| Catalogue Reference | D/MS94 |
| Title | Records of Kingsclere Wesleyan Methodist Church, Hampshire |
| Description | Summary
Society administration
Trustees' meeting minutes, 1891-1976; trust accounts, 1931-1955; correspondence re use of church by Kingsclere Temperance Society, 1909-1910; society meeting minutes, 1962-1969; leaders' meeting minutes, 1962-1974; Church Council minutes, 1974-1987; Property Committee minutes, 1977-1979; Safeguarding Meeting minutes, 2000; stewards’ meeting minutes, 2010; annual statements of accounts, 1994/5-1999/2000 (incomplete); Church Council correspondence, 1968-2005; quinquennial reports: 3 George Street, 1988, and church, 2002-2007.
Society organisations
Letter relating to formation of Youth Club, 1964; Kingsclere Temperance Society minutes, 1901-1931.
Registration
Marriage registers, 1941-2011.
Membership
List of members, 1965.
Printed material/Miscellaneous
Appeal for upkeep of parish churchyard, 1950s; handbill introducing church, c.1980. |
| Date | 1891-2011 |
| Repository | Berkshire Record Office (code: GB 005) |
| Level | Fonds |
| Extent | 9 vols, 11 bdls, 12 docs |
| Admin History | Methodist worship began in Kingsclere in a private house in 1797. The chapel was built between 1808 and 1812, and enlarged in 1895. |
| Acquisition | Deposited in March 1979 (acc. 2369 part); August 1993 (acc. 5275 part); July 2017 (acc. 10133); August 2022 (acc. 11001)
Schedule of accessions
Acc. 2369 (part): 1A/1-2; 1B/1-2; 1D/1; 2A/1; 3F/1-2; 8/1
Acc. 5275 (part): 1A/3; 2A/2; 2D/1; 2E/1; 3D/1; 6C/1; 8/2
Acc. 10133: 1D/2; 2A/3-4; 2B/1; 2D/2-4; 2E/2-7
Acc. 11001: 5B/1-3 |
| Arrangement | Concordance
The following documents were formerly catalogued as D/N 4 :
Old reference - New reference
D/N4/5/1 - D/MS94/2A/1; 3F/1-2
D/N4/5/2 - D/MS94/1A/2; 1D/1
D/N4/5/3 - D/MS94/1A/3
D/N4/5/4 - D/MS94/1B/1-2
Classification scheme for Methodist society (chapel or church) records
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/MC7, 9, 13, 22: Circuit records
D/MC7/1B/3: Circuit bills and vouchers, 1830s
D/MC13/3A/5: Property file, 1988-2010 |
| 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. |