Notebooks containing the Penygloddfa account book, April 1845-May 1854, 'special contributions', Sept. 1882-June 1883, sale of work, April [1888?], pew rents, March 1890-Dec. 1905, the new class room, [c.1895]-Nov. 1899, an untitled and undated account of sums received, [c.1901], C.M. Century fund, harvest collection and weekly collections, Dec. 1902-April 1903.
Advertising material from W. J. Furse & Co. of Nottingham, chimney builders & repairers, lightning conductor specialists, and church spire & tower restorers, including G. A. Collier, 'Lecture on lightning conductors, steeplejacks & their work', reprinted from the Proceedings on the Nottingham Society of Engineers (1927). The original envelope is postmarked Oct. 1929.
Annual accounts and statistics,
Printed annual treasurer's accounts, 1894-1900, 1902-1912, 1914 and 1916, and copies of the general and financial annual statistics sent to the statistical secretaty of the presbytery for the years ending 31 Dec. 1912-1920. Enclosed papers include a roll of communicants, 1915.
Annual reports of Crescent Presbyterian Church, Newtown, for the years ending 31 Dec. 1924-1925, 1930, 1948, 1958-1965, 1967-1971, 1973-1974, 1979-1980, 1982, 1984.
Copies of the general and financial annual statistics sent to the statistical secretaty of the presbytery for the years ending 31 Dec. 1921-1967, 1969-1970, 1978-1980.
Bank books of accounts with the National Provincial Bank, 1871-1896, and with the North & South Wales Bank, 1899-1904.
Audited accounts relating to the purchase of the land and the building of the chapel on Penygloddfa, Feb.-Aug. 1845, and general statements of the account between the chapel and the Home Mission Society, Sept. 1845-July 1847. At the rear of the volume are a few rough accounts and several pages of writing exercises.
Account books relating to the building of the 1845 and 1878 chapels. The debt on the 1878 building appears to have been paid off in Dec. 1900, when the balance of 18s. in the building fund account was transferred to the general account.
Building fund cash book, Nov. 1871-Aug. 1879, and building fund receipts, Oct. 1879-May 1880.
Building fund contributors' account,
Accounts of contributors to the Newtown English Calvinistic Methodist Building Fund.
Building fund treasurer's account,
Audited account of receipts and payments, 1875-1901, including arrears of subscriptions, Oct. 1879 (ff. 13-17).
wedi eu cyfaddasu at eiriau Cymreig a Seisonig..., gan Thomas Williams.
CMA: Crescent Chapel, Newtown, Records,
Records of Crescent Chapel, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, including account books, 1845-1906, members' contributions, 1853-1980, member transfer certificates, 1867-1991, annual accounts and statistics, 1894-1980, annual reports, 1924-1984, and Sunday School records, 1927-1986.
Crescent Presbyterian Chapel (Newtown, Powys, Wales)
Handbook of rules of the Presbyterian Church of Wales (Caernarfon: Connexional Bookroom, new ed., 1929), and Presbyterian Church of Wales: book of order (Caernarfon: C.M. Book Agency, 1958). The 1929 volume encloses an undated printed letter from the chairman and secretaries of the Reconstruction Committee, suggesting the establishment of an English Association within the Presyterian Church.
Library subscriptions register and loans register. The reports for 1897 and 1897 are engrossed on the inside front cover. Enclosures include a printed list of books numbered 1,236-1,317, added to the library during 1897.
Transfer certificates of members received by Penygloddfa and Crescent from other churches.
Counterfoils of two completed volumes of transfer certificates, 1908-1921 and 1940-1953, and a third partially used volume, 1954-1980.
Members' and children's monthly offering account book, Jan.1853-Dec. 1860. The names of members in full communion, members not in communion, and children of members, and their promised weekly offerings, 1861-1864. There are also various rough accounts and notes, mainly undated, and at the rear of the volume, rough accounts, Feb. 1853-Dec. 1860, and audited analyses of chapel collections, receipts and payments, 1861-1867. The 1863 account is entitled 'Statistics of Penygloddfa Calvinistic Methodist Church for the year 1863'.