Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
Reference: M/CS Catalogue Title: Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description:
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- Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
- Fatfield Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS )
- Trustees' minutes (Ref: M/CS 143, 365)
- Registers of marriages (Ref: M/CS 203)
- Circuit Baptisms Registers which may include baptisms at any of the chapels in the circuit. (Ref: M/CS 1-7)
- Brecon Hill (Ref: M/CS 12)
- Chester-le-Street: Station Road (Ref: M/CS 13)
- Chester Moor (Ref: M/CS 14)
- Craghead (Ref: M/CS 15)
- Edmondsley (Ref: M/CS 16)
- Kimblesworth: Tan Hills (Ref: M/CS 17)
- Pelton Fell (Ref: M/CS 18)
- West Pelton (Ref: M/CS 19)
- Circuit ('Station') Accounts (Ref: M/CS 25-26)
- Property Schedules (Ref: M/CS 27)
- Missionary Collection Accounts (Ref: M/CS 28)
- Foreign Missionary Accounts (Ref: M/CS 29)
- Pelton Primitive Methodist Chapel (Ref: M/CS 36)
- Pelton Fell Primitive Methodist Chapel (Howlett) (Ref: M/CS 37-39)
- Ouston Primitive Methodist Chapel (Perkinsville Road) (Ref: M/CS 40)
- Waldridge Fell Primitive Methodist Chapel (Ref: M/CS 41-42)
- Chester Moor Wesleyan Chapel (Ref: M/CS 55-56)
- Lumley Wesleyan Chapel (Ref: M/CS 58-60)
- Edmondsley, West End, Church (Ref: M/CS 80)
- Kimblesworth, Tan Hills (Ref: M/CS 81)
- Chester-le-Street Primitive Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/CS 85-88)
- Women's Bright Hour (Ref: M/CS 102-107)
- Birtley Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 212)
- Central Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 213-221)
- Durham Road Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 222-224)
- Red Rose Terrace Primitive Methodist' Church (Ref: M/CS 225-226)
- Station Road Methodist Church, Chester-le-Street (Ref: M/CS 227-229)
- Stanley House (Ref: M/CS 230)
- Edmonsley West End Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 231-237)
- Pelaw Grange Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 238)
- Pelton Fell Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 239-249)
- West Pelton Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 250-259)
- Fatfield Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 270-271)
- Barley Mow Methodist Church (proposed) (Ref: M/CS 273-276)
- Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 277-282)
- Durham Road Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 283-286)
- Durham Road Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 287-288)
- Red Rose Terrace Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 289)
- Station Road Methodist Church, Chester-le-Street (Ref: M/CS 290-296)
- Edmondsley Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 297-298)
- Lumley Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 299)
- Pelton Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/CS 300)
- Unidentified Churches (Ref: M/CS 301-304)
Catalogue Description
Chester-le-Street Methodist CircuitThis 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
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Church closed 1977
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.
Individual Churches
Beamish
Primitive Methodist: Chester-le-Street Circuit
Circuit Records
Quarterly Meetings minutes
Individual Churches' Records
Chester-le-Street Central Primitive Methodist Chapel
See also M/CS 78-79
Wesleyan Methodist: Chester-le-Street Circuit
Circuit Records
Individual Chapels' Records
Chester-le-Street Wesleyan Chapel, Station Road
Edmondsley Wesleyan Chapel
see also M/CS 81
Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
(formed by amalgamation of Primitive and Wesleyan Methodist circuits, 1934)
Circuit Records
Individual Churches Records
Birtley, Durham Road
Chester-le-Street Central
(formerly Primitive Methodist Church)
See also M/CS 30-35
Portobello Church
(Built 1887, closed 1967, sold 1970)
Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
(Second Deposit)
Chester-le-Street Wesleyan Methodist Circuit
Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
(formed 1934)
Individual Churches
Birtley, Durham Road
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist, sold 1965)
Birtley, Station Road
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Ouston
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
See M/CS 118
Perkinsville
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
Portobello
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
(Third deposit)
Chester-le-Street Wesleyan Methodist Circuit
Individual Churches
Birtley, Station Road
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Fatfield
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
(Fourth deposit)
Individual Churches
Birtley, Station Road
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
(Fifth deposit)
Perkinsville Wesleyan Methodist Church
Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit
(Sixth deposit)
Fatfield Methodist Church
(Church closed 1977)
Chester le Street Methodist Circuit
(Seventh Deposit)
Chester Le Street Methodist Circuit
(Ninth Deposit)
Chester-le-Street Circuit
Chester le Street Methodist Circuit
(Tenth Deposit)
Central Methodist Church, Chester le Street
Chester le Street Methodist Circuit
(Eleventh Deposit)
Chester-le-Street Circuit