Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 1858 - 1868

Register of baptisms, 1869 - 1879

Register of baptisms, 1879 - 1891

Register of baptisms, 7 October 1891 - 24 July 1907

Register of baptisms, 14 August 1907 - 24 November 1921

Register of baptisms, 1 December 1921 - 23 March 1947

Register of baptisms, 6 April 1947 - 21 May 1972

Register of baptisms, 21 May 1972 - 29 June 2003

Register of marriages, 15 June 1862 - 7 September 1912

Register of marriages, 31 December 1912 - 6 August 1919

Register of marriages, 30 August 1919 - 1 November 1923

Register of marriages, 24 November 1923 - 24 April 1943

Register of marriages, 24 April 1943 - 16 August 1969

Register of marriages, 4 October 1969 - 4 June 1977

Register of marriages, 18 June 1977 - 29 August 1987

Register of marriages, 29 August 1987 - 24 June 2000

Register of marriages, 28 July 2000 - 30 July 2011

Register of marriages, 6 August 2011 - 10 August 2014

Register of marriages, 5 September 2015 - 1 December 2018

Register of banns of marriage, 26 August 1956 - 3 January 1965

Register of banns of marriage, 17 January 1965 - 23 August 1970

Register of banns of marriage, 6 September 1970 - 27 February 1977

Register of banns of marriage, 20 February 1977 - 22 March 1987

Register of banns of marriage, 12 April 1987 - 19 May 2002

Register of burials, 1861 - 1879

Register of burials, 1879 - 1896

Register of burials, 30 May 1896 - 14 August 1911

Register of burials, for burials without the rites of the Church of England 3 May 1882 - 8 February 1927 Also includes: Protest read at churchyard gates, against the Act of 1880 which allowed such interments Certificate of Registry of Death of Elizabeth Foreman 30 December 1926; Certificate of Registry of Death of James Bell Miller, 4 February 1927

Register of burials, 14 August 1911 - 23 March 1959

Licence issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury for the marriage of two residents of Las Palmas, Grand Canaries, 14 April 1978

Register of services, 11 January 1891 - 23 February 1898

Register of services, 27 February 1898 - 30 December 1918

Register of services, 1 January 1919 - 10 March 1926

Register of services, 3 January 1926 - 28 December 1952

Register of services, 1 January 1953 - 23 June 1962

Register of services, 24 June 1962 - 3 December 1966

Register of services, 18 December 1966 - 19 October 1974

Register of services, 20 October 1974 - 31 January 1981

Register of services, 1 January 1981 - 10 December 1991

Register of services, 11 December 1991 - 9 September 2001

Register of services, 9 September 2001 - 1 October 2008

Sentence of consecration on church and churchyard, 13 November 1861 (Parchment)

Correspondence from the Earl of Scarborough and others relating to the establishment of a church at the Sixth Pit in the parish of Lumley, 9 January 1911 - 23 December 1913

Notice from the Bishop of Durham extending the suspension of presentation to the benefice of Lumley, Christ Church for a further five years, 14 June 2005

Letters from the Bishop of Durham concerning the living, 7 November 1861 - 16 April 1862

London Gazette recording the grant to the incumbent of the vicarage of Christ Church, Lumley, the stipend of £120 p.a., 21 May 1867

Return of parochial statistics, 1 January 1926 - 31 December 1940

Subscriptions to the new church at Lumley, 9 December 1859 - 13 January 1878

Chester-le-Street Liberal, 25 June 1859 [containing an account of the laying of the foundation stone of the church]

Certificate of consecration, 13 November 1861

Building Fund accounts, 30 December 1876 - 14 April 1889

Specifications, estimates and correspondence concerning church alterations and restoration, 9 November 1897 - 1 May 1900

Copy of details relating to building of church, n.d. [1880s] Originally enclosed in EP/Lu 38

Survey report on the church roof, by Greenall Design Group, 26 Forth Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 December 1996

Specification for remedial works to the church roof and stonework, 27 March 1998

Preliminaries, general specification, schedules of work and general summary relating to remedial works to the church roof and stonework, by Greenall Winskell Kish, chartered architects, 7 Collingwood Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, June 1998

Correspondence, specification and estimate from Messrs. Harrison and Harrison, organ builders, Durham, and other, for the installation of an organ, 29 May 1886 - 23 July 1886

List of subscribers to the organ fund, 1885

Christ Church, Great Lumley: lead details, including chimney stack flashings, cover flashings and single step flashing, June 1998

Christ Church, Great Lumley: plan and roof details, June 1998 Scales: 1:150 and 1:10

Sketch design of proposed baluster and handrail to the chancel steps, 4 June 2006

Scheme design, including plan, site plan, elevation and section, for proposed handrails to the chancel steps, 9 June 2006 Scales: 1:100 and 1:20

Order of service for dedication of war memorial lych-gate, 19 June 1954

Specification for repair works to the lychgate at the entrance to Lumley, Christ Church, by Cyril Winskell, consultant architect, The Studio, 3 St George's Close, Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 February 2004

Specification for work to footpaths in the churchyard, by Cyril Winskell, consultant architect, The Studio, 3 St George's Close, Newcastle upon Tyne, 15 June 2007

Plan, elevations and section of the lychgate at Christ Church, Lumley, showing repairs, 17 February 2004

Plan of access pavements in the churchyard, as proposed, 16 February 2006

Plan of the churchyard of Great Lumley, Christ Church, as existing, 15 June 2007 Scale: 1:200

Proposed plan of churchyard paths at Great Lumley, Christ Church, 15 June 2007 Scale: 1:200

Correspondence between Chester le Street District Council, Civic Centre, Newcastle Road, Chester le Street; Kevan Jones, MP, North Durham Constituency Office, Co-operative Buildings, 9 Plawsworth Road, Sacriston; Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; B. Dunning, 20 Lichfield Close, Great Lumley; Great Lumley Parish Council, 68 Lyndhurst Avenue, Chester le Street; Durham County Council, Archaeology Section, Rivergreen Centre, Aykley Centre, Durham; Cyril Winskell, consultant architect, The Studio, 3 St. George's Close, Newcastle upon Tyne; Durham Diocesan Registry, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland and Cathedral Driveways, 24 Brookside Avenue, Crook, concerning the fundraising for, planning of and construction of a footpath and French drain in the churchyard at Great Lumley, 27 July 2007 - 15 August 2009

Correspondence, specifications, plans and agreement relating to the church hall, 30 August 1935 - 15 January 1959

Correspondence concerning the vicarage, 20 January 1892 - 30 June 1898

Schedule of dilapidations, April 1976

Faculty for the introduction of a new font in memory of John Dodd, 4 August 1892

Faculty for improvements to the church, including increasing the seating by 32; removal of screen and recementing the walls, 31 October 1899

Faculty for the erection of an oak pulpit, 28 July 1913

Faculty for the erection of a lychgate, 17 August 1953

Faculty for the erection of two infra red heaters, a pair of churchwardens' staves and a notice board in the churchyard, 16 August 1965

Faculty for the alterations and re-arrangement to the interior furnishing of the church, 19 August 1965

Faculty for the installation of a new oil-fired central heating system and new electric high fittings, 29 December 1966

Faculty for the erection of new swing doors to the entrance porch, 23 February 1968

Faculty for the extension of water supply to the vestry and installation of an electric water heater in the vestry, 22 October 1971

Faculty for the re-arrangement of the pews, redecoration of the walls, introduction of a new carpet and rewiring, 17 November 1978

Faculty for the installation of gas-fired central heating, 19 September 1979

Faculty for the installation of an aumbry, 19 June 1980

Faculty for the introduction of a brass altar cross and candlesticks, 28 July 1982

Faculty for the dedication in perpetuity of a strip of consecrated land as a footpath, 4 January 1983

Faculty for the installation of protective glazing to prevent vandalism, 30 July 1984

Faculty for the removal of the existing Harrison pipe organ and introduction of an Allen digital computer Organ and speakers, 16 October 1984

Faculty for the installation of a new heating system, 4 March 1987

Faculty for the removal of kerbs from the churchyard and for the levelling of mounds, 12 August 1987

Faculty authorising the re-roofing of the church; replacement of existing plastic rainwater goods with cast iron; repair of stonework and replacement of existing plastic window protection with Lexan polycarbonate overglazing, 21 September 1998

Faculty authorising the repair of the war memorial lychgate, 12 May 2005

Faculty authorising the introduction of handrails by the chancel steps, 7 March 2007

Faculty authorising works to footpaths in the churchyard and the provision of a French drain, 6 July 2009

Archdeacon's certificate, 8 June 1973

Archdeacon's certificate, 7 August 1979

Archdeacon's certificate, 4 February 1982

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the removal of 4 ash trees from the churchyard, 7 December 2004

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the removal of a diseased sycamore tree from the church yard, 17 May 2005

Archdeacon's certificate authorising pruning of a sycamore tree in the churchyard, to give 1.5 metre clearance from a power line, 12 September 2006

Terrier, 1889

Terrier, 1912

Inventory, 1912

Church accounts, Easter 1883 - 31 December 1936

Church accounts, 1 January 1937 - 31 December 1968

Church accounts, 4 January 1970 - 19 May 1973

Accounts of bazaars, sales of work etc., May 1929 - November 1939

Balance sheets, Easter 1895, Easter 1905 - December 1943

Church Hall balance sheets, 31 December 1937 - 31 December 1943

Parish cash book, 1 January - 31 December 1969

Minutes of vestry and parish meetings, 10 May 1867 - 15 March 1900

Minutes of vestry and committee meetings, 2 April 1900 - 22 April 1919

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 20 June 1933 - 11 March 1948 [includes minutes of War Memorial Committee, 25 February 1946 - 17 May 1955]

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 6 April 1948 - 30 June 1965

Electoral roll, 2002 - 2006

Petition of parishioners to the Bishop of Durham concerning the dismissal from office by Rev. James Dodd of Richard Nelson, sexton and acting parish clerk, April 1866

Letters from the Bishop of Durham and others concerning the dismissal of Richard Nelson, 24 February - 5 May 1866

Annual Inspectors' Reports, 16 April 1896 - 9 February 1906

Duplicates of returns to the Board of Education, 28 February 1899 - 28 February 1913

Correspondence with the Board of Education, Durham County Council and the National Society concerning the School, 5 August 1919 - 11 June 1931

Parish magazine, January - June, October - December 1989

Parish magazine, January - December 1990

Parish magazines, January - December 1994

Parish magazines, January - December 1995

Parish magazines, January - December 1996

List of donors of alternative service books used in the parish church, with names of those whose memory the donation commemorates, 1982