Oxfordshire Record Office NM4 BANBURY METHODIST CIRCUIT

These records relate to the Wesleyan, Primitive and 1791-2006 United Methodist Circuits covering North Oxfordshire and parts of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire.

The records include registers of baptisms and marriages, minute books, Sunday School admission and attendance registers, account books, title deeds, financial and publicity papers, and documents re sale of chapels.

The catalogue is arranged in thefollowing sections: NM4/A: Banbury Wesleyan Circuit NM4/B: Banbury Primitive Circuit NM4/C: Banbury United Circuit (Post-1932) NM4/1: Adderbury Chapel NM4/2: Banbury Wesleyan Chapel NM4/2A: Banbury Wesleyan Day Schools NM4/3: Banbury Primitive Chapel NM4/4: Bloxham Chapel NM4/5: Lower Boddington Chapel NM4/6: Great Bourton Chapel NM4/7: Little Bourton Chapel NM4/8: Chipping Warden Chapel NM4/9: Claydon Chapel NM4/10: Cropredy Chapel NM4/11: Epwell Chapel NM4/12: Eydon Chapel NM4/13: Farthinghoe Chapel NM4/14: Grimsbury Chapel NM4/15: Hanwell Chapel NM4/16: Horley Chapel NM4/17: Hornton Chapel NM4/18: Kings Sutton Chapel NM4/19: Middleton Cheney Chapel NM4/20: Mollington Chapel NM4/21: Shenington Chapel NM4/22: Shotteswell Chapel NM4/23: Shutford Chapel NM4/24: Sulgrave Chapel NM4/25: Tadmarton Chapel NM4/26: Wardington Chapel NM4/27: Warmington Chapel NM4/28: Wroxton Chapel

They were deposited in five stages: in August 1977 (accession 1444), March 1984 (accession 2245), July 1994 (accession 3846), December 1997(accession 4309) and February 1998 (accession 4323).

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Further records were deposited as Acc 4555 in August 1999, Acc 4561 in August 1999, Acc 4880 in July 2001, Acc 4923 in November 2001, Acc 5122 in April 2003 and Acc 5916 in December 2009.

Catalogued by Mark Priddey, May 1998. Additions by Alison Smith in October 2009 and January 2010.

BANBURY WESLEYAN METHODIST CIRCUIT (NM4/A) There may have been a Methodist meeting in Banbury as early as 1784, but their first chapel was purchased in Calthorpe Street in 1791. This served until 1811 when new premises were built in Church Lane (which were enlarged in 1828).

Banbury Methodist Society was at first part of the Northampton Circuit, then in 1793 it became centre of the new Banbury Circuit. In 1810 the circuit extended as far as Warwick and Kenilworth. As well as Banbury, it included chapels at Shotteswell, Greatworth, Balscote, Wardington, Warmington, Bloxham, Chipping Warden, Sulgrave, Cropredy, Eydon, Adderbury, Lower Boddington and Grimsbury

BAPTISM REGISTERS (NM4/A/R1)

NM4/A/R1/1 Register of baptisms 1805-1864 including dates of birth and place of abode; on the inside front cover is a death certificate from 1849

NM4/A/R1/2 Register of baptisms 1864-1956 including name of chapel where baptisms took place and place of residence; also a copy of a baptismal certificate issued by the Army in 1949

NM4/A/R1/3 Register of baptisms Oct/1858- There seems to be no overlap with entries in the two Aug/1874 registers listed above

CLASS TICKETS (NM4/A/A1)

NM4/A/A1/1 Class tickets 1797-1899 for Thomas Deverell, Kezia Cherry, George Cherry and Nellie Cherry 7 items

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QUARTERLY CIRCUIT SCHEDULES (NM4/A/A2) at visitation of classes, giving name of chapel, leaders, and number of members of each society. Each book also contains annual summaries and details of subscriptions and collections

NM4/A/A2/1 Circuit Schedules' book Jun/1841- Dec/1846

NM4/A/A2/2 Circuit Schedules' book Mar/1847- Jun/1856

NM4/A/A2/3 Circuit Schedules' book Sep/1856- Jun/1867

NM4/A/A2/4 Circuit Schedules' book Sep/1867- Jun/1876

NM4/A/A2/5 Circuit Schedules' book Sep/1876- Jun/1883

NM4/A/A2/6 Circuit Schedules' book Sep/1883- Mar/1894

NM4/A/A2/7 Circuit Schedules' book Jun/1894- Dec/1906

NM4/A/A2/8 Circuit Schedules' book Mar/1907- Jun/1917

NM4/A/A2/9 Circuit Schedules' book Sep/1917- Sep/1925

NM4/A/A2/10 Circuit Schedules' book Sep/1926- Mar/1945

CHAPEL AND TRUST PROPERTY SCHEDULES (NM4/A/A3) statistical summaries for the circuit

NM4/A/A3/1 Circuit Property Schedules' book Mar/1860- at the front are particulars of trust property, e.g. date of Mar/1879 earliest trust deed and enrolment for each chapel, number of trustees, and date of erection of chapel

NM4/A/A3/2 Circuit Property Schedules' book Apr/1880- Mar/1897

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NM4/A/A3/3 Circuit Property Schedules' book Mar/1898- Mar/1906

NM4/A/A3/4 Circuit Property Schedules' book Mar/1907- Mar/1915

NM4/A/A3/5 Circuit Property Schedules' book Mar/1916- Mar/1926

COLPORTAGE COMMITTEE MINUTES (NM4/A/A4)

NM4/A/A4/1 Colportage Committee minute book Apr/1892- at the front is a note of a resolution to fund a colporteur Jan/1922 and rules of the association re Bible distribution and Christian literature

LOCAL PREACHERS' MINUTES (NM4/A/A5)

NM4/A/A5/1 Local Preachers' Meetings' minute book Mar/1895- Jun/1951

CLASS LEADERS' MINUTES (NM4/A/A6)

NM4/A/A6/1 Class Leaders' Meetings' minute book Jan/1912- Jun/1916

SUNDAY SCHOOL MINUTES' (NM4/A/A7)

NM4/A/A7/1 Sunday School Council minute book Mar/1913- renamed Circuit Youth Committee from February 1944 Feb/1960

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/A/A8)

NM4/A/A8/1 Annual Trustees' Meetings' minute book Mar/1914- at the back are names of trustees of each chapel, and Mar/1933 notes on their funds

PLANS AND DIRECTORIES (NM4/A/A9)

NM4/A/A9/1 Circuit plans and directories 1857-1932 8 items

TRUST DEEDS (NM4/A/D) consisting of memoranda of choice and appointments of new trustees of chapels, and giving names, residences, occupations and causes of ceasing to be a trustee

NM4/A/D/1 Summary of Circuit Trust Deeds 28/Oct/1863

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NM4/A/D/2-19 Memoranda of Choice and Appointment of New 1893-1932 Trustees for the following places: Adderbury, 1921; Balscote, 1898; Banbury, 1897, 1914; Bloxham, 1907; Chacombe, 1906; Chipping Warden, 1920; Cropredy, 1913; Greatworth, 1898, 1932; Grimsbury, 1893, 1907; Hinton, 1919; Middleton Cheney, 1906; Neithrop, 1915, 1923; Upper Boddington, 1902 (2).

VALUATION RECORDS (NM4/A/F1)

NM4/A/F1/1 Valuations of Circuit Chapels under Finance Act of n.d. 1909/10

TWENTIETH CENTURY FUND ACCOUNTS (NM4/A/F2)

NM4/A/F2/1 Twentieth Century Fund ledger Jan/1899- at the front is a name index, also promises to pay and Jan/1903 sums paid

NM4/A/F2/2 Bank book Jan/1899- Nov/1902

NM4/A/F2/3 Roll of Contributions to Twentieth Century fund n.d. with accompanying letter, dated 2 Jan. 1929; the roll is arranged by name of church/chapel and contains name and address of contributors

CIRCUIT GATHERING FUND COLLECTING BOOKS (NM4/A/F3)

NM4/A/F3/1 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Adderbury

NM4/A/F3/2 Circuit Gathering collection book 1942-1953 for Marlborough Road chapel

NM4/A/F3/3 Circuit Gathering collection book 1906-1945 for Balscote

NM4/A/F3/4 Circuit Gathering collection book 1946-1953 for Balscote

NM4/A/F3/5 Circuit Gathering collection book 1930-1953 for Bloxham

NM4/A/F3/6 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Lower Boddington

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NM4/A/F3/7 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Upper Boddington

NM4/A/F3/8 Circuit Gathering collection book 1940-1953 for Bodicote

NM4/A/F3/9 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Great Bourton

NM4/A/F3/10 Circuit Gathering collection book 1906-1945 for Little Bourton

NM4/A/F3/11 Circuit Gathering collection book 1946-1953 for Little Bourton

NM4/A/F3/12 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Brailes

NM4/A/F3/13 Circuit Gathering collection book 1935-1953 for Byfield

NM4/A/F3/14 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Chacombe

NM4/A/F3/15 Circuit Gathering collection book 1945-1953 for Chipping Warden

NM4/A/F3/16 Circuit Gathering collection book 1944-1953 for Easington

NM4/A/F3/17 Circuit Gathering collection book 1947-1953 for Epwell

NM4/A/F3/18 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Eydon

NM4/A/F3/19 Circuit Gathering collection book 1944-1953 for Farthinghoe

NM4/A/F3/20 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Greatworth

NM4/A/F3/21 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Grimsbury

NM4/A/F3/22 Circuit Gathering collection book 1934-1953 for Hanwell

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NM4/A/F3/23 Circuit Gathering collection book 1926-1953 for Hinton

NM4/A/F3/24 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Horley

NM4/A/F3/25 Circuit Gathering collection book 1936-1953 for Hornton

NM4/A/F3/26 Circuit Gathering collection book 1945-1953 for King's Sutton

NM4/A/F3/27 Circuit Gathering collection book 1907-1932 for Middleton Cheney

NM4/A/F3/28 Circuit Gathering collection book 1933-1953 for Middleton Cheney

NM4/A/F3/29 Circuit Gathering collection book 1906-1932 for Neithrop

NM4/A/F3/30 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Neithrop

NM4/A/F3/31 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Shotteswell

NM4/A/F3/32 Circuit Gathering collection book 1931-1953 for Shutford

NM4/A/F3/33 Circuit Gathering collection book 1944-1953 for Wardington

NM4/A/F3/34 Circuit Gathering collection book 1927-1932 for Warmington

NM4/A/F3/35 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Warmington

NM4/A/F3/36 Circuit Gathering collection book 1943-1953 for Wroxton

NOTICES (NM4/A/N1)

NM4/A/N1/1 Notice of Annual Circuit rally 27/May/1919

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PRINTED BOOKLETS (NM4/A/PR)

NM4/A/PR/1 Banbury Wesleyan Methodist Churches Year book 1928 and blotter

MISCELLANEOUS (NM4/A/X)

NM4/A/X/1 Small piece of material in wrapping [1791]-[] described as A Fragment of the furniture upon the Bed on which the Revd. John Wesley expired ...

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BANBURY PRIMITIVE METHODIST CIRCUIT (NM4/B) The Primitive Methodists opened a small meeting-house at the rear of two cottages in Broad Street, Banbury, in 1839, which began as part of the Welton Circuit.

In 1842 the Banbury Primitive Methodist Circuit was formed with about 250 members. The earliest surviving schedules show that in 1896 the circuit consisted of chapels at Banbury, Mollington, Farthinghoe, Claydon, Hornton, Kings Sutton, Shenington, Tadmarton, Middleton Cheney, Epwell, Warmington, Shutford, Brailes, Radway, Deddington, Ratley and Tysoe. By 1932 the number of chapels had reduced to eleven

BAPTISM REGISTERS (NM4/B/R1)

NM4/B/R1/1 Register of baptisms 1837-1873 including dates of birth of children and maiden names of some mothers; also copies of entries for 1822-37 from the Welton Circuit register.

NM4/B/R1/2 Register of baptisms Aug/1873- Jun/1950

QUARTERLY MEETING MINUTES (NM4/B/A1)

NM4/B/A1/1 Quarterly Meeting minute book 1855-1890 at the back are minutes of Committee Meetings, 1861 and 1863

CIRCUIT REPORTS AND SCHEDULES (NM4/B/A2)

NM4/B/A2/1 Circuit reports and schedules 1896

NM4/B/A2/2 Circuit reports and schedules 1897

NM4/B/A2/3 Circuit reports and schedules 1898

NM4/B/A2/4 Circuit reports and schedules 1899

NM4/B/A2/5 Circuit reports and schedules 1900

NM4/B/A2/6 Circuit reports and schedules 1901

NM4/B/A2/7 Circuit reports and schedules 1902

NM4/B/A2/8 Circuit reports and schedules 1903

NM4/B/A2/9 Circuit reports and schedules 1904

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NM4/B/A2/10 Circuit reports and schedules 1905

NM4/B/A2/11 Circuit reports and schedules 1906

NM4/B/A2/12 Circuit reports and schedules 1907

NM4/B/A2/13 Circuit reports and schedules 1908

NM4/B/A2/14 Circuit reports and schedules 1909

NM4/B/A2/15 Circuit reports and schedules 1910

NM4/B/A2/16 Circuit reports and schedules 1911

NM4/B/A2/17 Circuit reports and schedules 1912

NM4/B/A2/18 Circuit reports and schedules 1913

NM4/B/A2/19 Circuit reports and schedules 1914

NM4/B/A2/20 Circuit reports and schedules 1915

NM4/B/A2/21 Circuit reports and schedules 1916

NM4/B/A2/22 Circuit reports and schedules 1917

NM4/B/A2/23 Circuit reports and schedules 1918

NM4/B/A2/24 Circuit reports and schedules 1919

NM4/B/A2/25 Circuit reports and schedules 1920

NM4/B/A2/26 Circuit reports and schedules 1921

NM4/B/A2/27 Circuit reports and schedules 1922

NM4/B/A2/28 Circuit reports and schedules 1923

NM4/B/A2/29 Circuit reports and schedules 1924

NM4/B/A2/30 Circuit reports and schedules 1925

NM4/B/A2/31 Circuit reports and schedules 1926

NM4/B/A2/32 Circuit reports and schedules 1927

NM4/B/A2/33 Circuit reports and schedules 1928

NM4/B/A2/34 Circuit reports and schedules 1929

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NM4/B/A2/35 Circuit reports and schedules 1930

NM4/B/A2/36 Circuit reports and schedules 1931

NM4/B/A2/37 Circuit reports and schedules 1932

CIRCUIT PLANS (NM4/B/A3)

NM4/B/A3/1 Circuit plan 1863

NM4/B/A3/2 Circuit plan 1866

NM4/B/A3/3 Circuit plan 1869

NM4/B/A3/4 Circuit plan Apr-Jul/1878

NM4/B/A3/5 Circuit plan Jul-Oct/1878

NM4/B/A3/6 Circuit plan 1879

NM4/B/A3/7 Circuit plan 1890

NM4/B/A3/8 Circuit plan Apr- Jun/1899

NM4/B/A3/9 Circuit plan Jul- Sep/1899

TRUST DEEDS (NM4/B/D) consisting of memoranda of choice and appointments of new trustees to chapels, and giving names, residences, occupations, and causes of ceasing to be a trustee

NM4/B/D/1-3 Memoranda of Choice and Appointments of New 1906-1927 Trustees for the following places: Brailes, 1906, 1927; Hornton, 1926.

MISSIONARY ACCOUNTS (NM4/B/F1)

NM4/B/F1/1 Missionary account book Nov/1895- Feb/1911

SOUVENIR HANDBOOK (NM4/B/PR)

NM4/B/PR/1 Brinkworth and Swindon District Synod Souvenir 1932 handbook

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BANBURY METHODIST CIRCUIT (POST-1932) (NM4/C) In 1986 this consisted of chapels in Banbury (Marlborough Road), Hornton, Brailes, Easington, Grimsbury, Adderbury, Balscote, Wroxton, Hinton, Warmington, Kings Sutton, Chacombe, Farthinghoe, Greatworth, Ruscote, Neithrop, Bodicote, Bloxham, Middleton Cheney, Cropredy, Chipping Warden, Upper Boddington, Great Bourton, Byfield, Eydon, and Hailey.

PLANS AND DIRECTORIES (NM4/C/A1)

NM4/C/A1/1 Circuit plans and directories 1934-1974 8 items

SCHEDULES OF CHAPEL AND TRUST PROPERTY (NM4/C/A2)

NM4/C/A2/1 Circuit Property Schedules' book Mar/1934- Mar/1946

NM4/C/A2/2 Circuit Property Schedules' book Mar/1947- Mar/1956

NM4/C/A2/3 Circuit Property Schedules' book Mar/1957- Mar/1966

NM4/C/A2/4 Circuit Property Schedules' book 1965-1973

BANBURY TEMPERANCE GUILD MINUTES (NM4/C/A3) The Guild was established in February 1924

NM4/C/A3/1 Banbury Temperance Guild minute book 1934-1950 at the front is a copy of the guild's constitution, at the back are names, addresses and denomination of members, 1944.

PROPERTY COMMITTEE MINUTES (NM4/C/A4)

NM4/C/A4/1 Property Committee minute book Nov/1975- Nov/1994

METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY WOMEN'S WORK MINUTES (NM4/C/A5)

NM4/C/A5/1 Women's Work Meetings' minute book Nov/1934- at the front is a list of officers and committee members Dec/1935

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NM4/C/A5/2 Women's Work Meetings' (Banbury Branch) minute May/1935- book Sep/1938 at the front is a list of officers of the committee, at the back are details of Easter offerings for individual chapels

NM4/C/A5/3 Women's Work Committee minute book Jul/1938- Jun/1941

NM4/C/A5/4 Women's Work Committee and Open Meetings' Dec/1942- minute book Jun/1945 at the back is a list of officers and members

NM4/C/A5/5 Women's Work Meetings' (Banbury Branch) minute Oct/1948- book Jan/1952

NM4/C/A5/6 Women's Work Meetings' minute book Jan/1952- Mar/1958

NM4/C/A5/7 Women's Work Meetings' minute book Mar/1958- Mar/1972

CIRCUIT QUARTERLY MEETING MINUTES (NM4/C/A6)

NM4/C/A6/1 Quarterly Meeting minute book Mar/1964- Feb/1989

CIRCUIT RECORDS BOOKS (NM4/C/A7)

NM4/C/A7/1 Circuit record book 1962-1971

NM4/C/A7/2 Circuit record book 1972-1975

LOCAL PREACHERS TRAVELLING FUND COMMITTEE MINUTES (NM4/C/A8)

NM4/C/A8/1 Local Preachers Travelling Fund Committee minute 1953-1956 book

OVERSEAS MISSIONS COMMITTEE MINUTES (NM4/C/A9)

NM4/C/A9/1 Overseas Missions Committee minute book 1965-1990

NM4/C/A9/2 Overseas Missions Committee minute book 1990-1995

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CIRCUIT MINISTERIES COMMITTEE (NM4/C/A10)

NM4/C/A10/1 Circuit Ministeries Committee loose minutes 1977-1981

MEMBERSHIP RETURNS (NM4/C/A11)

NM4/C/A11/1 Membership returns 1972-1983

BANBURY AND DISTRICT CLERGY AND MINISTERS ASSOCIATION MINUTES (NM4/C/A12)

NM4/C/A12/1 Banbury and District Clergy and Ministers 1933-1953 Association minute book

NM4/C/A12/2 Banbury and District Clergy and Ministers 1955-1961 Association minute book

BANBURY AND DISTRICT CHURCH MINISTERS FRATERNAL MINUTES (NM4/C/A13)

NM4/C/A13/1 Banbury and District Church Ministers Fraternal 1935-1948 minute book

NM4/C/A13/2 Banbury and District Church Ministers Fraternal 1949-1956 minute book

NM4/C/A13/3 Banbury and District Church Ministers Fraternal 1957-1973 minute book

BANBURY FREE CHURCH FEDERAL COUNCIL MINUTES (NM4/C/A14)

NM4/C/A14/1 Free Church Federal Council minute book 1954-1968

REVIEW OF THE STATE OF THE WORK OF GOD IN THE CIRCUIT COMMITTEE MINUTES (NM4/C/A15)

NM4/C/A15/1 State of the Work of God in the Circuit Committee May/1963- minute book Apr/1995

CIRCUIT YOUTH COUNCIL MINUTES (NM4/C/A16)

NM4/C/A16/1 Circuit Youth Council minute book Feb/1960- Mar/1995

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CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/C/C1)

NM4/C/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the sale and purchase 1964-1966 of a circuit manse the sale of 44 South Bar and the purchase of 6 Kingsway

TRUST DEEDS (NM4/C/D) consisting of memoranda of choice and appointments of new trustees to chapels, and giving names, residences, occupations, and causes of ceasing to be a trustee

NM4/C/D/1-36 Memoranda of Choice and Appointments of New 1934-1973 Trustee for the following places: Adderbury, 1943, 1962; Balscote, 1935, 1959, 1969; Banbury, 1936, 1954; Bloxham, 1940, 1955, 1971; Bodicote, 1948, 1967; Brailes, 1947, 1963; Chacombe, 1939, 1973; Chipping Warden, 1952; Easington, 1952, 1972; Greatworth, 1956; Grimsbury, 1937, 1962; Hinton, 1941, 1952; Hornton, 1954; Middleton Cheney, 1934, 1953, 1973; Neithrop, 1949, 1950; Upper Boddington, 1937, 1963; Warmington, 1942, 1967; Wroxton, 1959.

CIRCUIT ACCOUNTS (NM4/C/F1)

NM4/C/F1/1 Circuit account book 1942-1977 This book contains information also found in MN4/C/F1/2-3

NM4/C/F1/2 Circuit account book 1943-1953

NM4/C/F1/3 Circuit account book 1953-1969

NM4/C/F1/4 Circuit account book 1972-1986

CHAPELS INVESTMENTS ACCOUNTS (NM4/C/F2)

NM4/C/F2/1 Chapels Investment account book 1894-1951 also board of trustees deeds and investments and annual accounts for manses. See NM4/C/F3/1 for further Manse accounts

MANSES TRUSTEES ACCOUNTS (NM4/C/F3)

NM4/C/F3/1 Manses Trustees account book 1951-1972

CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP ACCOUNTS (NM4/C/F4)

NM4/C/F4/1 Christian Citizenship account book 1964-1978

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later a division of Social Responsibility CONNEXIONAL FUNDS APPLICATIONS (NM4/C/F5)

NM4/C/F5/1 Application forms to the Connexional Funds for the 1955-1971 Home Mission Fund 12 items NM4/C/F6 CIRCUIT YOUTH COUNCIL ACCOUNTS 1944-1968

NM4/C/F6/1 Circuit Youth Council account book 1944-1968

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES (NM4/C/N1)

NM4/C/N1/1 Pamphlet of newscuttings n.d. entitled ''A Century of Methodism in the Banbury Circuit, 1836-1936'', including articles re Methodist amalgamation and a rally

NM4/C/N1/2-3 Newspaper cuttings re Methodist Missionary Society n.d. Women's Work Fayre

WOMEN'S WORK PUBLICITY PAPERS (NM4/C/N2)

NM4/C/N2/1 Programme for Mock Banquet Mar/1937

NM4/C/N2/2 Newspaper report of Women's Work Annual Meeting Feb/1946 in Banbury

NM4/C/N2/3-4 Notices of Summer Sales 1957-1962

NM4/C/N2/5 Centenary Commemoration Service programme 1958

NM4/C/N2/6 Programme for Women's Work Summer Sale Jul/1958 with account of garden sales, 1938/9

NM4/C/N2/7-9 Programmes for candlelight suppers 1962-1964

PHOTOGRAPHS (NM4/C/P)

NM4/C/P/1 Photograph of Circuit Local Preachers [c1955]

PRINTED MATERIAL (NM4/C/PR)

NM4/C/PR/1 Pamphlet for May Synod of Oxford and Gloucester May/1951 Methodist District held at Marlborough Road Church, Banbury

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ADDERBURY CHAPEL (NM4/1) The original chapel was built in 1810. The Wesleyans erected a later one in 1893 at East Adderbury, to seat 200 people

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/1/A1)

NM4/1/A1/1 Trustees minute book 1921-1945 including lists of the chapel trustees

NM4/1/A1/2 Trustees minute book 1945-1974

NM4/1/A1/3 Trustees minute book 1945-1974

LEADERS' AND CHURCH COUNCIL MINUTES (NM4/1/A2)

NM4/1/A2/1 Leaders Meetings minute book Jan/1948- Oct/1973

NM4/1/A2/2 Church Council minute book Sep/1974- Oct/1987

NM4/1/A2/3 Church Council minute book Feb/1988- Mar/2006

WOMENS MEETING MINUTES (NM4/1/A3)

NM4/1/A3/1 Womens Meeting minute book Nov/1960- Nov/1983

CHOIR REGISTERS (NM4/1/A4)

NM4/1/A4/1 Choir register 1914-1919

PULPIT NOTICES (NM4/1/A5)

NM4/1/A5/1 Pulpit notice book 1950-1954

NM4/1/A5/2 Pulpit notice book 1961-1962

NM4/1/A5/3 Pulpit notice book 1962-1963

NM4/1/A5/4 Pulpit notice book 1963-1965

NM4/1/A5/5 Pulpit notice book 1966-1969

NM4/1/A5/6 Pulpit notice book 1969-1972

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NM4/1/A5/7 Pulpit notice book 1972-1976

NM4/1/A5/8 Pulpit notice book 1976-1979

NM4/1/A5/9 Pulpit notice book 1979-1982

NM4/1/A5/10 Pulpit notice book 1982-1984

NM4/1/A5/11 Pulpit notice book 1984-1988

NM4/1/A5/12 Pulpit notice book 1988-1990

NM4/1/A5/13 Pulpit notice book 1990-1993

NM4/1/A5/14 Pulpit notice book 1993-1996

NM4/1/A5/15 Pulpit notice book 1996-2000

NM4/1/A5/16 Pulpit notice book 2000-2003

NM4/1/A5/17 Pulpit notice book 2003-2006

CLASS BOOKS (NM4/1/A6)

NM4/1/A6/1 Class book 1962-1965

SUNDAY SCHOOL COUNCIL MINUTES (NM4/1/A7)

NM4/1/A7/1 Sunday School Council minute book Nov/1935- Jan/1967

SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE REGISTERS (NM4/1/A8)

NM4/1/A8/1 Sunday School Attendance register 1927-1936

NM4/1/A8/2 Sunday School Attendance register 1951-1962

NM4/1/A8/3 Sunday School Attendance register 1963-1977

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/1/C1)

NM4/1/C1/1 General correspondence file 1961-1986 including letters re bequests, building work, subscriptions, Chapel Trust, organ tuning, circuit meetings, and accounts

NM4/1/C1/2 Correspondence file re church building and 27/Jan/1975-

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decorating work 15/May/1975 CHAPEL TRUSTEES ACCOUNTS (NM4/1/F1)

NM4/1/F1/1 Chapel account book 1810-1835 with three loose receipts

NM4/1/F1/2 Trustees account book 1873-1892

NM4/1/F1/3 Trustees account book 1892-1970

NM4/1/F1/4 Trustees account book 1970-1974

NM4/1/F1/5 Church account book 1974-1984

TRUSTEES CASH BOOKS (NM4/1/F2)

NM4/1/F2/1 Trustees Cash book 1935-1971

SOCIETY STEWARDS ACCOUNTS (NM4/1/F3)

NM4/1/F3/1 Society Steward account book 1970-1975

STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNTS (NM4/1/F4)

NM4/1/F4/1 Annual summaries of accounts 1970-1986

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/1/F5)

NM4/1/F5/1 Collection journal 1904-1913

NM4/1/F5/2 Collection journal 1913-1921

NM4/1/F5/3 Collection journal 1929-1937

NM4/1/F5/4 Collection journal 1938-1949

NM4/1/F5/5 Collection journal 1949-1961

NM4/1/F5/6 Collection journal 1962-1974

NM4/1/F5/7 Collection journal 1974-1985

NM4/1/F5/8 Collection journal 1985-1997

SUNDAY SCHOOL ACCOUNTS (NM4/1/F6)

NM4/1/F6/1 Sunday School bank account book 1966-1982

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BANBURY (MARLBOROUGH ROAD) WESLEYAN (NM4/2) As early as 1791 premises were being used by Wesleyan Methodists in Banbury. A chapel was planned in 1863 and opened on 9 May 1865. Members of this congregation led the Calthorpe Street Mission, whose Hall was in use from 1904 to 1931, when it was sold.

BAPTISM REGISTERS (NM4/2/R1)

NM4/2/R1/1 Register of baptisms Dec/1883- Jan/1905

NM4/2/R1/2 Register of baptisms Feb/1905- Apr/1941

NM4/2/R1/3 Register of baptisms Jul/1941- Jul/1972

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/2/R2)

NM4/2/R2/1 Certificate of Registration of a chapel in Church 17/Dec/1818 Lane, Banbury as a place of religious worship

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/2/A1)

NM4/2/A1/1 Trustees' minute book Feb/1813- Feb/1845

NM4/2/A1/2 Trustees' minute book 1848-1914 covering the winding up of the Church Lane Chapel and the building of the Marlborough Road church; includes two letters attached to front cover re appointment of organist & choirmaster, 1891, & appointment of Trust secretary, 1908.

NM4/2/A1/3 Trustees' minute book Oct/1914- Apr/1953

NM4/2/A1/4 Trustees' minute book 1954-1970 at the front are names and addresses of trustees, at the back are loose sheets of statements of accounts, 1961- 69.

NM4/2/A1/5 Trustees' minute book Aug/1970- known as Property Committee from Sept. 1977, Property Oct/1990 & Finance from Oct. 1986

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LEADERS' AND CHURCH COUNCIL MINUTES (NM4/2/A2)

NM4/2/A2/1 Leaders' and Stewards' Meetings' minute book Jan/1881- Aug/1895

NM4/2/A2/2 Leaders' Meetings' minute book Sep/1895- at the front are names of ministers and leaders Sep/1918

NM4/2/A2/3 Leaders' and Society Meetings' minute book Sep/1949- Dec/1971

NM4/2/A2/4 Leaders' and Trustees' Meetings' minute book Jul/1971- Feb/1972

NM4/2/A2/5 Leaders' Meetings' minute book Feb/1972- known as Church Council from 1974 Apr/1982 NM4/2/A2/6 Church Council and Church Meetings' minute book Jun/1982- Nov/1987

SUNDAY SCHOOL PUPILS' ATTENDANCE REGISTERS/ROLL BOOKS (NM4/2/A3)

NM4/2/A3/1 Writing School Attendance register 1840-1851 containing names of children and cash accounts; at the back are details of sums paid for pens, ink & books.

NM4/2/A3/2-27 Boys' Classes' Attendance registers 1881-1928

NM4/2/A3/28-51 Girls' Classes' Attendance registers 1881-1907

NM4/2/A3/52-53 Registers of Attendance, lessons & marks Jul/1883- (Girls' Class D, Boys' Class E) Sep/1893

NM4/2/A3/54 Scholars' roll book Apr/1889- Sep/1898

NM4/2/A3/55-61 Scholars' roll books Oct/1891- (Girls' Classes A, B,C & D) Dec/1933

NM4/2/A3/62 Scholars' roll book Feb/1892- (Boys' Class F) Mar/1905

NM4/2/A3/63 Scholars' roll book Jan/1893- (Boys' Class G) Mar/1907

NM4/2/A3/64 Scholars' rolls Sep/1898- (Boys' Class LR) Mar/1906

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NM4/2/A3/65 Scholars' roll book 1926-1940 (Boys' Class E)

NM4/2/A3/66-67 Annual Attendance registers for Primary classes 1926-1945 (Boys & Girls)

NM4/2/A3/68-69 Attendance registers for Beginners' classes 1927-1948

NM4/2/A3/70 Attendance register for Girls' classes 1929-1937

NM4/2/A3/71 Summary of attendance for Primary classes [c1930]

NM4/2/A3/72 Attendance register for Primary classes 1946-1948 at the back of which is a register of teachers

NM4/2/A3/73 Attendance register for Primary and Beginners' 1946-1953 classes

NM4/2/A3/74 Attendance register for Primary and Beginners' Jan/1949- classes Dec/1954

NM4/2/A3/75 Attendance register for Primary and Beginners' 1955-1957 classes

NM4/2/A3/76 Attendance register for Primary and Beginners' Jan/1958- classes Sep/1961

NM4/2/A3/77-88 Group Attendance registers for Junior classes 1969-1972

NM4/2/A3/89 Attendance register for class E 1893-1905

NM4/2/A3/90 Attendance register for class E 1906-1924

SUNDAY SCHOOL MINUTES (NM4/2/A4) comprising committee and teachers' meetings

NM4/2/A4/1 Sunday School Committee minute book Feb/1847- Mar/1894

NM4/2/A4/2 Sunday School minute book 1866-1881 including Quarterly Meeting reports and Monthly Prayer Meeting reports

NM4/2/A4/3 Sunday School Teachers' minutebook Apr/1881- Jul/1894

NM4/2/A4/4 Sunday School Teachers' minute book Nov/1894- Nov/1913

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NM4/2/A4/5 Sunday School Council minute book 1914-1931

SUNDAY SCHOOL ADMISSIONS' REGISTERS (NM4/2/A5)

NM4/2/A5/1 Sunday School receiving book Jan/1809- containing date of entry, name of pupil, residence, and Aug/1841 remarks

NM4/2/A5/2 Sunday School receiving book Nov/1846- Mar/1859

NM4/2/A5/3 Minute and Admissions' book of Boys, Girls and Jan/1860- Teachers Jun/1861

NM4/2/A5/4 Minute and admissions' book of Boys, Girls and Jul/1861- Teachers Nov/1862 NM4/2/A5/5 Minute and Admissions' book of Boys, Girls and Nov/1862- Teachers Apr/1864

NM4/2/A5/6 Minute and Admissions' book of Boys, Girls and May/1864- Teachers Jul/1865

NM4/2/A5/7 Minute and Admissions' book of Boys, Girls and Aug/1865- Teachers Mar/1867 on the front cover is a teachers' plan, 1867.

NM4/2/A5/8 Admissions' book Mar/1859- giving date, name and age of scholar, parents' names, Aug/1867 residence, and remarks

NM4/2/A5/9 Sunday School Girls' admissions' register Jul/1864- with index Nov/1896

NM4/2/A5/10 Sunday School Boys' admissions' register Aug/1866- with index Nov/1896

NM4/2/A5/11 Sunday School admissions' book Jul/1867- Dec/1873

NM4/2/A5/12 Sunday School admissions' book Jan/1874- Apr/1883

NM4/2/A5/13 Sunday School register of admissions of Girls 1878-1912 giving name of pupil, address, date of admission, age, date of leaving.

NM4/2/A5/14 Sunday School register of admissions of Boys 1884-1912

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giving name of pupil, address, age, date of leaving. NM4/2/A5/15 Admissions' book May/1888- Aug/1919

NM4/2/A5/16 Sunday School register of admissions of Girls c1916 containing names & addresses, dates of birth, details of previous school, class & department name, school to which pupils transferred and the date.

NM4/2/A5/17 Sunday School admissions' register (Boys) 1913-1929

SUNDAY SCHOOL SCRAPBOOK AND LISTS OF SCHOLARS (NM4/2/A6)

NM4/2/A6/1 Alphabetical list of Sunday School scholars 1867-1881 (Boys & Girls)

NM4/2/A6/2 Sunday School scrapbook 1881-1916 listing names of teachers and pupils; also notes about departures

NM4/2/A6/3 Alphabetical list of Girls at the Sunday School n.d.

NM4/2/A6/4 Alphabetical list of Boys at the Sunday School n.d.

SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS' ATTENDANCE REGISTERS (NM4/2/A7) These list all teachers, with details of their date of appointment and attendance record and some reasons for absence or change

NM4/2/A7/1 Attendance register for Boys' Teachers Jul/1840- Sep/1849

NM4/2/A7/2 Teachers' Attendance register Jan/1850- Apr/1857

NM4/2/A7/3 Attendance register for Boys' Teachers May/1857- Mar/1866

NM4/2/A7/4 Teachers' Attendance register Apr/1866- Jun/1872

NM4/2/A7/5 Teachers' Attendance register Jul/1872- Mar/1878

NM4/2/A7/6 Sunday School roll book Apr/1878- with teachers' plan on cover, 1884-5 Dec/1884

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NM4/2/A7/7 Sunday School Teachers' Attendance roll 1885-1888 NM4/2/A7/8 Teachers' roll book Oct/1888- Dec/1891

NM4/2/A7/9 Teachers' roll book Jan/1892- Mar/1895

NM4/2/A7/10 Teachers' roll book Apr/1895- Jun/1898

NM4/2/A7/11 Teachers' roll book Jul/1898- Mar/1902

NM4/2/A7/12 Teachers' roll book Apr/1902- Sep/1905

NM4/2/A7/13 Sunday School Teachers' Attendance roll Dec/1912- Aug/1916

NM4/2/A7/14 Teachers' Roll and register of attendance Sep/1916- Jun/1922

NM4/2/A7/15 Sunday School Teachers' attendance roll Jul/1922- Dec/1927

NM4/2/A7/16 Sunday School Teachers' attendance roll Jan/1928- containing printed notice of school rules. Jun/1933

NM4/2/A7/17 Sunday School Teachers' attendance roll Jul/1933- Dec/1938

NM4/2/A7/18 Teachers' roll book Jan/1939- Dec/1944

NM4/2/A7/19 Teachers' roll book Jan/1945- Dec/1950

NM4/2/A7/20 Teachers' roll book Jan/1951- Dec/1956

SUNDAY SCHOOL SUMMARIES AND JOURNALS OF ATTENDANCE (NM4/2/A8) These usually contain numbers of pupils and teachers attending, periodic statistical summaries and a few notes of events, such as church services and prize-givings

NM4/2/A8/1 Numbers of Teachers and Scholars minute book 1841-1843 at the back are minutes of teachers' quarterly meetings and monthly prayer meetings, 1841-3; also a list of

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names of scholars, March 1849. NM4/2/A8/2 Numbers and Attendance of Teachers & Scholars 1851-1856 minute book

NM4/2/A8/3 Numbers and Attendance of Teachers & Scholars 1856-1859 minute book

NM4/2/A8/4 Numbers and Attendance of Teachers & Scholars 1860-1863 minute book

NM4/2/A8/5 Numbers and Attendance of Teachers & Scholars 1864-1871 minute book

NM4/2/A8/6 Numbers and Attendance of Teachers & Scholars 1871-1875 minute book NM4/2/A8/7 Sunday School minute book Oct/1875- Dec/1886

NM4/2/A8/8 Attendance minute book 1898-1910

NM4/2/A8/9 Summary and journal of attendance 1910-1919

NM4/2/A8/10 Summary and journal of attendance 1919-1929

NM4/2/A8/11 Summary and journal of attendance 1930-1938

NM4/2/A8/12 Summary and journal of attendance 1939-1943

NM4/2/A8/13 Summary and journal of attendance 1944-1948

NM4/2/A8/14 Summary and journal of attendance 1949-1953

NM4/2/A8/15 Summary and journal of attendance 1954-1958

NM4/2/A8/16 Summary and journal of attendance 1958-1961

NM4/2/A8/17 Summary and journal of attendance 1961-1966

SUNDAY SCHOOL REPORTS (NM4/2/A9)

NM4/2/A9/1 Sunday School reports 1861-1886 27 items

BAND OF HOPE ATTENDANCE REGISTERS (NM4/2/A10)

NM4/2/A10/1 Band of Hope attendance register 1903-1904

NM4/2/A10/2 Band of Hope attendance register 1912-1913

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LAYMAN'S LEAGUE MINUTES (NM4/2/A11)

NM4/2/A11/1 Layman's League minute book Mar/1917- loose at the front are a copy of the league's constitution Jan/1918 and pro-forma cards for prayer meetings and committee meetings

CHURCH VISITORS' BOOK (NM4/2/A12)

NM4/2/A12/1 Visitors' book 1957-1975

WESLEYAN GUILD MINUTES (NM4/2/A13)

NM4/2/A13/1 Wesleyan Guild minute book 1896-1899

NM4/2/A13/2 Wesleyan Guild minute book 1903-1910

NM4/2/A13/3 Wesleyan Guild minute book 1910-1919

NM4/2/A13/4 Wesleyan Guild Executive Committee and General Sep/1928- Meeting minute book Mar/1930

NM4/2/A13/5 Wesleyan Guild minute book 1930-1956

WESLEYAN GUILD ROLL BOOKS (NM4/2/A14)

NM4/2/A14/1 Wesleyan Guild Senior Branch roll book n.d. with names and addresses in alphabetical order

NM4/2/A14/2 Lists of Wesleyan Guild officers n.d. with resolution re games on church premises.

NM4/2/A14/3 Wesleyan Guild roll book 1955-1968

NM4/2/A14/4 Wesleyan Guild roll book 1968-1975

WESLEYAN GUILD SPORTS SECTION MINUTES (NM4/2/A15)

NM4/2/A15/1 Wesleyan Guild Sports Section minute book 1947 with loose minutes from 1952 and accounts from 1946- 1948

CALTHORPE STREET MISSION HALL MINUTES (NM4/2/A16)

NM4/2/A16/1 Calthorpe Street Mission Hall Quarterly Meeting Sub- Mar/1929- Committee minute book Nov/1931

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YOUNG DISCIPLES ROLL BOOKS (NM4/2/A17)

NM4/2/A17/1 Young Disciples' roll book 1928-1949 giving name, date of signing, birthday, and date received into membership

NM4/2/A17/2 Young Disciples' roll book 1953-1955

CHURCH REGISTER (NM4/2/A18)

NM4/2/A18/1 Church register membership roll 1968-1972 also for Neithrop and Ruscote

FINANCE COMMITTEE MINUTES (NM4/2/A19)

NM4/2/A19/1 Finance Committee minute book 1954-1968

NM4/2/A19/2 Finance Committee loose minutes 1980-1986

OUTREACH COMMITTEE MINUTES (NM4/2/A20) This Committee was formed by the merging of the Neighbourhood, World Service and Mission Committees

NM4/2/A20/1 Church neighbourhood Committee minute book 1974-1982

NM4/2/A20/2 World Service and Mission Committee loose minutes 1977-1985

NM4/2/A20/3 Outreach Committee minute book 1986-1995

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/2/C)

NM4/2/C/1 Letters to E.H.Sellers of Banbury Jun/1928- re chapel heating & glasing at Marlborough Road, Jun/1929 Banbury

TITLE DEEDS (NM4/2/D)

NM4/2/D/1 Bargain and Sale 01/Aug/1791 Parties: (1) Leonard Lidbrook of Knighcote, Warwicks., grasier, and James Ward the younger of Banbury, dyer (2) John Leech of Northampton, Minister, Daniel Heming of Banbury, carpenter, Robert Jeffs of Middleton Cheney, grazier, Samuel Bowman of Brackley, cordwainer, and Samuel Jakeman of Middleton Cheney, cordwainer [trustees] Property: Newly erected meeting house for religious worship in Banbury and piece of garden adjoining to the north, with use of pump and well at west

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end of the garden NM4/2/D/2 Authorisation to Trustees of Banbury Methodist 13/Aug/1811 Church for sale and rebuilding of new chapel (given by Methodist Conference)

NM4/2/D/3 Copy Agreement 01/Jul/1874 Parties: (1) William Mewburn of Wickham Park, near Banbury, Esq. (2) John Hearnshaw of Banbury, Minister of Gospel, Superintendent of Banbury Wesleyan Methodist Circuit (3) John Killy of Banbury, solicitor, & Edward James Payne of Banbury, grocer, Circuit Stewards (4) John Bedford of Charlton-cum-Hardy, Lancs., trustee re transfer of £1500 & £300 held in stocks to Board of Trustees for Chapel purposes for rent of three houses for Methodist ministers in Banbury.

NM4/2/D/4 Copy Agreement 01/Jul/1874 see previous document

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/2/F1) These give details of amounts collected at various services and the name of the minister conducting the service

NM4/2/F1/1 Collection Journal 1855-1891

NM4/2/F1/2 Collection Journal Jul/1876- Nov/1890

NM4/2/F1/3 Collection Journal Nov/1890- Apr/1895

NM4/2/F1/4 Collection Journal Apr/1895- Jul/1900

NM4/2/F1/5 Collection Journal Jul/1900- Dec/1905

NM4/2/F1/6 Collection Journal Jan/1906- Mar/1911

NM4/2/F1/7 Collection Journal Oct/1920- Jan/1937

NM4/2/F1/8 Collection Journal May/1937- Jul/1946

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NM4/2/F1/9 Collection Journal Jul/1946- Aug/1957

NM4/2/F1/10 Collection Journal Aug/1957- Aug/1969

NM4/2/F1/11 Collection Journal Aug/1969- Feb/1982

TRUSTEES' ACCOUNTS (NM4/2/F2)

NM4/2/F2/1 Trustees' Treasurer's account book 1919-1996

NM4/2/F2/2 Trustees Treasurers account book 1958-1975

NM4/2/F2/3 Trustees Income account book 1975-1984

NM4/2/F2/4 Trustees Expenditure account book 1975-1984

NM4/2/F2/5 Trustees Income account book 1984-1996

NM4/2/F2/6 Trustees Expenditure account book 1984-1996

SOCIETY STEWARDS ACCOUNTS (NM4/2/F3)

NM4/2/F3/1 Society Stewards' account book Mar/1873- Sep/1880

NM4/2/F3/2 Society Stewards' account book 1914-1953 containing monthly accounts and comparative figures for collections

NM4/2/F3/3 Society Stewards' account book 1953-1976

POOR FUND ACCOUNTS (NM4/2/F4)

NM4/2/F4/1 Poor Fund account book 1893-1993 with communion accounts

CHAPEL OFFERTORY ACCOUNTS (NM4/2/F5)

NM4/2/F5/1 Chapel Offertory account bank book Aug/1916- Apr/1923

NM4/2/F5/2 Chapel Offertory account book Jan/1931- Dec/1938

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WESLEY GUILD ACCOUNTS (NM4/2/F6) also lists of officers

NM4/2/F6/1 Wesley Guild account book 1897-1918 entitled Treasurer's Book

CALTHORPE STREET MISSION HALL TRUST ACCOUNTS (NM4/2/F7)

NM4/2/F7/1 Bundle of papers re building Neithrop Mission Hall 1887-1888 including application form, bills & receipts, and Wesleyan Chapel Committee sanction

NM4/2/F7/2 Mission Hall Trust accounts 1904-1931 including bank statement of new hall account and details of subscriptions of workers.

WOMEN'S CIRCLE ACCOUNTS (NM4/2/F8)

NM4/2/F8/1 Women's Circle balances of accounts 1940-1977

NM4/2/F8/2 Women's Circle cash book Jan/1941- Jan/1948

NM4/2/F8/3 Women's Circle accounts Feb/1946- 5 items Jun/1979

NM4/2/F8/4 Women's Circle account book Jan/1948- Dec/1961

NM4/2/F8/5 Women's Circle account book Jan/1962- Dec/1973

NM4/2/F8/6 Women's Circle account book Jan/1974- May/1979

SUNDAY SCHOOL ACCOUNTS (NM4/2/F9)

NM4/2/F9/1 Sunday School account book Nov/1840- Jan/1881

NM4/2/F9/2 Sunday School Festival accounts 1885

NM4/2/F9/3 Sunday School Festival accounts 1886

NM4/2/F9/4 Sunday School Festival accounts 1888

NM4/2/F9/5 Sunday School Festival accounts 1889

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NM4/2/F9/6 Sunday School Festival accounts 1890

NM4/2/F9/7 Sunday School Festival accounts 1892

NM4/2/F9/8 Sunday School Festival accounts 1893

JUVENILE MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION SECRETARY'S CASH BOOKS (NM4/2/F10) including names of collectors

NM4/2/F10/1-6 Secretary's cash books 1873

NM4/2/F10/7-15 Secretary's cash books 1874

NM4/2/F10/16-25 Secretary's cash books 1875

NM4/2/F10/26-33 Secretary's cash books 1876

NM4/2/F10/34-37 Secretary's cash books 1877

NM4/2/F10/38-45 Secretary's cash books 1878

CASH BOOKS (NM4/2/F11)

NM4/2/F11/1 Pew Rents' cash book Apr/1865- at the back are details of receipts and expenditure, 1865- Dec/1884 1882

NM4/2/F11/2 Collections' cash book Nov/1874- Dec/1891

NOTES OF PREACHERS AND TEXTS (NM4/2/MS1)

NM4/2/MS1/1 List of Preachers and texts for services 1897-1903 (probably taken at Marlborough Road) gives some dates of death of preachers

SOLDIER LISTS (NM4/2/MS2)

NM4/2/MS2/1 List of Soldiers serving in World War I [c1918] giving address, regiment and rank

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES (NM4/2/N1)

NM4/2/N1/1 Copy of The Gospel Herald [c1955] containing an article on Phil Gunter of Portsmouth FC, chairman at Marlborough Road Sunday School Anniversary

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NM4/2/N1/2 Newspaper cutting re a Christmas Carol Concert 16/Dec/1954

NM4/2/N1/3 Newspaper report of televising of morning service at Aug/1964 Marlborough Road

NM4/2/N1/4 Church at Home news sheet and reports 18/May/1965

ORDERS AND NOTICES OF SERVICES (NM4/2/N2)

NM4/2/N2/1 Notice of service 27/Oct/1891 for Centenary of death of John Wesley and establishment of Methodism in Banbury.

NM4/2/N2/2 Order of service 11/Jan/1921 for unveiling of stained window & tablet in memory of the dead of World War I

NM4/2/N2/3 Order of service 07/Jun/1953 for Civic Sunday

NM4/2/N2/4 Order of service 13/Sep/1975 for re-opening of church after re-construction

NEWSLETTERS (NM4/2/N3)

NM4/2/N3/1 Ruscote Methodist Church Quarterly newsletter Dec/1958

PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRINTS (NM4/2/P)

NM4/2/P/1 Print of John Wesley preaching at a Market Cross [c1900] printed by W.Hatherell; the print is signed George H.McNeal

PRINTED BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS (NM4/2/PR)

NM4/2/PR/1 Ruscote Methodist Church year book 1957-1958

NM4/2/PR/2 One Hundred And Fifty Years of Sunday School Jun/1958 Work booklet

NM4/2/PR/3 Pamphlet entitled The Fairway Methodist Church, Sep/1997 1957-1997 diary reminiscences of Rev.Ernest N. Goodridge, First Minister to the Fairway

NM4/2/PR/4 New School Rooms Order of Service 8/May/1883

NM4/2/PR/5 A Century and a Quarter of Sunday School Work Jun/1933

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booklet PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS (NM4/2/Y1)

NM4/2/Y1/1 Sketch of the interior elevations of the church Oct/1970

NM4/2/Y1/2 Plans and sections of the modernisation and Oct/1970 alteration to the church

NM4/2/Y1/3 Plan and elevations of the proposed modernisation n.d. of the church

NM4/2/Y1/4 Plan of a proposed extension to the church Nov/1979

NM4/2/Y1/5 Plan and elevations of proposed extension to the Jan/1980 church

NM4/2/Y1/6 Plan of the proposed alteration to the church n.d. entrance

NM4/2/Y1/7 Existing plans of Chapel House, Marlborough Road, n.d. Banbury

NM4/2/Y1/8 Plans of proposed alterations to Chapel House, n.d. Marlborough Road

NM4/2/Y1/9 Specification for the work to be done on Chapel n.d. House, Marlborough Road

BANBURY WESLEYAN SCHOOLS (NM4/2A) In 1900 the Board of Education closed Crouch Street British Schools (which had been founded in 1839) in Banbury, so to accommodate more than 500 children, the Wesleyans built an undenominational school instead, and in 1902 opened the Dashwood Road Schools. In 1905 the schools became controlled by Banbury Borough Council, which had become the Local Education Authority for the town in 1902

SCHOOL RETURNS AND REPORTS (NM4/2A/A1)

NM4/2A/A1/1 Abstract of returns Jul/1897 from Elementary Schools in Banbury, including Grimsbury Wesleyan

NM4/2A/A1/2 Inspector's reports for Banbury British School 1900

NM4/2A/A1/3-5 Inspector's reports for Banbury Crouch Street 1901-1903

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School NM4/2A/A1/6-8 Returns for Crouch Street Wesleyan School 1901-1903

NM4/2A/A1/9 Inspector's report and annual grant Apr/1904

NM4/2A/A1/10 School return 1904

NM4/2A/A1/11 Copy Inspector's reports Jan/1905

NM4/2A/A1/12 Return for Dashwood Road Wesleyan School 1905

ORDERS AND SCHEMES (NM4/2A/A2)

NM4/2A/A2/1 Application to Board of Education 11/Mar/1903 for an Order to appoint managers for Dashwood Road School

NM4/2A/A2/2 Draft Order of Board of Education 25/Apr/1903 re Wesleyan Methodist schools

NM4/2A/A2/3 Scheme for Education Committee in Banbury 25/Apr/1903 Borough

SCHOOL MANAGERS' MINUTES (NM4/2A/A3)

NM4/2A/A3/1 Managers' minute book Jun/1903- Nov/1905

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/2A/C)

NM4/2A/C/1 Bundle of letters and copy letters 1899-1901 re new Wesleyan School in Banbury

NM4/2A/C/2 Correspondence with Wesleyan Training College Oct/1899- re grant aid and erection of New School, Crouch Street Jan/1903

NM4/2A/C/3 Correspondence re proposed school buildings for Nov/1899- Crouch Street Aug/1903 and Wesleyan Day Schools

NM4/2A/C/4 Bundle of correspondence and circulars Nov/1899- re erection of new Grimsbury Wesleyan school Jul/1901

NM4/2A/C/5 Bundle of papers of London and South East Dec/1899- Wesleyan Association Sep/1903 consisting of correspondence, circulars and statements re grant for repairs to Crouch Street School

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NM4/2A/C/6 Letter to Board of Education re transfer of Crouch 09/May/1900 Street School accounts to new managers; also a balance sheet

NM4/2A/C/7 Board of Education letters Feb/1901- re erection of New Wesleyan School, Banbury Sep/1901

NM4/2A/C/8 Letters and receipt re building contracts Nov/1901- Nov/1905

NM4/2A/C/9 Correspondence with Great Western Railway Apr/1902- Company Dec/1902 re appeal for new Wesleyan Day Schools, Crouch Street, and with Board of Education re behaviour of pupil and rent for buildings in Dashwood Road

NM4/2A/C/10 Bundle of Letters and other Board of Education 1902-1905 papers re school finances and grant 18 items

NM4/2A/C/11 Letters re visit of Duchess of Marlborough to open a May/1903- school fair Sep/1903 and re Wesleyan Day School 3 items

NM4/2A/C/12 Letters from Board of Education Jun/1903- re accommodation in Crouch Street Wesleyan School Aug/1903 and new school in Dashwood Road 2 items

NM4/2A/C/13 Letter from Chairman of Dashwood Road Day School 21/Sep/1903 Trustees to Town Clerk of Banbury re selling schools to the Borough

NM4/2A/C/14 Bundle of minister's correspondence Sep/1918- with solicitors and Wesleyan Chapel Committee re sale Jan/1920 of property in Dashwood Road, Banbury

DEEDS AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS (NM4/2A/D) mainly relating to sale and erection of school lands and buildings

NM4/2A/D/1 Attested copy consent 21/May/1901 of adjoining owners for erection of a Wesleyan Day School on the Paddock

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NM4/2A/D/2 Copy conditions of sale c1901 for freehold building plots for Dashwood Road Schools

NM4/2A/D/3 Applications to Chapel Committee Jan/1902- for erection of Day School buildings and for sale of Jan/1904 property in Dashwood Road, Neithrop; also sanction to erect classroom

NM4/2A/D/4 Sale particulars 29/Apr/1903 of building sites in Dashwood Road, Banbury

NM4/2A/D/5 Duplicate conveyance 13/Dec/1905 Parties: (1) Horace Austen of Adderbury, gent., and other trustees (2) Mayor, Alderman & Burgesses of Banbury Property: Plot of land in Calthorpe, Banbury, on north side of Dashwood Road, and the Dashwood Road Wesleyan Schools lately erected by the vendors. Consideration: £6,962 Comments: plan of property on the deed.

STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNTS (NM4/2A/F1)

NM4/2A/F1/1 Statements of accounts 1899-1907 re sale of the Hollies & The Tennis Ground in Banbury, with letter to minister of Marlborough Road Chapel & School 3 items

NM4/2A/F1/2 Statement of accounts for Crouch Street Wesleyan Mar/1900- School; with two letters May/1900

NM4/2A/F1/3 Solicitors' accounts with Marlborough Road 1916-1920 Wesleyan Chapel Trustees re land at Dashwood Road 4 items

BILLS AND RECEIPTS (NM4/2A/F2)

NM4/2A/F2/1 School receipts for salary, rates and goods 1900-1901 87 items

NM4/2A/F2/2 Bundle of bills and receipts for goods and stationery 1901-1902 at Banbury Wesleyan School

NM4/2A/F2/3 Bundle of bills and receipts 1901-1902 re Crouch Street School

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NM4/2A/F2/4 Miscellaneous bills and receipts 1901-1902 for Crouch Street & Banbury Wesleyan Schools

NM4/2A/F2/5 Bundle of bills receipts and accounts 1901-1903 of Crouch Street Wesleyan Day School

NM4/2A/F2/6 Accounts of Crouch Street Schools 1901

NM4/2A/F2/7 Scale of salaries for Teachers Nov/1903 issued by Banbury Borough Education Committee

CASH BOOKS (NM4/2A/F3)

NM4/2A/F3/1 Crouch Street School Treasurer's cash book 1900-1904

SUBSCRIPTIONS LISTS (NM4/2A/F4)

NM4/2A/F4/1 Appeal to Ratepayers on behalf of New Wesleyan n.d. Day Schools being erected in Dashwood Road/Marlborough Place, with a list of subscriptions 4 items

BANK BOOKS (NM4/2A/F5)

NM4/2A/F5/1 Day School bank book Feb/1900- Jul/1901

NM4/2A/F5/2 Building Fund bank book Nov/1901- Jul/1907

ACCOUNT BOOKS (NM4/2A/F6)

NM4/2A/F6/1 Clerk of Works' account book Oct/1901- May/1903

NM4/2A/F6/2 Receipt book for stone-laying donations Nov/1901

NOTICES (NM4/2A/N)

NM4/2A/N/1 Notice and programme for opening of new Day 09/Sep/1902 Schools in Dashwood Road

BUILDING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS (NM4/2A/Y)

NM4/2A/Y/1 Plan of lands and lots on Dashwood Road, Banbury [1882]-[]

NM4/2A/Y/2 Specification and estimates for erection of new Apr/1882

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Wesleyan Schools BANBURY (CHURCH LANE) PRIMITIVE CHAPEL (NM4/3) The Primitive Methodists bought this chapel from the Wesleyans in 1865. Renovations were carried out in 1920. After Methodist Union in 1932 the chapel continued to be used for another 15 years

MARRIAGE REGISTERS (NM4/3/R1)

NM4/3/R1/1 Register of marriages 1924-1933

NM4/3/R1/2 Register of marriages 1934-1941 at the back is a note about the chapel ceasing to be used as a place of worship

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/3/R2)

NM4/3/R2/1 Certificate of registration 26/Sep/1863 of chapel in Broad Street, Banbury, as a place of worship

NM4/3/R2/2 Certificate of registration 25/Sep/1865 of chapel at Church Lane, Banbury, as a place of religious worship

NM4/3/R2/3 Certificate of registration 24/Oct/1865 of chapel at Church Lane, Banbury, as a place of worship

BAZAAR COMMITTEE MINUTES (NM4/3/A1)

NM4/3/A1/1 Bazaar General Arrangement Committee minute 1933-1935 book

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/3/C)

NM4/3/C/1 Correspondence about the closure of the chapel 1946-1949

NM4/3/C/2 Correspondence with Connexional Property Aug/1996- Committee Dec/1997 re relaxing of restrictive covenant on 35-37 Church Lane, Banbury; includes a xerox of conveyance dated 11 June 1947

CHAPEL ACCOUNTS (NM4/3/F1)

NM4/3/F1/1 Chapel account book 1917-1937

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CASH BOOKS (NM4/3/F2)

NM4/3/F2/1 Chapel cash book Mar/1895- Aug/1947

NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS (NM4/3/N)

NM4/3/N/1 Newspaper cutting entitled The Spirit of the Old 1923 Chapel: An Incident at Banbury by James Griffen, old scholar at Banbury Primitive Methodist School.

BLOXHAM CHAPEL (NM4/4) The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel in the village in 1868

MINUTES (NM4/4/A1)

NM4/4/A1/1 Minute book Dec/1985- Mar/2006

ACCOUNTS (NM4/4/F1)

NM4/4/F1/1 Account book May/1868- Dec/1959

NEWSLETTERS (NM4/4/N1)

NM4/4/N1/1 Quarterly newsletter Sep/1956

ORDERS OF SERVICE (NM4/4/N2)

NM4/4/N2/1 Order of Centenary service 13/May/1968

LOWER BODDINGTON CHAPEL (NM4/5) The first Wesleyan chapel in this Northamptonshire village was opened in 1836, then a new one was built in 1888. It was eventually sold in 1968

BAPTISM REGISTERS (NM4/5/R1)

NM4/5/R1/1 Register of baptisms Jan/1953- (2 entries only) Jun/1956

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REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/5/R2)

NM4/5/R2/1 Certificate of registration 30/Apr/1890 of chapel at Lower Boddington as a place of religious worship

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/5/A1)

NM4/5/A1/1 Trustees' Meetings minute book 1935-1971 in the middle of which are minutes of a Leaders' Meeting to appoint officers, 1955; at the back is an inventory of contents of the chapel, Jun 1967

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/5/C1)

NM4/5/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the sale and closure of 1967-1972 the chapel

TRUST ACCOUNTS (NM4/5/F1)

NM4/5/F1/1 Trust account book 1930-1971 at the back are minutes of a meeting in 1921 and a list of names of trustees

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/5/F2)

NM4/5/F2/1 Collection Journal 1960-1966

SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS (NM4/5/F3)

NM4/5/F3/1-2 Church Improvement Scheme Subscription Books Jun/1962 (only 1 page used in each book)

PRINTED MATERIAL (NM4/5/PR)

NM4/5/PR/1 Booklet entitled Methodism in Boddington, 1797- 1965 1965 published by Banbury Historical Society

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GREAT BOURTON CHAPEL (NM4/6) Wesleyan trustees bought a chapel from the Congregationalists in 1924; a new red-brick chapel was built in 1932

APPLICATION AND SANCTION FORMS (NM4/6/A1)

NM4/6/A1/1 Application to Wesleyan Chapel Committee for Dec/1928 permission to enlarge chapel and for grant to reduce debt; with related solicitors' letters 14 items

NM4/6/A1/2-3 Wesleyan Chapel Committee sanctions for erection Mar/1932- of and work on chapel Sep/1934

CERTIFICATES (NM4/6/A2)

NM4/6/A2/1 Certificate re trustees and management of Great 25/Jul/1995 Bourton Methodist Church

CHAPEL SALE PAPERS (NM4/6/A3)

NM4/6/A3/1 Papers re sale of the chapel Jul/1994- including sale particulars, inspection report, balance May/1996 sheets, and correspondence with Property Division

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/6/C)

NM4/6/C/1 Correspondence re purchase of Congregational Jun/1922- Chapel at Great Bourton May/1924 with receipt for building repairs 11 items

NM4/6/C/2 Bundle of letters re gifts of money for new chapel Jun/1930- 24 items Nov/1932

NM4/6/C/3 Letters from Chapman and Jenkinson, architects & Jun/1931- surveyors of Sheffield Aug/1933 re account & payment for erecting a new chapel; with receipts 13 items

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TITLE DEEDS AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS (NM4/6/D)

NM4/6/D/1 Conveyance and Assignment of Mortgage Term of 09/Dec/1803 1000 Years Parties: (1) William Claridge of Great Bourton, butcher & Ursula, his wife (2) Richard Lambert of Banbury, butcher, & Thomas Ward of Hitchin, Herts., farmer (3) William Adkins of Thorpe Mandeville, Northants., yeoman Property: Newly erected chapel or meeting house & garden on south side in Great Bourton. Consideration: £134. Comments: also a schedule of deeds, 1783-1802.

NM4/6/D/2-3 Lease and Release 11/May/1838 Parties: - (1) Richard Archer the elder of Little Bourton, yeoman 12/May/1838 (2) John Archer of Appletree, Northants, yeoman (3) Richard Archer the younger of Little Bourton, yeoman (4) Robert Bishop of Burton Dassett, Warwicks., farmer Property: Chapel or meeting house & garden in Great Bourton. Comments: property to be held in trust until (3) reaches age of 21.

NM4/6/D/4 Lease for 99 Years 12/May/1838 Parties: (1) Richard Archer the elder (2) John Archer (3) Richard Archer (4) Robert Bishop Property: Farm house, 3 closes of land called the Home Farm, and 6 closes called the New Closes (devised in will of William Adkins).

NM4/6/D/5 Conveyance 14/Jun/1860 Parties: (1) John Archer of Little Bourton, yeo. (2) Richard Archer of the same, yeoman (3) John Adkins & 9 other trustees Property: Chapel or meeting house & garden behind for use of Independent Church in Great Bourton. Consideration: £80.

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NM4/6/D/6 Declaration by William Godson of Great Bourton, 25/Jun/1891 baker, trustee and notice of Congregational Church meeting to appoint 9 trustees; also minutes of the meeting, 23 Apr.1891

NM4/6/D/7 Conveyance 31/Dec/1891 Parties: (1) Isaac Gardner and 5 other trustees (2) Enos Allitt and 8 other trustees Property: Chapel or Meeting House and garden behind on south side (10 x 8 x 5 yards) to be used as a Congregational place of worship in Great Bourton.

NM4/6/D/8 Abstract of Title 1924 of William James Lambert to a cottage at Great Bourton (1884-1924)

NM4/6/D/9 Xerox of Conveyance to Trustees of building used as 06/Jun/1924 Congregational Church and land with it

NM4/6/D/10 Application for Certificate of payment of Estate Duty Jul/1924 on 9 freehold cottages at Great Bourton

NM4/6/D/11 Declaration adopting Trusts of Methodist Model 07/Mar/1952 Deed

NM4/6/D/12 Schedule of Deeds and Documents re Methodist n.d. Chapel at Great Bourton (dated 1803-1978)

NM4/6/D/13 Charity Commission Order re Methodist Chapel and 25/May/1978 cottage at Great Bourton

NM4/6/D/14 Xerox of Conveyance 23/Oct/1978 Parties: (1) Trustees for Methodist Church Purpoese and Great Bourton Methodist Church Council (2) Marcel Josef Andrews of Farmoor Property: Cottage or tenement with gardens, next to chapel in Great Bourton, Consideration: £4,500.

BANK BOOKS (NM4/6/F1)

NM4/6/F1/1 Bank book Feb/1928- Jan/1931

NM4/6/F1/2 Bank book Jan/1931-

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Jun/1939 SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS AND PAPERS (NM4/6/F2)

NM4/6/F2/1 Subscriptions' book for new chapel [1932]-[]

ACCOUNTS (NM4/6/F3) including bills, receipts and statements of accounts

NM4/6/F3/1 Trustees' statement of accounts 1928 with solicitors, and letter re conveyance of chapel building

NM4/6/F3/2 Bills, receipts and accounts for chapel expenses Jul/1929- May/1933

NM4/6/F3/3 Bills, receipts and accounts for chapel expenses May/1932- Jan/1933

NM4/6/F3/4 Statement of accounts 1933

NM4/6/F3/5 Letter and bills for electrical works 1933

NM4/6/F3/6 Trust Account: Debt Effort 1939

PUBLICITY MATERIAL (NM4/6/N)

NM4/6/N/1 Book of newspaper cuttings and leaflet re re-opening 1932 of chapel with some loose accounts; also papers re first anniversary celebrations

LITTLE BOURTON CHAPEL (NM4/7) A Methodist Chapel was erected in 1845 in the village and was still in use in 1978

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/7/R1)

NM4/7/R1/1 Certificate of registration 13/Mar/1861 of chapel at Little Bourton as a place of religious worship

SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE REGISTERS (NM4/7/A1)

NM4/7/A1/1 Sunday School Attendance register 1915

NM4/7/A1/2 Sunday School Attendance register 1916

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CLASS BOOKS (NM4/7/A2)

NM4/7/A2/1 Class book 1920-1924

NM4/7/A2/2 Class book 1925-1929

NM4/7/A2/3 Class book 1934-1936

NM4/7/A2/4 Class book 1943-1947

JUNIOR CLASS BOOKS (NM4/7/A3)

NM4/7/A3/1 Junior class book 1938-1941

TRUSTEES ACCOUNTS (NM4/7/F1) 1845-1910

NM4/7/F1/1 Trustees account book 1845-1880

NM4/7/F1/2 Trustees account book 1882-1910

SEAT RENTS ACCOUNTS (NM4/7/F2)

NM4/7/F2/1 Seat rents account book 1909-1914

NM4/7/F2/2 Seat rents account book 1921-1936 with other accounts 1931-1955 at then end of the volume

RENOVATION FUND ACCOUNTS (NM4/7/F3)

NM4/7/F3/1 Chapel Renovation Fund loose accounts 1908-1915 5 items

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/7/F4)

NM4/7/F4/1 Collection Journal 1946-1958

NEWSLETTERS (NM4/7/N1)

NM4/7/N1/1 Circuit newsletter May/1978 featuring an article on Little Bourton Methodist Church

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CHIPPING WARDEN CHAPEL (NM4/8) This chapel was built by the Wesleyan Methodists in 1834

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/8/A1)

NM4/8/A1/1 Trustees' Meetings minute book 1946-1975

CLASS BOOKS (NM4/8/A2)

NM4/8/A2/1 Class book 1934-1938

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/8/C)

NM4/8/C/1 Correspondence with Chapel Committee 1884-1889 and application forms re erection of chapel and school 12 items

BUILDING ACCOUNTS (NM4/8/F1)

NM4/8/F1/1 Building accounts 1884-1886 re work on chapel and school 12 items

SOCIETY STEWARDS ACCOUNTS (NM4/8/F2)

NM4/8/F2/1 Society Stewards account book 1931-1938

SEAT RENTS ACCOUNTS (NM4/8/F3)

NM4/8/F3/1 Seat rents account book 1907-1939

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/8/F4)

NM4/8/F4/1 Collection journal 1921-1930

NM4/8/F4/2 Collection journal 1930-1941

NM4/8/F4/3 Collection journal 1958-1971

NM4/8/F4/4 Collection book 1971-1992

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CLAYDON CHAPEL (NM4/9) A Primitive Methodist chapel opened in 1846. It was closed in 1973

BAPTISM REGISTERS (NM4/9/R1)

NM4/9/R1/1 Register of baptisms Nov/1951- (3 pages only) Dec/1968

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/9/R2)

NM4/9/R2/1 Certificate of registration 04/Feb/1861 of chapel at Claydon as a place of religious worship

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/9/A1)

NM4/9/A1/1 Trustees' Meetings minute book 1953-1973 at the front are names and addresses of trustees

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/9/C1)

NM4/9/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the closure and sale of 1972-1973 the chapel

TRUST ACCOUNTS (NM4/9/F1)

NM4/9/F1/1 Trust account book 1967-1972

CROPREDY CHAPEL (NM4/10) A chapel was built by the Wesleyans in 1861, a new one was opened in 1880

TITLE DEEDS (NM4/10/D)

NM4/10/D/1 Agreement to Lease for 7 or 14 Years 11/Oct/1821 Parties: (1) William Hadland of Clattercott (2) John Warrick Clarke of Banbury, George Mobbs, John Williams, Ann Harwood and William Hunt of Cropredy Property: New building in back yard, comprising stable, coal house and kitchen in Cropredy for use in divine worship. Consideration: £5 rent per annum.

NM4/10/D/2 Agreement to Lease 11/Oct/1821

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(copy of previous document) FINANCIAL PAPERS RE NEW CHAPEL (NM4/10/F1)

NM4/10/F1/1 Sanction to Build New Chapel, with promise of loan 03/Jul/1880

NM4/10/F1/2 Bundle including memoranda re payments for 1880-1883 building-contract receipts, bill of costs, promise of grant, builder's estimate, and application to sell trust property; also a fire insurance certificate, Apr.1861 15 items

PRINTED MATERIAL (NM4/10/PR)

NM4/10/PR/1 Booklet entitled Centenary 1881-1961, Cropredy n.d. Methodist Church

EPWELL CHAPEL (NM4/11) Premises used by Primitive Methodists were registered in 1825, and a chapel was built in 1869. It closed in October 1970

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/11/R1)

NM4/11/R1/1 Certificate of registration 04/Feb/1861 of chapel at Epwell as a place of religious worship

LEADERS' MEETINGS MINUTES (NM4/11/A1)

NM4/11/A1/1 Leaders' Meetings minute book 1939-1969

PULPIT NOTICES (NM4/11/A2)

NM4/11/A2/1 Pulpit notices 1964-1968

TRUSTEES MEETINGS MINUTES (NM4/11/A3)

NM4/11/A3/1 Trustees minute book 1930-1971

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/11/C1)

NM4/11/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the clousre and sale of 1970-1972 the chapwl

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TRUST ACCOUNTS (NM4/11/F1)

NM4/11/F1/1 Trust account book 1921-1970 at the back is a statement given at the re-opening of the church, Apr. 1965

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/11/F2)

NM4/11/F2/1 Collection Journal 1941-1951

NM4/11/F2/2 Collection Journal 1951-1963

NM4/11/F2/3 Collection Journal 1963-1970

EYDON CHAPEL (NM4/12) A Wesleyan chapel in this village in Northamptonshire was opened in 1818.

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/12/R1)

NM4/12/R1/1 Certificate of registration 15/Mar/1861 of chapel at Eydon as a place of religious worship

NM4/12/R1/2 Certificate of registration 15/Mar/1861 of Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Farndon (Northants) as a place of religious worship

NM4/12/R1/3 Certificate of registration 10/Jul/1940 of chapel at Eydon as a place for solemnising marriages

SUNDAY SCHOOL REGISTERS (NM4/12/A1)

NM4/12/A1/1 Sunday School register 1883-1935 listing pupils and their attendance record

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/12/A2)

NM4/12/A2/1 Trustees' Meetings minute book Jan/1943- in the front of the book are trust accounts, 1942-1979 Oct/1976

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/12/C1)

NM4/12/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the closure and sale of 1979-1984 the chapel

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CHAPEL ACCOUNTS (NM4/12/F1) see also document NM4/11/A2/1

NM4/12/F1/1 Chapel accounts Sep/1970- Apr/1982

SEAT RENTS LEDGERS (NM4/12/F2)

NM4/12/F2/1 Seat rents ledger 1875-1927

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/12/F3)

NM4/12/F3/1 Collection journal 1918-1932

NM4/12/F3/2 Collection journal 1932-1964

NM4/12/F3/3 Collection journal 1964-1980

FARTHINGHOE CHAPEL (NM4/13) The Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1860. It closed finally in 1993

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/13/A1)

NM4/13/A1/1 Trustees' Meetings minute book Jan/1941- at the front are minutes of a Circuit Quarterly Meeting in Nov/1977 March 1940 re the appointment of trustees for the chapel, schoolroom and class room, and a piece of ground

PROPERTY SCHEDULES (NM4/13/A2)

NM4/13/A2/1 Property schedules with letter from Circuit Property 19/Jul/1978- Secretary 18/Jan/1994 re closure of chapel in 1993

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/13/C)

NM4/13/C/1 Correspondence and estimates for roof repairs at Aug/1965- Farthinghoe chapel Dec/1965

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TITLE DEEDS (NM4/13/D)

NM4/13/D/1 Xerox of Conveyance of Primitive Chapel 09/Mar/1893 Parties: (1) Frederick Augustine George of Steane Northants., farmer (2) Hannah Sophia George of Farthinghoe, widow (3) Benjamin Jarvis and 11 other trustees (4) Rev.John Samuel Buckley of Grimsbury superintendent minister Property: Building in Farthinghoe to be used by the Primitive Methodists.

NM4/13/D/2 Conveyance 26/Nov/1894 Parties: (1) Sarah Boswell, wife of William of Farthinghoe, Northants. (2) William Boswell, William Jones Deeley of Farthinghoe and four others Property: Schoolroom constructed from a messuage in Farthinghoe and a strip of land from the street to the schoolroom. Consideration: £200.

NM4/13/D/3 Notice of payment of principal sum of £150 by 16/Dec/1895 Hannah Sophia George re mortgage dated 8 Oct.1852 between Augustine George of Farthinghoe & Trustees of Middleton Cheney Primitive Methodist Chapel

NM4/13/D/4 Conveyance 11/Oct/1897 Parties: (1) Sarah Boswell, wife of William (2) William Boswell and four others Property: Building or classroom recently erected out of messuage in Farthinghoe and a plot of garden ground, with use of pump and well on adjacent property. Consideration: £50. CHAPEL ACCOUNTS (NM4/13/F1)

NM4/13/F1/1 Chapel account book 1894-1975

CIRCUIT FUND ACCOUNTS (NM4/13/F2)

NM4/13/F2/1 Circuit Fund account book 1928-1950

SUNDAY SCHOOL ACCOUNTS (NM4/13/F3)

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NM4/13/F3/1 Sunday School Treasurer's book 1917-1951 CASH BOOKS (NM4/13/F4)

NM4/13/F4/1 Cash book 1975-1993 account closed in March 1994

GRIMSBURY (WEST ST., BANBURY) WESLEYAN CHAPEL (NM4/14) A Society was founded in Grimsbury in 1812, a Sunday School building and chapel were erected in 1858 in North Street, before larger premises were built in West Street in 1871

BAPTISM REGISTERS (NM4/14/R1)

NM4/14/R1/1 Register of baptisms Dec/1871- Oct/1897

NM4/14/R1/2 Register of baptisms Nov/1897- Jun/1927

MARRIAGE REGISTERS (NM4/14/R2) These were catalogued previously as BMC I/1-6

NM4/14/R2/1 Register of marriages Apr/1900- Oct/1911

NM4/14/R2/2 Register of marriages Nov/1911- Mar/1921

NM4/14/R2/3 Register of marriages Jun/1921- Jan/1935

NM4/14/R2/4 Register of marriages Mar/1935- Dec/1939

NM4/14/R2/5 Register of marriages Dec/1939- Oct/1957

NM4/14/R2/6 Register of marriages Feb/1958- Apr/1977

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/14/A1)

NM4/14/A1/1 Trustees' minute book Oct/1917- Mar/1933

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NM4/14/A1/2 Trustees' minute book 1933-1959 at the front are names & addresses of trustees, 1933, 1937; at the back is a memorandum of appointment of trustees in 1907

LEADERS' MEETING MINUTES (NM4/14/A2)

NM4/14/A2/1 Leaders' Meetings minute book Jul/1894- Dec/1920

NM4/14/A2/2 Leaders' Meetings minute book Jun/1966- Aug/1976

YOUNG MEN'S MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT CLASS MINUTES (NM4/14/A3)

NM4/14/A3/1 Mutual Improvement Class minute book Dec/1875- with a list of members and rules at the front, names, Mar/1882 addresses, attendance records and accounts at the back

NM4/14/A3/2 Mutual Improvement Class minute book Mar/1892- with accounts at the back Jun/1896

BROTHERHOOD COMMITTEE MINUTES (NM4/14/A4)

NM4/14/A4/1 Grimsbury Brotherhood Committee minute book Feb/1907- Aug/1921

NM4/14/A4/2 Grimsbury Brotherhood Committee minute book Mar/1923- loose at the front are seven newspaper cuttings re Jul/1937 Brotherhood meetings, 1912-37; also re a memorial to William Smith

MEN'S CIRCLE MINUTES (NM4/14/A5)

NM4/14/A5/1 Men's Circle minute book 1965-1970 at the back are bills for refreshments etc. and a secretary's report CLASS BOOKS (NM4/14/A6)

NM4/14/A6/1 Junior Society class book Jan/1917- Nov/1917

NM4/14/A6/2 Society class book Oct/1919- Feb/1920

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ADMISSION BOOKS (NM4/14/A7)

NM4/14/A7/1 Sunday School admission book Jan/1862- Dec/1880

MANAGERS' MINUTE BOOKS (NM4/14/A8)

NM4/14/A8/1 Day School Managers' minute book Jul/1903- Dec/1907

SUNDAY SCHOOL MINUTES (NM4/14/A9)

NM4/14/A9/1 Sunday School Quarterly Council Meetings' and Apr/1934- reports minute book Oct/1944

MODEL PARLIAMENT MINUTES (NM4/14/A10)

NM4/14/A10/1 Model Parliament minute book 1908-1910 with Wesleyan Guild minutes 1917-1919

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/14/C1) mainly re building work on old and new churches

NM4/14/C1/1 Correpondence with A.Noterman, organ builder 1947-1956 re renovation work on church organ 20 items

NM4/14/C1/2 Correspondence re Valuation Office and Banbury 1952-1957 Borough re rating of church premises, including caretaker's flat in West Street 19 items

NM4/14/C1/3 Two letters re work on piano and organ 1966-1967

NM4/14/C1/4 Correspondence with Radio Aid Ltd re new church 1966-1967 amplifier 3 items

NM4/14/C1/5 Correspondence, specifications, valuation and 1982-1991 statement re sale of church and its contents, and work on new church 28 items

NM4/14/C1/6 Correspondence concerning the sale of the Manse 1967

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NM4/14/C1/7 Correspondence concerning the sale of the church 1976-1983 premises to the Methodist Housing Association

NM4/14/C1/8 Correspondence concerning the sale of the church 1979-1983

NM4/14/C1/9 Correspondence concerning the new church 1984-1985

DEEDS RELATING TO THE CHURCH AND SCHOOLROOM (NM4/14/D1)

NM4/14/D1/1 Copy agreement re £1000 stock 29/Jul/1891 to be used for trust fund towards rent of a house at Grimsbury Parties: (1) William Mewburn of Wykham Park near Banbury, Esq. (2) Rev.Henry John Pope of Manchester, Wesleyan Methodist Minister, trustee

NM4/14/D1/2 Agreement between Trustees of Grimsbury 02/Feb/1920 Methodist Chapel and GWR Athletic Club re use of ground floor of Grimsbury Wesleyan School

NM4/14/D1/3 Report of survey on chapel by Oxfordshire County 26/Feb/1940 Council

NM4/14/D1/4 Correspondence with Oxfordshire County Council Feb/1940 re tenancy of schoolroom at Grimsbury 4 items

NM4/14/D1/5 Correspondence with Oxfordshire County Council re 1940-1957 use of room at Grimsbury by Banbury St.Leonard's C.of E.School; with draft licence, 1949 29 items

NM4/14/D1/6 Counterpart Agreement for Tenancy of schoolroom 31/Dec/1941 at Grimsbury between trustees and Oxfordshire County Council; with bundle of related correspondence, 1940-48 NM4/14/D1/7 Counterpart Agreement for tenancy of part of two 01/Jul/1948 rooms of Grimsbury Methodist School between trustees and Oxfordshire County Council

NM4/14/D1/8 Counterpart Licence for use of large schoolroom 24/Mar/1949 adjoining Grimsbury Methodist Chapel

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DEEDS RELATING TO GRIMSBURY MANSE (NM4/14/D2)

NM4/14/D2/1 Assignment of 1 share No 129 20/Nov/1851 in the Banbury Co-operative Benefit Building Society 1) Edward William Henniker Day, Banbury, clerk 2) James Stockton the younger, clerk

NM4/14/D2/2 Assignment of 1 share No 91 25/Nov/1852 in the Banbury Co-operative Benefit Building Society 1) James Stockton, the elder, Banbury, gent 2) Thomas Mitchell, Banbury, clerk

NM4/14/D2/3 Assignment of 2 shares No 129 and 137 25/Nov/1852 in the Banbury Co-operative Benefit Building Society 1) James Stockton the younger, clerk 2) Thomas Mitchell, Banbury, clerk

NM4/14/D2/4 Assignment of 3 shares No 91, 129 and 137 10/Feb/1853 in the Banbury Co-operative Benefit Building Society 1) Thomas Mitchell, Banbury, clerk 2) John Lee Merry, Banbury, corn dealer

NM4/14/D2/5 Counterpart Agreement 1/Jul/1874 Transfer of £1800 of stock to the Methodist trustees to be used to fund rents for three houses for ministers 1) William Newburn, Wykham Park, esquire 2) John Hearnshaw, Banbury, Wesleyan minister 3) John Kilby, Banbury, solicitor and Edward James Payne, Banbury, grocer and the Circuit Stewards 4) John Bedford, Chorlton cun Hardy, Lancs, trustees of the Wesleyan Methodist chapel

NM4/14/D2/6 Certificate for the redemption of land tax 1885-1886 for land on Middleton Road, Grimsbury

NM4/14/D2/7 Certificate for the redemption of land tax 1887 for garden on Middleton Road, Grimsbury

NM4/14/D2/8 Duplicate Agreement 29/July/1891 To purchase a house of ministers as laid out as a clause in NM4/14/D2/5 1) William Newburn, Wykham Park, esquire 2) Revd Henry John Pope, Manchester, Methosist minister and trustees on the board of trustees for Wesleyan Methodist chapel purposes

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TRUST ACCOUNTS (NM4/14/F1)

NM4/14/F1/1 Trust account book 1871-1955

NM4/14/F1/2 Trustees' Treasurer's account book 1956-1976

STEWARDS' ACCOUNT BOOK (NM4/14/F2)

NM4/14/F2/1 Society Stewards' account book Jun/1895- Jun/1900

CASH BOOKS (NM4/14/F3)

NM4/14/F3/1-4 Juvenile Missionary Association Secretary's cash 1877 books with collectors' names

ESTIMATES AND SPECIFICATIONS (NM4/14/F4)

NM4/14/F4/1 Quotes and Specifications for decoration and 1962 renovation of large schoolroom 4 items

NM4/14/F4/2 Estimates for church repairs and improvements, 1962-1967 including rewiring 11 items

NM4/14/F4/3 Tenders, specifications, bills re repairs to church 1963-1966 and renewal of cold water services 8 items

NM4/14/F4/4 Estimates for church roof repairs 1968 6 items

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/14/F5)

NM4/14/F5/1 Collection journal 1892-1900

NM4/14/F5/2 Collection journal 1900-1905

NM4/14/F5/3 Collection journal 1905-1911

NM4/14/F5/4 Collection journal 1911-1916

NEWSLETTERS (NM4/14/N1)

NM4/14/N1/1 Monthly Messenger no.7 May/1914

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NM4/14/N1/2 Monthly Messenger no.19 May/1915 NM4/14/N1/3 Monthly Messenger no.32 Jun/1916

GUILD PUBLICITY PAPERS (NM4/14/N2)

NM4/14/N2/1 Wesley Guild syllabuses 1912-1919 3 items

NM4/14/N2/2 Letter of thanks from Wesleyan Guild HQ to 16/Oct/1912 Grimsbury Wesleyan Guild

NM4/14/N2/3 Guild news-sheet c1916

PHOTOGRAPHS (NM4/14/P1)

NM4/14/P1/1 Photograph of the interior of the church n.d.

NM4/14/P1/2 Photograph of the exterior of the church n.d.

NM4/14/P1/3 Photograph of the exterior of the church n.d.

PRINTED BOOKLETS (NM4/14/PR)

NM4/14/PR/1 Jubilee Souvenir Booklet entitled Wesleyan n.d. Methodist Church Grimsbury 1871-1921

NM4/14/PR/2 Booklet about Grimsbury Methodist Church n.d. entitled 150th Anniversary Celebrations, 1812-1962

BUILDING PLANS (NM4/14/Y1)

NM4/14/Y1/1 Plan of proposed improvements to chapel Nov/1954 with letter from Oxfordshire County Council.

NM4/14/Y1/2 Plan of proposed new bathroom, hot water system Jun/1962 and food store at Grimsbury Methodist Chapel

NM4/14/Y1/3 Fire Officer's report with plan of church in West Nov/1968- Street Dec/1968

NM4/14/Y1/4 Sectional drawings of the new chapel Feb/1983

NM4/14/Y1/5 Sectional drawings of the stairwells of the new Aug/1983 chapel

NM4/14/Y1/6 Plan of the roof structure of the new chapel Feb/1984

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HANWELL CHAPEL (NM4/15) A Methodist chapel was built during the nineteenth century, new premises were acquired by the Wesleyans in 1921

BAPTISM REGISTERS (NM4/15/R1)

NM4/15/R1/1 Register of baptisms May/1946- (4 entries only) Aug/1955

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/15/R2)

NM4/15/R2/1 Certificate of registration 08/Aug/1956 of chapel at Hanwell as a place of religious worship

NM4/15/R2/2 Certificate of registration 09/Aug/1956 of chapel at Hanwell as a building for solemnising marriages; with covering letter from Banbury District Registrar

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/15/A1)

NM4/15/A1/1 Trustees' Meetings' minute book Jan/1950- Feb/1953

NM4/15/A1/2 List of Trustees [c1966] with addresses; including names of deceased trustees

ADMINISTRATIVE PAPERS OF BULLER'S CHARITY (NM4/15/A2)

NM4/15/A2/1 Correspondence re Buller's Legacy for repair of Sep/1924- chapel and gifts to the poor Feb/1926

NM4/15/A2/2 Statement of accounts for Buller's Charity 31/Dec/1926

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/15/C1)

NM4/15/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the clousre and sale of 1967-1969 the chapel

ACCOUNTS (NM4/15/F1)

NM4/15/F1/1 Chapel account book Oct/1885- Dec/1910

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CASH BOOKS (NM4/15/F2)

NM4/15/F2/1 Chapel cash book Dec/1937- Dec/1963

NEWSPAPERS (NM4/15/N1)

NM4/15/N1/1 Newspaper cutting re the church's golden jubilee [1933]-[]

HORLEY CHAPEL (NM4/16) A Methodist chapel was in existence in the village by 1802, and enlarged about 1840

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/16/R1)

NM4/16/R1/1 Certificate of registration 13/Mar/1861 of chapel at Horley as a place of religious worship

RULES AND REGULATIONS (NM4/16/A1)

NM4/16/A1/1 Rules of Horley Temperance Brass Band 1890

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/16/C1)

NM4/16/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the closure and sale of 1984-1987 the chapel

SUBSCRIPTIONS' BOOKS (NM4/16/F1)

NM4/16/F1/1 Subscriptions' book [1890]-[]

NM4/16/F1/2 Members' subscription book Jun/1890 with note of band dissolving in Dec.1890 and return of payments and instruments; also 3 loose receipts

PLANS (NM4/16/Y1)

NM4/16/Y1/1 Plan of the church and Chapel cottage 28/Jul/1967

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HORNTON CHAPEL (NM4/17) Primitive Methodists built a chapel in the village in 1842, replaced by another in 1885

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/17/A1) see also document NM4/17/F1/1

NM4/17/A1/1 Trustees' Meetings' minute book Sep/1926- at the back are loose notes on the building of the new Apr/1968 church in 1884.

INSURANCE CERTIFICATES (NM4/17/A2)

NM4/17/A2/1 Chapel Insurance policy certificate 01/Jul/1867

SUNDAY SCHOOL ROLL BOOKS (NM4/17/A3)

NM4/17/A3/1 Sunday School roll book Jan/1935- Dec/1942

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/17/C1)

NM4/17/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the closure and sale of 1975-1980 the chapel and schoolroom

CHAPEL ACCOUNTS (NM4/17/F1)

NM4/17/F1/1 Chapel account book 1842-1887 on pages 120 & 131-2 are minutes of trustees' meetings, 1858, 1888

RECEIPTS (NM4/17/F2)

NM4/17/F2/1 Miscellaneous receipts 1867-1889 5 items

CASH BOOKS (NM4/17/F3)

NM4/17/F3/1 Financial Secretary's cash book Apr/1888- Apr/1927

SUNDAY SCHOOL ACCOUNTS (NM4/17/F4)

NM4/17/F4/1 Sunday School account book Jan/1918- at the front are three loose receipts Jul/1948

NM4/17/F4/2 Sunday School account book Dec/1947- at the back are a bundle of bank statements, 1966-74. Mar/1972

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SUNDAY SCHOOL SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS (NM4/17/F5)

NM4/17/F5/1 Sunday School Subscription book Sep/1907- (6 loose pages only) Dec/1919

FETE ACCOUNTS (NM4/17/F6)

NM4/17/F6/1 Fete account book 1927

MANUSCRIPT PAPERS (NM4/17/MS)

NM4/17/MS/1 Brass Band Music scores n.d.

NOTICES AND NEWSLETTERS (NM4/17/N1)

NM4/17/N1/1 Notice of Service, Tea and Meeting at the new chapel 23/Sep/1884

NM4/17/N1/2 The Gossip newsletter, Issue no.8 Dec/1993

NM4/17/N1/3 Calendars of services for Churches in Hornton 1994-1995

PRINTED MATERIAL (NM4/17/PR)

NM4/17/PR/1 Sunday School Anniversary hymn sheet 17/Sep/1865

NM4/17/PR/2 Printed Retrospect for Dedication service 02/Feb/1952

NM4/17/PR/3 Chapel Centenary Pamphlet (1885-1985) n.d.

MISCELLANEOUS (NM4/17/X)

NM4/17/X/1 Consolidated minutes of the Primitive Methodist 1890 Connexion inscribed G.Percy Stanley, Sept.1917

KINGS SUTTON CHAPEL (NM4/18) The Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1856

MARRIAGE REGISTERS (NM4/18/R1)

NM4/18/R1/1 Register of marriages 1940-1982

REPORTS (NM4/18/A1)

NM4/18/A1/1 Quinquennial Inspections and Reports on the chapel 1979-1989

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5 items CHAPEL SALE PAPERS (NM4/18/A2)

NM4/18/A2/1 Papers re the sale of the church at Kings Sutton Feb/1994- including sale particulars, photograph, report and Nov/1995 correspondence re valuation

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/18/C)

NM4/18/C/1 Bundle of correspondence of the Circuit Property 1995 Secretary re the chapel

TITLE DEEDS AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS (NM4/18/D)

NM4/18/D/1 Admission 27/Jun/1876 of Joseph Waters of Cottisford, farmer, to a messuage or tenement, Home Close or Townsend Close, 3 acres of arable and garden in the Manor of Kings Sutton.

NM4/18/D/2 Admission 19/Jun/1902 of George Stimson Waters and William Lathbury Waters, executors of will of Joseph Waters late of Shelswell, farmer

NM4/18/D/3 Absolute Surrender 02/Oct/1902 Parties: (1) George Stimson Waters & William Lathbury Waters of Shelswell, farmers (2) Edwin Stanley of Kings Sutton, butcher Property: Messuage in Kings Sutton now used as a butcher's shop and house. Consideration: £250.

NM4/18/D/4 Admission 30/Dec/1902 of Edwin Stanley to shop and house in Kings Sutton

NM4/18/D/5 Agreement for Conditional Surrender of Copyhold 16/Mar/1905 Property as Edwin Stanley about to go to America

NM4/18/D/6 Conditional Surrender 16/Mar/1905 Parties: (1) Edwin Stanley of Bodicote (2) George Blake of Kings Sutton,butcher Consideration: £261 12s.2d..

NM4/18/D/7 Agreement to Sell Butcher's Shop 27/Mar/1909 by Edwin Stanley of Alberta, Canada, to George Blake

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NM4/18/D/8 Admission of George Blake 19/Nov/1909 Consideration: £261 10s.2d

NM4/18/D/9 Surrender and Admission 12/Feb/1914 Parties: (1) George Blake (2) Ralph Simms of Kings Sutton, butcher

NM4/18/D/10 Mortgage for £200 12/Feb/1914 Parties: (1) Ralph Simms (2) William Bannard Bennett of Adderbury, farmer Document endorsed with note of repayment dated 18 Aug.1915; also details of solicitor's costs.

NM4/18/D/11 Conditional Surrender 12/Feb/1914 Parties: (1) Ralph Simms (2) William Bannard Bennett Consideration: £200.

NM4/18/D/12 Surrender and Admission (with sketch plan) 18/Aug/1915 Parties: (1) Ralph Simms of Kings Sutton,butcher (2) George Blake of Kings Sutton,retired butcher Property: Piece of ground at corner of Whittall Street, and messuage recently occupied as a butcher's shop and house in Kings Sutton. Consideration: £70. Comments: with the document are a letter, receipt, and note of fees due and solicitor's costs

NM4/18/D/13 Schedule of Deeds and Documents 16/Sep/1915 (1876-1915) re property in Kings Sutton; see previous deeds in this series for details

NM4/18/D/14 Court presentment 23/Oct/1917 re destruction of messuage in Kings Sutton by fire

NM4/18/D/15 Solicitor's correspondence with Rev.B.Salt of Oct/1917- Banbury Primitive Nov/1925 Methodist Church re sale of manorial premises in Kings Sutton 11 items

NM4/18/D/16 Solicitor's costs re declaration of trust for Kings Jun/1929 Sutton Primitive Methodist Chapel

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NM4/18/D/17 Application to sell trust property and for permission Dec/1935- to erect a chapel Jan/1936

NM4/18/F1 TREASURERS ACCOUNTS

NM4/18/F1/1 Treasurers account book 1902-1938

MIDDLETON CHENEY CHAPEL (NM4/19) A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in this village in 1867

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/19/A1)

NM4/19/A1/1 Trustees' Meetings minute book 1939-1957 at the front is a list of trustees, at the back are details of concert ticket sales and expenses

NM4/19/A1/2 Trustees' Meetings minute book 1957-1962 at the front is a list of trustees, Feb.1959, at the back are details of income from a concert, Dec.1957, and church fair, 1963

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/19/C1)

NM4/19/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the purchase of 1967 Avington as a manse

BILLS AND RECEIPTS (NM4/19/F1)

NM4/19/F1/1 Masons' and Carpenter's Bill of Costs for erecting [c1815] new Methodist Chapel

PRINTED MATERIAL (NM4/19/PR)

NM4/19/PR/1 Autobiography of Harry Herbert Bonham (1871-1963) Apr/1970 entitled A Portrait of a Christian Man

MOLLINGTON CHAPEL (NM4/20) The Primitive Methodists built a chapel in the village in 1845. In 1896 it had only ten members, and eventually closed in 1947

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/20/R1)

NM4/20/R1/1 Certificate of registration 04/Feb/1861

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of chapel at Mollington as a place of religious worship SHENINGTON CHAPEL (NM4/21) The Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 1856, and closed in 1962

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/21/R1)

NM4/21/R1/1 Certificate of registration 07/May/1818 of building at Shenington as a place of religious worship

NM4/21/R1/2 Certificate of registration 10/Sep/1856 of chapel at Shenington as a place of religious worship

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/21/F1)

NM4/21/F1/1 Collection Journal Jun/1935- Jun/1943

SHOTTESWELL CHAPEL (NM4/22) A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1854

BAPTISM REGISTERS (NM4/22/R1)

NM4/22/R1/1 Register of baptisms Sep/1960- (4 entries) Aug/1968

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/22/R2)

NM4/22/R2/1 Certificate of registration 13/Mar/1861 of chapel at Shotteswell as a place of religious worship

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/22/C1)

NM4/22/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the closure and sale of 1970-1973 the chapel

SHUTFORD CHAPEL (NM4/23) In 1857 a Primitive Methodist chapel was built

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/23/R1)

NM4/23/R1/1 Certificate of registration 13/Mar/1861 of chapel at Shutford as a place of religious worship

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NM4/23/R1/2 Certificate of registration 27/Apr/1907 of chapel at Shutford as a place for solemnising marriages

TRUSTEES MINUTES (NM4/23/A1)

NM4/23/A1/1 Trust minute book 1963-1974

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/23/C1)

NM4/23/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the closure and sale of 1972-1973 the chapel

TREASURERS ACCOUNTS (NM4/23/F1)

NM4/23/F1/1 Treasurers account book 1908-1958

SULGRAVE CHAPEL (NM4/24) A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in this Northamptonshire village in 1863

BAPTISM REGISTERS (NM4/24/R1)

NM4/24/R1/1 Register of baptisms 1872-1968 (11 pages used)

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/24/R2)

NM4/24/R2/1 Certificate of registration 28/Oct/1830 of building at Sulgrave as a place of worship

NM4/24/R2/2 Certificate of registration 15/Mar/1861 of a building at Sulgrave, in the occupation of James Tyrrell, as a place of religious worship

TRUSTEES MINUTES (NM4/24/A1)

NM4/24/A1/1 Trustees minute book 1965-1979

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/24/C1)

NM4/24/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the closure and sale of 1978-1980 the chapel

BANK BOOKS (NM4/24/F1)

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NM4/24/F1/1 Chapel Account bank book 1922-1931 COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/24/F2)

NM4/24/F2/1 Collection journal 1921-1977

RENNOVATION ACCOUNTS (NM4/24/F3)

NM4/24/F3/1 Accounts relating to various works on the chapel 1921-1931

PHOTOGRAPHS (NM4/24/P1)

NM4/24/P1/1 Photograph of the chapel n.d.

NM4/24/P1/2 Photograph of chapel cottage and chapel n.d.

TADMARTON CHAPEL (NM4/25) A Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 1863

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/25/R1)

NM4/25/R1/1 Certificate of registration May/1818 of building at Tadmarton as place of religious worship

WARDINGTON CHAPEL (NM4/26) A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was registered in 1827. This building was sold in 1895, when another chapel was built on an adjacent site, bought for £55. The premises were sold in 1971

BAPTISM REGISTERS (NM4/26/R1)

NM4/26/R1/1 Register of baptisms 1896-1961

REGISTRATION PAPERS (NM4/26/R2)

NM4/26/R2/1 Certificate of registration 19/Dec/1895 of chapel at Wardington as a place of religious worship

NM4/26/R2/2 Certificate of registration 17/Aug/1898 of chapel at Wardington as a place for solemnising marriages

TRUSTEES' MINUTES (NM4/26/A1)

NM4/26/A1/1 Trustees' Meetings minute book 1941-1970

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ORDERS (NM4/26/A2)

NM4/26/A2/1 Charity Commissioner's Order re removal and 11/Dec/1894 appointment of trustees

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/26/C1)

NM4/26/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the clousre and sale of 1970-1972 the chapel

TRUSTEES' ACCOUNTS (NM4/26/F1)

NM4/26/F1/1 Chapel Trust accounts 1927-1972 including closure accounts of chapel

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/26/F2)

NM4/26/F2/1 Collection Journal 1880-1902

NM4/26/F2/2 Collection Journal 1924-1933

NM4/26/F2/3 Collection Journal 1933-1944

NM4/26/F2/4 Collection Journal 1945-1957

PRINTED MATERIAL (NM4/26/PR)

NM4/26/PR/1 Printed Book of the Administration of the Lord's 1878 Supper and Baptism the book was given to the chapel

BUILDING PLANS (NM4/26/Y)

NM4/26/Y/1 Plans of new chapel and school [1895]-[] 7 items

WARMINGTON CHAPEL (NM4/27) The Primitive Methodists opened a chapel in this Warwickshire village in 1858

CLASS BOOKS (NM4/27/A1)

NM4/27/A1/1 Sunday School class book n.d.

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WROXTON CHAPEL (NM4/28) including property at Balscote, where a Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1850

SALE PAPERS (NM4/28/A1)

NM4/28/A1/1 Papers re sale of Methodist hut and land at Balscote Jun/1994- including solicitors' correspondence and report, and Nov/1995 recommendations to Charity Commissioners

NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS (NM4/28/N1)

NM4/28/N1/1 Newspaper cutting re chapel anniversary services 16/Jun/1932 and death of the oldest inhabitant in the village (William Cox); also information re Rev.J.H.Goodman

BODICOTE CHAPEL (NM4/29)

CENTENARY FUND COMMITTEE MINUTES (NM4/29/A1)

NM4/29/A1/1 Centenary Fund Committee minute book 1944-1947

TEMPERANCE SOCIETY ATTENDANCE REGISTERS (NM4/29/A2)

NM4/29/A2/1 Temperance Society Attendance register 1922-1934

CLASS BOOKS (NM4/29/A3)

NM4/29/A3/1 Class book 1947-1951

NM4/29/A3/2 Class book 1952-1956

SOCIETY FUND ACCOUNTS (NM4/29/F1)

NM4/29/F1/1 Society Fund account book 1961-1964

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/29/F2)

NM4/29/F2/1 Collection journal 1914-1922

NM4/29/F2/2 Collection journal 1922-1930

NM4/29/F2/3 Collection journal 1952-1964

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NM4/29/F2/4 Collection journal 1964-1975

WOMENS MEETING ACCOUNTS (NM4/29/F3)

NM4/29/F3/1 Womens Meeting account book 1961-1966 with chapel redecoration fund accounts 1963-1970

BYFIELD CHAPEL (NM4/30)

TRUSTEES MINUTES (NM4/30/A1)

NM4/30/A1/1 Trustees minute book 1938-1974

CHAPEL ACCOUNTS (NM4/30/F1)

NM4/30/F1/1 Chapel account book 1886-1957

COLLECTION JOURNALS (NM4/30/F2)

NM4/30/F2/1 Collection journal 1940-1973

EASINGTON CHAPEL (NM4/31)

TRUSTEES MINUTES (NM4/31/A1)

NM4/31/A1/1 Trustees minute book Mar/1938- Oct/1976

PULPIT NOTICES (NM4/31/A2)

NM4/31/A2/1 Pulpit notices 1974-1978

NM4/31/A2/2 Pulpit notices 1978-1982

NM4/31/A2/3 Pulpit notices 1982-1986

NM4/31/A2/4 Pulpit notices 1990-1993

NM4/31/A2/5 Pulpit notices 1993-1996

SUNDAY SCHOOL MINUTES (NM4/31/A3)

NM4/31/A3/1 Sunday School minute book 1938-1973

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OVERSEAS MISSIONS ACCOUNTS (NM4/31/F1)

NM4/31/F1/1 Overseas Missions account book 1951-1958

NM4/31/F1/2 Overseas Missions account book 1959-1973

NM4/31/F1/3 Overseas Missions account book 1974-1999

NM4/31/F1/4 Overseas Missions account book 2000

HOME MISSION CASH BOOKS (NM4/31/F2)

NM4/31/F2/1 Home Mission cash book 1992-2000

RUSCOTE CHAPEL (NM4/32)

CORRESPONDENCE (NM4/32/C1)

NM4/32/C1/1 Correspondence concerning the building of a new 1953-1958 chapel

NM4/32/C1/2 Correspondence concerning the planning and 1964-1972 building of a new manse

PRINTED MATERIAL (NM4/32/PR1)

NM4/32/PR1/1 Programme for the Stone-laying ceremony 9/Mar/1957 for the new chapel at Ruscote

NM4/32/PR1/2 Programme for the opening celebrations 21/Sep/1957 for the new chapel at Ruscote

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