Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 24 August 1869 - 15 August 1878

Register of baptisms, 15 August 1878 - 2 January 1887

Register of baptisms, 10 February 1887 - 6 December 1894

Register of baptisms, 6 December 1894 - 6 August 1902

Register of baptisms, 7 August 1902 - 27 May 1909

Register of baptisms, 27 May 1909 - 22 April 1915

Register of baptisms, 29 April 1915 - 8 August 1922

Register of baptisms, 10 August 1922 - 16 March 1930

Register of baptisms, 16 March 1930 - 9 November 1939

Register of baptisms, 11 November 1939 - 9 August 1951

Register of baptisms, 19 August 1951 - 2 April 1961

Register of baptisms, 16 April 1961 - 6 March 1988

Baptism register 1987-2010

Register of marriages 20 November 1870 - 2 October 1909

Register of marriages, 16 October 1909 - 3 October 1925

Register of marriages, 3 October 1925 - 29 March 1937

Register of marriages, 3 April 1937 - 1 February 1946

Register of marriages, 16 February 1946 - 31 March 1956

Register of marriages, 19 May 1956 - 21 January 1967

Register of marriages, 4 February 1967 - 29 September 1984

Register of marriages, 3 November 1984 - 30 September 2006

Register of burials, 6 April 1876 - 12 March 1903

Register of burials, 14 March 1908 - 16 September 1926

Register of burials, 26 September 1926 - 3 November 1965

Register of banns of marriages 10 January 1960 - 6 June 1973

Register of banns of marriage, 13 May 1973 - 11 July 1982

Banns of marriage register 1982-2023

Register of funerals, 10 November 1965 - 9 December 1992

Minutes of the Houghton le Spring Rural Deanery Chapter, 21 November 1969 - 10 December 1976

Minutes of the Houghton le Spring Deanery Chapter, 12 May 1988 - 9 December 1996

Minutes of the Houghton le Spring Deanery Chapter, 10 February 1997 - 8 November 1999

Minutes of meetings of the Deanery Committee Responsible for Mission (Houghton Deanery Missionary Council until 4 October 1972) 9 December 1960 - 2 November 1975

Minutes of the Houghton le Spring Deanery Pastoral Committee, 17 October 2000 - 15 January 2001

Report of the Houghton le Spring Deanery Pastoral Committee on the issue of localities, n.d. [c2000]

Agenda papers for meetings of rural deans in the diocese of Durham, 21 September 1995 - 9 December 1999

Correspondence between Rev. Michael Beck, rector of Eppleton and Hetton le Hole and Rural Dean of Houghton le Spring, The Rectory, Houghton Road, Hetton le Hole, Tyne and Wear; the Archdeacon of Durham, 15 The College, Durham; the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; the Senior Chaplain to the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Rev. G. Harris, Lyons Rectory, High Street, Easington Lane, Tyne and Wear; Ven. Frank White, Archdeacon of Sunderland, Greenriggs, Dipe Lane, East Boldon, Tyne and Wear; Rev. Sam Randall, Diocesan Ecumenical Officer, The Vicarage, Holmside Lane, Burnhope; Rev. E. Wilkinson, The Vicarage, Front Street, Newbottle, Tyne and Wear; G. W. Heslop, Secretary to the Diocesan Pastoral Committee, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Rev. D. J. Bell, St Cuthbert's Vicarage, 1 Aykley Court, Durham; the Diocesan Registry, The Park Gate House, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Dawn Cummings, Treasurer to Penshaw, All Saints Parochial Church Council, 22 The Cedars, Penshaw, Tyne and Wear; Mrs J. Robson, 16 Millers Hill, Herrington Burn, Tyne and Wear; D. Burdon and B. Vickers, churchwardens of Penshaw, All Saints, 9 Frederick Gardens, New Penshaw, Tyne and Wear; Mrs Karen Riding, Secretary to St Aidan's Parochial Church Council, School Lodge, Durham High School, Farewell Hall, South Road, Durham; Rev. Peter Hood, 65 Bishopton Road, Stockton on Tees and Rev. Graeme Buttery, chapter clerk, S. Lawrence House, 84 Centenary Avenue, Harton, South Shields, concerning pastoral re-organisation in the Houghton le Spring Deanery, 9 March 1992 - 22 November 2000

Correspondence of Rev. Michael Beck, Houghton le Spring Area Dean, relating to the management of the Deanery, 10 February 1997 - 5 July 1999

Bishop's visitation articles 2012

Bishop's visitation articles 2014

Archdeacon's visitation articles 2015-2018

Register of services, 11 April 1898 - 24 July 1910

Register of services, 28 August 1910 - 23 October 1927

Register of services, 30 October 1927 - 28 December 1934

Register of services, 1 January 1942 - 27 September 1953

Register of services, 6 September 1953 - 24 December 1964

Register of services, 25 December 1964 - 24 December 1971

Register of services, 25 December 1971 - 2 November 1978

Register of services, 5 November 1978 - 9 August 1984

Register of services, 12 August 1984 - 5 December 1993

Register of services, 7 December 1993 - 6 July 2003

Admittance of Richard Hinsley Taylor, D.D. to the benefice of Lyons (paper, 1 folio)

Notice from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Rev. R.G. Hutt, Lyons Vicarage, Fencehouses, Durham of endowment of Lyons Parish with rent charge out of the rectory of Houghton-le-Spring of £118 11s 6d

Mortgage and counterpart mortgage of Sequestrators to Church Commissioners for improvements to parsonage house, 1 July 1957

Undertaking of parochial church council regarding road charges to benefice, 18 December 1958

Mortgage of Rev. Robert William Bell to Church Commissioners for road charges, 1 January 1959

Counterpart mortgage of Rev. Robert William Bell to Church Commissioners for road charges, 1 January 1959

Wayleave agreement for Houghton-le-Spring and district Electric Lighting Co. Ltd., to attach a wire stay to land at Easington Lane, with plan, 16 October 1926

Order of service, 31 May 1953

Order of service, 7 June 1959

Order of service, 22 - 29 September 1970

Order of service of the formal opening of the new Elemore Colliery Welfare Hall by the Chairman of the Divisional Welfare Committee, 16 August 1958

Order of service for the unveiling ceremony and re-dedication service for the Easington Lane Clock Memorial, 9 November 1952

Order of service for evensong and the dedication of the war memorial window, 25 January 1948

Order of service for the unveiling ceremony and re-dedication service of the clock war memorial, 9 November 1952

Order of service for a memorial service on the occasion of the centenary of the Elemore Colliery explosion, 2 December 1986

Register of services 2003-2023

Pastoral order re rural deaneries in diocese of Durham, 12 June 1978

Proposals for a united benefice of Eppleton and Hetton le Hole and proposals for a group ministry of Eppleton, Hetton le Hole and Lyons, 12 April 1996

Parochial statistics for the year ended 31 December 1960 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 4/52/1

Parochial statistics for the year ended 31 December 1968 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 4/52/1

Parochial statistics for the year ended 31 December 1999

Parochial statistics

Plan to show tithes payable to Lyons parish, May 1934

Schedules of tithe rent charge, n.d.

Quinquennial inspection report on Lyons parish church, by Cordingley & McIntyre, chartered architects, Owengate House, Durham, 14 July 1967

Quinquennial inspection report on Lyons parish church, by Hayton & Lee, chartered architects, Owengate House, Durham, November 1972

Quinquennial inspection report on Lyons parish church, by Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, 32 - 34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, 27 January 1978

Quinquennial inspection report on Lyons parish church, by Hayton, Lee & Braddock Architects, conservation and historic building consultants, Owengate House, Saddler Street, Durham, July 1997

Quinquennial inspection report on Lyons parish church, by Hayton, Lee & Braddock Architects, conservation and historic building consultants, Unit 139 Stockton Business Centre, 70 Brunswick Street, Stockton on Tees, October 2007

Quinquennial report on the church fabric, 9 July 1982 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/13

Copy conveyance of addition to parsonage site, with related correspondence, 5 June 1912

Notice from the rector, to the Parochial Church Council, of his intention to sell the existing parsonage house and build a new one, 21 March 1973

Copy letter from the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London to the secretary to the Durham Diocesan Parsonages Committee, authorising the sale of the former parsonage house at Hetton Lyons, 15 January 1975

Summary final account of the construction of the new Hetton Lyons rectory, prepared by Hayton, Lee & Braddock, Owengate House, Durham, 21 May 1975

Letter from Smiths Gore, chartered surveyors, 26 Coniscliffe Road, Darlington, to G. W. Heslop, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, concerning the re-alignment of the boundary between the old rectory and the new, 6 April 1989 Includes: plan

Copy plan of vicarage attached to deed (deed not found)

Plan of the ground floor and basement of the parsonage, 24 June 1871 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Elevations, floor plans, section and block plan of proposed new rectory for Hetton Lyons, by Hayton & Lee, chartered architects, Owengate House, Durham, July 1972 Scales: 1 inch = 8 feet [1:96] and 1 :500

Ordinary assessment of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations, 2 January 1973

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of Lyons Rectory, by D. McIntyre, chartered architect, Owengate House, Durham, August 1962

Incomplete schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of Lyons rectory, by D. McIntryre, chartered architect, Owengate House, Durham, n.d. [1967]

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of Lyons rectory, by Matthew Hayton, Diocesan surveyor, Owengate House, Durham, October 1972

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of Lyons rectory, by A. O. Lee, Diocesan Surveyor, Owengate House, Durham, May 1977

Terrier of church property and funds belonging to the benefice

Terrier of church property and funds belonging to the benefice

Certificate issued by the Archdeacon of Durham authorising redecoration of the interior of Lyons parish church

Churchwarden's account book, November 1870 - 25 January 1895

Church accounts

Correspondence, accounts, reports, specifications and related papers, re general business of Lyons parish, June 1950 - 26 May 1960

Correspondence, accounts, reports, specifications and related papers, re general business of Lyons parish, 18 July 1950 - 5 March 1956

Correspondence, accounts, reports, specifications and related papers, re general business of Lyons parish, September 1955 - 15 February 1960 (paper, 1 file)

Correspondence, accounts, reports, specifications and related papers, re general business of Lyons parish, 21 February 1956 - 16 June 1961 (paper, 1 file)

Correspondence, accounts, reports, specifications and related papers, re general business of Lyons parish, 20 May 1960 - 7 November 1966 (paper, 1 file)

Church hall account book, January 1965 - December 1979

Balance sheets for church bazaar, 1959 - 1968

Insurance policies, 20 November 1929 - 12 November 1970

Receipts for premiums of County Fire Office Ltd., 29 September 1892 - 14 October 1907

Agreement between Harrison and Harrison, Organ Builders, Durham and the Rev. J.R. Brown for the tuning of the church organ

Estimate and specification of new organ from H.S.V. Vincent and Co. (Sunderland)

Faculty for the introduction of hot water heating apparatus in the memory of John Peet Riley into Lyons parish church

Faculty for the erection of a new organ in Lyons parish church

Faculty for the erection of an oak reredos and two clergy stalls in memory of the dead of World War 1

Faculty for the erection of a new Holy Table in oak on the south side of Lyons parish church

Faculty for the erection of a door leading from the clergy vestry

Faculty for the erection of a stained glass window at the east end of Lyons parish church in mernory of the dead of World War 2

Faculty for the installation of an electric organ

Faculty for the introduction of ornaments and furnishings including a chair presented to Lyons parish by the Baker Baker family on their leaving Elemore Hall, 1947 and a tablet commemorating incumbents of Lyons parish

Faculty for the introduction of a new altar, standard candlesticks, cupboard, table and font cover

Faculty for the erection of light fittings and the redecoration of the interior of the church

Faculty for heating system, 14 March 1967

Petition for faculty for altar set, vases and gate, 1 April 1967

Faculty for toilet and cloakroom, 31 July 1974

Plan and elevation of parish room, Easington Lane by J.E. Oliver, Hetton Colliery (Scale: 4 feet to one inch)

Pain of heating of parish church, signed J.T.L (Scale: 4 feet to one inch)

Plan of proposed improvement to parish hall, Easington Lane by W.J. Merrett, County Engineer and Surveyor, Durham Scale: 41.66 feet to one inch

Plan showing land required by Durham County Council at Lyons old Parish Hall Scale: 1:500

Plan of heating in parish church, 11 June 1910

Plan of proposed parish hall, 24 September 1920

Plan of war memorial and bus shelters, October 1953

Plan of rectory, March 1957

Plan showing parishes of Easington Lane, n.d.

Photograph of interior of the church decorated for harvest festival, c.1900

Photograph of south side of the exterior of the church, c.1900

Photograph of clock war memorial unveiled, 1921, c.1930

Leaflet explaining the church roof restoration appeal, c.1983

Sketch scheme of proposed w.c. in choir vestry by Messrs. Hayton & Lee, architects, of Durham City, 20 November 1973 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

Proposed re-ordering of chancel by Messrs. Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, of Newcastle, September 1976 Scale: 1:50

Proposed re-ordering of the north aisle by Messrs. Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, of Newcastle, September 1976 Scale: 1:50

Plan of church as existing, by Messrs. Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, of Newcastle, September 1976 Scale: 1:100

Details for screens to north arcade by Messrs. Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, of Newcastle, December 1976 Scale: 1:2

Plan and elevation of proposed new altar and altar rails by Messrs. Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, of Newcastle, December 1976 Scale: 1:20

Designs for proposed church windows and tracery light by L.C. Evetts, M.A., A.R.C.A., 1981 Scale: 1:10

Plan and elevation of proposed screen and doors between porch and inner lobby, by Messrs. Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, of Newcastle, December 1981 Scale: 1:20

Details for EP/EL.SM 4/46 above, February 1982 Scale: 1:1

Details for bookrests and choir stalls, by Messrs. Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, of Newcastle, February 1982 Scale: 1:1

Plan showing land proposed to be given to Hetton Urban District Council for the Easington Lane War Memorial, December 1930 Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch [1:240]

Letter from Messrs. Wilson & Co., solicitors, of 5 North Bailey, Durham, to Rev. W.L.M. Law of The Rectory, Lyons, concerning vesting of the Parish Room at Easington Lane in the Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, 30 April 1937 See also EP/EL.SM 11/2-8

Sequestration account, 4 April - October [late 1950s] Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 4/52/1

Log book, 1959 - 31 December 1972

Church inventory, 28 September 1960

Vestry minute book, April 1871 - March 1910

Minutes of vestry meetings, 26 February 1954 - 30 March 1979

Financial statement for the year ended 31 December 1978 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/13

Annual report of the Parochial Church Council, 1978-79 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/13

Reports to the Annual General Meeting, 1981; and balance sheet for the year ended 31 December 1980 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/13

Reports to the Annual General Meeting, 1985; and balance sheet for the year ended 31 December 1984 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/13

Reports to the Annual General Meeting, 1982; and balance sheet for the year ended 31 December 1981 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/20

Reports to the Annual General Meeting, 1983; and balance sheet for the year ended 31 December 1982 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/20

Reports to the Annual General Meeting, 1984; and balance sheet for the year ended 31 December 1983 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/20

Reports to the Annual General Meeting, 1985; and balance sheet for the year ended 31 December 1984 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/20

Reports to the Annual General Meeting, 1986; and balance sheet for the year ended 31 December 1985 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/20

Agenda papers for the Annual Parochial Meeting, 21 April 1998

Agenda papers for the Annual Parochial Meeting, 4 April 2000

Rector's report to the Annual Parochial Meeting, 1997

Agreement, correspondence and plan concerning acquisition by Durham County Council of land near Lyons Rectory for road widening

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham and the Parochial Church Council, Lyons Parish, concerning the erection of shelters near the Parish Hall

Church Council and Vestry Minute book, 21 September 1922 - 2 February 1931

Church Council Minute book, 18 February 1936 - 11 October 1948

Church Council Minute book, 14 October 1948 - 28 February 1955

Church Council Minute book, 28 March 1955 - 28 April 1960

Church Council Minute book, 29 April 1960 - 20 February 1970

Lyons Parochial Church Council, Church and Church Hall accounts, 1 January 1939 - 31 December 1952

Lyons Parochial Church Council, Church and Church Hall accounts, 1 January 1953 - 31 December 1964

Lyons Parochial Church Council, Church and Church Hall accounts, 1 January 1965 - 31 December 1972

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 20 February 1970 - 21 November 1977

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 11 January 1978 - 21 January 1982

Final report to the Parochial Church Council on the restoration appeal, March 1985 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/13

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 15 February 1982 - 13 April 1986

Results of elections of parish officers and members of the Parochial Church Council, 1983-85 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 6/20

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 22 April 1986 - 20 May 1991

Accounts of the Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1973 - 31 December 1983

Minutes of ordinary meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 6 June 2000 - 1 October 2002 Includes: minutes of Annual Parochial Meeting, 3 April 2001

Electoral roll

Electoral roll, 1963, revised 1969, revised 1970

Electoral roll, n.d. [post 1970]

Plan and section of old schools, by W. & T.R. Milburn, architects, Sunderland and London, July 1929 Scale: 8' to 1" [1:96]

'Proposed alterations to Old Schools, Easington Lane for Lyons Parish Church Council', by Messrs. W. & T.R. Milburn, architects, Sunderland and London, August 1929 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Letters between the Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, the Rev. W.L.M. Law, rector of Lyons, and Messrs. Western & Sons, solicitors, of 35 Essex Street, London WC2, concerning the gift of the former Easington Lane Schools by the Hon. Francis Bowes Lyon to Lyons Church, 28 July - 11 August 1930 See also EP/EL.SM 4/50 above

List of members of, and history of, the Lyons branch of the Girls' Friendly Society, 1975

Church of England Men's Society, minutes of branch meetings, 24 January 1977 - 12 December 1977

Church of England Men's Society, minutes of branch meetings, 9 January 1978 - 9 December 1985

Lyons Men's Fellowship, minutes of meetings, 27 January 1986 - 9 February 1987 [The C.E.M.S. ended officially on 31 December 1985. The branch members agreed to continue meeting as the Lyons Men's Fellowship]

Minutes of the annual meetings of the Mothers' Union, 27 January 1958 - 13 February 1972

Minutes of annual and committee meetings of the Mothers' Union, 15 February 1973 - 11 September 1978

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Mothers' Union, 5 February 1973 Originally enclosed in EP/EL.SM 13/6

Minutes of annual and committee meetings of the Mothers' Union, 25 September 1978 - 25 April 1983

Drawing of Lady Chapel altar at St. Michael's Hetton-le-Hole by unknown artist at Tufton Street, Westminster

History of parish of Lyons, 1869 - 1944

Minutes of a meeting of Durham Diocesan Synod, 7 June 1975

Minutes of a meeting of Houghton-le-Spring deanery synod, 19 September 1975

List of subscribers to the memorial windows, 1948

Accounts and correspondence of memorial fund for Rev. W.L.M. Law, 14 January 1954 - 20 March 1954

Copy photograph of unidentified man with horse and cart, c.1910. Copy made c.1988

Book of condolence on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, 5 September 1997

Estate account of Oltress May Bowman, including legacy to rector and churchwardens of Lyons parish church, 1966

Estate accounts of C.M. Lawson, 4 December 1972 - 18 December 1973

Parish Patter, the parish magazine of St Michael and St Nicholas, Hetton Lyons with Eppleton, March - April 2010

Parish Patter, June - September 2010

Parish Patter, November 2010 - January 2011