RADCLIFFE CLOSE METHODIST CHURCH (formerly Wesleyan)

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Church

CRC/1 Leaders' Meeting Minute Books (4) 1918-1974

CRC/2 Congregation & Finance Committee Minute Books (1) 1930-1954

CRC/3 Trustees' Meeting Minute Books (2) 1928-1969

CRC/4 Envelope System Committee Minute Book (1) 1921-1952

CRC/5 Society Stewards' Account Books (2) 1889-1914

CRC/6 Seat Rent Ledgers (2) 1878-1920

CRC/7 Wesleyan Missionary Society records (2) 1874-1914

CRC/8 Foreign Missionary Society records (2) 1894-1955

CRC/9 Miscellaneous Funds records (3) 1884-1922

Sunday School

CRC/10 School & Teachers' Committee Minute Books (6) 1850-1966

CRC/11 Scholars' Roll/Admission Register (1) 1846-1913

CRC/12 Teachers' Attendance Registers (3) 1839-1965

CRC/13 Attendance Registers (8) 1955-1970

Day School

CRC/14 Managers' Minute Books (1) 1873-1903

CRC/15 Log Books (1) 1871-1910

<p>Papers relating to the construction of the chapel in 1838-1846, and the Bealey school and chapel trust accounts 1898-1931 are to be found among the records of Bealey's bleachworks (ref. BBY). Records of Bury and Radcliffe Wesleyan Methodist Circuits are to be found in refs. CBW and CMW respectively. The records of the current Radcliffe Methodist Circuit are to be found in ref. CMR.</p>

• <corpname>Radcliffe Close Methodist Church, Lancashire</corpname>
• <corpname>Radcliffe Close Wesleyan Church, Lancashire</corpname>

With the exception of CRC/3/2, deposited by Rev D Reddish in 1999, all the records listed below were deposited by Radcliffe Methodist circuit in 2000.

The society originally met in premises in Messrs. Bealey's bleachworks at Dumers lane, before the original chapel was built in 1838 by Mary Bealey. It was part of the Bury Wesleyan Circuit until 1889, when it became part of the new Radcliffe Circuit. A day-school linked to the church closed in 1866, but re-opened in 1871: no records for the pre-1866 school have been deposited.