Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 31 August 1884 - 12 September 1894

Register of baptisms, 16 September 1894 - 10 January 1900

Register of baptisms, 11 January 1900 - 8 April 1903

Register of baptisms, 26 April 1903 - 19 July 1908

Register of baptisms, 19 July 1908 - 22 January 1911

Register of baptisms, 22 January 1911 - 20 July 1913

Register of baptisms, 20 July 1913 - 11 August 1915

Register of baptisms, 15 August 1915 - 10 July 1918

Register of baptisms, 10 July 1918 - 20 April 1921

Register of baptisms, 24 April 1921 - 27 December 1925

Register of baptisms, 5 January 1926 - 10 October 1937

Register of baptisms, 13 October 1937 - 12 September 1948

Register of baptisms, 26 September 1948 - 13 November 1960

Register of baptisms, 13 November 1960 - 18 February 1971

Register of baptisms, 24 February 1971 - 24 September 1978

Register of marriages, 25 December 1884 - 3 February 1904

Register of marriages, 9 February 1904 - 15 November 1913

Register of marriages, 8 July 1922 - 22 December 1934

Register of marriages, 26 December 1934 - 19 May 1956

Register of marriages, 23 June 1956 - 14 October 1961

Register of marriages, 15 November 1913 - 1 July 1922

Register of marriages, 4 November 1961 - 4 February 1967

Register of marriages, 11 March 1967 - 30 September 1978 [register closed by the Registrar General after the amalgamation with Darlington, Saint Matthew, 16 August 1979]

Register of confirmations, 8 April 1957 - 6 April 1978

Register of services, 23 February 1964 - 24 September 1978

Notification by the Bishop of Durham of the impending vacancy at Darlington, St. Luke, under the Benefices (Exercise of Rights of Presentation) Measure, 1 July 1954

The London Gazette including 'an Instrument substituting the new church of Saint Luke, situate within the new parish of Saint Luke, Darlington, in the County of Durham and in the Diocese of Durham, for the old church of Saint Luke, situate within and hitherto being the parish church of the same new parish', witnessed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Bishop of Durham on 15 February 1917, 20 February 1917

A copy of the London Gazette including details of a grant of a stipend to the incumbent of Darlington, Saint Luke, by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on 27 May 1886, 4 June 1886

The London Gazette including details of a grant made by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners towards the cost of providing a parsonage for the benefice of Darlington, Saint Luke, on 2 May 1889, 10 May 1889

The London Gazette including details of a grant made by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners towards the cost of providing a parsonage for the benefice of Darlington, Saint Luke (on 23 April 1891), 1 May 1891

Licence for the performance of divine service in the church hall adjoining the church of St. Luke on week nights only, 14 January 1921 (1 paper)

Ground plan of original Brookside chapel [later the first church of St. Luke, Darlington], 13 June 1976 Scale: ¹/8" to 1 foot [1:96]

Bills of quantities required for Saint Luke's Church, Darlington, prepared by the architects Clark and Moscrop F.R.I.B.A., Darlington, September 1913

31 December 1881 (1) Rev. Thomas Edward Hodgson, clerk, vicar of Darlington, and others (2) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Copy conveyance from (1) to (2) of a parcel of land (1112 sq. yds.) in Leadenhall Street, and building thereon, as a site for the church of St. Luke, Darlington No consideration

Letter from Blackett and Howden, organ builders, Grafton Street Organ Works, Heaton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Rev. J.G. Holborn, St. Luke's Vicarage, concerning organ tuning contract, 6 February 1917

Photographs showing the inside of the burnt out church of St. Luke's on Good Friday 1921 and the tent used as a church and Sunday school in Christmas 1921 featuring on a card of merit for the attendance record of an Arthur Brown at Sunday school, n.d. [c. 1921]

Plan of ground floor, with front and side elevations of proposed church hall for Saint Luke's Church, Darlington, n.d. [c.1960 - 1962] Scale: unknown

Copy ground plan of the old church of St. Luke in Leadenhall Street, Darlington, n.d. Copy made, 1970s Scale: ¹/8" to 1 foot [1:96]

Plan, section and elevations of proposed church hall in St. Luke's parish, 8 November 1960

Correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission, Millbank, Westminster; the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle; the Diocesan Registry, Palace Green, Durham; Rev. S.F. Warth, St. Luke's Vicarage, Darlington; concerning the issuing of a faculty for the conversion of the old church of St. Luke, in Leadenhall Street, Darlington, into a parish hall, 18 February - 19 May 1922

Authorisation issued by the County Borough of Darlington for the erection of a temporary building in Leadenhall Street, 10 November 1926

Correspondence between Rev. S.F. Warth, St. Luke's Vicarage, Darlington; Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; the Bishop of Jarrow, The College, Durham; concerning the request by the incumbent of St. Luke that he be allowed to let the former church in Leadenhall Street for secular purposes, 19 November - 8 December 1947

Correspondence between Sanderson, Townend and Gilbert, chartered surveyors, Bondgate, Darlington; Rev. S.F. Warth, St. Luke's Vicarage, Darlington; the Church Commissioners, Millbank, Westminster; H.E. Ferens and Son, solicitors, 38 Saddler Street, Durham; Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; R. Pemberton, 5 Orchard Road, Darlington; W.C. Wallace, 68 Orchard Road, Darlington; the Treasury Solicitor, Birdcage Walk, St. James' Park, London; Close and Thornton, 17 Northgate, Darlington; concerning the obtaining of a faculty for the letting of the former church in Leadenhall Street to the Ministry of Works, and the terms of the lease, 15 January 1954 - 2 December 1955

List of deeds relating to St. Luke's church hall, Leadenhall Street, Darlington, transferred to the Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham by Close, Thornton and Hobson, solicitors, Darlington, 12 May 1959

Correspondence between Sanderson, Townend and Gilbert, 92 Bondgate, Darlington; the Vice-Chairman, Parochial Church Council, 11 Hewitson Road, Darlington; Pickfords Ltd., 205 High Holborn, London; concerning the letting of St. Luke's church hall, Leadenhall Street, to a commercial undertaking, 6 March - 10 August 1965

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; the Church Commissioners, Millbank, London; the incumbent of the living of St. Luke, Darlington; John Peters, 21 High Street, Doncaster, West Yorkshire; Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; the Hon. Sec., St. Luke's Parochial Church Council, 144 Gladstone Street, Darlington; concerning the possibility of re-letting the church hall, and its legal status, 20 September 1972 - 10 August 1976

Copy order by the Church Commissioners under Section 54 of the Pastoral Measure, 1968, declaring the old church of St. Luke [the church hall] redundant, 6 August 1976

1971 (1) Robert Arthur Falla of 2 Reid Street, Darlington, schoolteacher, and others, the trustees of St. Luke's Church Hall, Leadenhall Street, Darlington (2) Bacal Construction (North East) Limited of I'Anson House, Kendrew Street, Darlington Copy lease, for 3 years from 4 May 1971, from (1) to (2), of St. Luke's Church Hall, Leadenhall Street, Darlington Rent: £500 p.a.

Accounts of income and expenditure and summary of balances for the official opening week of Saint Luke's new church hall, 15 - 21 September 1962 (2 papers)

Returns to the Diocese of Durham, giving the income of St. Luke's, Darlington, 21 January 1962 and 1963

2 October 1919 (1) John George Holburn of St. Luke's Vicarage, Darlington, vicar, and others (2) Durham and Yorkshire Building Society Copy mortgage in £300 from (2) to (1) of 25 St. Luke's Terrace, Darlington

Faculty for the insertion of stained glass, 8 August 1917

Faculty for the erection of a new clergy stall with brass plate, 30 April 1924

Faculty for the erection of a semi-permanent chancel, 5 June 1926

Faculty for the erection of a porch at the south west end of the church, 28 November 1935

Faculty for the insertion of three oil paintings in the organ case, 21 July 1938

Faculty for the erection of a chain pulley over the font and confirming the installation of an electric organ blower, 13 November 1947

Faculty for the erection of a carved stone figure of St. Luke over the south entrance to the church, 12 October 1959

Faculty for the installation of a new electric lighting system, new oil-fired heating boiler and alterations to furnishings, 14 November 1966

Terrier, 1923

Report of the surveyor under the Repair of Benefice Buildings Measure, 30 August 1978

Ordinary Assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 23 November 1953

Miscellaneous correspondence from the Diocesan Office and the Diocesan Registry, Durham, concerning dilapidations at St. Luke's Vicarage, sequestration and presentation to living, state of church hall, 4 December 1953 - 1 December 1955

Account book for planned giving under the parish partnership plan, 29 April 1962 - 7 February 1965

Account book for planned giving under the parish partnership plan, 14 February 1965 - 26 December 1971

Statement of income and expenditure, 31 January 1918

Statements of accounts, 1962 - 1965

Receipts and payment accounts, 1966 - 1968, 1974 - 1976

Minute book of meetings of the vestry, 16 April 1885 - 7 May 1908

Minute book of meetings of the vestry, 14 April 1909 - 5 April 1960

Minute book of meetings of the vestry, 7 March 1961 - 27 April 1978 For enclosures see EP/Da.SL 4/35-4 and EP/Da.SL 5/4

Minutes of vestry meeting, 27 April 1978

Minute book of the meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 12 May 1925 - 25 October 1934

Minute book of the meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 14 December 1934 - 5 September 1973

Minute book of the meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 7 November 1973 - 13 September 1978

Receipt and payments book, 6 January 1963 - 26 December 1965

Receipt and payments book, 1 January - 31 December 1966

Receipt book, 1 January 1967 - 31 December 1970

Payments book, 1 January 1967 - 31 December 1970

Accounts of Parochial Church Council, 1965

Accounts of Parochial Church Council, 1967 - 1970

Electoral roll, 1966 - 1970

Correspondence of the Parochial Church Council mainly between the secretary and the Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland relating to the financial problems of the church and the redundancy of the old church of Saint Luke, Leadenhall Street, Darlington, 10 November 1975 - February 1977

Parish magazines, January 1906 - December 1907

Parish magazine, September 1921