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Chopwell St. John Parish

Reference: EP/Cho Catalogue Title: Chopwell St. John Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1880-2008

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Chopwell, St John (Ref: EP/Cho)Registration (Ref: EP/Cho 1/)Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Cho 1/section 01)

1/1-5


Register of baptisms, 29 August 1900 - 11 January 1912
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 11 January 1912 - 2 July 1925
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of baptisms, 2 July 1925 - 7 April 1936
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 12 April 1936 - 8 October 1950
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 8 October 1950 - 27 December 1970
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Cho 1/section 02)

1/6-13


Register of marriages, 18 October 1902 - 9 March 1912
(1 volume, vellum half-bound)


Register of marriages, 11 March 1912 - 21 May 1916
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 10 June 1916 - 22 March 1924
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 29 March 1924 - 3 August 1935
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 3 August 1935 - 13 February 1943
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 27 February 1943 - 24 June 1950
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 1 July 1950 - 9 April 1960
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 4 June 1960 - 17 August 1974
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Cho 1/section 03)

1/14-17


Register of banns of marriage, 7 September 1913 - 16 July 1922
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 12 June 1938 - 8 April 1951
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 13 May 1951 - 9 October 1966
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 30 October 1966 - 15 July 1973
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of burials (Ref: EP/Cho 1/section 04)

1/18-20, 23/1-2


Register of burials, 12 August 1900 - 9 May 1915
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of burials, 7 May 1915 - 10 June 1928
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of burials, 16 June 1928 - 17 January 1942
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of burials, 19 January 1942 - 24 August 1960
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of burials, 14 October 1960 - 23 November 1992
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Marriage licences (Ref: EP/Cho 1/section 05)

1/21-22


Marriage licence, 12 July 1950
(1 paper)


Marriage licence, 14 September 1965
(1 paper)

Clergy (Ref: EP/Cho 2/)Registers of preachers and registers of services (Ref: EP/Cho 2/section 01)Registers of preachers (Ref: EP/Cho 2/section 01)

2/1-2


Register of preachers, offertory and communicants, 19 August 1900 - 4 December 1904
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of preachers, offertory and communicants, 27 November 1904 - 27 March 1910
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of services (Ref: EP/Cho 2/section 02)

2/3-9, 13, 2/14/1-2


Register of services, 27 March 1910 - 25 June 1922
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of services, 1 January 1922 - 29 December 1935
(1 volume, paper quarter-bound)


Register of services, 1 January 1936 - 1 July 1945
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 1 July 1945 - 11 February 1951
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 11 February 1951 - 28 August 1957
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 1 September 1957 - 21 May 1967
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 23 May 1967 - 27 August 1978
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 3 September 1978 - 2 June 1991
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Register of services, 3 June 1991 - 17 April 1999
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Register of services, 18 April 1999 - 20 August 2008
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Benefice income (Ref: EP/Cho 2/section 03)

2/12


Correspondence regarding stipend of Chopwell living, 17 May 1916 - 26 April 1949
(10 papers, 1 file)

Licences for the performance of divine service (Ref: EP/Cho 2/section 04)

2/10-11


Licence for performance of divine service, 30 April 1898
(1 paper)


Licence for performance of divine service, 30 June 1944
(1 paper)

Parish profile (Ref: EP/Cho 2/section 05)

2/15/1


Parish profile, September 1994
(19 papers, photocopied)

Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Cho 4/)Church (Ref: EP/Cho 4/section 01)

4/8/2-4, 14, 22, 24


Design of reredos and altar table for St. John's Church, Chopwell, by G.E. Charlewood, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 1952
(1 plan, 55 cm. x 55 cm.)


Specification and costing of Ralph Hedley, Craftsmen, Ltd., artistic and architectural carver in wood and stone, 52 St. Mary's Place, Newcastle, for reredos, altar table and rails, 25 April 1952 and 2 October 1952
(2 papers)


Plans of proposed extension to Chopwell church, October 1903
(2 plans, cloth)


Estimate supplied by Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, Elders Glass, Sunderland Road, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, for a new stained glass window in memory of Jean Wren, with a background of squares and a design of Our Lady of Walsingham, 29 April 1997 See also EP/Cho 4/24
(2 papers)


Fax from Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, Sunderland Road, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, to Burt Taylor, enclosing a design for the glass window, 26 September 1997 See also EP/Cho 4/22
(2 papers; 1 plan, 35 cm. x 108 cm.)

Churchyard (Ref: EP/Cho 4/section 02)

4/4, 16, 18-19, 4/27/1-3, 4/29/1


Conveyance of additions to churchyard and parsonage site, 28 February 1923
(1 file)


Plan of proposed extension to drains in burial ground, n.d.
(1 plan, paper)


Agreement for maintenance of war graves, 25 February 1926
(1 paper)


Register of graves, 12 August 1900 - 22 November 1917
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of graves in sections 3, 5 and 6, n.d. [1900 - 1935]
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of graves in sections 3, 4 and 5; 6, 7 and 8, 1930 - 1999
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of graves in sections 3, 4 and 5; 6, 7 and 8, n.d. [1900] - 1999
(1 volume, plastic bound)


St Johns Church Chopwell, plan of burial ground showing location of church and vicarage and 7 rows of graves, n.d. [1960s]
(1 plan, 75 cm x 92 cm, paper backed with linen)

Vicarage (Ref: EP/Cho 4/section 03)

4/3, 15,


Conveyance of parsonage house, 5 September 1918
(1 fil&)


Plan of proposed alterations and additions to Chopwell vicarage, 20 July 1920
(1 plan, cloth)

War memorial (Ref: EP/Cho 4/section 04)

4/8/5-16


Correspondence between Rev. M. Shorthouse, The Vicarage, Chopwell, the Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham and G.E. Charlewood, 14 Neville Street, Newcastle, concerning the design of the war memorial reredos, altar table and rails, 7 July - 19 August 1952
(4 papers)


Circular letter from the chairman and treasurer of the war memorial fund appealing for subscriptions, 15 May 1952
(1 paper, printed)


Letter from William Whiteley, House of Commons, London, to H. Bolton, 6 Owen Terrace, Newcastle, concerning a permit for the war memorial and commenting on political affairs, 29 May 1952 [William Whitely (1881 - 1955) was born in Littleburn; on the executive of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, 1915 - 1922; Labour MP. for Blaydon division, 1922 - 1931, 1931 - 1955; chief whip, 1942 - 1955]
(1 paper)


Lists of names of those killed, giving each man's regiment and name and address of next of kin, 1952
(6 papers)


Letter from Lord Lawson, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Durham, to Rev. M. Shorthouse accepting an invitation to unveil the war memorial, 1 May 1953
(1 paper)

Faculties and Archdeacons' Certificates (Ref: EP/Cho 4/section 05)Faculties (Ref: EP/Cho 4/section 01)

4/5-11, 20, 23, 25-26,


Faculty for a stained glass East window, a chancel screen, four close screens as memorials to the dead of the 1914 - 1919 war, 24 March 1920
(1 paper)


Faculty for lych gate, 6 August 1921
(1 paper)


Faculty for the introduction of an electric blower for the organ, with related correspondence, 7 March 1936 - 1 December 1938
(4 papers, 1 file)


Faculty for carved oak altar, reredos and altar rails as war memorial, with related correspondence, 6 September 1952
(32 papers, 2 files)


Faculty for stained glass window, 16 August 1956
(1 papeft)


Faculty for electric lighting installation, with related correspondence, 12 June 1957
(2 papers, 1 booklet)


Faculty for stained glass window, 10 December 1957
(3 papers)


Notice of an intention to make application under Section 12 of the Faculty Jurisdiction Measure 1964 for a faculty for bringing the electrical wiring up to the required standard, the replacement of 5 amp with 13 amp sockets and the installation of a sump pump in the boiler house, 1 October 1988
(1 paper)


Draft notice of intention to apply for a faculty for a stained glass window, 24 September 1997 See also EP/Cho 4/22
(1 paper)


Faculty for erection of a stained glass window, depicting Our Lady of Walsingham, in memory of Jean Wren, as in EP/Cho 4/22, 17 October 1997
(1 paper)


Faculty for the interment of Isabella Pattison's ashes in the grave of her father, Joseph Wedgwood, in Chopwell churchyard and the laying down of a karin grey plaque in commemoration of the interment, 22 November 2002
(1 paper)

Archdeacons' certificates (Ref: EP/Cho 4/section 02)

4/21


Archdeacon's certificate for unidentified work, 20 October 1988
(1 paper)

Quinquennial inspections (Ref: EP/Cho 4/section 06)

4/28/1


Quinquennial inspection report on St John's church, by Christopher Downs, chartered architect, ecclesiastical and historic buildings consultant, 8 Holmside Place, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, 27 July 1992
(33 papers, photocopied)

Financial records (Ref: EP/Cho 4/section 07)

4/1


Statement of accounts, 1 April 1939
(1 paper)

Sequestration (Ref: EP/Cho 4/section 08)

4/17


Sequestration, 2 March 1940
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Cho 4/section 09)

4/2, 12-13


Letter re use of St. John's chapel in Winlaton, 15 January 1895
(1 paper)


Correspondence re dilapidations, repairs, etc., 9 September 1952 - 10 December 1957
(26 papers, 4 files)


Plans for Ryton (Parish) Local Board (Water), Session 1880-1881
(3 papers)

Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Cho 6/)

6/1


Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 22 March 1954 - 4 November 1974
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Schools (Ref: EP/Cho 11/)

11/1


County Council of Durham Education Department circular re letting of schools, 21 March 1938
(1 paper)