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MACCLESFIELD CIRCUIT

Catalogue reference: EMC 1

What’s it about?

This record is about the MACCLESFIELD CIRCUIT dating from 1783-1977.

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Full description and record details

Reference
EMC 1
Title
MACCLESFIELD CIRCUIT
Date
1783-1977
Arrangement

The records have been grouped together as follows:-

EMC 1/1-13, 22-25 Wesleyan Circuit, and post 1949 Union.

EMC 1/14-15 Methodist New Connexion Circuit.

EMC 1/16-18 United Methodist Free Church Circuit, and post 1935 Union.

EMC 19-21 Primitive Methodist Circuit

Related material

<p>Records relating to individual chapels and societies have been placed in the series EMS.</p>

Held by
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Language
English
Creator(s)
<corpname>Macclesfield Circuit, Cheshire</corpname>
Physical description
206 files
Immediate source of acquisition

Deposited by the Superintendent Minister of Macclesfield Circuit and by ministers serving in the Circuit in June 1967, November 1969, September 1972, June 1973, November 1976, February 1982 and August 1983. Acc. 1283(pt.), 1619(pt.), 1879(pt.), 1903, 1923(pt.), 2296(pt.), 2962(pt.), 3312(pt.), 4648

Administrative / biographical background

A general account of the development of Methodism in Macclesfield is given in 'A History of Macclesfield' by C. Stella Davies (1969), and a more detailed early history in 'Methodism in Macclesfield' by Benjamin Smith (1875). The dates of the unions of Macclesfield Circuits are as follows:-

1935 - Macclesfield (Amalgamated) Circuit formed from:-

Park Street (former Methodist New Connexion) Circuit.

Park Green (former United Methodist Free Church) Circuit.

Macclesfield (former Primitive Methodist) Circuit.

Bollington Circuit.

1949 - Macclesfield Methodist Circuit formed from:-

Macclesfield (Wesleyan) Circuit.

Macclesfield (Amalgamated) Circuit.

Copies information

A copy of the 'Circuit Register of Trust Deeds and other Documents' not deposited is in the Accession File.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/fde81565-52b5-4be2-a760-26355eab4243/

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MACCLESFIELD CIRCUIT