Catalogue description HOYLAKE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

This record is held by Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Details of ECC 9
Reference: ECC 9
Title: HOYLAKE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Description:

Minutes, records regarding to church buildings and repairs financial and administrative records

 

CHURCH MEETINGS

 

Church Meetings minutes

 

New Building Committee minutes

 

Church Committee minutes

 

Finance Committee minutes

 

Church Memorial Window Committee minutes

 

Elders Committee minutes

 

Missionary Sub-committee minutes

 

Reconstruction Committee minutes

 

CHURCH SECRETARY

 

Church fabric, buildings and repairs

 

Trust and registration papers

 

Church services and activities

 

Publications

 

Miscellanea

 

TREASURER

 

Financial records

 

SUNDAY SCHOOL

 

Teachers meeting minutes

 

Other records

 

WOMEN'S GUILD OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE

 

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY - WOMEN'S AUXILIARY

 

LITERARY SOCIETY
Date: 1881-1989
Held by: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Hoylake United Reformed Church, Cheshire
Physical description: 106 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Acc 4682,4745
Subjects:
  • Hoylake, Cheshire
Administrative / biographical background:

The first Congregational congregation in Hoylake met in 1874, using a rented chapel. After some years a site was purchased and a church building erected, opening on 30 October 1884. Sunday school premises were included. By 1903 there was insufficient room for the growing congregation and fund raising began for a new church. The foundation stone was laid on 22 March 1905, and the new church opened on 18 May 1906. The old church was thereafter used as a hall. During the war in 1940 the church was hit by incendiary bombs and badly damaged by fire. The building was not in use for the next decade, until it was repaired and reopened in 1950. In 1972 Hoylake became a United Reformed Church with the union of Congregational and Presbyterian churches. However over the next few years numbers in the congregation declined. In 1987 Hoylake joined with St Andrews in Meols, services thereafter being held in Meols. The premises in Hoylake continue to be the property of the URC and in January 1991 the church was given the status of a grade II listed building.

 

Further information on the history of the church will be found in a 12 part newsletter published by St Andrews URC Hoylake with Meols see ECC 9/4682/60
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