| Catalogue Reference | D/MC14 |
| Title | Records of Windsor (later Windsor and Maidenhead) Wesleyan Methodist Circuit |
| Description | Summary
Circuit administration
Quarterly Meeting and committee minutes, 1860-1891, 1902-1937; quarterly accounts, 1856-1933; miscellaneous accounts, 1824-1935 (incomplete); receipts and vouchers, 1834-1889; correspondence, 1881-1898; Foreign Missions minutes, 1888-1898; Sunday Schools constitution, rules etc, 1850; Sunday School Council minutes, 1912-1947; Guild Council records, 1924-1945; register of trust deeds, (1819)-1952; fire insurance policies on chapels at Staines and Chertsey, 1855-1865; trust and circuit schedules and returns, 1860-1933; manse inventory, Windsor, 1880.
Preaching plans and directories
Plans, 1824-1918 (incomplete); plans and directories, 1903-1932 (incomplete).
Local Preachers
Minutes, 1836-1847, 1868-1927; Methodist Local Preachers' Mutual Aid Association membership and accounts, 1929-1934.
Membership
Removal register stubs, 1879-1913; memorial notices on officers and members, 1867-1933.
Printed material/Miscellaneous
Photocopied illustrated histories, [c.1900]-1904, 1965. |
| Date | 1824-1965 |
| Repository | Berkshire Record Office (code: GB 005) |
| Level | Fonds |
| Extent | 28 vols, 18 bdls, 1 file, 7 docs |
| Admin History | The Windsor area was originally covered by London circuit. In 1811 Hammersmith circuit was created (to be renamed Brentford circuit in 1817), and it was from this that Windsor circuit was itself formed in 1815, with preaching places also at Staines in Middlesex, and Egham and Chertsey in Surrey. By the 1830s, the number of places had increased to a dozen, including a chapel at Maidenhead.
Windsor circuit was split in 1872, losing Staines and four Surrey societies to a new Chertsey and Walton-on-Thames circuit, but recruiting others to maintain 12 societies until the turn of the century. The name of the circuit was revised to Windsor and Maidenhead in 1904, and ten chapels remained in use at the time of union with the Primitive Methodists in 1933.
The records of the circuit are incomplete, but minutes, accounts and preaching plans survive for certain dates, and important schedules survive from 1860 to the time of union. No baptism registers have been deposited. |
| Acquisition | Deposited in April 1978 (acc. 2309 part); March 1980 (acc. 2513 part); June 1988 (acc. 4239 part); June 1994 (acc. 5442 part); December 1997 (accs. 6142 part and 6145 part); November 1998 (acc. 6336 part); July 2004 (acc. 7455); January 2016 (acc. 9787)
Schedule of accessions
Acc. 2309 (part): 1B/8; 1C/1; 2C/2; 3A/2-4; 4A/4-9; 5A/1-2; 6C/1; 8A/1
Acc. 2513 (part): 1B/1-6; 2C/1; 3B/1; 9/1
Acc. 4239 (part): 1A/1-5; 2B/1; 4A/1-3; 6A/1-4; 8B/1; 9/4
Acc. 5442 (part): 1B/7; 2E/1-2; 3A/1
Acc. 6142 (part): 5A/3
Acc. 6145 (part): 9/2
Acc. 6336 (part): 9/3
Acc. 7455: 5A/4-9
Acc. 9787: 3D/1 |
| Arrangement | Classification scheme for Methodist circuit records
[This scheme shows how the collection is arranged. This collection does not include every type of record in the scheme. See the summary for records included in this collection.]
1 Circuit Meetings and Administration
1A Quarterly Meeting/Circuit Meeting Minutes
1B Accounts [of Quarterly Meeting]
1C Correspondence
1D Other records
2 Circuit Committees
2A Finance and Invitation/ General Purposes Committees
2B Missions Committee
2C Youth and Education Committees [including Sunday School]
2D Women's Committees
2E Christian Citizenship/Social Responsibility Committee
2F Manse Committee
2G Other Committees
3 Trustees (later Property Committee)
3A Property [deeds, registers of deeds, etc]
3B Trustees [registers and lists of trustees]
3C Minutes
3D Manses [including minutes of manse trustees]
3E Other records
4 Circuit reports and schedules
4A Reports and chapel, trust and school schedules
4B Other reports and schedules
5 Preaching plans and directories
5A Plans [including combined plans and directories]
5B Directories
6 Local preachers
6A Local preachers' meeting minutes
6B Accounts
6C Other records
7 Circuit registration
7A Baptism
7B Burial
8 Membership
8A Roll books and registers
8B Other records
9 Printed material/Miscellaneous |
| Related Material | Records in other collections
[For baptisms, 1823-1837, see MF 600 in searchroom]
Records of individual churches
D/MS 9: Windsor
D/MS 10: Maidenhead
D/MS 16: Sunninghill
D/MS 17: Cheapside, Sunninghill
D/MS 27: Lent Rise, Burnham
D/MS 36: Cookham Rise
D/MS 37: Cookham
D/MS 43: Holyport
D/MS 47: Littlewick Green |
| Access Conditions | With the exception of registers of baptism, marriage and burial, and other material whose contents have been made public, records of the Methodist Church are closed for 30 years, and pastoral records for 75 years, in accordance with Methodist Church standing orders.
Applications for access to closed records must be made in writing to the County Archivist. |