ST. ALBAN, CHEETWOOD

M475/1/1-30 INCUMBENT

M475/1/1. Baptism Register, 1882-1993

M475/1/2. Marriage Registers, 1875-1892, 1933-1966

M475/1/3. Banns Book, 1926-1992

M475/1/4. Confirmation Register, 1924-1993

M475/1/5. Registers of Services, 1948-1958, 1971-1990

M475/1/6. Service Sheets, 1899-1992

M475/1/7. Licence for Divine Service in Schoolroom, 1941

M475/1/8-19 Rector's Correspondence about -

M475/1/8. Rural Deanery, 1971-1977

M475/1/9. Rural Dean's Visitation, 1974

M475/1/10. Glebe Income, 1963-1965

M475/1/11. Dilapidations Assessments, 1945-1965

M475/1/12. Rectory, 1945-1973

M475/1/13. Boundary with Temporary Housing Site, Barrow Hill Road, 1946-1965

M475/1/14. Proposed Sale of Church land, 1964-1965

M475/1/15. Proposed Sale of Land at Rear of Rectory, Barrow Hill Road, 1964-1965

M475/1/16. Proposed Sale of Parsonage Lane, 1972

M475/1/17. Proposed Sale of Sunday School Site, 1972-1974

M475/1/18. St. Saviour's, 1946-1951

M475/1/19. Bad Condition of Cornwall Buildings, Knowsley, Street, 1972-1974

M475/1/20. Church Histories, c 1906-1993

M475/1/21. Parish Magazine, 1929-1966, 1982

M475/1/22. Weekly News Sheets, 1968, 1970, 1976

M475/1/23. Newsletters and Rector's Reflections, 1983-1985

M475/1/24. Draft Address to Rev. J.E. Sedgwick, c 1868

M475/1/25. Catholic Tradition at St. Albans, c 1984-1987

M475/1/26. Correspondence of Rev. A.J. Rees, Priest in Charge, 1983-1985

M475/1/27. Suspension of Presentation, 1988

M475/1/28. Registration of Patronage, 1989

M475/1/29. Reports on the Parish, 1975, 1989

M475/1/30. Parochial Registers and Records Measure, 1978

M475/2/1-29 CHURCHWARDENS

M475/2/1. Papers Relating to Clergy, 1971

M475/2/[2. Account Books - not deposited]

M475/2/3. Free Will Offerings, 1929-1931, 1936-1940, 1945-1952

M475/2/4. Annual Statements of Accounts, 1944-1945, 1951, 1962-1974

M475/2/5. Development Accounts, 1970-1971

M475/2/6. Parochial Return of Membership and Finance, 1973

M475/2/7. Statement of Receipts and Payments Made to Diocese, 1974

M475/2/8. Parochial Assessment to Diocesan Budget, 1973-1975

M475/2/9. Weekly Receipts, 1974

M475/2/10. Payment of Excessive Gas Bill, 1945

M475/2/11. Bequest, 1954

M475/2/12. Faculties, 1894-1981

M475/2/13. Repairs to Choir Vestry, 1930

M475/2/14. Repairs to Boiler, 1945-1946

M475/2/15-21 Rebuilding after War-Time Bombing, 1945-1958

M475/2/22. Repairs Following Quinquennial Inspection, 1962-1963

M475/2/23. Organ, 1973

M475/2/24. Insurance, 1947-1993

M475/2/25. Photographs, c 1930s - 1980s

M475/2/26. Photographs Taken by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 1985

M475/2/27. Church Restoration, 1931

M475/2/28. Architects' Reports, 1984-1990

M475/2/29. Security Systems, 1989-1992

M475/3 VESTRY

Minutes, 1899-1921

M475/4/1-10 PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

M475/4/1. Minutes of P.C.C., 1920-1932, 1948-1965, 1985-1994

M475/4/2. Minutes of Bazaar Committee, 1912-1913

M475/4/3. Minutes of Ways and Means Committee, 1924-1932

M475/4/4. Electoral Roll, 1927, 1946-1966

M475/4/5. Question of Union with Methodist Church, 1964

M475/4/6. Statement about Condition of Church and Parish, 1971

M475/4/7. Questionnaire of Needs and Resources Commission, Manchester Diocese, 1974

M475/4/8. Cheetham Hill Youth Project, 1973-1974

M475/4/9. Questionnaire from Salford Deanery Synod Committee for Mission, c 1981

M475/4/10. Parochial Registers and Records Measure, 1978

M475/5/1-2 SOCIETIES

M475/5/1. Parochial Guild, Minutes, 1876-1888 and Members, 1876-1891

M475/5/2. St. Alban's Church Football Club Miscellaneous Papers, 1949-1955

M475/6 SUNDAY SCHOOL

Correspondence re Paving charges, 1947-1949

M475/7 DAY SCHOOL

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1940-1967

M475/8 ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, CHEETHAM

Baptism register, 1904-1944

<p>The Archives Department also has newspaper cuttings re appeals for funds, 1851-1860, dispute about pew rents, 1863, notice of sermons, 1860, and Sixth Annual Report....1862. (Ms f 942.72 R121 vol.43).</p>

Most of the following records were deposited in the Library as Diocesan Record Office, by Rev. A.J. Rees in December 1983. A further deposit was made in 1994 after the closure of the church.

In 1851 a Committee was formed with the aim of building a church, free from pew rents, near the junction of Waterloo Road and Broughton Lane, on a site given by the Earl of Derby. The church was built by 1863, but a controversy arose over the intention of the trustees to keep it free, and the Bishop, James Prince Lee, refused to consecrate it. It was not consecrated until June 1874 by Bishop James Fraser.

A District was assigned from the parish of Manchester, by Order in Council, 20 October 1874 (London Gazette, 20 October), but part of this was returned to Manchester by Order in Council, 18 May 1881, (London Gazette, 27 May). Part was assigned to the new St. Clement's, Broughton, by Order in Council, 15 July 1881 (London Gazette. 29 July). In 1904 a new parish, St. Saviour's, Chetham, was taken from it, by Order in Council, 7 March, (London Gazette, 8 March), but as no church was consecrated, the District was re-assigned to St. Alban's by Order in Council, 15 June 1945, (London Gazette, 19 June).

St. Alban's was extensively damaged in the Christmas Blitz of 1940. The school was licensed for services until the church was restored and re-opened on 20 April 1957.

Due to a dwindling congregation the church closed in 1994. The last service was held on 6 February 1994.