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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D6608
TitleCreswell Methodist Church, and predecessors
Date19th-21st cent
DescriptionPREDECESSORS CHURCHES
- Centenary Methodist, formerly Primitive, Methodist Church, Creswell (1908-1961): Trustees minutes 1952-1961, Leaders minutes 1924-1961, Sisterhood minutes 1955-1960, Collection journals 1917-1953

- Creswell, formerly Wesleyan, Methodist Church (c1904-1961): Trustees minutes 1951-1976, Leaders minutes 1904-1971, Sisterhood minutes 1931-2005, Collection journals 1946-1995, Sunday School minutes 1906-1971, General account books 1949-1992, Sunday Shcool accounts 1900-1988

CRESWELL METHODIST CHURCH, 1961-2006
Trustees minutes 1951-1976, Leaders minutes 1904-1971, Sisterhood minutes 1931-2005, Collection journals 1946-1995, Sunday School minutes 1906-1971, General account books 1949-1992, Sunday Shcool accounts 1900-1988, Colliery Disaster Relief Fund 1950-1979, Marriage registers 1990-2004
Extent2 boxes, 2 volumes
LevelFonds
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
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Archive CreatorCreswell Methodist Church
Centenary Methodist, formerly Primitive, Methodist Church, Creswell
Creswell, formerly Wesleyan, Methodist Church
Administrative HistoryThe Primitive Methodist church was built about 1908 and the Wesleyan Methodist about 1904. They amalgamated in October 1961 to form the Creswell Methodist Church. The church closed in 2006.
Custodial HistoryThese records were donated to Derbyshire Record Office in May 2006 on the closure of the church. The registers were variously donated by the General Register Office in November 2006 and deposited by the Chesterfield Methodist Circuit in Febrary 2019. Further records were deposited by the Methodist Church Sheffield District archivist in October 2022.
ArrangementPREDECESSORS CHURCHES
D6608/1 Centenary Methodist, formerly Primitive, Methodist Church, Creswell
D6608/2 Creswell, formerly Wesleyan, Methodist Church - also including records for the new combined church after 1961

CRESWELL METHODIST CHURCH, 1961-2006
D6608/2 various records continued in the books of the former Wesleyan church after 1961

D6608/3 Colliery Disaster Relief Fund, 1950-1979
D6604/4 Marriage registers
Organisation Sub-TypeMethodist Churches/Chapels
Related MaterialSee D6369 for records of the Creswell United Methodist Free Church. See D7008 for a programme of the Opening Service of the new church in 1966.
Archivist NoteCatalogued 17 May 2006, PS.
Updated 8 February 2007, PB.
Revised to ISAD(G) standard 20 October 2022, BS.
Partially updated to ISAD(G) standard 31 October 2022, BS.

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Creswell; Creswell Methodist Church; 1961-2006; Methodist church
Creswell; Creswell Wesleyan Methodist Church; fl 1908-1961; Methodist church
Creswell; Creswell Primitive Methodist Church; fl 1904-1961; Methodist church
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