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Register of baptisms, May 1872 - October 1877

Register of baptisms, October 1877 - November 1880

Register of baptisms, November 1880 - July 1883

Register of baptisms, July 1883 - April 1890

Register of baptisms, April 1890 - June 1894

Register of baptisms, June 1894 - February 1899

Register of baptisms, February 1899 - March 1901

Register of baptisms, March 1901 - December 1907

Register of baptisms, January 1908 - February 1919

Register of baptisms, February 1919 - February 1932

Register of baptisms, February 1932 - January 1950

Register of baptisms, 11 January 1950 - 23 September 1956

Register of baptisms, 30 September 1956 - 2 February 1975

Register of baptisms, 6 April 1975 - 3 November 2019

Register of marriages, August 1872 - September 1885

Register of marriages, September 1885 - January 1894

Register of marriages, January 1894 - September 1903

Register of marriages, September 1903 - November 1913

Register of marriages, November 1913 - April 1923

Register of marriages, April 1923 - May 1936

Register of marriages, May 1936 - April 1948

Register of marriages, 8 May 1948 - 14 October 1961

Register of marriages, 28 October 1961 - 16 September 1972

Register of marriages, 23 September 1972 - 25 July 1992

Register of marriages, 15 August 1992 - 4 August 2018

Register of banns of marriage, 14 July 1872 - 3 January 1886

Register of banns of marriage, 21 February 1886 - 12 October 1890

Register of banns of marriage, 2 November 1890 - 2 June 1895

Register of banns of marriage, 23 June 1895 - 21 June 1903

Register of banns of marriage, 28 June 1903 - 10 March 1912

Register of banns of marriage, 10 March 1912 - 11 July 1920

Register of banns of marriage, 4 July 1920 - 5 May 1929

Register of banns of marriage, 1 April 1929 - 27 March 1938

Register of banns of marriage, 20 March 1938 - 19 May 1946

Register of banns of marriage, 7 November 1948 - 20 January 1952

Register of banns of marriage, 13 January 1952 - 7 August 1955

Register of banns of marriage, 24 July 1955 - 11 October 1964

Register of banns of marriage, 27 September 1964 - 27 April 1969

Register of banns of marriage, 5 May 1946 - 21 November 1948

Register of banns of marriage, 11 May 1969 - 6 June 1993

Registers of banns of marriage, 18 July 1993 - 30 June 2019

Register of confirmations, 1894 - 24 April 1972

Register of confirmations, 6 May 1973 - 24 June 2018

Register of services, 20 October 1963 - 25 December 1966

Register of services, 24 December 1966 - 26 December 1971

Register of services, 30 April 1872 - 6 March 1886 At beginning: list of clergy, 1872-1884 At end: list of churchwardens, 1872-1885

Register of services, 7 March 1886 - 10 February 1891 At beginning: list of clergy, churchwardens, sidesmen, organists and vergers, 1885-1890: account of the unveiling of the memorial window, 25 April 1888; note of the installation of the reredos and of the decoration of the church, 28 July 1889

Register of services, 11 February 1891 - 27 March 1910 At beginning: list of clergy, churchwardens, sidesmen, organists and vergers, 1891-1904

Register of services, 26 June 1910 - 26 October 1947 At beginning: list of clergy, 1868-1920; list of the number of baptisms, marriages and confirmations, 1868-1922; list of numbers of Easter communicants, 1871-1930 The first pages have been re-bound

Register of services, 31 December 1971 - 29 December 1991

Register of services, January 1992 - 4 November 2001

Register of services, 3 November 2001 - 5 March 2017

Register of services, 9 March 2017 - 15 March 2020

Preachers' book, 3 July 1947 - 13 October 1963

Plan annexed to the statutory notice of the proposed ecclesiastical reorganisation area number 3, showing the boundary of the affected parishes, n.d. [late 1940s] Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10360]

Map of the parish of St. Mark, Millfield, 1947 No scale

'Map showing the alteration of the boundaries of the parish of St. Mary Magdalene, Millfield' 1949 Scale 1:2500

Map of the parish of St. Luke, Pallion, 1947 No scale

Map of the parish of St. Mark, Millfield, 1949 Scale: 1:2500

'Map showing the alteration of the boundaries of the parish of St. Luke, Pallion', 1949 Scale: 1:2500

Order of the Church Commissioners confirming a scheme to reorganise the pastoral supervision arrangements in the parishes of Pallion, St. Luke; Deptford, St. Andrew; Ayres Quay, St. Stephen; Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene; Millfield, St. Mark; Millfield, St. Hilda, and Bishopwearmouth, St. Gabriel, 6 April 1950

'Map of the Parish of St. Mark Millfield', 1950 Scale: 1:2500

'Map Showing the Alteration of the Boundaries of the Parish of St. Mary Magdalene, Millfield', 1950 Scale: 1:2500

'Map Shewing the Alteration of the Boundaries of the Parish of St. Luke, Pallion', 1950 Scale: 1:2500

Notification from the Bishop of Durham that the benefice of Millfield, St. Mark will become vacant following the cessation of Rev. P.D. Atkinson, 2 July 1986

Notice to the churchwardens of the Bishop's intention to admit Rev. Michael James Jackson to the benefice, 25 November 1986

Licence to perform the office of assistant stipendiary curate granted to Geoffrey Hyland Lawes, clerk, B.A., by the Bishop of Durham, 22 December 1963 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Photograph of a framed head and shoulders portrait of Rev. Charles Green, first vicar of Millfield, St Mark, 1868 - 1875, n.d. [c1870]

Head and shoulders cabinet print portrait of Rev. F. E. Sadgrove, vicar of St Mark's, 1875 - 1884, taken by E. Yeomans, photographer, Barnard Castle and West Hartlepool, n.d. [1870s]

Full-length portrait of Rev. William Proctor Swaby, vicar of St Mark's, 1884 - 1893, n.d. [1880s]

Photograph of Rev. Reginald T. Talbot, vicar of St Mark's 1893 - 1894, seated on a bench in the open air, n.d. [c1890]

Photograph of Rev. A. R. Stogdon, vicar of St Mark's, 1894 - 1903, with his two curates, Rev. J. V. Simpkinson and Rev. J. A. Gott, taken by J. M. French, Stockton Road, Sunderland, n.d. [c1900]

Vignette portrait of Rev. C. H. Newman, vicar of St Mark's, 1903 - 1922, taken by John M. French, Sunderland, n.d. [c1910]

Head and shoulders portrait of Rev. Thomas Romans, vicar of St Mark's, 1922 - 1937, taken by Taylor of Sunderland, n.d. [c1920s]

Head and shoulders portrait of Rev. W. J. F. Kerby, vicar of St Mark's, 1938 - 1954, taken by Chris Wells of Sunderland, n.d. [c1940]

Photograph of Rev. A. R. G. Pugh, vicar of St Mark's, 1954 - 1962, preaching from the pulpit, n.d. [late 1950s]

Head and shoulders portrait of Rev. Peter D. Atkinson, vicar of St Mark's, 1975 - 1986, n.d. [c1980]

Journal of parish visits and gifts of fruit and flowers sent out, 1924 Cuttings album, May 1923 - 10 December 1937

Plan of a site for a new church, parsonage house and schools at the corner of Kayll Road and Chester Road, Sunderland, by D. Balfour, surveyor, Houghton-le-Spring, 16 June 1886 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Plan and artist's impression of the proposed re-siting of the altar, n.d. [1960s - 1970s] Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1:24] Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Plan of boundaries to land owned by St. Mark's church and Craven Dairies Ltd., n.d. [ c.1980] Scale: 16 feet to 1 inch [1:192]

Plan of proposed changes to the layout of St. Mark's church, June 1987 No scale

Plan of the proposed prayer corner for St. Mark's church, February 1998 Scales: 1:20, 1:50, 1:200

Artist's impression of the proposed prayer corner and quiet area at St. Mark's church, n.d. [1998] No scale

Detail of a hexagonal table for St. Mark's church, n.d. [1998] Scale: 1:10

Engraving of St Mark's, Millfield, by Jos. Potts & Son, architects, Sunderland, 1886

Pencil and ink sketch of St Mark's, Millfield by John George Johnson, n.d. [late 19th century]

Photograph of a painting of St Mark's church by John F. Carr, churchwarden, 1986 - 1997, n.d. [c1990]

Reports, estimates and tenancy agreements; sketch plans, inventories and quotations; invoices and correspondence concerning the management of church property, including St. Mark's church; 1 Wentworth Terrace; Church House; and land adjacent to the Sunday School, St. Mark's Terrace, 23 June 1987 - 12 August 1997

23 April 1936 (1) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (2) Rev. Thomas Romans, clerk in holy orders, vicar of Millfield, St. Mark (3) County Borough of Sunderland Copy grant by (1) to (3) of 1180 sq. yds. of land in the parish of Millfield, St. Mark, part of land conveyed to (1) in 1870 as the site for a church, partly to be laid out as public open space and partly for road widening Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

'Design for a Mission Room for Rev. A.R. Stogden' by E.C. & J. Keay Ltd., engineers and contractors, Corporation Street, Birmingham, 6 September 1894 Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48] Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Photograph of the altar and screen, by D. & J. Carr, n.d. [1955]

Photograph of the pulpit, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of the ceremony to lay the foundation stone of a new [church institute following a fire], 11 October 1933

Two postcards, part of the AEC 'Photo' series, depicting the interior of St Mark's church, decorated for Harvest Festival, 1921 1) Nave, looking towards the altar and apse 2) War memorial

Fire prevention inspection report on St. Mark's Church Hall, Lily Street, Millfield, Sunderland, by Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Fire Brigade, 26 June 1991

1 January 1907 (1) Digby Nelson of Sunderland, slate merchant; Thomas Thorburn Nesbitt of Sunderland, solicitor; George Hildrey the younger of Sunderland, architect; and Frederick Hildrey of Sunderland, contractor (2) Thomas Thorburn Nesbitt (3) Digby Nelson Conveyance, by means of a declaration of trust by (1) to (2), as trustee, to (3), of a piece of copyhold land at Bishopwearmouth, part of the Vale Brooke Estate, on the east side of Tunstall Road, in the part called Valebrooke, being the fifth site from the north end of Valebrooke, also identified on the estate plan as site 35, measuring 116 feet east to west on both the north and south sides; 22 feet north to south on the east side and 23 feet north to south on the west side, including half the back street, bounded on the north by premises belonging to George Hildrey the younger, on the south by premises belonging to (1), on the east by the other half of the back street, and on the west by 'Valebrooke', Tunstall Road Consideration: annual rent charge of £7 10s.

Outline specification of works in proposed alterations and repairs to St. Mark's vicarage, by Cordingley & McIntyre, chartered architects, Owengate House, Durham, January 1970

Plan of proposed repairs and alterations to St. Mark's vicarage: electrical layout, by Cordingley & McIntyre, chartered architects, Owengate House, Durham, January 1970 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]

Floor plans, elevations and site plan of proposed repairs and alterations to St. Mark's vicarage, by Cordingley & McIntyre, chartered architects, Owengate House, Durham, January 1970 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]

Extract from the Land Registry property register giving information about the title of 5 Valebrook, Sunderland, 14 May 1973 - 9 June 1980

Preliminary sketch plan of a proposed parsonage at St. Mark's church, Hylton Road, Sunderland, by Hawkins Heath Partnership, architects, 3 Grange Terrace, Stockton Road, Sunderland, July 1986 Scale: 1:50

Plan of proposed new vicarage, n.d. [1986] No scale

Correspondence between Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Mr. E. Fogg, 67 Dunelm Drive, Houghton-le-Spring; Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London; Hawkins Heath Partnership, architects, 3 Grange Terrace, Stockton Road, Sunderland; Hayton, Lee & Braddock, chartered architects and surveyors, Owengate House, Durham, and Rev. M. Jackson, 5 Valebrooke, Tunstall Road, Sunderland, concerning the construction of a new vicarage in the church grounds, 11 July 1986 - 14 July 1987

Correspondence between Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Rev. M.J. Jackson, The Kepier Flat, Church Street, Houghton-le-Spring; Hawkins Heath Partnership, architects, 3 Grange Terrace, Stockton Road, Sunderland; Hayton, Lee & Braddock, chartered architects, Owengate House, Durham; Mr. E. Fogg, 67 Dunelm Drive, Houghton-le-Spring, and Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London, concerning the construction of a new vicarage, 26 November 1986 - 1 August 1989

1986 (1) St. Mark's Parochial Church Council (2) George and Sheila Smith of 30 Eastmoor Road, Pallion, Sunderland Counterpart tenancy agreement for Church House, St. Mark's Terrace, Millfield, Sunderland Consideration: rent and duties as stipulated in the caretaker's job description

23 October 1994 (1) St. Mark's Parochial Church Council, the landlord (2) Mark Thomas Birch and Lisa Wilson of 18 Milburn Street, Sunderland, tenants Tenancy agreement for 1 Wentworth Terrace, Sunderland Consideration: £60 per week

Faculty authorising the enlargement of the schoolroom by adding to it a room at the west end of the church, part of which would serve as an Infants' Sunday School, and part as a choir vestry, all joined to the church by a passage, 1 April 1889 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Faculty authorising the insertion of stained glass in a window on the north side of the nave, inscribed in memory of former vicar, Charles H. Newman, 12 February 1923 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Faculty authorising the erection of an alabaster tablet on the east wall of the north transept, inscribed in memory of Arthur Read Stogdon, former vicar of the parish, 2 November 1931 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Faculty authorising the introduction of a new holy table, inscribed in memory of James and Janet Lawrenson, 8 September 1932 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Faculty authorising the addition of a new choir vestry, 30 June 1933 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Faculty authorising the installation of electric floodlighting in place of gas lighting in the chancel, 1 September 1952 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Faculty authorising the installation of new electric light fittings, 4 June 1958 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Faculty authorising the re-wiring of the church; the introduction of a new lighting system and the addition of six free-standing fan-assisted convector radiators and three panel radiators to the existing large bore-pipe heating system, 10 September 1987 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Faculty authorising the removal of pews from the north and south transepts, and the introduction of carpets, table, cross and kneeling bench in order to create a quiet area and prayer corner, dedicated in memory of the Harper family, 21 September 1998

Archdeacon's certificate authorising repairs to the glazing and over-glazing of the windows in clear polycarbonate, 13 August 1985 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 134

Archdeacon's certificate authorising unspecified works, 26 August 1976

Archdeacon's certificate authorising general repair work at St. Mark's church, 27 June 1991

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the re-pointing of 3 dormer windows on the north elevation of the church and the 3 dormer windows on the south elevation of the church with the front gable (north transept) and to re-point the vestry, 28 January 1998

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the replacement of wire guards on the clergy vestry windows at St. Mark's church to effect repair to plain glazed windows damaged by vandals, and to replace the wire guards with Lexan Polycarbonate and suitable fittings, 12 February 1998

Archdeacon's certificate authorising re-pointing of the rose window gable end (south transept of the church) and the main entrance (west gable end of the church), 1 June 1998

Terrier, 1888 - 1945 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 135

Terrier, 1945 - 1975 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 135

Terrier, n.d. [late 1970s] Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 135

Terrier, 1976 - 1997

Log book, 12 September 1979 - April 1986

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Mark's church, by S.W. Milburn & Partners, 9 The Esplanade, Sunderland, 3 February 1959 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 135

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Mark's church, by S.W. Milburn & Partners, chartered architects, 9 The Esplanade, Sunderland, November 1963 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 135

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Mark's church, by S.W. Milburn & Partners, 9 The Esplanade, Sunderland, July 1968 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 135

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Mark's church by Hayton, Lee & Braddock, Owengate House, Durham, June 1974 Originally enclosed in EP/Su.SM 135

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Mark's church, by Wm. & T.R. Milburn, chartered architects, 4 Grange Terrace, Stockton Road, Sunderland, 12 September 1979

Quinquennial inspection report on the church, by Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, 26 January 1985

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Mark's church, by Niven & Niven Architects, The Old Hall, 57 Front Street, West Auckland, November 1990

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Mark's church, by Niven & Niven Architects, The Old Hall, 57 Front Street, West Auckland, April 1995

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Mark's church, by John Niven Architects, The Old Hall Practice Ltd., 57 Front Street, West Auckland, November 2005

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of the vicarage, by Matthew Hayton, diocesan architect, Owengate House, Durham, November 1971

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of the vicarage, by A.O. Lee, diocesan surveyor, Owengate House, Durham, September 1976

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of the vicarage, by A.O. Lee, diocesan surveyor, Owengate House, Durham, March 1981

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of the vicarage, by D.L. Renton, diocesan surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, September 1992

Income and expenditure accounts of various church funds, Includes: St. Mark's Church New Vestry Fund, 1 January 1907 - 31 December 1933 Kitchen Fund, 24 March 1950 - 19 September 1954 Welcome Home Fund, 13 May - 7 October [1945] Church Lighting Fund, 24 August 1952 - 5 March 1959 New Vestry Fund Investments, January 1912 - 18 January 1934 New Vestry Building Fund, 20 June 1933 - 31 December 1936 Special Repairs Fund, 1 January 1937 - 1 March 1965 Restoration Fund, 18 October 1974 - December 1976 Wentworth Terrace rents, 6 March 1961 - 1 March 1964; July 1974 - December 1976 Church House rents, 2 December 1974 - December 1976 Parish Mission, 9 September - 26 October 1964 Church Cleaning Fund, 22 July - 10 December 1956 Window Repair Fund, January 1955 - 12 February 1957 Bible Fund, 1957 - 13 April 1958 Piano Fund, 1 January - 30 November 1958 Vicarage Repair Fund, 22 April - 11 October 1962 Church Hall Toilet Fund, June 1960 - 30 November 1961

Income and expenditure accounts of various church funds Includes: St. Mark's Church Assistant Clergy Fund, 9 April 1924 - 5 May 1964 St. Mark's Church Repair Fund (later Vestry Fund), 19 March 1926 - 13 December 1937 Vicar's Altar Fund, 1923 - 1 January 1964 Fund to rebuild the Institute after the fire, 27 August 1933 - 16 March 1936 Sick and Poor Fund, 1 January 1936 - 1 January 1965 Mothers' Meeting Trip, 8 February 1928 - 21 June 1937 Special Fund for Parochial Contribution to Crusade Expenses, 29 January - 2 September 1935 New Altar Fund, 4 May - 28 September [1935] Laurenson Memorial and Stoydon Memorial Fund, 16 June 1931 - 9 May 1932 Choir Book Fund, 1927 - 5 April 1930 New Boat Fund, 1 January 1928 - 5 July 1929

Parochial accounts, 1 January 1965 - 26 January 1976

Parochial accounts, 1 January 1976 - 2 January 1983 Includes: Restoration Fund accounts, 31 December 1976 - 31 December 1982

Parochial accounts, 1 January - 31 December 1986

Parochial accounts, 1 January 1989 - 31 December 1995

Minutes of the Church Council (Parochial Church Council from 1921), 26 July 1904 - 30 September 1926; Minutes of Annual Parish Meetings, 20 April 1922 - 3 March 1927

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 4 October 1926 - 28 January 1941; Minutes of Annual Parish Meetings, 29 February 1928 - 21 April 1938

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 25 March 1941 - 5 February 1968; Minutes of Annual Parish Meetings, 14 March 1940 - 15 March 1967

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 28 March 1968 - 17 March 1976; Minutes of Annual Parish Meetings, 11 March 1968 - 16 April 1975

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 10 May 1976 - 28 February 1983; Minutes of Annual Parish Meetings, 28 April 1976 - 9 March 1987

Minutes of meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 16 May 1983 - 20 February 1995; Minutes of Annual General Meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 9 March 1987 - 28 April 1994

Minutes of ordinary and annual general meetings of the Parochial Church Council, the Annual Vestry and the Standing Committee, 30 March 1987 - 5 November 1996

Minutes of ordinary and annual general meetings of the Parochial Church Council, the Annual Vestry and the Standing Committee, 7 January 1997 - 29 February 2000

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council of the united benefice of Millfield, St Mark and Pallion, St Luke 4 April 2000 - 2 November 2004 and of St Mark's Parochial Church Council, 18 July 2000 - 25 November 2008

Electoral roll, 1954 - 1965

Electoral roll, 1967 - n.d. [1971]

Electoral roll, April 1972 - n.d. [1977]

Electoral roll, 1978 - 27 November 1983

Electoral roll, 1984 - 21 January 1990

Electoral roll, n.d. [1990] - [1996]

Electoral roll, 1996 - 2001

File of miscellaneous documents relating to the parish, collected together for reference, possibly by the Secretary to the Parochial Church Council Includes: Income and expenditure accounts of the church for the years ended 31 December 1922; 1936; 1958 - 1959; 1963 - 1964 Lists of members of the Parochial Church Council, 1956; 1958 Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 2 April 1957; 3 May 1965 Parochial returns for the years ended 31 December 1962; 1966 Correspondence between Rev. W. Kerby, St. Mark's Vicarage, Hylton Road, Sunderland, and The Church Army, 55 Bryanston Street, Marble Arch, London, concerning an agreement to engage a Church Army evangelist, 7 July - 26 August 1953 List of duties of the church caretaker, n.d. [1950s] Correspondence between the vicar of Ayres Quay, St. Stephen; Steel, Maitland & Byers, solicitors, Sunderland; John & William James Robinson (later Crutes), solicitors, 35 West Sunniside, Sunderland; Charity Commission, Ryder Street, St. James's, London; Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Ranson, Davison & Booth, solicitors, 21 John Street, Sunderland, and the vicar of Millfield, St. Mark, 5 Valebrook Terrace, Sunderland, concerning the Saunders Liddle Charity, bequests and donations from residents of the parish to St. Mark's or its predecessor, St. Stephen's, 10 May 1918 - 4 June 1986 Agreement between the parish and the County Borough of Sunderland for the use of St. Mark's Church Hall as a maternity and child welfare centre, 29 April 1957 Correspondence between Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; the vicar of St. Mark's, St. Mark's Vicarage, Hylton Road, Sunderland, and D.E. Sanderson, Secretary to the Parochial Church Council, 19 Westerham Close, Witherwack, Sunderland, concerning the management of the church hall, 14 January 1965 - 25 November 1981 Copy conveyance by Sunderland County Borough to [the parish of Millfield, St. Mark] of 630 sq. yds. of land on the north side of Lily Street, Millfield, on which to erect a church hall, n.d. [1960s] Correspondence between the vicar of St. Mark's, St. Mark's Vicarage, Sunderland; River Wear Commission, Sunderland and Trewhitt, Clarke & Robson, solicitors, 25 John Street, Sunderland, concerning a mortgage, 22 December 1922 - 8 September 1924 Correspondence between Ecclesiastical Commission, 10 Whitehall Place, London; the vicar of St. Mark's, St. Mark's Vicarage, Millfield, Sunderland; The Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Smiths, Gore & Co., chartered surveyors and land agents, 7 Little College Street, Westminster; Trebon Manufacturing Co. Ltd., St. Mark's Works, Sunderland; Wilson & Co., 5 North Bailey, Durham; H.E. Ferens & Son, solicitors, 38 Saddler Street, Durham; County Borough of Sunderland, Town Hall, Sunderland; D.E. Sanderson, 19 Westerham Close, Witherwack, Sunderland; T. Cowie, Millfield House, Sunderland, and G.E. Walker, 38 Hawarden Crescent, Sunderland, concerning the management of a piece of land adjoining the site of St. Mark's Sunday School; a building in Hylton Road and land to the south of the main church hall, including a copy of a lease of the land adjoining the church hall, to Associated Dairies and Farm Stores Ltd., 12 December 1881 - 24 March 1981 Correspondence between Rev. A.R.G. Pugh, The Vicarage, St. Mark's Road, Sunderland, and C. Garnsworthy, 3 Ettrick Grove, Sunderland, concerning the Sunderland (New Estates) Church Building Fund, 5 February 1959 - 14 October 1961 Sketch of a proposed fence at the church, n.d. [1950s], no scale Sketch plan of a proposed extension to Craven Dairies Ltd., n.d. [1950s], Scale 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48] Newspaper cuttings concerning events in the parish, 27 August 1878 - 27 April 1984

File of miscellaneous documents relating to the parish, collected together for reference, possibly by the Secretary to the Parochial Church Council Includes: Correspondence between Hedley & Thompson, solicitors, 11 Park Terrace, Sunderland; Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Wilson & Co., 5 North Bailey, Durham; Rev. A.R.G. Pugh, St. Mark's Vicarage, Hylton Road, Sunderland, and Ministry of Education, Curzon Street, London, concerning the disposal of the site of the former Deptford Church of England School, 18 February 1949 - 20 September 1966 Compulsory purchase orders relating to 39 Church Street West and 2 Neville Street, Sunderland, 2 - 5 October 1959 Handbill advertising a church bazaar to raise funds to clear the debt on the caretaker's house, 29 - 30 November 1905 Correspondence between Rev. W.J.F. Kerby, St. Mark's Vicarage, Hylton Road, Sunderland; Ministry of Works, Government Buildings, Broadway West, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne; A.S. Bowes, chartered surveyor, 15 Waterloo Place, Sunderland, and Canon Edgar Jackson, rural dean, The Hermitage, Whitburn, concerning the requisition of St. Stephen's Church Hall, Ayres Quay, for military purposes, 23 March 1943 - 25 March 1948 Letter from Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries Ltd., Cathedral Buildings, Dean Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, to Canon C. Jackson, The Hermitage, Whitburn, discontinuing the company's subscription to St. Stephen's Church, 11 December 1946 Correspondence between Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Rev. A.R.G. Pugh, St. Mark's Vicarage, Hylton Road, Sunderland; Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, Westminster; Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; General Register Office, Somerset House, London; Smiths, Gore & Co., chartered surveyors, 81 Bondgate, Darlington, and W.A. Wilson, 36 Glenesk Road, Sunderland, concerning the re-organisation of parishes in Sunderland's east end, and the closure of Ayres Quay, St. Stephen, 5 November 1957 - 25 May 1959 Copy conveyance by Rev. Arthur Robert George Pugh, of St. Mark's Vicarage, Hylton Road, Sunderland, clerk in holy orders to North Eastern Electricity Board, Carliol House, Newcastle upon Tyne, of 100 sq. yds. of the site of St. Stephen's Church Hall, with plan, 23 March 1959 Correspondence between Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London; Durham Diocesan Parsonages Committee, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Mrs. D. Sanderson, 19 Westerham Close, Witherwack, Sunderland; H.E. Ferens & Son, solicitors, 38 Saddler Street, Durham, and G.B. Walker, 38 Hawarden Crescent, Sunderland, concerning the sale of the Hylton Road vicarage and the purchase of a new one, 5 Valebrooke, Tunstall Road, Sunderland, 19 June 1975 - 18 December 1980 Correspondence between Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Rev. A.R.G. Pugh, St. Mark's Vicarage, Hylton Road, Sunderland; Harold Browell of 10 Coxon Street, Hendon, Sunderland, and 69 Ravensworth Street, Millfield, Sunderland, concerning the management of two parish properties: 1 Wentworth Terrace, and Church House, St. Mark's Terrace, Sunderland, 20 March 1954 - [ December 1968]

Job description for a part-time caretaker at St. Mark's church, n.d. [1986]

Cash book of the Saunders Liddle Charity, 30 December 1942 - 1983

Order of the Charity Commission establishing a scheme for the administration of the charity comprising the proceeds of sale of a site for a school in the parish of Millfield, St. Mark, 26 May 1987

Duke Street Burial Club accounts, 30 December 1923 - 1939

Parish magazine, January - April 1902; June - September 1902; November 1902 - January 1908; April 1908 - December 1910 Statements of account of the parish for the years ended 31 December 1878 - 1883

Parish magazine, January 1911 - May 1915; July 1915 - April 1917; June 1917 - March 1919; May - December 1919

Parish magazine, January 1920 - July 1921; September 1921 - December 1922

Parish magazine, January 1923 - December 1926

Parish magazine, January 1927 - December 1930

Parish magazine, January 1931 - December 1933

Parish magazine, January 1934 - December 1936

The Marksman, July 1987

The 'Ritual' of S. Mark' s, being a familiar explanation of that church, its Services, Ornaments and Furniture, by Henry Ritson, a reprint of a paper read at St. Mark's school room, 24 February 1873, printed and published by Vint & Carr, Herald Office, Sunderland, 1873

S. Mark' s Church, Millfield, Almanack , printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd., printers, 5-6 Kirby Street, Hatton Gardens, London, and published at the office of The Church Monthly, 30-31 New Bridge Street, Ludgate Circus, London, 1890

Calendar depicting the nave of St. Mark's church looking towards the altar and the apse, 1955

Series of 5 articles by Arthur Ridley relating to the history of St. Mark's church, entitled 'Ridley Remembers', June - December 1977

Receipts and payments accounts of St. Mark's bazaar, 1952 - 1977

Income and expenditure accounts of St. Mark's Bazaar, 1978 - 1991