Some sources of information about the Church’s history and its people that have been locally produced over several years are recorded here for general interest.
A biography of John Higgs, Mary Cullern, Robert Walker and John Wesley Walker by Peter Hardiment
The life of Rev’d Arthur Male, friend of the Portreys and minister at High Street 1897 – 1900
Information on the church memorials
Identification of the graves situated around the High Street Church
Union of the Methodist Churches of Queen Street & High Street 9th October 1955
The Millennium Wall Hanging
The idea for a Wallhanging started about Easter 1997 when Gill Watten, a Church member, was inspired by the story of a Peace Quilt then running on “The Archers”. Her desire was that all groups within the church at High Street would work on the project together. As the end of the Millennium was approaching, it was decided that we would make a Millennium Wallhanging depicting our hopes and fears for the next thousand years. The theme of “The Rainbow” was chosen, representing God’s covenant and hope. The rainbow colours form the background to all the designs. Ideas were gathered from all the groups , but then, tragically, Gill was taken seriously ill and she died in 1998. The project might have died with her but for the discovery of a verse from Isaiah 46:11 “What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do”. This verse was the inspiration to continue. The Wallhanging was dedicated to Gill Watten’s memory in the High Street Methodist Church on 2nd January 2000. It is now on permanent display in the Wesley Hall.
Learn more about each of the squares that make up the Millennium Wall Hanging
List of Wesleyan Methodist Ministers and biographies of Ministers associated with the High Street Church, Maidenhead
| 1857 – 1860
| 1858
| 1864 – 1867
| 1864 – 1867
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| 1867 – 68
| 1868 – 69
| 1869 – 71
| 1871 – 72
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| 1872 – 73
| 1873 – 75
| 1875 – 77
| 1877 – 78
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| 1878 – 79
| 1879 -82
| 1882 – 85
| 1885 – 88
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| 1888 – 91
| 1891 – 94
| 1894 – 97
| 1897 – 1900
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| 1900 – 03
| 1903 – 06
| 1906 – 09
| 1909 – 12
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| 1912 – 1915
| 1915 – 19
| 1919 – 22
| 1922 – 25
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| 1925 – 28
| 1928 – 31
| 1931 – 32
| 1932 – 37
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| 1935 – 39
| 1939 – 45
| 1945 – 48
| 1948 – 1953
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| 1953 – 1958
| 1958 – 1963
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Pen pictures of Ministers who have been appointed to – or associated with – the Maidenhead High Street Church. This is “work in progress” as information is gathered largely from British Library Newspaper archives.
List of Primitive Methodist Ministers and biographies of Ministers associated with Queen Street Methodist Church, Maidenhead
| 1846 – 1847
W Soames | 1846 – 1848
| 1847 – 1849
Samuel Hipperson | 1848 – 1849
W Wiltshire |
| 1849 – 50
| 1850 – 51
| 1850 – 51
I Humphreys | 1851 – 53
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| 1851 – 53
| 1853 – 54
| 1853 – 54
| 1854 – 56
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| 1854 – 56
Richard Killingray | 1856 – 57
| 1856 -59
| 1859 – 62
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| 1861 – 62
| 1862 – 64
Thomas Filton | 1862 – 64
| 1864 – 1865
Stephen Pearce |
| 1864 – 68
| 1865 – 66
| 1866 – 68
| 1868 – 70
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| 1868 – 1871
| 1870 – 72
| 1871 – 72
| 1872 – 73
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| 1872 – 76
| 1873 – 75
| 1875 – 76
| 1876 – 77
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| 1876 – 78
| 1877 – 78
| 1878 – 79
Thomas Brown | 1878 – 80
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| 1880 – 85
| 1880 – 85
| 1881 – 82
| 1885 – 89
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| 1889 – 92
| 1892 – 94
| 1894 – 97
| 1897 – 1900
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| 1900 – 03
| 1903 – 06
| 1906 – 07
| 1907 – 12
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| 1912 – 15
| 1915 – 17
| 1917 – 18
| 1918 – 22
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| 1922 – 23
Mr R W Johnson | 1923 – 25
| 1926 – 28
| 1928 – 30
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| 1930 – 37
| 1937 – 1944
| 1944 – 1946
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Pen pictures of Primitive Methodist Ministers who have been associated with Maidenhead.
Information has been gathered from web searches, from the online British Newspaper Archive and from the Methodist “My Methodist History” website
The pen portraits are far from complete but give some flavour to Minister’s lives and achievements.
Corrections and additional information will always be welcomed.