Benfieldside St. Cuthbert Parish
Reference: EP/Be Catalogue Title: Benfieldside St. Cuthbert Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1848-2020
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- Benfieldside St. Cuthbert Parish
Catalogue Description
Created in 1847 from Ebchester, St Ebba and Medomsley, St Mary MagdaleneParts of this parish became part of these parishes: Blackhill, St Aidan (1884); Consett, Christ Church (1862)
Catalogue Contents
Benfieldside St. Cuthbert Parish (Ref: EP/Be)Registration (Ref: EP/Be 1/)Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Be 1/section 01)
1/1-6, 15
Ref: EP/Be 1/1Register of baptisms, 6 January 1848 - 13 January 1857
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/2Register of baptisms, 11 January 1857 - 3 July 1891
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/3Register of baptisms, 5 July 1891 - 20 September 1908
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/4Register of baptisms, 23 September 1908 - 24 January 1923
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/5Register of baptisms, 28 January 1923 - 11 June 1941
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/6Register of baptisms, 18 June 1941 - 31 March 1955
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/15Register of baptisms, 4 April 1955 - 16 December 1979
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Be 1/section 02)1/7-11, 17, 1/20/1-5
Ref: EP/Be 1/7Register of marriages, 1 October 1850 - 23 December 1873
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/8Register of marriages, 1 January 1874 - 18 October 1911
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/9Register of marriages, 27 January 1912 - 29 August 1932
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/10Register of marriages, 8 November 1932 - 15 June 1940
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/11Register of marriages, 18 June 1940 - 2 March 1957
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/17Register of marriages, 22 April 1957 - 25 September 1971
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/20/1Register of marriages, 29 April 1972 - 19 June 2004
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Be 1/20/2Register of marriages, 21 August 2004 - 6 June 2009
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Be 1/20/3Register of marriages, 20 June 2009 - 28 July 2012
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Be 1/20/4Register of marriages, 26 August 2012 - 13 August 2016
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Be 1/20/5Register of marriages, 19 August 2016 - 3 November 2020
(1 volume)
Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Be 1/section 03)1/14, 16
Ref: EP/Be 1/14Register of banns of marriage, 10 February 1957 - 20 September 1970
(1 volume, plastic bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/16Register of banns of marriage, 6 September 1970 - 29 April 2001
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Registers of burials (Ref: EP/Be 1/section 04)1/12-13
Ref: EP/Be 1/12Register of burials, 18 September 1850 - 23 February 1858
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/13Register of burials, 26 February 1858 - 7 May 1953
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Registers of funerals (Ref: EP/Be 1/section 05)1/18, 1/19/1
Ref: EP/Be 1/18Register of funerals, 2 August 1960 - 12 December 1961
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)
Ref: EP/Be 1/19/1Register of funerals, 18 November 1988 - 17 September 1998
(1 volume)
Death certificate (Ref: EP/Be 1/section 06)1/21/1
Ref: EP/Be 1/21/1Certificate of registry of death of R. D. Stephenson, 10 February 1882
He was admitted to Winterton Hospital on 28 January 1882 from Lanchester Poor Law Union and died there on 9 February 1882. See admission number 4688 in H/Wi 514
Originally enclosed in EP/Be 1/1
(1 paper)
Clergy (Ref: EP/Be 2/1-8)Confirmations (Ref: EP/Be 2/section 01)Registers of confirmations (Ref: EP/Be 2/section 01)2/8, 10
Ref: EP/Be 2/8Register of confirmations, 11 June 1923 - 24 April 1939
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 2/10Register of confirmations, 14 June 1939 - 26 November 1957
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Photographs (Ref: EP/Be 2/section 02)2/11
Ref: EP/Be 2/11Photograph of confirmation candidates and two clergymen, n.d., c.1957
Originally enclosed in EP/Be 2/10
(1 photograph, 20.5 cm. x 12.5 cm., black and white)
Registers of services and preachers' books (Ref: EP/Be 2/section 02)Preachers' books (Ref: EP/Be 2/section 01)2/1
Ref: EP/Be 2/1Preachers' book, 28 April 1866 - 19[?] November 1882
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Registers of services (Ref: EP/Be 2/section 02)2/2-7, 12-15, 2/16/1
Ref: EP/Be 2/2Register of services, 26 November 1914 - 18 October 1926
(1 volume, vellum quarter-bound)
Ref: EP/Be 2/3Register of services, 24 October 1926 - 9 October 1937
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 2/4Register of services, 10 October 1937 - 12 February 1943
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 2/5Register of services, 14 February 1943 - 1 January 1949
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 2/6Register of services, 2 January 1949 - 2 March 1958
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 2/7Register of services, 3 March 1958 - 30 December 1962
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref: EP/Be 2/12Register of services, 1 January 1963 - 10 February 1977
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 2/13Register of services, 13 February 1977 - 17 November 1983
(1 volume, plastic bound)
Ref: EP/Be 2/14Register of services, 20 November 1983 - 12 July 1990
(1 volume, plastic bound)
Ref: EP/Be 2/15Register of services, 15 July 1990 - 28 February 1995
(1 volume, plastic bound)
Ref: EP/Be 2/16/1Register of services, 1 March 1995 - 6 April 2007
(1 volume)
Preaching notes (Ref: EP/Be 2/section 03)2/9
Ref: EP/Be 2/9Preaching notes, n.d.
(1 volume, paper bound)
Correspondence (Ref: EP/Be 2/section 04)Ref: EP/Be 2/17Letter from George l. Johnston, Chaplain, British Embassy, Vienna, Austria to the incumbent of Benfieldside parish asking him to provide a baptism certificate for Clara Anna Reece, born in 1852, Vienna, 7 January 1876
Originally enclosed in EP/Be 1/1
(1 paper)
Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Be 4)Church (Ref: EP/Be 4)Alterations and additions (Ref: EP/Be 4/)4/1
Ref: EP/Be 4/1'Estimate for Alterations and Additions to St. Cuthbert's Church, Benfieldside, in the County of Durham for the Revd. G.H. Ross-Lewis, M.A. and the Building Committee' by John W. Walton-Wilson, architect, 12 Buckingham Street, London, W.C., May 1882
(1 paper and 1 file)
Photographs and drawings (Ref: EP/Be 4)4/2
Ref: EP/Be 4/2Photograph of the interior of the church and, in particular, the altar, n.d. [c.1990s]
Please see EP/Bl 198 for an exterior picture of the church
(1 photograph, 33cm x 28cm, colour, mounted)
War memorial tablet (Ref: EP/Be 4)4/3
Ref: EP/Be 4/3'The Unforgotten': a publication looking at the people of Benfieldside who died during the First World War as part of an exhibition at St. Cuthbert's Church during the Centenary Commemoration of the 1918 Armistice, 2018
(1 file)
Windows (Ref: EP/Be 4)Ref: EP/Be 4/4Paul Heatherington, Stained Glass Windows in a John Dobson Masterpiece, St Cuthbert's Church, Shotley Bridge, 2020
Includes information on people to whom the windows are dedicated
(1 booklet, printed)
Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Be 6/1-2)Minutes (Ref: EP/Be 6/1-2)Ref: EP/Be 6/1Minutes of Parochial Church Council and Annual Vestry Meetings, 15 March 1940 - 12 January 1943
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/Be 6/2Minutes of Parochial Church Council and Annual Vestry Meetings, 12 April 1943 - 14 June 1948
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Church Societies (Ref: EP/Be 13/1-5)Mothers' Union (Ref: EP/Be 13/1-5)Ref: EP/Be 13/1Branch register and record of speakers, 1932 - 1949
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Be 13/2Minutes of the Lanchester Deanery Mothers' Union, 7 April 1933 - 2 June 1949
(1 volume, plastic quarter-bound)
Ref: EP/Be 13/3Minutes of the Joint Committee of the Mothers' Union and the Fellowship of Marriage, 30 January 1939 - 27 October 1941
(1 volume, plastic quarter-bound)
Ref: EP/Be 13/4Minutes of the Mothers' Union and the Fellowship of Marriage, 13 February 1939 - 8 December 1941
(1 volume, plastic quarter-bound)
Ref: EP/Be 13/5Minutes of Annual and Committee meetings of the Mothers' Union and the Fellowship of Marriage, 12 January 1942 - 12 February 1951
(1 volume, plastic quarter-bound)
Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Be 14)Flower festival (Ref: EP/Be 13/6)Ref: EP/Be 13/6St. Cuthbert's Church Flower Festival visitors' book, 12-14 September 1975
(1 volume, plastic bound)
Publications (Ref: EP/Be 14/1-2)Ref: EP/Be 14/1A Poem on the Hartley Pit Calamity by the late George Cooke, Byers Green, n.d.
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: EP/Be 14/2Justice's Justice: Workhouse v. Prison, a new song on the case of an old woman sent to gaol for begging, n.d.
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: EP/Be 14/3Christmas card from the vicar, Edward Fenwick to his parishioners, December 1952
Note: the front of the card shows a picture of the altar
(1 paper)
