Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 22 September 1867 - 22 October 1896 Includes a list of incumbents and details of their careers, 1864 - 1920

Register of baptisms, 17 September 1896 - 24 February 1915

Register of baptisms, 3 March 1915 - April 1941

Register of baptisms, 26 April 1951 - 23 April 1967

Register of baptisms, 23 July 1967 - 19 June 2011

Register of marriages, 13 January 1868 - 2 June 1928

Register of marriages, 20 June 1928 - 22 April 1935

Register of marriages, 4 May 1935 - 20 December 1941

Register of marriages, 14 February 1942 - 23 July 1949

Register of marriages, 24 September 1949 - 30 September 1961

Register of marriages, 28 October 1961 - 20 May 1972

Register of marriages, 20 May 1972 - 10 September 1983

Register of banns of marriage, 3 November 1867 - 26 September 1909

Register of banns of marriage, 17 October 1909 - 17 June 1928

Register of banns of marriage, 1 July 1928 - 12 April 1959

Register of banns of marriage, 19 April 1959 - 10 May 1970

Register of banns of marriage, 27 April 1970 - 31 August 1980

Register of banns of marriage, 28 December 1980 - 11 May 2008

Register of funerals [recorded in a register of burials], 29 September 1961 - 26 July 2002

List of funerals that took place during the interregnum and were omitted from the burial register, 29 April 1993 - 5 September 1994 Originally enclosed in EP/Ev 92/1

Register of services, 4 October 1903 - 31 December 1915

Register of services, 12 June 1944 - 11 October 1953

Register of services, 18 October 1953 - 28 December 1971

Register of services, 2 January 1972 - 31 July 1977

Register of services, 1 August 1977 ­ 9 April 1986

Register of services, 10 April 1986 ­ 11 December 1987

Register of services, 12 December 1987 - 30 December 1990

Register of services, 6 January 1991 - 24 May 2009

Parochial return of church membership and finance to the Central Board of Finance of the National Assembly of the Church of England, 11 April 1983

Group photograph of clergymen and dignitaries, including Rev. George Jennings Collis, on the occasion of the opening of Evenwood new church by the Bishop of Durham, taken by A & G Taylor, photographers, 23 March 1909

List of names for All Souls service, 30 October 2011

Minutes of meetings of the Restoration Committee, 17 January 1908 - 13 April 1910

Letter from the Keeper of the Privy Purse declining to contribute to the Restoration Fund, 3 March 1908

Photograph of St. Paul's church, roofless and without glass in any windows, taken by P. Flynn, outdoor photographer, Bishop Auckland, n.d. [ c.1890]

Photograph of St. Paul's church after restoration, with a bridal party in the churchyard, taken by P. Flynn, outdoor photographer, Bishop Auckland, n.d. [early 1890s]

Photograph of the interior of St. Paul's church, after restoration, looking towards the altar, n.d. [ c.1910]

Correspondence with Harrison and Harrison, Durham and their estimate and specification for the overhauling of the organ, 5 February 1924

Correspondence and agreement between Rev. G.J. Collis, Evenwood, and Messrs. Harrison & Harrison of Durham, organ builders, for the installation at Evenwood parish church of a two manual organ from St. Peter's Church, Peebles, 10 - 11 February 1909

Plan of proposed tank chamber to be built in the north-east corner of the church above the heating chamber steps, n.d. Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]

Correspondence from the Diocesan Registry, Palace Green, Durham, to Rev. W.M. Wykes, Evenwood Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, concerning the design of a plaque intended to be placed in Evenwood Church in memory of the dead of the First World War, 24 June 1933 and 15 February 1934

Letter from the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, to Rev. E. Stones, St. Paul's Vicarage, Evenwood, informing the latter that St. Paul's parish had been awarded first place in the Country Class of the Tidy Churchyards' Competition, 5 October 1973

1 March 1930 (1) Rev. Albert Simpson (2) Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty Mortgage in £161, and counterpart, for the improvement of the parsonage house

1 June 1941 (1) Rev. Walter Percival Stone (2) Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty Mortgage in £17, and counterpart, for the improvement of the parsonage house

31 August 1867 (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (as Lords of the Manor of Evenwood) (2) Edward Backhouse the younger of Ashbourne, Bishop Wearmouth, gentleman, William Culley Stobart of Etherley, Esquire and others (3) James Jell Chalk of 10 Whitehall Place, Westminster, gentleman Copy of conveyance by (1) to (3) and surrender by (2) to (3) of la.0r.4p. of land in the ecclesiastical district of St. Mary, Evenwood, as shewn on the attached plan

Plan of proposed public lavatory at Evenwood made by Barnard Castle Rural District Council, 1937 Attached: correspondence between Barnard Castle Rural District Council, Galgate, Barnard Castle, and Rev. W.M. Wykes, The Vicarage, Evenwood, concerning permission to erect the lavatory on church land, 10 December 1937 and 20 April 1938

Faculty for the installation of a marble tablet on the south wall with the inscription 'To the Glory of God and in loving memory of George Jennings Collis M.A. Vicar of Evenwood 1908-1918 who died September 5 1918 aged 47 years. So he giveth his beloved sleep. This tablet was erected by the parishioners of Evenwood' and for the installation of a Table of Affinity at the west end, 26 April 1920

Faculty for the erection of a small stone addition to the cellar of the heating apparatus at the north east end of the church, 6 July 1928

Citation to lead to a faculty for the installation in the church of a tablet commemorating the dead of the First World War, 15 February 1934

Faculty for the erection of a reredos in oak in memory of Alice Milne, 5 January 1945

Faculty for the installation of electric lighting and an electric organ blower, 3 February 1955

Faculty for the removal of a solid fuel boiler and the installation of an oil-fired central heating system and an oil storage tank, 12 September 1969

Faculty for the removal of the organ to a new chamber and for the erection of a vestry, 22 June 1904

Authorisation by the Archdeacon of Auckland of the erection in the porch of an oak and bronze tablet bearing the inscription 'Comrades of the Great War. In memoriam ...' and the names of the fallen, 15 November 1940

Archdeacon's certificate for unspecified work, 20 October 1950

Archdeacon's certificate for unspecified work, 24 February 1959

Archdeacon's Certificate for unspecified work, 27 March 1963

Archdeacon's certificate for the varnishing of the pinewood ceilings in the nave and chancel, 4 November 1982 Attached: Covering letter from the Diocesan Registry, 21A Elvet Bridge, Durham, to T. Bryce, 14 Manor Street, Evenwood, 9 November 1982

Churchwardens' reports of the inspection of the church, 1971 - 1973

Quinquennial inspection by George Stastny, Chartered Architect and Garden Design, Riverside, Whorlton, Barnard Castle, DL12 8XD, October 2009

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1929, 1 October 1937

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923 to 1929, 8 July 1942

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923 to 1929, 23 September 1952

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923 to 1929, 29 September 1967

Letter from the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London, to Rev. J.D. Dodd, The Vicarage, Evenwood, informing him of the annual dilapidations payment, 17 October 1967

Cash book, January 1964 - April 1975

Financial statement, 1972

Statement of annual amounts payable by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and included in the Quarterly Payments Scheme, 1 April 1939

Return of church finance, 31 March 1987

Returns giving totals of income derived from fees, and expenditure on parsonage and working expenses, 26 February and 31 March 1987 (2 papers) amount given

Return in diocesan survey giving amount given in planned giving schemes and amount given to missions and charities, 1988

Writ of sequestration of the parish of Evenwood, St. Paul, 7 March 1968

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 15 April 1920 - 4 June 1928

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 10 July 1928 - 17 April 1951

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 1 May 1951 - 22 September 1961

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 7 November 1961 - 27 March 1973

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 22 May 1973 - 6 February 1974

Minute book of Parochial Church Council, 23 October 1973 ­ 7 June 1983

Parochial Church Council minutes of meetings, 27 March 1995 - 14 June 1999 Includes list of members of the Parochial Church Council, 15 May 1995

Parochial Church Council minutes of meetings, 6 September 1999 - 2 February 2010 Includes a parish profile of St. Paul's Church, Evenwood, n.d.; parish policy for safeguarding adults in the Church, n.d. ; parish policy for children's and youth work, n.d.; joint Parochial Church Council meeting between Cockfield, Evenwood and Lynesack, 19 January 2010

Annual General Meeting minutes, 2 April 1995 - 20 April 2011

Vicar's report from Annual General Meeting, 1 April 2001 Originally enclosed in EP/Ev 98/1

Church audit list from Annual General Meeting, 14 April 2002 Originally enclosed in EP/Ev 98/1

Church audit list and Vicar's statement from Annual General Meeting, 6 April 2003 Originally enclosed in EP/Ev 98/1

Treasurer's report on the Parochial Church Council 2005 accounts; independent examiner's report to the Parochial Church Council; church audit list; electoral roll from the Annual General Meeting, 20 April 2005 - 10 April 2006 Originally enclosed in EP/Ev 98/1

Independent examiner's report to the Parochial Church Council from Annual General Meeting, 23 April 2007 Originally enclosed in EP/Ev 98/1

Supplementary minutes to the Annual General Meeting; electoral roll; independent examiner's report to the Parochial Church Council from Annual General Meeting, 28 April 2010 Originally enclosed in EP/Ev 98/1

Electoral roll, April 1979

Electoral roll, 1981 - 1982

Electoral roll, 1983

Electoral roll, 1984

Electoral roll, 1985

Electoral roll, 1988/89

Electoral roll, n.d.

Notes of totals on electoral rolls, 1969, 1983, 1986, 1987

Returns giving numbers attending church, numbers of communicants, numbers on electoral roll and number of baptisms, 1983, 1986, 1987

Electoral roll, 2011

27 October 1864 (1) John Bowes of Streatlam Castle, esq.; Thomas George Lyon Bowes, Earl of Strathmore; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England; Charlotte Lyon Bowes, Lady Glamis (2) The Minister and Churchwardens of the District of Evenwood Grant from (1) to (2) of land (1010 sq. yds.) in Evenwood for the erection of a school for the poor Details of running of the school given Plan in margin

31 May 1893 (1) Claude, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Baron Bowes of Streatlam Castle (2) The Vicar and Churchwardens of the District of Evenwood Copy grant from (1) to (2) of a piece of ground (300 sq. yds.) at Evenwood to be held by (2) in conjunction with the school abutting the land hereby granted Plan in margin

20 August 1896 (1) Henry Stobart and Company Limited, Etherley (2) Minister and Churchwarden of the District of Evenwood Copy grant from (1) to (2) of land (553 sq. yds.) at Lands in the township of Evenwood as the site of a school for the poor of the District of Evenwood Plan attached

29 July 1897 (1) Claude, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Baron Bowes of Streatlam Castle (2) The Vicar and Churchwardens of the parish of Evenwood Copy grant from (1) to (2) of land in Evenwood (900 sq. yds.) to be held by (2) in conjunction with the schools Plan enclosed

Ground plan showing proposed additions to the school, n.d. [19th c.] Scale 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1 : 96]

Site plan showing proposed addition to the school, n.d. [19th c.]

Ground plan showing proposed additions and alterations to the Evenwood Schools, by Clark and Moscrop, architects, Feethams, Darlington, 1902 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96] Attached: correspondence between Clark and Moscrop, architects, Feetham, Darlington, and the Board of Education, Whitehall, London, concerning alterations to the plans of the school, 5 and 28 May 1902

Letter from a Lady-in-Waiting to H.M. The Queen Mother, Clarence House, London, to Rev. E. Stones, thanking the parish for its card and message of congratulations on the Queen Mother's eightieth birthday, 18 August 1980