Consett Methodist Circuit
Reference: M/Co Catalogue Title: Consett Methodist Circuit Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description: Individual churches O - Z
Covering Dates: 1846-2013
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- Consett Methodist Circuit
- Consett Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/Co )
- Individual churches O-Z (Ref: M/Co )
- Ramshaw Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co Ram)
- Shildon Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co Shi)
- Shotley Bridge Methodist Church (formerly Trinity Methodist Church) (Ref: M/Co ShotB)
- Registration (Ref: M/Co section 01)
- Registers of baptisms (Ref: M/Co 177, 916/1-2)
- Registers of marriages (Ref: M/Co 178, 917/1-7)
- Minutes (Ref: M/Co section 02)
- Trustees minutes (Ref: M/Co )
- Leaders' meetings (Ref: M/Co 287)
- Church Council (Ref: M/Co 903, 919/1-3)
- Trustees (Ref: M/Co section 03)
- Certificates to authorise worship and solemnise marriages (Ref: M/Co section 04)
- Church property (Ref: M/Co section 05)
- Financial records (Ref: M/Co section 06)
- Collection journals (Ref: M/Co 288)
- Society Stewards' account books (Ref: M/Co 289-290)
- Joint Funds account books (Ref: M/Co 291)
- Envelope scheme (Ref: M/Co 292)
- Trustees' Treasurers' accounts (Ref: M/Co 794, 904)
- Accounts of income and expenditure (Ref: M/Co 905, 918, 921/1, 922/1)
- Photographs (Ref: M/Co section 07)
- Sunday school (Ref: M/Co section 08)
- Attendance (Ref: M/Co )
- Minutes (Ref: M/Co )
- Plans (Ref: M/Co 184)
- Wesley Guild (Ref: M/Co section 09)
- Church history (Ref: M/Co section 10)
- Shotley Field Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co ShotF)
- South Moor Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co SM)
- Registration (Ref: M/Co section 01)
- Registers of baptisms (Ref: M/Co )
- Trustees meetings (Ref: M/Co section 02)
- Sunday school (Ref: M/Co section 03)
- Stanley Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co St)
- Tanfield Lea Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co TL)
- Registers of baptisms (Ref: M/Co )
- Unspecified Churches (Ref: M/Co Un)
- Westwood, Newlands Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co WeN)
- Westwood United Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co WeU)
- Whittonstall Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co Whi)
- Registration (Ref: M/Co section 01)
- Minutes (Ref: M/Co section 02)
- Plans (Ref: M/Co section 03)
- Miscellaneous (Ref: M/Co section 04)
Catalogue Description
Consett Methodist Circuit became part of the North West Durham Methodist Circuit c. 2013Catalogue Contents
Consett Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/Co )Individual churches O-Z (Ref: M/Co )Ramshaw Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co Ram)
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Ref: M/Co 169Certificate authorising public worship in the church, 8 March 1938
(1 paper)
Ref: M/Co 170Trustees' meetings minutes, 1941 - 1952
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 171-172Accounts, 1922 - 1959
(2 volumes)
Ref: M/Co 173Miscellaneous trusteeship papers, 1933 - 1964, includes papers relating to the church which were among the papers of the late Miss Annie Pears, Jeffries House, Ramshaw, 1945 - 1962
(1 bundle)
Ref: M/Co 174Plan of the church, architect and date not given
(1 plan)
Shildon Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co Shi)Ref: M/Co 175-176Certificates authorising worship, 31 December 1860, and marriages, 8 July 1864
(1 parchment, 1 paper)
Shotley Bridge Methodist Church (formerly Trinity Methodist Church) (Ref: M/Co ShotB)Formerly Shotley Bridge Wesleyan Methodist Church (until 1932)
Trinity Methodist Church was built in 1855 at the west end of The Terrace. In 1905 a large Sunday School building was built alongside it (which became the Village Hall). In 1950 it was agreed to close Trinity Church and retain the Front Street premises as the sole Methodist Church in the village. Trinity Methodist Church was pulled down in the mid 1950s.
The Primitive Methodists broke away from the Wesleyans in 1812. A small chapel was built in Cutler's Hall Road in 1822, followed in 1852 by a larger one at the corner of Wood Street and Green Street.
Land for the new Primitive Methodist Church on Front Street was obtained in 1866 and the foundation stones of the church and Sunday School were laid on Saturday 25 August 1894. The church was completed in 1895 and replaced the Old Chapel built in 1822, which was sold and converted into two dwellings. It was demolished in 1957.
After 1950 Front Street was the sole Methodist Church in the village. The sale of the old Trinity Sunday School building facilitated many improvements to the church.
The last service was held on 27 April 2014, when the church merged with Blackhill Methodist Church to form Blackhill and Shotley Bridge Uniting Church
N.B. numbers 293-294 numbers not used
Baptisms in Shotley Bridge and District, 1919 - 1950, and at the Church, 1950 - 1963
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 916/1Register of baptisms, 8 December 1963 - 26 October 1980
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 916/2Register of baptisms, 2 November 1980 - 28 August 2010
(1 volume)
Registers of marriages (Ref: M/Co 178, 917/1-7)See also M/MR 204-210
Ref: M/Co 178Register of marriages, January 1865 - August 1893
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 917/1Register of marriages 27 November 1915 - 12 December 1925
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 917/2Register of marriages 19 December 1925 - 16 September 1939
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 917/3Register of marriages 6 April 1940 - 11 June 1962
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 917/4Register of marriages 4 July 1962 - 16 April 1983
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 917/5Register of marriages 7 May 1983 - 11 August 1990
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 917/6Register of marriages 18 August 1990 - 20 May 2000
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 917/7Register of marriages, 17 August 2002 - 4 June 2012
Register closed by General Register Office, 3 August 2015
(1 volume)
Minutes (Ref: M/Co section 02)Trustees minutes (Ref: M/Co )Ref: M/Co 256Trustees' minutes, 1906 - 1949
(1 volume)
Leaders' meetings (Ref: M/Co 287)Ref: M/Co 287Joint Leaders' Meeting minute book, including copy of roll of membership, 1940, 17 February 1937 - 24 February 1949
(1 volume)
Church Council (Ref: M/Co 903, 919/1-3)Ref: M/Co 903Minutes, 13 October 1975-6 October 1992
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 919/1Minutes of Church Council and AGMs, 19 April 1993 - 11 February 2003
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 919/2Minutes of Church Council, 23 February 1993 - 22 October 2013
22 October 2013 was the last meeting of the Church Council and includes the resolution to merge with Blackhill Methodist Church to form the Blackhill and Shotley Bridge Uniting Church
Originally enclosed in M/Co 919/1
(87 papers)
Ref: M/Co 919/3Minutes of Church annual general meetings, 18 April 1994 - 27 April 1995
Reports to AGM, 1997/8 and list of dates for events in 1999
Originally enclosed in M/Co 919/1
(6 papers)
Trustees (Ref: M/Co section 03)183
Ref: M/Co 183Miscellaneous trusteeship papers, 1930 - 1949, includes declaration by the trustees of the Sunday School and Manse adopting the New Model Deed in accordance with s.17 of the Methodist Church Union Act, 1929
(1 bundle)
Certificates to authorise worship and solemnise marriages (Ref: M/Co section 04)179-180
Ref: M/Co 179-180Certificates authorising worship, 9 May 1854, and marriages, 30 August 1864
(1 parchment, 1 paper)
Church property (Ref: M/Co section 05)181-182
Ref: M/Co 181-182Schedule of deeds of church property in Shotley Bridge mortgaged to secure £200, 1846 - 1851
(2 papers)
Financial records (Ref: M/Co section 06)Collection journals (Ref: M/Co 288)Ref: M/Co 288Collection Journal, 5 January 1941 - 28 December 1952
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Society Stewards' account books (Ref: M/Co 289-290)Ref: M/Co 289Society Stewards' account book 9 September 1942 - 2 September 1949
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/Co 290Society Stewards' account book, 4 September 1949 - 11 November 1956
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Joint Funds account books (Ref: M/Co 291)Ref: M/Co 291Joint Funds account book, 1 January 1942 - 26 January 1955
(1 volume)
Envelope scheme (Ref: M/Co 292)Ref: M/Co 292Methodist Society envelope collection contributions account book, January 1942 - December 1952
(1 volume)
Trustees' Treasurers' accounts (Ref: M/Co 794, 904)Ref: M/Co 794Trustees' Treasurer's account book, 4 February 1914 - 31 December 1955
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/Co 904Trustees' Treasurer's account book, 6 October 1956-1 September 1991
(1 volume)
Accounts of income and expenditure (Ref: M/Co 905, 918, 921/1, 922/1)Ref: M/Co 905Accounts of income and expenditure, 1973-1991
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 918Accounts of income and expenditure, 29 August 1894-30 December 1937
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 921/1Account of income and expenditure, and balance sheet, 31 August - 8 November 2012
(2 papers)
Ref: M/Co 922/1Standard Form of Accounts, 31 August 2011
(6 papers)
Photographs (Ref: M/Co section 07)Ref: M/Co 257Miscellaneous photographic plates of churches, individuals and groups, n.d.
(1 bundle)
Sunday school (Ref: M/Co section 08)Minutes (Ref: M/Co )Ref: M/Co 906/1Minutes, 26 January 1918-2 December 1940
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 906/2Minutes, 8 January 1941-27 October 1965
(1 volume)
Attendance (Ref: M/Co )Ref: M/Co 907/1Attendance register, 6 January 1963-24 September 1972
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 907/2Attendance register, 1 October 1972-25 September 1977
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 907/3Attendance register, 4 September 1977-13 July 1980
(1 volume)
Plans (Ref: M/Co 184)Ref: M/Co 184Plan of proposed additions of schools etc. by William T. Spence, architect & surveyor, Shotley Bridge, 1903
(1 plan)
Wesley Guild (Ref: M/Co section 09)923-924
Ref: M/Co 923Account book, 22 January 1996 - 16 December 2013
(1 booklet)
Ref: M/Co 924Account of subscriptions, including names of members, 13 January 2001 - 11 November 2013
(1 booklet)
Church history (Ref: M/Co section 10)920
Ref: M/Co 920History of Shotley Bridge Methodist Church and the churches that merged to form its history[1894-2004]
Contains photographs and drawings of the Church, both interior and exterior
(4 papers)
Shotley Field Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co ShotF)(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
Ref: M/Co 185Miscellaneous papers, mainly concerning the purchase and sale of the church, a former Baptist church, 1911 - 1935
(1 bundle)
South Moor Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co SM)Registration (Ref: M/Co section 01)Registers of baptisms (Ref: M/Co )Ref: M/Co 925/1Register of baptisms, 16 September 1962 - 20 September 1970
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 925/2Register of baptisms, 20 September 1970 - 3 December 1978
Last entry is dated 12 November 1978 and is a correction of a mistake
(1 volume)
Trustees meetings (Ref: M/Co section 02)Ref: M/Co 186Trustees' meetings minutes, 1887 - 1900, with accounts, 1887 - 1889
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 187Trustees' meetings minutes, 1900 - 1920
(1 volume)
Sunday school (Ref: M/Co section 03)Ref: M/Co 188Sunday School teachers' meetings minutes, 1912 - 1926
(1 volume)
Stanley Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co St)Ref: M/Co 189Application to the Extension of Methodism Fund for aid in building a church, 2 May 1898
(1 paper)
Tanfield Lea Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co TL)Registers of baptisms (Ref: M/Co )Ref: M/Co 927Register of baptisms, 15 September 1968 - 3 March 2002
(1 volume)
Unspecified Churches (Ref: M/Co Un)Ref: M/Co 206Annual Society meetings minutes, 1940 - 1962
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 207Class book, n.d.
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 413Attendance register, 1967 - 1969
(1 volume)
Westwood, Newlands Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co WeN)Ref: M/Co 191Trustees' meetings minutes, one meeting only, 4 July 1924
(1 volume)
Ref: M/Co 192Miscellaneous trusteeship papers, includes certificate authorising public worship in the church, 3 August 1870 and assignment of the church to new trustees, 30 July 1891, 1872 - 1955
(1 bundle)
Ref: M/Co 19330 April 1859
(1) Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital
(2) Trustees
Lease of the site of the church by (1) to (2) for 80 years
Rent: 2s.0d. annual
(1 parchment)
Ref: M/Co 194Correspondence relating to the closure of the church and the surrender of the lease to Lord Gort, 1964 - 1966
(1 bundle)
Westwood United Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co WeU)United Methodist Free Church before 1907
Ref: M/Co 190Church meetings minutes, 1898 - 1922
(1 volume)
Whittonstall Methodist Church (Ref: M/Co Whi)formerly Wesleyan Methodist
Registration (Ref: M/Co section 01)195
Ref: M/Co 195Baptisms register, 1933 - 1964
(1 volume)
Minutes (Ref: M/Co section 02)910
Ref: M/Co 910Trustees' meetings minutes, 2 July 1913 - 21 May 1968
(1 volume)
Plans (Ref: M/Co section 03)911/1-3, 912
Ref: M/Co 911/1Ground floor plan of proposed Wesleyan Methodist church, Whittonstall, April 1913
Architect: W.H. Knowles, Newcastle
(1 plan, 37 cm x 27 cm, watercolour)
Ref: M/Co 911/2Elevations and section plan of Whittonstall Wesleyan Methodist church, April 1913
Architect: W.H. Knowles, Newcastle
(1 plan, 37 cm x 57 cm, watercolour)
Ref: M/CO 911/3Location and sections plans of Whittonstall Wesleyan Methodist church, April 1913
. Architect: W.H. Knowles, Newcastle
(1 plan, 39 cm x 57 cm, watercolour)
Ref: M/CO 912Details of communion rail at Whittonstall church, May 1914
Architect: Knowles Oliver Eleeson, Newcastle
(1 plan, 70 cm x 77 cm, watercolour)
Miscellaneous (Ref: M/Co section 04)229, 605, 913, 914/1-5
Ref: M/Co 229Whittonstall Wesleyan Chapel, Deed of transfer of Mrs. Oley's legacy to the Board of Trustees for Wesleyan Methodist Chapel purposes, 1892
(1 paper)
Ref: M/Co 605Photograph of the old chapel at West End, Whittonstall, n.d.
(1 postcard, black and white)
Ref: M/CO 913Copy summarised history of Whittonstall Methodist church by Geoffrey Fisher, Shotley Bridge, 4 May 2009
(1 paper)
Ref: M/Co 914/1-5Tenders for proposed new Wesleyan church at Whittonstall, 15 May - 4 June 1913
(5 papers)
