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Stratford-upon-Avon Methodist Church
Description
Records of the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist Churches in Stratford-upon-Avon and district
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Finding No
DR147
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Date
1833-1958
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Extent
100 items in 2 sections
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Status
restricted
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Level
collection
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Related material
A separate list is available in the reading room; see also DR 396, DR703, DR784, DR841, DR844, DR893, DR1018
Admin History
The first Wesleyan meetings were held in 1819 in a private house in Wood Street, and from 1821 the meetings were held in Meer Street until a chapel was built in the Birmingham Road in 1835. Stratford became a separate circuit in 1847.
The earliest surviving records of the Primitive Methodists in Stratford-upon-Avon date from 1852. A chapel was erected in Great William Street in 1866 and a circuit developed in the surrounding villages.
In 1932 the Primitive Methodist churches were officially joined to the Wesleyan Methodists, but in Stratford the two churches continued to operate separately until Easter 1939, when the two congregations were united and the Primitive Methodist chapel was sold.
A new church was built in Old Town in 1964 and the Birmingham Road building sold.