| Catalogue Reference | D/MS99 |
| Title | Records of Tadley Primitive Methodist Church (later Tadley Main Road Methodist Church), Hampshire |
| Description | ummary
Society administration
Trustees' meeting minutes, 1929-1977; building fund accounts, 1928; appointments of new trustees, 1892, 1927; deeds of church site, 1925-1974; certificates of registration of church as place of worship and for marriages, 1932; trustees' correspondence, 1930, 1973-1977; trustee and chapel committee minutes, 1931; leaders' meeting minutes, 1958-1969; society or church meeting minutes, 1965-1978 (incomplete); Church Council minutes, 1978-1980; collection accounts, 1936-1971; statements of accounts, 1977/8-1988/9 (incomplete); correspondence relating to property, 1977-1996; papers on repairs and redecoration of church, 1986-1989; proposal for lay pastor, n.d. [c.2002].
Society organisations
Memorandum of 50th anniversary service of Women's Fellowship, 1998.
Service of the church
Pulpit notices, 1971-1988 (incomplete); notes on sermons and services, 1993-1995.
Sunday School and Sunday Institute
Sunday School teachers' meeting minutes, 1892-1954; Sunday School Council minutes, 1957-1963.
Printed material/Miscellaneous
Press cutting re planning permission, 1986. |
| Date | 1892-n.d.[c.2002] |
| Repository | Berkshire Record Office (code: GB 005) |
| Level | Fonds |
| Extent | 10 vols, 11 bdls, 7 docs |
| Admin History | The society was formed in 1834. A chapel was built in 1859. A new chapel was built in 1931. |
| Acquisition | Deposited in November 1991 (acc. 4893 part); October 2002 (acc. 7084); February 2012 (acc. 8972)
Schedule of accessions
Acc. 4893 (part): 1A/1-2; 1B/1; 1C/1-5; 1D/1; 1G/1; 2A/1; 2B/1; 2E/1; 4A/1
Acc. 7084: 1D/2; 2B/2-3; 2D/1-2; 2E/2; 3A/1; 4A/2; 4D/1; 7A/1; 8/1
Acc. 8792: 2D/3; 2E/3 |
| Arrangement | Concordance
The following documents were formerly held at Hampshire Record Office:
Old Hampshire Record Office reference - New BRO reference
198M86/NMS 114 - D/MS99/1C/1/1, 3
198M86/NMS 115 - D/MS99/1C/1/2
198M86/NMS 116 - D/MS99/1C/2/1
198M86/NMS 117 - D/MS99/1C/2/2
198M86/NMS 118 - D/MS99/1D/1
198M86/NMS 119 - D/MS99/1A/1
198M86/NMS 120 - D/MS99/1A/2
198M86/NMS 121 - D/MS99/1C/4/1
198M86/NMS 122 - D/MS99/1C/4/2
198M86/NMS 123 - D/MS99/1C/3
198M86/NMS 124 - D/MS99/1C/5
198M86/NMS 125 - D/MS99/2A/1
198M86/NMS 126 - D/MS99/1G/1
198M86/NMS 127 - D/MS99/2E/1
198M86/NMS 134 - D/MS99/1B/1
198M86/NMS 140 - D/MS99/2B/1
198M86/NMS 141 - D/MS99/4A/1
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/MC3, 6, 21: Circuit records
D/MC6/3A/25: Church property file, 1983-1990
D/MC6/3A/45: Quinquennial reports, 2007-2012 |
| 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. |