Catalogue Reference | D/MS54 |
Title | Records of Bourne Memorial Methodist Church, Exbourne Road, Whitley, Reading |
Description | Summary
Society administration Trustees' meeting minutes, 1948-1976; trust accounts, 1948-1974; property miscellaneous, 1948-1960; correspondence re opening of church, 1948; leaders' meeting minutes, 1951-1973; annual society meeting minutes, 1951-1973; Church Council minutes, 1974-1979; general church meeting minutes, 1974-1980; society accounts, 1948-1980; collection journals, 1948-1973; papers re proposed partnership with St Paul's and St Agnes' churches, 1964-1980.
Society organisations Methodist Guild minutes, 1958-1959, correspondence, 1958, and syllabus, 1958-1959; Youth Management Committee minutes, 1954-1958, and bank pass book, 1960-1967; Youth Council minutes, 1960-1969.
Service of the church Pulpit notices, 1948-1980; special orders of service, 1948, 1950; handbill for evangelistic services, [1969].
Registration Baptism register, 1949-1979; marriage registers, 1952-1979.
Membership Register of members, 1950-1967; membership rolls, 1968, 1975; young disciples' roll, 1952-1964.
Sunday School and Sunday Institute Sunday School teachers' council minutes, 1951-1973; Sunday School bank pass book, 1967-1977.
Printed material/Miscellaneous Souvenir brochure, 1948; anniversary report, 1949; Christmas Card Fund bank pass book, 1967-1975. |
Date | 1948-1980 |
Repository | Berkshire Record Office (code: GB 005) |
Level | Fonds |
Extent | 39 vols, 12 bdls, 6 docs |
Admin History | Bourne Methodist Church opened in 1948 to serve the Whitley housing estate. It was named after the early Primitive Methodist Hugh Bourne. The funds for the original building came from the sale of London Street Primitive Methodist Church (D/MS 59). The work was begun by Sister Dorothy Owns, a deaconess, who was in charge until 1954.
Ministerial oversight came from Whitley Hall Methodist Church, and later from Tadley.
Membership declined in the 1970s, and after attempts to unite with St Agnes' and St Paul's Anglican churches (D/P 177, 167) failed, Bourne closed in 1980. |
Acquisition | Deposited in March 1981 (acc. 2622); October 1981 (acc. 2946 part); August 1988 (acc. 4269 part)
Schedule of accessions Acc. 2622: 5B/1-2 Acc. 2946 (part): 1A/1; 1B/1-2; 1C/1-2; 1D/1; 2A/1-3; 2B/1-8; 2E/1; 3C/1-3; 3D/1-4; 4A/1-19; 4D/1; 5A/1; 6A/1; 6B/1; 7A/1-3; 8/1-3 Acc. 4269 (part): 4B/1 |
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 5: Circuit records
D/EX 987/18/7: Photograph of opening, 1948 D/EX 987/18/8-12: Anniversary programmes, 1949-1959 |
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. |