Barnard Castle Congregational Church
Reference: C/BC Catalogue Title: Barnard Castle Congregational Church Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1806-1959
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- Barnard Castle Congregational Church
- Barnard Castle Congregational Church (Ref: C/BC )
- Registration (Ref: C/BC section 01)
- Registers of baptisms (Ref: C/BC 1)
- Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (Ref: C/BC 2)
- Membership (Ref: C/BC section 02)
- Minutes (Ref: C/BC section 03)
- Deacons' meetings (Ref: C/BC 3-6)
- Church meetings (Ref: C/BC 7-8)
- Building Committee and Trustees meetings (Ref: C/BC 9)
- Bazaar, Entertainments, Sale of Work Committees etc (Ref: C/BC 10)
- Guild (Ref: C/BC 19)
- Financial records (Ref: C/BC section 04)
- Accounts (Ref: C/BC 11-15)
- Bank books (Ref: C/BC 16)
- Offertory books (Ref: C/BC 17)
- Receipts and payments (Ref: C/BC 18)
- Church buildings and property (Ref: C/BC section 05)
- Correspondence (Ref: C/BC section 06)
- Photographs and drawings (Ref: C/BC section 07)
- Sunday School (Ref: C/BC section 08)
- Miscellaneous (Ref: C/BC section 09)
- Church engagements (Ref: C/BC 28-33)
- Church history (Ref: C/BC 36)
- Church magazines (Ref: C/BC 37)
- Church services (Ref: C/BC 38-39, 44-45)
Catalogue Contents
Barnard Castle Congregational Church (Ref: C/BC )Registration (Ref: C/BC section 01)Registers of baptisms (Ref: C/BC 1)Ref: C/BC 1
Register of baptisms, 1806 - 1856
(1 volume)
Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (Ref: C/BC 2)Ref: C/BC 2Volume containing:
(1) Historical account of the church to 1867
(2) Church Meetings minutes, 1856 - 1899
(3) Details of collections, 1858, 1900
(4) Roll of members (from c. 1819 onwards), 1856 - 1871
(5) Register of marriages, 1857 - 1892
(6) Register of baptisms, 1856 - 1908
(7) Register of burials, 1855 -1900
(1 volume)
Membership (Ref: C/BC section 02)26-27
See also C/BC 2
Communion attendance register, names only, 1906 - 1954
(1 volume)
Ref: C/BC 27List of church members, names and addresses, n.d. (c.1926 - 1930)
(1 volume)
Minutes (Ref: C/BC section 03)Deacons' meetings (Ref: C/BC 3-6)Ref: C/BC 3Deacons' Meetings minutes, 1890 - 1910
(1 volume)
Ref: C/BC 4Deacons' Meetings minutes, 1910 - 1913
(1 volume)
Ref: C/BC 5Deacons' Meetings minutes, 1914 - 1917
(1 volume)
Ref: C/BC 6Deacons' Meetings minutes, 1918 - 1948
(1 volume)
Church meetings (Ref: C/BC 7-8)See also C/BC 2
Ref: C/BC 7Church Meetings minutes, 1900 - 1914
(1 volume)
Ref: C/BC 8Church Meetings minutes, 1915 - 1926
Related papers infolded include Church Manual, 1893; Miscellaneous Reminiscences of the Independent Sabbath School, Barnard Castle read by Mr. Winpenny at the Public Meeting, 18 August 1853, held in connection with the Jubilee celebrations; and (MS.) Some account of the church at Barnard Castle read by Mr. F. Winpenny at the Jubilee Meeting, 1 April 1887. Also infolded is an order of service at the induction of the Rev. H. Marsden to the Pastorate and of his colleagues Mrs. M. Snowball and Mr. G. Foster, 22 April 1926
(1 volume)
Building Committee and Trustees meetings (Ref: C/BC 9)Ref: C/BC 9Building Committee and Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1908 - 1939
Includes a Short Account of Congregationalism in Barnard Castle 1911, with accounts 1936 and 1939 infolded
(1 volume)
Bazaar, Entertainments, Sale of Work Committees etc (Ref: C/BC 10)Ref: C/BC 10Bazaar, Entertainments, Sale of Work Committees etc., minutes and related papers, 1882 - 1935
Includes bazaar handbills and programmes, 1846 - 1941, with a Miscellaneous note re the First Bazaar in 1832
(1 bundle)
Guild (Ref: C/BC 19)Ref: C/BC 19Guild Meetings minutes, 1908 - 1915
(1 volume)
Financial records (Ref: C/BC section 04)See also C/BC 2
Accounts (Ref: C/BC 11-15)Ref: C/BC 11Accounts, 1819 - 1900
Includes also reports of visitors to poor and sick persons in Barnard Castle and area, with details of relief paid, 1820 - 1821
(1 volume)
Ref: C/BC 12-13Accounts, 1837 - 1927, with related papers infolded
(2 volumes)
Ref: C/BC 14Accounts, 1927 - 1950
(1 volume)
Ref: C/BC 15Accounts, mainly details of collections, 1948 - 1951
(1 volume)
Bank books (Ref: C/BC 16)Ref: C/BC 16Bank book, 1926 - 1936
(1 volume)
Offertory books (Ref: C/BC 17)Ref: C/BC 17Offertory book, 1937 - 1943
(1 volume)
Receipts and payments (Ref: C/BC 18)Ref: C/BC 18Receipts and payments book, 1954 - 1958
(1 volume)
Church buildings and property (Ref: C/BC section 05)40-41, 43
see also C/BC 34-35
Plans of the church and schools, 1905
(1 bundle)
Ref: C/BC 41Photographic blocks and photographs of the church in Newgate, the present church and ministers, n.d.
(1 box)
Ref: C/BC 43Photographs of the interior and exterior of the church and hall taken on the occasion of the broadcast service, 9 December 1956
(1 bundle)
Correspondence (Ref: C/BC section 06)34-35
Ref: C/BC 34-35Correspondence files, 1949 - 1951
Include Church Manuals, 1891, 1892, 1894; plan showing additions and alterations to the church 1949; plans (2) showing alterations to 12 Hall Street, Barnard Castle, n.d.; order of service at the inductions to the Pastorate of the Rev. S. Leon Cook, 21 September, 1950, and of the Rev. H. A. Bennett, 5 May, 1951
(2 files)
Photographs and drawings (Ref: C/BC section 07)42, 46/1-4
Ref: C/BC 42Photographs of the Rev. Prattman, the Rev. Harrison and Edward Raine, carpet manufacturer, Bridgegate, Barnard Castle, Superintendent of the Sunday School, n.d., and water-colour portrait of J. Williams, n.d.
Rev. W. L. Prattman, who was ordained in 1769, divided his time between the Cotherstone and Barnard Castle churches. His son erected, at his own expense, the original church in Newgate Street which was opened on 10 June 1813
(1 bundle)
Ref: C/BC 46/1Portrait drawing of Rev. Thomas Hamer, New Zealand, 1894
Minister of Barnard Castle Congregational Church, 1844-1848
Dental science, grammar and composition class, 1894
Artist: Goodchild from Redcar
(1 drawing, 37 cm x 47 cm, cardboard)
Ref: C/BC 46/2Copy drawing of Robert Raikes statue from Victoria Embankment Gardens in London, n.d. [19th C.]
Sunday Schools founder in 1780
(1 drawing, 28 cm x 56 cm, cardboard)
Ref: C/BC 46/3Portrait drawing of an unknown woman, n.d. [19th C.]
(1 drawing, 48 cm x 48 cm, cardboard)
Ref: C/BC 46/4Portrait painting of Rev. William Darwent, minister of Barnard Castle Congregational Church in 1855-1870, 1904
(1 painting, 41 cm x 51 cm, oil on canvas)
Sunday School (Ref: C/BC section 08)20-25
See also C/BC 8
Sunday School Teachers' Meetings minutes, 1897 - 1926
(2 volumes)
Ref: C/BC 22Record Book of Special Events of the Sunday School, 1922 - 1947 (Sunday School Teachers' Meetings minutes only from 1932)
Includes accounts, 1935, infolded is a miscellaneous invitation in verse to the Church's Jubilee Bazaar, 1889
(1 volume)
Ref: C/BC 23Sunday School centenary booklet, 1903
(1 booklet)
Ref: C/BC 24Sunday School Anniversary, hymn sheets, handbills etc., 1827 - 1912
(1 bundle)
Ref: C/BC 25Jubilee Hymns intended to be sung at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Independent Sabbath School, Barnard Castle, August 1853
(1 booklet)
Miscellaneous (Ref: C/BC section 09)Church engagements (Ref: C/BC 28-33)Ref: C/BC 28-33Church engagement books, 1953 - 1958
(6 volumes)
Church history (Ref: C/BC 36)See also C/BC 2, 8, 9
Ref: C/BC 36Miscellaneous account of the history of the church up to January 1892, belonging to the Winpenny family of Barnard Castle, n.d.
Includes a printed account of the introduction of Nonconformity into Barnard Castle read at the ordination service of the Rev. Samuel Jackson, 19 June 1828
(1 volume)
Church magazines (Ref: C/BC 37)Ref: C/BC 37Church magazines, December 1951 - February 1959
(1 bundle)
Church services (Ref: C/BC 38-39, 44-45)See also C/BC 8, 34-35
Ref: C/BC 38Hymns to be Sung at the Jubilee Services of the Congregational Chapel, Barnard Castle, April 1887 (2 copies)
(2 booklets)
Ref: C/BC 39Posters advertising church services and functions, 1845 - 1941
(1 bundle)
Ref: C/BC 44Tape recording of service broadcast from the church, 9 December 1956
(1 magnetic tape)
Ref: C/BC 45Barnard Castle & District Congregational Churches Preachers' Plan, June - August 1945 (Barnard Castle, Staindrop, Evenwood, Cockfield and Gainford Churches)
(1 paper)
