| Administrative History | RIPLEY METHODIST CIRCUIT (1942-2010)
The amalgamated Ripley Methodist Circuit was formed in 1942. It included the following churches:
Ripley: Wesleyan (Chapel St), Ebenezer (Nottingham Rd), Nottingham Road (formerly Primitive Methodist), Wood Street and Bethel (Derby Rd); Nether Heage; Codnor: Bethesda, Wesleyan and Wright Street; Swanwick: Pentrich Road and Derby Road; Waingroves; Golden Valley; Crich; Heanor: Wesleyan; Mount Street and Mansfield Road; New Brinsley; Pye Hill Trinity; Ironville; Denby; Riddings; Somercotes: Wesleyan and Salem; Leabrooks; Birchwood; Selston; South Wingfield: Wesleyan and Zion.
The circuit proved too large and unwieldy and the South Normanton circuit was formed from it in 1948.
RIPLEY WESLEYAN METHODIST CIRCUIT (fl 1838-1942)
The Ripley Wesleyan Methodist Circuit included the churches at Chapel Street, Ripley; Riddings; Heanor; Codnor; Alfreton; South Wingfield; Somercotes; Buckland Hollow; Blackwell; South Normanton and Berrister.
ALFRETON AND SOUTH NORMANTON METHODIST CIRCUIT (fl 1871-1966)
This circuit was originally known as the Alfreton Primitive Methodist Circuit which was established Nottingham Road, Alfreton; Somercotes; Portland Row; Inkerman; South Normanton; Morewood Moor; in 1879 and included churches at Derby Road and Wessington; Pinxton; Westhouses; New Selston and Leabrooks. From 1926 the circuit became
known as the Alfreton and South Normanton Primitive Methodist Circuit. The South Normanton Circuit formed in 1948 was united with this circuit in 1966 to form the Alfreton Circuit.
SOUTH NORMANTON METHODIST CIRCUIT (1948-1966)
The South Normanton Circuit was formed from the Ripley Circuit in 1948. It included the Wesleyan and King Street Churches, Alfreton; Tabor, Wesleyan and Bethel, South
Normanton; Pinxton Wharf and Pinxton Town Street; Bentinck, Kirkby in Ashfield; Victoria Street, Stanton Hill; Priestsic Road, Sutton in Ashfield; Blackwell; B Winning and Sherwood Street, Huthwaite. When the Circuit was joined to the Alfreton and South Normanton Circuit to form the Alfreton Circuit in 1966, the churches at Kirkby in Ashfield, Sutton in Ashfield, Huthwaite and Stanton Hill were transferred to the Ashfield Circuit.
ALFRETON METHODIST CIRCUIT (1966-2010)
This circuit was formed from the union of the South Normanton and Alfreton and South Normanton Circuits in 1966.
RIPLEY NOTTINGHAM ROAD (FORMERLY PRIMITIVE) METHODIST CIRCUIT (1851-1942)
The Ripley Primitive Methodist Circuit included the churches at Nottingham Road and Wood Street, Ripley, Golden Valley, Pye Hill, Swanwick, Crich, Ironville, Codnor, Nether Heage, Westwood, Marehay and New Brinsley.
RIPLEY UNITED METHODIST CIRCUIT (fl 1910-1942)
The Ripley United Methodist Circuit included the Bethel and Ebenezer Churches, Ripley, Alfreton, Swanwick, South Normanton, Pinxton, Birchwood, Pentrich, South Wingfield, Leabrooks and Selston.
CODNOR METHODIST CIRCUIT (1876-fl 1941)
The Circuit included churches at Codnor, Mount Street and Mansfield Road, Heanor, Waingroves, Pinxton Wharf, Somercotes, Ironville, Langley Mill, South Normanton and Denby. |
| Arrangement | RIPLEY METHODIST CIRCUIT (1942-2010)
D2192/JMM/1 Quarterly Minutes, 1942-1983
D2192/JMM/2 Trustees and Trust Deeds, c1942-1953
D2192/JMM/3 Circuit Schedules of Trust property, 1947-1955
D2192/JMM/4 Correspondence, c1917-1947
D2192/JMM/5 Quarterly schedules for meeting classes, 1959-1965
D2192/JMM/6 Circuit Youth Reports, 1959-1966
D2192/JMM/7 Methodist Missionary Society Church Schedules, 1964-1972
D2192/JMM/8 Missionary Society Circuit Accounts, 1946-1957
D2192/JMM/9 Missionary Society Circuit Financial statements, 1964-1965
D2192/JMM/10 Circuit Overseas Missions Details, 1966-1970
D2192/JMM/11 Circuit Overseas Missions Summary accounts, 1967
D2192/JMM/12 Annual Missionary Conference, 1969
D2192/JMM/13 Overseas Missions Memoranda, 1969
[see below for D2192/JMM/14-49]
D2192/JMM/50 Sale of Circuit properties, 20th cent
D2192/JMM/51 Local Preachers Committee Minutes, 1958-1980
D2192/JMM/52 Local Preachers Committee Correspondence and related papers, 1969-1990
[see below for D2192/JMM/53]
D2192/JMM/54 Miscellaneous, 1950-1961, including Circuit plans, 1977-2008
RIPLEY WESLEYAN METHODIST CIRCUIT (fl 1838-1942)
D2192/JMM/14 Baptism Registers, 1838-1953
D2192/JMM/15 Quarterly Minutes, 1860-1879
D2192/JMM/16 Local Preachers Minutes, 1847-1943
D2192/JMM/17 Register of deeds, c1817-1943
D2192/JMM/18 Statistical summaries of the Wesleyan Chapel and other Trust property, 1860-1918
D2192/JMM/19 Circuit Schedule Books, 1878-1954; Sunday School Council 1913-1946
See also Ripley Methodist Circuit (1942-2010) D2192/JMM/50
ALFRETON AND SOUTH NORMANTON METHODIST CIRCUIT (fl 1871-1966)
D2192/JMM/20 Baptism Registers, 1871-1962
D2192/JMM/21 Quarterly Minutes, 1880-1944
D2192/JMM/22 Records of Trustees, 1877-1954
D2192/JMM/23 Annual Station Reports, 1881-1923
D2192/JMM/24 Annual Schedules of Station property, 1879-1932
D2192/JMM/25 Annual Schedules of Sunday Schools, 1905-1932
D2192/JMM/26 Statistical Reports of the Bands of Hope and Adult Temperance Societies, 1905-1931
D2192/JMM/27 Annual Statistical Reports of the Christian Endeavour Societies, 1905-1932
D2192/JMM/28 Quarterley Guides/Plans, 1918-1966
D2192/JMM/29 Local Preachers Minutes, 1933-1972 (Alfreton Methodist Circuit from 1966)
D2192/JMM/30 Quarter day account books, 1880-1946
D2192/JMM/31 Circuit Schedule books, c1937-1964
D2192/JMM/32 Primitive Methodist Centenary Fund: Treasurer's Subscriptions book, 1907-1912
D2192/JMM/33 Annual Circuit Sunday School Schedules, 1933-1941
D2192/JMM/34 Annual Circuit Temperance Schedules, 1933-1937
D2192/JMM/35 Correspondence and related papers, primarily concerning circuit amalgamation, 1948-1974
D2192/JMM/36 Completed questionnaires for candidates for the Preachers' plan, c1925
D2192/JMM/37 Miscellaneous correspondence, c1924-1926
D2192/JMM/38 Class roll books, 1894-c1964
[see below for D2192/JMM/39-49, 53 and above for D2192/JMM/51-52, 54]
D2192/JMM/55 Missions Committees Minute Book, 1964-2004 (Alfreton Methodist Circuit from 1966)
SOUTH NORMANTON METHODIST CIRCUIT (1948-1966)
D2192/JMM/39 Register of Trustees and Trust Deeds [1960s]; Register of Church Members [1960s]
D2192/JMM/40 Circuit plans and directories, 1962-1966
D2192/JMM/41/1-63 Correspondence re Blackwell Manse, c1962-1970 (Alfreton Methodist Circuit from 1966)
D2192/JMM/41/64 Notes on reduction of ministers, 1997 (Alfreton Methodist Circuit from 1966)
D2192/JMM/41/65 Youth Council Minutes, 1960-2010 (Alfreton Methodist Circuit from 1966)
ALFRETON METHODIST CIRCUIT (1966-2010)
D2192/JMM/42 Quarterly Plans, 1967-1968
See also
- Alfreton and South Normanton Methodist Circuit (fl 1871-1966)
- D2192/JMM/29 for Local Preachers Minutes 1966-1972
- D2192/JMM/55 Missions Committees Minute Book 1964-2004
- South Normanton Methodist Circuit (1948-1966)
- D2192/JMM/41/1-63 Correspondence re Blackwell Manse, c1962-1970
- D2192/JMM/41/64 Notes on reduction of ministers, 1997
- D2192/JMM/41/65 Youth Council Minutes, 1960-2010
RIPLEY NOTTINGHAM ROAD (FORMERLY PRIMITIVE) METHODIST CIRCUIT (1851-1942)
D2192/JMM/43 Home and Foreign Mission Collections Accounts, 1911-1940
D2192/JMM/44 Chapel insurance policies, 1911-1935
D2192/JMM/45 Correspondence re different circuit properties, c1903-1940
RIPLEY UNITED METHODIST CIRCUIT (fl 1910-1942)
D2192/JMM/46 Steward's Accounts, 1910-1937
D2192/JMM/47 First World War Roll of Honour c1918
[see below for D2192/JMM/48-49 and above for D2192/JMM/51-52, 54]
D2192/JMM/53 Preachers' Plans (1939)
CODNOR METHODIST CIRCUIT (1876-fl 1940)
D2192/JMM/48 Missionary Society Circuit Accounts, 1936-1941
RECORDS GIVEN BY PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL
D2192/JMM/49 Photograph [20th cent] and hymnals |