| Catalogue Reference | D/MS23 |
| Title | Records of Shepherds Lane Methodist Church, Bracknell |
| Description | Summary
Society administration
Trustees' meeting minutes, 1956-1976; property committee minutes, 1977-1989; property and finance committee minutes, 1982-1990; draft annual statements of accounts, 1962/3-1972/3 (incomplete); papers on building of church, 1950-1964; appointments of trustees, 1962, 1966; papers on proposals for new church and extension to existing church, 1962-1971; miscellaneous correspondence on church building, 1967-1976; building committee reports, 1962-1964; building fund appeals committee minutes, 1962-1964; manse plans, 1961-1962; manse committee minutes, 1961; papers on transfer of land for footpath, 1969-1970; papers on use of Sunday School/church hall, 1969-1976; papers on scheme for new church at Birch Hill, 1959-1975; plans of proposed church at Harmanswater, 1966; North Bracknell Local Plan proposals, 1985; leaders' meeting minutes, 1957-1974; annual society/church meetings minutes, 1959-1991; Church Council minutes, 1974-2006; summary accounts, 1961; Church Family committee minutes, 1974-1989; annual church meeting agendas, 1965-1966.
Society organisations
Methodist Home Mission Fund schedules of contributions, 1964/5-1992/3 (incomplete).
Sunday School and Sunday Institute
Sunday School staff meeting minutes, 1975-1986; Sunday School correspondence, 1977-1984.
Printed material/Miscellaneous
Anniversary papers, 1964, 1980; flower festival papers, 1979-1983; correspondence on effect of New Town, 1981; church directories, n.d.[2000s]-2007; magazines, 1922-2006 (incomplete). |
| Date | 1950-2007 |
| Repository | Berkshire Record Office (code: GB 005) |
| Level | Fonds |
| Extent | 6 vols, 42 bdls, 4 docs |
| Admin History | The Shepherds Lane society started in 1957, and Shepherds Lane Methodist Church was opened in 1958. The church was built to serve the Priestwood area of Bracknell New Town. In 1968, it absorbed the majority of the congregation of London Road Methodist Church (D/MS 22), which had just closed. |
| Acquisition | Deposited in August 1993 (acc. 5274 part); January 1994 (acc. 5347 part); June 2004 (acc. 7429); September 2011 (acc. 8859); February 2013 (acc. 9182); December 2014 (acc. 9545)
Schedule of accessions
Acc. 5274 (part): 1A/1; 1B/1; 1C/1-8; 1E/1; 1F/1-5; 1G/1-3, 5-6; 2A/1-3; 2B/1; 2C/1; 2E/1; 3E/1; 7A/1; 8/1-4
Acc. 5347 (part): 1G/4
Acc. 7429: 2A/4
Acc. 8859: 8/5
Acc. 9182: 8/6-20
Acc. 9545: 2A/5 |
| 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 |
| Related Material | Records in other collections
Hampshire Record Office: Aldershot Farnborough and Camberley Circuit records, 1958-1991.
D/MC 20: South East Berks circuit records, 1991-date. |
| 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. |