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Register of baptisms, 6 September 1876 - 27 October, 1895

Register of baptisms, 4 November 1895 - 6 June 1909

Register of baptisms, 13 June 1909 - 2 March 1932

Register of baptisms, 6 March 1932 - 5 May 1968

Register of baptisms, 19 May 1968 - 21 February 1993

Register of baptisms, 21 March 1993 - 10 December 2000

Register of marriages, 11 June 1877 - 24 May 1920

Register of marriages, 24 May 1920 - 22 August 1934

Register of marriages, 1 September 1934 - 4 November 1944

Register of marriages, 11 November 1944 - 19 March 1955

Register of marriages, 25 March 1955 - 6 June 1970

Marriage certificate stubs, 24 April 1976 - 6 August 1977

Register of marriages, 27 June 1970 - 20 September 1986

Register of marriages, 27 September 1986 - 5 August 2005

Register of marriages, 6 August 2005 - 23 August 2008

Register of marriages, 30 August 2008 - 29 December 2010

Register of marriages, 20 May 2011 - 10 May 2014

Register of marriages, 17 May 2014 - 3 August 2019

Register of marriages, 29 November 2019 - 6 September 2020

Register of banns of marriages, 27 May 1877 - 21 December 1902

Register of banns of marriages, 31 May 1925 - 23 December 1929

Register of banns of marriages, 24 December 1939 - 1st February 1953

Register of banns of marriages, 8 February 1953 - 30th June 1968

Register of banns of marriages, 7 July 1968 - 29th April 1973

Register of banns of marriage, 3 June 1973 - 24 July 1983

Register of banns of marriage, 31 July 1983 - 19 July 1992

Register of banns of marriage, 2 August 1992 - 15 June 2003

Marriage licences, 9 July 1917 - 9 February 1925, relating to:- Walter Henry Waugh and Margaret Ann Deighton Guillaume Leon Reynard and Annie Simpson William Parkinson Curry and Agnes Leonard Wood Arthur Leonard Smith and Helen Mona Denley George Gardner Wardle and Julia Emma Rookes Desire Henri Soetaert and Hilda Ivey (See also EP/Ga.SH.1/61) Arthur Victor Elliott and Sarah Hunter Myers John Tarbut Lockie and Gladys Isabella Forster Joseph Robson and Anne Swallow Thomas Henry Robinson and Edith Robson Luke Hunter and Minnie Embleton Robert William Beall and Eva Innes Walter Back and Ada Adams Walton Bell and Isabel Crabtree William Alfred Dodd and Elizabeth Davidson William Richard Twyneliam and Lilian price Angus Kenneth Hardy and Catherine Ray George Gilbert and Alice Millicent Young Robert McChelland and Winnifred Mary Hird Wilfred Laidler and Nora Sanderson Lancelot Lee and Hilda Pattinson Joseph Henry Burdon and Eva Collins Joseph Taylor and Elizabeth Ann Parnaby William Simpson and Annie Atkinson Thomas Smith English and Mary Reed Robert Davies and Elsie Davidson John James Park and Catherine Hardy John Edwards Howard and Lizzie Swallow

Marriage certificate of Robert Forster and Emily Wheatley, July 1907

Certificates of Proclamation of Banns, 14 July 1947 - 16 July 1951, relating to:- George Grieve Rankin and Sarah Jennifer Mary Emley George John Dunnet and Lucille Layfield Alexander Cameron and Joyce Taberham Robert Chrichton and Joan Patricia Watts Alan Thew Shaw and Mary Stewart Douglas Robert Evans Paterson and Christina Hanna Enclosed in EP/Ga.SH.1/8

Certificate of banns of marriage to be read aboard H.M.S. Phaeton, 1908

Letter from R.W. Rushbrooke to Rev. Wood thanking him for baptising his daughter Enclosed in EP/Ga.SH.1/4

Letter from Miss Elizabeth Bannerman-McGregor re. the adult baptism of Mrs. Gladys Muriel Davis, n.d. Enclosed in EP/Ga.SH.1/4

Further particulars re. the baptism of Mrs. Davis, n.d. Enclosed in EP/Ga.SH.1/4

Authorisation for a marriage between a Belgian Soldier, Desire Soetaert, and Hilda Ivey, 1918 See also 1/33-60

Notice of marriage endorsed "Bridegroom killed after one reading of Banns," n.d., c 1942 Enclosed in EP/Ga.SH.1/12

Register of services, 29 June 1969 - 28 October 1978

Register of services, 29 October 1978 - 8 June 1983

Register of services, 11 June 1983 - 23 November 1991

Register of services, 24 November 1991 - 31 August 1996

Register of services, 1 September 1996 - 4 August 2001

Register of services, 5 August 2001 - 9 April 2005

Register of services, 10 April 2005 - 29 November 2008

Register of services, 30 November 2008 - 26 November 2011

"Preacher's Book" giving details of preachers, texts, sermons, offertory and communicants. September 4th 1881 to October 15th 1911. No entries made from Dec 3rd 1882 to Nov. 13 1892

"Preacher's Book" as 2/1. October 18th 1911 to December 31st, 1931

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners forwarding the 1876 London Gazette to Rev. Simons

Copy of The London Gazette, 28 July 1876 containing the Order in Council for St. Helen's parish, 21 July 1876

Copy Instrument of Approval of St. Helen's church by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 30 August 1876

Correspondence from Edward Joicey at Haltwhistle concerning matters relating to the benefice, 22 August and 6 November 1920

Correspondence concerning the increase of the value of the benefice, 11 - 23 May 1925

Letter stating that there are no coal interests belonging to the benefice, 31 January 1933

Notification of the transfer of rights of the benefice from Col. Edward Joicey to the Bishop of Durham, 21 February 1963

Correspondence, enclosing an Order in Council, concerning the transfer of the patronage of the benefice to the Bishop of Durham, 23 May 1963

The London Gazette concerning a grant by the ecclesiastical commissioners to the incumbent of St. Helen, Gateshead an annual stipend of £200, 17 November 1876

The London Gazette concerning a grant by the ecclesiastical commissioners to the incumbent of St. Helen, Gateshead an annual stipend of £60 for a curate, 11 November 1881

Plan of the parish of Gateshead, St. Helen, plotted on O.S. plans, Sheets VI:4, VI:8, VII:I, and VII:5, 1st edition, with emendations, 1878

Order in Council confirming a pastoral scheme, creating the parish and benefice of Gateshead, Harlow Green, St Ninian, 31 July 1984

Plan of the Parish: 1858 edition 1:25. Ordnance Survey plan of St. Helen's and adjoining parishes 206 x 134 cms.

Letter concerning the Bishop's Comission on Parochial Boundaries within the Rural Deanery, 25 July 1934

Copy of Rev. A.C. Hague's licence to the curacy, 8 May 1929

Photographs of church officials:- (a) Rev. A.C. Hague, assistant priest, 7.5 x 11.5 cms. (b) Miss Anderson, 8.5 x 10 cms. (c) Mr. J. Fenwick and Mr. M. H. Mcintyre Churchwardens, 16 x 11.5 cms. (d) G.S. Sanderson, churchwarden, 7.5 x 9.5 cms. all enclosed in 2/2

Photograph of the Rev. E. L. Wood 7.5 x 11.5 cms.

Orders of service, programmes and circulars re. special church services i.e. anniversaries, Christmas, etc. Many relate to special war time thanksgiving and prayer

Printed service sheet for Mothering Sunday and lists of hymns, etc. for other unspecified services

Letter from the General Registrar to the Rev. Wood re. corrections to the marriage register, April 1952 Enclosed in EP/Ga.SH.1/8

Letter from the W.P.C.U. to the Rev. Wood re. the Gateshead Council of Churches. Enclosed in 6/3

Pastoral order concerning the creation of the rural deanery of Gateshead West, 12 June 1978

Preaching notes. Enclosed in 2/2

Correspondence and papers concerning the installation of a brass cross and candlesticks for the altar, 8 November 1928 - 11 December 1929

Drawing of a brass altar candlestick by Wood and Oakley of Newcastle, architects, June 1929

Receipt for loan of a lectern and kneeling forms from St. Columba's Church, Gateshead

Correspondence concerning repairs to the church tower and steeple, 6 December 1960 - 21 September 1961

Papers concerning the proposed extension to the heating system of the church, including plan, 11 January 1947

Letter from the Ministry of Works concerning the reinstating of railings and gates of the church, 27 January 1949

Correspondence and architect's report concerning the state of the church roof, 28 July - 9 September 1949

Papers concerning the conversion of the church boiler to oil fired heating, 27 October 1958 - 15 January 1959

Correspondence concerning the repair of a stained glass window, 4 - 18 September 1959

Correspondence concerning photographs of the damaged weathercock, 10 July - 16 September 1961

Letter from Charlewood and Curry of Newcastle, architects, concerning the inspection of the church, 5 March 1962

Letter from Newcastle and Gateshead Joint Fire Service, giving safety recommendations for the church after a survey, 14 April 1964

Bill for work carried out by Frank Dixon of Gateshead, plumber etc., 31 October 1904

Bill for fixing wooden gates from S. Robson of Newcastle, 19 July 1952

Church Fabric Maintenance, by Herbert Passmore, F.R.I.P.A., n.d.

Letter from the Vincent Electric Organ Co., Sunderland concerning arrangements for the upkeep of the organ, 22 January 1953

Papers concerning the building of the new vestry, 8 July 1908 - September 1909 (18 papers)

n.d. [1924] 1)Edward Joicey of Blenkinsopp Hall, Haltwhistle, Northumberland, esq and Edward Raylton Joicey of Blenkinsopp Castle, Greenhead, Northumberland, an army lieutenant 2)The Parochial Church Council of Gateshead, St Helen 3)The Durham Diocesan Board of Finance Copy of a conveyance, dated 6 September 1924, by (1) to (3) of 301 square yards of ground on the north side of Belle Vue Road, Low Fell, with the parish room and caretakers cottage erected on it; the whole measuring 34 feet from north to south on the east side and 45 feet 3 inches on the west side and 71 feet 10 inches from east to west, on the north side and 84 feet 2 inches on the south side; bounded on the north by land belonging to T. M. Forster; on the south by Belle Vue Lane; on the east by an access road leading to Primrose Place and on the west by a private road belonging to Edward Raylton Joicey, to be used for any charitable, religious or educational purpose, benefiting the parish of Gateshead, St Helen. Mineral rights reserved to (1). No consideration. Plan attached

Papers concerned with the transfer of the parish room by Colonel Edward Joicey, 28 July 1923 - 4 June 1926

Copy valuation of the church hall, 6 June 1962

Papers concerning the installation and maintenance of a boiler plant in the church hall, 7 June 1960 - 16 July 1962

Papers concerning the tenancy of 16 Belle Vue Bank, Low 11, 2 December 1933 and 31 August 1934

Correspondence concerning the conveyance of the Parsonage House, 1 July 1898 - 10 March 1899

Papers concerning repairs to the vicarage, 6 April 1904 - January 1905

1 July 1966 (1) The sequestrators of Gateshead, St. Helen (2) The Church Commissioners Counterpart mortgage from (1) to (2) for securing £1500 for improvements to the residence house

Bill and receipt for work carried out at the vicarage by George G. Barrass, painter and paperhanger, 23 November - 14 December 1904

Faculty for the erection of a choir vestry, 9 July 1908

Faculty for the erection of two memorial brasses, 29 July 1909

Faculty and papers for a memorial brass and the raising of a reredos, 23 May 1912 - 28 February 1913

Faculty for the erection of a small brass on the north wall of the nave, 13 June 1919

Faculty for the insertion of stained glass windows, 19 January 1920

Faculty for the erection of a brass on the south wall of the nave, 18 May 1923

Faculty for the introduction of brass candlesticks, etc, 10 October 1929

Faculty for the introduction of electric light, 30 July 1936

Faculty for overhauling, cleaning and rebuilding the organ, 23 September 1948

Faculty and papers for the erection of a brass plate, installation of a new boiler and repairs to the roof, 14 September - 2 December 1949

Faculty for the repair of the tower and steeple, 9 March 1961

Faculty and specification for general repairs to roof and gutters, and the painting of the church, October - 2 December 1966

Faculty for the introduction of a sanctuary lamp and candlestick, 9 October 1969

Faculty for improvements in the churchyard, 11 September 1973

Faculty for tha introduction of a crucifix for the altar, 3 April 1974

Church log book, 1932 - 1961

Church inventory, 21 March 1930 - 12 April 1975

Terrier and inventory, March 1986

Papers concerning the Inspection of Churches Measure, 1955, 4 December 1956

Papers relating to the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 15 October 1925 - 30 April 1930

Papers relating to the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 13 July - 17 October 1932

Order under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure for the installation of electic light at the parsonage house, 23 May 1932

Papers relating to the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 16 September - 2 November 1937

Papers relating to the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 1 January 1938

Papers relating to the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 26 June - 14 October 1942

Papers relating to the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 18 October 1947

Papers relating to the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 21 November 1952 - 30 September 1953 (18 papers)

Papers relating to the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 23 September 1957 - 24 February 1958

Papers relating to the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 27 July 1962 - 14 June 1963

Cash book, 1 April 1907 to 6 May 1922

Cash book, 8 May 1922 to 17 September 1929

Printed financial statements

Tables of income or expenditure - not specified

Letter to the vicar from the Gateshead Rural Decanal Board of finance re. the forwarding of parochial contributions

Letters from J.E.C. Carrick to the Vicar and Mr. McIntyre re. rates payable on church property

Paper headed "receipts missing"

Parish accounts, 1912 - 1913

Bills and receipts for goods bought from James Coxon and Co., Newcastle, silk mercers, furriers, carpet and furnishing warehousemen, April - December 1904

Printed circulars re. the Deanery Quota of the Diocesan budget: with St. Helen's contribution

Slips recording amounts of Sunday Offertory

Summary of church fees, 1972 Enclosed in EP/Ga.SH.1/14

Vestry minute book, 26 October 1876 to Easter 1928

Letter from the Archdeaconry Registrar to the Rev. A. H. Patterson re. the replacement of churchwardens

Copy letter to an applicant for a seat in St. Helen's Church

Notes re. the transfer of the powers of the vestry to the Parochial Church Council

P.C.C. Minute Book, 6 April 1920 to 8 March 1937, with relevant newspaper cuttings and letters re. church events pasted into it

P.C.C. Minute book, 8 March 1937 to 26 March 1963, with relevant letters etc., glued into it

P.C.C. Minute Book, 26 February 1963 to 6 May 1973, with relevant letters, etc. stuck into it

Account book, 1 January 1977 - 29 June 1981

Preference Share account book for the Northern Rock Building Society, 15 August 1966

Correspondence and papers concerning the transfer of the parish room and cottage to the Durham Diocesan Board of Finance in trust for St. Helen's P.C.C., 27 May 1920 - 8 September 1924

Papers concerning the appointment of Durham Diocesan Board of Finance as trustees of the former school premises, 23 January 1952 - 20 May 1959

Correspondence to the P.C.C. from Durham Diocesan Office concerning Durham's ¿Scheme K¿, 6 June 1961 and 16 January 1962

4 February 1925 (1) The vicar and churchwardens of St. Helen's (2) Mr. T.E. Fisher of Low Fell Agreement between (1) and (2) to let a workshop in the school yard. Consideration: £5 p.a.

Correspondence and papers including conveyance of 31 February 1910, concerning the old National School, later parochial hall, 27 April 1907 -30 April 1938

Memorandum of an agreement between the trustees of St. Helen's National Schools and the 21st. Gateshead Troop of Boy Scout. for the erection and maintenance of a hut for their headquarters, in the yard of the National Schools, with plan, 12 January 1923

Correspondence and papers relating to the Glover Benefaction, 1902 - February 1912

Correspondence and papers including trust deeds, relating to the Glover Benefaction, 13 June 1903 - 12 July 1968

Papers relating to the Glover Benefaction, 10 August 1961 - 15 January 1963

Correspondence relating to the legacy of Robert Clement, 10 February 1913 - 18 August 1926

Papers relating to the transfer of a share certificate in the Crown Building Society from Canon A.H. Patterson, Aycliffe, to Rev. E.L. Wood, St. Helens, 26 and 27 August 1927

Copy of the will of Robert Jackson of Low Fell, 20 July 1928

Correspondence and papers concerning education in Sunday Schools and higher education of the laity, 13 October 1892 - 13 November 1900

Minute Book of the Church of England Men's Society, St. Helen's Branch, 17 October 1929 - 11 October 1929

Annual membership certificates for the Church of England Men's Society, St. Helen's branch

"Extract from St. Helen's Parish Magazine". Vicars letter re. the appointment of an assistant priest and the use of parish funds

Parish magazine, April 2010

Postcard giving the date of the consecration of the church, 14 June 1935

Log Book of Parish and church events instigated by the Rev. Wood and continued by later incumbents

Log Book, Vol II

Newspaper cuttings re. national, local and church events in war time. Includes calls to prayer, black out arrangements, bombings, naval engagements, the winter of 1947 and victory celebrations

Newspaper cutting re. church's 75th anniversary

Letters and memos re, air raid precautions and church services, etc.

Receipt for parish contribution to the King George Jubilee Trust with letter of thanks from Buckingham Palace. Signed, "Edward. P."

Receipt for a donation to War on Cancer

Printed circular re. St. Helen's Church giving details of services, notices, etc.

Lent calendars and lists of contributions from lent boxes

Printed Intercession Rota

Printed guide to the Parish Picture Service, held from February to April 1969

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