Catalogue Reference | D/MS3 |
Title | Records of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Church Lane (later Charnham Street, then Bath Road), Hungerford |
Description | Summary
Society administration Trustees’ meeting minutes, 1841, 1854, 1871-1929, 1960; trust accounts, 1841-1902; papers relating to Charnham Street site, 1833, 1864-1870; papers relating to Bath Road site, 1923-1964; miscellaneous property records, 1897-1955; minutes of school trustees' meetings, 1910-1925; school trust bank pass book, 1924; church accounts, c.1868-1946; collection journals, 1902-1911, 1931-1967; Envelope Scheme accounts, 1925-1967; finance committee minutes, 1925-1935.
Service of the church Pulpit notices, 1943-1960.
Registration Marriages, 1886-1897 (unofficial), 1923-1968.
Printed material/Miscellaneous Wesleyan Day School managers' minutes, 1897-1910. |
Date | 1833-1968 |
Repository | Berkshire Record Office (code: GB 005) |
Level | Fonds |
Extent | 25 vols, 19 bdls, 7 docs |
Admin History | The Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Church Street, Hungerford, was established by a deed of 1807. It was also known as Ebenezer Chapel.
In 1868-1869 a new chapel was built in Charnham Street, Hungerford. The church retained the Church Street premises for use as a Wesleyan Day and Sunday School.
In c.1925 a further move took place to the new Bath Road Methodist Church.
The church closed in 1968. |
Acquisition | Deposited in July 1967 (acc. 1335 part); in June 1972 (acc. 1748 part); in December 1977 (acc. 2271 part); in August 1992 (acc. 5072 part); December 2015 (acc. 9742 part)
Schedule of accessions Acc. 1335 (part): 1A/1; 1C/1-6, 8-10; 1F/3-8; 2B/1-5, 7-9; 4A/1-5 Acc. 1748 (part): 1A/2; 1B/1; 1C/7; 1F/1-2; 1G/1-2; 8/1 Acc. 2271 (part): 5B/1-6 Acc. 5072 (part): 2B/6 Acc. 9742 (part): 1C/11-12; 1D/1-4 |
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
D/MC 10, 12-13: Circuit records, 1810-1968 D/MC 11/7A/2: Baptism register, 1937-1965 D/MS 44/3A/1: Women's Fellowship minutes. D/MS 44/8/1: Photograph of Ebenezer stone. D/MC 13/3C/1: Charnham St Manse trustees' minutes, 1961-1966. |
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. |