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Cockfield Congregational Church

Reference: C/Coc Catalogue Title: Cockfield Congregational Church Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1876-1980

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Cockfield Congregational Church (Ref: C/Coc )Baptisms (Ref: C/Coc 1-2)

Register of baptisms, 13 November 1927 - 15 May 1977
(1 volume, card quarter-bound)


Baptism certificate book, 8 March 1970 - 28 September 1975
(1 volume, card)

Membership (Ref: C/Coc 3)

Roll of church members, 17 April 1876 - January 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Minutes of Church meetings (Ref: C/Coc 4-5)

Church meeting minute book, 7 February 1935 - 31 August 1971 For enclosures see: C/Coc 17-19
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Church meetings minute book, 3 February 1972 - 18 May 1978 For enclosures see: C/Coc 8, 20
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Financial records (Ref: C/Coc 6-9)

Account book, July 1947 - June 1967
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Account book, July 1967 - June 1978 For enclosures see: C/Coc 10-16
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Annual returns from Cockfield United Reformed Church to Central Church, 1975 - 1978 Originally enclosed in C/Coc 5
(4 papers, printed)


Congregational Insurance Company Ltd., Church Collective Policy, 6 October 1966, with renewals 1970 and 1977
(1 booklet)

Registration of church for worship and for solemnization of marriages (Ref: C/Coc 10-11)

Certificates of registration of building as suitable for worship, 8 May 1900 Originally enclosed in C/Coc 7
(1 paper, printed)


Certificate of registration of building as suitable for the solemnising of marriages, 24 May 1901 Originally enclosed in C/Coc 7
(parchment, 1 membrane)

Records re closure of the church, June 1978 (Ref: C/Coc 12-14, 16)

Notice of disuse of certified place of meeting for religious worship, n.d. [c.1978] Originally enclosed in C/Coc 7
(1 paper)


Note from minutes concerning the closure of the church, 26 June 1978 Originally enclosed in C/Coc 7
(1 paper, typescript)


Correspondence with legal advisers concerning the sale of the church building, 20 June 1978 - 30 January 1980 Originally enclosed in C/Coc 7
(11 papers, typescript)


Correspondence concerning redundant church premises, 10 - 17 June 1978 Originally enclosed in C/Coc 7
(3 papers, typescript)

Miscellaneous (Ref: C/Coc 15, 20-21)

List of stints, 12 January 1976 Originally enclosed in C/Coc 7
(1 paper, typescript)


Province, the newsletter of U.R.C. Churches in the Northern Province, May 1978 Originally enclosed in C/Coc 5
(1 paper, typescript)


Final information sheet for Synod Day, Durham, 2 July 1978 Originally enclosed in C/Coc 5
(1 paper)

Correspondence (Ref: C/Coc 17-19)

Letter from G.R. Hodgson tendering his resignation, n.d. Originally enclosed in C/Coc 4
(1 paper)


Letter from Secretary of Durham and Northumberland Congregational Union to Mrs. Snowball concerning her right of way and the maintenance of the road in front of the church, 21 May 1931 Originally enclosed in C/Coc 4
(1 paper, typescript)


Correspondence with the Ministry of Labour and H.M. Office of Works, Leeds concerning the use of the building, 21 July 1932 - 27 April 1936 Originally enclosed in C/Coc 4
(6 papers, typescript)