morning and 495 in the evening on one Sunday in
1903. (fn. 16) The building, seating 1,000 in 1894, (fn. 17) was of
brick with stone dressings, in the Gothic style, and
had a north-west tower and spirelet. Between 1959 (fn. 18)
and 1976 it was replaced by a yellow-brick block,
with the church behind, near the corner site.
A Wesleyan mission room at no. 66 Gordon Road,
Hornsey Vale, was registered from 1884 until 1896. (fn. 19)
Possibly the same room was used by the Church of
England in 1908. (fn. 20)
Willoughby Road Wesleyan Methodist church (fn. 21)
opened as a Sunday school chapel in 1885, on land
acquired in 1882 near the corner of Hampden Road.
Classrooms were built in 1889 and a church, perhaps
replacing an iron one, was opened on the corner site
to the east in 1893. A lecture hall and more classrooms were added to the north in 1903, when on one
Sunday there were attendances of 822 in the morning
and 1,124 in the evening. (fn. 22) The congregation, which
belonged to the Finsbury Park circuit, was joined
by many from Mattison Road in 1963. (fn. 23) After a
fire in 1973 Willoughby Road church was replaced
by a yellow-brick structure which, with the adjoining
schoolroom in Hampden Road, seated 300. The
brick hall opened in 1903 (fn. 24) was bought with the empty
corner site by Haringey L.B. and survived in 1976.
Mattison Road, later Harringay, church opened
as an iron tabernacle in 1891 and was replaced by
a permanent church and halls in 1901. (fn. 25) A schoolroom was registered in 1900. (fn. 26) Originally sponsored
by the Caledonian Road circuit of the Primitive
Methodists, it joined the Finsbury Park circuit after
the Methodists' union in 1931. There were attendances of 188 in the morning and 240 in the evening
on one Sunday in 1903, (fn. 27) when membership was
rising and Mattison Road was described as the chief
Primitive Methodist church in London. A minister
was shared with Grange Park from 1931 to 1942
and thereafter with Finsbury Park. The church,
seating 400, (fn. 28) was of brick with stone dressings, in
a Decorated style. It closed in 1963 and became a
Roman Catholic church. (fn. 29)
A Wesleyan church in Inderwick Road belonged
to the Finsbury Park circuit by 1898 (fn. 30) and had
attendances of 70 in the morning and 147 in the
evening on one Sunday in 1903. (fn. 31) It belonged to
the Highgate circuit in 1906 (fn. 32) and apparently closed
soon afterwards.
Muswell Hill Wesleyan Methodist church occupied a wooden building at the foot of the Avenue,
Wood Green, in 1898 and moved to the corner of
Colney Hatch Lane and Alexandra Park Road in
1899. The nave and transepts were built in that year
and other parts in 1904. (fn. 33) The church belonged to
the Highgate circuit (fn. 34) and had attendances of 349 in
the morning and 305 in the evening on one Sunday
in 1903. (fn. 35) The building is of red brick with stone
dressings, in a Gothic style, and has a corner turret
terminating in an octagonal lantern.
Highgate or Jackson's Lane Wesleyan Methodist
church was opened in 1905, twelve years after a site
had been obtained at the corner of Archway Road.
The building included a Sunday school and was of
red brick with stone dressings, designed in an early
Gothic style by W. H. Boney of Highgate; the
church seated 650 and the schoolroom 400. (fn. 36)
Although well known in the 1960s for its counselling
centre, (fn. 37) the church had closed by 1976.
Presbyterians.
Highgate Presbyterian church, at
the corner of Hornsey Lane and Cromwell Avenue,
was built by the church extension committee of the
London presbytery and opened in 1887. (fn. 38) There
were attendances of 473 in the morning and 362 in
the evening on one Sunday in 1903. (fn. 39) The building,
of stone in a Decorated style, was known as Highgate
United Reformed church from 1967 and seated 400
in 1976. (fn. 40)
Muswell Hill Presbyterian church, at the corner
of Prince's Avenue and the Broadway, was registered
in 1899 (fn. 41) and completed in 1903, (fn. 42) when on one
Sunday there were attendances of 489 in the morning
and 328 in the evening. (fn. 43) The church was built of
flint and terracotta, to the designs of G. Baines, (fn. 44)
with late Gothic and art nouveau features, including
a corner tower surmounted by a copper spirelet. Its
materials and style later won widespread attention (fn. 45)
and led to a campaign for its preservation after the
Presbyterians joined the Congregationalists in 1973.
The building, seating c. 600, was unused in 1976. (fn. 46)
Brethren.
Cholmeley hall, in Archway Road
opposite Cholmeley Park, was registered in 1890 by
undesignated Christians. (fn. 47) Brethren worshipped
there in 1903, when on one Sunday there were 195
in the morning and 200 in the evening. (fn. 48) Their
fellowship, believed to have come from Clapton hall,
Hackney, was renamed Cholmeley Evangelical
church in 1966. The yellow-brick building, seating
c. 250, included a hall and youth centre in 1976. (fn. 49)
By 1886 Plymouth Brethren, perhaps unconnected
with Cholmeley hall, had a mission room in Archway Road. (fn. 50) In 1903 Brethren also met at no. 88
North Hill and no. 45 Woodstock Road, with
morning attendances of 85 and 43 and evening
attendances of 68 and 32 respectively; smaller
groups worshipped in the drill hall, Southwood
Lane, and no. 33 Stroud Green Road. (fn. 51) Plymouth
Brethren registered the assembly rooms in Middle
Lane, Crouch End, from 1916 until 1922 and a
mission hall at no. 59 Park Road from 1921 until
1934. (fn. 52) They also met at Coleridge hall, Coleridge
Road, in 1936, when no. 45 Woodstock Road was
used by an unspecified denomination. (fn. 53) Alexandra
hall, built on the parish boundary in Alexandra
Road by 1901, (fn. 54) was a meeting-place of Brethren in
1968. (fn. 55)
In 1923 Brethren from Cholmeley hall had an
iron room in St. James's Lane, Muswell Hill, which
was registered from 1929 until 1935. After its
demolition they used temporary meeting-places
before buying a site in Wilton Road, Friern Barnet,
where Wilton chapel was opened in 1952. (fn. 56)
The Salvation Army.
Assembly rooms in Middle
Lane were registered by Salvationists in 1907. The
registration was cancelled in 1912, (fn. 57) presumably on
the foundation of a citadel in Tottenham Lane,
opposite Elmfield Avenue, (fn. 58) which was registered in
1913. (fn. 59) The building, of red brick with stone
dressings, was damaged in the Second World War
but it reopened in 1944 (fn. 60) and remained in use in 1976.
Moravians. (fn. 61)
Hornsey Moravian church, in
Priory Road, was founded in 1907 (fn. 62) and consecrated
in 1908. (fn. 63) Its congregation separated from the
Moravian church in Fetter Lane, London, in 1910. (fn. 64)
The church, of red brick with stone dressings in a
14th-century style, has a corner turret and spire.
In 1976, when the first major alterations were
planned, there was seating for c. 270. An adjacent
hall was rebuilt in the 1930s.
Spiritualists.
Felix hall, Crouch End, was used
briefly by Spiritualists from 1925 and a shop in
Church Lane, Hornsey, from 1936. (fn. 65) Christian
Spiritualists registered nos. 56 and 58 Wightman
Road for a few months in 1933. (fn. 66)
Muswell Hill Spiritualists met at a house in
Tetherdown in 1936 and at the Athenaeum from
1939 (fn. 67) until its demolition. From 1965 they hired
a hall of Crescent Lodge hotel, Crouch End, until in
1968 they moved to no. 36 Waldegrave Road. In
1976 the house, also used as a dancing school, seated
c. 40. (fn. 68)
Society of Friends.
Meetings were held at the
Athenaeum, Muswell Hill, in 1924 (fn. 69) and a meetinghouse in Church Crescent was built in 1926 (fn. 70) and
survived in 1976. At Highgate Quakers were established in 1953 (fn. 71) and rented part of Davies's school
of English, at no. 17 North Grove, in 1975. (fn. 72)
Mennonites.
During the Second World War
relief work was undertaken by Mennonites in
Shepherd's Hill, where, at no. 14, the London
Mennonite Centre was founded in 1954. It served
as an information centre and students' hostel, and
had a chapel with an average Sunday attendance of
20 in 1976. (fn. 73)
Other denominations and unspecified missions.
Highgate Wood Cottage, Jackson's Lane, was
registered by Christians in 1851 (fn. 74) and Christ
Church, in Coach and Horses Lane, by Episcopalian
dissenters from 1853 until 1896. (fn. 75) The Free English
Church built the iron Trinity church in Hornsey
High Street c. 1872 but sold it to the Methodists in
1873. (fn. 76) The drill hall in Southwood Lane, later used
by Brethren, was registered by home missionaries
in 1882. (fn. 77)
The Grove united mission registered a room at
no. 14 the Grove, Crouch End, in 1878. (fn. 78) Perhaps
it occupied premises near the corner of the Grove
and Lynton Road, recorded in 1886 (fn. 79) and attended
by 51 in the morning and 58 in the evening on one
Sunday in 1903, (fn. 80) although the original registration
was cancelled in 1896 and a hall in the Grove was
again registered, by undesignated Christians, in
1912. (fn. 81) The Grove united mission survived in 1936 (fn. 82)
and presumably was not connected with the Congregationalists' mission, which still existed in 1951. (fn. 83)
Shortly before the foundation of Highgate
Unitarian church in Despard Road, Islington, (fn. 84) in
1885 Unitarians, including girls from Channing
House school, worshipped in the drill hall at Crouch
End. (fn. 85)
Hornsey tabernacle, Wightman Road, was registered for undenominational worship in 1893. (fn. 86) In
1903 it was used by 'disciples of Christ', with an
average attendance on one Sunday of 58 in the
morning and 118 in the evening, (fn. 87) and in 1912 it was
registered as Hornsey Church of Christ. (fn. 88) Members
joined Harringway Congregational church to form
Harringay United church, Tottenham, in 1969, (fn. 89)
whereupon the Wightman Road site was sold to
the United Apostolic Faith Church. (fn. 90)
Broadway hall served the Universalist Church by
1903 and in 1910. (fn. 91) Unspecified Christians registered
Park Road hall in 1929, (fn. 92) a room at no. 44 Coleridge
Road from 1942 until 1949, (fn. 93) and no. 88 North Hill
from 1944 until 1949. (fn. 94)
Christian Scientists were at no. 137 Stroud Green
Road from c. 1912 until 1923 and thereafter at nos.
60 or 58 Crouch Hill until the Second World War. (fn. 95)
They also had a reading room at no. 13 Topsfield
Parade, Crouch End, in 1936. (fn. 96)
The Chapel of the Divine Love, a room at no. 83
Claremont Road, Highgate, was registered by the
Evangelical Catholic Communion from 1938 until
1964. (fn. 97)
Jehovah's Witnesses acquired no. 33 North Hill
as a Kingdom hall by 1964 and retained it in 1976. (fn. 98)
The United Apostolic Faith Church bought and
renovated the former Hornsey tabernacle in 1970.
A hall, offices, and premises for the Evangel Press
were added in 1971 and flats in 1972. The church
was called the Gospel Centre in 1977, when it
seated c. 200 and was the headquarters of the group,
which belonged to the Pentecostal movement. (fn. 99)