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Register of baptisms, 24 September 1847 - 29 January 1870

Register of baptisms, 4 February 1870 - 21 April 1880

Register of baptisms, 28 April 1880 - 30 July 1890

Register of baptisms, 3 August 1890 - 22 August 1906

Register of baptisms, 29 August 1906 - 19 January 1921

Register of baptisms, 19 January 1921 - 12 November 1930

Register of baptisms, 19 November 1930 - 19 February 1941

Register of baptisms, 9 March 1941 - 29 April 1951

Register of baptisms, 13 May 1951 - 25 August 1963

Register of baptisms, (annotated with notes of alterations to the church and organ repairs), 24 August 1963 - 22 June 1975

Register of baptisms, 27 July 1975 - 24 June 1984

Register of baptisms, 24 June 1984 - 16 June 1991

Register of baptisms, 23 June 1991 - 19 November 1995

Register of baptisms, 19 November 1995 - 1 July 2001

Register of baptisms, 5 August 2001 - 18 February 2007

Register of marriages, 16 August 1853 - 17 August 1872

Register of marriages, 26 August 1872 - 2 January 1885

Register of marriages, 22 February 1885 - 30 January 1904

Register of marriages, 15 March 1904 - 26 December 1918

Register of marriages, 26 December 1918 - 9 October 1929

Register of marriages, 17 October 1929 - 23 September 1939

Register of marriages, 23 September 1939 - 29 March 1947

Register of marriages, 29 March 1947 - 10 December 1955

Register of marriages, 10 December 1955 - 6 March 1965

Register of marriages, 13 March 1965 - 1 March 1969

Register of marriages, 8 March 1969 - 21 November 1970

Register of marriages, 21 November 1970 - 6 September 1975

Register of marriages, 6 September 1975 - 30 May 1981

Register of marriages, 13 June 1981 - 17 September 1987

Register of marriages, 26 September 1987 - 24 June 1995

Register of banns of marriages, 20 June 1971 - 30 January 1977

Register of banns of marriage, 24 September 1961 - 23 October 1966

Register of banns of marriage, 16 October 1966 - 4 July 1971

Register of banns of marriage, 16 July 1978 - 10 May 1981

Register of banns of marriage, 3 May 1981 - 16 October 1983

Register of banns of marriage, 8 January 1984 - 18 May 1986

Register of banns of marriage, 1 June 1986 - 19 February 1989

Register of banns of marriage, 26 February 1989 - 21 June 1992

Register of confirmation candidates, 1885 - 6 March 1929

Preachers book, 31 May 1914 - 10 April 1925

Register of services, 17 September 1933 - 1 June 1942

Register of services, 1 July 1951 - 21 June 1959

Register of services, 28 June 1959 - 29 December 1965

Register of services, 2 January 1966 - 26 February 1971

Register of services, 28 February 1971 - 26 December 1982

Register of services, 2 January 1983 - 17 May 1992

Register of services, 18 May 1992 - 23 January 2005 (1 volume, plastic bound)

The London Gazette , containing an Order in Council for the exchange of patronage between the Bishop of Durham and the crown for various benefices, including St. John, Darlington, 28 July 1925

Draft proposals for the establishment of a team ministry in the parish of Darlington, St. John, 4 October 1988; and draft instrument for the East Darlington team ministry, 1991 Originally enclosed in EP/Da.SJ 6/9

Copy notice of the vacancy of the benefice of East Darlington, 15 December 1989; and copy notice of the institution of Rev. John Clasper to the benefice of East Darlington, 30 April 1991 Originally enclosed in EP/Da.SJ 6/9

Correspondence received from the Ecclesiastical Commission and the Additional Curates Society concerning grants of additional stipend, 19 June 1945 - 16 August 1962

The London Gazette, containing instrument for securing £60 p.a. for an assistant curate for St. John, Darlington, 31 May 1912

License to the Perpetual Curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. Harold Ernest Bilbrough, M.A. with certificates of having read the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion and of subscription to the Declaration of Assent and Declaration against Simony, 8 - 9 May 1897

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. John Macleod Campbell Crum, B.A., 19 September 1897

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. Clement Ralph Headley Brown, B.A., 25 September 1904

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. Francis John Walcott Sparling, L.Th., 18 December 1904

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. Robert Lewis Baillie Oliver, B.A., 24 January 1905

Licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. Bernard Rambold Keir Moilliet, M.A., with his declaration of assent to the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, 14 December 1909

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. James Clerk, B.A., 17 September 1912

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. Arthur William Hutton, 14 October 1913

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. John Arthur Bowden, L.Th., 19 March 1924

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. Arthur Henry Norris, M.A., 9 May 1928

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. Arthur Howell Bowen, 15 June 1930

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. Eric Stanistreet Barnett, 29 September 1933

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. George Aaron Carr, M.A., 13 December 1959

Copy licence to the curacy of St. John, Darlington, of Rev. Peter Christie Holland, B.Sc., 23 September 1962

Signification by the Bishop of Durham of his intention to admit Rev. John Griffith Stephens, B.A., to the benefice of St. John, Darlington, 12 December 1929

Signification by the Bishop of Durham of his intention to admit Rev. Reginald Brown, M.A., to the benefice of St. John, Darlington, 17 December 1953

Form of service used at the laying of the foundation stone of St. Hilda's Church, 21 September 1887

Form of service in commemoration of her late Majesty Queen Victoria, 2 February 1901

Form and order of service for use in churches on the Coronation Day of their Majesties King Edward and Queen Alexandra, 26 June 1902

List of presentations to the church, 1946 - 1968

Copies of the petition for consecration and sentence of consecration for St. John's Church, Darlington, 16 July 1853

Cuttings from the Darlington and Stockton Times concerning the consecration of St. John's Church and a history and description of the church, list of subscribers, installation of an organ etc., 20 April 1853 - 2 January 1858

Minute book of the church building committee, 13 March 1846 - 6 April 1850

Correspondence received from James Farrer, Ingleborough, Yorkshire, T.F. Scarth, Raby Castle, the Secretary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, the Superintendent of the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway Company and others concerning donations to St. John's church, progress in building it etc., 23 October 1847 - 24 February 1849

Agreement by John Priestman and Sons for the removal and replacement of the pulpit, 27 April 1895

Plan and section of stone pulpit for St. John's Church, Darlington, by Priestman and Sons, sculptors, Darlington, n.d. [1895] Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]

Plan relating to the new pulpit, n.d. [1895] No scale

Correspondence and advertising literature received from Warren Beattie and Company Ltd., electric power engineers, Middlesbrough; James Keith and Blackman Company Ltd., engineers, Leeds; Werner, Pfleiderer and Perkins Ltd., engineers, London; Matthew and Yates, engineers, Swinton, Lancashire; and others with various specifications and estimates for installation of fans and other ventilating and heating apparatus in St. John's church, 27 June - 6 September 1904

Accounts rendered by Cordingley and Mcintyre, architects, Durham, for fees concerning the reroofing of the church, 15 November 1957 and 13 March 1967

List of guarantors for re-seating the chancel of St. John's Church, 16 January 1897

Miscellaneous bills and receipts and correspondence with Messrs. Mears and Stainbank, the Whitechapel Bell Foundry and others chiefly concerning the peal of bells to be installed at St. John's church with memorandum of agreement to supply the bells, 30 June 1892 - 30 June 1893

Correspondence and quotations received from Nelson and Company, City Organ Works, Durham, regarding modifications to the organ, 2 February - 19 March 1953

Receipted bills in connection with the purchase of a brass lectern under Child's bequest, 12 February - 25 May 1891

Circular from the Town Clerk of Darlington concerning building bye-laws and the temporary building at 19 Neasham Road, 5 February 1959

23 July 1900 (1) Elizabeth Ann Plews of Fencote Hall, Bedale, Yorkshire, widow; William John Plews of Darlington, brewer; Walter Edward Plews of Darlington, wine merchant and Henry Guy Nadin of Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire, colliery owner (trustees of John Mackay Plews) (2) The Rev. Harold Ernest Bilbrough of St. John's Vicarage, Darlington, Clerk in Holy Orders Lease by (1) to (2) for 21 years of a plot of land on the west of Neasham Road, Darlington 70.5 ft. x 30.5 ft. (247 sq. yds.) Rent: 5s. p.a.

Site plan of the Help the Aged housing scheme, St. John's Vicarage site, Neasham Road, Darlington, 9 December 1968 No scale

Faculty for the erection of a new choir vestry, enlargement of the existing clergy vestry, replacement of the chancel steps, decoration of the chancel walls, replacement of the chancel windows, re-arrangement of seats in the sanctuary etc., 1 May 1900

Copy faculty for the removal of certain curtains, 21 October 1907

Faculty for the installation of electric light and electric blowing apparatus, 25 May 1910

Faculty for the insertion of a stained glass window, of oak doors in the west porch and to fix book rests on top of the choir stalls, 4 September 1914

Faculty for the erection of a war memorial, insertion of a brass plate and removal of certain seating, 13 February 1920

Faculty for improvements to the heating system, 22 October 1947

Faculty for the installation of a new electric lighting system, repairs and re-decoration, 12 May 1953

Faculty for the introduction of a processional cross, 28 January 1956

Faculty for the repair and re-slating of the roofs of the nave and chancel, 13 August 1957

Faculty for the introduction of a new lectern and the erection of a memorial tablet, 4 April 1962

Archdeacon's certificate for general repairs, 19 September 1960

Archdeacon's certificate, 17 October 1968

Terrier, 1908 - 1967

Correspondence, notices and receipts for ecclesiastical dilapidations and insurance of the church, 17 April 1929 - 22 May 1930

Correspondence and report of Cordingley and Mcintyre, architects, Durham, upon St. John's Vicarage under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, July - 1 September 1953

Assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 7 December 1953

Assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 29 January 1959

Assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 14 November 1967

Statements of account, 1936 - 1938

Offertory account book, 1 January 1940 - 31 December 1947

Extract from the will of Mrs. Louisa Child bequeathing £100 to St. John's church with covering letter from her executors, 11 December 1890

Miscellaneous bills and receipts, June - July 1906

Receipted bill of J. Wippell and Co. Ltd., London, for supplying vestments, 15 July - 29 September 1915

Account book, 23 February 1919 - 31 July 1938

Account book, 7 August 1938 - 31 December 1963

Account book, 2 January 1964 - 31 December 1969

Account book of Freewill Offerings, 31 December 1923 - 31 December 1925

Account book of Freewill Offerings, 7 October 1923 - 18 May 1930 (1 volume, cloth bound)

Writ of sequestration, 22 November 1929

Correspondence received by the sequestrators from the Diocesan Registry and the Chapter Office, Durham, concerning administration of the parish during the vacancy, 12 November 1929 - 8 February 1930

Sequestrators' account book, 22 November 1929 - 2 March 1930

Writ of sequestration, 3 November 1953

Letters received by the Churchwardens of St. John from the Diocesan Registry concerning appointment of sequestrators and preparation of writ, 30 October and 3 November 1953

Sequestrators' account book, 1 November 1953 - 13 February 1954

Minutes of vestry, 14 April 1857 - 29 July 1859; income and expenditure account, 1858 - 1859 with estimate 1859 - 1860; cutting from the Darlington and Stockton Times concerning service at St. John's at which the Bishop of Durham preached, 26 November 1859 (4 papers)

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 18 June 1940 - 10 July 1952 At end: annual church meetings minutes, 16 March 1940 - 25 March 1952

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 16 September 1952 - 2 February 1955 At end: annual church meetings minutes, 25 March 1952 - 1954

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 14 May 1956 - 25 September 1972 At end: annual church meetings minutes, 8 April 1957 - 15 March 1967

St. John's Church Committee meetings minute book, 13 November 1972 - 1 December 1975

St. John's Church Committee meetings minute book, 6 September 1976 - 22 September 1983

St. John and St. Herbert's Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 4 June 1965 - 8 September 1975 At end: minutes of the Executive Committee, 12 November 1968 - 22 October 1975 Includes: minutes of the Annual General Meeting, 18 March 1968 - 17 March 1975

St. John and St. Herbert's Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 24 November 1975 - 2 February 1984 At end: minutes of the Executive Committee, 15 December 1975 - 3 July 1977 Includes: minutes of the Annual General Meeting, 22 March 1976 - 9 February 1983

St. John and St. Herbert's Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 1 March 1984 - 19 March 1992 Includes: Annual Vestry and Annual Parochial Church meetings minutes, 1 March 1984 - 30 April 1992

St. John and St. Herbert Parochial Church Council meetings minutes, 21 May 1992 - 14 March 1994 Includes: Annual Parochial Meetings minutes, 30 April 1992 - 28 April 1994

St. John and St. Herbert Parochial Church Council meetings minutes, 15 May 1994 - 15 January 1998 Includes: Annual Parochial Meetings minutes, 27 April 1995 - 24 April 1997

Parochial Church Council minutes of the parish of St. Herbert and St. John, East Darlington, 21 May 1998 - 30 March 2001

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council of the Team Ministry of East Darlington, comprising the District Church Councils of Darlington, St John the Evangelist and Darlington, St Herbert, 15 February 2001 - 18 February 2004

Reports of parish organisations to the Annual Parochial meeting, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1992 Originally enclosed in EP/Da.SJ 6/9

Pass book with the Darlington Building Society, 14 November 1956 - 29 April 1958

Statements of accounts, 1988 - 1991 Originally enclosed in EP/Da.SJ 6/9

Log book of St. John's National School (Mixed), Darlington, 9 January 1860 - 31 January 1881

Log book of St. John's Mixed School, Darlington, 1 February 1887 - 16 November 1909

Log book of St. John's Mixed School, Darlington, 16 November 1909 - 3 March 1927

Log book of St. John's Mixed School, Darlington, 8 March 1927 - 23 May 1952

Log book, St. John's Infant School, 9 January 1860 - 22 December 1876

Log book, St. John's Infant School, 9 April 1877 - 11 May 1894

Log book, St. John's Infant School, 25 May 1894 - 10 April 1934

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Junior School 1879 - 1889

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Junior School, 1889 - 1895

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Junior School, 1895 - 1900

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Junior School, 1900 - 1903

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Junior School, 1903 - 1907

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Junior School, 26 August 1907 - 10 May 1920

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Junior School, 22 March 1920 - 15 October 1929

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Junior School, 21 October 1929 - 2 March 1945

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Infant School, 1900 - 1904

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Infant School, 1904 - 1909

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Infant School, 19 April 1909 - 24 July 1916

Admission register, St. John's C.E. Infant School, 29 August 1916 - 29 January 1929

Admission register, St. John's Infant School, 4 January 1929 - 21 April 1936

Admission register, 1881 - 1885

Minute book of the Managers of St. John's School, Darlington, with memoranda of qualifications for office and regulations for meetings, 1 March 1904 - 7 December 1943

Minute book of the Managers of St. John's School, Darlington, including lists of the managers, 7 March 1944 - 16 July 1963

Headmaster's reports to the Managers, St. John's C.E. Primary School, 3 March 1965 - 11 July 1972

Agreements appointing teachers to St. John's C.E. School, 17 September 1924 - 5 October 1949

H.M. Inspectors' reports, St. John's C.E. School, 1907 - 1909

Reports on Religious Instruction St. John's C.E. School 1910 - 1911

Returns to Board of Education, St. John's C.E. School, 1920 - 1925

Cash book of the Managers of St. John's School, Darlington, 31 December 1943 - 7 March 1967

Cash book, St. John's School, 3 February 1879 - February 1887

Cash book, St. John's School, 28 February 1892 - 31 January 1895

Cash book, St. John's School, 28 February 1895 - 31 January 1898

Cash book, St. John's School, 28 February 1898 - 31 January 1902

Miscellaneous correspondence and circulars received from the Education Department of Darlington Corporation, reports on religious instruction at St. John's School for the Diocese of Durham, letters of congratulation in connection with a pupil winning a scholarship to Durham School, 23 January 1912 - February 1945

Correspondence file, St. John's C.E. School, 1964 - 1971

Papers re proposed new St. John's C.E. School, 1965 - 1972

Draft newspaper article concerning replacement of Darlington, St. John's School, n.d. [ c.1967]

Minutes of site meetings (architects and contractors) St. John's C.E. School, 9 February - 27 July 1970

Papers concerning opening of new St. John's C.E. School, 28 September - 20 November 1970

Attendance (Grant Claim ) Returns, St. John's C.E. School, 1927 - 1933

Summary of attendances, St. John's C.E. Primary School, 1952 - 1957

Summary of attendances, St. John's C.E. Primary School, 1957 - 1964

The Schoolmaster' s Assistant: A Compendium of Arithmetic, by Thomas Dilworth, 1787

Teacher's lesson notes, business studies, W. Taylor, 28 December 1830

Teacher's lesson notes, arithmetic and music, Godfrey Taylor, n.d.

Examination schedules, St. John's C.E. School, 29 February - 5 March 1884

Temporary register for Second Junior Scholarship Examination, St. John's C.E. School, 1925

Photographs of gymnastics in the school playground, n.d. [early 1950's]

Photographs of a school nativity play, n.d. [1950's]

Photograph of the Country Dance Team, 1955

Miscellaneous photographs of school classes and teams, n.d. [early 1930's]

Miscellaneous photographs of school classes and teams, n.d. [1950's]

Miscellaneous photographs of unidentified persons, n.d. [1950's]

Photographs of boys' gymnastics in school playground, n.d. [1950's]

Photographs of St. John's School children and staff, including sports teams, 1893 - 1964

Photograph of Joseph William James who gained open scholarship from St. John's to Durham School, winning prizes for English, French and Latin, 1 June 1950

Short history of St. John's C.E. Primary School, Darlington, n.d. [c. 1970]

Newspaper cuttings reporting prize givings etc. at St. John's School, 1923 - 1943

Pressed butterflies, n.d.

Postcard of old cottages, Darlington awarded to children who had attended school punctually for one month, n.d. [1909 ?]

Souvenir plate of Winston Churchill presented to St. John's School on Empire Day for providing cigarettes to fighting services, 1943

Darlington, St. John, Church of England Mixed School honours book, 1927 - 1951 (1 volume, leather bound)

Statements of account of the Trustees of Buck's Charity with the parishes of Darlington, 18 January 1880 - July 1881

Statement of account of the Trustees of Buck's Charity with the parishes of Darlington, July 1889

Letter from Rev. T.E. Hodgson, The Vicarage, Darlington, concerning the division of income from Buck's Charity, 5 April 1892

Copy of the will of John Farmer of Cleveland Lodge, Darlington, gentleman, making various charitable bequests including the income from £250 to the Darlington Churches for bread to the old, the income from £500 for Sunday Schools and the income from £100 for scripture readers, 23 January 1878

Correspondence received from Steavenson and Meek, solicitors, Darlington, and from the Charity Commission concerning Farmer's charities, 13 January 1879 - 22 September 1894

List of distribution of Darlington Aged and Poor Coal Fund, St. John's Sick and Poor Fund, Bucks and Dame Calverley's Charities, St. John's Parcel Fund, Town Parcel Fund, 1935 - 1973; also list of those in Freewill Offering Scheme, n.d.; list of members of Mothers' Union and Catechism Class, 1933 (1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)

Rules and regulations of St. John's Hand Bell Society, n.d. [late 19th century]

Record book of St. John's Belfry, 15 September 1874 - 30 September 1894

Minutes and peals of St. John's Guild of Change Ringers, 14 December 1901 - 30 September 1928

Record book of St. John's Belfry, 14 April 1928 - 18 October 1938

Attendance register [St John's Belfry], 20 October 1895 - 22 October 1916

Attendance register, St. John's Belfry, 1 October 1916 - 7 October 1962

Letter from Rich. Moncaster, Master, and Thos. Scollick, Secretary, to vicar and churchwardens asking for increase in allowance for bellringers, 13 June 1898

Memorandum re payment of Moncaster for looking after bells and tower, and objection of Bellringers Guild, 7 July 1902

'Grandsire' The Method: Its Peals and History, by Jasper Whitfield Snowdon, 1905

Record of touches rung by St. John's Guild of Change Ringers, 27 October 1912 - 12 September 1920

Record of touches rung by St. John's Guild of Change Ringers, 10 October 1920 - 23 May 1926

Record of touches rung by St. John's Guild of Change Ringers, 6 June 1926 -31 December 1937

Record of touches rung by St. John's Guild of Change Ringers, 1938-39

Visitors' book, St. John's Belfry, 1920 - 1944

Letters concerning arrangements for St. John's bellringers to ring bells in other churches, 1954 - 1962

Accounts of St. John's Belfry, 1956 - 1964

Rules of St. John's Guild of Change Ringers n.d.

Receipts and payments book [of Girls Friendly Society], 21 November 1951 - 31 December 1967

Girls Friendly Society pass book with the Yorkshire Penny Bank Limited, 13 November 1957 - 8 November 1962

Minute book of St. John's Sunday School, 12 December 1922 - 16 July 1961

St. John's Men's Club pass book with the Darlington Building Society, 28 January 1942 - 25 July 1956

Account book, St. John's Men's Club, 11 October 1930 - December 1955 (1 volume, calf half-bound)

Minutes of committee and annual meetings and annual reports of St. John's Glee Society 1906 - 6 July 1913

The Dawn of Day, parish magazine, July 1887

The Dawn of Day , parish magazine for the parishes of St. John, St. James and St. Hilda, Darlington, August 1890

The Dawn of Day , parish magazine for the parishes of St. John and St. Hilda, Darlington, January 1893

The Dawn of Day , parish magazine for the parishes of St. John and St. Hilda, Darlington, October 1895

The Dawn of Day , parish magazine for the parishes of St. John and St. Hilda, Darlington, August 1897

Parish magazine for St. John and St. Herbert, Darlington, November 1969

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Parish magazine, 27 December 1936

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Abstract of title, 9 May 1804 - 8 June 1830, to part of Dobmire Closes (freehold and copyhold land at Bank Top, Darlington), contracted to be purchased by Messrs. Robert and William Thompson from Mr. John Pease, n.d.