Catalogue description CREWE, HIGHTOWN METHODIST CHAPEL

This record is held by Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Details of EMS 43
Reference: EMS 43
Title: CREWE, HIGHTOWN METHODIST CHAPEL
Description:

Register of christenings and marriages, minutes, accounts, records related to the Sunday School and Youth Centre and Chapel and School buildings.
Date: 1867-1961
Held by: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Hightown Wesleyan Chapel, Crewe, Cheshire
Physical description: 70 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by the Superintendent Minister of Crewe Circuit in October and December 1969 and June 1981, and by Methodist Archives and Research Centre in August 1977. Acc.1614(pt.), 1617(pt.),1628(pt.),2374(pt.),2852(pt.)
Subjects:
  • Crewe, Cheshire
Administrative / biographical background:

Opened in 1868 at Hightown by the Wesleyan Methodists. Closed in 1944 and sold in 1959 to Albert E. Chatfield (Crewe) Ltd. The Day and Sunday School associated with the chapel was built in 1870, closed in 1932 and sold with the chapel. Records which relate to all three Wesleyan Schools in Crewe, ie. Earle Street, Hightown, Mill Street, are listed with those of Mill Street Schools, Ref. EMS 54/19/2, 54/21.

For the United Methodist Chapel at Hightown, see Crewe, Heathfield.
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