| Catalogue Reference | D/MS8 |
| Title | Records of Lambourn Wesleyan Methodist Church |
| Description | Summary
Society administration
Trustees' meeting minutes, 1934-1957; trust accounts, 1899-c.1977; chapel fire insurance policy, 1874; appointments of new trustees, 1926, 1952; Bush Trust minutes, 1929-1968; school trustees' correspondence, 1908-1909; plans of caretaker's cottage, 1959; trustees' miscellaneous, 1947-1948; society steward's accounts, 1933-1939; church accounts, c.1977-1993; annual statements of accounts, 2009/10, 2012/13; collection accounts, 1911-1942, 1956-1993; quinquennial inspection reports, 1978-2000; plans, 1989-1996; fabric papers, 1991.
Service of the church
Pulpit notices, 1965-1967.
Sunday School and Sunday Institute
Sunday School scrapbook, 1980-1984.
Printed material/Miscellaneous
Memoir of Thomas Bush, 1849; press cuttings, c.1935-1980. |
| Date | 1849-2013 |
| Repository | Berkshire Record Office (code: GB 005) |
| Level | Fonds |
| Extent | 10 vols, 13 bdls, 10 docs |
| Admin History | Wesleyan Methodist worship appears to have begun in Lambourn in 1792.
A chapel was built in 1814, replaced by a new one in Church Lane (later known as Chapel Lane) in 1835.
Following Methodist union in 1932 the church was known as Chapel Lane Methodist Church, to distinguish it from the former Primitive Methodist Church in Lambourn (High Street Church). The latter was sold in 1956, when the societies united at Chapel Lane, henceforth known as Lambourn Methodist Church.
The chapel closed in 2016, but services continued in Lambourn Memorial Hall (the village hall). |
| Acquisition | Deposited in July 1967 (acc. 1335 part); June 1972 (acc. 1748 part); March 1979 (acc. 2369 part); July 2010 (acc. 8617); March 2016 (acc. 9844); January 2017 (acc. 10018); July 2017 (acc. 10129)
Schedule of accessions
Acc. 1335 (part): 1A/1; 1C/1; 1F/1-5; 1G/1; 4A/1
Acc. 1748 (part): 2B/5
Acc. 2369 (part): 2B/1-4
Acc. 8617: 8/1-2
Acc. 9844: 1B/1; 1C/2; 1F/6; 2E/1-5; 7C/1
Acc. 10018: 1A/2-3; 2D/1; 7C/2
Acc. 10129: 2B/6; 2D/2; 3C/1 |
| Related Material | Records in other collections
Circuit records D/MC 10, 12-13, 22
Property files, 1982-2015 D/MC13/3A/7, 34; D/MC22/3D/1-3
E-mail regarding the church’s future, 2001 D/MC13/1C/1
Papers relating to the Bush Trust, 1905-1985 D/MC13/1D/3
Papers relating to the Buckeridge Trust, 1975 D/MC13/1D/4
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| 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. |