Catalogue

Baptism register, 1868 - 1876

Baptism register, 1876 - 1892

Baptism register, 1892 - 1898

Baptism register, 1898 - 1905

Baptism register, 1905 - 1911

Baptism register, 1911 - 1919

Baptism register, 1919 - 1927

Baptism register, 1927 - 1954

Register of baptisms, 23 May 1954 - 14 July 1968

Register of baptisms, 21 July 1968 - 7 June 2009

Marriage register, 1869 - 1898

Marriage register, 1898 - 1908

Marriage register, 1908 - 1917

Marriage register, 1917 - 1927

Marriage register, 1927 - 1936

Marriages register, 1936 - 1946

Marriages register, 1946 - 1954

Register of marriages, 24 July 1954 - 9 October 1965

Register of marriages, 9 October 1965 - 22 August 1987

Register of marriages, 19 September 1987 - 29 September 2012

Register of marriages, 15 February 2013 - 26 October 2019

Register of banns of marriage, 26 February 1950 - 11 April 1954

Register of banns of marriage, 29 August 1971 - 3 July 1977

Register of banns of marriage, 3 July 1977 - 18 October 1978

Burial register, 1868 - 1881

Burial register, 1881 - 1902

Burial register, 1902 - 1921

Burial register, 1921 - 1934

Burial register, 1934 - 1948

Register of burials, 8 June 1948 - 11 May 1966

Register of burials, 12 May 1966 - 22 August 1991

Register of services, 22 June 1947 - 28 December 1960 At end: note of meetings of the Sunday School, 22 June 1947 - 29 January 1950

Register of services, 1 January 1961 - 28 December 1966

Register of services, 1 January 1967 - 31 December 1972

Register of services, 1 January 1973 - 28 December 1983

Register of services, 1 January 1984 - 27 January 1990

Register of services, 28 February 1990 - 6 November 1996 (1 volume, plastic bound)

Register of services, 10 November 1996 - 24 March 2004

Register of services, 28 March 2004 - 14 May 2014

Copy notice of suspension of presentation to the benefice of Cornforth, Holy Trinity, 1 September 1988

Draft description of parish under Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986, n.d. [c. 1990s]

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster, to Rev. T.F. Fyffe, Cornforth Vicarage, Ferryhill, setting out the annual payment made by the Commission to the income of the benefice, 20 March 1939

Statement of the annual amounts payable by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and included in the quarterly payments scheme, as at 1 April 1939

Letter from G. W. Heslop, Secretary to Diocesan Pastoral Committee, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7QJ to Mrs J. Potts, Ashleigh, Glebe Villas, West Cornforth, Ferryhill, DL17 9HT concerning proposals for the union of the benefice of Coxhoe and the benefice of Kelloe and for the alteration of parish boundaries with parts of the parish of Cornforth transferring to the parish of Coxhoe and parts of the parish of Coxhoe transferring to the parish of Cornforth, 8 - 13 March 1995 Includes: map showing alterations to the various parish boundaries, 18 January 1995

Map showing the alteration of the areas of the parishes of Cassop - Cum - Quarrington, Cornforth and Coxhoe, 17 May 1995

Articles of enquiry at the Archdeacon's visitation, 16 August 1975

6 September 1867 (1) John Simpson and James Hodgson of Stockton-on-Tees, builders (2) Motherwell Duggan, Clerk in Holy Orders, vicar of Cornforth Agreement whereby (1) agrees to erect a church at Cornforth to a design prepared by Messrs. Pritchett and Son Consideration: £1500

Copy certificate of approval of Cornforth church, issued by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, 12 November 1868

Account of work at Cornforth church, submitted by Simpson and Hodgson, 21 December 1868

Estimate for new organ for Cornforth church by M. Sagar, Organ Builder, Fenton Street, Leeds, W. Riding of Yorkshire, 20 May 1890

Correspondence between the Vicar of Cornforth, Cornforth Vicarage, West Cornforth; the National Coal Board, Durham Division, No. 4 (South West Durham) Area, Howlish Offices, Coundon, Bishop Auckland; the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; the Honorary Secretary, Parochial Church Council, 3 Front Street, Cassop, Ferryhill; Cordingley & McIntyre, architects, Owengate, Durham; William Armstrong & Son, Collingwood Buildings, Collingwood Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; concerning damage caused by subsidence to the church, the church hall and 1 Vicarage Terrace, West Cornforth, 23 March 1954 Includes: report and specification of repairs at the church, September 1955, and specification of proposed repairs to the church hall, May 1956

Notice from the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London, to Rev. M. Shorthouse, that Holy Trinity church has been included in a list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest, 7 March 1968

Schematic wiring diagram of electrical services, 'as fitted' in Holy Trinity church, by Cairns & Byles, consulting engineers, 8 Osborne Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, October 1980

Specification for the re-wiring of Holy Trinity church, by Cairns & Byles, consulting engineers, 8 Osborne Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, November 1980

Site inspection report of the church by Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Architects, Owengate House, Saddler Street, Durham City, DH1 3HB, 18 March 1998

Correspondence between the Secretary, Imperial War Graves Commission, Wooburn House, Wooburn Green, Buckinghamshire and the Reverend M. Shorthouse, Cornforth Vicarage, West Cornforth, Durham concerning maintenance of war graves, 4 June 1955 - 15 June 1971

28 October 1937 (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (2) The Parochial Church Council of the Parish of Cornforth (3) The Durham Diocesan Board of Finance Copy conveyance from (1) to (3) at the request of (2) of a parcel of land (1560 sq. yards) in the parish of Cornforth whereon (2) is to erect a church hall Plan attached

Account issued by Wilson & Co., for the conveyance of the site for the church hall, 20 April 1938

Plan of the church hall by Cordingley & McIntyre, architects, Owengate, Durham, 28 April 1956

Plan of side and end elevation, section A-A, and block plan, of proposed kitchen extension to the church hall, drawing no. 2H/1056/VJW, by Torren & Coller, architects, 24 Front Street, Sedgefield, and 16 Great North Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, February 1957 Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]

Letter from the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham, to Rev. M. Shorthouse, Vicar of West Cornforth, refusing a grant towards the new kitchen at the church hall and criticising certain points of its design, 24 February 1958

Plan providing an external overview of the parish hall play group structures by Groundwork East Durham, Seaton Holme, Hall Walks, Easington Village, SR8 3BS, November 19995

Plan of parish hall play group structures by Groundwork East Durham, Seaton Holme, Hall Walks, Easington Village, SR8 3BS, June 1996

Inspection report on the church hall by First Engineers Reports Limited, Drummond House, Dukes Road, Southampton, SO14 OSQ, 26 November 1996

26 September 1949 (1) Bruce Richards of The Vicarage, Old Cornforth (2) North Eastern Eectricity Board, Carliol House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Wayleave agreement for overhead electric wires. Plan attached

Correspondence between the Rev. J.K.S. Ridley Barker, Cornforth Vicarage; the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Trotter, Bruce & Loft, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland; concerning the possible sale of a plot of land near the vicarage, 1 June 1951 - 14 October 1954

Terrier and inventory, 1980

Faculty authorising the installation of a steel brass fronted aumbry safe in the north wall of the sanctuary in the church to be veiled with a white brocade curtain, 13 July 1989

Faculty authorising the introduction of a vestment chest to be situated in the vestry and the introduction of a replacement altar comprising panelled oak and measuring approximately in length ninety inches, in height thirty - nine inches and in width thirty - seven inches, 3 August 1989

Faculty authorising the reservation of a double - depth grave [space number G V123] for the use of William Walton and Rita Walton exclusive of all others for a period of one hundred years, 18 November 1998

Faculty authorising the introduction of a new green altar frontal, 1 May 2003

Faculty authorising the provision of a disabled access ramp and the re - surfacing of the path in stone. For the avoidance of doubt this does not cover work to the gate or gates, 15 March 2010

Faculty authorising the re - pointing and stone repairs to the south boundary wall adjacent to the church; the cleaning of the front boundary brick wall and re-pointing; the preparation of the metal railings and gates and painting, 27 August 2010

Quinquennial inspection report on the church, by Hayton, Lee & Braddock, architects, Owengate House, Durham, May 1975

Quinquennial inspection report on the church, by C.P. Darnton & C.B. Jackman, 2 July 1980

Quinquennial inspection by Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Architects, Owengate House, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 1HB, September 1995

Quinquennial inspection by Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Architects, Owengate House, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 1HB, January 2006

Quinquennial inspection by Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Architects, Owengate House, Saddler Street, Durham City, DH1 3HB, September 2000

1 March 1949 (1) Church Commissioners for England (2) Vicarage of Cornforth Mortgage for 5 years of the revenues of (2) for the repayment of the costs of dilapidations Consideration: £63 13s.6d.

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923 to 1929, 20 March 1950

Surveyor's report under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923-1951, 21 October 1954

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923-1951, 10 June 1955

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923-1951, 15 January 1960

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923-1951, 21 December 1964

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923-1951 , 13 October 1970; and letter from the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London, to Rev. M. Shorthouse, Cornforth Vicarage, West Cornforth, concerning payment for dilapidations, 12 November 1970

Copy writ of sequestration of the benefice of Cornforth, Holy Trinity, 31 August 1988

Sequestration accounts, 17 May 1994 - 11 December 2002

Letter from Reverend C. Jay, Dean of Sedgefield Deanery, 20 Haslewood Road, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, DL5 4XF to A. Hudspith, 26 The Green, Cornforth, Ferryhill, County Durham, DL17 9JH concerning cover during the interregnum, 9 April 2002

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 16 June 1927 - 4 June 1951 Includes: minutes of annual parochial meetings, 18 February 1929 - 6 March 1951

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 3 March 1952 - 31 December 1972 Includes: minutes of annual vestry and annual church meetings, 21 March 1952 - 16 February 1972

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 2 March 1973 - 7 February 1982 Includes: minutes of annual vestry and annual church meetings, 15 February 1973 - 28 March 1982

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 9 May 1982 - 6 February 1990

Parochial Church Council minutes of meetings, 14 February 2002 - 19 March 2003

Minutes of meetings, 2 December 1998 - 3 December 2002

Income and expenses account of the Parochial Church Council for the year ended 31 December 1974

Draft church child protection policy statement for the united benefice of St. Aidan's, Chilton and Holy Trinity, Cornforth, n.d. [c. 1990s]

Draft policy statement on children, young people and the church for the united benefice of St. Aidan's, Chilton and Holy Trinity, Cornforth, n.d. [c. 1990s]

Correspondence between Rev. J.K.S. Ridley Barker, Cornforth Vicarage; Trotter, Bruce and Loft, solicitors, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland; The Secretary, Ministry of Education, Legal Branch, Curzon Street, London; concerning the proposed demolition of the Church of England schools at Cornforth, 3 February - 13 May 1954

Copy return to the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham, concerning the Church of England School for Boys at Cornforth, 28 March 1960

Sponsorship agreement between the Parochial Church Council and the District Commissioner of Bishop Auckland Scout District, on behalf of the 2nd West Cornforth Scout Group, 13 February 1984

Centenary brochure of Cornforth parish church

List of events of flower festival, including a brief history of the parish, 24 - 26 August 1973