Record

Ref NoSF/2/1/1
TitleCentral England Area Meeting, previously Warwickshire Monthly Meeting, previously Warwickshire North Monthly Meeting, previously Warwickshire Monthly Meeting
LevelSub Series
Date1564 - 2017
DescriptionMinutes for Warwickshire Monthly Meeting were kept from 1693, but mainly comprise the minutes of Birmingham Preparative Meeting. In 1710, it absorbed Baddesley and Wigginshill Monthly Meetings and Hartshill, Fulford Heath, Henley-in-Arden and Lapworth Preparative Meetings were added in 1715. From this date, it was renamed Warwickshire North Monthly Meeting. In 1837, it merged with Warwickshire Middle Monthly Meeting and in 1937, it amalgamated with Warwickshire South Monthly Meeting at which point it reverted to its initial name of Warwickshire Monthly Meeting. After the re-organisation of the whole organisation in 2007, it became known as Central England Area Meeting.

The following meetings were held at various times within the boundaries of what came to be known as Warwickshire Monthly Meeting and its successors. The dates given below are approximate dates during which each meeting was thought to be in existence within these Monthly Meetings and does not specify if the meetings were Recognised, Allowed or Preparative Meetings as this is not always clear from the sources used. Due to administrative changes over the centuries, meetings may also exist/have existed under another Area/Monthly Meeting. Please note, this is not an exhaustive list and does not include the numerous mission halls and institutes which were in existence from the late 19th century onwards. See the relevant sections in SF/3 for further information about each meeting for which we hold records (records for some meetings have not survived but there may be references to them in the Quarterly (SF/1) and Monthly Meeting (SF/2) records).

Atherstone, 1729 - the meeting house was closed in c. 1873
Baddesley Ensor, c.1654 - 1836
Barnt Green, 1904 - ongoing
Birmingham (Bull Street, previously Newhall Lane) 1689 - ongoing
Bordesley Green, 1908 - 1941
Bournville (Linden Road), 1905 - ongoing
Coleshill, 1661 - closed by 1700, probably absorbed by Wigginshill
Cotteridge, 1905 - ongoing
Coventry, from 1937 onwards, see also Warwickshire Middle Monthly Meeting, SF/2/1/1/5
Dudley, from 1819 - 1849; 1890 - 1992; 2002 - 31 December 2014; see also under Stourbridge and Dudley, and Chadwick Monthly Meeting, SF/2/2/1
Edgbaston, previously George Rd., previously Bath Row, 1872 - 31 December 2020
Ettington, from 1937, see also Warwickshire South Meeting, SF/2/1/6
Farm Street, 1896 - 1987
Fulford Heath, 1716 - 1727, see also Fulford Heath Monthly Meeting, SF/2/1/3
Gooch Street, 1905 - 1921
Greet, 1904 -1959
Grendon and Polesworth, 1721 - 1821
Hall Green, 1927 - ongoing
Hartshill, 1710 - 1838, revived 1869 - ongoing, see also Baddesley Monthly Meeting, SF/2/2
Hay Mills, 1910 - 1987
Hay Green 1903 - 1909
Henley-in-Arden, 1716 - c. 1800, see also Fulford Heath Monthly Meeting, SF/2/1/3
Kings Heath, previously Moseley Rd., 1898 - ongoing
Lapworth, 1705 - still in existence in 1716, after which unknown
Leamington, 1945 - 1949
Leamington and Warwick, 1949 - 1962, see Warwick
Lichfield, in existence in the area from late 17th century, revived by Warwickshire North Monthly Meeting 1816 - 1829, revived 1993 as part of Staffordshire Area Meeting.
Longbridge, 1882 - 1912
Nether Whitacre, 1670 - closed by 1700, probably absorbed by Wigginshill
Northfield, 1899 - ongoing
Nuneaton, 1721 - unknown
Penn, 1946 - 13 May 2017
Redditch, 1936 - ongoing (an earlier meeting existed 1660 - 1766, as part of Worcestershire Quarterly Meeting)
Rugby, 1907 - ongoing, since 1957 part of Leicestershire Area/Monthly Meeting
Selly Oak, 1894 - ongoing
Shipston, from 1937 - 1956, previously belonging to Warwickshire South and Shipston Monthly Meetings, SF/2/1/6 and SF/2/2/2
Solihull, 1969 - ongoing
Stirchley (Hazelwell St., previously Stirchley Institute, previously Bournville Works) 1882 - 2005
Stourbridge, part of Warwickshire North Monthly Meeting from 1819 - 1849; 1897 - 1992, 2002 - 2014. See also Chadwick [Chadwich] Monthly Meeting, SF/2/2/1, and under Stourbridge and Dudley.
Stourbridge and Dudley, 1849 - 1897, 1993 - 2001, 2015- ongoing
Stratford-upon-Avon, part of Warwickshire Monthly Meeting from 1940 and since 2001 part of Banbury & Evesham Area Meeting. See also Warwickshire Middle Monthly Meeting, SF/2/1/1/5
Sutton Coldfield, 1929 - ongoing
Tamworth, 1710 - 1852, previously part of Baddesley Monthly Meeting, see SF/2/1/2
Walsall, 1936 - ongoing
Warwick, 1962 onwards. See also Leamington and Warwick. From 1837, absorbed into Coventry Preparative Meeting, previously part of Warwickshire Middle Monthly Meeting, SF/2/1/1/5.
Wednesbury, c. 1680 - c. 1794, but a public meeting was held every three months until 1810
Wishaw, c. 1670 - unknown, probably absorbed by Wigginshill
Wigginshill, 1686 - 1830, revived 1879 - 1907
Wolverhampton, 1704 - 1806, revived 1896 - ongoing, part of Staffordshire Area/Monthly Meeting since 1966.
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LanguageEnglish
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