Chorlton Road Congregational Church, Old Trafford
Cannon Street Chapel, Chorlton Road Congregational Church, Melbourne Street Mission and Tatton Street Mission1752-1973
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Cannon Street Chapel records: Membership Records, 1829-1864; Pastorate Records, 1752-1790; Administrative/Trust Records 1788-1877; Financial Records, 1847-1848; Church Histories and Publications; Sunday School Accounts Book, 1846-1851
Chorlton Road Congregational Church records, 1861-1972: Membership Records - Membership Rolls, 1887-1931; Members List, 1939, Photographs of Rev. Pearce Jones, c.1960; Administrative Records - Reports and proposals, 1940s-1970s; Correspondence, 1912, 1933, 1958; Church Meeting Minutes, 1859-1943; Deacons' Meeting Minutes, 1862-1966; Development Committee Papers, 1950s; Elders' Board Minutes, 1876-1919; General Purpose Committee and House Committee Minute, 1938-1946; House Committee, Construction Committee and Development Committee Meeting Minutes and papers, 1941-1955; Hulme Group Development Committee Minutes, 1960-1962; Mission Statement, 1937; Financial Records - Analysis Account Books, 1937-1949; Cash Books, 1908-1938; Ledgers, 1919-1949; Whit Week Expense Book, 1866-1888; Pew Rent Books, 1876-1929; Balance Sheets, 1916-1955; Property and Premises Records - Extension Scheme, 1870s; Church Organ, 1924-1946; Heating System, 1949-1950; Reconstruction and Development Committee, 1940s-1960s' Societies and Organisations - Arts and Crafts Committee, 1909-1911; Band of Hope, 1878-1905; Church Choir, 1879-1914; Congregational Missionary Society, 1879-1935; South Manchester Ministers Fraternal Society, 1941-1950; Temperence Society, 1885-1904; Young People's Fellowship (Y.P.F), 1926-1955; Youth Auxiliary Missionary Society, 1871-1878; The Boys Brigade, 1954; Missionary societies material, 1906-1907, 1928; Publications - Church Magazine, 1871-1916; The Silent Visitor (Church Magazine), 1936-1938; Church Manuals, 1873-1938; Church Histories, Church Letters and Circulars, 1861-1970; Photographs of the church, c.1870, c.1900, c.1941, c.1960; Sunday School Records - Sunday School Council Minutes, 1882-1940; Sunday School Teachers' Meeting Minutes, 1894-1957; Sunday School Executive Committee Minutes, 1909-1916; Membership Records, c.1880-1940
Melbourne Street Mission records 1891-1944
Tatton Street Mission records 1903-1931
See also accession 2008/64:
BOX 1
Roll of church members, 1 vol, 1938-2008
Attendance roll of members, 1 vol, 1937-1951
Membership Lists, 1 file, 1992-1995
Minutes of Church Meetings, 1 vol, 1943-1964
BOX 2
Minutes of Church Meetings, 1 bundle, 1964-1987
BOX 3
Minutes of Elders' Meetings, 1 bundle, 1966-1985
Minutes of Elders' Meetings, 1 file, 1990-1993
BOX 4
Minutes of Church Meetings, 1 file, 1988-1995
Minutes of Church and Elders' Meetings, 1 file, 1992-1995
Minutes of Church and Elders' Meetings, 1 file, 1996
Minutes of Church and Elders' Meetings, 1 file, 1997
Minutes of Church and Elders' Meetings, 1 file, 1998-1999
BOX 5
Minutes of Church and Elders' Meetings, 1 file, 2000-2001
Minutes of Church and Elders' Meetings, 1 file, 2002
Sunday School Register, 1 vol, 1951-1961
Sunday School Junior Register, 1 vol, 1963-1965
BOX 6
Sunday School Senior Register, 1 leaflet, 1966-1967
Sunday Schools Missionary Society Annual Committee Meeting Minute book, 1 vol, 1878-1891 (includes reports and accounts)
Sunday School Leaders, Teachers and Annual General Meetings Minute book, 1 vol, 1958-1971
Women's Guild Minutes, 1 vol, 1960-1987
Women's Guild Register of attendance, 1983-1992
BOX 7
Correspondence regarding deeds, etc., 1 file, 1872-1940
Bundles of correspondence:
Correspondence regarding transfer of deeds to Lancashire Congregational Union, 1939
Correspondence regarding Chorlton Road Manse, 1921
The Manse Fund Acknowledgement, 1921
Communion Service card, n.d.
Organ Tuning revised terms, May 1933
Estimate for renovation of organ, 1923
Mr. Astbury's removal to Mellor, 1941
Correspondence regarding Old Members Fund and 1939 Bazaar, 1939-1941
Correspondence regarding reconstruction, 1962
BOX 8
'In those days' (Chorlton Road - sixty years ago), 1964
Mr. H. P Pentelow's certificate of 60 years' membership, 1964
Cutting on Bazaar, c.1931
Correspondence regaring sale of schoolroom, 1956
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1921-1942
BOX 9
Congregational Magazine, 1 vol, 1867
Congregational Magazine, 1 vol, 1909
Congregational Magazine, 1 vol, 1910
BOX 10
Congregational Magazine, 1 bundle, 1956-1962
BOX 11
Congregational Magazine, 1 bundle, 1963-1973, 1976
OUTSIZE
Roll of church members, 1 vol, c.1868
Sunday School Boys Register, 1 vol, 1868-1902
Sunday School Boys Register, 1 vol, 1902-1909
Sunday School Boys Register (Elementary School), 1 vol, 1905-1909
Sunday School Morning Register (Boys), 1 vol, 1890-1903
Receipt book: contributions towards account for extensions, 1 vol, 1873-1876
Architect's drawing, n.d.
Melbourne Street Mission, 1891-1944
Tatton Street Mission, 1903-1931
Related Material:National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services holds records of the following records of this church:
1878-1958: minute book, collection books, accounts, register of members, sunday school records, young people's society account book
Title:
Chorlton Road Congregational Church, Old Trafford
Date of work:
1752-1973
Reference number:
GB127.M185
Level of description:
Fonds
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Custodial history:
The church originated in Cannon Street in 1756, from where congregations departed to new premises in Moseley Street in 1788, and Grosvenor Street in 1806. The building in Cannon Street was sold in 1858 and the congregation moved to temporary accomodation until the Chorlton Road Church was opened in 1861.
Between 1861 and 1900 the membership of the church increased from 60 to 1,000, resulting in development work of the premises and the founding of two further missions in Melbourne Street and Tatton Street.
The church membership declined in numbers following the Second World War, although the church remained in its Chorlton Road premises. The large church building was deemed to be unnecessary in the 1950s, culminating in the sale of the Large School building and the founding in 1957 of the reconstruction fund to raise £10,000 for modifications. This work was carried out in the early 1960s and formed part of the centenary year celebrations of the church in 1961
In 1972 the Congregational church joined with the English Presbyterian church to become the United Reformed Church. The church remains at Chorlton Road URC, 3 Ayres Road, Old Trafford.
The following were ministers in the church:
Dr J.A. Macfayden, 1863-1889
Dr A. Goodrich, 1890-1912
Rev. F. Y. Leggatt, 1908-1920
Rev. K. L. Parry, 1921-1933
Rev. A. M. Astbury, 1935-1945
Rev. R. L. Jenkins, 1946-1952
Rev. Pearce Jones, 1954-c.1970
Rev. Anthony Gerald Burnham, inducted 1973
See records M185/2/6/3/1-5 for further information concerning the church history.
Finding aids note:
Old Location ST4/I16.1 (BOXES 1-9) ST4/I16.2 (BOXES 10-11, OUTSIZE)Old Location2ST4/T24.3-T25.3
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Language:
English
Record number:
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