Manchester (Oxford Road) United Methodist Circuit

Circuits

M640/1 Manchester 2nd UMFC Circuit

M640/1 Manchester (Grosvenor Street) UMFC Circuit

M640/1 Manchester (Oxford Road) UM Circuit

Churches

M640/2 Oxford Road UMFC, Chorlton-upon-Medlock

M640/3 Beswick Street UMFC Mission, Ancoats

M640/4 Great Jackson Street UMFC, Hulme

M640/5 Hyde Road UMFC Schools and Chapel, Ardwick

Manchester Archives and Local Studies is the recognised repository for records of Manchester and Stockport Methodist District (excluding Stockport and Macclesfield circuits). Unless material has already been made public (registers of baptisms and burials), there is a restriction of 30 years on access, unless permission is obtained in writing from the responsible Superintendent Minister. The restriction is extended to 50 years for records of a confidential nature.

The bulk of these records was deposited in 1997 by Revd. Colin Cooper, Superintendent Minister, Manchester (Withington) Methodist Circuit (accession number: 1997/50), and in 1998 by Revd. Jane Craske (accession number: 1998/38). More specific details of deposit are given in the lists for each individual church, as are historical details.

This circuit began as Manchester (Grosvenor Street) United Methodist Free Church Circuit, re-named Manchester 2nd UMFC (Oxford Street) Circuit in 1869. Churches belonging to the circuit were: Ancoats Beswick Street UMFC, Ardwick Hyde Road UMFC, Bradford Albert Street UMFC, Oxford Street (later Oxford Road) UMFC, Glazebrook Temple UMFC, Greenheys UMFC, Hazel Grove UMFC, Hulme Chapman Street UMFC, Hulme Great Jackson Street UMFC and Levenshulme UMFC. After the Methodist Union of 1907, the circuit became Manchester (Oxford Road) United Methodist Circuit. Two churches from Manchester (South) MNC Circuit were added in 1917: namely Altrincham ex-MNC (ref: C18/19) and Boston Street ex-MNC, Hulme (ref: M319/4). It continued after Methodist Union in 1932 (and is not to be confused with Oxford Road ex-Wesleyan Circuit), but gradually its churches were closed or moved to other circuits until it was left with Oxford Road ex-UMFC and Beswick Street ex-UMFC. The circuit was dissolved in 1949 and the two remaining churches moved to Manchester (Withington) Methodist Circuit, but closed soon after.