MUSWELL HILL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH HALL
Tetherdown
Post Code : N10 1ND
Location : TQ 28292 89739
Post Code : N10 1ND
Location : TQ 28292 89739
The Muswell Congregational Church Hall, otherwise known as Tetherdown Hall was built in 1928 to a design by Stanley Griffiths, according to the London North volume of the Buildings of England. It is currently (January 2021) occupied by a pre-school nursery.
The names on the stones
John Claxton Meggitt (1858-1950) was a successful businessman based in Barry, the founder of timber merchants Meggitt and Jones and filled every available representative public position in the area over an 18-year-period. He was a Liberal, a one-time candidate for the Bath constituency, Parliament in Bath, a non-conformist advocate of the Temperance Movement, and chairman of the London Congregational Union of England and Wales 1927/1928. A traveller in later life, Meggitt was the author of : Japan across Siberia, Russia and Germany : impressions of a tour. Cardiff : Western Mail & Echo, 1935.
Henry Atkinson (b. 1877) was a long-serving pastor of Muswell Hill Congregational Church, from 1910 until the 1940s (?). He began his career in business, but sold all his worldly goods to fund his study at divinity college . On being ordained Atkinson was appointed, in 1903, pastor of the Adelphi Congregational Church, Bethnal Green, before moving to become minister at Epsom Congregational Church in 1906. Epsom he founded the Epsom Brotherhood.
On 22 January 1939 Atkinson delivered the address from Swanage Congregational Church : this was broadcast by the BBC.
On 22 January 1939 Atkinson delivered the address from Swanage Congregational Church : this was broadcast by the BBC.
The architect
Stanley Griffiths