Catalogue

Register of baptisms, April 1874 - March 1887

Register of baptisms, March 1887 - September 1896

Register of baptisms, September 1896 - October 1921 1 volume)

Register of baptisms, 23 October 1921 - 26 May 1946

Register of baptisms, 3 July 1946 - 14 December 2008

Register of marriages, July 1875 - May 1901

Register of marriages, May 1901 - February 1924

Register of marriages, March 1924 - April 1936

Register of marriages, April 1936 - April 1947

Register of marriages, 5 April 1947 - 14 May 1960

Register of marriages, 1 October 1960 - 21 May 1983

Register of marriages, 1 October 1983 - 4 May 2008

Register of banns of marriage, April 1928 - September 1972

Registers of banns of marriage, 12 November 1973 - 18 May 2008

Register of burials, July 1875 - September 1889

Register of burials, September 1889 - December 1902

Register of burials, December 1902 - November 1919

Register of burials, 4 December 1919 - 11 April 1945

Register of burials,15 May 1945 - 15 February 2002 [includes burials of ashes]

Preachers' books, 1916 - 1928 Vol. 12 contains memoranda re the formation and development of the parish

Registers of Services, 1943 - 1966

Register of services, 1 January 1967 - 25 November 1979

Register of services, 2 January 2000 - 6 February 2011 [previous register never deposited]

Copy pastoral order decreeing that the benefice of Esh and the benefice of Hamsteels, St. John the Baptist, shall be held in plurality, 14 July 1975; copy made, July 1975

Copy pastoral order decreeing that the parish of Hamsteels, St. John the Baptist, south of the middle of road from Esh Winning to Cornsay Colliery (B6302) and Hedleyhill Lane (B6301) shall be transferred to the parish of Waterhouses, 28 March 1977; copy made, March 1977

Correspondence between the Diocesan Board of Finance; the vicar of Hamsteels; William Armstrong and Sons, surveyors, mining engineers and valuers, 35 Collingwood Buildings, Collingwood Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; the Hon. Secretary, Hamsteels Parochial Church Council; the National Coal Board, Opencast Executive, Northern Region, Ashfield Tower, Kenton Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Department of Energy, Coal Division, Thames House South, Millbank, London; the Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle; C.N. Lovell, chaplain to Winterton Hospital, Sedgefield, concerning the glebe at Hamsteels and open-cast mining thereon, 3 June 1975 - 8 December 1982

Copy pastoral order decreeing that new rural deanery of Sedgefield should be created, 12 June 1978

Faculty for the erection of a stained glass window in memory of Thomas Lowden, organist, choirmaster and churchwarden, 22 November 1922

Faculty for the erection of a stained glass window in the south wall, and of a brass tablet on the south wall, in memory of Dr. James Kirkland, physician in the parish for 54 years, 30 November 1927

Faculty for the introduction of a processional cross in oak in memory of William Fordham, sexton, 18 January 1949

Faculty for the introduction of a new Holy Table in oak, a cross and candlesticks with Riddell posts attached, the rearrangement of seating in the chancel, the introduction of a new clergy stall in oak, the removal of the communion rails to a new position further west, and the introduction of an aumbry and a lamp, 2 October 1950

Faculty for the renewal of the electric wiring, for the redecoration of the interior of the church, the levelling of the surface of the churchyard and the removal of kerbs and fallen headstones, 6 November 1958

Faculty for the introduction of a new chalice and paten in silver, a small rug near the font, a bookcase, wrought iron flower vases, a new ten-inch bell and two war memorial tablets, previously erected in the Methodist Chapel, 24 August 1961

Archdeacon's certificate authorising unspecified work, 16 October 1950

Miscellaneous paper re the church sequestration including balance sheets and correspondence, 1966 - 1967

Parochial Church Council Minutes, 1905 Vol. 17 contains lists of communicants, 1928 - 1954, and church accounts

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 12 November 1970 - 8 September 1977

Parochial Church Council Account Book, 1930 - 1948

Parochial Church Council accounts, 1 January 1957 - 7 January 1975

Parochial Church Council accounts, 1984 - 1995 Includes: roof / repair fund accounts, 1992 - 2002 minutes of a Parochial Church Council meeting 13 July 2000 correspondence regarding a bequest by a Leslie Weeks, 19 February 1996 - 16 January 1997

Hamsteels C.E. School, managers' minutes, 1904 - 1945

Minute book of Hamsteels Youth Club Management Committee, 16 July 1963 - 27 April 1969

Candidates' register for the Girls' Friendly Society, 1916 - 1930

Girls' Friendly Society minutes, 1929 - 1944

Attendance book for the Girls' Friendly Society, 1932 - 1939

Register of members of the Girls' Friendly Society, c.1900 - c.1929