Well Street Historical Section

Date		Event
1998 - July 2008	Brian Stocker	Youth worker then Youth Minister
Sat 10th Nov 2007	Rev Steve Fisher	Induction
July 2007	Rev Norman Hooks	farewells
date...	Join with Baptists to become Well Street United Church
Feb 2004	Church office set up by Melanie Goddard in manse, moves to upper room in Church and then into own offices at 19 Well St
Sunday 5 Sep 1999	Rev Norman Hooks	Induction Service
24 Nov 1995	Documents received by Buckinghamshire records office for safe custody	letter giving list of documents
	Rev Dafydd Jones (URC)
	Deacon Ian Cooper	Ordination 27 June 1993 - leaving event winter 1994
Saturday 4 Apr 1987	Current building opened and dedicated			Order of service Photos of rebuild
March 1986	Rev Alan Baxter (minister)	congregation grew, larger premises required, development scheme launched -prayer planning and fundraising		leaflet on "Building for the future"
Sat 13 Apr 1985	Rev Alan Baxter. Celebration of life together	Methodist URC  service
	Methodists amalgamated with United reformed church worshipers who met at what is now "The Radcliff Centre" of the University of Buckingham
	Methodist History	United Reformed Church (1972) was Congregational (see bottom note)
Feb to Apr 1981 Buckingham & Brackley Circuit Plan and Directory	Rev Maurice. L.Collings 11 Bradfield Ave, Buckingham
Sat 24 February 1968	Opening of the new Methodist Church in Well St Buckingham. order of service
1967	work on new building began
1965	services held in Oddfellows' Hall in Well Street
1964	A crack appeared in the wall, so service held in Guild room behind but that became unsafe
Buckingham & Brackley Methodist Circuit plan Apr- July 1960	Rev Leslie Wollen MA 23 Chandos Rd, Buckingham shown as minister for Buckingham
The Methodist recorder Nov 18th 1954 page 11	drawing of front of methodist church
		Congregational Church Buckingham, Jubilee 1907 Booklet   (1857-1907)
		Jan 1903 -	Rev Arthur Canon
		Oct 1890-1901	Rev C.T. Price
		Apr 1874-June 1889	Rev H. Martyn Stallybrass
		1871 - Sept 1883	Rev Frederick H. Holmes
		1868-1869	Rev Henry Thomas
		Feb 1851	Rev Samuel Bellamy
		1850	old and new meetings re-unite. early in year Rev David Watson Aston resigns. He died Jan 9 1852, aged 79.
			"Old Meeting"	"New Meeting"
		? - 1846	Rev David Rowe
		1839 - ?	Rev E. Dudley Jackson Wilks
1834	Buckingham Methodist chapel built	1834 - c. Sep 1837	Rev Thos. Wilson Bridge.
		1824	Rev Geo. Glyn Scraggs  dies lingering death. minister of Bow Lane, Poplar
		Nov 1818	Rev Enoch Barling (2nd minister of "old mtg" )
		before  Nov 1818	Rev Thomas Burkitt, school for boys helped "old mtg", then lived with Barling until he married.
				"new meeting house"- renamed church street chapel
				1816	addition of schoolroom and vestry
				1809	enlargement of buildings
				1803	Rev David Watson Aston 47 yr ministry
		1793	Rev Geo. Glyn Scraggs - some worshipers withdrew to form "new meeting house" see  columns to right	1794	"new meeting house" Rev W.Priestly (Rev Thos. Jones helped later)
2nd March 1791	Foundation of a Methodist chapel laid in Well Street. The day John Wesley died
1787	A small cottage was licensed for worship and preaching took place there once a fortnight
1787	Mr Philips, a Methodist preacher from Northampton, preached in Buckingham, outside the house of a Mr Kirby
20 Oct 1778	John Wesley preached in Maids Moreton
		1726	chapel built -"the old meeting house". Rev W Boughton  Rev Wm Moss
March 1725	Fire in Buckingham 130 houses destroyed
		1707	Tradition has a congregational church

The United Reformed Church - formed in 1972 with the coming together of the Congregational Church in England and Wales, and the Presbyterian Church of England, joined in 1981 by the Churches of Christ, and in 2001 by the Congregational Church of Scotland.

The Methodist Church.- Founded by John and Charles Wesley in the 18th Century as an evangelistic movement within the Church of England. After John's death it eventually split away from the C of E.