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Register of baptisms, 6 April 1589 - 12 November 1655; marriages, 6 May 1599 - 1 [October] 1645; burials, 27 October 1598 - 1 August 1654

Register of baptisms, 11 August 1661 - 22 January 1765; marriages, 4 July 1661 - 23 May 1754; burials, 20 April 1667 - 20 February 1763 At beginning: list of baptisms of family of Robinson, 1624 - 1655

Register of baptisms, 13 April 1763 - 6 December 1812; burials, 28 January 1763 - 15 May 1812

Register of baptisms, 9 July 1813 - 7 April 1991

Register of baptisms, 21 March 1999 - 29 August 2004

Register of banns and marriages, 21 April 1754 - 13 May 1812

Register of marriages, 25 October 1813 - 27 May 1837

Register of marriages, 19 November 1839 - 1 October 1988

Register of marriages, 25 May 1992 - 10 September 1994 This register was closed by the Superintendent Registrar, 24 June 2008

Register of banns of marriage, 2 May 1824 - 27 August 1972

Register of burials, 22 February 1813 - 17 February 1993

Register of burials, 17 October 1997 - 14 January 2009 Church now closed

Index of the Rokeby parish registers, ante c. 1812

Licences for the solemnisation of marriage at Brignall without publication of banns, 9 December 1828 - 29 August 1834 Originally enclosed in EP/Rok 1/8

Documentation for transporting from Woluwe-St.-Lambert, Belgium, the body of Marie Blanche Donovan, formerly of Rokeby Park, for burial at Rokeby, 24 - 25 January 1927 Originally enclosed in EP/Rok 1/13

Register of services, 5 May 1932 - 25 December 1964

Register of services, 16 December 1906 - 27 August 1922

Register of services, 3 September 1922 - 5 May 1932

Register of services, 8 November 1942 - 24 August 2003

Register of services, 27 December 1964 - 28 October 2007

Copy of Order in Council uniting the benefices of Rokeby and Brignall, 31 January 1922

Order in council confirming a pastoral scheme to unite the benefice of Startforth with Bowes and the benefice of Rokeby with Brignall; form the benefice of Startforth and Bowes and Rokeby with Brignall and unite the parish of Startforth with the parish of Rokeby with Brignall to form the parish of Startforth and Rokeby with Brignall, 15 March 1994

Notice from Ripon Diocesan Registry, Central Bank Chambers, Infirmary Street, Leeds to the secretary of Brignall Parochial Church Council of the intended transfer of patronage rights from the Lord Chancellor to the Bishop of Ripon, n.d. [mid 20th century]

Correspondence between Mrs H.B. Nichols, Rokeby Grange, Barnard Castle; Rev, Canon J.E. Lee, The Rectory, Romaldkirk; J.S.O. Olaman, Wynmoor, 15 Teesdale Road, Startforth; Sarah Medlam, West Lodge, Rokeby Park, Rokeby; Ripon Diocesan Pastoral Committee, Ripon Diocesan Office, St Mary's Street, Leeds; Sir Andrew Morritt, 19 St. James's Gardens, London; The Archdeacon of Richmond; 62 Palace Road, Ripon, Yorkshire; The Lord Chancellor's Ecclesiastical Office, 10 Downing Street, London; Colin Clarke, West Mews, Boldron Lane, Startforth; S. Rodwell, Vale House Farm, Stainmore Road, Bowes; Catherine Ball, Castle Farm, Cross Lanes, Barnard Castle; Rev. M.T. Broadbent, The Vicarage, Startforth and the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London, concerning proposals for pastoral reorganisation involving the parish of Rokeby with Brignall and the implementation of a scheme to unite the benefices of Rokeby with Brignall and Startforth with Bowes, 22 January 1965 - 9 February 1994

Order in council confirming a scheme to unite the benefice of Startforth with Bowes and the benefice of Rokeby with Brignall to create a new benefice called the benefice of Startforth and Bowes and Rokeby with Brignall, 15 March 1994

Statement of stock invested by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the benefit of Rokeby with Brignall, 14 December 1933

Plan depicting the boundaries of the parish of Rokeby with Brignall, n.d. [late 20th century] Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1: 10560]

Certificate of institution of Matthew Moore as rector of Rokeby, 22 May 1740

Mandate of induction of Matthew Moore as rector of Rokeby, 22 May 1740 Endorsed by James Farrer, Vicar of Brignall who performed and witnessed the induction on 12 June 1740

Certificate that James Wilkinson was to be admitted to the vicarage and parish church of Rokeby having fulfilled the necessary conditions including the Oath of Allegiance to the King and assent to the Thirty Nine Articles, 13 April 1792

Certificate of institution of James Wilkinson as rector of Rokeby, 13 April 1792

Postcard from 'M.T.', 14 Carter Street, Whitkirk, Leeds, Yorkshire, to Rev. W. Oliver, Rokeby Rectory, Barnard Castle, commenting on the content of parish magazines, describing evensong at a poorly attended church and expressing his opinion that 'poor coal and the condition of locomotives' cause trains to be late and slow, 7 December 1946

List of the vicars and rectors of Rokeby, St. Mary, n.d. [1967]

Parochial statistics for the years ended 31 December 1987 - 1990

Copy of instrument of Ecclesiastical Commissioners regarding Procurations and Synodals, 23 May 1878

Statement detailing quarterly payments of tithe rent-charge, 1 October and 1 January 1929

Details of commuted value of tithe rent-charge, 3 July 1928 and 8 August 1929

Photograph of the interior of St. Mary's church, Rokeby, showing a parcel gilt brass chandelier, taken by Martin Stancliffe, architects, n.d. [1994]

Transparencies depicting features of the parcel gilt brass chandelier, photographed hanging in the church in EP/Rok 4/38, 25 April 1994

Close-up of the top loop by which the chandelier is suspended

Close-up of one of the candle-holders, in situ

Close-up of one of the candle-holders, detached from the chandelier, before cleaning

Close-up of the candle-holder, as in EP/Rok 4/39(3), dismembered

Close-up of the whole chandelier, standing on the floor

Close-up of decorative detail on the central pillar of the chandelier

Close-up of a connecting piece, detached from the chandelier, before cleaning

Close-up of the connecting piece, as in EP/Rok 4/39(7), in situ

Photographs of St. Mary's church, taken by Eddie Ryle-Hodges, Brignall Mill, Barnard Castle, June 1986 (1) Exterior of the church and graveyard viewed from the south west, June 1986 (2) Exterior of the church and graveyard viewed from the north east, Autumn 1986 (3) Close-up of the bowl, cover and upper half of the central baluster and three legs of the original eighteenth century font, 1986

Photographs of the interior of St. Mary's church, taken by Eddie Ryle-Hodges, Brignall Mill, Barnard Castle, November 1991 (1) View looking towards the altar, black and white (2) Same view as EP/Rok 4/58(1) but in colour (3) View of the choir stalls and the nave viewed from the altar rail, black and white (4) Same view as EP/Rok 4/58(3) but in colour (5) View of the west end, black and white (6) Same view as EP/Rok 4/58(5) but in colour (7) View along the length of the crypt, with the grave of Anne Morrit visible, black and white (8) View along the length of the crypt, black and white (9) Graves of John Bacon Sawrey Morritt, Catherine Morritt and John Sawrey Morrit in the crypt, black and white (10) Graves of John Sawrey Morritt and John Morritt in the crypt, black and white

Photographs of the exterior of St. Mary's church, taken by Eddie Ryle-Hodges, Brignall Mill, Barnard Castle, n.d. [1993] (1) Church and graveyard viewed from the north west (2) Church and graveyard viewed from the south (3) Church and graveyard viewed from the west (4) Church, surrounded by trees and fields, viewed from the south east

Report on the future of the listed church of Rokeby, St. Mary, in the event it is declared redundant, including an assessment of its items of architectural and historical interest, following an inspection by the Council for the Care of Churches, 83 London Wall, London, 24 May 1991 Originally enclosed in EP/Rok 4/44

Presentation by the churchwardens, relating to an application for a scheme to declare St. Mary's church redundant, and vest the church in the Church Conservation Trust, following a resolution of the Church Committee and the Parochial Church Council, 18 September 2002

Condition report on St. Mary's church, by Norman Dent, architects and surveyors, Finkle Street Chambers, Richmond, Yorkshire, 29 June 1964

Report on the condition of the roof of St. Mary's church, including estimate of the cost of repairs, by Martin Stancliffe Architects, 29 Marygate, York, February 1992

Specification for repairs to the roof, rainwater goods, internal plasterwork and decoration at St. Mary's church, Rokeby, by Martin Stancliffe Architects, 29 Marygate, York, June 1993

Plans and details showing repairs to the roof and guttering of St. Mary's church, by Martin Stancliffe Architects, 29 Marygate, York, June 1993 Scales: 1:100 and 1:5

Condition report, treatment report and correspondence between Martin Stancliffe Architects, 29 Marygate, York; Phoebe Clements, restorer and conservator of metalwork, 19 Middlethorpe Drive, York and Rev. Michael Broadbent, The Vicarage, Startforth concerning the cleaning and repair of a brass eight-branch chandelier belonging to St. Mary's church, 6 November 1993 - 5 March 1994

Churchwardens' Annual Fabric Reports for the years ended 31 December 1995 -1996

Structure only survey of St. Mary's church, by Peter Fall Cowie, chartered building surveyors, 27 June 2001

Notification that St. Mary's church, together with the Hanby and Sutton chest tombs; Sutton headstones, Thwaites headstone and the barn south of the church, have been included in the list of buildings of special architectural and historic interest, 28 October 1987

Correspondence between Sir Andrew Morritt, 19 St James's Gardens, London; Sarah Medlam, West Lodge, Rokeby; Forsyth & Stastny, chartered architect, Britannia Chambers, Horsemarket, Barnard Castle; English Heritage, Fortress House, 23 Saville Row, London; Rev. P.J. McCarthy, The Vicarage, Startforth; Francis Hopkinson, Bennington House, Rectory Lane, Saltwood, Kent; The Council for the Care of Churches, 83 London Wall, London; W.T. Hetherington, The Grove, Rokeby; Fay Campion, St. Nicholas Cottage, Richmond, North Yorkshire; The Chase Charity, 2 The Court, High Street, Harwell, Oxfordshire; William J. Carr, Sófocles 136, Departmento 1202, Colonia Polanco Reforma, 11550 Mexico; Mary, Lady Bell, The Hollins, East Rounton, Northallerton, North Yorkshire; The first Lord Grimthorpe's Charity Fund, Holywell Lodge, 41 Holywell Hill, St Albans, Hertfordshire; The Manifold Trust, 21 Dean's Yard, Westminster; Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance, Ripon Diocesan Office, St. Mary's Street, Leeds; Historic Churches Preservation Trust Incorporated Church Building Society, Fulham Place, London; The Lord Chancellor's Ecclesiastical Office, 10 Downing Street, London and I. Curry, 32 - 34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, concerning the fund raising appeal for St. Mary's church, 16 November 1990 - 14 September 1993

Report on the condition of the church organ with recommendations for its maintenance, by Rev. E.O.C. Halahan, Ludford Rectory, Lincoln, 11 August 1965

Draft pastoral scheme declaring the church of Rokeby, St. Mary redundant and appropriating it as a monument for cultural, community or educational purposes, but reserving the churchyard for burials of parishioners and relatives of those already buried there, n.d. [2002]

Diocesan Advisory Committee certificate authorising work in the churchyard, comprising removal of some trees and lopping of others, repairs to the boundary wall and resurfacing of footpaths, 10 October 1996

Survey of the trees in St. Mary's churchyard, by George Stastny, chartered architect, Britannia Chambers, 18a Horsemarket, Barnard Castle, 8 August 1996 Scale: 1:500

Copy key to the graves and burials of St. Mary's church, Rokeby, to accompany the graveyard plan drawn up by archaeology students and staff of Darlington College of Technology, 2000

Correspondence between Rev. David Ryan, The Vicarage, Startforth and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Jenton Road, Sydenham, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, concerning the upkeep of a war grave in St. Mary's churchyard, 3 September - 4 November 2002

25 November 1861 (1) Rev. Alfred James Coleridge, rector of Rokeby (2) Governors of Queen Anne's' Bounty Counterpart mortgage of £400 with interest from (2) to (1) of the glebe, tithes, rent charges and other profits and emoluments belonging to Rokeby Church for the purpose of enlarging the parsonage and other necessary offices upon the glebe

20 February 1869 (1) Rev. Henry Clarke, rector of Rokeby (2) Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty Mortgage of £120 with interest from (2) to (1) of the glebe, tithes, rent charges and other profits and emoluments belonging to Rokeby Church for the purpose of repairing the parsonage Certificate of discharge endorsed on the mortgage deed, 19 April 1903

Inventory, 1888

Inventory, July 1923

Inventory, 1929

A copy of the terriers of 1667, 1679, 1683, 1732 and 1737, n.d. [c.1737 - 1740] See EP/Rok 4/27 for 1662 terrier

A copy of the terrier of 1722

Incomplete draft of terrier of 11 July 1778

An undated terrier, [c.1780s]

Terrier and inventory, August 1936

Terrier and inventory, [1999]

Photographs of church plate, monuments and stained glass windows, taken to illustrate the inventory, n.d. [1999] (1) Silver gilt cup (2) Silver gilt paten (3) Silver gilt flagon (4) Brass cross flanked by two candlesticks (5) Brass eagle lectern (6) 18th century oak font with lid (7) Monumental tablet commemorating Sir Septimus Robinson (8) Monument to J.B.S. Morritt (9) Three east windows illustrating the text, And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel and spread forth his hands towards Heaven (10) Stained glass window illustrating The Ascension (11) Stained glass window illustrating Zadok anointing Solomon (12) Stained glass window illustrating Christ carrying his cross (13) Stained glass window illustrating The Manifestation (14) Stained glass window illustrating The Resurrection

Faculty for erecting a memorial cross on the churchyard, 18 February 1921

Faculty for the erection of an oak memorial tablet in the church, 21 August 1942

Faculty authorising the introduction of radiant heaters into the chancel, 22 January 1970

Faculty authorising the re-slating of the roofs of the nave, chancel, vestry and porch; renewal and extension of lead flashings and gutter linings, resetting of the pediment footstones and renewal of the rainwater pipes plus internal repairs to the plaster of the walls prior to redecoration with traditional limewash, 8 July 1993

Faculty authorising the resurfacing of the churchyard paths, 19 November 1993

Faculty authorising work in the churchyard, including felling and pruning of trees, repair of the boundary wall and resurfacing of the footpaths, 9 September 1997

Log book of repairs and building work at the church, 22 October 1973 - November 1989

12 June 1775 (1) John Sawrey Morritt, esq., lord of the manor of Rokeby (2) Rev. Mathew Moore, rector of Rokeby (3) Right Rev. William, bishop of Chester Deed of exchange of lands at Rokeby between (1) and (2) together with (3)

Quinquennial survey report on St. Mary's church by Forsyth and Stastny, chartered architects, Britannia Chambers, 18a Horsemarket, Barnard Castle, July 1985

Quinquennial survey report on St. Mary's church, by Forsyth & Stastny, chartered architects, Britannia Chambers, 18a Horsemarket, Barnard Castle, August 1990

Quinquennial survey report on St. Mary's church, by Forsyth & Stastny, chartered architects, Britannia Chambers, 18a Horsemarket, Barnard Castle, August 1996

Correspondence received from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, London concerning improvements to parsonage, union of benefices, grants and dilapidations, 31 July 1928 - 7 December 1929

Correspondence received from the Bounty Office, Dean's Yard, Westminster concerning Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, tithe rent-charges applied towards cost of dilapidations etc., 18 January - 30 October 1939

Surveyor's report under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 15 December 1932

Confirmation of the report EP/Rok 4/23, 28 January 1933

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 1 March 1938

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 4 January 1943

Churchwardens' accounts, 17 April 1911 - 27 December 1925

Balance sheet for the year 1925 Originally enclosed in EP/Rok 4/35

Income and expenditure account of St. Mary's church for the year ended 31 December 1959 Originally enclosed in EP/Rok 2/14

Income and expenditure account of St. Mary's church for the year ended 31 December 1992

Parish cash book, 20 March 1977 - 14 January 1991

Account of freewill income and expenditure for the year ended 31 December 1992

Briefs book, 8 December 1661 - 5 December 1709 Also: The assent of William Parish to the Thirty Nine Articles and the book of Common Prayer, 17 August 1662; Terrier of 1662; Details of tythes collected, 1674/75; Report of man held in the stocks; Copies of an order from the Bishop of Chester for the removal of the lead from the chancel roof and re-roofing with slates and the certificate that the work has been done, 25 July 1674 and 8 September 1674

Minute book of the vestry meetings, 28 September 1861 - 17 April 1865 and 22 April 1892 - 29 April 1930

Minutes of vestry and annual meetings, 29 April 1930 - 6 April 1953

Minutes of the Easter Vestry and Annual Church Meetings, 21 April 1954 - 15 April 1966

Minutes of the Vestry and Annual Parish Meetings for Rokeby and Brignall, 4 March 1967 - 15 March 1974

Minutes of the Annual Meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 20 January 1947 - 30 April 1963

Minutes of the Rokeby with Brignall Church Committee, (Rokeby and Brignall Parochial Church Council and Annual Parish meeting until April 1995) 15 February 1991 - 27 January 2004

Accounts books, 1 January 1925 - 31 December 1953

Statements of account of the Parochial Church Council for the years ended 31 December 1985 - 1998

An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales, 13 August 1836

An Act for registering Births, Deaths and Marriages in England, 17 August 1836

An Act for Marriages in England, 17 August 1836

An Act to explain and amend Two Acts passed in the last Session of Parliament, for Marriages, and for registering Births, Deaths and Marriages in England, 30 June 1837

An Act to abridge the holding of Benefices in Plurality, and to make better Provision for the Residence of the Clergy, 14 August 1838

14 December 1896 Copy deed poll by the Bishop of Ripon and twenty others as specified constituting The Ripon Diocesan Trust and ordering its structure, administration and objectives

Rokeby and Brignall church calendars, published by A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 28 Margaret Street, London, for the years 1952 - 1953

Rokeby and Brignall church calendar, published by A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 28 Margaret Street, London, for the year 1955

Rokeby and Brignall church calendar, published by A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 28 Margaret Street, London, for the year 1958

Copies of records held by the Royal Institute of British Architects and a copy of a biographical article from the Wesley Historical Society Bulletin relating to F.R.N. Haswell, with covering letter from Graham Potts, School of Social Studies, Forster Building, Sunderland Polytechnic, Chester Road, Sunderland, 15 April 1991

Extracts from Country Life, Pevsner's Buildings of England and Batsford's Stuart and Georgian Churches, relating to the history of St. Mary's church and its furniture, with covering letter from Rev. D.A. Southward, Hawskhead Vicarage, Ambleside, Cumbria, 19 March 1987 - 18 January 1992

Parish 'Roll of Honour', 1914 - 1918 The roll of honour records members of the parish who served in the First World War. EP/Rok 14/7(1) and 14/7(2) record the same information except that EP/Rok 14/7(1) records 5 extra names and notes 7 gallantry awards and deaths in action. EP/Rok 14/7(3) records names not in EP/Rok 14/7(1) and 14/7(2)