GB0129 N/CC2

Salford City Archive Service

This catalogue was digitised by The National Archives as part of the National Register of Archives digitisation project

NRA 21671

The National Archives 21SEP87

Irlams o' th' Height Congregational Church

Salford Archives Centre

658/662 Liverpool Road Irlam Salford M44 5AD

Reference no: N/CC2

CULTURAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT

Archives catalogue

N/CC2 Records of Irlams-o1 -th1 -Height Congregational Church, Claremont Road, Irlams-oU-thT -Height, 1903.-57* n.d. Deposited; H. Carrington, Esq., 6 Hallwood Avenue, Salford, 116 8W, lay pastor, per the Principal Keeper of Social History and Antiquities, Ordsall Hall Museum, April, 1976. Catalogued; A.H. Cross, June, 1976 (revised May, 1978). Locations Archives Centre, 658/662 Liverpool Road, Irlam, , MJO 5 AD.

A banner (references H118-1976) of this Church has been deposited in Ordsall Hall Museum.

The Committee minute book beginning in 1904 (N/CC2/C01/AM1) indicates that the Committee had been, in existence before that date. Early pages in this minute book refer to an application to the Lancashire Congregational Union to be accepted as an aided station and also to a decision to hold the service for ithe opening of the Church on 10 January, I9O6.

ADMINISTRATION IT/CC2/AM1 Minutes of church meetings, with register of 1906-14 attendance at end for years 1913-14 (1 vol.)

/AI-I2 Minutes of church meetings, 1914-20, with register 1914-22, of attendance at end for years 1914-16 and part 1937? n.d. of 1917 (1 vol. containing loose papers, incl. letters on leasing rooms in the Church for use as a maternity and child welfare centre, 1921-22, and report on inspection of the Church boiler, 1937* and list of members of the Church, n.d.) IRLAMS -o'-th'-HEIGHT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH RECORDS

COMMITTEES N/CC2/C01/AM1 Minutes of Committee meetings, 1904-06, Church 1904-12 Committee meetings, 1906-08, Finance Committee meeting, 3 Sept., 1907* meetings of Deacons and Management Committee (earlier Church Management Committee), 1908-12, with reference to a Visiting Committee for house to house visitation, 21 Jan., 1908 (1 vol.)

/AM2 Minutes of Deacons1 meetings, 1910-11, 1915-17, 1910-17, Deacons' and Management Committee meetings, 1912-13, n.d. Management Committee meetings, 1913-17? and Selection Committee meetings (for selection of a pa,stor or clergyman to hold services), 1915-16? at end, register of attendance at Management Committee meetings for the year 1914 and copies of letters of 1912 and 1916 and of part of letter on representation by the /^Manchester Congregational/ "Board on the Management Committee, n.d. (1 vol. containing loose letters and other papers, /J9107, 1917)

/AM3 Minutes of meetings of church managers, 6 Oct., 1905* 1913, managers, 1914-15, and House Committee, 1908-09, 9 May, 19165 minutes of meetings of Deacons, 1917-19, 1913-23, Management Committee, 1917-23, and Church Council, 1932, n.d. 1919-22 (1 vol. containing bdle. of receipts, 1905? 1908-09, with related letter, 1909, and also loose letters and papers, 1932, n.d.)

FINANCE /P1 List of subscriptions and donations to the New Church 1903-09, Building Fund, 1903-09 (l vol. containing loose n.d. statement of accounts for the Fund, n,d,, list of collectors for the year 1906-07 and-list of "brick cards" for the years 1906-07)

/P2 Receipt book, containing duplicates of receipts, 1905-08 for same Fund (1 item)

SUNDAY SCHOOL /SAM1-2 Minutes of teachers' meetings, 1911-23 (2 vols., 1911-24, N/CC2/SAM2 containing also loose report on church 1929* n.di. boiler, 1929, and loose papers, 1924, n.d.)

/SR1 Register of teachers and scholars, chiefly of 1911-18 attendance but including other details (l vol.)