| Description | Summary
Society administration
Staffing Committee minutes, 1995-2010, and correspondence, 1995-2006; parish profiles, 1996-2006; general correspondence, 1999-2007; constitutions, 1987-1993; Sharing Agreement, 1990; annual reports, 2002/3-2006/7. |
| Admin History | Trinity Church is a Local Ecumenical partnership between Anglican, Methodist and United Reformed Churches. Worship began in 1983, when a small group of Methodists and URC members began to meet in a local community centre. They were joined by the Church of England in c.1987.
A church was built in c.1987, and an Anglican parish formed in 1992. Ministerial oversight came from all three denominations, with at least two represented at any one time. By 2000 it was governed by a quarterly Church Meeting, a Church Council, and a Leadership Team (consisting of the clergy, church secretary, senior steward and treasurer). The church had a strong emphasis on work in a local schools. |
| Arrangement | Classification scheme for Methodist society (chapel or church) records
1 Trustees
1A Trustees' meeting minutes
1B Trust accounts
1C Chapel property [deeds, certificates, licences, appointments of trustees]
1D Correspondence
1E Related committees
1F Other property [eg manse, hall, school]
1G Other
2 Leaders and society stewards/Church Council)
2A Leaders' meeting/Church Council minutes
2B Accounts
2C Committees
2D Correspondence
2E Other
3 Society organisations
3A Women's groups [except Women's Work
3B Men's groups
3C Joint fellowship [except Sunday Institute]
3D Youth organisations [except Sunday School]
3E Missions [including Women's Work]
3F Other
4 Service of the church
4A Pulpit notices
4B Orders of service
4C Ministers' papers
4D Other
5 Registration
5A Baptism
5B Marriage
5C Burial
6 Membership
6A Registers, class books and directories
6B Young disciples
6C Other
7 Sunday School and Sunday Institute
7A Sunday School minutes and accounts
7B Sunday School registers and cradle rolls
7C Other Sunday School records
7D Sunday Institute
8 Printed material/Miscellaneous |
| 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. |