Roby Congregational Church, Longsight
1750-1965
Archives
Total copies: 1
Church Record Book 1750-1869; Baptism Registers 1912-1965; Copy of Trust Deed 1808; Minutes of Church and Deacons' Meetings 1826-1832; Minutes of the Church 1903-1917, 1922-1926; Deacon's Minute Books 1898-1907, 1925-1929; Members' Attendance Registers 1805-1875; Pew Rents 1870-1879; Accounts 1942-1958
Record of the Sunday School including Sunday School Committee Minutes 1828-1943; Teachers' Minutes 1846-1921; Day and Sunday School Annual Reports 1808-1873
Records of Clubs and Societies including Roby Mutual Improvement Society Minutes 1844-1848; Roby Literary Club 1868-1871; Roby Temperance Institute 1846-1863; Roby Congregational Guild Minutes 1901-1939
Publications : Grosvenor St. Independent Chapel Manuals 1890-1897; Roby Congregational Chapel Magazine 1871-1889
For some months prior to their deposit, they had been stored in a wooden chest against an outside wall in the Sunday School premises and were found to be damp and covered with fungus. The writing in many of the volumes had faded considerably and only the centres of the pages are legible.
Title:
Roby Congregational Church, Longsight
Date of work:
1750-1965
Reference number:
GB127.M213
Level of description:
Fonds
Includes:
Custodial history:
Roby Congregational Church descended from the Independent Church in Cannon St., which was licenced for public worship in 1762 and which was also the ancestor of the Chorlton Rd. (M185/) and Cavendish Congregational Churches (M162/). In 1807, Rev. William Roby with three deacons and 226 members of the Cannon St. congregation removed to a new building in Grosvenor St., Piccadilly, which was opened on 3rd Dec., that year. It remained there, as Grosvenor St. Congregational church, until February 1912 when it moved to Dickenson Rd., Longsight and became known as Roby Congregational Church.
In 1973 with the unification of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches it became Roby United Reformed Church.
For some months prior to their deposit, they had been stored in a wooden chest against an outside wall in the Sunday School premises and were found to be damp and covered with fungus. The writing in many of the volumes had faded considerably and only the centres of the pages are legible.
The chapel had a burial ground behind the chapel on Aytoun Street. In 1844 a school was built over the burial ground on arches. Burials were limited but continued until 1853. Human remains were moved to Southern Cemetery in 1911. Transcripts of 80 gravestones c.1811-1850 (undertaken in 1911) are on microfilm (MFPR 1954).
Source:
The following records were deposited in the library in August 1973, when the church was pulled down and replaced by a new one on the same site.
Access restrictions:
Unrestricted
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
Topics:
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7191511