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Register of baptisms, September 1867 - April 1878

Register of baptisms, April 1878 - September 1886

Register of baptisms, September 1886 - September 1895

Register of baptisms, September 1895 - December 1903

Register of baptisms, December 1903 - September 1911

Register of baptisms, October 1911 - July 1921

Register of baptisms, July 1921 - June 1930

Register of baptisms, June 1930 - March 1942

Register of baptisms, 15 March 1942 - 4 August 1963

Register of marriages, September 1867 - August 1909

Register of marriages, October 1909 - July 1923

Register of marriages, July 1923 - February 1933

Register of marriages, March 1933 - June 1943

Register of marriages, 17 July 1943 - 3 August 1953

Register of marriages, 22 August 1953 - 14 September 1966

Register of marriages, 17 September 1966 - 15 May 1993

Register of marriages, 10 July 1993 - 15 September 2019

Register of banns of marriage, 1950 - 1957

Register of banns of marriage, 1957 - 1963

Register of banns of marriage, 1963 - 1970

Register of banns of marriage, 1946 - 1950

Register of burials, September 1867 - October 1879

Register of burials, October 1879 - November 1890

Register of burials, November 1890 - November 1900

Register of burials, December 1900 - December 1911

Register of burials, December 1911 - October 1922

Register of burials, October 1922 - June 1933

Register of burials, June 1933 - April 1946

Register of burials, 11 May 1946 - 5 December 1960

Register of burials, 6 December 1960 - 14 July 1986

Register of confirmations, 26 May 1930 - 6 June 2010

Register of preachers and church services, 12 October 1911 - 20 August 1922

Register of preachers and church services, 27 August 1922 - 20 November 1932

Register of preachers and church services, 27 November 1932 - 1 October 1941

Register of preachers and church services, 5 October 1941 - 27 November 1948

Register of services, 28 November 1948 - 4 October 1952

Register of services, 5 October 1952 - 24 June 1955

Register of services, 26 June 1955 - 2 March 1958

Register of services, 2 March 1958 - 30 May 1964

Register of services, 31 May 1964 - 30 November 1974

Register of services, 1 December 1974 - 23 October 1982

Register of services, 24 October 1982 - 27 February 1988

Register of services, 28 February 1988 - 21 June 1990

The London Gazette (incomplete) including an Order in Council confirming the scheme of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners forming the district of Leadgate, 28 July 1863

Map showing the alteration of the boundaries of the parishes of Consett; Leadgate; Medomsley; and Blackhill, St. Aidan; issued by the Charity Commissioners, 18 September 1962 Scale: 9 inches to 1 mile [1:7040]

Copy order-in-council altering the boundaries of the parishes of Blackhill, St. Aidan; Consett; Leadgate; and Medomsley, 28 January 1963

The London Gazette containing an Order in Council arranging various transfers of patronage in the Diocese of Durham, 28 July 1925

The London Gazette with details of property conveyed to the benefice, 6 February 1874

The London Gazette with details of property conveyed, 20 February 1874

The London Gazette containing a grant of £120 p.a. by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners as the stipend for an assistant curate at Leadgate, 26 January 1877

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1 Millbank, Westminster, to Rev. J. Hamilton, The Vicarage, Leadgate, informing the latter that the former holds 4% Funding Stock for the benefice, 15 July 1930

Certified copy table of fees for the parish of Leadgate, 13 February 1941

Letter from the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, Westminster, to Rev. W. Portsmouth, The Vicarage, Leadgate, informing the latter of orders concerning the stocks belonging to the benefice, under the Benefices (Stabilization of Incomes) Measure, 1951, 1 July 1952

Letter from the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, Westminster, to Rev. W. Portsmouth, The Vicarage, Leadgate, informing the latter that the 4% Funding Stock held on behalf of the benefice has been converted to 3.5% Conversion Stock, 31 March 1950

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, Durham, the Rev. William Portsmouth, Vicar of Leadgate; the Church Commissioners and others concerning open cast coal mining on Leadgate glebe, 20 February 1950 - 1 February 1957

Licence to the curacy of Lancelot Oliver Henderson, 18 December 1932

Licence to the curacy of Leslie CharlesFisher, 21 September 1935

Licence to the curacy of Cyril Esmond Woolstenholmes, 4 June 1939

Licence to the curacy of Trevor Randall Beeson, 20 May 1951

Licence to the curacy of Herbert Pearcey Johnston, 19 December 1954

Licence to the curacy of Thomas Hedges Comley, 20 September 1964

Photograph of unidentified clergyman and his wife by Thos. Clegg, The Studio, Leadgate, n.d. [19th century]

Postcard of a photograph of Rev. W.H. Coney, vicar of Leadgate from 1908, Christmas 1918

Photograph of Rev. William Henry Coney, vicar of Leadgate from 1908, with his Irish terrier, Tartar, taken by Jos. Fairclough, Manor House Studio, Crook, n.d.

The London Gazette containing the appointment of the Rev. W.H. Coney, M.A., to the living of Leadgate, 17 April 1908

Notice of the institution and induction of Rev. Donald Moxon, 28 April 1960

Order-of-service for the collation and induction of the Rev. Joseph Hudson Green, 18 September 1969

Notice, addressed to the churchwardens, that Rev. Donald Moxon is to be admitted to the parish of Leadgate, 14 December 1959

15 February 1886 (1) Robert Jackson of Bellingham, Northumberland, doctor of medicine (2) John Jackson of the City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, draper (3) Benjamin Jackson of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, draper (4) Joseph White Mitchell of Leadgate, Clerk in Holy Orders Release whereby (1) - (3) exonerate (4) concerning his acting as executor of the will of John Jackson, father of (1) - (3)

Copy articles of enquiry concerning the parish of Leadgate, completed by F.S. Myers, Rural Dean, 10 June 1931

Correspondence between Basil Jackson, Secretary of Leadgate P.C.C., Richard Wylie, A.R.I B.A., Durham Diocesan Surveyor of 24 Grainger Street West, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; the Durham Diocesan Board for Church Building and Church Extension and others concerning church fabric and decay in the east wall and windows of the chancel with report by Wylie, 15 June 1931 - 25 April 1933

Correspondence between Basil Jackson, Secretary of Leadgate P.C.C., the Consett Iron Company Ltd. and B. Dale, High West Street, Gateshead regarding installation of electric lighting at the church, 26 September 1932 - 17 February 1933

Correspondence between Basil Jackson, Secretary of Leadgate P.C.C. and Read Millican and Company Ltd., Market Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne concerning the removal of stained glass window of St. George to vestry, 2 December 1932 - 18 February 1933

Correspondence between Basil Jackson, Secretary of Leadgate P.C.C. and Ralph Hedley, artistic and architectural carver, St. Mary's Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne concerning work to be done to organ chamber, altar rails and chancel screen, 21 December 1933 - 7 November 1934

Correspondence between Basil Jackson, Secretary of Leadgate P.C.C. and H. Ayton and Sons, George Street, Blackhill and the Hon. S.R.G.P. Vereker, Hamsterley Hall concerning unsafe state of belfry, 10 May 1939 - 26 October 1940

Correspondence between Bramley and Co. Ltd., Ensign Works, St. Lawrence Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; G.E. Charlewood, T. D., F.R.I.B.A., Neville Street, Newcastle and Rev. T.R. Beeson, The School House, Leadgate concerning furnishing the new Lady Chapel, 12 May - 7 December 1953

Letters from P. Currah, Brocklehursts, Chartered Loss Surveyors, 15/17 Grey Street, Newcastle - upon Tyne, NE1 6EE to Reverend D. Hall, The Vicarage, St. Ives Road, Leadgate, Durham, DH8 7SN concerning malicious damage to the church, 29 April - 6 October 1992

Correspondence between Basil Jackson, Secretary of Leadgate P.C.C. and Blackett and Howden Ltd., Grafton Street Organ Works, Heaton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne regarding organ tuning and repairs, 25 November 1929 - 21 July 1933

Notice of the unveiling of the memorial window, 16 June 1909 and other services, 20 and 27 June 1909

Correspondence between the Diocesan Registry Durham; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners; Basil Jackson, 1 The Villas, Crookhall Road, Consett (P.C.C. Secretary); the London and North Eastern Railway Company; Durham County Council; Durham County Water Board; the Consett iron Company Ltd and others, concerning proposed extension to Leadgate churchyard, cost and contributions, preparation of conveyance etc., 3 July 1928 - 19 January 1933

Correspondence between Basil Jackson, Secretary of Leadgate P.C.C. and H.B. Vaisey, K.C., Secretary of the Legal Board of the Church Assembly concerning noisy people in the churchyard, 16 - 23 July 1942

Sections A.A., B.B., C.C.; sections of south, west and east walls; layout plan and 1/2 inch section of boundary wall; of proposed extension to burial ground at St. Ives, Leadgate, 20 September 1929 Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch [1:360]; 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96] Contains no details of individual graves or names of those buried

Licence, issued by the Home Office, for the removal of the human remains of Sabrina Wheatley from one grave to another in St. Ives' churchyard, 29 April 1930

Correspondence between the Consett Iron Company Ltd; the Rev. W.H. Coney, Vicar of Leadgate; the Rev. John Hamilton, Vicar of Leadgate; William Brown and Son, joiners and undertakers, Dale Street, Blackhill and Basil Jackson, Secretary of Leadgate P.C.C. concerning costs of and repairs to the mission church at Delves Lane, Crookhall, 9 July 1923 - 8 December 1937

31 July 1901 1) Reverend T. Barley, Vicarage, Leadgate 2) T. Foreman, Veterinary Surgeon, East House, Leadgate 3) G. Nicholson, Slate Merchant, Front Street, Leadgate 4) W. J. Foreman, Veterinary Surgeon, East House, Leadgate 5) J. E. Parker, Civil Engineer, Front Street, Leadagate 6) W. Brears, Schoolmaster, Schoolhouse, Leadgate 7) C. Clegg, Store Manager, Park Terrace, Leadgate 8) W. Turnbull, Engineer, [Nort?] Head House, Leadgate 9) J. Stephenson, Cashier, [Morpeet?] House, Leadgate 10) R. Calvert, Victualler, Durham Road, Leadgate 11) W. Wharton, Engine Man, Durham Road, Leadgate 12) G. W. Goulden, Schoolmaster, West Parade, Leadgate Copy trust deed declaring that the above are seized and hold the hereditaments of the Church Hall or Parish Room and Men's Guild Room in an indenture dated 17 May 1901 and setting out the permitted uses of the hereditaments and the powers of the above trustees

Counterpart mortgage for securing the payment of £27,500 for the erection of a new house of residence for incumbents of the parish of St. Ives, 1 July 1977

Faculty authorising the erection of a chancel screen, 16 June 1890

Faculty authorising the erection of a stained glass window, 8 August 1930

Faculty authorising the introduction of a new oak lectern, 26 February 1932

Faculty authorising the introduction of electric lighting, 18 November 1932

Faculty authorising the removal of the organ and stained glass windows, 17 February 1933

Faculty authorising the erection of an oak screen and alter rail, 15 June 1934

Faculty authorising the introduction of an oak chair in the Sanctuary, 17 June 1938

Faculty authorising the reservation of grave spaces in the churchyard, 19 May 1939

Faculty authorising the installation of an electric organ blower, 9 June 1939

Faculty authorising the introduction of a pair of brass candlesticks, 27 October 1949

Faculty authorising the introduction of a processional cross, 5 May 1950

Faculty authorising the conversion of the east end of the north aisle into a side chapel, 12 August 1953

Faculty authorising the installation of an aumbry, 15 September 1953

Faculty authorising the installation of a gas fired heating boiler and a new organ, 24 January 1958

Faculty authorising the execution of an agreement providing for the grant of a perpetual right of user of part of the churchyard for the purposes of widening and improving the highway, 3 February 1959

Faculty authorising the introduction of a credence table and a miner's davy lamp over the aumbry and a silver pyx, 21 February 1961

Faculty authorising the introduction of a hanging sanctuary lamp, 22 May 1963

Faculty authorising the installation of a new electric light system and light fittings, 8 February 1964

Faculty authorising the introduction and storage of the Eden Miner's Lodge banner on the west wall of the church and place a miner's lamp in the window in the north aisle; the repair of the St. Ives window in the south aisle, remove and replace the glass in the St. George's window in the vestry with mitra glass; the removal of four pews at the foot of the central aisle and remove two pews from each side aisle; the introduction of a carpeted platform to support the nave alter and extend and carpet the platform in the Lady Chapel; the carrying out of general repairs and replacements to the fabric and the introduction of frontals for the Lady Chapel alter, 4 January 1982

Terrier, 1931

Terrier, 30 June 1954, 31 July 1955, 22 July 1957, 3 April 1969, 22 May 1971

Inventory, 30 June 1954, 31 July 1955, 22 July 1957, 8 April 1969, 22 May 1971

Report of surveyor, order and assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure upon the vicarage, with related correspondence, 21 September 1929 - 31 March 1930

Report of surveyor, order and assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures upon the vicarage, 7 June - 23 October 1935

Report of surveyor, order and assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures upon the vicarage, 17 July 1940 - 15 January 1941

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 31 December 1945

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 20 September 1950

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 28 November 1955

Schedule of dilapidations at the vicarage, report of surveyor, order and assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, August 1970 - 6 April 1971

Account book of the churchwardens, 14 April 1912 - Easter 1921; account book of the Parochial Church Council, Easter 1921 - 31 December 1932

Writ of sequestration of the parish of Leadgate, 6 February 1959

27 April 1960 (1) Sequestrators of the parish of Leadgate (2) The Church Commissioners Mortgage in £850 of the income of the benefice for the improvement of the parsonage house Attached: consent, signed by the Bishop of Durham, for the obtaining of the loan, 31 March 1960

Minutes of Leadgate Church Building Committee, 21 September 1864 - 2 September 1867; minutes of vestry meetings, 3 October 1867 - 10 April 1890

Minutes of vestry meetings, 25 April 1900 - 28 April 1908; annual church accounts, 1900 - 1911

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 21 December 1921 - 10 October 1923

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 28 March 1924 - 6 September 1950

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 3 January 1951 - 6 April 1960

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 4 May 1960 - 22 March 1967

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 10 May 1967 - 6 November 1974

Minutes of the annual parochial church meeting, 23 April 1920 - 5 April 1923

Minutes of the annual parochial church meeting, 24 April 1924 - 28 March 1951

Account book of the Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1933 - 31 December 1948

Account book of the Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1949 - 31 December 1951

Account book of the Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1952 - 31 December 1955

Pass book of Leadgate P.C.C. with Martins Bank Limited, Consett, 3 July 1939 - 29 March 1956

Account book, including offertory, 1 January 1952 - 31 December 1955

Correspondence between Basil Jackson, Secretary of Leadgate P.C.C. and the Church Assembly Legal Board concerning funds of the disbanded parish football club, 27 October - 9 November 1937

Electoral roll with related papers, 1921 - 1939

4 February 1959 (1) Parochial Church Council and Incumbent of the parish of Leadgate, St. Ives (2) Frank Mawson of 7 Oak Terrace, Leadgate Agreement whereby (1) is to employ (2) as gravedigger

Managers' minute book, Leadgate National (later C.E.) School, 1 December 1904 - 11 September 1953

Managers' minute book, Leadgate (C.E.) Aided School, 11 September 1953 - 7 July 1975

Reports of the headmaster to the managers, 24 September 1960 and 18 January 1961

Leadgate C.E. School balance sheets, 1973 and 1974

Correspondence and circulars received from the Ecclesiastical Commission, the Consett Iron Company Ltd. and the Board of Education relating to Leadgate National School, 22 February 1899 - 13 May 1903

Agreement for the employment of May Greenwell as an assistant teacher, 3 October 1940

Applications for the post of clerical assistant, Leadgate C.E. School, November - December 1975

Scheme including appointment of trustees and vesting for the charity known as The Church Hall and Men's Guild Rooms concerning land containing 357 square yards situated in the Parish of Leadgate and bounded on the north by St. Ives Road, on the east by certain dwelling houses, on the south by a back street and on the west by the road to Park Terrace with the buildings on the land comprising the Church Hall, the Men's Guild Room and a dwelling house known as 52 St. Ives Road which is rented by G. L. Wilson, 31 December 1901

Statement of funds belonging to St. Ives' Youth Club, 1 July 1974

Photograph of St. Ives' football team, with trophy, taken by J. Thornton, Sherburn Terrace, Consett, 1925

The Dawn of Day, parish magazine, January 1888 - December 1889

Parish magazines, March and May 1894

Parish magazine, December 1904

Parish magazines, January - December 1921

St. Ives' Herald, October 1961

St. Ives, a short history of the life of St. Ives and of the parish of Leadgate by Rev. Ronald Attley, 1981

Notice of the annual flower services in commemoration of the blessed dead, 12 August 1906

Notice of harvest thanksgiving services, 28 October 1908; of a lantern lecture, 29 October 1909; and services on All Saints' Day, 1 November 1909

Notice of the harvest thanksgiving service at Iveston Mission, 18 October 1908 and 24 October [1909]

Poster advertising services for Harvest Festival, 14 and 17 October 1920

Notice of Commemoration Sunday and flower service, 27 July 1924

Notices of annual commemoration services and flower services, 29 August 1926 and 25 September 1927

List of house meetings, inter-church house meetings, and house communions, n.d. 1960s

Notice of 'A Grand Lantern Lecture' on 'Some beautiful Scenery of Ireland', to be held at Redwell Schools, 15 December 1908

Notice of concert and social, 19 October 1909

Notices of annual parochial tea and entertainment, 23 February 1909 and 18 April 1911

Royal Proclamation exhorting economy in the use of grain, 2 May 1917