Wesleyan methodist records, Stratford-upon-Avon

Records of the Stratford-upon-Avon Wesleyan Methodist Circuit (after 1939 combined with the Primitive Methodists), and the chapels at Bearley, Luddington, Moreton Morrell, Snitterfield and Wellesbourne.

DR893/1 - 28: Circuit records, 1943-1985

DR893/29 - 39: Chapel records

<p>Other collections of Methodist records are at DR147, DR396, DR703, DR784, DR841, DR844</p>

The written consent of the Superintendent Minister is required for access to records less than sixty years old

Deposited by Mr. J. Laycock, Stratford-upon-Avon, 29 August 1985

The first Wesleyan meetings were held in 1819 in a private house in Wood Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, and from 1821 the meetings were held in Meer Street, until a chapel was built in the Birmingham Road in 1835.

The earliest surviving records of the meetings of the Primitive Methodists in Stratford-upon-Avon date from 1852. A chapel was erected in Great William Street in 1866 and a circuit developed in the surrounding villages.

In 1932 the Wesleyan Methodist churches were officially joined to the Prmitive Methodists, but in Stratford the two churches continued to operate separately until Easter 1939, when the two congregations were united and the Primitive Methodist Chapel sold.