| Catalogue Reference | D/MC6 |
| Title | Records of Reading and Silchester Methodist Circuit |
| Description | Summary
Circuit administration
Circuit Meeting minutes, 1986-2000; annual statements of accounts, 1990/1-2013/4; correspondence on various churches, 1986-1990; Circuit questionnaire to churches, 1989; General Purposes Committee minutes and papers, 1986-1990; Missions Committee minutes, [1982]-1994; Education and Youth Committee minutes, 1974-1995; Social Responsibility Committee minutes and papers, 1986; Circuit Ministries Committee minutes, 1974-1995; Town Centre Steering Group minutes, 1992-1996, and papers, 1992-1998; Leadership Team Meeting minutes, 1998-2003; Super/Stewards Meeting minutes, 1998-2003; brochures for new clergy, n.d. [c.1989]-2001; papers relating to ministry needs assessment, 2012; files and papers relating to circuit property, 1962-2014; plans for Emmanuel Methodist Church, 1995-2000; papers relating to manses, 1930-2009; papers relating to Winnersh Methodist Church, 1967-1987; papers relating to Arthur Newbery Trust, 1981-2003.
Circuit reports and schedules
Membership schedules, 1974-2001.
Preaching plans and directories
Plans, 1982-2014; directories, 1985-2013.
Registers
Baptisms: Silchester Primitive Methodist Circuit, 1889-1982, and churches formerly in the latter, 1982-1998.
Local preachers
Minutes, 1991-2004 (incomplete); attendance records, 1982-1993; preachers' handbook, 1992; correspondence and reports, 1990-2001.
Printed material/Miscellaneous
Orders of special services, 1992-2002; Enablers' Group publicity leaflet, c.2002; leaflet on new circuit proposals, 2013; transcripts of letters from woman serving in the ATS (1945-1947), 1982; circuit map, n.d. [c.1990s]. |
| Date | 1889-2014 |
| Repository | Berkshire Record Office (code: GB 005) |
| Level | Fonds |
| Extent | 3 vols, 158 bdls, 12 files, 44 docs |
| Admin History | The circuit was formed in September 1982, when the former Silchester circuit was absorbed into Reading circuit. Certain of the records of the latter continued under the revised name, until volumes were filled. The circuit merged with Basingstoke (records at Hampshire Record Office) in 2014 to form the new Basingstoke and Reading Circuit (D/MC21). The headquarters remained in Reading. |
| Acquisition | Deposited in December 1982 (acc. 3157 part); October 1987 (acc. 4098); January 1988 (accs. 4152 part, 4155 part); November 1988 (acc. 4322); January 1990 (acc. 4515, 4527 part); December 1990 (acc. 4688 part); September 1991 (acc. 4868 part); December 1991 (acc. 4921); June 1992 (acc. 5028 part); September 1992 (acc. 5082 part); October 1992 (acc. 5098); November 1992 (acc. 5119); December 1993 (acc. 5330); December 1994 (acc. 5549); December 1995 (acc. 5728); August 1996 (acc. 5876); January 1997 (acc. 5957 part); February 1997 (acc. 5992); August 1998 (acc. 6292); May 2001 (acc. 6755); August 2001 (acc. 6820); April 2002 (acc. 6989); February 2004 (acc. 7336); March 2005 (acc. 7605); September 2011 (acc. 8853); February 2012 (acc. 8957); May 2015 (acc. 9621); December 2018 (acc. 10430); April 2022 (acc. 10927)
Schedule of accessions
Acc. 3157 (part): 5A/1
Acc. 4098: 5B/3
Acc. 4152 (part): 5A/3; 5B/1-2
Acc. 4155 (part): 5A/2
Acc. 4322: 5B/4
Acc. 4515: 5B/5
Acc. 4527 (part): 5A/4
Acc. 4688 (part): 5B/6
Acc. 4868 (part): 1C/1-2, 5
Acc. 4921: 5B/7
Acc. 5028 (part): 1C/3-4
Acc. 5082 (part): 9/1
Acc. 5098: 5B/8
Acc. 5119: 5A/5
Acc. 5330: 5B/9; 6C/1
Acc. 5549: 5A/6; 5B/1/10
Acc. 5728: 5A/7
Acc. 5876: 6C/2
Acc. 5957 (part): 2A/1; 2B/1; 2E/1; 5A/8; 5B/12
Acc. 5002: 6C/3; 9/2
Acc. 6292: 5A/9; 6B/11
Acc. 6755: 2C/1-2
Acc. 6820: 5A/10; 5B/16
Acc. 6989: 1A/1; 1D/1; 2A/2; 6A/1
Acc. 7336: 5A/11; 5B/11, 14-15, 17-19; 9/3-4
Acc. 7605: 2G/1; 4B/1
Acc. 8853: 3E/1
Acc. 8957: 1A/2-4; 1D/2; 2G/2-12; 3A/1; 3D/1; 3E/2-4; 4B/2; 5A/12-19; 5B/20-27; 6A/2; 6C/4; 7A/1; 9/5-6
Acc. 9621: 3C/1; 5A/20; 5A/21/1; 5A/22/2; 5B/28-29; 9/7
Acc. 10430: 3A/2-46; 3D/2-29; 4B/3; 5A/21/2; 5A/22/1; 6C/5; 9/8-9
Acc. 10927: 1B/1-4; 1D/3-12; 3A/47-49; 3D/30-48; 9/10 |
| 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
Circuit records
D/MC5/1A/3: Circuit Meeting minutes, 1982-1986
D/MC5/1C/2-4, 6-7, 10, 13-14, 17-18, 22, 25-26: Correspondence and papers re churches, 1982-1990
D/MC5/2A/3-4: General Purposes Committee minutes, 1982-1986
D/MC5/2B/2: Missions Committee minutes, 1982-1991
D/MC5/2D/4: Women's Fellowship Committee minutes, 1982-1986
D/MC5/6C/1: Local preachers' meeting attendance records, 1982-1985
D/MC5/6C/2: Local preachers' meeting correspondence, 1982-1984
D/MC21/3A/3: Papers relating to the sale of Three Mile Cross Methodist Church, 2012-2014
Records of individual churches
D/MS1: Oxford Road
D/MS14: Wokingham
D/MS25: Bradfield Tutts Clump
D/MS26: Burghfield Common
D/MS28: Burnt Hill, Yattendon
D/MS29: Caversham Gosbrook Road
D/MS30: Caversham Heights
D/MS49: Mortimer
D/MS57: Emmanuel
D/MS60: Wesley
D/MS61: West Reading
D/MS63: Whitley Hall
D/MS75: Three Mile Cross
D/MS76: Tilehurst
D/MS77: Kentwood
D/MS82: Winnersh
D/MS84: Woodley (Christ Church)
D/MS89: Baughurst
D/MS91: Charter Alley
D/MS92: Hannington
D/MS93: Haughurst Hill
D/MS95: Little London
D/MS97: Silchester
D/MS98: Tadley Common
D/MS99: Tadley Main Road
D/MS100: Wolverton Common
D/MS103: Gallows Tree Common
D/MS104: Henley-on-Thames
D/MS105: Woodcote
D/MS111: Earley (Trinity)
D/MS112: Woodley Airfield |
| 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. |