Filey Wesleyan Methodist Circuit Records

Circuit records: Quarterly circuit schedule book 1862-1874; quarterly meeting minutes 1862-1883, 1899-1964 (6 volumes); quarterly preachers' meeting and circuit committee minutes 1873-1899, local preachers' meeting minutes 1898-1967 (3 volumes); general (united) trustees' meeting minutes (circuit chapel committee minutes) 1872-1971 (2 volumes); annual general meeting minutes 1962-1985; invitation committee minutes 1902-1939 'Joyful Songs' hymnal

British and Foreign Bible Society, Filey (later known as Filey Action Group) meeting minutes 1885-1976

Filey Inter-Church Committee minutes (later known as Filey Churches Together) 1979-1985

Filey Methodist Church (known as Trinity Methodist Church c 1930-1975): teachers' meeting minutes 1892-1917; annual trustees' meeting minutes 1896, 1906-1933, 1959-1973; annual leaders' meeting minutes 1915-1970 (4 volumes); Wesley Guild minutes 1916-1930; Women's Pleasant Hour meeting minutes 1935-1962; Women's Own yearly meeting minutes 1943-1973; minutes relating to proposed new chapel in Filey, 1870-1885; specification of works (following fire) 1922; plan of church 1922; disciples' roll book 1950-1960; pulpit notices 1952-1956, 1976-1980

Filey Wesleyan Day School: minutes 1909-1913

Muston Wesleyan Methodist chapel: pamphlets on its history (2 items)

Hunmanby Methodist Chapel: pew rents 1886-1887; Sunday School minutes 1934-1955, 1959-1974; Sunday School register 1946-1961

Methodism came to Filey in 1806, with meetings held in barns and sheds. The first properly constituted Wesleyan Methodist society was formed in 1810 and a chapel was built in Providence Place the following year. The Sunday School was established in 1832, the Victoria Hall in 1839 and the Day School in West Avenue was built in 1857. The church, built in 1877, was burned in a fire in 1918 and was reopened after extensive work in 1923. The steeple was cracked in the earthquake of 1932.

Filey Wesleyan Methodist Circuit was formed out of the Bridlington Circuit in 1862. It originally comprised chapels in Filey, Hunmanby, Reighton, North Burton and Gristhorpe. The Wesleyan Day School in West Avenue, Filey, is now (2002) the premises of Dixons Discount Warehouse.