The Evangelical Library in Bounds Green,
London, is a lending library for Christian ministers, students and other lay-persons. For many years the library was located on
Chiltern Street in central London. It moved to
North London in mid-2009.
The Library was founded through the vision of Geoffrey Williams (1886–1975) to be a library that offered the very best of
Protestant evangelical resources. In this aim he was much encouraged in 1938 by the then associate minister of
Westminster Chapel
Westminster Chapel is an evangelical free church in Westminster, central London. The church is in Buckingham Gate, on the corner of Castle Lane and opposite the junction with Petty France. Buckingham Gate is just off Victoria Street and near ...
, Dr
Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Before the move in 1944 to its Chiltern Street location close to
Baker Street Underground station, it was known as the Beddington Free Grace Library, based in the tiny village of
Beddington,
Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...
.
The library is home to more than 80,000 evangelical books. It also has an extensive archive of several evangelical periodicals. It hosts an annual lecture and publishes a regular magazine called ''In Writing'' (formerly known as ''The Evangelical Library Bulletin'').
Following a major refurbishment in 2005, the library now has a reference room, known as the ''Robert Sheehan Puritan and Research Centre'',
[.] named in honour of the late
Robert J. Sheehan
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
(1951–97), the former pastor of
Welwyn Evangelical Church
Welwyn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also includes the villages of Digswell and Oaklands. It is sometimes referred to as Old Welwyn or Welwyn Village, to distinguish it from the much newer and larger se ...
.
It has links with a number of similar libraries worldwide, which it also supports.
See also
*
Dr Williams's Library, London
*
St Deiniol's Library
Gladstone's Library, known until 2010 as St Deiniol's Library ( cy, Llyfrgell Deiniol Sant), is a residential library in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales. It is a Grade I listed building and a registered charity.
Gladstone's Library is Britain's ...
, Hawarden
References
External links
The Evangelical Library– official website
The Evangelical Library's E-Books Project
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Religion in the City of Westminster
Libraries in the City of Westminster
Evangelicalism in the United Kingdom