Catalogue Item

Register of baptisms, 27 May 1866 - 8 August 1873

Register of baptisms, 8 August 1873 - 1 February 1878

Register of baptisms, 1 February 1878 - 31 January 1883

Register of baptisms, 9 February 1883 - 23 December 1897

Register of baptisms, 27 December 1891 - 14 February 1901

Register of baptisms, 17 February 1901 - 10 April 1910

Register of baptisms, 14 April 1910 - 27 April 1919

Register of baptisms, 27 April 1919 - 29 February 1929

Register of baptisms, 3 February 1929 - 13 January 1944

Register of baptisms, 6 January 1944 - 26 August 1956

Register of baptisms, 26August 1956 - 21 August 1966

Register of marriages, 30 July 1866 - 30 June 1889

Register of marriages, 3 July 1889 - 26 May 1917

Register of marriages, 26 May 1917 - 8 August 1931

Register of marriages, 24 August 1931 - 14 April 1945

Register of marriages, 26 May 1945 - 24 December 1955

Register of marriages, 31 December 1955 -15 October 1966

Register of marriages1 26 November 1966 - 5 November 1980 (1 volume, cloth bound)

Register of banns of marriage, 17 June 1866 - 2 July 1876

Register of banns of marriage, 18 June 1876 - 20 April 1890

Register of banns of marriage, 26 November 1939 - 23 December 1945

Register of banns of marriage, 27 January 1957 - 18 June 1961

Register of burials, 27 May 1866 - 22 September 1872

Register of burials, 23 September 1872 - 22 June 1876

Register of burials, 26 June 1876 - 3 April 1881

Register of burials, 3 April 1881 - 8 August 1885

Register of burials, 10 August 1885 - 20 March 1890

Register of burials, 22 March 1890 - 29 July 1932 Very few after 1900

Register of confirmations, 1 April 1936 - 21 March 1945

Register of confirmations, 11 April 1946 - 2 March 1970 (1 volume, card bound)

Register of services, 10 May 1934 - 27 February 1955

Register of services, 2 March 1955 - 15 March 1970

Register of services, 22 March 1970 - 15 February 1976

Letters from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. M. Bell at Tudhoe Vicarage concerning grants towards his income, 9 November 1920 - 26 March 1931

Statement of annual amounts payable by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1 April 1939

22 November 1871 (1) Rev. Edward AbercrombieWilkinson, clerk, vicar of Tudhoe (2) The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne Mortgage by (1) to (2) of all glebe, tithes, rents etc. for £130 to build stables and outbuildings at the parsonage house

Map of the Ecclesiastical District of Tudhoe, March 1882 Scale: 1.5 inches to 10 chains [1:5280]

Photograph of Rev. Harold Meredith Woodward [vicar 1935-1938] with J.D. Pattinson, choirmaster, Mr. T. Gittins, colliery joiner, and Mr. Unwin, during alterations to vestry, n.d., 1930s

Photograph of Rev. Eric Victor Johnston [vicar 1954-1960], n.d., 1950s

Photograph of Rev. E.V. Johnston outside vicarage, n.d., 1950s

Photograph of Rev. E.V. Johnston and members of the Vester and Hempson families, n.d., 1950s

Photograph of Rev. Stephen Franklan Park [vicar 1962-1969] with small boy, n.d., 1960s

Photograph of Rev. Michael J. Pitts [vicar 1979-1981] at railway station possibly in Russia, n.d., 1980s

Newspaper cutting announcing the death of Rev. Matthew Bell [vicar 1920-1935] with details of his career and picture, n.d., 1935

Letter from T. Oliver at Tudhoe Village to the vicar of Tudhoe apologizing for carrying the remains of a dead child for burial through the vicarage grounds, 3 April 1901

Letters from Northern Gas Board at Sunderland to C. Swales at School House, Mount Pleasant, Low Spennymoor, churchwarden, concerning gas-fired boiler for church, 4 November 1963 - 9 March 1964

Letters from the Diocesan Registry to Rev. S.F. Park at Tudhoe Vicarage concerning conversion to oil heating at church, 3 - 14 December 1964

Letter from Spoors Ltd., Bishop Auckland, to Rev. S.F. Park at Tudhoe Vicarage concerning additional oil storage at church, 4 January 1965

Photograph of interior of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents, church looking towards altar during church service, n.d., 1960s

Statement by Rev. M.J. Pitts concerning the provision of churches in Tudhoe and Spennymoor, particularly with reference to the function of the church of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents, 7 January 1979

Correspondence between Rev. M.J. Pitts, 21 York Villas, Spennymoor; the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Diocesan Organs Advisor, The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Rev. P. Hirst, St. Aidan's Rectory, 12A Tintern Avenue, Billingham; The Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London; Church of Gospel Ministry, Inc., 2 Bannockburn, Highfields, Killingworth, Tyne and Wear; 'Patrick', Applegarth, 53 Tudhoe Village; Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Smiths Gore, 26 Coniscliffe Road, Darlington; concerning the redundancy and demolition of the church of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents, 17 January 1980 - 28 November 1986

Copy order-in-council for the demolition of the church of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents, 26 March 1986

Correspondence between Rev. J.E. Ruscoe, Redundant Church Furnishings Officer, The Vicarage, South Hylton, Sunderland, and Rev. P.E.B. Welby, 21 York Villas, Tudhoe, concerning the final inventory of furnishings at Tudhoe, Holy Innocents, and recommendations as to their final disposal, 24 June 1980 - 11 December 1981

Order in Council that no new burial ground be opened at various parishes including Tudhoe and discontinuing burials, 30 January 1893

Order in Council postponing discontinuance of burials at Tudhoe, 15 March 1893

Case for the opinion of Council re Tudhoe cemetery, 31 August 1894

Notes on the duties and fees of sexton, nd.

Letters from Spennymoor Urban District Council to C. Swales at School House, Mount Pleasant, Spennymoor, churchwarden, concerning responsibility of the Council for maintaining churchyard, 31 May - 4 November 1963

Statement of names, dates and particulars appearing on tombstones in Holy Innocents closed churchyard, November 1971

Letter from Spennymoor Urban District Council to J.H. Nichols, secretary to Tudhoe Parochial Church Council, concerning a faculty for a perpetual easement over churchyard, with copy of petition for faculty and faculty, 25 July 1973

Statement of names, dates and ages appearing on tombstones in the closed churchyard at Holy Innocents' Church, Tudhoe, issued by Spennymoor Urban District Council, November 1971

29 December 1971 (1) Rev. Peter Christie Holland of Tudhoe Vicarage, Tudhoe, clerk in holy orders, vicar of the parish of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents (2) Joseph Neasham of 3 Tudhoe Moor, Spennymoor, retired grocery manager, and Thomas Vickers of 73 Attwood Terrace, Tudhoe, dry-goods controller, churchwardens of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents. (3) Parochial Church Council of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents (4) The Urban District Council of Spennymoor Copy agreement whereby (1)-(3) will obtain a faculty for the care and maintenance of the churchyard and the lowering of the churchyard wall and (1)-(3) will exexute a deed conveying the churchyard to (4) Plans attached

Copy petition for a faculty for the lowering of the churchyard wall and the moving of the tombstones in the graveyard of the church of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents, n.d. [1972]

26 July 1972 (1) Rev. Peter Christie Holland of Tudhoe Vicarage, clerk in holy orders, vicar of the parish of Holy Innocents, Tudhoe (2) Joseph Neasham of 3 Tudhoe Moor, retired grocery manager, and Thomas Vickers of 73 Attwood Terrace, Tudhoe, dry-goods controller, churchwardens of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents (3) Parochial Church Council of the parish of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents (4) The Urban District Council of Spennymoor Agreement whereby (1)-(3) assigns the care and maintenance of the burial ground of the church of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents, to (4)

Papers concerning church hall: completion of works and furnishing, 8 November 1968 - 24 September 1970

Letters from Spennymoor Urban District Council to the churchwardens concerning conversion of ash closet to water closet at 2 Dean Road, Low Spennymoor [a caretaker's house] and the Clergy House in Coulson Street, 25 February - 1 March 1955

Letters from the Church Commissioners to the Secretary of Durham Diocesan Dilapidations Board concerning alterations and improvements to parsonage house, 24 August 1962 - 28 January 1964

Letter from P. Carter at the Diocesan Office, Durham, to C. Swailes [churchwarden] concerning improvements to Tudhoe Vicarage, 3 November 1962

17 December 1962 (1) John Smith Gardiner Turnbull, Joseph Neasham and Cecil Swales, sequestrators of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents (2) Church Commissioners Mortgage by (1) to (2) of benefice for £1820 towards cost of scheme of improvements to parsonage house, with covering letter of 14 May 1963

Letters from P. Carter at the Diocesan Office, Durham, to Rev. S.F. Park concerning parsonage house, 30 April - 13 September 1963

Letters from the Church Commissioners to Rev. S.F. Park concerning improvements to parsonage house, 22 August 1963 - 23 March 1964

Schedule of dilapidations and specifications of work required in repairs at Tudhoe vicarage, April 1973

Form of application to Charity Commission for authority to sell Clergy House, Coulson Street, and no. 2 Dean Road (formerly a caretaker's house), August 1955

Letter from Pigg & Son, chartered surveyors, auctioneers and estate agents, at Bishop Auckland to Rev. E.V. Johnston at Tudhoe Vicarage concerning sale of the Clergy House and 2 Dean Road, 17 November 1955

Letters to Rev. E.V. Johnston at Tudhoe Vicarage from the Central Land Board, Church Commissioners, Trotter Bruce and Loft, solicitors, and the Dean and Chapter of Durham concerning sale of land adjoining Tudhoe Vicarage, 28 October 1955 - 16 July 1956

Letter from Trotter, Bruce and Loft, solicitors, to Dr. J.K. Corrigan, A. Gray and Miss D. Hedley concerning the sale of the vicarage garth, 25 June 1956

List of deeds relating to church property, 1 December 1901

Faculty to introduce a processional cross, 5 June 1945

Copy faculty for the lowering of the churchyard wall and the moving of the tombstones in the graveyard of the church of Tudhoe, Holy Innocents, 8 June 1972

Archdeacon's certificate to replace organ blower, with covering letter,3 - 10 December 1964

Papers concerning Ecclesiastical Dilapidations, 18 August 1958 - 10 June 1963

Schedule of dilapidations, and specification of work required in repairs, under the Repair of Benefice Buildings Measure 1972 , by A.O. Lee, Owengate House, Durham, August 1978

Schedule of dilapidations noted under the Repair of Benefice Buildings Measure, 1972 , by Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Owengate House, Durham, November 1983

Vestry book containing: Minutes of meetings of the Vestry, 23 April 1867 - 21 March 1983; Account of the conservation of the church; Description of the Ecclesiastical District of Tudhoe, 1866 - 1868; Catalogue of church properties; List of incumbents, 1866 - 1981; List of churchwardens, 1866 - 1883; List of sextons, 1866 - 1875; List of persons acting as clerks, 1866 - 1880; Table of fees, 1866; Description of Church of England schools in Tudhoe; Church accounts, 1866 - 1869; Details of charities conceded with the district; List of stipendary curates, 1868 - 1945; Details of expenditure of Tudhoe parsonage, 1871 - 1880; Details of the cost of constructing the iron church at Tudhoe Lane, 1880

Minute book of Parochial Church Council, 24 October 1935 - 10 May 1962

Parochial accounts, including the parish hall, 1 January 1969 - 8 June 1971

Electoral roll, 1969

Letter from Trotter, Bruce and Loft at Bishop Auckland, solicitors, to Rev. E.V. Johnston at Tudhoe Vicarage concerning lease of school and access to infants school, 29 May 1956

Papers concerning Charles Attwood Charity: extract from register of endowed charities; recipients of charity etc; 11 May 1950 - September 1963

Letter from W. E[lwright?] at 4 The Village, Brancepeth to 'Walker' concerning the Dobbinson Charity for day schools, 5 December 1952

Letter from J.K. Hope, Clerk of the Peace and Durham County Council, to the vicar of Tudhoe concerning 'Brabant Doles' from Redworth Hall (Surtees Estate) , 8 December 1954

Bank book, Tudhoe Junior Branch of Anglican Young People's Association, 22 June 1970 - 21 September 1977

Photograph of persons taking part in nativity play, n.d., 1950s

Photograph of ladies and Rev. Peter Christie Holland [vicar 1969-1977] at church dance, n.d., 1970s The ladies are identified

Photograph of two ladies and unidentified vicar [possibly Rev. P. Holland] at church fête n.d., 1970s

Photograph of adults in fancy dress costume at a garden party, 14 July 1991

Photograph of children in fancy dress costume at a garden party, 12 July 1992