| Description | The circuit papers and volumes include registers, plans, directories and orders of service, circuit quarterly meeting minutes and correspondence, circuit committees, town stewards, circuit accounts and local preachers meetings minutes and correspondence. Volumes and papers relating to property include trustees minutes and correspondence, registers of deeds, church and manse files, inspection reports and summaries of Methodist Church property. There are also minutes and accounts of Rotherham Methodist Missionary Society, the Local Preachers Mutual Aid Association and an account book from Nether Green Methodist Church, Sheffield.
Each of the 43 individual churches have a range of records relating to church business, church property and Sunday School. The number of records for each church can vary from a single document to six boxes or more of volumes and papers. For many of the churches there are volumes and papers relating to church business including baptism and marriage registers, society, leaders and church council minutes and correspondence, collection journals, church notices, account books and ephemera. Volumes and papers relating to church property include trustee minutes, correspondence and accounts, deeds and building plans. Records for the Sunday School include teachers minutes, attendance registers and summaries and journals. For some churches there are also records for the sisterhood and other groups and societies. |