Grosvenor Square Presbyterian Church, Chorlton-on-Medlock

Deacons' Court (Board of Managers):

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 5 Minute book 1847-1864

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 4 Minute book 1865-1876

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 6 Minute book 1874-1880

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 13 Minute book 1881-1886

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 4 Minute book 1886-1894

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 4 Minute book 1894-1902

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 12 Minute book 1908-1916

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 10 Minute book 1916-1920

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 10 Minute book 1920-1927

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 11 Minute book 1927-1936

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 11 Minute book 1936-1940

Court of Session (Elders' Meeting):

M641/Box 31 Minute book No 5 1845-1857

M641/Box 31 Minute book No 6 1857-1868

M641/Box 3 Minute book No 7 1868-1880

M641/Box 3 Minute book No 8 (Includes loose printed order of service for St Aidan's Presbyterian Church, Didsbury (undated) Could be removed-used as book mark.) 1880-1887

M641/Box 15 Minute book No 9(Highly decorated pages) 1887-1895

M641/Box 15 Minute book No 10 1895-1903

M641/Box 23 Minute book No 11 1903-1911

M641/Box 23 Minute book No 12 1912-1923

M641/Box 22 Minute book No 13 1923-1940

M641/Box 12 Minute book (Includes Loose letter referring to merger of Withington and Grosvenor Square with two edicts from Manchester Presbytery June 1940.) Apr-Jun 1940

Membership records:

M641/Box 13 Birth and baptismal register 5 Jan 1908-14 Apr 1940

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 8 Marriage register (MFPR 1974) 1881 - 1940

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 6 Communicants' Rolls 1832-1888

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 2 Communicants' roll 1889-1906

M641/Box 5 Communicants' roll 1906-1921

M641/Box 5 Communicants' roll 1921-1936

M641/Box 5 Communicants' roll 1936-1940

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 7 Index to seatholders 1851

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 8 Index to seatholders 1857

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 7 Pew Rent/Seat lettings book 1850-1856

2001/5 Grosvenor Box 7 Pew Rent/Seat lettings book 1856-1862

M641/Box 14 Offertory Book 1932-1939

Ladies' Evening Guild:

M641/Box 19 Minute book 1954-1963

M641/Box 19 Minute book 1963-1967

M641/Box 19 Minute book 1967-1969

M641/Box 19 Minute book 1970-1971

M641/Box 19 List of members with addresses Undated

M641/Box 19 Loose accounts 1969

Sunday School:

M641/Box 13 MinutesIncludes St. Aidan's returns for school for Presbyterian Church House, 1937-1938, Whit week arrangements 1914, 1922-1930, 1938, envelope of letters respecting Whit outings c1938 (with other loose items) 1913-1939

2001/5 Withington Box 9 Admissions 1864-1883

Grosvenor Square Mission (St Andrew's Mission Hall, Booth Street):

This began as a Mission run by St Andrew's Free Church, and from around 1893 was based at Booth Street Mission Hall (also known as St Andrew's Mission Hall, Booth Street). On the sale of St Andrew's Church in 1903, the hall was transferred to Grosvenor Square Presbyterian.

M641/Box 18 Account book; income and expenditure includes names of members giving subscriptions for the New Mission Hall, Booth Street 1874-1952

People's Institute:

This was established in 1894 to reorganise the work relinquished by the Tonge Street Working Men's Club. It initially proposed to house a reading room, Sunday services, the continuing meetings of the Working Men's Club along with meetings of the Men's and Women's Temperance Societies, the Band of Hope, Mothers' meetings and a Sunday School. It was situated at 56 Grosvenor Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock.

M641/Box 1 Committee of Management minute bookThe volume was first used for the minutes of the Manchester and Salford Presbyterian Sabbath School Band of Hope Union. None of these former minutes survive. 1894-1902

M641/Box 30 People's Institute, Tonge Street Sunday SchoolMinute book 1888-1903

Miscellaneous:

2001/5 Withington Box 1 Anniversary meeting minutes 1861-1875