| Description | Summary
Society administration
Trustees' minutes, 1960-1976; trust accounts. 1961-1989; certificates of registration as place of worship and for marriages, 1961; Property Committee minutes, 1977-1979; church meeting minutes, 1959-1968; Church Council minutes, 1971, 1977-1978; leaders' meeting minutes, 1959-1971; society accounts, 1977-1979; annual statements of acounts, 1962/3-1978/9.
Service of the church
Order of service of dedication, 1961.
Registration
Baptism register, 1961-1977; copy baptisms, 1956-1960; marriage register, 1963-1978.
Printed material/miscellaneous
Press cuttings, 1960-1961; photographs, 1961, n.d. [c. 1980s]. |
| Admin History | In 1954 Slough Central Hall (D/MS 69) agreed to sponsor Methodist work in Britwell, to serve a major new housing development, and in 1956 a deaconess opened a Sunday School in a workmen's canteen. Worship began in 1958, in the deaconess' council flat.
The church, in Wentworth Avenue, Britwell, opened in 1961. It closed in 1979. |
| Arrangement | Classification scheme for Methodist society (chapel or church) 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 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. |