Catalogue Item

Session minute book, 5 June 1932 - 12 December 1954 At end: list of elders, June 1932 - June 1954

Session minute book, 19 January 1955 - 10 April 1968 At end: roll of elders, 1950s - 1971

Session minute book, 15 May 1968 - 7 October 1975

Minute book of Committee of Management, 17 October 1967 - 15 March 1977

Minute book of the Committee of Management, 14 May 1977 - 19 November 1985; Property and Fabric Managers' Group, 17 December 1985 - 20 October 1987

Proposed constitution of the Committee of Management to be presented to the Church Meeting, 10 July 1973 Originally enclosed in UR/Du.W 22

Minute book of Elders' meetings, 19 November 1975 - 16 June 1980

Minute book of Elders' meetings, 29 June 1980 - 26 March 1985

List of duties of the Church Secretary, n.d. Originally enclosed in UR/Du.W 22

Draft constitution of the Finance Committee to be discussed at the Elders' Meeting, 12 June 1985 Originally enclosed in UR/Du.W 22

Ladies Committee: Diary of Events, 4 February 1965 - 29 May 1969 At end: minutes of Co-ordinating Committee, 30 June 1966 - [ ] June 1975

Return for the Maintenance of the Ministry Fund, giving numbers of members, income of church and sums paid to the minister, 1966-1975

'Form for the Submission of Accounts', to the United Reformed Church, giving financial details, 1966-1974

Special Expenses account book, January 1933 - 9 January 1964 At end: list of contributions to Organ Blower Fund, 17 August 1941 - 3 May 1942; list of contributions to Renovation Fund, 17 January 1943 - 31 March 1949

Income and expenditure account book, 2 January 1949 - 30 September 1968

Income and expenditure account book, October 1968 - 31 December 1975

Financial reports, 1956-1959, 1963-1964

Reports, 1958

Reports and accounts, 1961-1966, 1969, 1973-1974, 1976

Income and expenditure accounts for the quarters ended 30 September 1967, 31 March 1968 - 30 September 1968, 31 March 1969 - 30 September 1969, 31 March 1970, 30 June 1971

Income and expenditure accounts, 1970 and 1990

Reports and accounts, 1974 Originally enclosed in UR/Du.W 37

Reports and accounts, 1984 Originally enclosed in UR/Du.W 22

Memorandum of the appointment of new trustees of the Presbyterian Church, Waddington Street, Durham, 7 July 1957

Correspondence between Hewitt, Woollacott & Chown, 113 Cannon Street, London; and A Taylor, 22 Swinside Drive, Durham; concerning the appointment of trustees, 15 January 1965 - 30 January 1967

Elders' roll: record of the names and addresses of individuals with details of their admission to the church, their removal or death and office held, 1970s At beginning: numbers on the roll, 1963 - 1971

Elders' roll: record of the names and addresses of individuals, with details of their admission to the church, their removal or death, and office held, 1980s

Statistical returns to the U.R.C., 1966-1971

Annual returns to the U.R.C., giving names of officers, date of foundation, and numbers of members, 1985-1996

Letter from L.A. Nicol, 49 Hipsburn Drive, Sunderland, to A.T. Ogilvie, 22 Geoffrey Avenue, Neville's Cross, Durham, giving numbers of members of the church and members attending the Sunday School between 1972 and 1988, 11 May 1989

Communicants' roll book, 1 January 1927 - 31 December 1962

A Directory of Church Organisations, Officers and Representatives, Members and Adherents of the U.R.C., Waddington Street, Durham, [July 1984] Originally enclosed in UR/Du.W 22

Address and telephone directory of members of the church, January 1988 - March 1991

Copy of a photograph of Rev. G.P. Wallace, M.A., B.D., minister of Waddington Street Presbyterian Church, Durham, 1932-1946, n.d. Originally enclosed in UR/Du.W 15

Edict of vacancy; extract minute from the Presbytery of Shetland; and induction edict; concerning the appointment of Rev. A.B.A. Wilson, 15 September 1946 - 6 February 1947

Order of service for the induction of Rev. A.B.A. Wilson, 19 February 1947

Advertisement in an unidentified newspaper, possibly The Glasgow Herald , for the situation of minister of Waddington Street Presbyterian Church, Durham, n.d. [c.1954] Originally enclosed in UR/Du.W 15

Extract from the records of the Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross; edict for the consideration of the call of Rev. A.B.A. Wilson to Torryburn & Newmills; extract from the records of the Presbytery of Durham; edicts for the consideration of the call of Rev. J.C. Hughes to the Presbytery of Durham, 2 February 1954 - 23 March 1955

Order of service for the induction of Rev. J.C. Hughes, 30 March 1955

Order of service for the induction of Rev. Robert Brown, 1 February 1961

Order of service for the ordination and induction of Rev. John Edwards, 12 July 1969

Order of service for the induction of Rev. Stuart Jackson, 18 May 1974

Order of service for the induction of Rev. David Holt Roberts, 23 June 1984

Correspondence between Ivor Hutchinson, estate agents, Victoria House, 138 Newgate Street, Bishop Auckland; J. Ayton, Hillcrest, Potters Bank, Durham City; Hewitt, Woollacott & Chown, Congrewe House, 86 Station Road, Redhill, Surrey; R.L. Rowland, 12 Western Hill, Durham; Rev. R.V. MacFadyen, The United Reformed Church, 86 Tavistock Place, London; Dr. John Munro, 2 Manor Close, Shincliffe, Durham; concerning the sale of the manse, 23 October 1981 - 6 July 1982

'Investigation into the Future of Church Premises at Waddington Street, Durham', March 1990

Revised estimates for alterations to the church hall, and to the church, n.d. and 1991

Report to Waddington Street U.R.C. Appeal Committee, 1991; Report from the Appeals Committee, 1992

Minutes of development meetings, 1991-1993 Minutes of the Finance Committee, 6 February 1991 - 7 April 1991 Appeal Committee, 12 May 1991 - 9 February 1992 Appeal Committee, Development Group and Finance Group Joint Meetings, 16 February 1992 - 7 February 1993 meeting between Waddington Street Centre Ltd., Simon Priestley (Durham Area Health Authority) and Waddington Street U.R.C., 23 February 1993

Development Group: First Report, October 1991 (Attached: position of Building Fund at 29 February 1992)

Correspondence between Charles Dallas, Appeals Advisor, Waddington Street U.R.C., Willowtree Avenue, Durham; S.M. Priestley, General Manager, Community Health Services, Earls House Hospital, Lanchester Road, Durham; concerning the Waddington Day Centre, 13 June 1991 - 24 March 1993

Copy application for grant aid addressed to the Charities Aid Foundation, 48 Pembury Road, Tonbridge, Kent, 1991 Attached: letter from Judith McQuillan, Information Officer, Charities Aid Foundation, to Charles Dallas, Appeals Advisor, Waddington Street United Reformed Church Appeals Office, 77 Willowtree Avenue, Durham, turning down the application, 12 August 1991

Cutting from the Northern Echo, entitled 'Church seeks help to build a new future', by Sian Thomas, 31 December 1991

Appeal by Waddington Street United Reformed Church, by Charles Dallas, Appeals Advisor, n.d., c.1991

Leaflet appealing for financial support for the improvement and repair of the church, n.d. [1990]

Press release written by Ian McCulloch describing the re-development at the church, 1992

List of 'Grants received from Trusts and other Corporate Bodies since April', compiled by Charles Dallas, Hospice Development Consultant, 12 High Green, Gainford, n.d.

Leaflet advertising Waddington Street Centre, Durham City, n.d.

Leaflet describing Waddington Street Centre, Durham City, n.d.

Description of the percentage of people living in 'Waddington Street Area', in various categories of deprivation, 1991

Schedules for Presbyterial Visitations to the church and reports on the visitations, 1934, 1944, 1949, 1955

Reports on visitations to the church, 1939, 1961, 1968

Minute book of the Women's Missionary Association, 8 February 1943 - 7 March 1956 At beginning: note that no meetings were held between 29 April 1941 and 8 February 1943

Minute book of the Women's Missionary Association of the Presbyterian Church of England, 1 November 1909 - 29 April 1941

Women's Missionary Association cash book, April 1963 - 18 March 1973]

Minute book of the Women's Guild, 6 October 1966 - 17 October 1974

Minute book of Church Fellowship Committee, 18 December 1975 - 2 December 1976

Programme of the Church Fellowship, 1976-1977 Originally enclosed in UR/Du.W 28

Reports on meetings of the Church Fellowship, n.d. [c.1976] Originally enclosed in UR/Du.W 28

Minute book of the Badminton Club, 3 December 1956 - 24 September 1990

Sunday School income and expenditure book, 1 January 1965 - 31 December 1987

Durham Presbyterian Church centenary booklet, 1972

'Comments and Memories of Those Who Have Built Up Waddington Street Church', n.d.

Durham Presbyterian Church Centenary, 1972

List of events to mark the centenary of the church, 1972 Originally enclosed in UR/Du.W 73

The Review, May and June 1991

Handbooks, 1993-1994, 1994-1995

'Memories and Reflections of the Search in Pursuit of The Roots and an Origin', by R.L. Rowland, n.d.

Leaflet advertising an Open Day at the church, n.d.

Key to the Photographic Portraits of the English Synod of the United Presbyterian Church At Its First Meeting held in Mount Pleasant Church, Liverpool, in October A .D. 1863, printed by Herald and Walker, Police Street, Manchester [Lancashire], 1863

Photographic Portraits of Members of the English Synod of the United Presbyterian Church At Its First Meeting held in Mount Pleasant Church, Liverpool, in October A.D. 1863 taken by Mr. Alex Brothers, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, 1863