| Description | Trustees' meetings minute books 1892-1952, Leaders' meetings minute book 1905-1924, Collection journals 1893-1975, Pulpit notices books 1927-1952, Sermons 1809-1816, Choir and Manse Trust Committees Minutes 1914-1973, Sunday School Accounts 1928-1972, Wesleyan Guild 1904-1963, Sisterhood 1936-1965
Including records begun by the Wesleyan church and continued by the united church after 1932. |
| Administrative History | A Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built on the main street in Hathersage in 1807. It was enlarged in 1871, and had a Sunday School built in 1845. A later Sunday School was built in 1907, along with other premises, known as The Institute, which was transferred to the Roman Catholic Church after the Second World War. It was originally in the Bradwell Wesleyan Circuit. Following the amalgamation of the Primitive, Wesleyan and United Methodist Churches in Britain in 1932, the Primitive Methodists closed their church and they seem to have been absorbed into the congregation of the old Wesleyan church. In 1939 a new Methodist Church was built. |