BALBY (WESLEYAN) METHODIST CHURCH, ALDER GROVE RECORDS

Scope and Content

Comprising: minutes 1907-1942 & 1976-1989; accounts 1916-1950; Church Council Secretary correspondence 1976-1995; pulpit notices 1920-1955; Band of Hope 1907-1952; new church 1902-1931; other 1931-1949

Administrative / Biographical History

A preaching place at Balby is given on the 1822 Circuit Plan. In 1884 the church on Balby Road formed part of the Oxford Place Circuit. In 1930 a new church at Alder Grove was built to replace this. This church formed part of the Doncaster South Circuit from 1950, and became the head church of the Doncaster West Circuit.

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