| RefNo | NR796 |
| Alternative Reference number | NR796-820 |
| NR1670 |
| Title | Mount Zion Methodist Church (formerly Birley Carr United Methodist Chapel, formerly Birley Carr Methodist New Connexion Chapel), Fox Hill Road, Birley Carr |
| AdminHistory | The first Methodist chapel at Birley Carr (then a small village in the township of Ecclesfield) was opened in May 1832 to accommodate around 200 people. It was built at the expense of James Dixon of Page Hall and originally served as a Methodist New Connexion Chapel.
The original chapel was superseded by a new larger chapel (designed to seat 352 adults) built in 1877 at a cost of around £1,600 on the same site as the old chapel (which was pulled down). The new chapel included large schoolrooms, a vestry, tea room and offices and was built in the early Gothic architectural style. The architect was Mr John Wills of Imperial Chambers, Derby and the builder was Mr Curtis, Ellesmere Road, Sheffield. The new chapel opened on 5 November 1877.
In 1922 the church became a United Methodist Chapel. From at least 1934 onwards, the church was known as Mount Zion Chapel (or Mount Zion Church), Birley Carr.
The church closed in 2010 and the church and accompanying Sunday School buildings were subsequently sold and converted into residential apartments.
The church was situated on Fox Hill Road, Birley Carr and was formerly part of the Sheffield Methodist North Circuit. |
| Description | Registers of Baptisms, 1878 - 1981 (NR796/1)
Register of Marriages, 1934 - 2010 (NR796/2)
Other records (not listed):
(NR1670) Subscription account relating to the building of the new [Methodist New Connexion] chapel and school room, undated but c. 1877.
(Acc. 1991/72 part):
Trustees' minute book, Oct 1955 - Nov 1976.
Loose accounts/correspondence, c. 1960 - 1974.
(Acc. 2009/143):
Birley Carr Methodist Church (Mount Zion Methodist Church) records, 1927 - 1998 (13 items):
Account books, 1945 - 1991 (4 volumes: 1. income and expenditure, Jan 1945 - Nov 1974; 2. receipts and payments, 1959 - 1974; 3. receipts and payments, Sep 1974 - Aug 1981; 4. receipts, 1989 - 1991).
Accounts file (balance sheets/statements of accounts), Dec 1973 - Aug 1993.
File of member address lists (community rolls), youth records and member statistics, c. 1984 - 1998.
Newsletters/programmes file, 1927 - 1977 (6 items: newsletters, Oct 1929 and Jun 1977; centenary brochure, programme and newsletter, 1977; Jubilee souvenir history of the church [1877 - 1927], 1927).
Property file, 1984 - 1994 (including schedules of annual property accounts and copy of minutes of Property Committee, Sep 1994).
(Acc. 2010/153):
Birley Carr Methodist Church records:
'Memories of Birley Carr Methodist Chapel 1877 - 2010 ', Sep 2010.
Birley Carr Methodist Church 1877 - 2010 programme for Handel's Messiah, Sep 2010.
(Acc. 2012/43):
Cradle Rolls, 1926 - 1981
'First Steps' - lists of children welcomed into the life of the church, 1981 - 2009
Photographs
Register of Public Reception into Membership - Confirmation, 2000 - 2001
Leaders' Meeting Minutes, 1959 - 1978
Sunday School Meeting Minutes, 1929 - 1975 (X3)
Pastoral Committee Meeting Minutes, 1990 - 1999
Accounts and associated documents 1993 - 2003
172nd Sunday School Anniversary service sheet 14/07/2002
Last Performance of Handel's Messiah at Birley Carr 12/09/2010
'Prayers for our church and community' - prayer requests 1996 - 1997.
(2018/4 part):
Guides and Brownies register of subscriptions and accounts, 1958 - 1966.
Sunday School minute books (x 2), May 1975 - Jan 1995 and Jan 1995 - Sep 2002.
Sunday School register of staff and students, 1982 - 1998.
Church Family Committee minutes, Aug 1975 - Feb1998.
Church Council Meeting minutes, Mar 1985 - Oct 2010 (with some gaps). |
| Date | 1876 - 2010 |
| Extent | 13 items (registers only) |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Level | Collection |
| RelatedMaterial | Methodist New Connexion baptism register for Sheffield (and district), 1797 - 1837 [includes a section on 'Birley Carr Chapel' baptisms dating Mar 1833 - Sep 1836] (NR299).
Wadsley Bridge Methodist Church baptism register, 1958 - 2007 (the earlier part of this register is used for baptisms at Wadsley Bridge, May 1958 - Sep 1980, with the latter part used for baptisms at Birley Carr Methodist Church from Aug 1981 - Jan 2007) (Acc. 2012/43). |
| CustodialHistory | These records were deposited with Sheffield Archives by representatives of the Sheffield Methodist Circuit and Sheffield Methodist North Circuit in various instalments in Dec 1977, Aug 1991, Dec 2009, Nov 2010, May 2012 and Jan 2018 (with a separate deposit of a marriage register received from the General Register Office in Jul 2011 and another marriage register received from the Sheffield Register Office in Jun 2013). |
| AcquisitionSource | These records were deposited with Sheffield Archives by representatives of the Sheffield Methodist Circuit and Sheffield Methodist North Circuit in various instalments in Dec 1977, Aug 1991, Dec 2009, Nov 2010, May 2012 and Jan 2018 (with a separate deposit of a marriage register received from the General Register Office in Jul 2011 and another marriage register received from the Sheffield Register Office in Jun 2013). |
| ArchNote | Catalogue prepared by Tim Knebel, Archivist |