Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 1571 - 1687 Register of marriages, 1571 - 1643, 1647 - 1658 Register of burials, 1571 - 1687 Note of a parish meeting and disbursements to the poor, 1653 Names of the Churchwardens, 1673, 1678 1705 Note of the recovery of money of Baron Hilton's bequest, from the mayor and aldermen, 1676/77

Register of baptisms, 1686 - 1801 Register of marriages, 1687 - 1753 Register of burials, 1687 - 1801 Notes on the maintenance of the church and rebuilding, 1637 List of rectors, 1687 - 1910 Notes of illnesses, 1696 - 1801 Names of Quakers and Roman Catholics not baptised, 1701 - 1709 List of clerks, 1710 - 1880 Note of some grants of leave, 1720 - 1836 Receipt for a rent charge, 1750 Terrier, 1792 Legal fees for documents relating to Lord Crewe's bequest

Register of banns and marriages, June 1754 - January 1814 Register of baptisms, January 1802 - December 1812 Register of burials, June 1802 - April 1812

Register of baptisms, February 1813 - October 1928 List of rectors, 1813 - 1930 A baptism at the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1818

Register of marriages, February 1813 - June 1837

Register of banns of marriage, 1823 - 1902

Select Vestry minutes, 1819 - 1843

Minutes and accounts of Parochial Church Council, 1923 - 1930

List of collections and preachers, 1843 - 1888

Parish meeting book containing churchwardens' and overseers' accounts; copy of Lord Hylton's will, constables' accounts, poor rate assessments, etc. 1678 - 1760

Churchwardens' accounts, including minutes of ratepayers' meetings, 1735 - 1881

Churchwardens' receipts, etc. 1784 - 1884

Overseers' accounts, 1760 - 1868, including appointments of overseers and constables, 1840 - 1915

Overseers' receipts, etc. 1803 - 1832

Poor rate book, 1759 - 1799; 1822 - 1836

Correspondence relating to settlement and removal orders, and census returns (1831), 1740 - 1844

George Pringle, 2 September 1740

Eleanor Smith (alias Smedley), widow of Joseph Smith (otherside Smedley) and her children, Sarah (8 yrs.), Mary (6 yrs.), Eleanor (4 yrs.), Elizabeth (3 yrs.) and Jane (5 mths.), 2 December 1772

Jane Coe, widow of Thomas Coe, 24 June 1788

Ann Oliver, widow of Robert Oliver, and her children, Mary (9 yrs.), Frances (7 yrs.), Anthony (5 yrs.) and Catherine (3 yrs.), 16 October 1792

Elizabeth Coxon, 21 June 1794

Elizabeth Wetherson, widow of Christopher Wetherson, and her child, Elizabeth (5 yrs.), 2 August 1794

William Smithies, 14 November 1795

Mary Blackett, 16 December 1795

Ann Williamson, 20 September 1796

Ann Baker, wife of James Baker, and her child, James (6 wks.), 11 January 1800

Mary Raby, 8 March 1800

Mary Procter, 22 April 1800

Michael Featherstonhaugh, his wife, Martha, and their children, Thomas (11 yrs.) and Frances (9 yrs.), 17 May 1800

Margaret Gent, 24 May 1800

William Charlton, 14 June 1800

John Wake, his wife, Mary, and their children, Addey (7 yrs.), Sarah (4 yrs.) and George (9 mths.), 3 March 1801

Ann Wilson, 22 November 1802

John Willey, 24 December 1803

Ann Loughbrough, widow, and her children, Ralph (4 yrs.), and John (2 yrs.), 31 July 1804

Ann Baker, wife of James Baker (a soldier now on foreign service) and her child, James (4 yrs.), 29 December 1804

Mary Johnson, 5 March 1805

Elizabeth Anderson, widow, 16 July 1808

Ann Kitchen, 2 September 1809

Sarah Farrer, 1 January 1810, and John Farrer, otherwise John Watson, infant bastard child of Sarah Farrer, 20 October 1810

Frances Rutter, 20 June 1810

Mary Lowrey, 14 September 1811

Ann Wilkie, widow, and her children, Elizabeth (8 yrs.) and William (7 yrs.), 21 December 1811

Mary Wightman, 6 June 1812

Mary Maugham, 3 December 1812

Margaret Wheatley, widow, and her child, Elizabeth (14 yrs.), 17 April 1813

Ann Cornforth, daughter of Dorothy Thwaites, 14 August 1813

Elizabeth Smith, widow of John Smith, and her children, Charlotte (13 yrs.), Mary (8 yrs.), John (7 yrs.), Elizabeth (5 yrs.) and William (1 yr.), 31 January 1814

Thomas Stout, his wife, Martha, and their children, Ann (2 yrs.) and Thomas (1 yr.), 6 June 1816

Hannah Teasdale, widow, and her children, Mary Ann (10 yrs.) and John (9 yrs.), 14 June 1817

Mary Lang and her child, Mary (2 yrs.), 13 July 1817

Ann Pattison, wife of Thomas Pattison (a prisoner in Durham Gaol) and their children, Mary (12 yrs.), Thomas (10 yrs.), Edward (8 yrs.), Ann (6 yrs.), Henry (4 yrs.) and George (2 yrs.), 13 December 1817

Thomas Forster, 22 December 1817

Peter Strong, his wife, Bridget, and their children, William (9 yrs.), Henry (7 yrs.) and Peter (18 mths.), 14 July 1818

Elizabeth Newlands, 13 October 1818

Elizabeth Colledge, widow of James Colledge, 29 April 1820

Margaret Pilkington and her two children, William (3 yrs.) and Dorothy (7 mths), 7 November 1820

Joseph Hopper, his wife, Ann, and their children, Robert (2 yrs.) and George (13 mths.), 10 March 1821

Dinah Craggs, wife of George Craggs (a convict now under sentence of transportation for life), 26 May 1821

Amos Wilkinson, 23 January 1823

Mary Wanless, 30 April 1824

John Slee, his wife, Martha, and their children, Catherine (4 yrs.), Hannah (3 yrs.), and Edward (1 yr.), 29 July 1826

George Morgan and his wife, Charlotte, 29 August 1826

Ann Clark, 2 October 1827

Paul Hodgson, his wife, Elizabeth, and their child, Paul (3 yrs.), 4 December 1827

Abraham Gant, his wife, Mary, and their children, Ann (6 yrs.) and Thomas (4 yrs.), 16 February 1820

Margaret Wood, widow of Robert Wood, 26 April 1828

Hannah Gibbons, wife of John Gibbons, and her child, Henry (3 yrs.), 25 April 1829

Margaret Todner, 3 October 1829

Isabella Dodds, 26 November 1830

Mary Feard, 11 May 1831

Barbara Bradshaw, widow, and her child, William (18 mths.), 10 September 1831

Margaret Cook, widow, 8 August 1832

Mary Nelson, 19 June 1815

Thomas Featherstonhaugh (14.5 yrs.) to Richard Smith of Chester-le-Street, tanner, until aged 21 years, 28 November 1803

John Willis (14 yrs.) to John Armstrong of Sunderland, tailor, until aged 21, 27 January 1804

George Rickaby to Josiah Ilett, of Gilligate, baker, for the term of 7 years, 29 August 1786

Number not used

Samuel Usher and Margaret Langstaff, 21 July 1773

John Hutton and Hannah Smart, 4 January 1785

Robert Darnell and Elizabeth Heron, 12 December 1785

Robert Cummin and Jane Bulmer, 27 November 1787

George Sanders and Mary Horton, 31 March 1789

Henry Hemsley and Elizabeth Pearson, 8 April 1789

John Slack and Elizabeth Hodgson, 8 August 1791

Joseph Thew and Jane Maddison, 17 October 1791

George Farmery and Catherine Gibbons, 17 May 1792

William Brecknell and Margaret Proud, 17 July 1792

Catharin Gibbon, 31 December 1792

Thomas Pattison [otherwise Padison] and Ann Williamson, 20 November 1793

Charles Linton and Isabella Coxon, 14 July 1795

Elizabeth Blackett, daughter of Mary Blackett, 15 January 1800

James Whitefoord and Jane Nicholson, 4 January 1803

William Watson and Sarah Farrer, 7 July 1807

Joseph Turpin and Margaret Archbald, 10 June 1813

Anthony Wilkinson and Mary Barnes, 27 January 1815

George Simpson and Elizabeth Donnison, 28 May 1818

Edward Gardner and Elizabeth Burnop, 15 June 1793

Robert Burrell and Alice Penman, 29 June 1793

Thomas Salkeld and Prudence Shepherd, 22 September 1804

John Mensforth and Mary Maugham, 30 November 1805

William Hancock and Anne Loughborough, 18 January 1812

Henry Smales and Elizabeth Newlands, 20 October 1818

Robert Swiney and Sarah Ebdy, 17 June 1820

Francis Sill and Jane Chappello, 22 September 1804

Robert Shipsey Martindale and Thomasine Hackforth, 13 December 1806

Ralph Brockett and Mary Hind, 8 August 1807

Richard Briggs and Ann Cooke, 12 March 1808

Samuel Castle and Elizabeth Gibson, 26 November 1808

John Taylor and Mary Maugham, 19 November 1808

John Turnbull and Mary Southers, 7 February 1809; Stephen Smith and Eleanor Heron, 25 February 1809

George Charlton and Ann Kitching, 28 October 1809

Thomas Hetherington and Ann Baker, 24 March 1810

George Wright and Martha Hartley, 16 March 1811

George Wilkinson and Ann Cooke, 4 May 1811

Matthew Bone and Mary Lowrey, 14 March 1812

John Metcalfe and Ann Cornforth, 13 December 1813

John Wilson and Margaret Wheatley, 19 January 1814

George Eskett and Sarah Ebdy, 29 October 1814

George Robinson and Mary Nelson, 16 October 1815

William Crozier and Mary Hall, 26 September 1816

John Eskett and Elizabeth Pickering, 1 May 1821

Christopher Finley and Jane Johnson, 15 July 1826

Edward Briggs and Elizabeth Wellands, 21 April 1827

George Myers (otherwise Pickersgill) and Mary Douglas, 28 July 1827

John Soulsby and Jane Neasham, 31 May 1828

James Ashton and Ann Clark, 13 September 1828

Henry Twist and Ann Clark, 13 September 1828

Ralph Hunter and Elizabeth Wealands, 5 September 1829

Nicholas Hewison and Elizabeth Wealands, 23 January 1830 (1 paper) 138 George Richardson and Elizabeth Wealands, 10 November 1832

Joseph Towell and Sophia Richardson, 31 May 1834

George Pringle, his wife, Ann, and their child, George, 2 September 1740

Ann Bonner, 9 June 1807

George Clarke, his wife, Elizabeth, and their children, Ann (11 yrs.), Thomas (8 yrs.), Israel (7 yrs.) and Robert (4 yrs.), 13 January 1817

Jane Archbold, 27 June 1817

Hannah Brown, 24 June 1824

Prudence Wheatley, 23 January 1812

Mary Proctor, 6 October 1796

Ann Wilson, 22 November 1802

Jane Wilkinson, 1831

Walter Collins, March 1817

Thomas Simpson (1 child), 2 April 1793

John Waddle (wife, Henrietta and 4 children), 17 December 1798, 25 August 1801

William Alty (wife, Ann), 25 February 1801

Jonathan Lord (wife, Ann), 5 May 1801

Hutchinson Alderson (wife, Alice), 25 August 1801

Charles Marrows (wife, Hannah), 1811

Numbers not used

Correspondence to overseers re payment of poor relief, including a list of collections of poor rate, Lady day 1818, and a list of paupers' names, 1817

County rate precepts, 1793 - 1843

Applications for voting, objections and list of voters for City of Durham, 1832 - 1833

Leases, conveyances etc. relating to church property, 1697 - 1930

Faculty for removing organ gallery at west end of church and building organ chamber on north side, 15 August 1874

Faculty for reseating the church, 13 May 1876

Papers concerning the trust of Rev. John Cock, vicar of St. Oswalds, 1701 - 1870

Opinion of the augmenting of Lanchester living by an annual sum of £10 under Lord Crewe's will, 22 May 1826

Letter concerning augmentation of Bishop Barrington's will, 9 April 1870

Letter from Bishop of Durham concerning money due to Mr Bede's property at Durham, 16 April 1870

Letter from Bishop of Durham to Rev. W.H. Walter concerning Bishop Barrington's will and terms of payment, 19 April 1870

Paper of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, concerning Rev. W.H. Walter as rector of St. Mary le Bow and dividends due to him, 17 May 1890

Case in Chancery, Attorney General v. Liddell, statement to accompany notice of decree concerning the regulation of charities founded by Lord Crewe and Rev. John Sharp, n.d. c.1870s

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission concerning 3 per cent funding stock held in trust for various livings, 12 May 1938

Letters from the Ecclesiastical Commission concerning the reduction of income received from Queen Anne's Bounty, November 1946

Extracts from a return under the Endowed Charities (Administrative County of Durham) showing any endowments recorded for St. Mary-le-Bow and St. Mary-the-Less, n.d. c.1900

Constables accounts for the year 1793 - 1794, 16 April 1794

Letter from Ignatious Bonomi concerning the balance of his account, 18 April 1846

Parish accounts, 1915 - 1916, 12 May 1916

Summary of account for the year ending 31 December 1929

Return of parochial statistics for the year 1 January - 31 December 1926

Extract of the will of Sir Joseph Craddock, of Richmond, mentioning his grandson, Thomas Bowes, and his servant, William Jackson, dated 13 January 1685 and proved 15 May 1691, n.d. c.1700

Notes concerning the will of Sir Joseph Craddock, 13 January 1685 - 9 March 1807

Notes concerning the will of Richard Stonhewer, 30 January 1732 Mentions his wife, Mary; daughter, Penelope Davies; nephew, Richard Stonhewer; and his son, Richard Stonhewer, n.d. c.1760s

Apprentice indenture between George Rickaby, son of George Rickaby, apprenticed to Josiah Hett of Gilligate, baker, as a baker for a term of seven years, 29 August 1786

Apprentice indenture between Christopher Stanhope, apprenticed to George Thompson of Sunderland, ginger bread maker, as a ginger bread maker, until aged 21, 29 October 1787

Note concerning a meeting dated 13 May 1737 for the election of an alderman in place of Richard Stonhewer, 7 November 1806

Note to certify that William Atty was inrolled in the Militia, 14 July 1803 as a substitute for William Turnbull of Fishburn, 20 July 1813

Notes regarding the settlement of Peter Strong, 18 August 1818

Poor relief papers between overseers of St. Mary-le-Bow and Bishopwearmouth, concerning Widr. Cairns and her children, John, Mary and Jane, 13 September 1827 - 29 September 1832

Note concerning the banns of marriage between John Pounder of St. Margarets and Maria Dunn of St. Mary-the-less, 1840, 22 April 1840

Receipt for payment from overseers of North Bailey for County Rate, 23 November 1843

Marriage licence between James Whitworth of Whitehaven, Cumberland, surveyor of taxes, and Jane Elizabeth Hagen of Durham Subscription Library E.P. 30 June 1866

Marriage licence between Arthur George Wittamore of St. Michael and All Angels, Walthamstow, Essex, and Sybil Mary Wright of St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham, 4 December 1943

Paper relating to property in South Bailey, 1387, n.d. c.1819 [wtmk]

List of tenants of coach houses belonging to Mrs. [Blackburn] and Mrs. Wharton, 1741 - 1815, n.d. c.1819

List of Mr. Fawcett's tenants in South Bailey, 1706 - 1815, and Mrs. Watkin's house and garden, 1723 - 1815, n.d. c.1819

Notice concerning the value of property rated for poor relief, n.d. c. 1780s.

Notice of vestry meeting, 22 January, for ordering and making the church rate, 13 January 1844

Subscription list and account for work carried out to roof of church, May 1844

List of persons eligible to be assessed for church rates, 31 July 1845

Subscription list to the fund for heating and re-seating the church, 1875 - 1877

Letter from C[ ] concerning subscription list for fund for burial ground, n.d. c.1880s

Notice of vestry meeting, 24 November, for considering new basis for County rates, 16 November 1905

A basis or standard for fair and equal county rates prepared by the County Rate Committee, pursuant to the County Rates Act, 1852, and the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, June 1910

A basis or standard for fair and equal county rates prepared by the County Rate Committee, pursuant to the County Rates Act, 1852, and the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, June 1914

Notice of vestry meeting, 19 June, for considering the new basis or standard for County Rates, 9 June 1914

Number not used

Terrier giving total number of families in North Bailey and church revenue, n.d. c.1730s

An agreement to let a house in South Bailey between Rev. James Raine, rector of St. Mary-the-Less and Edward Sanglier, college cook to the Dean and Chapter, for one year, 23 November 1831

Letters concerning new lease for Framwellgate Moor and St. Mary South Bailey Allotments, 8 and 26 February 1858

Sentence of consecration of the cemetery for the districts or extra-parochial places of the Cathedral Church, the castle, and the parishes of St. Mary-le-Bow and St. Mary-the-Less, 28 October 1862

Extract from draft conveyance of the late Miss Johnson's house to the Dean and Chapter in 1865, n.d. c.1865 (1 paper)

Letters concerning two wooden boxes containing church silver, deposited with Barclays Bank and belonging to St. Mary-the-Less, 22 November - 6 December 1907

Bishop's Order as to Dilapidations with reference to the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act, with schedule of work required at Morden Moor Farm, Sedgefield, 10 May 1910

Rider "A" to inventory concerning missing deeds relating to church properties and stock, n.d c.1914

Letter from Charles Leatham to Canon Dawson Walker concerning the condition of the caretaker's cottage at St. Cuthbert's Cemetery, due to colliery workings, 4 April 1921

Letter from [ ] to J.E. Pestle, referring to Mr. Leatham's report on the caretaker's cottage and alleged damage caused by North Brancepeth colliery's workings, 11 July 1921

The care and maintenance of organs and organ blowing apparatus, 1 June 1938

Letter from Cordingley and McIntyre, chartered architects, to Canon Wallis, concerning the approximate area of the churchyards in St. Mary-le-Bow and St. Mary-the-Less, 29 September 1938

Letter from Rev. C.S. Wallis, principal, St. John's College, Durham, concerning property in the benefice of St. Mary-le-Bow and St. Mary-the-Less relating to the Coal (Registration of Ownership) Act, 1937, 7 October 1938

Letter to Mr. Burton from the Treasurer, University Offices, concerning a window in the bathroom of Hatfield College Lodge, 24 July 1939

Papers from the Tithe Redemption Commission referring to chancel repairs to the church, Lanchester, 8 November 1939

Michaelmas visitation, Archdeaconry of Durham, listing alterations and repairs to the church, 1928

Report on conditions of the church by Ignatius Bonomi, 22 June 1833

Bills for work carried out in the church, 8 July 1843 and 21 May 1844

Bills and receipts for repair work, 22-28 May 1844

Blank form of articles to be answered by the churchwardens at the ordinary visitation of the Archdeacon, 1847

Assessment for repairs to the church giving owners and occupiers and rates due, 3 June 1847

Drawing by E. Hodgson and Company, 25 Claypath, showing proposed reglazing of St. Mary-le-Bow, n.d., c.1910

Photograph of Bow cemetery boundary wall at the right side of the lych gate, showing a section of the damage due to subsidence, c.1921

Two photographs of Bow cemetery boundary wall looking towards Potters Bank Road, c.1921

Two photographs of Bow Cemetery Cottage showing punctures in masonry, n.d. c.1921

Photograph of Bow Cemetery Cottage showing fracture in corner of structure, n.d. c.1921

Fire insurance certificate, 12 April 1910

Letter from Ecclesiastical Insurance Office to Rev. Vincent Cooper concerning fire insurance for the chancel, 17 March 1910

Fire insurance premiums, March 1910 - March 1913

Insurance policy against aerial craft tests, 30 August 1915

Durham Assize Court of Pleas, case between William Alston, plaintiff, and John Willey, defendant, for tipping rubbish in and upon the plaintiff's property, 23 July 1787

Handwritten copies of hymns including one by Haydn, n.d. c.1800

Copy of the King's letter to be read after divine service concerning the raising of funds for the purpose of enlarging and building churches and chapels in England and Wales, 25 August 1828

Notice concerning the reading of the King's letter after divine service, 24 September 1828

Notice of a proclamation for a day of solemn fast, humilation and prayer on 21 March, issued by H.M. Queen Victoria, 28 February 1855

Letter from Richard Peele, chapter clerk, and copy of sections of the Newcastle Chapter Act of 1884

Forms of prayer authorised by the Bishop of Bangor in connection with the proposal for disestablishment and disendowment of the church in Wales, 12 February 1913

Proposed alterations to church, 19th c.

6 in. Ordnance Survey plan (No. 27 NW) showing boundaries of parishes of St. Mary-le-Bow and St. Mary-the-Less, 1923

Churchwardens' accounts and vestry and parochial church council minutes, 1881 - 1943. Infolded. voluntary church rate accounts (giving occupiers, owners, addresses, rental, rateable value, etc.), 1932 - 1934 (1 volume) Third Deposit

Register of baptisms, 24 October 1932 - 4 December 1969

List of banns of marriage, 31 March 1754 - 8 January 1755 and marriages, 18 April 1754 - 5 November 1755 (Removed from EP/DD 7)

Notes to aid clergy in the interpretation of clauses in the Marriage Act 1754 (Removed from EP/DD 7)

Register of marriages, 21 September 1837 - 24 December, 1966

Register of marriages, 5 August 1967 - 7 September 1968

Register of banns of marriage, 4 January 1903 - 31 July 1966

Register of burials, 24 March 1813 - 2 September 1966

Register of confirmations, 2 July 1930 - 27 May 1963

Copy terrier of property and rights of the Rectory and parish church, 30 October 1859 Inventory of church furniture Notes of changes in services, alterations to the church, inspections and presentations

Register of services, 22 October 1922 - 21 December 1932

Register of services, 25 December 1932 - 7 April 1942

Register of services, 7 April 1942 - 3 September 1950

Register of services, 3 September 1950 - 31 December 1959

Register of services, 1 January 1960 - 7 October 1966

Offertory book, 1 April 1888 - 8 December 1901

Churchwardens' account book, 1888 - 1903

Accounts of the Parochial Church Council, January 1934 - December 1943

Accounts of the Parochial Church Council, 31 December 1961 - 1968

Vestry Fund Account Bank book of the Parochial Church Council, April 1935 - 1958

Bank book of account of the Parochial Church Council, June 1943 - June 1952

Certificate of notification of death, 8 December 1899

Certificates of registration of death, 27 June 1844 - 19 September 1904 (13 papers)

Grant of marriage licence to Alexander McMiotrie McDowall of Kilmarnock, Scotland and Doris Annie Millman of South Bailey, Durham, 10 September 1945

Certificate of marriage without licence, 6 March 1854

14 June 1792 (1) William Rudd of Durham, esq., and John Tempest of Winyard, esq. (2) Rev. Thomas Dampier, Rev. Charles Cooper, Rev. Charles Weston, prebendaries of Durham and Sir John Eden of Windlestone Lease for 1 year by (1) to (2) of several parcels of land called the Moor (8 acres), Moorsely Bottom (10 acres), and Bowrey Fields (15 acres), with all tenements thereon; bounded on the north by Heighington Street

15 December 1837 (1) Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto of Whitworth, esq., and Thomas Wilkinson of Old Elvet, Durham, esq. (2) Rev. William Stephen Gilly, prebendary of the Cathedral Church, Durham, Rev. Henry Douglas, prebendary of same church, Rev. Robert Gray of Witworth, Rev. Percival Spearman Wilkinson of Mount Oswald, Durham, William Mills of Old Elvet, esq., and Francis Dixon Johnson of Aykley Heads, Durham, esq. Lease for one year by (1) to (2) of several parcels of land called the Moor (8 acres) Moorsely Bottom (10 acres) and Bowrey Fields (15 acres) with all tenements thereon; bounded on the north side by Heighington Street, in Cockerton

4 March 1885 (1) Thos. Jones and William Ridley Brown, Churchwardens of St. Mary-le-Bow, John Woodruff and John Askew, Overseers of the Poor of the same parish (2) Charles Tiplady, administrator of John Tiplady, late of Durham Memorandum of agreement concerning property in Saddler Street, Durham

16 April 1885 (1) Thomas Jones and William Ridley Brown, Churchwardens of the parish of St. Maryle-Bow, Durham and John Woodruff and John Askew, Overseers of the Poor of the same parish (2) Ralph Sander son of Gilesgate, Durham, builder Contract for work to be done by (2) on behalf of (1) Consideration: £64 6s.

15 May 1885 (1) Thomas Jones and William Ridley Brown, Churchwardens of St. Mary-le-Bow, John Woodruff and John Askew, Overseers of the Poor of the same parish (2) Augusta Burrell of Fairthorne near Botley, Hampshire Mortgage to secure payment of £200 by (2) to (1) on two houses in Saddler Street, Durham

31 May 1933 (1) Charles Steel Wallis, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham; James Falshaw Hobson and Henry Beckett Dennison, Churchwardens of St. Mary-le-Bow (2) Charles Edward Sands of Museum Square, Durham, college servant Counterpart weekly tenancy agreement concerning 43 Saddler Street, Durham Consideration: 8s.6d. per week

Declaration of Thomas Richard Shipperdson stating that he will conform to liturgy of Church of England on his institution to the rectory of St. Mary-le-Bow, 11 October 1815

Grant of licence for an extension of the burial ground, 25 June 1859

Notice of decree sent to Rev. William Hampson Walter, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow, in the matter of the Attorney General v. Liddell and others, 3 June 1870

Letters from R. Ord of Sands Hall, Sedgefield, to Mr. Walter at North Bailey, Durham, re timber on Morden Moor Farm, glebe lands, with copy reply, 31 January 1884 - 26 April 1884

Notice from Thomas Shadforth to Rev. J. Haworth of the proposed burial without normal burial service of Rev. Samuel Goodall of Ilkey, Yorkshire, in the churchyard, 15 February 1892

Copy licence to the curacy for James Haworth with covering letter, 30 January and 5 February 1897

Schedule of deeds and papers held in the vestry, 1907

Letter from Walker at Durham to Canon Haworth concerning the confirmation of her housemaid, n.d.

Correspondence re charitable trusts, church investment, dilapidation assessments and tithes, 19 May 1914 - 19 September 1960

List of clerks' salaries, 1694 - 1767

Accounts and receipts of churchwardens, 21 December 1791 - 2 May 1898

Accounts and receipts of churchwardens, 7 July 1822 - 26 July 1949

Accounts and receipts of churchwardens, 1823 - 31 December 1899

Accounts and receipts of churchwardens, 3 June 1827 - 19 December 1896

Statements of accounts of churchwardens, 28 March 1835 - December 1949

Accounts of churchwardens for piano and organ tuning, 1 August 1839 - 19 January 1959

Accounts of churchwardens with tradesmen, 16 December 1840 - 30 January 1929

Tradesmen's accounts with churchwardens, 13 April 1858 - 7 December 1956

Builders' and tradesmen's bills to churchwardens, 31 December 1865 -February 1959

Accounts of churchwardens, 8 October 1906 - 30 September 1959

Bill of expenses made on obtaining a faculty for new seating in church, February - 18 May 1876

Archdeaconry visitation receipts, 1848 - 1865

Archidiaconal and episcopal visitation receipts, 1913 - 1956

Receipts of churchwardens for payment of salaries, 7 April 1913 - 23 November 1927

Self denial box accounts, 12 April 1912 - 1916

Returns of parochial statistics, 30 May 1918 - 31 December 1927

Estimates for re-decoration of 43 Saddler Street, Durham, property of parish of St. Mary-le-Bow, 21 May 1926

Terrier, 1928

Passbook for account with Martins Bank, Durham, 15 June 1936 - 5 March 1949

Accounts for work done to graves, 1946 - 26 September 1955

Correspondence with the churchwardens concerning financial affairs, 9 February 1905 - 12 October 1926

Notes concerning accounts for churchwardens, n.d.

Letter from H.A. Peele, churchwarden, to Rev. H. Greenwell re account for renewal of wall, 13 March 1872

Correspondence re Queen Anne's Bounty investments, 21 - 23 March 1888

Correspondence re repairs, alterations, purchase and sale of church property, 15 April 1911 - 29 June 1962

Letter from Judy Greenslade at Durham to Miss Schrimshaw re her gift and that of the P.C.C., 22 August 1956

Arbitration award of Ralph Sander son re dispute between churchwardens and Charles Tiplady over building repairs, 27 March 1885

Specification and estimate for restoration of organ, and agreement for contract for work with Harrison and Harrison Ltd., 18 April - 24 May 1910

Minutes of parishioners' meeting, 14 May 1910

Agenda of special meeting of the ratepayers, 14 April 1913

Copy return sent to the Home Secretary concerning places of worship and burial grounds, 30 October 1875

List of ratepayers who have not paid the rate for 1907

Notice to Henry Jepson of St. Mary-le-Bow church to pay debt of £1 4s. 2d in the bankruptcy of John Thomas Askew of Durham, 21 March 1912

Renewal forms and receipts for grave repairs and attendance, 1950 - 1956 (17 papers)

Plan of 2, South Bailey, Durham belonging to St. Mary-le-Bow-the-Less [sic], n.d. Scale: 1:500

Accounts of Parochial Church Council and Churchwardens, 5 January 1931 - 29 December 1949

Resolutions of a meeting of the Parochial Church Council, 3 May 1945

Order to the churchwardens and overseers to pay Thomas Thompson the sum of £5 for being a volunteer in the county militia, 4 May 1793

Letter from Edward Lotheran, Overseer of the Poor at Newburn, to Mr. Labron, Overseer of the Poor at North Bailey, re payment of rent for Hannah Teasdale, 18 June 1817

Accounts of the Overseers of the Poor, 8 September 1797 - January 1923

Receipts of the Overseers of the Poor, 28 June 1793 - 27 July 1827

Letters from Elizabeth Colledge at Howdon Panns to the Overseers of the Poor, requesting payment of relief, 17 August 1827 - 28 March 1828

Accounts and demand notes for church rates and poor rates, 1921 - 1952

Receipts for donations to various charities, 13 November 1900 - 13 November 1959

Register of services, 13 March 1910 - 19 November 1922

Ledger of accounts for care of cemetery, December 1946 - 1965

Notice of date on which parish was remembered in Cathedral services, nd. [c.1970]

Register of baptisms, 26 November 1966 ­ 28 November 1979

Register of confirmations, 8 June 1958 ­ 1 May 1978 [for University and Hatfield Colleges]

30 May 1932 (1) Geoffrey Charles Dougherty of London, esq. (2) Parochial Church Council of St. Mary le Bow, Durham Deed of trust between (1) and (2) for purchase of £160 2.5% consolidated stock for upkeep of Bow Cemetery and repair and upkeep of graves and gravestones of the late John Westbrook Maltby and Isabella Maltby

Minutes of the Vestry and Parochial Church Council, 12 April 1944 ­ 28 March 1967 [Items EP/Du.MB 308 ­ 347 were originally enclosed in EP/Du.MN 307]

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1944

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1945

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1948

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1951

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1952

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1953

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1954

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1955

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1956

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1957

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1958

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1959

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1960

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1961

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1962

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1963

Parochial accounts for the year ending 31 December 1964

Letter from Cecil Ferens, diocesan registrar, to Miss M. Haworth, Secretary of the St. Mary le Bow Parochial Church Council, forwarding notification of an impending vacancy in the benefice, 2 March 1960

Letter from Dr. C.W. Gibby of Prebend's Gate, Durham, to Miss M. Haworth, Secretary of the St. Mary le Bow Parochial Church Council, forwarding a photographic print of the doors of the clergy stalls, 17 October 1962

Correspondence between Miss M. Haworth, 11 South Bailey, Durham, and the Bishop of Durham, concerning the suspension of presentation to the benefice, 6 November 1964 ­ 5 February 1965

Letter from Miss P. Carter, Diocesan Office, The College, Durham, to Rev. R.J.W. Bevan, St. Oswald's Vicarage, Durham, inviting comments on the proposed scheme for St. Chad's College to use St. Mary le Bow church, 25 February 1966

Letters from Miss P. Carter to Rev. R.J.W. Bevan concerning the scheme proposed in EP/Du.MB 333­334, 25 March 1966 ­ 4 April 1966

Appeal by the Bishop of Wakefield and the Archdeacon of Coventry for subscriptions towards the cost of converting St. Mary le Bow into a chapel for St. Chad's College, February/March 1967

Correspondence between Dr. C.W. Gibby, Prebend's Gate, Durham; the Bishop of Durham and others concerning the provision of a parsonage house for the rector of St. Mary le Bow, 15 October 1949 ­ 24 November 1949

Archdeacon's certificate for general repairs, 9 March 1961

Archdeacon's certificate for lime washing the walls and cleaning the woodwork in the nave and chancel, 5 September 1962

Faculty for carpeting, alteration of light fittings, redecorating the main door and introducing ornaments and furnishings, 31 December 1962 (1 paper) Seventh Deposit

Letter from the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, to Rev. R.J.W. Bevan, St. Oswald's Vicarage, Durham, concerning the suspension of Sunday services at St. Mary le Bow, 1 July 1966

Copy of proposed pastoral scheme for uniting the benefices of St. Oswald with St. Mary le Bow and St. Mary the Less, n.d.

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Ltd., Aldwych House, London, to Rev. R.J.W. Bevan, vicar of St. Oswald's, Durham, concerning the church plate at St. Mary le Bow, 30 March 1967

Inventory of St. Mary le Bow, 20 September 1934 - 10 May 1949