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Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit

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Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
This circuit includes the two formerly separate Chester-le-Street circuits, Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist, which were amalgamated in 1934.

Chester-le-Street Primitive Methodist Circuit included chapels at: Birtley, Station Road; Chester-le-Street, Central Church, Bridge End and Durham Road; Chester Moor; Fatfield; Harraton (property sold to Plymouth Brethren, 1934); Kimblesworth; Ouston (Pelaw Main Colliery); Pelton; Pelton Fell, The Howlett; Portobello; Waldridge. Services were also held at Elizabethville between about 1923 and 1929. The circuit was formerly part of Sunderland Circuit.

Chester-le-Street Wesleyan Methodist Circuit included: Beamish; Birtley; Brecon Hill; Chatershaugh; Chester-le-Street, Station Road; Chester Moor; Edmondsley; Harraton; Kimblesworth (Tanhills); Pelton Fell; West Pelton; Perkinsville; Twizell. It was, until 1873, part of the Durham Circuit and for a few years after 1873 also included West Rainton.

Since some places had both Primitive and Wesleyan Methodist churches, in the years following the amalgamation of the circuits in 1934, some congregations were united and some redundant churches and manses sold.

Registers of Baptisms

Primitive Methodist: Chester-le-Street Circuit

Catalogue Contents

Fatfield Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS )

(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Church closed 1977

Trustees' minutes (Ref: M/CS 143, 365)

Annual Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1903 - 1949, also includes accounts for new chapel, 1900 - 1902,
(1 volume)


Trustees' minutes, 1 October 1949-28 September 1976
(1 volume)


Sunday School Record of Attendance, 1919 - 1930, infolded are 2 plans of the chapel and Sunday School at Birtley, Station Road, 1898
(1 volume)


Sunday School Teachers Attendance Register, 1926 - 1934
(1 volume)


Sunday School Teachers Attendance Register, 1938 - 1944
(1 volume)


Sisterhood Register, 1926 - 1948
(1 volume)


Collection Journal and Society Stewards Record, 1932 - 1957
(1 volume)


Secretary's Account Book, 1933 - 1948
(1 volume)


Treasurer's Account Book, 1933 - 1956
(1 volume)

Registers of marriages (Ref: M/CS 203)

Register of marriages, September 1937 - August 1977
(1 volume)

Circuit Baptisms Registers which may include baptisms at any of the chapels in the circuit. (Ref: M/CS 1-7)

Circuit Baptisms Register [also includes Murton Colliery, Easington Lane, Herrington], October 1859 - May 1873
(1 volume)


Circuit Baptisms Register, July 1886 - October 1901
(1 volume)


Circuit Baptisms Register, October 1901 - September 1909
(1 volume)


Circuit Baptisms Register, October 1909 - November 1914 see also M/CS 5 for October - November 1914)
(1 volume)


Circuit Baptisms Register, October 1914 - March 1923 see also M/CS 4 for October - November 1914)
(1 volume)


Circuit Baptisms Register [from 1934 ' ex Primitive Methodist section' of Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit], March 1923 - November 1941
(1 volume)


Circuit Baptisms Register [ex Primitive Methodist section of Chester-le-Street Circuit including Chester-le-Street Central Church, Fatfield and Waldridge until 1950. Central only from 1950], November 1941 - June 1962
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 8-10)

Wesleyan Methodist: Chester-le-Street Circuit

Circuit Baptisms Registers which may include baptisms at any of the chapels in the circuit. The first register includes the Chester-le-Street section (only) of the Durham Circuit previous to the formation of the Chester-le-Street Circuit in 1873.
See also M/CS 11-19 for registers of individual churches.


Circuit Baptisms Register, December 1867 - May 1886
(1 volume)


Circuit Baptisms Register, June 1886 - March 1896
(1 volume)


Circuit Baptisms Register, April 1896 - October 1912
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 11)

Individual Churches

Beamish


Register of Baptisms, July 1886 - October 1952
(1 volume)

Brecon Hill (Ref: M/CS 12)

Register of Baptisms, April 1868 - November 1945
(1 volume)

Chester-le-Street: Station Road (Ref: M/CS 13)

Register of Baptisms, December 1912 - March 1952
(1 volume)

Chester Moor (Ref: M/CS 14)

Register of Baptisms [includes a few entries relating to other places in the circuit], March 1875 - June 1960
(1 volume)

Craghead (Ref: M/CS 15)

Register of Baptisms [includes a few entries for Edmondsley], March 1898 - May 1931
(1 volume)

Edmondsley (Ref: M/CS 16)

Register of Baptisms, September 1874 - February 1917
(1 volume)

Kimblesworth: Tan Hills (Ref: M/CS 17)

Register of Baptisms, January 1953 - July 1960
(1 volume)

Pelton Fell (Ref: M/CS 18)

Register of Baptisms, July 1874 - May 1942
(1 volume)

West Pelton (Ref: M/CS 19)

Register of Baptisms, August 1890 - December 1926
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 20-24)

Primitive Methodist: Chester-le-Street Circuit

Circuit Records

Quarterly Meetings minutes


Quarterly Meetings minutes, 27 November 1869 - 1 December 1883
(1 volume)


Quarterly Meetings minutes, 1 March 1884 - 28 November 1893
(1 volume)


Quarterly Meetings minutes, 6 June 1914 - 4 June 1921
(1 volume)


Quarterly Meetings minutes, 3 September 1921 - 1 June 1929
(1 volume)


Quarterly Meetings minutes, 24 July 1929 - 6 September 1934
(1 volume)

Circuit ('Station') Accounts (Ref: M/CS 25-26)

Circuit ('Station') accounts including income from trusts and offerings, expenses for salaries, building repairs, etc. Also include lists of trustees and deeds of chapels and houses, 1912 - 1928
(1 volume)


Circuit ('Station') accounts including income from trusts and offerings, expenses for salaries, building repairs, etc. Also include lists of trustees and deeds of chapels and houses, 1929 - 1934
(1 volume)

Property Schedules (Ref: M/CS 27)

Annual schedules of property and balance sheets, 1927 - 1932
(1 volume)

Missionary Collection Accounts (Ref: M/CS 28)

General funds, 1918 - 1934
(1 volume)

Foreign Missionary Accounts (Ref: M/CS 29)

Foreign Missionary Accounts, 1920 - 1931
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 30-35)

Individual Churches' Records

Chester-le-Street Central Primitive Methodist Chapel
See also M/CS 78-79


Treasurers' Accounts, 1899 - 1914
(1 volume)


Trustees' bank books: N.E. Banking Co., 1882 - 1918
(3 small books)


Vouchers and Correspondence including receipted bills, miscellaneous letters, notes concerning Chinese opium trade, 1903 - 1920
(1 bundle)

Pelton Primitive Methodist Chapel (Ref: M/CS 36)

Treasurers' accounts, Collections and expenses, 1932 - 1962
(1 volume)

Pelton Fell Primitive Methodist Chapel (Howlett) (Ref: M/CS 37-39)

Treasurers' accounts, 1923 - 1941
(1 volume)


3 July 1897 (1) Earl of Durham (2) the Trustees Lease for 50 years of ground and chapel from (1) to (2) Rent: 10s. p.a.
(1 document)


Correspondence concerning sale of organ, 1934 - 1935
(1 file)

Ouston Primitive Methodist Chapel (Perkinsville Road) (Ref: M/CS 40)

Copies of deeds and notes. (Site leased from Pelaw Main Collieries), 1935 - 1936
(1 bundle)

Waldridge Fell Primitive Methodist Chapel (Ref: M/CS 41-42)

Trustees' Book, contains copy of agreement only, 1869
(1 booklet)


Treasurer's accounts, 1869 - 1894
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 43-53)

Wesleyan Methodist: Chester-le-Street Circuit

Circuit Records


Circuit Plans, Quarterly lists of services and preachers, includes statement of division of Durham Circuit into Durham, Chester-le-Street and Thornley circuits, 1873, 1873 - 1890
(Mounted in large album)


Circuit Plans, 1901 - 1918
(1 file)


Circuit Schedules, numbers of members, chapels, trustees, etc., 1927 - 1948
(1 volume)


Preachers' Meetings Minutes, including a report of the presentation of long service awards to preachers, 1917, with 2 photographs of groups [pp. 145-6], March 1896 - December 1923
(1 volume)


Circuit accounts, totals of collections, trust funds, expenses [combined circuit from 1934], 1906 - 1945
(1 volume)


Missionary Collections accounts, 1911 - 1920
(1 volume)


Missionary Accounts, 1932
(1 volume)


Property Schedule: Wesley Chapel Trust, including: Beamish, Birtley, Brecon Hill, Chatershaugh, Chester-le-Street, Chester Moor, Craghead, Edmondsley, Kimblesworth, Lumley, Pelaw Grange, Pelton Fell, West Pelton, Perkinsville, 1928 - 1941
(1 volume)


Schedule of deeds and insurances, includes note of P.M. chapel deeds to be added to safe, 1946, 1909 - 1934
(1 volume)


Correspondence, etc., mainly relates to property and insurance, also copies of disciplinary minutes, 1914 - 1933
(1 bundle)


Committee on Ministers' houses minutes, 1887 - c.1947
(1 small volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 54)

Individual Chapels' Records

Chester-le-Street Wesleyan Chapel, Station Road


Trustees' accounts, includes vouchers and newspaper cuttings, also record of stamps and unused 1925 1d. stamp, 1914 - 1931
(1 small volume)

Chester Moor Wesleyan Chapel (Ref: M/CS 55-56)

Trustees' Treasurer's Accounts, 1927 - 1964
(1 volume)


Collection Journal, 1920 - 1930
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 57)

Edmondsley Wesleyan Chapel
see also M/CS 81


Trustees' Accounts and Bills, 1882 - 1899
(1 volume with enclosures)

Lumley Wesleyan Chapel (Ref: M/CS 58-60)

Trustees' Minutes, January 1893 - 1933
(1 volume)


Trust Accounts, 1915 - 1950
(1 volume)


Treasurer's Accounts, 1922 - 1958
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 61-76)

Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
(formed by amalgamation of Primitive and Wesleyan Methodist circuits, 1934)

Circuit Records


Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 8 September 1934 - 10 June 1944
(1 volume)


Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 10 September 1944 - 2 December 1961
(1 volume)


Local Preachers' Meeting Minutes, June 1945 - 1965
(1 volume)


Circuit Schedule Book, names of leaders, numbers in class, income, chapels, trustees, 1952 - 1953
(1 volume)


Circuit Plan, October - December 1955
(1 paper document)


Record of local preachers' appointments, 1942 - 1944
(Loose leaf notebook)


Circuit Accounts, 1942 - 1949 See also M/CS 47
(1 volume)


Superintendent Minister's record of balance sheets presented to Quarterly Meetings, including lists of both former circuits, 1934 - 1945
(1 volume)


Schedules of Trust Property, 1942 - 1954
(1 file)


Trust Property Schedules, copies of annual returns, 1950 - 1954
(4 packets)


Summary of Insurances arranged with the Methodist Insurance Co. Ltd., on chapels, schools, vestries and ministers' houses, including Kimblesworth (Tan Hills, sold 1964), Waldridge, West Pelton, Fatfield, Chatershaugh (sold 1964), Kimblesworth (West End, transferred to Durham Circuit, 1964), Pelton Fell (Station Road), Lumley (West End), Chester Moor (Durham Road), Beamish, Perkinsville, Birtley (Durham Road, sold 1965), Portobello, Pelton, Birtley (Station Road), Edmondsley (West End), Pelaw Grange (Durham Road), Chester-le-Street (Station Road), Chester-le-Street (Front Street); also trophies, preachers, manses, furniture, n.d., c.1960
(1 file in old Education Schedule' cover)


(a) Home Mission Fund returns and receipts with printed information relating, 1956 - 1966 (1 bundle) (b) Applications and approvals for closure of chapels, redundant owing to fusion of societies, 1963 - 1964
(2 files in binder labelled Sunday School Schedule')


Amalgamation and closure of churches in Chester-le-Street, Correspondence, reports, etc. concerning the amalgamation of churches in Durham Road, Birtley and Station Road, Chester-le-Street and Chester Moor, including Surveyor's report, also concerning the possibility of a new church on the Civic Centre site, Barley Mow, 1963 - 1966 See also M/CS 77, 78
(4 files)


Manses and other property: correspondence a-f, correspondence, bills, etc., relating to manses: Lambton View (1905 - 1935); The Laurels, Newcastle Road, Chester-le-Street; Wesley Villa, Chester-le-Street, and also Chester Moor and Pelaw Grange Chapels (1935 - 1936), 1905 -1936
(6 files)


Record of Trustees' Names, c.1937 - 1947
(1 small notebook)


Correspondence concerning possession of caretaker's cottage, Chester-le-Street, and tenant's arrears of rent, September - October 1950
(1 file)

 (Ref: M/CS 77)

Individual Churches Records

Birtley, Durham Road


Trustees' Meetings Minutes [Trust closed 1965 owing to sale of property], 2 April 1940 -29 November 1965
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 78-79)

Chester-le-Street Central
(formerly Primitive Methodist Church)
See also M/CS 30-35


Trustees Meetings Minutes, 19 January 1921 - 26 January 1944
(1 volume)


Trustees Meetings Minutes, 31 May 1944 - 20 September 1963
(1 volume)

Edmondsley, West End, Church (Ref: M/CS 80)

Trustees Meetings Minutes, 25 January 1941 - 20 November 1970
(1 volume)

Kimblesworth, Tan Hills (Ref: M/CS 81)

Trustees' Treasurer's account book including bank book and receipts, 1952 - 1962
(1 volume, 1 bundle enclosed)

 (Ref: M/CS 82)

Portobello Church
(Built 1887, closed 1967, sold 1970)


Trustees Meetings and Minutes, 13 February 1937 - 8 June 1970
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 83-84)

Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit

(Second Deposit)
Chester-le-Street Wesleyan Methodist Circuit


Jubilee Souvenir Handbook (copy), 1873 - 1923
(1 booklet)


Circuit Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1884 - 1918, and amalgamated Circuit Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1934 - 1938
(1 volume)

Chester-le-Street Primitive Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/CS 85-88)

Jubilee Souvenir, 1871 - 1921
(1 booklet)


Register of Baptisms, 1899 - 1907
(1 volume)


Register of Baptisms, 1907 - 17
(1 volume)


Register of Baptisms, 1917 - 35
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 89)

Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
(formed 1934)


Register of Baptisms, 1935 - 1947 See also M/CS 84
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 90-101b)

Individual Churches

Birtley, Durham Road
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist, sold 1965)


New Chapel Building Fund Minutes, 1880 - 1892; New Chapel Building Fund Accounts, 1880 - 1895; Subscriptions to Building Fund, 1891 - 1895; Local and Annual Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1882 - 1940
(1 volume)


Wesley Guild Minutes, 1925 - 1963
(1 volume)


Annual Teachers Meeting Minutes, 1950 - 1962
(1 volume)


Register of Baptisms, 1892 - 1944 (1 volume) See also M/CS 117 for later Baptisms


Methodist Guild Roll Book, 1944 - 1964
(1 volume)


Society Steward's Book, 1948 - 1951
(1 volume)


Income and Expenditure Accounts, 1880 - 1937, includes accounts for New Heating Apparatus Fund, 1899-1900, 1929, and Chapel Restoration Fund, 1901
(1 volume)


Income and Expenditure Accounts, 1938 - 1965
(1 volume)


Pew Rents, 1896 - 1931
(1 volume)


Poor Fund Accounts, 1915 - 1963
(1 volume)


Collections Journal and Society Stewards Record, 1938 - 1951
(1 volume)


Trustees Treasurer's Account Book, 1950 - 1965
(1 volume)


Accounts of Income from Collections and Class Money, 1950 - 1962
(1 volume)

Women's Bright Hour (Ref: M/CS 102-107)

Accounts, 1919 - 1957
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1958 - 1963
(1 volume)


Benevolent Fund Accounts, 1934 - 1963
(1 volume)


Report on condition of building, 1963
(1 booklet)


Painting by J. M. Lawson of the old Wesleyan Chapel in Chapel Yard near the Monument, Birtley erected 1832, vacated 1883. Presented to the church in memory of his father, Clement Stephenson Lawson, who was Choirmaster in the old chapel, n.d.
(1 painting, framed)


Group photograph of the local preachers in the Chester-le-Street Circuit, 28 July 1917. Presented to the church by J. M. Lawson (Lord Lawson of Beamish) on his 25th anniversary as a local preacher in memory of his mother, Dorothy Lawson, 1917
(1 photograph, framed)

 (Ref: M/CS 108-142)

Birtley, Station Road
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Trustees and Chapel Committee Meeting Minutes, 1908 - 1916
(1 volume)


Trustees and Chapel Committee Meeting Minutes, 1922 - 1958
(1 volume)


Leaders Meeting Minutes (with list of members, 1950), 1938 - 1957
(1 volume)


Sunday School Teachers Meeting Minutes (part missing), 1872 - 1884
(1 volume)


Band of Hope Minutes and Programmes of concerts given. (This group was known locally as "The Lifeboat Crew" ), 1882 - 1890 see M/CS 85, p 20
(1 volume)


General correspondence (re rents, insurance, servicing of organ, boilers, etc.), 1937 - 1941, also includes papers re insurance of boiler, 1965 - 1967
(1 file)


Register of Baptisms, 1947 - 1952
(1 volume)


Register of Baptisms, 1952 - 1958
(1 volume)


Register of Baptisms, 1958 - 1966
(1 volume)


Register of Baptisms, 1966 - 1968, also includes Durham Road Church baptisms, 1944 - 1958
(1 volume)


Register of Baptisms, 1968 - 1974, also includes Ouston Church baptisms, 1947 - 1958
(1 volume)


Class Books, 1934 - 1936, 1952 - 1971 and 1967 - 1973
(3 volumes)


Society Roll Books, covering Birtley, Pelton, Portobello, Ouston, Fatfield and Harraton Primitive Methodist Churches, 1929 - 1931, 1931 - 1932 and n.d.
(3 volumes)


Society Roll Books, covering Station Road and Durham Road, Birtley, Pelton, Ouston, Craghead, Perkinsville, Portobello in the amalgamated circuit, 1934 - 1935, 1936 - 1937 and 1937 - 1938
(3 volumes)


Cradle Roll Record, 1946 - 1960
(1 volume)


Envelope Collection Register, 1952 - 1956
(1 volume)


Envelope Collection Register, includes miscellaneous loose accounts and five photographs of exterior of Station Road Church, n.d., c.1950's, 1957 - 1962
(1 volume)


Accounts of Collections from Boxes, 1969 - 1972
(1 volume)


Subscription book for unidentified group, 1964
(1 volume)


Trustees Treasurers Accounts, includes accounts for funds raised for new chapel opened 1899, 1891 - 1913
(1 volume)


Trustees Treasurers Accounts, 1913 - 1923
(1 volume)


Trustees Treasurers Accounts, 1924 - 1934
(1 volume)


Cash Accounts, 1937 - 1942
(1 volume)


Cash Accounts, 1943 - 1952
(1 volume)


Cash Accounts, 1953 - 1966
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1904 - 1932
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1942 - 1947
(1 volume)


Jubilee Booklet, 1899 - 1949
(1 booklet)


Copy Baptism Certificate for Mark Harrison of Fatfield, 1907 (1 paper) See also M/CS 144

 (Ref: M/CS 151-154)

Ouston
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
See M/CS 118

Perkinsville
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)


Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1916 - 1960
(1 volume)


Leaders Meeting Minutes, 1917 - 1948
(1 volume)


Trust Fund and General Accounts, 1896 - 1951
(1 volume)


Wesley Guild Accounts, 1913 - 1964
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 155-156)

Portobello
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Accounts, 1884 - 1902
(1 volume)


Register of Baptisms, 1947 - 1957
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 157-158)

Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit

(Third deposit)
Chester-le-Street Wesleyan Methodist Circuit


Jubilee Souvenir Handbook, 1873 - 1923
(1 booklet)


Memorial booklet to Rev. J. T. Hamly, superintendent minister, 1904 - 1907
(1 booklet)

 (Ref: M/CS 159-160)

Individual Churches

Birtley, Station Road
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Plans of the Chapel and Sunday School, 1898
(3 plans)


Class book, 1944 - 1973
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/CS 161-166)

Fatfield
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Sunday school attendance register, 1934 - 1947
(1 volume)


Junior missionary collections, 1950 - 1955
(1 volume)


Sunday school star cards, 1947 - 1948, 1959
(5 cards)


Sunday school credential book, one entry only for 1920
(1 volume)


Class book, 1958 - 1962
(1 volume)


Programmes for the Annual Service of Song by the Methodist Choirs of Northumberland and Durham, held in the Town Hall, Newcastle, 1880 - 1912
(1 bundle)

 (Ref: M/CS 167-184)

Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit

(Fourth deposit)
Individual Churches

Birtley, Station Road
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Pulpit notices, 6 April 1941 - 28 January 1945
(1 volume)


Pulpit notices, 4 February 1945 - 6 February 1949
(1 volume)


Pulpit notices, 13 February 1949 - 25 January 1953
(1 volume)


Pulpit notices, 25 January 1953 - 20 March 1955
(1 volume)


Pulpit notices, 15 June 1958 - 17 June 1962
(1 volume)


Pulpit notices, 16 April 1961 - August 1963 (at Durham Road); 3 July 1966 - 25 February 1968
(1 volume)


Pulpit notices, 24 June 1962 - 26 June 1966
(1 volume)


Pulpit notices, 3 March 1968 - 27 February 1972
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1934
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1935 - 1938
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1938 - 1942
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1948 - 1952
(1 volume)


Envelope collection register, November 1935 - December 1942
(1 volume)


Envelope collection register, 1943 - 1947
(1 volume)


Young Worshippers' League, Attendance Register, 1956 - 1958
(1 volume)


Weekly payments book, 1948 - 1952
(1 volume)


Miscellaneous bills, 1934
(1 envelope)


Miscellaneous notices, including: Choir contribution card; N.U.T. Public Meeting notice, 28 January 1944; Newcastle Conference programme, 1947; Youth Services programme, 1953; Methodist Church membership ticket, March 1954
(1 envelope)

 (Ref: M/CS 185-202)

Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit

(Fifth deposit)
Perkinsville Wesleyan Methodist Church


Register of pulpit notices, 1943 - 1945
(1 volume)


Register of pulpit notices, 1945 - 1949
(1 volume)


Register of pulpit notices, 1949 - 1953
(1 volume)


Trustees' Account Book, 1916 - 1951
(1 volume)


Trustees' Account Book, 1951 - 1971
(1 volume)


Church Building Fund Deposit Account Book, 1912 - 1962 (Account closed 1962)
(1 booklet)


Trust Fund Deposit Account Book, 1962 - 1971
(1 booklet)


Collections Account Book, 1908 - 1920
(1 volume)


Collections Account Book, 1921 - 1929
(1 volume)


Register of sums received through collection envelopes, 1946 - 1975
(1 volume)


Choir Account Book, 1939 - 1954
(1 volume)


Sunday School Teachers' Meeting Minute Book, 1917 - 1939
(1 volume)


Sunday School teachers' roll book, 1932 - 1953
(1 volume)


Sunday School Attendance Register, 1897 - 1913
(1 volume)


Sunday School Attendance Register, 1936 - 1940
(1 volume)


Sunday School Attendance Register, n.d., c.1940
(1 volume)


Sunday School Attendance Register, 1946 - 1948
(1 volume)


Sunday School Attendance Register, 1949 - 1952
(1 volume)


The Primitive Methodist Sabbath School Hymn Book, inscribed 'Perkinsville Methodist Church 1864 copy', n.d, c.1864
(1 volume, printed)

 (Ref: M/CS 203)

Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit

(Sixth deposit)
Fatfield Methodist Church
(Church closed 1977)

(Ref: M/CS 204)

Chester le Street Methodist Circuit

(Seventh Deposit)


Plan and directory, April - June 1978
(1 booklet, paper)

 (Ref: M/CS 205-211)

Chester Le Street Methodist Circuit

(Ninth Deposit)
Chester-le-Street Circuit


Preachers' plan, September - December 1873
(1 plan)


Circuit plan, October - December 1979
(1 booklet)


Overseas missions and Christian citizenship account book, 1963 - 1965
(1 volume, card bound)


Women's Fellowship minute book, 25 October 1944 - 5 December 1975
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Women's Fellowship account book, 1971 - 1980
(1 volume, card bound)


Manse trustees' minute book, March 194 9 May 1978
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Ministries Committee minute book, 10 January 1978 - 27 March 1981
(1 volume, card bound)

Birtley Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 212)

Specification and plan of proposed garage at Birtley Manse, November 1976
(1 plan and 1 file)

Central Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 213-221)

Trustees' Treasurer's account book, September 1963 - August 1974
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Collection journal, 4 January 1948 - 22 November 1959
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Women's Guild minute book, 19 October 1970 - 17 October 1977
(1 volume, card bound)


Women's Guild account book, 1963 - 1977
(1 volume, card bound)


Women's Work Overseas account book, 1968 - 1978
(1 booklet)


Sunday School teachers' minute book, 17 May 1953 - 7 October 1965
(1 volume, card bound)


Sunday School teachers' minute book, 10 October 1965 - 31 January 1978
(1 volume, card bound)


Missionary Society account book, 1963 - 1976
(1 booklet)


Missionary Society account book, 1976 - 1977
(1 booklet)

Durham Road Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 222-224)

Register of baptisms, 28 April 1943 - 9 April 1979
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Trustees' minute book, 22 January 1952 - 3 September 1967
(1 volume, card bound)


Sisterhood account book, 1962 - 1978
(1 volume, card bound)

Red Rose Terrace Primitive Methodist' Church (Ref: M/CS 225-226)

Trustees' minute book, 1 September 1904 - 1 February 1911
(1 volume, card bound)


Authorisation issued by Methodist Conference for sale of Wesley Villa, Red Rose Terrace, Chester-le-Street, 8 April 1936
(1 paper, printed and typescript)

Station Road Methodist Church, Chester-le-Street (Ref: M/CS 227-229)

Trustees' Treasurers' account book, 1955 - 1974
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Trustees' minute book 7 September 1952 - 28 September 1977
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Sketch plan of alterations to Station Road Wesleyan Church, Chester-le-Street, c.1970
(4 papers)

Stanley House (Ref: M/CS 230)

Trustees' minute book, 20 March 1907 - 22 April 1965
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Edmonsley West End Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 231-237)

Collection journal, 10 December 1933 - 18 November 1945
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Collection journal, 10 March 1946 - 29 August 1965
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Sunday School teachers' roll and register of attendance, March 1923 - September 1942, includes Summary and Journal, 1936 - 1940
(1 volume)


Sunday School Primary Department attendance register, 1939 - c.1950
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Sunday School attendance register, 1942 - 1943
(1 volume, card bound)


Choir contributions account book, 1936 - 1956
(1 volume, card bound)


Register of Baptisms, 29 January 1916 - 8 October 1972
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Pelaw Grange Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 238)

Correspondence concerning application to erect chapel, n.d.; charges for leasing Ouston Wesleyan Chapel, 25 June 1892; memorandum of appointment of trustees of Pelaw Grange Church, 4 March 1912; letters from Pelaw Main Colliery Company to Rev. George Wright, Wesley Villa, Chester-le-Street concerning dilapidated condition of Pelaw Grange Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, 14 and 26 August 1918
(6 papers)

Pelton Fell Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 239-249)

Register of Baptisms, 17 January 1943 - 1 April 1979
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Trustees' minute book, 11 February 1873 - 13 December 1898
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Trustees' minute book, 18 February 1890 - 25 February 1906
(1 volume, card bound)


Trustees' minute book, 19 June 1906 - 6 June 1916
(1 volume, card bound)


Programme for opening of Pelton Fell Wesleyan Church, 30 July 1876
(1 paper)


Letter from Thomas Elliott, Swalwell to Mr. J. Wilson, Wesley House, Pelton Fell, concerning the history of the chapel in Pelton Fell, 8 July 1880
(3 papers)


Newspaper cuttings describing laying of foundation stone of Wesleyan Sunday School at Pelton Fell, c.1888
(1 paper)


Accounts of Pelton Fell Wesleyan Sunday School Building Fund, 1888
(1 paper)


Accounts for building of foundations of Wesleyan Sunday School, 26 October 1888
(1 paper)


8 February 1910 (1) Trustees of Pelton Fell Wesleyan Sunday School (2) Durham County Council Copy agreement for annual lease to (2) of Pelton Fell Wesleyan Sunday School
(1 file, typescript)


Plan of new boiler and chimney at Pelton Fell Methodist Church, c.1920 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]
(1 plan, 42 cm. x 37 cm., tracing paper, colour-wash)

West Pelton Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 250-259)

Trustees' minute book, 8 April 1890 - 22 June 1918
(1 volume, card bound)


Trustees' minute book, 21 July 1916 - 8 February 1936
(1 volume, card bound)


Trustees' minute book, 18 February 1931 17 November 1968
(1 volume, card bound)


Society and leaders' meetings minute book, January 1933 - January 1972
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Choir minute book, 1920 - 1938
(1 volume, paper bound)


Youth Club minute book, 1952 - 1963
(1 volume, card bound)


Local Youth Council minute book, 22 May 1956 - 19 31 March 1974
(1 volume, card bound)


Sunday School Treasurer's account book, 1922 - 1947
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photograph of West Pelton Methodist Church, c.1950
(1 photograph)


Centenary booklet giving short history of West Pelton Methodist Church, 1970
(1 booklet)

 (Ref: M/CS 269)

Chester le Street Methodist Circuit

(Tenth Deposit)
Central Methodist Church, Chester le Street


Register of baptisms, 8 July 1962 -19 March 1972
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Fatfield Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 270-271)

Trustees' treasurers' account book, 1 January 1948 -9 November 1977
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Collection journal, 6 September 1914 - December 1930, 1944, 1958 - 1966
(1 volume, cloth bound)

 (Ref: M/CS 272)

Chester le Street Methodist Circuit

(Eleventh Deposit)
Chester-le-Street Circuit


List of those entitled to committee membership in Chester-le-Street Circuit Methodist Churches, n.d. Originally enclosed in M/CS 290
(1 paper, typescript)

Barley Mow Methodist Church (proposed) (Ref: M/CS 273-276)

Trustees' minute book of Barley Mow site and proposed Barley Mow Methodist Church, 19 October 1952 - 30 May 1952; 9 June 1965 - 14 September 1965; 14 December 1970 For enclosures see M/CS 274, M/CS 275, M/CS 276
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Plan of Barley Mow housing development, n.d. [1952] No scale Originally enclosed in M/CS 273
(1 plan, tracing paper, 17.5 cm. x 25 cm.)


Plan of Barley Mow Housing Estate, n.d. [1950's] Scale: 1:500 Originally enclosed in M/CS 273
(1 plan, 26.5 cm. x 29 cm.)


Plan of Barley Mow Housing Estate, n.d. [1950's] Scale: 1:2500 Originally enclosed in M/CS 273
(1 plan, 33 cm. x 42 cm.)

Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 277-282)

Trustees' minute book, 3 April 1911 - 4 February 1957
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Leaders' Meeting and Society Meeting minute book, 1 August 1915 - 4 March 1948 For enclosures see M/CS 281
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Account book, 1 January 1891 - 31 December 1937 For enclosures see M/CS 282
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Account book, Chester-le-Street Wesleyan Trust Funds, January 1929 - January 1961 For enclosures see M/CS 295
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


National Sunday School Union illustrated "Playmates" leaflets 4-13, n.d., [1940's] Originally enclosed in M/CS 278
(9 papers, printed)


Receipt for £203 12s.0d. from Messrs. Maddison, Arkless and Telford to Trustees of Chester-le-Street Wesleyan Chapel, 13 April 1907 Originally enclosed in M/CS 279
(1 paper)

Durham Road Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 283-286)

Trustees Meetings minute book, 15 June 1911 - 21 January 1930 For enclosure see M/CS 286
(1 volume, paper)


Trustees and Chapel Committee minute book, 16 April 1930 - 13 February 1951
(1 volume, card bound)


Account book, 4 January 1931 - 20 January 1949, including accounts of the Building and Restoration Fund, December 1942 - January 1954
(1 volume, card bound)


Letter from H.J. Nelson and Co., organ builders, Durham, to J. Dixon, Chester-le-Street, concerning contract for repair and tuning of organ at Durham Road Primitive Methodist Church, 18 January 1927 Originally enclosed in M/CS 283
(1 paper)

Durham Road Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 287-288)

Leaders' Meeting minute book, 28 May 1962 - 26 November 1969 and Society Meeting minutes, 19 March 1963 - 11 February 1970
(1 volume, card bound)


Account book, 14 February 1954 - 5 June 1955
(1 volume, card bound)

Red Rose Terrace Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 289)

Account book for trust fund account including: (1) Red Rose Terrace Primitive Methodist Church, 1 May 1905 - 2 January 1907 (2) Durham Road Primitive Methodist Church, 1 January 1907 - January 1910
(1 volume, card bound)

Station Road Methodist Church, Chester-le-Street (Ref: M/CS 290-296)

Leaders Meeting and Society Meeting minute book, 1 June 1948 - 20 February 1978, including minutes of combined Church Council meetings of the three Chester-le-Street Churches, 24 March 1975 - 8 March 1976 For enclosures see M/CS 272, 296, 303
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Trustees' Meeting minute book, 22 March 1957 - 11 March 1977 For enclosures see M/CS 292, M/CS 293, M/CS 294
(1 volume, card bound)


Leaders' and Trustees' Meeting minutes, 25 September 1947 Originally enclosed in M/CS 291
(1 paper, typescript)


Property Committee minutes, 10 October 1977 Originally enclosed in M/CS 291
(1 paper)


Property Committee minutes, 23 January 1978 Originally enclosed in M/CS 291
(1 paper)


History of the Station Road Methodist Church, Chester-le-Street, n.d, Originally enclosed in M/CS 280
(1 file, typescript)


Pastoral letter issued by Station Road and Central Methodist Churches, Chester-le-Street concerning re-organization of the Methodist Church, December 1973 Originally enclosed in: M/CS 290
(1 paper, typescript)

Edmondsley Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 297-298)

Trustees' minute book, 21 February 1914 - 8 September 1940 For enclosures see M/CS 298
(1 volume, card bound)


Part of terms of contract for chapel caretaker, 23 March 1918 Originally enclosed in M/CS 297
(1 paper, typescript)

Lumley Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 299)

Sunday School Teachers' minute book, 31 December 1892 - 17 December [1911]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Pelton Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 300)

Trustees' Meeting minute book, 25 February 1914 - 21 January 1957
(1 volume, card bound)

Unidentified Churches (Ref: M/CS 301-304)

Trustees' Meetings minute book, 19 March 1936 - 25 November 1958
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Leaders' Meeting minute book, 1 June 1953 - 22 June 1962
(1 volume, card bound)


Leaders' Meetings and Society Meeting minutes, 1 September 1953 Originally enclosed in M/CS 290
(3 papers, typescript)


Leaders' Meeting minutes, 25 February 1970 - 8 July 1974 and Church Council Meeting minutes, 28 October 1974 - 9 March 1978 including Report and Recommendations of the Connexional Commission who visited Chester-le-Street, 6 May 1978
(1 file)