HARROW METHODIST CIRCUIT

These majority of these records, 1896-1999, were accumulated by the circuit archivist of the Harrow Methodist Circuit, in the London Borough of Harrow, and consist of both records relating to the administration of the circuit as a whole, and also to the activities of some of the individual churches with the circuit. Records include minutes, registers of baptisms, correspondence, newsletters, plans and photographs, amongst others. Some individual churches are well represented in terms of the quantity of records in this collection, others are less fully represented, and some churches known to have belonged to the circuit are not represented here at all. In 2002 there was an additional deposit of records relating to the Harrow Methodist Circuit. These have been integrated into the old list and the list has been updated.

The records are arranged as follows:

CIRCUIT RECORDS:

Circuit administration ACC/3393/CR/01

Circuit groups/organisations ACC/3393/CR/02

Circuit preaching plans/directories ACC/3393/CR/03

Circuit newsletters ACC/3393/CR/04

Photographs ACC/3393/CR/05

Related Material ACC/3393/CR/06

HARROW (BESSBOROUGH ROAD) CHURCH:

Printed items ACC/3393/BR/01

CANNON LANE (PINNER) CHURCH:

Printed items ACC/3393/CA/01

Trustees and buildings ACC/3393/CA/02

EASTCOTE CHURCH:

Printed items ACC/3393/EA/01

HARROW WEALD CHURCH:

Church administration ACC/3393/HW/01

RUISLIP (ICKENHAM ROAD) CHURCH:

Registers and membership ACC/3393/IR/01

Church administration ACC/3393/IR/02

Trustees and buildings ACC/3393/IR/03

Church groups/organisations ACC/3393/IR/04

Magazines/newsletters ACC/3393/IR/05

Printed items and photographs ACC/3393/IR/06

KENTON CHURCH:

Printed items ACC/3393/KE/01

Trustees and buildings ACC/3393/KE/02

Church administration ACC/3393/KE/03

NORTH HARROW CHURCH:

Printed items ACC/3393/NH/01

Trustees and buildings ACC/3393/NH/02

NORTHWOOD (OAKLANDS GATE) CHURCH:

Registers and membership ACC/3393/NW/01

Church administration ACC/3393/NW/02

Trustees and buildings ACC/3393/NW/03

Ministers and other staff ACC/3393/NW/04

Church groups/organisations ACC/3393/NW/05

Printed items and photographs ACC/3393/NW/06

Ephemera ACC/3393/NW/07

RUISLIP COMMON CHURCH:

Printed items ACC/3393/RC/01

Trustees and building ACC/3393/RC/02

RUISLIP MANOR CHURCH:

Printed items: ACC/3393/RM/01

Church administration/organisations ACC/3393/RM/02

Trustees and buildings ACC/3393/RM/03

Ephemera ACC/3393/RM/04

SOUTH HARROW CHURCH:

Registers and membership ACC/3393/SH/01

Church administration ACC/3393/SH/02

Trustees and buildings ACC/3393/SH/03

Ministers and other staff ACC/3393/SH/04

Pulpit notice books ACC/3393/SH/05

Church groups/organisations ACC/3393/SH/06

Schools ACC/3393/SH/07

Magazines/newsletters ACC/3393/SH/08

Printed items and photographs ACC/3393/SH/09

SOUTH RUISLIP CHURCH:

Printed items ACC/3393/SR/01

Registers and membership ACC/3393/SR/02

Church administration ACC/3393/SR/03

Pulpit notice books ACC/3393/SR/04

HARROW (WELLDON CRESCENT) CHURCH:

Printed items ACC/3393/WC/01

Registers and membership ACC/3393/WC/02

Church administration ACC/3393/WC/03

Trustees and buildings ACC/3393/WC/04

Church groups/organisations ACC/3393/WC/05

Ephemera ACC/3393/WC/06

WEALDSTONE CHURCH:

Printed items ACC/3393/WE/01

<span class="wrapper"><p>London Metropolitan Archives has other holdings relating to some of the churches within the Harrow Circuit, as follows:</p> <p>Harrow Methodist Chapel ACC/1391/1-87</p> <p>Bessborough Road, Harrow Church ACC/1388/27-34</p> <p>Welldon Crescent, Harrow Church ACC/1388/35-38</p> <p>Hallowwell Road, Northwood Church ACC/1388/80-82</p> <p>Harefield Methodist Church ACC/2567/1-20</p> <p>Harefield Methodist Church ACC/2270/1-2</p> <p>Ruislip Common Church ACC/3430/1</p></span>

THESE RECORDS ARE OPEN TO PUBLIC INSPECTION, ALTHOUGH RECORDS CONTAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE SUBJECT TO CLOSURE PERIODS

The three main branches of Methodism in the early twentieth century, the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, re-united as The Methodist Church in 1932. Of the churches represented in this collection, most of those in existence by 1932 were formerly Wesleyan Methodist churches, with the exception of Welldon Crescent, Harrow; High Street, Northwood; and Ruislip Common, which were formerly Primitive Methodist churches.

The 'Victoria County History' of Middlesex, Volume IV, pages 262-263 has brief notes on some of the churches in the circuit, mainly concerning dates of opening, reconstruction and closure.