| Catalogue Reference | D/MC20 |
| Title | Records of South East Berkshire Methodist Circuit |
| Description | [For more information about the records in this collection please contact Berkshire Record Office.]
Summary
Circuit administration
Circuit Meeting minutes, 1991-2012; annual statements of accounts, 2006/7-2009/10 (incomplete); correspondence, 2002; Circuit Leadership Team minutes, 1999-2005; Circuit Property Management Committee for Sunninghill Methodist Church minutes, 2001-2003; papers relating to Old Inchmery Community Chapel project, 1993-1999; papers relating to the management and sale of Sunninghill Methodist Church, 2001-2004; papers relating to Circuit Review, 2006.
Preaching plans and directories
Preaching plans, 1991-2012; directories, 1991-2009.
Local preachers’ meeting
Preachers’ guides, 1993-2011; order of service of recognition of local preacher, 2001.
Printed material/Miscellaneous
Special orders of service, 1991-2009; newsletters, 1992-2009; prayer manual, 1995; guide to circuit, 2008. |
| Date | 1991-2012 |
| Repository | Berkshire Record Office (code: GB 005) |
| Level | Fonds |
| Extent | 1 vol, 41 bdls, 1 file, 34 docs |
| Admin History | The circuit was formed in 1991 with its headquarters at Wokingham Rose Street (D/MS 14). It comprised six societies from Reading and Silchester (D/MC 6) and Camberley circuits. |
| Acquisition | Deposited in December 1991 (acc. 4922); January 1992 (acc. 4945); January 1992 (acc. 5157); December 1993 (acc. 5332); July 1996 (acc. 5842); December 1997 (acc. 6152); December 1998 (acc. 6351); February 2002 (acc. 6936) June 2004 (acc. 7427); September 2011 (acc. 8854); February 2013 (acc. 9180); December 2014 (acc.9528); August 2016 (acc. 9932)
Schedule of accessions
Acc. 4922: 5A/1/1
Acc. 4945: 5A/1/2 ; 5B/1 ; 9/1
Acc. 5157: 5A/1/3-4
Acc. 5332: 5A/1/5-7 ; 5B/2 ; 6C/1 ; 9/2
Acc. 5842: 5A/2 ; 5B/3-4 ; 6C/2 ; 9/3-5
Acc. 6152: 5A/3; 5B/5-6; 6C/3; 9/6, 9
Acc. 6351: 5A/4; 5B/7; 9/7, 10-11
Acc. 6936: 5A/5; 5B/8-10; 6C/4; 9/8, 12-13
Acc. 7427: 5A/6; 5B/11; 9/14-15
Acc. 8854: 1D/1-2; 5A/7-10; 5B/12-17; 6C/5-7; 9/16-18
Acc. 9180: 1A1-5; 1C1; 1D/3; 3C/1; 3E/1-2; 4A/1
Acc. 9528: 1B/1; 1C/2; 1D/4; 2G/1; 3C/2; 5A/11-12; 6C/8
Acc. 9932: 1A/6; 2G/2; 3E/3; 4B/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
Records of individual churches
D/MS 23: Shepherds Lane, Bracknell
D/MS 19: Crowthorne
D/MS 16: Sunninghill
D/MS 81: Winkfield Row
D/MS 14: Wokingham Rose Street
D/MS 85: Woosehill |
| 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. |