HOYLAKE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

Minutes, records regarding to church buildings and repairs financial and administrative records

CHURCH MEETINGS

Church Meetings minutes

New Building Committee minutes

Church Committee minutes

Finance Committee minutes

Church Memorial Window Committee minutes

Elders Committee minutes

Missionary Sub-committee minutes

Reconstruction Committee minutes

CHURCH SECRETARY

Church fabric, buildings and repairs

Trust and registration papers

Church services and activities

Publications

Miscellanea

TREASURER

Financial records

SUNDAY SCHOOL

Teachers meeting minutes

Other records

WOMEN'S GUILD OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY - WOMEN'S AUXILIARY

LITERARY SOCIETY

Acc 4682,4745

The first Congregational congregation in Hoylake met in 1874, using a rented chapel. After some years a site was purchased and a church building erected, opening on 30 October 1884. Sunday school premises were included. By 1903 there was insufficient room for the growing congregation and fund raising began for a new church. The foundation stone was laid on 22 March 1905, and the new church opened on 18 May 1906. The old church was thereafter used as a hall. During the war in 1940 the church was hit by incendiary bombs and badly damaged by fire. The building was not in use for the next decade, until it was repaired and reopened in 1950. In 1972 Hoylake became a United Reformed Church with the union of Congregational and Presbyterian churches. However over the next few years numbers in the congregation declined. In 1987 Hoylake joined with St Andrews in Meols, services thereafter being held in Meols. The premises in Hoylake continue to be the property of the URC and in January 1991 the church was given the status of a grade II listed building.

Further information on the history of the church will be found in a 12 part newsletter published by St Andrews URC Hoylake with Meols see ECC 9/4682/60