| Catalogue Reference | D/MC9 |
| Title | Records of Newbury Methodist Circuit |
| Description | Summary
Circuit administration
Quarterly Meeting minutes, 1935-1971; Circuit accounts, 1957-1971 (incomplete); Quarterly and Circuit Meeting attendance book, 1969-1976; Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes, 1963-1971; Youth Council minutes, 1954-1989; Manse Committee minutes, 1966-1971; manse accounts, 1934-1967; manse trustees' meeting minutes, 1955-1957; ministerial fund accounts, 1936-1977; trust schedules, 1949-1969.
Preaching plans and directories
Plans and directories, 1935-1971 (very incomplete).
Local preachers
Minutes, 1952-1971.
Registration
Registers of baptisms, 1951-1977.
Miscellaneous
The Record circuit magazine, 1938 (copy, part only); article on Methodism in Berkshire villages, 1935; yearbook, 1957. |
| Date | 1934-1989 |
| Repository | Berkshire Record Office (code: GB 005) |
| Level | Fonds |
| Extent | 17 vols, 11 bdls, 11 docs |
| Admin History | The circuit's origins date back to June 1937 when the former Wesleyan Methodists and Primitive Methodists agreed to unite and pool resources. Local preachers had met together from September 1934; Quarterly Meetings were combined from June 1935 and minuted in the same volume, but received separate reports and statistics from the two district sections, Northbrook Street and Bartholomew Street, for a further two years. Likewise, the preaching plans remained as two sections in one publication until September 1937.
The number of chapels in the united circuit declined from 33 to 19, before amalgamation took place with Hungerford circuit in 1971 (thereafter see D/MC13).
Although there are gaps among the circuit plans and directories, minutes, schedules and baptism registers are virtually complete throughout the circuit's existence. |
| Acquisition | Deposited in July 1974 (acc. 1944 part); March 1979 (acc. 2369 part); June 1988 (acc. 4238 part); March 1992 (acc 4975 part); November 1992 (acc. 5123 part); February 1993 (acc. 5172 part); March 1994 (acc. 5413); July 1995 (acc. 5653 part); July 2007 (acc. 8070); August 2010 (acc. 8630); December 2015 (acc. 9741); April 2017 (acc. 10080); November 2020 (acc. 10720)
Schedule of accessions
Acc. 1944 (part): 1A/1-3; 2A/1-2; 5A/1/2; 5A/2/3-4; 5A/4; 9/2
Acc. 2369 (part): 5A/1/1; 5A/3/1-3, 5-10; 5A/5/1-2
Acc. 4238 (part): 1D/1; 2F/1; 4A/1-3; 6A/1; 7A/1-2
Acc. 4975 (part): 3D/1-6; 9/3
Acc. 5123 (part): 5A/5/3
Acc. 5172 (part): 9/1
Acc. 5413: 2C/1
Acc. 5653 (part): 1B/1; 2G/1-2
Acc. 8070: 5A/6; 9/4
Acc. 8630: 2C/2; 5A/7
Acc. 9741: 9/5
Acc. 10080: 5A/2/1-2; 5A/3/4; 5A/8
Acc. 10720: 5A/9 |
| Arrangement | The following records were previously catalogued as D/N :
Old reference: New reference
D/N 4/1/1: D/MC 9/1A/1
D/N 4/1/2: D/MC 9/1A/2
D/N 4/1/3: D/MC 9/1A/3
D/N 4/1/5: D/MC 9/2A/1
D/N 4/1/5a-b: D/MC 9/2A/2
D/N 4/1/7/16-17: D/MC 9/5A/1
D/N 4/1/7/18-19: D/MC 9/5A/2
D/N 4/1/7/20-30: D/MC 9/5A/3
D/N 4/1/7/31-32: D/MC 9/5A/5
D/N 4/1/9: D/MC 9/5A/4
D/N 4/1/20-21: D/MC 9/9/2
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/MC 7/2A/1: Finance Committee minutes, 1937-1963
D/MC 7/2C/1: Wesley Guild and Youth Council minutes, 1935-1963
D/MC 7/6A/1: Local preachers' meeting minutes, 1934-1952
D/MC 7/7A/3; D/MC 8/7A/4: Baptisms, 1932-1952
Records of individual churches
D/MS 2: Newbury Bartholomew Street
D/MS 4: Chieveley
D/MS 5: West Shefford
D/MS 15: Stroud Green
D/MS 21: Boxford
D/MS 28: Burnt Hill
D/MS 31: Chaddleworth
D/MS 34: Cold Ash
D/MS 35: Compton
D/MS 39: Curridge
D/MS 40: East Garston
D/MS 42: Hampstead Norreys
D/MS 45: Inkpen
D/MS 46: Leckhampstead Thicket
D/MS 50: Newbury City Mission
D/MS 51: Newbury Northbrook Street
D/MS 71: Stockcross
D/MS 73: Thatcham
D/MS 78: Wash Common
D/MS 86: Worlds End
D/MS 88: Kintbury
D/MS 90: Burghclere
D/MS 94: Kingsclere
D/MS 96: Plastow Green
D/MS 102: Ashford Hill
D/MS 115: Peasemore |
| 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. |