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Register of baptisms, 8 July 1894 - 21 April 1940

Register of baptisms, 3 April 1940 - 17 February 1950

Register of baptisms, 26 March 1950 - 7 July 1968

Register of marriages, 14 October 1894 - 14 September 1913

Register of marriages, 20 September 1913 - 3 December 1921 Enclosures: see EP/Mf.SH 1/9-26

Register of marriages, 4 March 1922 - 23 January 1935

Register of marriages, 2 March 1935 - 1 August 1949

Register of marriages, 6 August 1949 - 8 June 1968

Register of banns, 9 September 1894 - 2 February 1902

Register of banns, 10 March 1929 - 11 December 1938

Register of banns, 5 February 1939 - 22 August 1948

Register of banns, 15 August 1948 - 23 June 1968

Marriage licence for James Douthwaite Taylorson and Maggie Farrow, 22 June 1916 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for Thomas Watson and Catherine Devlin, 7 July 1917 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for Edward Holden and Jane Barron, 27 July 1917 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for George Brown and Dorothy Laws Hutchinson, 10 August 1917 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for Thomas Longstaff and Annie Turner, 4 September 1917 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for Thomas Robson Hunter and Eva Hannah Isabella Jones, 6 September 1917 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for Albert Edward Bewick and Emily Hindmarsh, 14 January 1918 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for Frederick Short and Christina Ward, 14 May 1918 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for John Tom Bulman and Alice Eveline Smith, 6 September 1918 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for Albert Edward Bell and Eva Fletcher, 3 December 1918 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for Radolphus Roonie and Phyllis Skea, 28 May 1919 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for Robert Johnson and Lilly Turner, 30 December 1919 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for John Avery Wilson Taylor and Eliza Turrs, 6 April 1920 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for George Ronald Golightly and Georgina Cowley, 15 July 1920 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for Randal Fisher and Lily McCall, 10 August 1920 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for John Robert Hopps and Isabella Copeland, 16 September 1920 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Marriage licence for George Atkinson and Florence Todd, 20 June 1921 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Certificate of Superintendent Registrar for marriage without licence for Ernest Smith and Dora Gibson, 10 January 1924 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 1/5

Register of confirmations, 1 May 1942 - 18 December 1963

Register of services and sermons, 5 July 1894 - 12 May 1901

Register of services and sermons, 14 April 1901 - 29 December 1907

Register of services and senions, 1 January 1903 - 14 March 1917

Register of services, 27 October 1929 - 11 May 1941

Register of service, 22 March 1941 - 5 April 1950

Register of services, 2 April 1950 - 21 May 1956

Register of services, 20 May 1956 - 31 May 1959

Register of services, 31 May 1959 - 1 December 1963

Register of services, 4 July 1964 - 31 December 1978

Register of services, offertory and expenditure, 17 April 1887 - 13 April 1889

Copy of the sealed scheme of the Church Commissioners reorganising the parishes of: Pallion, St. Luke; Deptford, St. Andrew; Ayres Quay, St. Stephen; Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene; Millfield, St. Mark; Millfield, St. Hilda; Bishopwearmouth, St. Gabriel, 6 April 1950

Pastoral scheme for the union of the benefice of Bishopwearmouth and the benefice of St. Hilda, Millfield, 28 April 1970

Correspondence received from the Ecclesiastical commission concerning grants towards curate's stipends, 30 October 1894 - 13 May 1899

Correspondence concerning possible grant from the Barrington Augmentation Fund to St. Hilda's, 13 December 1899 - 6 January 1900

Statement of annual amounts payable by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and included in the quarterly payments scheme, 1 April 1939

1 March 1961 (1) Rev. J.D. Gold (2) The Church Commissioners Mortgage of benefice income to secure £312 and interest

Map,showing the alterations of the boundaries of the parish of St. Mark, Millfield, 1950 Scale: 1 to 2500

Map showing the alterations of the boundaries of the parish of St. Luke, Pallion, 1950 Scale: 1 to 2500

Map showing the alterations of the boundaries of the parish of St. Mary Magdalene, Millfield, 1950 Scale: 1 to 2500

Parochial Statistics, 1939

Card announcing Holy Week at St. Hilda's Church [includes photograph of the interior of the church], 1895

Card for Easter Day, 1897

Card detailing the services to be held on Good Friday, 1900

List of services and order of procession for the consecration of St. Hilda's Church, 30 June 1894

Admission card for the consecration of St. Hilda's Church, 5 July 1894

Invitation to church choirs to attend the consecration of St. Hilda's Church, 5 July 1894

Notice of a sale of useful and fancy articles held by the Girls' Guild in the gymnasium of the Church Institute, Low Row, during the week of the consecration of the Bishop Lightfoot Memorial Church [St. Hilda's] to realise the £40 promised to complete the font and canopy, 9 July 1894 (1 paper, printed)

Order of service for the laying of the foundation stone of St. Hilda's Church, 18 May 1892

Notice announcing festal evensong to be held in St. Mark's Millfield, to celebrate the laying of the foundation stone of St. Hilda's Church, 18 May 1892

General conditions and regulations relating to the contract for St. Hilda's Church, Millfield, by Hicks and Charlewood, architects, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 3 February 1892

3 February 1892 (1) James Laing of Thornhill, Sunderland, J. P. and Wilson Mills Roche of Somerleyton, Sunderland, Solicitor (2) Walter Scott of Sunderland, builder Contract for the construction of St. Hilda's Church for £4072

Correspondence received for the Ecclesiastical concerning completion of church, survey of it by the commissioners agent, proposed assignment of a district to the church, 29 May - 5 September 1894

Correspondence with Harold Iliff, 42 Fawcett Street, Sunderland, estate agent, and others concerning the tenure of lands to be bought in Clanny Street, 14 October - 2 November 1896

Subscription list of St. Columba's Church Building Fund, 1885 - 1891

Plans, elevations and sections of proposed church at Millfield, by Hicks and Charlewood, architects, Grainger Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1889 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Details of borings at Chester Road and other miscellaneous plans relating to St. Hilda's Church, 1892

Ground plan of St. Hilda's church, W. & T.R. Milburn, Sunderland, architects, March 1961 Scale:20 feet to 1 inch [1:240]

Design for altar cross and candlestick in mahogany with cross picked out with gold leaf, 1920s Scale: 1.5 inches to 1 foot [1:8]

Design for gilded altar set [crucifix and candlesticks], 1920s

Drawing of the lady chapel at St. Hilda's Church, Westbourne Road, Sunderland, by J.N. Lawson, Faithcraft, 7 Tufton Street, London, and Abbey Mill, St. Albans, 1970s Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1:24]

Letter concerning the designation of St. Hilda's church as building of special architectural or historic interest, 18 August 1950

Correspondence received from Marian Parker, Sunderland, London and Ryde arranging to donate a side chapel in memory of her sister, 25 April 1894 - 11 January [1895]

Letter from Walter Scott to the Reverend F. C. Macdonald concerning the construction, fitting out etc. of the Morning Chapel, 24 September 1894

18 May 1893 (1) Betsy Greenfield of Chester Road, Sunderland (2) Frederick Charles Macdonald, Clerk, Curate in charge of Millfield, St. Hilda's Agreement for opening up window overlooking the property of (1) adjoining the church of St. Hilda's and for alterations to chimneys Rent: 1s. p.a.

Specification and estimate for a new organ for St. Hilda's, by H.S. Vincent and Company, with covering letter, 9 January 1894

Correspondence received from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Barrington Society, the Bishop Lightfoot Trust, the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement and Reparing of Churches and Chapels and the Revd. Henry Arthur Mitton [Secretary, Durham Diocesan Church Building Society], Sherburn House, Durham, concerning grants towards the cost of the church, 7 February 1890 - 18 May 1893

Notes for interview concerning grant for new church with details of the building costs and grants made to several recently completed churches, n.d. [1890]

Letters concerning application to Church Pastoral Aid Society for grant for St. Hilda's, 27 November - 20 December 1901

Correspondence with the Ecclesiastical Commission concerning the purchase of ground for a school and mission hall, grants towards their construction and that of a vicarage, 1 January - 12 November 1896

Letters received from J.B. Lazenby, Diocesan Registry, Durham concerning grants for proposed school buildings, 6 - 20 October 1898

Correspondence concerning conveyance of proposed Sunday School site, grants towards construction of it and towards the purchase of a site for a parsonage etc., 10 February 1899 - 15 June 1900

Correspondence with the S.P.C.K. seeking financial assistance with regard to a new scheme for taking over Burn Park Wesleyan Chapel and using the site for a vicarage, Sunday School etc., 28 May - 6 June 1903

Notes concerning area of Wesleyan chapel site, ground rents etc., 20 January 1900

30 December 1950 (1) The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the County Borough of Sunderland (2) The Church Commissioners for England Copy conveyance of 377 square yards of land (part of 80/86 Chester Road) as an addition to the churchyard. Plan attached

Subscription list for St. Hilda's parish hall, 1897 - 1906

Charity Commission scheme for St. Hilda's Church Mission Hall, (formerly St. Mark's Mission Room), 13 January 1933

Corrpesondence, with plan attached, concerning St. Hilda's Mission, 19 February 1933

Schedule of deeds (1830 - 1933) concerning St. Hilda's Church Hall (8-9 Railway Row, Sunderland, March 1933

Charity Commission scheme for St. Hilda's Parish Hall, 4 July 1939

Elevations of St. Hilda's Vicarage, by Hicks and Charlewood, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, architects, 1 September 1904 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Detail plan of the windows of St. Hilda's Vicarage, by Hicks and Charlewood, [1904] Scale: 1/2 inch to a foot [1:24]

Detail plan of the bay windows of St. Hilda's Vicarage, by Hicks and Charlewood, [1904] Scale: 1/2 inch to a foot

Draft letter to the Archdeacon concerning site for parsonage house, n.d. [1900]

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission concerning parsonage house, 22 April 1909

Faculty for the erection of a new organ, 10 December 1913

Faculty for the erection of a figure of our Lord in the central niche of the reredos, 11 July 1919

Faculty for the erection of a tablet, 30 July 1920

27 August 1937 Faculty for the installation of the electric light, 27 August 1937

Faculty for comfirming the introduction of a pair of candlesticks and a litany desk, 3 July 1940

Faculty for the erection of an electrical organ blower, 27 November 1943

Faculty for the introduction of a new hot air heating system, 8 August 1944

Faculty for the introduction of a processional cross, 8 December 1947

Faculty for the introduction of a new carpet, a new altar book, a new Communion set and a lavabo bowl, 19 June 1958

Faculty for the installation of a new stationary type bell in the tower, 6 June 1962

Inventory of church property, 1896 - 1908

Terrier, 1943 - 1950

Ordinary Assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapadations Measures, 11 July 1942

Ordinary Assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapadations Measures, 20 November 1947

Minutes of parish council, 15 May 1905 - 18 March 1910

Minutes of parish council, 13 May 1910 - 21 November 1924

Minutes of St. Hilda's Building Committee, 28 December 1889 - 25 July 1900

Cash book, 1 January 1968 - 1 January 1969

Ledger, 1968

Statement of accounts, 1964, 1967, 1968 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 6/5

Annual statistical returns to the Central Board of Finance, 1964 and 1966 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SH 6/5

Return on parochial income to the Diocese of Durham, 1965, 1966, 1967

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers received by the vicar, the parish council et al., 11 June 1916 - 16 January 1924

Electoral roll, 1962 - 1968

Account book of St. Hilda's Sunday School, 1929 - 1951

Ticket for a congregational trip to Lambton Park, 3 August 1891

Ticket for a 'Congregational Gathering' in the Railway Row Mission Room, 16 October 1894

Card detailing half-hour lectures for men in the Railway Row Mission Room [includes portrait of Rev. C.F. White, one of the founders of the Lightfoot Brotherhood], March - April 1897

Programme of Sunday lectures for men in St. Hilda's Mission Room, Railway Row, October 1897

Programme for the annual concert for St. Hilda's Church, 7 November 1900

Copy photograph of members of Casey's Court, 1906 [including Charlie Chaplin], advertising Casey's Court at the Theatre Royal, Sunderland, 25 February 1929