Records of the Parish of St John the Apostle and Evangelist, Longsight (from 1974...

M630/1/1-7 Records of Incumbents of St John, Longsight 1846-1982

M630/1/1 Baptism Registers 1846-1993

M630/1/2 Marriage Registers 1852-1993

M630/1/3 Burial Register 1846-1906

M630/1/4 Banns Books 1935-1951

M630/1/5 Confirmation Registers - not deposited

M630/1/6 Registers of Services 1937-1982

M630/1/7 Papers about Patronage 1937

M630/2/1-10 Records of Churchwardens 1847-1978

M630/2/1 Accounts 1847-1884, 1922-1939

M630/2/2 Analysed Accounts 1965-1978

M630/2/3 Annual Statements of Accounts 1915

M630/2/4 Ledgers 1919-1931

M630/2/5 Pew Rent Accounts 1907-1926

M630/2/6 Offertory Accounts 1935-1947

M630/2/7 Envelope Accounts 1958-1965

M630/2/8 Weekly Totals of Envelope Accounts 1958-1962

M630/2/9 Particulars of Church Expenses 1930-1932

M630/2/10 Inventory 1884-1902

M630/3/1-3 Records of the Parochial Church Council 1931-1964

M630/3/1 P C C Minutes 1931-1934

M630/3/2 Churchyard Sub-Committee Minutes 1932-1945

M630/3/3 Electoral Rolls 1932-1964

M630/4/1-3 Records of Societies 1922-1959

M630/4/1 Boy Scouts' Membership and Attendance Register 1922-1929

M630/4/2 Boy Scouts' Bills 1925

M630/4/3 Church Lads' Brigade Officer's Commission Certificate 1959

M630/5 Records of St John's Sunday School Admission Register 1908-1929; 1908-1929

<p>The Archives Section also has Archdeacon John Rushton's Visitation Papers for the church and school, June 1849, with notes on the church and clergy, and a pencil sketch of the church (MS f 942.72 R121 volume 45); and papers about the alteration of the parish boundaries, 1911 (M315/1/20/1-5).</p>

The following records were deposited in the Library, as Diocesan Record Office, in August 1997 (Accession 1997/48) and September 2000 (Accession 2000/90)

An additional, uncalendared deposit, is at Accession 2000/79

St John's was consecrated on 26 June 1846, on land given by J W H Anson, with much of the cost of building provided by the Marshall family.

A Bishop's Instrument, 21 July 1851, assigned a District, from the parish of Manchester. This was confirmed by Order in Council,8 June 1854, (London Gazette, 16 June 1854), and Order in Council, 24 June 1856, (London Gazette, 1 July 1856).

Part of the parish was transferred to St Mark, Gorton, by Order in Council, 26 July 1866, (London Gazette, 27 July 1866), and part to St John Chrysostom, Victoria Park, by Order in Council, 16 May 1878, (London Gazette, 21 May 1878).

A further part was assigned to St Agnes, Birch, by Order in Council, 16 August 1886, (London Gazette, 20 August 1886).

In 1898 the District of St Cyprian, Kirkmanshulme, was formed from St John's parish, by Order in Council, 19 May, (London Gazette, 20 May 1898).

In 1911 another portion was added to St John Chrysostom, by Order in Council, 4 May 1911, (London Gazette, 9 May 1911)

In 1974, by Order in Council, 10 April, (London Gazette, 18 April 1974), the parishes of St John, Longsight, and St Cyprian, Kirkmanshulme, were united as St John with St Cyprian, Longsight, the church of St John becoming the parish church of the united benefice.