| Description | Summary
Society administration
Trustees' meeting minutes, 1872-1873, 1899-1976; trustees' treasurer's accounts, 1877-1963; chapel steward's accounts with trustees, 1878-1893; pew rent accounts, 1883-1905; Methodist Trust Cottages rent accounts, 1932, 1948-1967; chapel trust accounts, 1949-1967; High Street Appeal Fund accounts, 1960-1961; bills, vouchers, etc, 1836-1906; chapel papers, 1825-1885; deeds of church site, 1892-1944; agreements relating to chapel property, 1840-1853; appointments of new trustees, 1892-1966; retirements of trustees, 1928-1952; correspondence, 1905, 1957; fire insurance policies on 72 Peascod St and 6 Clarence Road, 1846-1856; manse building fund financial statements, 1893; accounts for building ‘chapel house’ and Epworth Villa, c.1893; deeds and papers relating to manse (Epworth Villa), 1892-1958; papers on purchase of new manse, 1958; Leaders' Meeting minutes, 1873-1945, 1951-1964; Stewards' Meeting minutes, 1873-1895; Annual Society/Church Meeting minutes, 1929-1946, 1956-1962, 1981-2007 (incomplete); Church Council minutes, 1981-2007 (incomplete); stewards' accounts, 1851-1875, 1923-1939; poor steward's accounts, 1877-1956; collection journal, 1930-1935; Finance Committee minutes, 1947-2009; Fund Raising Commitee minutes, 1990-1996; World Service and Mission (later World Service & Neighbourhood) Committee minutes, 1974-1999; Church Family Committee minutes, 1984-2000; plans of proposed alterations, 1990; quinquennial inspection reports, 2002, 2008; annual report, 2012/3.
Society organisations
Women's Own minutes, 1954-1994, and accounts, 1971-1994; Ladies' Sewing Meeting minutes and accounts, 1926-1932; Wesley Guild minutes, 1897-1901, 1978-2002; accounts, 1936-1987; annual statements of accounts, 1955/60-2005/6 (incomplete); programmes, 1955/6-2010/1; Wesleyan Boys' Social Club library register and rules, 1909-1913; Windsor Tract Society minutes, 1858-1861; Christian Workers' Association minutes, 1888-1896; Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society: Windsor branch accounts, 1916-1937; Women's Work minutes, 1949-1983.
Service of the church
Order of service : rededication, 1993.
Membership
Membership roll, 1935.
Sunday School and Institute
Sunday School committee and teachers' meetings minutes, 1858-1912, 1958-1970; Sunday School Council minutes, 1912-1940, 1952-1958; Sunday School accounts, 1893-1905; Sunday School admission registers, 1862-1873; Sunday School summary attendance registers, 1857-1865, 1890-1899, 1909-1946; Sunday School attendance registers, 1938-1947; Sunday School teachers' attendance registers, 1886-1942; Sunday School annual reports, 1933-1942; Sunday School Anniversary reports and orders of service, 1940-1948.
Printed material/Miscellaneous
Press cuttings, 1836-1886; histories of church, 20C; centenary newsletter and year diary, 1977; newsletters (incomplete), 1988-2011; miscellaneous, 1865, 20C. |
| Admin History | John Wesley first preached in Windsor in 1738. A Methodist Society was soon in existence (certainly by 1745), but it did not endure. The work appears to have been revived by a soldier and former Methodist local preacher named John Ould, after the latter attended a prayer meeting in Windsor in 1800.
A Society is recorded in 1815, with 26 members, and in the same year a minister was appointed to Windsor (the Revd Thomas Robinson). A chapel opened in Bier Lane in 1816. In 1837 the Society moved to a larger chapel off Peascod Road, with 500 sittings, and the old chapel was sold.
In 1876-7 a new church was built at the corner of Alma Road and Clarence Road in what was described as "the Mediaeval Style of the Early Decorated period", soon followed by an adjoining manse. The Peascod Street premises were sold in 1886. The Alma Road church underwent a major renovation in 1963 and was rebuilt in 1992. |