The Wesleyan Methodists in Banbury first set up a Sunday School in 1808 at the Calthorpe Lane Chapel. Over the next half century it moved site several times, until in 1865, a large new chapel was opened in Marlborough Road, and the Sunday School moved into a classroom built behind it. This soon proved too small (from 1867 the infants had to be taught in the chapel basement) and in 1882 a new school was built at the High Street end of the premises. At an unknown date, the school was closed and the Marlborough Road building demolished.
The two attendance registers were deposited with Banbury Museum in 1983, and were passed to Oxfordshire Record Office where they were given the accession number 2136.
Catalogued by Robin Darwall-Smith in April 1993.