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West Hartlepool St. Matthew Chapel

Reference: EP/Ha.SMa Catalogue Title: West Hartlepool St. Matthew Chapel Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1902-1945

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Registration (Ref: EP/Ha.SMa 1/1)

Register of baptisms, 19 March 1902 ­- 15 December 1945 (1 volume, vellum bound) Second Deposit (Acc: 2140)

Third Deposit (Acc: 3352) (Ref: EP/Ha.SMa 2/2)

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, Millbank, Westminster, to Rev. Joseph Bennett, The Vicarage, Stranton, West Hartlepool, rejecting the proposal to use Stranton, St. Matthew, as a parish church, and enclosing a report, dated 8 December 1909, by Caroe and Passmore, architects, 3 Great College Street, Westminster, which concludes that the building is unsuitable to become a parish church, 14 December 1909 (2 papers, typescript) Third Deposit (Acc: 3352)

Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Ha.SMa 4/1-6)

Ground plan and section of Stranton Mission Church, Elwick Road, West Hartlepool, by John Wilson, architect, West Hartlepool, 17 November 1909 Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]
(1 plan, 64 cm. x 49 cm., waxed linen, colour wash)


Elevation and sections of Stranton Mission Church, Elwick Road, West Hartlepool, by John Wilson, architect, West Hartlepool, 17 November 1909 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]
(1 plan, 62 cm. x 48 cm., waxed linen, colour wash)


North and east elevations of Stranton Mission Church, Elwick Road, West Hartlepool, by John Wilson, architect, West Hartlepool, 17 November 1909 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]
(1 plan, 65 cm. x 44.5 cm., waxed linen, colour wash)


Ground plan and section of Stranton Mission Church, Elwick Road, West Hartlepool, including layout of pews, by John Wilson, architect, West Hartlepool, n.d., [1909] Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]
(1 plan, 67 cm. x 49.5 cm., colour wash)


Foundation plan and roof plan of Stranton Mission Church, Elwick Road, West Hartlepool, by John Wilson, architect, West Hartlepool, n.d., [1909] Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]
(1 plan, 66.5 cm. x 49 cm., colour wash)


Postcard depicting [St. Matthew's Mission Church], n.d., [c.1910]
(1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)

Vestry (Ref: EP/Ha.SMa 5/1)

Vestry annual meeting minute book commencing with the first vestry meeting of St. Matthews' Mission Church, 3 April 1902 -­ 20 April 1922
(1 volume, cloth bound)