Catalogue

numbers not used (now EP/Wes 1/1-10)

Register of confirmations, 8 December 1946 - 11 December 1955

Register of Sermons and Preachers, 23 May 1886 - 19 April 1891

Register of Services, 5 July 1908 - 2 October 1927

Register of Services, 9 October 1927 - 9 August 1939

Register of Services, 13 August 1939 - 23 November 1949

Register of Services, 27 November 1949 - 27 December 1959

Register of Services, 30 December 1959 - 15 December 1963

Notice of the appointment of a Commission by the Bishop of Durham to inquire into the desirability of uniting the benefices of Westoe and South Shields, 11 February 1937

List of queries with replies concerning St. Thomas' Church. Includes details of the number of parishioners and members of various parochial groups and societies, n.d. [c.1938]

Letters concerning the proposal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to amalgamate the benefices of St. Thomas and St. Hilda. The Parochial Church Council of St. Thomas' lodged an appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the proposal was quashed. Correspondants include W. Newton Lindley, Weights and Measures Office, Westoe, L.A. Matthew of the Church Union, J. Chuter Ede, M.P., Evill and Coleman, Solicitors, of London, the Bishop of Jarrow and Messrs. Grunhut, Grunhut and Makepeace, Solicitors of London, 14 January 1937 - 20 June 1939

Telegrams from Evill and Coleman, Solicitors, of London, to W. Newton Lindley of Cleadon re the subject of No. 14/474 above. Confirming arrival of documents relating to the appeal, 1938

Draft scheme of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the union of the benefices of Westoe and South Shields, n.d. [c.1938]

Synopsis of incidents and events leading up to the appeal, n.d. [c.1938]

Copy of the case for Westoe P.C.C. as presented to the Privy Council, n.d. [c.1939]

Copy petition of appeal of Westoe P.C.C. to the Privy Council, n.d. [c.1939]

Printed copy of the judgement of the Privy Council in the appeal against the union of the benefices, 1939

Bill of costs of Messrs. Evill and Coleman, Solicitors, in account with Westoe P.C.C. for work relating to the appeal, 20 March 1939

Accounts of the St. Thomas Appeal Fund, including names of all subscribers, 1939

Printed memoranda concerning the Union of Benefices Measures, 1923 - 1936

Copy of the cases for the two parties involved in the appeal of the Privy Council, n.d., [c.1939]

Draft copy of statement sent to (Archdeacon) Bland re compensation for loss of fees at Harton and Westoe, 19 April 1864

Copy of The London Gazette. Includes a copy of a grant of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of a stipend of £250 to the incumbent of St. Thomas', 25 July 1873

Statement of annual amounts payable by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the benefice of Westoe, 1939

Short printed biography of Rev. W. Coward, incumbent of Westoe Chapel and officiating vicar at Harton. Published in South Shields, 1853 and inscribed 'M.E. Crosthwaite' and 'T.T. Buckland' The Biography originally appeared in the North and South Shields Gazette, 1853

Sermon preached by Rev. W.L. Kay, vicar of Shieldfield Church, Newcastle on the occasion of the death of Rev. Samuel Stewart, incumbent of Westoe Chapel, who died 13 May 1865. Published in South Shields, 1865

Specification and estimate for a proposed new organ, by H.S. Vincent and Co., organ builders, 17 October 1911

Papers relating to the maintenance of the organ blower motor, including letters of the Vulcan Boiler and General Insurance Co., electrical insurance policy and inspection report, 7 January 1913 - 8 December 1947

Report on the condition of the electric organ blower, by the Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd, 26 August 1948

Policy of insurance on the organ blower, 9 September 1948

29 June 1950 (1) Annie Lillye Foxwell of South Shields, widow (2) Church Commissioners (3) Rev. Philip Hutchinson, incumbent of St. Thomas' Conveyance of land in Lawe Road, containing 258 square yards with a house, No. 40 Lawe Road, formerly 'Nephine House', to be used as a Parsonage

Letter of consent of J. Gill, St. Thomas' Vicarage, to the erection of a telegraph pole in the yard of St. Thomas' recreation room, 26 October 1917

Public entertainment licence for St.Thomas' Hall in Denmark Street, issued by the Borough Licencing Justices, 7 February 1957

Terrier of the Vicarage and parish church of St. Thomas, February 1956

List of furnishings in St. Thomas' Church, property of the churchwardens, 1944

Inventory of the goods belonging to the church, February 1956

Faculty for the introduction of a brass lectern in memory of Hannah Lamb Crichton, 12 July 1934

Faculty for the installation of two gas heaters and a boiler in the church with covering letter and receipt from H. Cecil Ferens, Deputy Registrar, 9 October 1947

Faculty for the introduction of a new processional cross and two standard candlesticks, with covering letter from H.C. Ferens, Registrar, 6 November 1953

Covering letter from the official solicitor of the Church Commissioners to Rev. P Hutchinson, 7 November 1950

Letter of William Mark Pybus and Sons, of Newcastle, Solicitors, to Rev. P. Hutchinson of St. Thomas' vicarage re the lease of the Plaza Cinema, 28 September 1951

Churchwardens Account Book, 10 May 1868 - 3 July, 1898

Church Account Book, 3 January - 9 May 1943

Church Institute Account Book, 1 January 1942 - 21 May 1943

Church Offertory Book, 10 July, 1870 - 17 March 1889 and register of choir attendances, 3 November 1907 - 1 May 1908

Copy of the provisional valuation of St. Thomas Church Institute, Sunday School and vicarage under the Finance Act, 1910 with covering letters from the District Valuer, 15 - 27 August 1913

Report of a special committee appointed by the Bishop to consider the proportion of the Diocesan Quota paid by each parish, 25 April 1949

Mss. notes on the above report (14/486) with special reference to the possible effects on St. Thomas' parish, n.d. c.1949

Fire insurance policies on St. Thomas' Church School and Institute, 22 June 1926

Fire insurance policy on No. 40 Lawes Road, 9 August 1950

Fire insurance policy on St. Thomas' Church, 17 January 1955

Public liability insurance policy on the Church, Sunday School and Institute, 11 December 1956

Employers' liability insurance policy on the Church, Church Hall and employees, 13 March 1957

Duplicate Public Liability policy issued by Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Ltd., to Vicar, Churchwardens and Parochial Church Council of St. Thomas' Westoe, 1936 - 1937

Letter of the Secretary of the Bounty Office to the Sequestrators of the benefice of Westoe, concerning repairs to the church, 23 March 1939

Vestry Minute Book, 3 May 1821 - 6 October 1838

Vestry Minute Book, 3 April 1866 - 3 April 1886 Includes also: Minutes of a Building Committee which was set up 20 December 1887 to assist in the sale of a portion of church land in Ocean Road and the erection of Sunday Schools on the remaining land and a Church Institute in the Thomas Street district. Meetings of the School Managers commenced 15 March 1889; 20 December 1887 - 9 May 1889 St. Thomas' Sunday Schools Finance Committee Minutes, 7 September 1896. Enclosed: List of incumbents of St. Thomas' Church, 1815 - 1865

Minute Book of the P.C.C., Vestry and Finance Committee, 2 April 1937 - 13 February 1947

Copy of St. Thomas's electoral roll, April 1957

Minute Book of various committees connected with Westoe National School. On 9 September 1814 a public meeting was held in the Town Hall when a decision was made to establish a Parochial School (see poster on inside cover) . From 18 January 1815 regular meetings of the Committee for the management of the intended school were held. Later known as the Building Committee its members selected a building contractor by public tender (for advertisement see p.11) and supervised his work. Included are letters between the Committee and various contractors and details of accounts. The volume also contains minutes of the annual meetings of the Trustees and Subscribers to the Parochial School dating from 4 March 1818, 9 September 1814 - 11 January 1868 Enclosed: Particulars of contributions for building Westoe Chapel and the Parochial School, n.d. [c. 1815]

Account Book of the South Shields and Westoe National School, 1815 - 8 May 1865 Includes list of incumbents of St. Thomas' 1817 - 1943 and of churchwardens, 1864 - 1909 Enclosed: Newspaper photograph of Fowler Street showing St. Thomas' Church on the right

Parish magazine entitled 'St. Thomas the Apostle, February 1957 Originally enclosed in EP/Wes 1/1