Stockport Unitarian Church
1790-1979
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SUMMARY OF LIST - See catalogue D1394 for full listing.
1. Register c1848-1908
2. Minutes 1829-1971
3. Deeds, agreements etc
Chapel Trustees 1830-1904
High street Chapel 1817-1887
St. PetersgateChurch 1835-1887
Heaton Norris property 1810-1925
Mile End chief rent 1910
Singers and organist 1842
4. Financial
Chapel accounts 1790-1857
Seat and house rents, property accounts 1792-1914
Vouchers and miscellanea 1793-1883
5. Correspondence
Ministers 1810-1842
St. PetersgateChurch 1839-1970
Stockport Road Church, Cheadle 1971-1972
Miscellanea 1830-1973
6. Sunday School 1828-1924
7. Miscellanea
Stockport Unitarian Church 1813-1979
Printed items from other bodies 1811-1860
Vestry and Congregation Meeting minutes previously deposited 1857-1964
Title:
Stockport Unitarian Church
Date of work:
1790-1979
Reference number:
NU/SK
Level of description:
Fonds
Type of materials:
Graphic materialsTextual material
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Custodial history:
As a result of a doctrinal dispute with the minister of Tabernacle,who refused to resign although unacceptable to the Classis, a seceding group foundedHigh Street Chapel. Tabernacle itself eventually became Congregational.Many of the leading figures of nineteenth century Stockport, such as the Marslandsof Woodbank Hall and Henry Coppock, who was Town Clerk from 1835 to 1848 and againfrom 1864 until 1870, were deeply involved in the Unitarian church.A new church on St.Petersgate was opened in 1842 and the old chapel was demolished in1860 although the burial ground was retained. St. Petersgate Church, which wasdesigned by Tattersall, was extended by two classrooms and a chancel in 1888. It wassold in 1971 (Petersgate House now stands on the site) and after a homeless periodthe congregation, which had merged with the Denton Unitarians in 1968, moved into theformer Methodist Church on Stockport Road, Cheadle in 1973.The records deposited do not include formal registers of baptisms, marriages or burialsalthough there is one volume (NU/SK/l/l) which contains entries for baptisms 1848-1874, marriages 18~-1873 and burials 1883-1908; the burials at least were latercopied into another register. A notebook accompanying one of the vestry minute booksdeposited earlier (B/EE/5/12) records the surrender of the registers 1761 to 1837 tothe Registration Commission and gives extracts from them as well as some details ofbaptisms, marriages and burials 1837-1845. (Microfilm copies of baptism registers1791-1837 and burials 1785-1835 can be consulted in Manchester Central Library wherethey are described as Presbyterian registers).The earliest records listed here are the account books and vouchers dating from the1790s. The correspondence, particularly that concerning the resignation and appointmentof ministers 1810-1848 (NU/SK/5/1-5) and the building of St. Petersgate Church(NU/SK/5/9-13), is interesting. The latter complements the Building Committee minutes(NU/SK/2/4) and the vouchers etc (NU/SK/4/33-38). The scrapbook of programmes forChristmas and other entertainments 1848-1909 (NU/SK/6/14) and that on the EntertainmentSociety productions 1919-1924 (NU/SK/6/15) illustrate the lighter side of churchlife.Stockport Local Heritage Library, Stockport Central Library, has the church newsletter,the Calendar, 1915 to 1924 and 1934 to date and Stockport Unitarian Church Yearbook1953-4.M J CritchlowOctober 1983
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Language:
English
Record number:
6797649
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