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Register of confirmations, 1950 - 17 March 1967

Register of confirmations, 28 March 1968 - 7 April 1971; 1 May 1980

Register of confirmations, 22 March 1972 - 11 October 1979; 20 October 1980 - 8 June 1988

Register of services at Chester-le-Street, St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, 30 March 1941 - 31 December 1943

Register of services at Chester-le-Street, St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, 1 January 1944 - 7 June 1951

Register of services at Chester-le-Street, St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, 10 June 1951 - 1 April 1956

Register of services at Chester-le-Street, St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, 1 April 1956 - 28 March 1964

Register of services at Chester-le-Street, St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, 29 March 1964 - 31 December 1969

Register of services at Chester-le-Street, St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, 1 January 1970 - 14 June 1979

Register of services at Chester-le-Street, St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, 3 June 1979 - 21 July 1988

Register of services at Chester-le-Street, St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, 24 July 1988 - 24 October 1991

Register of services at Chester-le-Street, St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, 27 October 1991 - 3 December 1995

Register of services at Chester-le-Street, St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, 3 December 1995 - 4 July 1999

Register of services at Pelton Fell, St. Paul, 17 June 1955 - 1 June 1980

Register of services at Pelton Fell, St. Paul, 8 June 1980 - 22 December 1996

Register of services at Chester Moor church, 13 May 1956 - 15 October 1967

Register of services at Whitehill, 10 January 1982 - 5 April 1998

Copy instrument of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England approving the church or chapel erected within the district of West Pelton, 10 June 1880

Letters from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England to Rev. Robert Kirwood of Chester-le-Street, effecting the conversion of the benefice of Chester-le-Street from a perpetual curacy to a rectory, 21 December 1866 - 3 January 1867

The London Gazette (part), including notice of Ecclesiastical Commission grant to the rectory of Chester-le-Street of £500 towards the cost of a new parsonage, in consideration of a benefaction of a piece of land (1 a.), 18 November 1887

Declaration of trust by Lindsay Wood of South Hill, esquire, and John Booth the younger, of the city of Durham, gent., as to stock purchased with £125 proceeding from the sale of land to the North Eastern Railway Company for the Team Valley Extension, to be held in trust for the rectors of Chester-le-Street, and receipt for transfer of stock, 20 December 1877

Copy deed of consent by the Governors of Queen Anne' s Bounty to accept from the executors of Sir Lindsay Wood bart., deceased, £130 18s 0d. 2.5 per cent consolidated stock representing the proceeds of the sale of glebe land to the North Eastern Railway Company in 1876, upon trust to augment the benefice of the rectory of Chester-le-Street, 9 April 1923

1 December 1959 (1) Rev. A. Spurr, clerk, of Chester-le-Street benefice (2) The Church Commissioners Counterpart mortgage for securing £1100 towards the cost of improvements to the parsonage house

Order for the sequestration of the profits of Chester-le-Street church to Simon Robinson, chemist, Robert Dickinson, parish officer, and William Hall, draper, all of Chester-le-Street, churchwardens, during the vacancy created by the death of the Rev. Robert Kirwood, rector, 27 August 1872

The London Gazette concerning an order in council for the assignment of part of Chester-le-Street parish to the chapelry district of Birtley, 8 January 1850

Correspondence and schedule of a scheme for constituting and endowing a separate district for spiritual purposes of Holmside, to be taken partly out of Chester-le-Street parish, 8 March - 6 July 1865 The London Gazette concerning an order in council assigning to Christ Church, Lumley, in the parish of Chester-le-Street, a district chapelry, 7 February 1862 as well as chapters from several acts of parliament enacted 35 and 36 Victoria, relating to church seats, Act of Uniformity amendment, Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act amendment, and baptismal fees, 1872

The London Gazette, concerning an order in council for constituting a separate district of St. Peter, Sacriston, 28 July 1863 Attached: schedule of the new district and map of the district of St. Peter, Sacriston, 21 March 1863

Draft scheme of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England for altering the boundaries of the new parishes of Birtley and Burnmoor, and associated correspondence, 3 - 19 June 1875

Draft scheme of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England for constituting a separate district of Fatfield, 27 July - 8 November 1875 Includes: a copy of The London Gazette publishing an order in council concerning the same, 29 October 1875

Draft scheme of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England for constituting a separate district of West Pelton, with associated correspondence, 28 July - 3 November 1876 Includes: a copy of The London Gazette publishing an order in council concerning the same, 27 October 1876

Order in council concerning a scheme to alter the boundaries of the parishes of Birtley; Chester le Street; Fatfield and Pelton, 28 January 1963

Map showing the alteration of the boundaries of the parishes of Birtley, Chester le Street, Fatfield and Pelton, published by the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London, 1 October 1962

Licence from Charles [Baring], bishop of Durham, to William Octavius Blunt, rector of Chester-le-Street, to perform divine service in the Sunday School and Chapel in Plewsworth [Plawsworth], 1 July 1878

Licence from Joseph Barber, bishop of Durham, to William Octavius Blunt, rector of Chester-le-Street, to perform divine service in St. Paul 's Mission Room, in the village of Pelton Fell, 24 October 1879

Licence from Joseph Barber, bishop of Durham, to William Octavius Blunt, rector of Chester-le-Street, to perform divine service in St. Barnabas ' Mission Chapel, in the village of Waldridge Fell, 28 October 1886

Licence from Brooke Foss, bishop of Durham, to Alured Bayfield de Moleyns, rector of Chester-le-Street, to perform divine service in St. Bartholomew 's Mission Church, Chester Moor, 6 September 1898

Letter from the Rev. I. Robertson, The Vicarage, Shotley Bridge, to the Rev . I. Bunting, [16 Park Road North, Chester-le-Street] forwarding four coloured photographic prints, of the church interior, 21 June 1984

Parochial notices, 12 August 1877 - 19 August 1877

Orders of service, January 1948 - 24 April 1959

Minutes of Pelton Fell Pilot Group, members of Pelton Fell congregation that launched a new family Sunday service in the parish, 13 April 1994 - 19 November 1996

Copy pastoral order for the transfer of the parishes of Beamish and Tanfield in the rural deanery of Chester-le-Street to the rural deanery of Lanchester, 2 November 1970

Chester-le-Street Rural Deanery chapter meeting and conference minute book, 10 August 1880 - 1 February 1898 At end: table recording allotment of the Barrington grant for prayer books to parishes within the rural deanery, 1897

Chester-le-Street Rural Deanery chapter meeting and conference minute book, 15 May 1898 - 28 January 1924 For enclosures see EP/CS 2/34

Chester-le-Street Rural Deanery chapter meeting and conference minute book, 16 May 1924 - 5 November 1943 For enclosures see EP/CS 2/35

Chester-le-Street Rural Deanery chapter meeting and conference minute book, 10 December 1943 - 10 December 1968

Miscellaneous letters of thanks and congratulation exchanged between members of the clergy, and notes [possibly for a theological discussion], 11 October 1921 - 16 May 1925 Originally enclosed in EP/CS 2/31

Signed list of members present at Chester-le-Street ruri-decanal conference, and newspaper cuttings regarding the death of Rev. Canon C.E. Little, rector of Whickham and rural dean of Chester-le-Street, 25 April 1942, and 26 February n.y. Originally enclosed in EP/CS 2/32

Sequestration accounts of Chester-le-Street deanery, 5 May 1960 - 19 October 1964

Chester-le-Street ruridecanal chapter minutes, 21 January 1969 - 7 October 1975

Chester-le-Street ruridecanal chapter minutes, 28 October 1975 - 1 June 1978 Originally part of a bundle with EP/CS 2/57

Copy minutes of Chester-le-Street Deanery Synod, 21 November 1971 - 3 April 1978 Originally part of a bundle with EP/CS 2/56