Stand Lane Independent (United Reformed from 1973) Church

/1 Congregation & Deacons' Meeting Minute Books (5 items) 1890 - 1964

/2 Committee Minute Books (11 items) 1858 - 1981

/3 Trustees' Records (10 items) 1826 - 1938

/4 Church Membership Registers (5 items) 1801 - 1964

/5 Visitors Book (1 item) 1888 - 1982

/6 Baptism Register (1 item) 1792 - 1886

/7 Marriage Registers (4 items) 1901 - 1955

/8 Burial Register (1 item) 1792 - 1986

/9 Grave Books (3 items) (1796) - 1951

/10 Seat Rent Account Books (8 items) 1834 - 1950

/11 Seatholders Register (1 item) 1877 - 1889

1/2 Treasurer's Cash Books (10 items) 1816 - 1978

/13 Printed Annual Statements of Accounts (2 items) 1887 - 1982

/14 Miscellaneous Treasurer's Papers and Accounts (33 items) 1884 - 1964

/15 Church Secretary's Papers (20 items) 1951 - 1983

/16 Miscellaneous Church Papers (11 items) 1853 - 1966

/17 Church Notices Books (5 items) 1950 - 1956

DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOL

/18 School Committee & Teachers' Meeting Minute Books (6 items) 1813 - 1960

/19 Day School Managers' Minute Books (2 items) 1903 - 1972

/20 School Managers' Correspondence (7 items) 1965 - 1973

/21 Sunday School Attendance Journals (3 items) 1834 - 1934

/22 Sunday School Registers (5 items) 1826 - 1924

/23 Sunday School Class Registers (13 items) 1859 - 1926

/24 Sunday School Officers and Teachers Attendance Registers (6 items) 1868 - 1946

/25 Infant Day School Attendance Registers (2 items) 1835 - 1859

/26 Miscellaneous School Records (13 items) 1868 - 1926

/27 Miscellaneous Printed School Ephemera (11 items) 1816 - 1956

ASSOCIATED ORGANISATIONS

/28 Sunday School Clothing Society (3 items) 1841 - 1894/

/29 Sunday School Total Abstinence Society (1 item) 1845 - 1848

/30 Band of Hope (4 items) 1892 - 1949

/31 Mutual Improvement Society (2 items) 1867 - 1895

/32 Annual Exhibition and Eisteddfodd (3 items) 1893 - 1915

/33 Choir (2 items) 1870 - 1897

/34 Mens' and Lads' Institute (1 item) 1909 - 1918

/35 Girl Guides (5 items) 1915 - 1935

/36 Hockey Club (1 item) 1930 - 1934

/37 Chapelfield Social Circle (2 items) 1947 - 1951

MISCELLANEOUS

/38 Church Magazines (29 items) 1902 - 1986

/39 Special Services: Service Sheets (30 items) 1885 - 1986

/40 Miscellaneous Ephemera (16 items) 1870 - 1983

/41 Unpublished Church Histories (6 items) 20th cent

/42 Photographs (33 items) c.1870 - 1975

<p>[For Day School registers 1871 - 1972 and log books 1903 to 1972 see SSI]</p>

• <corpname>Stand Lane Independent Church, 1792-1973, Bury, Lancashire</corpname>
• <corpname>United Reformed Church, 1973-, Bury, Greater Manchester</corpname>

Stand Lane Independent Church was formed after a split in the congregation of the old Stand Chapel (later Stand Presbyterian Church), the first church building being constructed in Stand Lane in 1792, with the Rev.James Fordyce as pastor. The church has remained on the same site ever since, although the pastorate is now shared with neighbouring churches. A sunday school was opened in 1810, and this was also used as an infant day school from 1835 to 1848, and from 1857 until 1972, when it was closed and the building sold. In 1838, a branch school was opened at Besses, some records for which are included below.