CMA: Records of Immanuel Church, Bersham Road, Wrexham

The fonds consists of a volume containing minutes of meetings of the Church Committee and minutes of a meeting of Church members, 1929-1935, relating to matters such as church activities, administrative business, the maintenance and repair of the building, services and the election of committees. The volume also contains some loose correspondence relating to various Church matters, such as establishing a joint pastorate with Tabernacle Church, Rhostyllen, and the Immanuel Quarterly Collection, 1933-1934.

Immanuel Presbyterian Church was established c. 1892, when a semi-permanent structure was built in Bersham Road, Wrexham. In 1901 a new building was opened. The Church was initially known as Bersham Road Presbyterian Church, but its name was changed c. 1921 to Immanuel Presbyterian Church. The Church closed before the Second World War.

Arranged into one file: minute book.

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Deposited by Mrs Gwawr Booth, Wrexham, December 2002.; 0200301349

Immanuel Presbyterian Church was established c. 1892, when a semi-permanent structure was built in Bersham Road, Wrexham. In 1901 a new building was opened. The Church was initially known as Bersham Road Presbyterian Church, but its name was changed c. 1921 to Immanuel Presbyterian Church. The Church closed before the Second World War.

A hard copy of the list is available in CMA: Records of Welsh Chapels in NLW 2001-.

March 2003

Compiled by Nia Wyn Griffiths.

The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Dodd, Arthur Herbert, A History of Wrexham, (Wrexham, 1957); Annual Reports, 1913-1924, of Immanuel Presbyterian Church; CAPELI database at NLW.

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Accruals are not expected.

Annual Reports, 1913-1924, are held at NLW; together with a minute book of Deacons Meetings, 1892-1902 (CMA I/18365).

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