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Crook Methodist Circuit

Reference: M/Cr Catalogue Title: Crook Methodist Circuit Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description: Individual churches

Covering Dates: 1847 - 1997

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Crook Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/Cr)Billy Row Centenary Church (Ref: M/Cr Bil)Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )

Minutes of Trustees' Meetings, March 1935 - 21 May 1957
(1 volume)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Account Book, 1 January 1912 - November 1956
(1 volume)


Bills and Receipts, 15 October 1948 - 23 March 1969
(1 volume)

Bowden Close Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr Bow)Registration (Ref: M/Cr )

Register of baptisms, 23 April 1907 - 10 September 1972
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute Book, 19 February 1885 - 15 March 1897
(1 volume)


Minute Book, 4 October 1918 - 19 January 1949
(1 volume)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Trustees' account book, 1 January 1861 - 31 December 1899
(1 volume)

Byers Green Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr ByeP)Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )

Leaders' meetings' minutes, 1946 - 1963
(1 volume)


Trustees' meetings' minutes, 1922 - 1963 Accounts, 1873 - 1963
(1 volume)

Byers Green Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr ByeW)

See also M/SF 45, 107


Treasurers' accounts, 1905 - 1939
(1 volume)

Crook Central Methodist Church (Ref: M/CrCro)Photographs (Ref: M/Cr)

Photographs of the exterior of the old Crook Central Methodist church, c.1970
(2 photographs)


Photographs of the interior and exterior of Crook Central Methodist church as altered, c.1970
(2 photographs)


Photograph of interior of old school room, c.1970
(1 photograph)


Photographs of interior and exterior of school hall as altered, c.1970
(4 photographs)


Photographs of the interior and exterior of the new small hall, c.1970
(4 photographs)

Crook, Dawson Street Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr CroD)

Formerly Primitive Methodist

Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )Trustees (Ref: M/Cr )

Trustees' and Trustees' & Chapel Committee Meetings minutes, 1887 - 1908
(1 volume)


Minute Book 20 January 1909 - 19 January 1949
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Minute Book 3 December 1954 - 29 September 1964 Recent correspondence 20 February 1957 - 10 February 1964
(1 volume, 30 papers)

Financial Committee (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute Book of Financial Committee, 28 May 1924 - 20 January 1932
(1 volume, printed form)


Minute Book of Financial Committee, 26 January 1933 - 23 January 1962
(1 volume, printed form)


Minute Book of Financial Committee, 23 January 1962 - 17 November 1964
(1 volume, printed form)

Correspondence (Ref: M/Cr )

See also M/Cr 110


Recent correspondence 16 July 1958 - 30 June 1964
(Paper, 4 Bundles)

Crook, Hope Street Methodist Church (formerly Wesleyan) (Ref: M/CrCroH)Registration (Ref: M/Crsection 01)Registers of marriages (Ref: M/Cr)

12


Register of marriages, 1865 contains one entry only
(1 volume)

Marriage certificates (Ref: M/Cr)

46


Counterfoils of marriage certificates etc., 1920-1941
(1 bundle)

Minutes (Ref: M/Cr section 02)Trustees (Ref: M/Cr )

Minutes of Trustees, 1887-1923
(1 volume)


Minute Book 19 April 1923 - 21 January 1958
(Paper , 1 volume, printed form)


Minute Book 19 August 1957 - 20 November 1970
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)

Leaders and Society meetings (Ref: M/Cr )

Leaders' & Society Meetings minutes, 1911 - 1945
(1 volume)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr section 03)Bequests (Ref: M/Cr)

Correspondence concerning legacy of Mrs. Jane Alderson between G.W. Hodgson and Angus, solicitors, Stanhope and J.H. Anderson, 2 Hobart Terrace, Manchester, and W.T. Thompson, 18 - 30 January 1936
(3 papers)


Correspondence including copy will of George Suddick concerning the George Suddick bequest to Hope Street Methodist Church, 29 November 1945 -­ 10 January 1969
(14 papers)

Account books (Ref: M/Cr )

Trustees' Treasurer's Account Book 16 April 1908 - 31 December 1949
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Trustees' Treasurer's Account Book 3 January 1950 - 23 November 1970
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)

Trustees (Ref: M/Crsection 04)Lists of trustees (Ref: M/Cr)

List of trustees, 14 February -­ 20 April 1939
(2 papers)


List of trustees, June 1957
(1 paper)

Chapel (Ref: M/Crsection 05)

Draft agreement between the North Eastern Railway Company and the Trustees of the Crook Wesleyan Methodist Chapel for access to the chapel of the latter across land of the former, 1855, and covering letter from the North Eastern Railway to Ralph Creighton, Peases West Collieries, Darlington, 28 November 1885
(1 file, 1 paper)


Letter to Messrs Marquis Cohen & Co., Hope Street, Crook, concerning the sale of Hope Street Chapel, Crook, 20 March 1970
(1 paper)

Property (Ref: M/Crsection 06)

Bills of costs in the case of the Trustees of the Crook Wesleyan Methodist Church and of The Crook Wesleyan Minister's House v Bolckow Vaughan & Co., Ltd., 24 October 1895
(2 files)


Receipts for payment of costs in case of Trustees of the Crook Wesleyan Methodist Chapel v Bolckow Vaughan & Co. Ltd., 8 July -­ 14 December 1896 (1 file)
(1 file)


Agreement by Trustees of Wesleyan property in Crook to the repayment of £150, 1897
(1 paper)


Copy agreement by the Trustees of the Wesleyan property in Crook to the repayment of £50 to Miss Priscilla Shearman, 11 July 1903
(2 papers)


27 August 1946 (l) Herbert Ernest Hedley Gowland of Foundry Fields, Crook (2) William Askwith, Leader of the Hope Street, Crook, Young Peoples' Fellowship Copy lease for 7 years from (l) to (2) of parcel of land near Foundry Fields, Crook Rent: £7 p.a.
(1 file)

Choir (Ref: M/Cr section 07)

Minutes of Wesley Choir 19 December 1935 - 18 November 1952
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Minutes of Wesley Choir 15 January 1953 - 19 January 1961
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)

Young Peoples' Fellowship (Ref: M/Cr section 08)

Bank Book, Accounts and Correspondence, 1940 - 1947
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)

Sunday School (Ref: M/Crsection 09)

Minutes of Sunday School 7 December 1893 - 3 September 1900
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Minute Book of Sunday School 9 October 1900 - 12 December 1918
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Minute Book of Sunday School 22 January 1919 - 3 December 1935
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Minute Book of Sunday School 3 December 1935 - 23 September 1959
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Minute Book of Sunday School 23 September 1963 - 4 October 1963
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Block plan of land adjoining the Wesleyan Sunday School, Crook, c.1855
(1 plan, 32cm x 46cm, oiled linen)


Certificate of permission granted by the Wesleyan Chapel Committee, Manchester to the trustees of the Crook Wesleyan Chapel for an enlargement to the school, 3 October 1888 Attached: Memorandum of grant of £150 made to the Crook Circuit for the extinction of debt on six chapels, n.d.
(2 papers)


Agreement between the Trustees of the Wesleyan Methodist Property, Crook, and George Lister, builder and contractor, for alterations and additions to the schoolroom, 20 June 1889
(1 paper)


Account book of sums subscribed towards a scheme for the enlargement of the Crook Wesleyan Sunday School and the liquidation of a debt on the Crook Wesleyan Chapel, 26 August 1889 -­ 13 November 1890
(1 booklet)

Miscellaneous (Ref: M/Crsection 10)

Crook Wesleyan Methodist Church: Roll of honour, 1914 - 1919, designed and illuminated by Geo. D. Charlton, Barnhill, Dundee, Scotland, n.d.
(2 papers, colour, card mounted)

Crook, Market Place Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr CroM)

Formerly Methodist New Connexion

Registration (Ref: M/Cr )

Register of Baptisms of the Methodist New Connexion Chapel, Crook [latterly Market Place Methodist Church], February 1907 - September 1940 and November 1960 - June 1977
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )Trustees (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute book of the Trustees of New Connexion Methodist Chapel, Crook, October 1860 - September 1884 Including records of expenditure on the construction of the Chapel, 1863
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Minute Book of the Trustees of New Connexion Methodist Chapel, Crook, March 1898 - February 1920
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Leaders (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute Book of Leaders of Methodist New Connexion Church, Crook, July 1903 - March 1919
(1 volume, cardboard bound)

Society (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute Book of Market Place Methodist Society, Crook, March 1933 - December 1969
(1 volume, cardboard bound)

Correspondence (Ref: M/Cr )

Correspondence concerning upkeep of Market Place Methodist Church. Including estimates for repair of boiler and organ from various firms 1920 - 1939
(34 papers)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Cash Book of the Methodist New Connexion Chapel, Crook, 1935 - 1943
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Cash Book of Market Place Methodist Church, Crook [formerly New Connexion], 1942 - 1979
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Cash Book of Market Place Methodist Church, Crook, 1970 - 1980
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Record of Contributions to Church Funds, [New Connexion Methodist Church, Crook], 1900 - 1923
(1 volume, leather half - bound)


Record of Voluntary Contributions to Church Funds [Market Place Methodist Church, formerly New Connexion Methodist Church, Crook], 1951 - 1979
(1 volume, paper bound)


Record of Contributions to funds of Market Place Methodist Church, Crook 1938 - 1970
(1 volume, cardboard bound)

Weekly notices (Ref: M/Cr )

Record of Weekly Notices at Market Place Methodist Church, Crook, August 1968 - February 1972
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Record of Weekly Notices at Market Place Methodist Church, Crook, March 1972 - January 1974
(1 volume, cardboard bound)

Woman's Own Group (Ref: M/Cr )

Attendance Register of Market Place Methodist 'Woman's Own' Group, Crook, 1953 - 1966
(1 volume, cardboard bound)

Crook, Rumby Hill Methodist Church (Ref: M/CrCroR)

formerly United Methodist and, before 1907, Methodist New Connexion

Registration (Ref: M/Cr)

Register of baptisms, 1882 - 1937
(1 volume)

Crook United Methodist Church and Sunday School (Ref: M/Cr CroU)

157-174
Formerly New Connexion Sabbath School

Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute book of the Trustees of the United Methodist Church, Crook, July 1921 - November 1980
(1 volume, cardboard bound)

Sunday School (Ref: M/Cr )Attendance registers (Ref: M/Cr )

Attendance Register (Girls) of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, 1908
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Attendance Register of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, 1909
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Attendance Register of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, 1925 - 1929
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Attendance Register of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, 1930 - 1933
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Attendance Register of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, 1934 - 1939
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Attendance Register of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, 1940 - 1944
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Attendance Register of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, c.1946
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Attendance Register of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, 1949 - 1951
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Attendance Register of Market Place Methodist Church [formerly United Methodist] Sunday School, 1952
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Attendance Register of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, 1953 - 1954
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Attendance Register of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, 1955 - 1957
(1 volume, cardboard bound)

Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute Book of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, 1921 - 1934
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Minute Book of United Methodist Sunday School, Crook, 1913 - 1920
(1 volume, card bound)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Cash Book (Secretary's) of Methodist New Commission Sabbath School, Crook [latterly United Methodist Sunday School], 1895 - 1931
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Cash Book (Treasurer's) Methodist New Connexion Sabbath School, Crook [latterly United Methodist Sunday School] 1895 - 1931
(1 volume, cardboard bound)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Cash Book of United Methodist Church Trust, Crook, 1898 - 1935
(1 volume, cardboard bound)


Cash Book of Secretary to United Methodist Church, 1917 - 1939
(1 volume, cardboard bound)

Fir Tree Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr Fir)

Formerly Wesleyan Methodist


Accounts, 1874 - 1950
(1 volume)

Helmington Row Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr Hel)Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )

Trustees' Minute Book, 29 January 1935 - 1 July 1940 (1 volume)-


Trustees' meetings minute book, 19 January 1949 -­ 9 October [1985]
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)

Sunday School (Ref: M/Cr )

Sunday School admission book, 1922 - July 1978
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Sunday School account book, 1 December 1935 - 21 September 1962
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Teachers' meetings minute book, 19 December 1936 - 27 January 1952
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Sunday School [members and attendance] summary and journal, q/e June 1950 -­ q/e June 1951
(1 volume, paper bound)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Church account book, 1940 - 31 May 1985
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)

Howden-le-Wear Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr How)Registration (Ref: M/Cr )Registers of baptisms (Ref: M/Cr )

Register of baptisms 13 February 1919 - 1 September 1974
(1 volume, printed form)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

127-132


Trust Accounts, 1 January 1951 - 2 May 1976
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Share Book for Crook Co-Operative Corn Mill, Flour and Provision Society Limited, number 9882, 1955 - 1961
(Paper, 1 booklet, printed form)


National Westminster Bank cheque book, 5 April 1972 - 14 August 1975
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


National Westminster Bank cheque book 16 July 1975 - 8 March 1978
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Receipt Bills and receipts concerning insurance, repairs, advertising, 3 December 1976 - 28 June 1977
(Paper, 3 folios)


Bank statements from National Westminster Bank, 1 January 1976 - 31 December 1977
(Paper, 9 folios)

Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )Trustees (Ref: M/Cr )

47


Minutes of Trustees, 1899-1924
(1 volume)

Correspondence (Ref: M/Cr )

48


Correspondence re losses by fire at the church, 1905
(1 bundle)

Mount Pleasant Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr Mou)

101

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

49, 101


Collection journal, 1933-1943
(1 volume)


Account Book, 1 January 1954 - 29 August 1964, includes: correspondence regarding the sale of the church for £1,000 to Berryman and Oxlee, 1968; correspondence about the sale of the adjoining land in 1968
(1 volume)

Mount Pleasant Wooley Terrace Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr MouW)Registration (Ref: M/Cr )

13

Registers of baptisms (Ref: M/Cr )

13, 311/1/1


Register of Baptisms, 1942 - 1966
(1 volume)


Register of baptisms, 26 November 1908-7 May 1972
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )Trustees meetings (Ref: M/Cr )

69, 140


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1909 - 1961
(1 volume)


Wooley Terrace Minute Book, 10 May 1966 - 18 February 1974

Committee minutes (Ref: M/Cr )

70


Pipe Organ Fund Committee minutes, 1918 - 1924, with accounts infolded, 1918 - 1924
(1 volume)

Certificates awarded to members (Ref: M/Cr )

312-316
Florence J Birkbeck married William Ayre in 1943 and had two children - Derreck, in 1946, and Dennis, in 1950.

Certificate awarded to William Ayre (Ref: M/Cr )

314


Certificate awarded to William Ayre on enrollment as a member of the Junior Section of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, 7 June 1932
(1 paper, printed form)

Certificates awarded to Derreck Ayre (Ref: M/Cr )

315/1-2


Album containing two certificates awarded to Derreck Ayre on passing the Lower Junior Scripture Examination at Honours Level, 1955, and First Class, 1956
(1 booklet containing 2 papers, printed forms)


Certificate awarded to Derreck Ayre by the Methodist Mission Society for collecting money for missions overseas and at home, 1959
(1 paper, printed form)

Certificates awarded to Florence Birkbeck (Ref: M/Cr )

313/1, 316/1-5


Teacher's Diploma awarded by Trinity College of Music, London, admitting Florence Birkbeck to the position of Associate (A.T.C.L.), July 1939 See also: D/X 1343/196 (27)
(1 paper)


Certificate awarded to Florence Jane Birkbeck by the Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Department Connexional Scholars Examination Board on passing the Religious Knowledge Examination, First Class, Division 2, 7 March 1927
(1 paper, printed form)


Certificate awarded to Florence Jane Birkbeck by the Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Department Connexional Scholars Examination Board on passing the Religious Knowledge Examination, First Class, Division 3, 5 March 1928
(1 paper, printed form)


Certificate awarded to Florence Jane Birkbeck by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for passing Grade 5 Piano, 1933
(1 paper, printed form)


Certificate awarded to Florence Birkbeck for collecting for the National Children's Home and Orphanage, n.d. [1930s]
(1 paper, printed form)


Certificate awarded to Florence Birkbeck by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for passing Grade 4 Grammar of Music, 1943
(1 paper, printed form)

Certificates awarded to Dennis Ayre (Ref: M/Cr)

315/3


Certificate awarded to Dennis Ayre by the Methodist Mission Society for collecting money for missions overseas and at home, 1960
(1 paper, printed form)

Certificates awarded to Frederick W. Birbeck (Ref: M/Cr )

312/1


Certificate for 50 years service awarded by the National Coal Board to Frederick W. Birbeck [Birkbeck], n.d. [c. 1960s] See also: D/X 1343/196 (4) and M/CW 126
(1 paper)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

71-72


Chapel Stewards' Accounts, 1901 - 1924, including list of Trustees, 1897; Minutes of Annual Meetings, 1902 and 1903; and Accounts of Renovating Fund Income, 1913 - 1914
(1 volume)


Society Stewards' Account Book, 1909 - 1917
(1 volume)

Roddymoor Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr Rod)Registration (Ref: M/Cr )

Register of baptisms 15 October 1950 - 1 April 1956
(1 volume)

Rough Lea (Hunwick) Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr Rou)Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )Trustees (Ref: M/Cr )

79-80
See also M/Cr 183


Trustees' meetings' minutes, 1905 - 1951
(2 volumes)

Wesley Guild (Ref: M/Cr )

Wesley Guild minute book, includes statement of accounts 1921-­22, 30 March 1912 -­ 27 March 1951
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)

Various (Ref: M/Cr )

Annual Society meeting minute book, 13 January 1959 -­ 30 January 1973 Centenary Sub-Committee minutes, 1981 Church Council meeting minutes, 3 February 1975 -­11 May 1983
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)

Correspondence (Ref: M/Cr )

50


Correspondence re damage to the Sunday School by the West Hunwick Coal Company, 1920
(1 bundle)

Registration (Ref: M/Cr )Registers of baptisms (Ref: M/Cr )

Register of baptisms, 8 December 1906 -­ 27 February 1983
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Sunday School (Ref: M/Cr )

Sunday School minute book, 15 December 1932 -­ 8 August 1983
(1 volume, card quarter-bound)


Sunday School cash book, June 1949 -­ June 1983
(1 volume, cloth half-bound)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Accounts, 1903 - 1921
(1 volume)


Cash book, January 1922 -­ December 1957
(1 volume, card quarter-bound)


Trust Property Fund accounts, c.1880 Trustees' meetings minutes, 19 April 1902 -­ 28 December 1904 Subscription account, 1902-­1904 Organ Fund account, 1910 list of members, 1902-­1903
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Collection Journal, 19 March 1911 -­ 7 August 1921
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Property Fund analysis, April 1958 -­ September 1978
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Account book, July 1971 -­ August 1983
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Analysis of income to the general fund, December 1964 -­ September 1978
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)

Sunniside Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/CrSun)Trustees (Ref: M/Cr)

51


Memorandum of choice and appointment of new trustees, 15 July 1897
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Thornley Methodist Church (formerly Wesleyan) (Ref: M/CrTho)Financial records (Ref: M/Cr)

52


Accounts, 1895-1933
(1 volume)

Tow Law Hill Crest Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr Tow)

Formerly Primitive Methodist
See also D/X 310/1

Registration (Ref: M/Cr )

Register of Baptisms, 4 September 1869 - 14 April 1889
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Register of Baptisms, 17 March 1889 - 15 June 1939
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Register of Baptisms, 9 May 1948 - 17 May 1959
(paper, 9 volumes, printed form)

Sunday School (Ref: M/Cr )

Sunday School scholar's roll, 4 October 1959 - 29 September 1963
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Accounts, 1937 - 1961
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1916 - 1934
(1 volume)


Collection journal and Society Stewards' Record, 1945 - 1957
(1 volume)

Miscellaneous (Ref: M/Cr )

Centenary Souvenir Handbook, 1846 - 1946
(1 pamphlet)

Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute Book, 30 June 1868 - 31 July 1887
(1 volume)


Minute Book, 17 August 1887 - 10 December 1897
(1 volume)


Minute Book, 21 March 1897 - 27 July 1915
(1 volume)


Minute Book, 27 January 1916 - 6 December 1938
(1 volume)

Tow Law Wesley Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr TowW)

Formerly Wesleyan Methodist
See also D/X 309/1

Registration (Ref: M/Cr )

Register of Baptisms 9 September 1875 - 31 December 1885
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)


Register of Baptisms 2 February 1921 - 16 August 1962
(Paper, 1 volume, printed form)

Miscellaneous (Ref: M/Cr )

Centenary Souvenir Handbook, 1846 - 1946
(1 pamphlet)


Souvenir Handbook for the Church Centenary Celebrations, containing a short history of Methodism in Tow Law, 1946
(1 booklet, printed)

Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )Trustees (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute book of Trustees' meetings, 16 February 1927 - 22 October 1982
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Leaders (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute book of Leaders' and Finance Committee Meetings, 19 July 1950 - 26 August 1957
(1 volume, card bound)


Minute book of Leaders' Meetings, 26 November 1957 - 20 October 1971
(1 volume, card bound and 4 papers)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Treasurer's account book, 12 September 1986 - 20 April 1994 (1 volume, cloth bound)
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Poor Stewards' account book, 18 May 1884 - 7 April 1946
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Seat register and account of pew rents, 1914 - 1924
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Bank statements, bills, insurance policies, summary statements, notes and correspondence relating to the sale of Tow Law Methodist Church, 1992 - 22 December 1994
(62 papers)

Sunday School (Ref: M/Cr )Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute book of the Trustees of Tow Law Wesleyan Methodist Day Schools, 29 July 1872 - 13 June 1905
(1 volume, card bound)


Minute book of teachers' meetings at Tow Law Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School, 10 December 1900 - 23 January 1921
(1 volume, card bound)


Minute book of teachers' meetings at Tow Law Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School, 24 April 1921 - 1 December [1940]
(1 volume, card bound)


Minute book of teachers' meetings at Tow Law Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School, 21 December [1938] - 29 December 1944
(1 volume, card bound)


Minute book of annual and teachers' meetings at Tow Law Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School, 13 December 1946 - 2 December 1979
(1 volume, card bound)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Account book of Tow Law Methodist Sunday School, January 1962 - 22 December [1986]
(1 volume, card bound)

Scholars (Ref: M/Cr )

Scholars' roll for Tow Law Methodist Sunday School, 8 October 1967 - 3 March 1974
(1 volume, card bound)

Unspecified Church (Ref: M/Cr Uns)

91


Collection accounts, 1962 - 1963
(1 volume)

Waterhouses Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/CrWat)Correspondence (Ref: M/Cr)

53


Correspondence re proposed renovation of the church, and the erection of a temporary iron school room, 1902-1904
(1 bundle)

Willington Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr Wil)Sunday School (Ref: M/Cr )

Sunday school teachers' meetings' minutes, 1915 - 1938
(2 volumes)


Sunday School accounts, 1879 - 1949
(1 volume)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Accounts, 1879 - 1900
(1 volume)

Willington, Lydia Street (formerly Wesleyan) Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr WilW)

Willington Wesleyan Methodist Church was built in Lydia Street in 1874. A new church was built alongside, opening on 23 January 2016.

Registration (Ref: M/Cr )

For baptisms see also M/CW 103 and M/Wi 76
For marriages see M/D/Da 644-646 and M/MR 522/1-4


Register of Baptisms, 1870 - 1880, 1885 and 1886
(1 volume)


Register of Baptisms, 1881 - 1886
(1 volume)


Register of Baptisms, 1886 - 1893
(1 volume)


Register of Baptisms, 1893 - 1901
(1 volume)


Register of baptisms, 14 March 1982 - 22 June 1997
(1 volume)

Trustees minutes (Ref: M/Cr )

Trustees' meetings' minutes, 1958 - 1969
(1 volume)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

Accounts, 1875 - 1909
(1 volume)


Treasurers' accounts, 1952 - 1968
(1 volume)

Sunday School (Ref: M/Cr )

Sunday School teachers' meetings' minutes, 1939 - 1958
(1 volume)

Local Preachers' Mutual Aid Association (Ref: M/Cr )

Local Preachers' Mutual Aid Association minutes, 1904 - 1943
(1 volume)

Witton Junction Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr WitJ)

Formerly Wesleyan Methodist and Wear Valley Junction Wesleyan Mission Room

Minutes (Ref: M/Cr )

See also M/Cr 75

Trustees (Ref: M/Cr )

Minute and account book, 16 January 1910 - 10 October 1941
(1 volume)

Stewards (Ref: M/Cr )

Stewards' Meetings minutes, 1893 - 1944
(1 volume)

Financial records (Ref: M/Cr )

See also M/Cr 106


Accounts, 1935 - 1967
(1 volume)


Chapel Stewards' accounts, 1910 - 1927 Leaders' Meetings minutes, 1949 - 1967
(1 volume)

Trustees (Ref: M/Cr )

Forms of appointment of trustees, 1919
(1 bundle)

Witton-le-Wear Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr Witt)Sunday School (Ref: M/Cr )

Application to the Wesleyan Chapel Committee for permission to erect a Sunday School, 15 September, 1903
(1 paper)


Application to the Wesleyan Chapel Committee for grant to reduce debt on Sunday School, 3 February, 1905, with related papers, 1903 - 1905
(1 bundle)


Consent of the Wesleyan Chapel Committee, granting £20 to extinguish debt, 1 March, 1905
(1 paper)

Wolsingham Market Place Methodist Church (Ref: M/Cr Wol)

Formerly Primitive Methodist


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1915 - 1947
(1 volume)