Catalogue description WATERLOO CHURCH, WESLEY STREET, AND SCHOOL

This record is held by Merseyside Record Office

Details of 287 WOO
Reference: 287 WOO
Title: WATERLOO CHURCH, WESLEY STREET, AND SCHOOL
Description:

Minutes, financial records, school records

Date: 1857-1963
Held by: Merseyside Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Waterloo Church, Merseyside

Physical description: 9 files
Subjects:
  • Waterloo, Merseyside
Administrative / biographical background:

The Wesley chapel opened in 1857, the foundation stone being laid a year earlier (see 1/1). Information about the construction was copied from a lost Building Committee minute book.

 

The church was damaged during the Second World War and a new church opened in March 1956 (in what had been the Primary Schoolroom), with the original building being demolished.

 

At the trustees' meeting of 30 January 1963 it was decided to close the chapel after the last evening service that March.

 

SCHOOLS: The day school opened on 15 January 1866 (the 1827 'General Principles' governing such schools follow the minutes of 2 February 1866). An infants school opened on 5 April 1869. Sunday schools were also run at Crosby, Formby and Seaforth.

 

In 1882 the Committee decided to close the school but the management was taken over by certain of the Trustees until 1895 when the committee reconvened, (A list of teachers during this period follows the minutes of 21 April 1882:).

 

A Board of Managers was appointed following the 1902 Education Act, and in 1923 the school was transferred to Water-loo-with-Seaforth UDC, to become known as Wesley or Council School. School log books from inception are held at Crosby Library.

 

The church was part of the Waterloo Circuit.

 

The records were deposited on 6 November 1979 by Rev T Wilkinson, Blundellsands Methodist Church. (Original ref MW/W).

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