| Description | Summary
Society administration
Trustees’ meeting minutes, 1900-1976; trust accounts, 1873-1929, 1952-1971; annual statements of trust accounts, 1930-1941, 1959; report on proposed heating system, 1966; organ sub-committee report, 1939; report on fire-watching volunteers’ meeting, 1941; copy lease of 84 Queen’s Road, 1969; leaders’ meeting minutes, 1918-1974; Church Council minutes, 1974-2003 (incomplete); annual society or church meeting minutes, 1919-1959, 1993-2003; steward’s accounts, 1884-1904; collection accounts, 1898-1982 (incomplete); quarterly society accounts, 1952-1970; Gift Day committee minutes, 1940-1962; bazaar committee minutes, 1939-1942; finance committee minutes, 1956-1979; property committee minutes, 1977-1979; property and finance committee minutes, 1980-1985; meeting attendance book, 1971-2000; papers relating to redevelopment, 1987-1996; Property Group files, 1995-2008; quinquennial inspection reports, 2006.
Society organisations
Women’s Guild of Friendship and Service minutes, 1940-1961, and record of meetings, 1949-1955; London Street Ladies Guild minutes, 1938-1940; Bright Hour minutes, 1958-1995, accounts, 1975-1995, and attendance register, 1968-1980; Women’s Fellowship minutes, 1960-2010, and annual statements of accounts, 1968/9-2009/10; Queen’s Road Brotherhood: copy photograph, c.1907; Men’s League: photograph of Concert Party, n.d. [c.1920s]; Youth Council minutes, 1971-1973; Women’s Work committee minutes, 1929-1990, and accounts, 1950-1981; Girls’ League: photograph, n.d. [early 1920s]; Cricket Club: photograph, n.d. [1920s]; Tennis Club: photograph of Irrepressibles Concert Party, 1929.
Service of the church
Special orders of service, 1966, 2011.
Registration
Baptism register, 1873-1940, 1977; marriage registers, 1873-1994.
Membership
Directories, 2002-2007.
Sunday School and Sunday Institute
Sunday School/Junior Church minutes, 1959-2002; statements of accounts, 1988/9-1999/2000; lists of Junior Church members, 1993-2002; hymns for 41st anniversary, 1914; teaching materials, c.1900s-1960s; papers relating to Short and Walker Prizes, 1923-n.d. [c.1950s].
Printed material/Miscellaneous
Wesley News, 1949-2005 (incomplete); Life Lines, 2007-2017 (incomplete); sale of work programme, 1888; yearbook, 1955; centenary history, 1973; printed miscellanea, 1935-1940, 1995; memoir of minister’s daughters (1911-1914), 1990; photographs, n.d. [c.1874], 20C.
Concordance
The following documents were previously catalogued as D/N 6/2 :-
Old reference - New reference
D/N6/2/1 - D/MS60/1A/1
D/N6/2/2 - D/MS60/1A/2; 1B/2; 1E/1-2
D/N6/2/3 - D/MS60/1A/3; 1B/7; 1C/1-2; 1D/1
D/N6/2/4 - D/MS60/2A/1
D/N6/2/5 - D/MS60/2A/2; 8/17
D/N6/2/6 - D/MS60/2A/3
D/N6/2/7 - D/MS60/2A/4
D/N6/2/8 - D/MS60/3D/1
D/N6/2/9 - D/MS60/1B/1
D/N6/2/10 - D/MS60/2B/1
D/N6/2/11 - D/MS60/1B/5
D/N6/2/12 - D/MS60/1B/6
D/N6/2/13 - D/MS60/1B/3
D/N6/2/14 - D/MS60/1B/4
D/N6/2/15 - D/MS60/1A/4
D/N6/2/16/3 - D/MS60/3A/1
D/N6/2/16/4 - D/MS60/3A/2
D/N6/2/16/5 - D/MS60/3A/3-4
D/N6/2/17 - D/MS60/3A/5
D/N6/2/18 - D/MS60/3A/6
D/N6/2/19/1 - D/MS60/8/1-11
D/N6/2/19/2 - D/MS60/8/12-14
D/N6/2/20 - D/MS60/4B/1
D/N6/2/21 - D/MS60/1F/1 |
| Admin History | John Wesley preached in Reading on a number of occasions, and a small Wesleyan society was meeting in London Street by 1739, but had failed by 1804. In 1811 a new society was formed, initially meeting in London Street, and then in a former schoolroom in Queens Road nicknamed the Inkpot Chapel. In 1816-1817 a chapel was built in Church Street.
Wesley Methodist Church in Queen's Road was built in 1872-3 and opened in 1873. In 1940 it absorbed the London Street former Primitive Methodist Society (D/MS 59). |