Records of the Parish of St Wilfrid, Newton Heath

M178/1/1-42 Records of Incumbent of St Wilfrid, Newton Heath 1889-1997

M178/1/1 Baptism Register 1968-1997

M178/1/2 Marriage Registers 1910-1982

M178/1/3 Banns Books 1910-1966, 1971-1995

M178/4 Notices of Weddings 1934-1935

M178/1/5 Applications for Banns of Marriage 1964-1980

M178/1/6 Marriage Licences 1963-1976

M178/1/7 Certificates of Marriages Without Licences 1972-1974

M178/1/8 Confirmation Registers 1954-1997

M178/1/9 Confirmation Card 1900

M178/1/10 Registers of Sevices 1889-1997

M178/1/11 Service Sheets 1909-1991

M178/1/12 Papers about Services and Liturgy no date

M178/1/13 Notes for Sermons no date

M178/1/14 Licence for performance of Divine Service 1906

M178/1/15 Parish Boundaries 1951

M178/1/16 Parish Boundaries 1973-1974

M178/1/17 Parish Boundaries 1996-1997

M178/1/18 Notifications of Registration of Patronage 1987-1989

M178/1/19 Benefaction for a Parsonage House 1913

M178/1/20 Specifications for a New Rectory 1913-1914

M178/1/21 Surveyors' Reports on Parsonage House under Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1957-1988

M178/1/22 Repairs to the Rectory 1960

M178/1/23 Rating Revaluation of Rectory 1971

M178/1/24 Papers Relating to Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1933-1960

M178/1/25 Receipt for Investment 1937

M178/1/26 Return of Parochial Statistics 1958

M178/1/27 Notification of Diocesan Grant 1962

M178/1/28-29 Parish Magazines 1906-1997

M178/1/30 Publications of St Wilfrid's, Newton Heath 1934-1937

M178/1/31 Photographs of the Church Building 1909-1951

M178/1/32 Photographs of Founders 1910

M178/1/33 Photographs of Clergy c1919-1982

M178/1/34 Photographs of Choir and Organist 1962-1980

M178/1/35 Photographs of Whit Walks c1900-1980

M178/1/36 Photographs of School Classes c1918-1921

M178/1/37 Photographs of Football Team c1930

M178/1/38 Photographs of Rectory and Garden, St Wilfrid's, Newton Heath 1970

M178/1/39 Miscellaneous Photographs c1920-1962

M178/1/40 Newspaper Cuttings 1981-1982

M178/1/41 Printing Blocks no date

M178/1/42 Correspondence of Rev D Shaw about the Rochdale Canal 1960-1966

M178/1/43 Miscellanoeus Correspondence of Rev D Shaw 1963-1968

M178/2/1-6 Papers Relating to the Building of the Church of St Wilfrid, Newton Heath 1901-1911

(Except for plans, which are as yet unlisted at M178/3)

M178/2/1 Church Building Fund 1906-1911

M178/2/2 Conveyance of the Site of the Church and Parsonage 1910

M178/2/3 Specifications and Costs 1907-1910

M178/2/4 Organ 1901-1902

M178/2/5 Approval of the Church 1910

M178/2/6 Consecration of St Wilfrid's 1910

M178/3 Plans of St Wilfrid's Church and Rectory (not yet listed) c1907-1971

M178/4/1-25 Records of Churchwardens of St Wilfrid's, Newton Heath 1904-1991

(For Vestry Minutes, 1898-1907 see M178/7/1)

M178/4/1 Churchwardens' Papers Relating to Appointments of Clergy 1913-1986

M178/4/2 Analysed Expenditure Accounts 1963

M178/4/3 Annual Statements of Accounts 1927-1988

M178/4/4 Churching Payments and Thank-Offerings 1920-1926

M178/4/5 Freewill Offering Book 1922-1959

M178/4/6 Canvass for Funds 1959

M178/4/7 Donations to Overseas Missions 1961-1962

M178/4/8 Faculties 1913-1991

M178/4/9 Specification for Indoor Decoration 1922

M178/4/10-20 Papers about New Organ 1926

M178/4/21 Miscellaneous Papers about Church Fabric, St Wilfrid's, Newton Heath 1957-1986

M178/4/22 Papers about Inspections of Churches 1958-1995

M178/4/23 Insurance 1904-1981

M178/4/24 Fire Extinguisher Service Contract 1975

M178/4/25 Inventory 1911-1914

For church plans see M178/3

M178/5/1-10 Records of the Parochial Church Council of St Wilfrid's, Newton Heath 1911-1997

M178/5/1 Church Council Minutes 1911-1916

M178/5/2 P C C Minutes 1948-1997

M178/5/3 New Organ Committee Minutes 1924-1929

M178/5/4 Electoral Rolls [c1920]-1969

M178/5/5 Correspondence about Proposed Church Hall 1953

M178/5/6 Correspondence about Church Services 1964

M178/5/7 Correspondence about Church Urban Fund 1987

M178/5/8 Correspondence about Future of the Parish 1987-1988, 1997

M178/5/9 Correspondence File 1993-1997

M178/5/10 Correspondence about Records Deposited in the Diocesan Record Office 1973-1980

M178/6/1-3 Records of Societies Attached to St Wilfrid's, Newton Heath 1900-1962

M178/6/1 Mothers' Union Minutes 1900-1955

M178/6/2 Church of England Mens' Society Membership Card 1913

M178/6/3 Papers about the Choir 1909-1962

M178/7/1 Records of St Wilfrid's Sunday School 1878-1958

M178/7/1 Sunday School Teachers' Minutes 1878-1958

(Includes Vestry Minutes, 1898-1907)

M178/8/1-9 Records of St Wilfrid's Day School, Newton Heath 1879-1961

M178/8/1 Managers' Minutes 1903-1952

M178/8/2 Appointments of Managers 1944-1961

M178/8/3 Re-organisation of the School 1950-1961

M178/8/4 Papers about the Barchester Scheme 1950-1957

M178/8/5 Fuel, Light and Water Charges 1956-1958

M178/8/6 School Fabric 1947-1960

M178/8/7 School Plans 1895-1958

M178/8/8 Insurance 1879-1956

M178/8/9 Religious Instruction 1958-1961

M178/9/1-2 Miscellaneous Papers 1947-1985

M178/9/1 Miscellaneous Papers about Manchester Cathedral and Diocese 1947-1970

M178/9/2 Miscellaneous Leaflets c1953-1985

<span class="wrapper"><p>The Archives Section also has the trust deed of the school in Buckley Street and related correspondence, 1878-1915 (Reference M/C 1533-1536).</p> <p>The Archives Section of the Local Studies Unit also has papers of Archdeacon John Rushton, showing abortive attempts to establish a church in the area, 1849-1853 (MS f 942.72 R121 volume 47); acknowledgement of a gift for a church for Bradford and Beswick, 1861 (M35/9/7/27); a brochure on Christ Church,1959 (MISC/814); and an Order about the patronage of Christ Church, 1972 (M416/1/8/1,2).</p></span>

The following records were deposited in Manchester Central Library as Diocesan Record Office in 1973, 1996 and 1997 (Accession 1997/66).

A Sunday School was opened in Cross Street (later Crowbank Street) in the parish of All Saints, Newton Heath, on 8 April 1877, moving to Buckley Street (later Bexley Street), on 26 May 1878.

The rector of All Saints, Rev St Vincent Beechey, was the son of the founder of Rossall public school, near Fleetwood. In 1882 the headmaster of Rossall, Dr James, suggested making the Buckley Street Mission into a Rossall Mission and the following year Rev J E Mercer became the first Rossall Missioner at Newton Heath.

The Mission was dedicated to St Wilfrid on 15 November 1885.

Rossall continued to provide clergy for St Wilfrid's until at least the 1950s.

From 1890 efforts were made towards the building of a new church. The foundation stone was laid on 9 October 1909, and the new church was consecrated on 12 October 1910, St Wilfrid's Day.

A District was assigned from All Saints, Newton Heath, by Order in Council, 4 April 1906, (London Gazette, 10 April 1906).

In 1973 St Wilfrid's was united with the former parish of St Anne, Newton Heath, as the parish of St Wilfrid and St Anne, by Order in Council, 24 May 1973,(London Gazette, 31 May), St Wilfrid's becoming the parish church of the united benefice.

In 1996 the parish boundaries with St Luke, Lightbowne were altered, by adding part of the parish to St Luke's.

St Wilfrid's was made redundant on 1 December 1997, by Order in Council, 26 November, and the parish united with All Saints, Newton Heath, to form the new parish of Newton Heath.

The last service was held on 18 December, in the rectory.