Bishop Auckland Methodist Circuit
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- Bishop Auckland Methodist Circuit
- Bishop Auckland Primitive Methodist Circuit. (Ref: M/BA 1-2)
- Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BA 3-37)
- West Auckland Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BA 46-47)
- Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Day School, Russell Street (Ref: M/BA 72)
- Bishop Auckland United Methodist Free Church, Bishop Auckland South Road United Methodist Free Church and Bishop Auckland Newgate St. Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 79)
- Evenwood Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 83-84)
- Toft Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 87)
- Town Head Wesleyan Methodist Mission Church (Ref: M/BA 88-89)
- Witton Park Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 96-97)
- Miscellaneous (Ref: M/BA 98-101)
- Bishop Auckland Methodist Circuit(Second Deposit) (Ref: M/BA 102-104)
- Bishop Auckland Methodist Circuit(Third Deposit) (Ref: M/BA 105-108)
- Bishop Auckland Central Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BA 153-157)
- Bishop Auckland Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BA 191-192)
- Binchester Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 198-200)
- Bishop Auckland, South Road United Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 217)
- Bishop Auckland Tenters Street Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 218-220)
- Bishop Auckland Wesley Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 221-225)
- Butterknowle Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 226)
- Cockton Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 227)
- Escomb Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 230)
- South Church Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 261-263)
- West Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 272)
- Witton le Wear Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 277)
- Miscellaneous (Ref: M/BA 280-290)
Catalogue Description
Bishop Auckland Methodist CircuitCatalogue Contents
Bishop Auckland Primitive Methodist Circuit. (Ref: M/BA 1-2)Ref: M/BA 1
Baptisms register, 1859 - 1876
Pasted in the front is a certificate authorising public worship to take place in the Primitive Methodist Chapel in 'the Backway in Bishop Auckland', 19 January, 1861
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 2Baptisms register, 1876 - 1888
(1 volume)
Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BA 3-37)Ref: M/BA 3Baptisms register, 1838 - 1852
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 4Baptisms register, 1852 - 1856
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 5Baptisms register, 1856 - 1860
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 6Baptisms register, 1859 - 1884
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 7Baptisms register, 1884 - 1898
(1 volume).
Ref: M/BA 8Baptisms register, 1899 - 1912
(1 volume).
Ref: M/BA 9Baptisms register, 1912 - 1931
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 10Baptisms register, 1893 - 1902
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 11Baptisms register for baptisms at West Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1893 - 1901 and 1910, and Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1902 - 1910
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 12Baptisms register, 1910 - 1921
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 13Circuit plans, August 1873 - January 1874, May - October 1874, August 1880 - October 1887
(1 bundle)
Ref: M/BA 14Circuit schedules, 1839 - 1846, with details of collections, 1847
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 15Circuit schedules, 1847 - 1864, with details of collections to 1866
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 16Circuit schedules, 1865 - 1870
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 17Circuit schedules, 1870 - 1878
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 18Circuit schedules, 1882 - 1897
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 19Circuit schedules, 1897 - 1912
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 20Circuit schedules, 1912 - 1926
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 21Property schedules, 1855 - 1886
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 22Property schedules, 1887 - 1899
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 23Property schedules, 1900 - 1918
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 24Day and Sunday School schedules, 1869 - 1905
(1 bundle)
Ref: M/BA 25Temperance schedules, 1907 - 1909
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 26Temperance schedules (fragmentary), 1894, 1895
(2 papers)
Ref: M/BA 27Quarterly Meetings minutes, 1887 - 1906
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 28Quarterly Meetings minutes, 1916 - 1934
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 30Local Preachers' meetings minutes, 1917 - 1944
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 31-34Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society accounts, 1906 - 1936
(4 volumes)
Ref: M/BA 35-36Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Circuit Messenger. A monthly journal of local Methodist news and religious literature, January and December, 1889, contains The British Messenger Nos. 1 & 12 respectively
(2 volumes)
Ref: M/BA 37Bishop Auckland and the Shildons Wesleyan Methodist Church Messenger, July 1918
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 29~Local Preachers' meetings minutes, 1863 - 1885
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 38)Bishop Auckland Central Methodist Circuit
(Bishop Auckland Primitive Methodist Circuit before 1932)
Baptisms register, 1912 - 1936
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 39-45)Bishop Auckland Wesley Methodist Circuit
(Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Circuit before 1932)
Baptisms register, 1884 - 1946
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 40Baptisms register, 1931 - 1954
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 41Quarterly Meetings minutes, 1934 - 1955
Includes financial statements with related papers infolded
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 42Local Preachers' meetings minutes, 1944 - 1955
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 43Accounts for preachers' and local preachers' travelling expenses, 1893 - 1949
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 44Methodist Missionary Society accounts, 1937 - 1945
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 45Performing Rights Society licence allowing copyright music to be performed in all churches in the circuit, 4 April, 1929
(1 paper)
West Auckland Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BA 46-47)Ref: M/BA 46Quarterly Meetings minutes, 1950 - 1955
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 47Register of documents in the circuit safe, 1869 - 1953, and minutes of the Yearly Trustees' Meeting of an unspecified church, 1922 [? Bildershaw, as the book is endorsed 'Bildershaw old minute books']
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 48)Bishop Auckland Methodist Circuit
Formed in 1955 by the amalgamation of the Bishop Auckland Central, Bishop Auckland Wesley and West Auckland Methodist Circuits
Baptisms register, 1921 - 1962
Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Circuit until 1932, Bishop Auckland Wesley Methodist Circuit, 1932 - 1955, Bishop Auckland Methodist Circuit from 1955
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 49-71)Individual Churches
Bildershaw Methodist Church
See under West Auckland Methodist Circuit
Bishop Auckland Bondgate Methodist Church
Formerly Wesleyan Methodist and in Brougham Place
Leaders' meetings minutes, 1865 - 1888
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 50Leaders' meetings minutes, 1889 - 1917, with related papers infolded
Also includes an appeal from the officers of Whitby & Darlington District for subscriptions towards providing for Wesleyan Methodist soldiers stationed at Catterick Camp, 7 July, 1917
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 51Trustees' meetings minutes, 1877 - 1918
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 52Trustees' meetings minutes, 1918 - 1947
Includes minutes of meetings of Russell Street School trustees, minutes of the Wesley and Gaunless Bank manses and manses trusts accounts
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 53-55Pew rent accounts, 1886 - 1940
M/BA 53 includes general cash accounts, 1886 - 1901
(3 volumes)
Ref: M/BA 56Adult Bible Class, lists of prizes, 1895 - 1899
Infolded are blank attendance cards 1900 - 1902 and 1906 - 1907 (3 cards), an attendance card for Mrs. Gunnell, Thompson's Cottages, 1906 - 1907, and bookplates for prizes for the half-year ending November 1898, all of which are blank except for a bookplate for a First Grade Prize for Jennie Stracken
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 57-59Collection journals, 1878 - 1889, 1917 - 1928
(3 volumes)
Ref: M/BA 60Plan of the church, surveyed by John Ross, architect, Darlington, 2 May 1864
Scales 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96] and 1 foot to 1 inch [1:12]
(1 plan)
Ref: M/BA 61Plan of the church and schools with a plan of the gallery pasted on, by Gordon & Gunton, architects, Finsbury House, Blomfield Street, London E.C., April 1912
Scale: 10 feet to 1 inch [1:120]
(1 plan)
Ref: M/BA 62'Plan and elevation of Mr. Swale's property facing north elevation of church', August 1913 (Rough plan only)
Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]
(1 plan)
Ref: M/BA 63Plan showing discharge of rainwater into a drain on adjoining property
Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]
Endorsed: 'Trustees copy 11 August 1913. H. Fawcett' (Clerk of the Works)
(1 plan)
Ref: M/BA 64Plan showing water main as laid on 14 November 1913
Endorsed: 28 November 1913
(1 plan)
Ref: M/BA 65Rough (pencil) ground plan of the church, n.d.
(1 plan)
Ref: M/BA 66Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Bazaar. Favourite Quotations, March 1908
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 67Brochure for Grand Forest Bazaar in aid of the New Church Building Fund, 4 - 6 March, 1913
(1 pamphlet)
Ref: M/BA 68Newscuttings showing:
(1) Wesley Church, Bishop Auckland, n.d.
(2) Rev. Charles Close M.C. (photograph), n.d.
(3) Mr. Chadwick (photograph), n.d
(4) The removal of Rev. W. H. Campbell (formerly of the Bishop Auckland Primitive Methodist Circuit) to Birmingham, n.d., c.1938 (includes photograph)
Cuttings from printed works (unspecified)
(5) (a) Rev. B. Dewhurst (photograph)
(b) Message of greeting (fragmentary, but with photograph) from the Rev. Harold Strawbridge
(1 paper)
Ref: M/BA 69-70Cuttings from the Auckland Chronicle, n.d. and the Evening Gazette 22 June 1964, showing the minister, the Rev. W. Thompson, with some of the officials and guests at the jubilee reunion
(2 papers)
Ref: M/BA 71Handbill advertising the laying of the foundation stone of the Day and Sunday School and a Public Tea and Public Meeting following it, 29 June, 1858
(1 paper)
Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Day School, Russell Street (Ref: M/BA 72)Ref: M/BA 72Minutes of Committee, Trustees' Committee and Trustees and Public meetings, 1857 - 1909, 1913; Public Meetings minutes 1857 - 1862 only; Principally contain reports on the school
Includes:
(1) An engraving of the school by W. Bevan, York, n.d. (2 copies)
(2) Handbill advertising a Public Meeting, 30 October 1857, 'to communicate information respecting the Educational Plans and Prospects of the Wesleyan Methodists in this town and neighbourhood, and to raise subscriptions towards the erection of a Day School at the head of Tenters' Street'
(3) 'Subscription list for Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Day School', n.d., c.1857
(4) Works and music to be sung by the Sunday School children of the circuit at the foundation stone laying, 29 June 1858
(5) Subscription list and accounts, 1859
(6) Photographs of various school officials interspersed in the volume
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 73)Bishop Auckland Newgate Methodist Church
See M/DA 79
Bishop Auckland Peel Street, Wesleyan Methodist Mission
Committee meetings minutes, 1890 - 1895
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 74)Bishop Auckland South Road Methodist Church
(formerly United Methodist, and, before 1907, United Methodist Free Church)
Trustees meetings minutes, 1906 - 1934, with related papers infolded
See also M/DA 79
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 75-78)Bishop Auckland United Methodist Free Church
See M/DA 79
Bishop Auckland West Terrace Wesleyan Methodist Mission Hall
Collections journal, 1909 - 1912
Includes list of Peel Street Society Stewards, 1884, 1886, 1899 - 1910
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 76-78Accounts, 1896 - 1912
(3 volumes)
Bishop Auckland United Methodist Free Church, Bishop Auckland South Road United Methodist Free Church and Bishop Auckland Newgate St. Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 79)Ref: M/BA 79Baptisms register
(1) Bishop Auckland United Methodist Free Church, 1876 - 1904
(2) Bishop Auckland, South Road United Methodist Free Church, 1905 - 1935
(3) Bishop Auckland, Newgate Methodist Church, 1934 - 1938
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 80)Escomb Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
Pew rent accounts, 1858 - 1880, and general cash accounts, 1857 - 1881
Includes: some of the accounts of expenses incurred in building and opening the church; an account of 'subscriptions towards a given tea on the laying of the foundation stone of Wesleyan Sabbath School, Escomb, n.d.; brief accounts, mainly for 'Mr. Marsden's expenses', 1861 - 1874, and accounts and related papers, 1881 - 1904
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 81-82)Etherley Methodist Church
Formerly Wesleyan Methodist
Trustees? meetings minutes, 1866 - 1939
Includes draft minutes for the yearly trustees' meeting, March 1904, and trustees' attendance register, 1867 with related papers infolded. Pasted in the front is a handbill announcing a Tea Meeting, 27 July, 1861, the opening services in the church, 28 July, 1861 and the service on 4 August, 1861
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 82Pew rent accounts, 1861 - 1925, and general cash accounts, 1861 - 1937
At the front of the book are names of trustees, 1861 and 1878
(1 volume)
Evenwood Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 83-84)Ref: M/BA 83Trustees' meetings minutes, 1906 - 1953
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 84Pew rent accounts and general cash accounts, 1854 - 1906
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 85)Lands Methodist Church
Formerly Wesleyan Methodist
Trustees' meetings minutes, 1907 - 1951, with related papers infolded
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 86)Leasingthorne Methodist Church
Formerly United Methodist
Baptisms register, 1908 - 1926
(1 volume)
Toft Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 87)Ref: M/BA 87Sunday School attendance register, c.1849 - c.1852
Includes copies of yearly reports (statistics only), 1841, 1847 and 1849; names of Superintendents 1840 - 1843; lists of payments by scholars for books 1846 - c.1847; and minutes of Sunday School teachers meeting, 12 October 1844, passing a resolution allowing members of the Society to use the Sunday School library books
(1 volume)
Town Head Wesleyan Methodist Mission Church (Ref: M/BA 88-89)Ref: M/BA 88Sunday School teachers' meetings minutes, 1874 - 1877
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 89Accounts, 1888 - 1937
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 90-95)West Auckland Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
Trustees' meetings minutes, 1891 - 1933
Includes accounts, with related papers infolded
(1 volume)
Ref: M/BA 91-92Accounts, 1857 - 1937, with related papers infolded
Included in M/BA 91 are the minutes of a Committee meeting, 5 September 1859, convened to thank the owners of the West Auckland Colliery for their donation to the funds being raised for repairing and painting the church with details of trustees, 24 February 1863, and 5 April 1864
(2 volumes)
Ref: M/BA 93-94Collection journals, 1901 - 1911, 1928 - 1939
(2 volumes)
Ref: M/BA 95Sunday School attendance register (statistics only), states who opened and concluded the school and any remarks connected with the school each Sunday, e.g. bad weather, a special lecturer etc., 1842 - 1850
Includes minutes of Sunday School Teachers' meetings, n.d. and 6 December 1842
(1 volume)
Witton Park Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 96-97)Ref: M/BA 96Volume containing: -
(1) Pew rent accounts, 1855 - 1860
(2) Trustees' and Committee meetings minutes, 1855 - 1892, with minutes of Leaders' meeting, 20 December 1892. The earlier minutes, which also include general notes and minutes of a Society Meeting, 15 July 1857, concern the building of the church
(3) Accounts 1855 - 1860, includes details of the issue of collecting cards for the new church, 1859 - 1860, and Sunday School accounts, n.d., c.1869
Ref: M/BA 97Sunday School subscription list and accounts, 1869 - 1871, foundation stone was laid 20 December 1869 and the School opened 14 November 1870
(1 volume)
Miscellaneous (Ref: M/BA 98-101)Ref: M/BA 98-101Copies of baptismal entries relating to the Crook, Willington, Sunnybrow and Byers Green areas from the Bishop Auckland Primitive Methodist Circuit registers, 1877 - 1927. The transcriber's name is not given but M/BA 100 is endorsed 'Baptismal Register from the late Henry Custes...' M/BA 99 also contains miscellaneous accounts not obviously connected with Methodism
(4 volumes)
Bishop Auckland Methodist Circuit(Second Deposit) (Ref: M/BA 102-104)Ref: M/BA 102Directory and Plan of Services (No. 35), May 1964
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: M/BA 103Directory and Plan of Services (No. 36), August 1964
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: M/BA 104Directory and Plan of Services (No. 89), 16 October 1977
(1 booklet, printed)
Bishop Auckland Methodist Circuit(Third Deposit) (Ref: M/BA 105-108)Ref: M/BA 105Plan and directory, 15 October 1978 - 7 January 1979
(1 booklet, paper)
Ref: M/BA 106Plan and directory, 14 January - 8 April 1979
(1 booklet, paper)
Ref: M/BA 107Plan and directory, 15 April - 8 July 1979
(1 booklet, paper)
Ref: M/BA 108Plan and directory, 15 July - 7 October 1979
(1 booklet, paper)
(Ref: M/BA 109-152)BISHOP AUCKLAND METHODIST CIRCUIT(Fourth Deposit)
Bishop Auckland Primitive Methodist Circuit
(after 1932 see Bishop Auckland Central Methodist Circuit)
Register of baptisms, 18 October 1888 - 1 February 1906
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: M/BA 110Register of baptisms, 12 August 1907 - 11 November 1945
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: M/BA 111Minutes of quarterly meetings, 5 December 1871 - 5 December 1888
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 112Minutes of quarterly meetings, 2 March 1889 - 19 October 1895
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 113Minutes of quarterly meetings, 30 November 1895 - 2 December 1905
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 114Minutes of quarterly meetings, 3 March 1906 - 1 March 1913
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 115Minutes of quarterly meetings, 28 May 1913 - 2 June 1923
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 116Minutes of quarterly meetings, 1 September 1923 - 8 December 1937
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 117Quarterly account book, 13 March 1872 - 2 June 1894
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: M/BA 118Quarterly account book, 25 August 1894 - September 1915
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: M/BA 119Quarterly account book, December 1915 - 12 December 1934
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: M/BA 120Quarterly account book, 4 June 1892 - March 1912
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: M/BA 121Quarterly account book, September 1912 - September 1930
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: M/BA 122Accounts of individual chapels in the circuit, 1902 - 1936
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 123Annual station report forms, Sunday School reports and chapel schedules, 1871 - 1878
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 124Annual station report forms, Sunday School reports and chapel schedules, 1880 - 1889
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 125Annual station report forms, Sunday School reports and chapel schedules, 1890 - 1899
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: M/BA 126Annual station report forms, Sunday School reports, chapel schedules etc., 1900 - 1910
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 127Annual station report forms, Sunday School reports, chapel schedules and statistical returns, 1911 - 1920
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 128-149Annual station report forms and statistical returns, 1921 - 1932
(22 files)
Ref: M/BA 150Home and foreign missionary account books, 1892 - 1901
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 151African Fund account book, 24 February 1902 - 8 February 1916
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 152New Minister's House Fund account book, 1898 - 1923
(1 volume, card bound)
Bishop Auckland Central Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BA 153-157)Ref: M/BA 153Minutes of quarterly meetings etc., 9 March 1938 - 3 December 1952
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 154Minutes of quarterly meetings etc., 4 March 1953 - 1 June 1955
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 155Quarterly account book, December 1930 - March 1948
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 156Circuit stewards' account book for the Central Circuit, 1947 - 1955 and for the new Bishop Auckland Circuit, 1955 - 1957
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 157Schedules of Methodist trust property, endowments etc., 1934 - 1954
(1 volume, paper cover)
(Ref: M/BA 158-168)Bishop Auckland United Methodist Circuit
(formerly United Methodist Free Church and later Bishop Auckland Newgate Methodist Circuit)
Minutes of quarterly meetings for the west side of the Darlington Circuit, 14 September 1885 - 4 June 1892
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 159Minutes of quarterly meetings, 3 September 1892 - 27 August 1938
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 160Minutes of local preachers' meetings, 26 May 1906 - 13 March 1926
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 161Membership register, May 1876 - December 1878
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 162Membership register, 1 March 1892 - March 1895
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 163Accounts including those for the Bishop Auckland section of the Darlington Circuit, 1886 - 1903
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 164Quarterly account book, 1904 - 1926
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 165Quarterly account book, 1927 - 1938
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 166Annual Circuit trust schedules and statistical returns, 1911 - 1918
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 167Annual Circuit trust schedules and statistical returns, 1919 - 1927
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 168Annual Circuit trust schedules and statistical returns, 1928 - 1930
(1 volume, paper cover)
(Ref: M/BA 169-168)Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Circuit
(from 1932 Bishop Auckland Wesley Methodist Circuit)
Membership register, 1 March 1892 - March 1895
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 163Accounts including those for the Bishop Auckland section of the Darlington Circuit, 1886 - 1903
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 164Quarterly account book, 1904 - 1926
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 165Quarterly account book, 1927 - 1938
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 166Annual Circuit trust schedules and statistical returns, 1911 - 1918
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 167Annual Circuit trust schedules and statistical returns, 1919 - 1927
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 168Annual Circuit trust schedules and statistical returns, 1928 - 1930
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 169Minutes of General Purposes Committee, 22 November 1952 - 13 May 1955
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 169Minutes of General Purposes Committee, 22 November 1952 - 13 May 1955
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 170Minutes of General Purposes Committee and of trustees of the Bishop Auckland Circuit, 1 October 1954 - 23 August 1961
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 170Minutes of General Purposes Committee and of trustees of the Bishop Auckland Circuit, 1 October 1954 - 23 August 1961
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 171Quarterly account book, 1878 - 6 June 1909
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 171Quarterly account book, 1878 - 6 June 1909
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 172Quarterly account book, 15 September 1909 - September 1955
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 172Quarterly account book, 15 September 1909 - September 1955
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 173Annual Circuit trust schedules and statistical returns, 1918 - 1938
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 174Quarterly circuit schedules and statistical returns, June 1926 - June 1954
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 175Minutes of the Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Sunday School Union, 12 June 1882 - 30 May 1894
(1 volume, paper cover)
(Ref: M/BA 176-190)West Auckland Primitive Methodist Circuit
(also known as St. Helen's Auckland Primitive Methodist Circuit)
Register of baptisms, 19 July 1858 - 19 June 1872
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: M/BA 177Register of baptisms, 15 November 1871 - 23 July 1890
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: M/BA 178Register of baptisms, 20 August 1890 - 18 December 1909
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: M/BA 179Register of baptisms, 26 December 1909 - 14 June 1922
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: M/BA 180Register of baptisms, 30 April 1919 - 22 August 1947
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 181Minutes of quarterly meetings, March 1887 - 5 December 1903
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 182Minutes of quarterly meetings, 12 March 1904 - 28 May 1921
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 183Minutes of quarterly meetings, 27 August 1921 - 23 March 1935
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 184Minutes of quarterly meetings, 22 June 1935 - 10 September 1949
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 185Quarterly account book, St. Helen's Auckland Circuit, 7 December 1861 - 1 March 1884
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: M/BA 186Quarterly account book, 11 June 1898 - 2 June 1917
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: M/BA 187Quarterly account book, September 1917 - 23 December 1933
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: M/BA 188Quarterly account book, 5 December 1903 - 3 June 1922
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: M/BA 189Annual circuit schedules and statistical returns, March 1934 - March 1954 (1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 190Annual 'chapel schedules, balance sheets and statistical returns for St. Helen's Auckland Station (in Darlington Circuit 1860) , 1860 - 1869
(1 volume, disbound)
Bishop Auckland Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BA 191-192)Ref: M/BA 191Minutes of local preachers' meetings, 5 September 1955 - 25 May 1964
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 192Quarterly account book, 4 September 1957 - 7 June 1967
(1 volume, cloth bound)
(Ref: M/BA 193-197)Individual Churches
Bildershaw Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Minutes of trustees' meetings, January 1938 - 22 December 1964
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 194Secretary's account book, 1941 - 1954
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 195Treasurer's account book, 1945 - 1962
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 196Minutes of Bildershaw Primitive Methodist Sunday School, 21 January 1931 - 3 October 1961
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 197Bildershaw Sabbath School secretary's account book, 1912 - 1951
(1 volume, paper cover)
Binchester Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 198-200)Ref: M/BA 198Minutes of trustees' meetings, 27 October 1899 - 2 March 1950
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 199Steward's account book, 1 January 1897 - 21 April 1943
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 200Trustees' treasurer's account book, 1915 - 1950
(1 volume, card bound)
(Ref: M/BA 201)Binchester Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Minutes of trustees' and society meetings, 15 January 1919 - 29 February 1956, with Annual accounts, 1950 - 1954
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
(Ref: M/BA 202-213)Bishop Auckland Central Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Minutes of trustees' meetings, 15 February 1932 - 23 March 1954
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 203Minutes of trustees' meetings, 17 May 1954 - 22 May 1967
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 204Minutes of quarterly leaders' meetings, 25 November 1924 - 2 December 1957
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 205Pulpit notices, 11 February 1940 - 14 February 1941
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 206Pulpit notices, 16 February 1941 - 15 December 1944
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 207Pulpit notices, 17 December 1944 - 30 December 1945
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 208Collection journal, 2 December 1923 - 18 March 1934
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 209Collection journal, 25 March 1934 - 24 September 1944
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 210Trust account book, 1911 - 1921
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 211Trustees' treasurer's account book, 1939 - 1945
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 212Account for year ending 31 December 1950
(1 paper)
Ref: M/BA 213Minutes of the Diamond Jubilee Committee, 11 July - 27 September 1963
(1 volume)
(Ref: M/BA 214-216)Bishop Auckland, Newgate Methodist Church
(formerly United Methodist)
Minutes of church meetings, 23 February 1903 - 2 March 1931
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 215Minutes of church meetings, 27 April 1931 - 30 July 1959
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 216Minutes of trustees meetings, 22 January 1935 - 4 January 1960
(1 volume, card bound)
Bishop Auckland, South Road United Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 217)Ref: M/BA 217Membership register, March 1897 - September 1930
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Bishop Auckland Tenters Street Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 218-220)Ref: M/BA 218Minutes of society meetings, 14 December 1866 - 14 January 1884
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 219Minutes of society meetings, 14 January 1884 - 7 March 1898
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 220Minutes of trustees' and society meetings, 6 October 1914 - 24 February 1942
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Bishop Auckland Wesley Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 221-225)Ref: M/BA 221Minutes of society and leaders' meetings, 9 January 1918 - 1924 January 1950
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 222Minutes of trustees' annual meetings for the above and for Russell Street Sunday School, 2 February 1948 - 13 February 1956
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 223Minutes of finance committee, 27 April 1923 - 3 July 1957
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 224Minutes of the Wesley Tennis Club, 8 June 1931 - 6 June 1946
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 225Minutes of teachers' meetings of the Russell Street Sunday School, 9 October 1893 - 23 March 1942
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Butterknowle Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 226)Ref: M/BA 226Income and expenditure accounts, 1878 - 1911 with Pew rent accounts, 1880 - 1903
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Cockton Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 227)Ref: M/BA 227Minutes of trustees' meetings, 6 March 1912 - 23 October 1961 and Trustees' minutes for Woodhouse Close Estate Methodist Church, 1959 - 1961
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
(Ref: M/BA 228-229)Coundon Gate Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Minutes of trustees' meetings, 28 January 1937 - 11 May 1959
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 229Minutes of trustees' meetings, 29 June 1959 - 16 December 1963
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Escomb Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 230)Ref: M/BA 230Trustees' treasurer's account book, 1905 - 1912
(1 file)
(Ref: M/BA 231-237)Escomb Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan)
Minutes of trustees' meetings, 29 January 1906 - 28 January 1959
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 232Minutes of trustees' meetings, 24 September 1969 - 28 January 1977
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 233Pew rent account book, 1881 - 1912
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 234Trustees' treasurer's account book, 1923 - 1972
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 235Sunday School account book, 1927 - 1976
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 236Sunday School attendance register, 1 June 1949 - December 1954
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 237Letter from Donald Insall and Associates, architects, London, regarding alterations to the church, 13 February 1973
(1 file)
(Ref: M/BA 238-239)Etherley Dene Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Minutes of trustees' meetings, 18 January 1949 - 27 June 1977
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 239Secretary's account book for the Primitive Methodist Sabbath School, January 1878 - March 1914
(1 volume, paper cover)
(Ref: M/BA 240-241)Evenwood, Brookside Methodist Church
Formerly Evenwood Primitive Methodist Church
Minutes of trustees' meetings, 21 January 1929 - 15 March 1960
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 241Treasurer's account book, 1913 - 1960
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
(Ref: M/BA 242-260)Hamsterley Methodist Church
Formerly Primitive Methodist
Minutes of trustees' meetings, 1 February 1921 - 1 September 1946
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 243Minutes of trustees' meetings, with a list of the duties of the caretaker, 13 January 1948 - 14 March 1961
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 244Pulpit notices, 8 March 1936 - 8 June 1941
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 245Collection journal, 14 September 1941 - 20 December 1953
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 246Collection journal, 6 December 1953 - 16 November 1959
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 247Treasurer's cash book, 1864 - 1916
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 248Secretary's cash book, 1887 - June 1971
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 249Choir membership and subscription book, January 1919 - March 1944
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 250Choir membership and subscription book, March 1944 - 1949
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 251Minutes of choir, 8 January 1923 - 14 February 1944
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 252Sunday School attendance register, 3 April 1904 - June 1909
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 253Sunday School attendance register, January - December 1915
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 254Sunday School attendance register, January 1916 - September 1920
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 255Sunday School attendance register, n.d. [September 1920 - December 1922]
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 256Sunday School attendance register, January 1923 - December 1928
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 257Sunday School attendance register, January 1929 - December 1934
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 258Sunday School attendance register, January 1935 - December 1940
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 259Sunday School attendance register, January 1941 - March 1951
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 260Sunday School attendance register, April 1951 - 1968
(1 volume, card bound)
South Church Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 261-263)Ref: M/BA 261Minutes of trustees' meetings, 16 March 1870 - 29 November 1898
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 262Minutes of trustees' meetings, 4 January 1899 - 1926
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 263Treasurer's account book, 1901 - 1935
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
(Ref: M/BA 264-267)Tindale Crescent Methodist Church
Formerly Primitive Methodist
Minutes of trustees' meetings, 1954 - 13 December 1972
(1 booklet)
Ref: M/BA 265Minutes of leaders' meetings, 12 January 1956 - 27 September 1971
(1 booklet)
Ref: M/BA 266Treasurer's account book, 1917 - 1935
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 267Treasurer's account book, September 1960 - September 1973
(1 volume, card bound)
(Ref: M/BA 268)Toft Hill Methodist Church
Formerly Primitive Methodist
Christian Endeavour minute book, 30 October 1946 - 18 November 1975
(1 volume, card bound)
(Ref: M/BA 269-271)Town Head Methodist Mission
Formerly Wesleyan Methodist
Minutes of trustees' meetings, 29 January 1906 - 22 February 1972
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 270Minutes of leaders' and society meetings, 16 April 1953 - 26 September 1968
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 271Treasurer's account book, 1953 - 1968
(1 volume, card bound)
West Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 272)Ref: M/BA 272Minutes of trustees' meetings, 12 February 1935 - 8 November 1976
(1 volume, cloth bound)
(Ref: M/BA 273-276)Westerton Methodist Church
Formerly Wesleyan Methodist
Treasurer's account book, 1887 - 1961
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 274Treasurer's account book, 1961 - 1979
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 275Collection journal, 12 August 1973 - 31 December 1978
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 276Minutes of trustees' meetings, January 1955 - 23 February 1979; Minutes of Sunday School council meetings, 3 - 5 July 1938 and Trust Accounts, 1954
(1 volume, card bound)
Witton le Wear Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/BA 277)Ref: M/BA 277Minutes of trustees' meetings, 21 June 1883 - 3 May 1899
(1 volume, paper cover)
(Ref: M/BA 278)Witton Park Methodist Church
Formerly Wesleyan Methodist
Minutes of trustees' meetings, 10 March 1923 - 26 February 1925
(1 volume, cloth bound)
(Ref: M/BA 279)Woodland New School
Formerly Primitive Methodist
Minutes of trustees' meetings, 3 May 1902 - 8 January 1951
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Miscellaneous (Ref: M/BA 280-290)Ref: M/BA 280Secretary's account book for the Darlington and Stockton on Tees District Missionary Committee's African Fund, 1891 - 1919
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 281Minutes of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches, Stanley and District Council, 18 October 1897 - 12 July 1919
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 282Bishop Auckland, Shildon and New Shildon Wesleyan Methodist Church Record and the Wesleyan [Methodist Church Pulpit ?], 1887
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 283Proposed scheme for circuit amalgamations in S.W. Durham, 1953
(1 paper)
Ref: M/BA 284Missionary account book, January 1872 - March 1881
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 285Circuit account and offertory book, 9 October 1881 - 9 January 1897
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: M/BA 286Minutes of trustees' and society meetings, 28 January 1916 - 26 November 1929, and accounts, 1914 - 1929
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 287Treasurer's account book, 1917 - 1939
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: M/BA 288Chapel Aid loan repayments, 1921 - 1927, income and payments accounts, 1933 - 1942
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: M/BA 289Minutes of trustees' meetings, January 1919 - 3 September 1961, and accounts, 1920 - 1952 [Station Road?]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: M/BA 290Subscriptions for connexional orphanage, 1894 - 1918
(1 volume, paper cover)
