| Description | [For more information about the records in this collection please contact Berkshire Record Office.]
Summary
Society administration
Church Council minutes, 1987-2002; annual statements of accounts, 1999-2002; Stewardship Sub-committee/Group minutes, 1999-2002; papers relating to acquisition of site, building of church, and Sharing Agreement, 1984-1994; feasibility study for church, 1989; plans and elevations, 1991; Stewardship Programme papers, 2001-2002.
Service of the church
Special orders of service, 1987-2006.
Membership
Directories, 1993-1999.
Printed material/Miscellaneous
Newsletters and magazines, 1989-2001 (incomplete); welcome booklet and leaflet, n.d. [1994], 1999. |
| Admin History | Woosehill Community Church originated in informal meetings at the home of the curate of St Paul's Church (for records of which see D/P 154B) in c.1982. In December 1984 the rector of Bearwood (D/P 73D) invited Rose Street Methodist Church, Wokingham (D/MS 14), to join in serving the new Woosehill housing development, south west of Wokingham. Worship started in January 1985, in The Hawthorns Primary School hall. A Local Ecumenical Project was formally launched in 1987.
In 1988 the church acquired a long lease on land adjoining the school, in Chestnut Avenue. A church was built in 1993. The Church of England awarded it a Conventional District in 1991. |
| Arrangement | 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 |
| 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. |