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Ground plan of church showing present sittings [by Matthew Thompson of Newcastle, architect], n.d.

Ground plan of church showing proposed re-arrangement of sittings by Matthew Thompson of Newcastle, architect, n.d. Scale: 60 feet to 7.5 inches [1:96]

North elevation of church [by Matthew Thompson of Newcastle, architect], n.d. Scale: not given

South elevation of church [by Matthew Thompson of Newcastle, architect], n.d. Scale: not given

Transverse sections of nave and chancel [by Matthew Thompson of Newcastle, architect], n.d. Scale: not given

Section and west elevation of church tower [by Matthew Thompson of Newcastle, architect], n.d. Scale: not given

Longitudinal section of church, by Matthew Thompson of Newcastle, architect, n.d. Scale: 60 feet to 7.5 inches [1:96]

South aisle window, alternative designs by Matthew Thompson of Newcastle, architect, n.d.

North, South, East and West elevations by J. P. M. O' Reilly, A. Subocz and R. G. Smith, n.d. Scale: 40 feet to 5 inches [1:96]

Plan, elevations and sections of proposed war memorial chapel at the church of St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, Chester-le-Street, by Knowles, Oliver and Leeson, architects, of 25 Collingwood Street, Newcastle, June 1920

Sketch of chantry restoration site at the church of St. Cuthbert and St. Mary, Chester-le-Street, n.d. [ c. 1920] Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]

Ground plan, north elevation and sections of proposed restoration of chantry at the church of St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, Chester-le-Street, n.d. [ c. 1920] Scale: 5 inches to 20 ft [1:48]

Plan of Chester-le-Street church showing the arrangement of pews and a schedule of the number of pews and the names of the inhabitants ordered to sit in them, as regulated by the commissioners, Nicholas Conyers, minister of Chester, Layton Etherington, curate of Washington, and Henry Ireland, vicar of Seaham, on 10 February 1717/18, and signed by J.A. Jackson, 1860 Scale: 8 ft. to 1 inch [1 : 96]

Plan of Chester-le-Street church showing the arrangement of pews ... [draft of EP/CS 4/140], 1860 Scale: 8 ft. to 1 inch [1 : 96]

Plan of Chester-le-Street church, 1860 Scale: 8 ft. to 1 inch [1 : 96]

Plan of proposed addition on north side of chancel, between vestry and Lambton pew, n.d. [mid 19th - early 20th c.] Scale: 8 ft. to 1 inch [1 : 96]

Plan and front elevation of proposed new vestry for the church of St. Mary and St. Cuthbert, Chester-le-Street, by Cordingley and McIntyre, architects, The College, Durham, 1937 Scale: 4 ft. to 1 inch [1 : 48]

Correspondence etc. concerning church restoration and pageant, 13 August 1964 - 31 December 1967

Letter from Hicks and Charlewood, architects, of 4 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne to the vicar and committee of Chester-le-Street church, regarding the proposed restoration of St. George's chapel, referring to the scant evidence for the original chantry building [15th c.] and submitting proposals for the form of restoration, 23 March 1920

29 April 1862 (1) Thomas Martindale Waite and Thomas Howard, trading in co-partnership as builders and contractors under the firm of 'Waite and Howard' (2) Rev. Edmund Hector Shipperdson, clerk; Rev. Joseph Price De Pledge, clerk; Henry Fenwick, esq., M.P.; Henry Thomas Morton, esq.; Abraham Story, esq.; John Crawford, esq.; George Edward Steele and Matthew Henderson, all of, or near, Chester-le-Street, being the committee for the restoration or rebuilding of the parish church Articles of agreement for the restoration of Chester-le-Street church, and specification of works in conformity with the plans prepared by Matthew Thompson, architect, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Includes: a schedule of costs, totalling £1,135 19s. 6d.

Engraving of view of church exterior from The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1812

Engraving of the aisle of the tombs, n.d. [19th cent.]

Mounted photographic prints of church interior by A. F. Fenton, portrait and landscape photographer of Chester-le-Street, n.d. [late 19th cent.]

Postcard views of church interior and exterior, 20th cent.

Pictorial views of nave and chancel before and after restoration, n.d.

Photographic print of the altar by J[?] Maddison, 1966

Photographic prints of church interior, [n.d.], 20th cent.

Mounted prints of the chancel by Stuart, Blackett Street, Newcastle, n.d.

Mounted print of nave and chancel by James Sword, Chester-le-Street, n.d.

Photographic prints of church exterior, n.d.

Photographic print of the Great War war memorial in the churchyard, n.d.

Photographic print of buttress, n.d.

Pictorial view of weathering patterns on external stonework, n.d.

Photographic prints of the interior and exterior of the church mounted for display, n.d.

Print of drawing of the church by C. R. Bayliss, 1974

Watercolour view of the exterior of the church by J. Whitaker, n.d.

' Drawings of the several Monuments of the Noble and Ancient Family of Lumley, of Lumley Castle, in the North Ai[s]le of Chester-le-Street Church, in the State they appeared in the Year 1805 ' , taken by order of George Augustus, Earl of Scarborough, by John Lambert of Durham, age 65, with an explanation of the coats of arms cut upon the monumental inscriptions, and a plan of the scites [sic] of the monuments and a general view thereof, January 1805 Includes: at end: note regarding an effigy of St. Cuthbert, n.d.

Schedule of pews and pew holders dated 10 February 1718 with a manuscript amendment, 23 September 1790

Extract from the will of William Francis Hacker concerning his bequest to the rector and church council for the repair and maintenance of the lamp in the south porch of the church, and correspondence regarding conversion stock investments, 31 May 1933 - 12 March 1958

25 May 1918 (1) Rev. A.B. d e Moleyns of The Rectory, Chester-le-Street (2) County of Durham Electrical Power Distribution Company Ltd. Wayleave agreement for electricity pole upon [churchyard] land at Back Lane, Chester-le-Street Includes: plan Attached: covering letter

Notices of orders-in-council for the discontinuance of burials in Birtley churchyard, 31 July 1858, and in the old churchyard of Chester-le-Street, 6 July 1870; correspondence and burial returns for Chester-le-Street churchyard, including reference to deaths from infectious disease, 20 April 1870 - 5 January 1877; Smith's Charity (Longstock estate) correspondence, 1870 - 1878; Tithe Commission correspondence regarding (Urpeth) and (Tanfield) apportionments, 3 May 1872, 13 August 1878; and Charity Commission correspondence regarding Tewart's Charity, 4 August 1869 - 15 January 1870, and Henry Smith's charity, 6 December 1878 - 3 May 1879

Letter advising of the Secretary of State's intention to discontinue burials in the parish church and churchyard of Beamish except as specified, for the protection of public health, 11 November 1890

Letter of apology for absence at a Church Council meeting, and letter from the solicitor to the Burials Joint Committee of Chester-le-Street parish regarding the consecration of burial ground, 19 September 1908 and 30 August 1912 Originally enclosed in EP/CS 4/121

Letter of authorisation from John George Lambton, Earl of Durham, of Lambton Castle, Fence Houses, to the rector and churchwardens of Chester-le-Street parish church to open the vault of his ancestors and to lower the coffins therein to suitable graves below the existing vault, to remove the vault and gallery, and to make use of the gallery walls for building the proposed chantry, 13 December 1919

Notice from the Rt. Hon. Sir Matthew White Ridley, bart., H.M. Principal Secretary of State, Whitehall, to the incumbent of Chester-le-Street parish, of intention to discontinue burials in the church burial grounds opened in 1832 and 1855, except as specified, 14 December 1895

Sealed order in council for the discontinuance of burials in Chester-le-Street burial grounds opened in 1832 and 1855, except as specified, for the protection of public health, 13 May 1896

Transcript of monumental inscriptions from tombstones and monuments in the old and new churchyards, and inside the church, including stained glass windows and the war memorial, indexed, 1946

Copy minutes of meetings of the Church Institute lessees and the churchwardens of Chester-le-Street, 27 October 1896 and 1 November 1897

Inland Revenue provisional valuation of Chester-le-Street Church Institute, Church Chare, under provisions of the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, 2 March 1914

Plan of rectory at Chester-le-Street for the Rev. Canon Blunt, by Lamb and Armstrong, architects, of 38 Grainger Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne, showing north, south, east and west elevations, July 1887 Scale: 5 inches to 40 ft [1:96]

Receipts for money paid on account of new rectory, 26 March 1886 - 6 February 1889

Statement of accounts for the erection of Chester-le-Street rectory, 20 December 1888 - 4 January 1890

Inland Revenue provisional valuation of Chester-le-Street rectory, under provisions of the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, 2 July 1913

Schedule of deeds, 1915 - 5 September 1940, relating to 23 Holmlands Park, Chester-le-Street, which Eric Richard Worley conveyed to the Durham Diocesan Board of Finance in trust for Chester-le-Street, St. Mary and St. Cuthbert Parochial Church Council, 2 April 1941

Copy letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. W. S. Guest-Williams, of Birtley vicarage, confirming the purchase of 2 roods of land as an addition to the site of the parsonage belonging to Birtley vicarage, and covering letter, 28 March 1885

Faculty for the external floodlighting of the parish church, 26 January 1990

Copy citation and intimation issued by Charles Thomas [Longley], bishop of Durham, for the appearance in Durham Consistory Court on 4 December next of all persons having an interest in Chester-le-Street church and churchyard to show cause why a faculty should not be granted to Sarah Cookson, widow of the late John Cookson esq., of Whittle Hall, Chester-le- Street, for the appropriation of an intended vault in place of an old vault through which an offensive drain passes near the west boundary wall of the churchyard [location of intended vault specified], 27 November 1857

Copy citation and intimation issued by Charles [Baring] bishop of Durham, for the appearance before the Rt. Hon. Thomas Emerson Headlam, M.A., Vicar General and Official Principal, in Durham Consistory Court on 20 December, of all parishioners and inhabitants of Chester-le-Street having an interest in a petition for the restoration of the parish church, to show cause why a faculty should not be granted to Thomas Hyde Ripley, clerk, M.A., Edward Johnson, Simon Robinson, John Crawford and Matthew Henderson, churchwardens, Rev. Joseph Price De Pledge and Abraham Story, for the renewal of the roof and the decayed beams in the tower, the removal of the gallery at the west end of the church, and the pews now standing to be replaced by new ones all on the ground floor, the removal of the old floor, to be replaced by a new one, the present heating apparatus to be refixed and new oak doors to the porch, new spouts erected and proper drains laid round the church, and other minor alterations, and when the pews are erected to keep them unappropriated, 12 December 1861

Faculty for placing a brass cross in the church of Chester-le-Street, in memory of Margaret Agnes Anderson and others, 21 July 1913

Faculty for the removal of two tablets and the erection of a bronze tablet, in memory of the men from Chester-le-Street who fell in the Great War 1914-18, 28 November 1921

Faculty for the erection of a stained glass window in the south aisle in memory of Charles Rollo Barrett and Lindsay Alfred Barrett, 7 June 1922

Faculty for the introduction of a new Holy Table, oak reredos and panelling, 3 June 1927

Copy faculty for the laying out and maintaining of the closed burial ground lying to the north of the parish church as an open space under The Open Spaces Act, 1906, 29 October 1963

Schedule of church furniture, fittings and altar plate in the parish church, and schedule of deeds and articles deposited in the Bank of Liverpool, Chester-le-Street, Easter 1919

Quinquennial inspection report on St Mary and St Cuthbert' s church, by Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, 4 June 1976

Quinquennial inspection report on St Mary and St Cuthbert' s church, by Charlewood Curry Partnership, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, 20 July 1987

Ordinary assessment of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations, and covering letter, 29 April - 16 June 1959

Schedule of surplice dues, 30 May 1819

Churchwardens' and overseers' account book (originally 3 separate volumes): I 22 April 1606 - April 1641 II 29 January 1606/7 - 12 March 1625/6; [Easter] 1640 - 31 March 1657 III 1 May 1652 - 21 December 1670 Volume I includes: memoranda relating to charitable bequests, including money from the coal mines of Lumley Castle, 6 June 1616; memoranda of the lease of houses for the poor, and the loan of church stock; memoranda relating to the maintenance of the church organs, 1627 - 1629; certificate (f.135v.) of confined residence of a recusant, 12 March 1625/6; contributions towards a schoolmaster, 24 January 1635/6 Volume II includes: at front: certificates of confined residence of recusants, 9 April 1610 and 12 March 1625/6; memorandum of responsibility for repair of the church wall, 29 January 1606/7; list of recusants and their servants, 28 March 1608 and 20 December 1609; at end: memorandum of agreement for casting the great bell, 29 January 1654/5; 'monthly tax' assessment list, 5 May 1656 Volume III includes: churchwardens' accounts from [Easter] 1664; overseers' annual assessment lists and lists of payments to the poor from 1652; agreement for the repair and maintenance of the church clock, 19 November 1658; bonds for repayment of loans of church stock, n.d.; bastardy bonds, 29 January 1667/8 - 8 January 1669/70; account of ironwork for 3 church bells, 29 November 1665; agreement for tuning the great bell, 3 February 1654/5; at end : list of church briefs, 16 June - 29 September 1661; churchwardens' payments, 1657 - 1658, 1660; bastardy bonds, 23 December 1661, 22 February 1663/4, 7 February 1669/70

Churchwardens' and overseers' account book, Easter 1670 - 7 April 1703 Includes: overseers' annual assessment lists for the 'monthly tax' for poor relief, and lists of payments to the poor; bonds for the repayment of charity money for the use of the poor; and copy agreement between William Hume, minister of Chester-le-Street, and John Nelson, of the city of Durham, clockmaker, for the repair of the church clock for 7 years, 1 August 1684 For enclosures see EP/CS 4/100 and EP/CS 4/102

Churchwardens' and overseers' accounts and vestry meeting minute book, [April] 1701 - 6 October 1723 Includes: overseers' annual assessment lists for the 'monthly tax' [for poor relief], and lists of payments to the poor, 1702 - 1709; churchwardens payments, 1701 - 1702, 1711; and notices concerning Richard Harrison 's legacy for the benefit of the poor, October - December 1710 For enclosure see EP/CS 4/99

Churchwardens' accounts (from 1760) and vestry meeting minute book, 12 August 1722 - 2 April 1782 Includes: (p. 59 ff) minutes of negotiations for the purchase and repair of a workhouse, 1747 - 1749 For enclosures see EP/CS 4/101 and EP/CS 4/103

Churchwardens' accounts and vestry meeting minute book, April 1784 - March 1837 Includes: at front: memorandum of the donation and purchase of musical instruments for the church, 24 March 1818; letter from James Middleton applying for the post of beadle, 28 March 1837; annual totals of churchwardens' receipts and payments, 1774 - 1783; (p.96) memorandum [Latin] by William Nesfield, curate, in honour of 100 young men of the town who voluntarily took up arms when the country was faced with the threat of invasion by France, 1801; (pp.106-116) copy poor rate assessment, 28 September 1804; (p.142) memorandum concerning raising of the churchyard at the south east corner, 24 April 1810; (p.159) (annexed) estimates for laying flagstones from the churchyard door to the north door and vestry corner, 1 - 3 November 1814; (pp.161-176) copy church rate assessment on all rentals in the parish (Birtley, Chester, Edmondsley, Harraton, Great Lumley, Lambton, Pelton, Plawsworth, Urpeth and Waldridge), 9 February 1815; (pp.183-201) copy church rate assessment [as above], 18 October 1815; (pp. 207-224) copy church rate assessment [as above], 26 November 1816; (p.260) memorandum of proposal to extend burial ground, 22 July 1827; (p.263) approval of Lord Durham 's application to have a pew an d vault erected to a specification by [Ignatius] Bonomi, architect, 10 March 1829; (pp.269-271) resolutions concerning the installation of church heating by William Lee & Son of Sunderland, 3 February - 1 March 1831; (pp.283-4) copy letter from John Dodd complaining of the insufficiency of the burial ground, and resolution to request the purchase of 1 acre in 'the Oakes' and the Round School building from Hylton Jolliffe, 3 October 1832; (p. 288) (annexed) plan of church heating system, scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96], 49cm x 28cm, coloured, n.d. [1831]; (pp.295-298) resolution and copy letters concerning the erection of a vault for the late Thomas Elliott in the churchyard, 13 August - 5 September 1835; (pp.301-303) resolution and copy letter regarding th e proposed appointment of two curates, 17 August - 17 September 1836; at end: [printed] terrier of surplice dues in the parish of Chester-le-Street, n.d [19th c.] For enclosure see EP/CS 12/1

Churchwarden's accounts and vestry meeting minute book, 24 May 1848 - 3 April 1923 Includes: (copy) church rate annual assessments, 1848 - 1852; inside back cover: copy of inscription on the large bell, 1665 For enclosures see EP/CS 12/2, 3, 7, 8

Churchwardens' account book, 8 August 1923 - 21 April 1936

Churchwardens' account, 5 May - 6 October [1700] Originally enclosed in EP/CS 4/94

Churchwardens' account, 3 November 1700 - 4 May 1701 Originally enclosed in EP/CS 4/93

Account of churchwardens' receipts, 1735 Originally enclosed in EP/CS 4/93

Account of churchwardens' receipts and payments, 18 April 1738 - 19 May 1739 Originally enclosed in p. 33 of EP/CS 4/95

Parish account book, 1 July 1832 - 4 January 1862 Includes: (p.1-3) sacrament money accounts, 29 July 1832 - 27 December 1835 (p.4-5,13) Smith 's charity accounts, 14 May 1832 - 27 January 1842 (p.6) Chester township church cess [assessment] receipts, Easter 1831 - 14 March 1837 (p.8-14) church rate receipts for Pelton, Harraton, Birtley, Lumley, Lambton and the west quarter of the parish (Plawsworth, Edmondsley, Urpeth and Waldridge), Easter 1832 - March 1837 (p.16 ff) (copy) churchwardens' accounts, 28 May 1832 - 23 August 1837; Easter 1855 - Easter 1856 at end: copy rental for Chester-le-Street, Waldridge, Ouston, Pelton, Plawsworth, Edmondsley, Urpeth, Harraton, Birtley and Great Lumley county/poor rate, March 1831 miscellaneous memoranda, 1832 - 1842, including a list of public subscriptions collected in Chester-le-Street, January 1835 - July 1836 copy letter regarding Viscount Althorp ' s property valuation return, 23 December 1833 Penny Clothing Society accounts; sermons preached; confirmations; Earl of Durham's charity receipts, 1833 - 1834 death of Rev. John Dodd, 1834 parish register entries, missionary meetings; visitations, church heating; sacrament money receipts, from 1836; total eclipse of the sun, 15 May 1836 copy letter of resignation of E. W. Maxwell as churchwarden, 16 February 1837 account of sexton 's fees and Smith's charity receipts, 1852 - 1862

Account book of church fees paid to the rector and churchwardens, 5 October 1901 - 1 August 1922

Correspondence, stock transfer certificates and dividend statements relating to investments held by the Church Commissioners on behalf of Chester-le-Street rectory, 6 April 1936 - 11 May 1961

Inland Revenue provisional valuation of St. Mary's Church, Chester-le-Street, under provisions of the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, 27 June 1913

Inland Revenue provisional valuation of Chester-le-Street graveyard, Low Chare, also church at Chester Moor, under provisions of the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, 27 August 1914

Circular letter from the Clerk to the Commissioners [of Land Tax], Town Hall, Gateshead, to the churchwardens and overseers of Chester-le-Street, informing of revised provisions for the appointment of collectors of taxes under the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879, to be considered at the

List of churchwardens for the year 1744 Originally enclosed in p. 51 of EP/CS 4/95

Memorandum book containing at front copy wills and charity accounts, and, p.76 - end, inserted between blank pages and bound into the volume. Includes: loose papers relating to parish affairs, 26 January 1626/7 [orig.] - 1 July 1919 (f.1) copy deed of appointment by the surviving feoffees of Henry Smith, late of London, deceased (who disposed of his estate to charitable uses for the relief and setting to work of poor people) for payment from estates [specified] in Hampshire, Essex, Leicestershire, Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Durham (Hartlepool), Kent and Surrey, of sums of money for the use of the poor, including, to the churchwardens and the overseers of the poor of the town of Lumley £15 p.a., Hesleton £10 p.a., Mourton [Murton] £5 p.a., Chester in Street £5 p.a., and Gateshead £5 p.a., 20 December 1644 (f.10) copy declaration of uses by Henry Smith, 26 January 1626/7 (f.24) copy will of Elizabeth Tewart, 1718 (crossed out) (f.27) copy will of Eliz[abeth] Tewart of Chester-le-Street, widow, devising her house and land in Chester-le-Street in trust for the minister of Chester-le-Street, to pay 20s. p.a. to the parish clerk; copyhold lands called Kellsheets in Chester-le-Street in trust to pay £6 p.a. to a schoolmaster, to keep a public school in Chester-le-Street to teach 12 poor children; to distribute 12 penny loaves every Sunday to 12 poor widows of Chester-le-Street, and a further 12 penny loaves weekly to 12 poor people; to pay £3 p.a. for apprenticing a boy from Chester-le-Street; and the 2 houses in Chester-le-Street called Elling House and Chambers ' House in trust for the use of 2 poor widows of her kindred or as appointed by the minister of Chester-le-Street, 10 May 1718 (f.31) Smith' s charity payments, 1771 (f.32) copy regarding the assessment of the Church rate in the parish of Chester-le-Street [as to past inequalities in contributions to the same, including non-payment by colliery lessees], submitted to the Archdeacon of Durham at his visitation, 15 June 1771, with interrogatories, and opinion on the same of George Harris, Doctors Commons, 1771 (f.43) Smith' s charity payments 1772 - 1781 (f.53) copy will of Ralph Harrison of Baynes Loope, devising to the poor of Tanfield chapelry £100 as a standing stock to be put out for their use; to the poor of the parishes of Whickham £100, Ryton £100, Bowlam £100, Gateshead £100, Chester [le Street] £100 and to the poor of Lamesley chapelry £50; also one third of his colliery in Burnopfield to his brother Thomas Harrison, 26 March 1687 (f.55) copy extracts 'from the books in the iron chest' of loans and receipts of the parish stock, and Smith' s charity receipts, 1705 - 1820 pagination changes here (p.59) extract from 'The Laws of Pews' , a judgement by Sir J. Nicholl, 19 June 1833 (p. 61) Smith' s charity distribution lists, 1836 - 1842 (p.69) extract from the will of Margaret Hudson of Chester deanery, devising £5 p.a. for the purchase at Christmas of coals for the poor of Chester-le-Street, 30 October 1824, proved 21 December 1824 (p.71) note worthy entries copied from [churchwardens ' ] book no. 4, 1673 - 1690 (p.74) list of subscriptions to a fund for procuring respectable furniture for the altar, 1843 the following papers are inserted after p.76 (printed) notice advertising the sale by auction on 1st May of copyhold messuages in Middle Chare, Chester-le-Street, now occupied by Richard Thornton and others, with right of pasturage on Waldridge Common, 13 April 1815 (printed) blank form of a paper to be subscribed by the bakers referred to in the eighth article of the plan for ensuring a regular supply of bread, n.d. [1794 watermark] particulars and valuation of Longstock Farm near Stockbridge Hands [Hampshire; Henry Smith's charity], addressed to the churchwardens of Chester-le-Street, 18 January 1793 (printed) notice of the attendance at Chester-le-Street of Mr. Percival Forster, receiver of the freehold and copyhold rents payable to the Bishop of Durham, to receive rents due for property at Chester-le-Street, Eighton Banks, Plawsworth and Urpeth, 20 December 1821 (printed) notice of the deputy steward summoning suitors to the halmot court of the Bishop of Durham, to be held at Chester-le-Street in the manor of Chester, 22 April, n.y. [1791 - 1826] (printed) notice of the attendance of Mr. Percival Forster to receive rents [as above], 20 December 1826 (printed) notice advertising sale by auction of newly erected freehold building now used as a common brewery in Hetton le Hole, 27 December 1826 list of the monthly tax of the inhabitants of Chester-le-Street [for relief of the poor], and monthly allowances for the poor, 6 April 1660 (printed) form listing household residents for Durham Militia, Chester ward, n.d. [c. 1816] (printed) notice of the Chester-le-Street Association for the Prosecution of Felons, announcing the [named] members' intention to enforce the rules of the Society, as agreed at their annual meeting, 22 January 1823 affidavit as to residence of Joseph English of Beamish in Urpeth township, prior to publication of banns of marriage, 8 December 1822 (printed) apparitor's notice summoning the minister and old and new churchwardens of Chester-le-Street to appear at the Archdeacon's ordinary visitation to be held in the parish church of St. Mary le Bow, Durham, 8 July 1813 (copy) licence by Edward [Maltby], bishop of Durham, to John Forster, clerk, to be stipendiary curate of Chester-le-Street, 6 November 1836 (copy) order regarding the contribution of the chapelries of Lamesley and Tanfield to assessments for the repair and maintenance of the mother church of Chester-le-Street, formerly in dispute, 5 May 1634 memorandum of the admission at the manor court of Chester of William Octavius Blunt, rector of Chester-le-Street, to a messuage and close (4a. 26p.) adjoining, numbered 99 on the tithe apportionment for Chester-le-Street, and through which close the Team Valley Extension of the North Eastern Railway passes (subject to the trusts of Elizabeth Tewart's will, 1718), 1 September 1877 (copy) conveyance by Rev. William Octavius Blunt, rector, to the North Eastern Railway Company of a parcel of land set out for the Team Valley Extension railway, (1r. 32p.), part of a copyhold close in Chester-le-Street now occupied by John Paxton, for £125, with copy plan, 28 November 1877 memorandum of investment of the £125 from the sale of copyhold land for the Team Valley Extension railway, and declaration of trust for the rectors of Chester-le-Street, 20 December 1977 (printed) magazine report of Chester-le-Street church' s millenary festival, including text of the Bishop of Durham' s sermon, 18 July 1883 (printed) copy engravings (6) from the rector's book A Thousand Years of the Church in Chester-le-Street [Rev. Canon Blunt, 1883] (printed) report from The Bell News. .....on the opening of a new peal of 6 bells at Chester-le-Street, n.d [18 July 1883] (printed) form of service for the induction of Rev. Frank Hilton Jackson, 21 May 1919 (printed) order of services for Chester-le-Street Millenary, 18 - 22 July 1883 memorandum of sale of work for Millenary Fund, n.d [1883] memorandum of the opening of the vault under the chancel, 15 October 1889 memorandum of loan of silver chalice dated 1798 to the curate of the parish for use in the mission chapel of St Barnabas, Waldridge Fell, 11 February 1887 list of parishioners who provided carriages for mending the highways, 1670 overseers of the highways receipts, n.d. [17th c.] copy bond of Matthew Bell of Newcastle upon Tyne to Anthony Snaith of Chester-le-Street for repayment of £500, 29 November 1738 churchwardens' disbursements, August 1740 - January 1741 and March - April 1741 list of ' monthly tax' receipts and arrears, and payments to the poor, n.d. [17th c.] estimate of carpenter and joiner's work to be done at Chester Poor House, n.d. [1765] order of Chester-le-Street vestry for payment to the master of the workhouse of the interest on money left by the will of Ra[lph] Harrison of Bryan's Leap, for settlement of several bills, 17 November 1765 list of names and ages of 54 people [purpose unspecified], n.d. [18th c.] proposals for undertaking the management of the workhouse at Chester-le-Street by William Allison, stuffweaver, and affidavit of his capability, July 1748 estimate of the charge of mason 's and carpenter's work at the workhouse, n.d. [c. 1765] notices of a meeting at the workhouse to appoint a committee for managing the late Mr. Harrison 's benefaction, 1 and 8 November 1765 specimens (3) of Zuccato' s patent trypograph duplicate printing process, n.d. [19th c .] (copy) population statistics for Chester-le-Street union, 1831, 1841, 1851 receipts (2) issued by Prescott, Dimsdale, Cave, Tugwell & Co. Ltd. of Bristol, for payments from Rev. A. B. de Moleyns, 24 December 1895 and 10 January 1896 circular letter from the secretary of the Curates Augmentation Fund to Rev. de Moleyns, 7 January 1896 letter from Ch[arles] Thorp to Rev. George Bowness of Chester-le-Street regarding the deanery stable yard, 27 March 1837 miscellaneous fundraising accounts, 9 - 11 June 1840 (printed) proclamation by King George III for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for the preventing and punishing of vice, prohaneness [sic] and immorality, 31 October 1760 letter from W. Bray, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury [London] to [the churchwardens of Chester-le-Street] regarding the lease of Longstock Farm, near Stockbridge, Hampshire, from which a benefaction is paid by the trustees of the late Henry Smith, 11 January 1815 letter from William Matthews, minister's churchwarden, to W. Bray regarding the lease of Longstock Farm, Hampshire, 23 January 1815 letter from W. Bray to William Pybus of Chester-le-Street regarding the valuation of Longstock Farm, 17 February 1815 (printed) proclamation by King George V appointing a general thanksgiving to be observed on 6 July for the close of the war, 1 July 1919 (printed) hymn composed by the Rev. J. Dodd, to be sung in Chester-le-Street church after a sermon to be preached by Rev. W. Nesfield for the relief of the relatives of those who were killed and wounded at the battle of Waterloo, 27 August 1815 memorandum of the dates of foundation of Lanchester and Chester-le-Street churches (1283 and 1285), n.d. [18th c.]

Memorandum book, 1715 [orig] - 1862 Comprises: at front: (f.3-8), 21 December 1715 (1) John Hedworth of Chester in the Street, esquire (2) Sir William Williamson of Monkwearmouth, bart., William Lambton of Lambton, esquire, and Henry Lambton, gent., eldest son and heir apparent of Ralph Lambton of the city of London, esquire (3) Nicholas Conyers of Chester in the Street, clerk, and Barbara his wife, sister of (1) Copy deed of settlement for the augmentation of the curacy of Chester-le-Street, whereby (1) released to (2) forever all tithes of corn, wool and lamb belonging to (1) in Lamesley and Tanfield township in the parish of Chester in the Street; all tithes of hay, corn, geese, pig, lint and small tithes within the towns of Chester, Pelaw, Wheatley, Swang and Rickleton; and all customary rents for tithe hay within the towns of Chester, Harraton, Birtley, Urpeth, Pelton, Pockesly, Foulbridgehouse, Twisel-Nag, Whe[atley], Brimmywham, Edmondsley, Waldridge and Newfield (reserving to (1) the right of nomination of a curate for Chester-le-Street) upon the following trusts: to pay £10 p.a. to Nicholas Conyers and his successors [curates]; and £10 p.a. to (1) for 10 years in satisfaction of a sum of £100 formerly given for the relief of the poor of Chester-le-Street, and advanced by (1) (as impropriator of the rectory of Chester Street) to Conyers; to raise £500 from the premises; and to pay the residue of rents and profits for the term of 10 years to Conyers; and further after the expiry of 10 years and after the raising of the sums of £500 and £100, upon the following trusts: to pay William Winship of Chester-le-Street, gent. £7 yearly rent in respect of corn tithe; 6s 8d. yearly rent to the Crown; £5 p.a. for ever to the minister, churchwardens and overseers of the poor of Chester for the relief of the poor (£5 p.a. being also covenanted to be paid during the term of 10 years) in lieu of interest on the £100 formerly given for poor relief; to pay for maintenance and repair of the chancel (as also covenanted to be paid during the term of 10 years); £5 p.a. for cleaning the church and chancel floor and for preventing noise during divine service; £5 p.a. to the curate of Tanfield; also upon trust to raise £50 p.a. (to make up the said £500) and to pay the interest thereon to Barbara Conyers for her separate use, and then to her children; and if (3) have no issue, to pay the £500 to the survivor of (3) (f.8-12) notes of births, marriages and deaths in Chester-le-Street and elsewhere, many of local and national interest, 1758 - 1862, including entries for the Lambton family, Earls of Durham (f.9v-10) copy notice issued to the masons of Chester-le-Street regarding the unauthorised working and sale of stone from Burnt House quarry, which was reserved for the copyholders of Chester-le-Street, 1 March 1810 (f.9) (f.10v-11) valuation of materials at Chester Mill (Mr. Lambton ' s interest), 11 May 1778, and valuations of the mill, 7 November 1796 and 26 November 1810 (f.11) memorandum of the riding of the boundaries of the manor of Chester Dea[nery] 25 October 1829 (f.11v) memorandum of an apprenticeship, 1833 (f.23-12v) further notes of births, marriages and deaths in Chester-le-Street and elsewhere, as above, 1770 - 1862, including entries for the death of the Duke of Cleveland, 1842 (f.21), and cholera deaths in Chester-le-Street, 1849 (f.17) (f.22v) weather observations; a schedule of register books belonging to the church, 1830 (f.15 - 14) order of rotation of the Burn Greens 1750 - 1815, stint measurements for the Burn Greens, 1808, and acreage of the same, 1832 (f.13v - 12v) account of the expenses of Thomas Cumming Grieve in maintaining the Burn Greens, 1810 - 1812

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