| Description | Summary
CHURCH ADMINISTRATION : church meeting minutes, 1930-1936, 1953-1987, and agendas, 1956-1967; church council minutes, 1933-1953 ; general correspondence, 1953-1981; correspondence re 50th anniversary, 1975; stewardship campaign papers, 1965-1968.
DEACONS : minutes, 1955-1985 ; agendas, 1956-1966.
COMMITTEES : local and joint [management] committee minutes, 1924-1933 ; finance committee minutes, 1934, 1936 ; house committee minutes, 1934 ; social and education committee minutes, 1967-1969.
TREASURER : general ledgers, 1954-1956, 1974-1977 ; Fairbairn memorial accounts, 1949-1957 ; statements of accounts, 1954-1990 (gaps).
PROPERTY RECORDS : plans and elevations, c.1925, 1957, 1994 ; correspondence re church buildings, 1948-1968, and re manses, 1970-1973 ; building and manse accounts, 1956-1959 ; photographs of opening ceremony, 1958 ; miscellaneous, 1925-1935.
CHURCH ORGANISATIONS :
Sunday School : class register, 1925 ; teachers' meeting minutes, 1926-1935 ; annual reports, 1927-1934, 1957 ; cradle roll, 1954-1995 ; pass book, 1962-1978 ; accounts, 1978-1985.
Women's Own : committee minutes, 1926-1940 ; attendance registers, 1928-1941 ; accounts, 1950-1972.
Men's Fellowship : accounts, 1952-1967.
Missionary Council : minutes, 1955-1971.
Boys' Club : photographs, n.d.[1930s].
REGISTRATION AND MEMBERSHIP : register of members, 1958-1962 ; list of members, [1975] ; correspondence re membership, 1930-1934, 1953-1968 ; reports on prospective members, c.1960-1983.
SERVICE OF THE CHURCH : order of opening services, 1925 ; papers re start of services, 1924 ; registers of communicants, 1931-1969; constitutions, 1930, 1953.
MINISTER : correspondence and papers, 1933-1937, 1957-1974.
PUBLICATIONS : Tyndale Herald, 1954-1982 ; Contact, 1984, 1990-1995 ; yearbooks, 1957-1958 ; circular letters, 1956-1974.
OTHER BODIES : King's Road Baptist Church : statement of accounts, 1931.
Baptist Union : copy application for grant, 1937.
Ringing Reading Crusade : newsletters, 1959-1960 ; minutes, 1960 ; correspondence, 1959-1960.
Berkshire Baptist Association : assembly papers, 1962-1977.
Thames Valley Crusade : preparatory meeting minutes, 1981.
Regents Park College Preaching Station Society : annual report, 1928-1929.
MISCELLANEOUS : church history, 1985 ; photographs, 1933, 1970s ; printing block of church building, [1950s] ; miscellaneous, 1927-1934, 1968-1975. |
| Admin History | Tyndale Baptist Church originated as The "Hut" Free Church Mission, meeting in a disused watchman's hut in Beech Road in 1924. Initially the meetings acted as a Sunday School for children living on the Shinfield council estate, although adults were also invited to attend. After several changes of site, a Sunday School building was acquired in Grosvenor [later Cressingham] Road in 1925. Adults met for worship in the attached church hall. Between 1927 and 1933, the church was served by a series of student pastors; in 1933 the first full time salaried minister was appointed. Tyndale was a daughter-church of King's Road Baptist Church until 1953, when it became autonomous. In 1957-8 a church building was erected in memory of the Revd R G Fairbairn, the minister of King's Road who had inspired the original church plant.
In 1982 Tyndale produced a daughter-church of its own, at Whitley Wood. |