UNION STREET WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL (CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH AND CLERKE STREET...

CUS/1 Leaders meeting minute books (5 items) 1817 - 1952

2 Class books (2 items) 1873 - 1878

3 Church membership book 1927 - 1952

4 Trustees minute books (6 items) 1850 - 1957

5 Trustees treasurers account books (5 items) 1823 - 1937

6 Pew rent books (7 items) 1846 - 1915

7 Miscellaneous trustees records (2 items) 1815 - 1835

8 Trust deeds (1 item) [1807] - 1991

9 Graveyard steward records (2 items) 1817 - 1859

10 Stewards quarterly account books for classes and collections (4 items) 1800 - 1950

11 Stewards weekly account books (1 item) 1825 - 1842

12 Collections journals (2 items) 1876 - 1947

13 Envelope collection journals (2 items) 1941 - 1950

14 Registers (15 items) 1795 - 1991

15 Choir registers (10 items) 1909 - 1952

16 Church societies (6 items) 1875 - 1999

17 Miscellaneous church records (23 items) 1817 - 1999

Clerke Street schools

18 Sunday school communite minute books (4 items) 1846 - 1913

19 Sunday school teachers meeting/council minute books (5 items) 1862 - 1952

20 teachers attendance registers (4 items) 1852 - 1891

21 Miscellaneous sunday school records (14 items) 1807 - 1917

22 Day school committee/managers minute books (4 items) 1851 - 1940

23 Day school admissions registers (1 item) 1855 - 1859

24 School portfolio (education department correspondence (1 item)1863 - 1890

25 School treasurers records (5 items)1854 - 1908

26 School managers' correspondence (3 items) 1909 - 1942

27 School & church plans (24 items) 1859 - 1922

• <corpname>Union Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Central Methodist Church), Bury, Lancashire</corpname>
• <corpname>Union Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Central Methodist Church), Bury, Greater Manchester</corpname>
• <corpname>Clerke Street School, Bury, Lancashire</corpname>
• <corpname>Clerke School, Bury, Greater Manchester</corpname>

Originally, Methodist services in Bury were held in premises at Pits o'th'Moor, later in Clerke Street. In 1817, a new chapel was built in Union Street (later Central Methodist Church) and the Clerke Street premises were used as a Sunday school and (from 1851) a day school. Union Street was part of Bury Wesleyan Methodist Circuit until 1949, when it became part of Bury (later Bury and Heywood) Methodist Circuit following Methodist Union. For records of these circuits, see CBW and CBH. The church was demolished in 1999; The marriage registers were deposited at the same time via the Office of National Statistics, Southport under the Marriage regulations 1952.