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Shildon St. John Parish

Reference: EP/Sh Catalogue Title: Shildon St. John Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1833-2020

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EP/Sh Shildon St. John Parish (Ref: EP/Sh)01 Registration (Ref: EP/Sh Section 1)Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Sh section 01)

17-19, 91, 92, 123/1-2


Register of baptisms, September 1834 - November 1860
(1 volume)


Register of baptisms, November 1860 - February 1888
(1 volume)


Register of baptisms, March 1888 -January 1922
(1 volume)


Register of baptisms, 12 February 1922 - 24 February 1952
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of baptisms, 24 February 1952 - 8 December 1963
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 1 January 1964 - 26 June 1992
(1 volume)


Register of baptisms, 10 July 1994 - 7 October 2007
(1 volume)

Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Sh section 02)

20-23, 39-40, 93-97, 124/1-4


Register of marriages, October 1834 - July 1837
(1 volume)


Register of marriages, July 1837 - September 1862
(1 volume)


Register of marriages, October 1862 - September 1883
(1 volume)


Register of marriages, September 1883 - April 1903
(1 volume)


Register of marriages, 11 April 1903 - 27 September 1915
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of marriages, 2 October 1915 - 6 April 1931
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 11 April 1931 - 8 April 1939
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 8 April 1939 - 17 March 1951
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 17 March 1951 - 26 October 1963
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 26 October 1963 - 4 July 1970
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 11 July 1970 - 30 January 1982
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 20 February 1982 - 23 October 1993
(1 volume)


Register of marriages, 6 November 1993 - 1 June 2013
(1 volume)


Number not used


Register of marriages, 15 July 2017 - 6 October 2018
(1 volume)


Register of marriages, 25 November 2018 - 11 July 2020
(1 volume)

Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Sh section 03)

31-37, 98-100


Register of banns of marriages, 1837 - 1861
(1 volume)


Register of banns of marriages, 1862 - 1875
(1 volume)


Register of banns of marriages, 1875 - 1894
(1 volume)


Register of banns of marriages, 1898 - 1922
(1 volume)


Register of banns of marriages, 1946 - 1949
(1 volume)


Register of banns of marriages, 1949 - 1951
(1 volume)


Register of banns of marriages, 1951 - 1960
(1 volume)


Register of banns of marriage, 26 June 1960 - 20 July 1969 The volume has been wrongly dated 1970 in a later hand
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 6 July 1969 - 7 September 1980 The volume has been wrongly dated 1968 in a later hand
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 17 August 1980 - 22 July 1990
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Registers of burials (Ref: EP/Sh section 04)

24-30, 41, 125/1


Register of burials, September 1834 - February 1864
(1 volume)


Register of burials, February 1864 - March 1873
(1 volume)


Register of burials, March 1873 - February 1883
(1 volume)


Register of burials, February 1883 - November 1894
(1 volume)


Register of burials, November 1894 - November 1905
(1 volume)


Register of burials, November 1905 - February 1916
(1 volume)


Register of burials, February 1916 - December 1938
(1 volume)


Register of burials, 2 December 1938 - 25 May 1953
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of burials of cremated remains, 19 February 1960 - 28 December 1989 Includes incomplete location plan with some names
(1 volume)

02 Clergy (Ref: EP/Sh Section 2)Registers of confirmations (Ref: EP/Sh section 01)

101-103, 127/1


Lists of confirmation candidates, 1891, 1907, 1911 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 103
(5 papers)


Lists of confirmation candidates from Middridge, 1910 and 1912 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 103
(2 papers)


Register of confirmations, 1934 - 1948
(1 volume)


Register of confirmations, 1949 - 26 May 2012
(1 volume)

Registers of preachers and services (Ref: EP/Sh section 02)Registers of preachers (Ref: EP/Sh section 01)

71


Register of strange preachers, 20 February 1859 - 2 May 1909
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of services (Ref: EP/Sh section 02)

42-45, 104-108, 126/1-2


Register of services, 3 September 1950 - 30 November 1957
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 1 December 1957 - 31 July 1959
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 1 August 1959 - 1 December 1962
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services held in schoolroom at Middridge, 13 April 1941 - 5 June 1960
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 2 December 1962 - 13 July 1968
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of services, 14 July 1968 - 3 August 1974
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 4 August 1974 - 5 June 1979
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Register of services, 10 June 1979 - 14 September 1985
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Register of services, 15 September 1985 - 6 September 1991
(1 volume)


Register of services, 7 September 1991 -13 November 1998
(1 volume)


Register of services, 15 November 1998 - 22 June 2008
(1 volume)

Parish boundaries (Ref: EP/Sh section 03)

111-112, 121


Letter from the Census Office, Millbank, London, to Rev. H. Spurrier, St. John's Vicarage, Shildon, concerning the inclusion of Riseburn in the parish of Shildon, St. John, and enclosing a copy extract from the order-in-council of 6 July 1869 concerning the parish of Shildon, 20 February 1902 Attached: copy letter from Rev. H. Spurrier to the Census Office, concerning the status of Riseburn, n.d.
(2 papers; 1 file)


Plan of the area of Shildon, Eden Pit Houses, Riseburn Houses, and Middridge Village, showing the number of inhabitants of each, n.d., c.1902
(1 plan, 44 cm. x 32.10 cm., waxed linen)


Correspondence between Rev. H. Spurrier, St. John's Vicarage, Shildon; Rev. C.J. Gray, Eldon Vicarage; the Estates Office, Croxdale; Ralph Morton, headmaster of the Shildon Church of England School; Sybil, Lady Eden, Cavendish Hotel, 81 Jermyn Street, St. James's, London; W.A. Kellett, architect, 2 South Road, Bishop Auckland; Windlestone Estate Office, Rushyford; Ecclesiastical Commission, Millbank, Westminster; concerning the building of a new church at Middridge, 1 March 1912 - 14 April 1913
(23 papers)

Parochial statistics (Ref: EP/Sh section 04)

109


Parochial statistics returned to the National Assembly of the Church of England, 1923 - 1924, 1926 - 1931, 1933 - 1938
(14 papers)

Individual clergy (Ref: EP/Sh section 05)

6, 47


Correspondence re Canon Spurrier's memorial, 1914 - 1915
(1 bundle)


Letter to H. Cecil Ferens at the Diocesan Registry concerning interment of cremated remains of the late Rev. John Lake in the Lady Chapel, 24 September 1963 Originally enclosed in Ep/Sh 53
(1 paper, typescript)

Orders of service (Ref: EP/Sh section 06)

128/1-2


Order of service for 'Peace Celebrations', 19 July 1919
(1 paper)


Order of service for Shildon Civic Service organised by 'Churches Together in Shildon', 22 October 2000
(1 booklet)

04 Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Sh Section 4)Church (Ref: EP/Sh section 01)Building the church (Ref: EP/Sh )

72-73


Bills and receipts for building church, 1833 - 1836
(54 papers)


Statements of accounts re building church, 1833 - 1839
(3 papers)

Maintenance and restoration (Ref: EP/Sh)

5, 46, 49-50, 113


Miscellaneous correspondence re alterations and repairs of church, 1879 - 1916
(1 bundle)


List of gifts made towards restoration of church, 1952 - 1953
(1 volume, leather bound)


Correspondence between churchwardens and Northern Gas concerning maintenance of boiler in church, 13 - 28 February 1972 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 53
(3 papers, typescript)


Report on need to raise money for maintenance of church fabric, n.d. [1965 - 1972] Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 53
(1 paper, typescript)


Correspondence between J. Glass, 6 Stanhope Road, Darlington, and Rev. H. Spurrier, St. John's Vicarage, Shildon, concerning the possible use of a legacy from Miss Sarah Graham for the re-decoration of the church, the installation of a new heating system, and the erection of a brass tablet in memory of Miss Graham, 21 September - 5 November 1909
(4 papers)

Plans (Ref: EP/Sh)

77-79


Design for enlargement of church, n.d. Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]
(1 plan, 43cm x 28cm, linen)


Design for enlargement of church, n.d. Scale 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]
(1 plan, 43cm x 40cm, tracing paper)


North elevation design for enlargement of church, n.d. Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]
(1 plan, 42cm x 32cm, tracing paper)

Churchyard (Ref: EP/Sh section 02)

75, 130


Letter from Horatio Spurrier, Shildon Vicarage to Arthur H. Russell concerning conveyance of addition to churchyard, 10 October 1883
(1 paper)


Application to incumbent for permission to introduce a memorial into a churchyard or to add or amend an inscription concerning the grave of Mary Ann and Thomas Henry Henderson, 10 May 2004
(4 papers, printed)

Church hall (Ref: EP/Sh section 03)

116-120


Correspondence between Shildon Urban District Council, Surveyor's Office, Shildon; the Ecclesiastical Commission, Millbank, Westminster; Rev. F.B. Beaven, The Vicarage, Shildon; the Diocesan Registry, Palace Green, Durham; Alfred Metcalfe and Sons, builders and contractors, Dent Street, Shildon; Bolckow Vaughan and Co., Ltd., Middlesbrough, Yorkshire; Chapter Office, The College, Durham; The Archdeacon of Auckland, Sedgefield Rectory, Ferryhill; Queen Anne's Bounty, Bounty Office, 3 Dean's Yard, Westminster; concerning the building of a church hall at Shildon, 26 June 1913 - 5 February 1917
(40 Papers)


Site plan of proposed church hall at Shildon, stamped E.C.E., 16763 3/4, 19 August 1913 Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch [1:240]
(1 plan, 22.7 cm. x 17.7 cm.)


South and west elevations, plan, and section A.B., of 'Proposed Entertainment Hall for St. John's Church, Shildon', by J.C. Metcalfe, Raby Gardens, Shildon, stamped E.C.E., 16763 3/4, 19 August 1913 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]
(1 plan, 75 cm. x 48.2 cm., waxed linen)


Ground plan of the church hall showing the proposed heating installation by W. Richardson, heating engineers, Darlington, 1 August 1914 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]
(1 plan, 27.3 cm. x 16.3 cm., colour-wash)


Order issued by the Charity Commission that the church hall at Shildon be vested in 'The Official Trustee of Charity Lands', 11 August 1914
(1 paper)

Vicarage (Ref: EP/Sh section 04)

76


Letter from Thomas Jennings, Bishop Auckland, Solicitor to Mr. Spurrier, The Vicarage, Shildon concerning return of deed of conveyance of vicarage land, with note that it had been given to him 3 December 1898, 7 November 1899
(2 papers)

Log books, terriers and inventories (Ref: EP/Sh section 05)

51


Inventory, n.d. Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 52
(2 papers)

Financial records (Ref: EP/Sh section 06)

3-4, 38, 110


Finance Board minutes, 1924 - 1941
(2 volumes)


Churchwardens record book of collections, 1946 - 1953
(1 volume)


Note of church income and expenditure, 1866 - 1900
(1 paper)

05 Vestry (Ref: EP/Sh Section 5)

Vestry minutes, etc. 1862 - 1879, 1889 - 1950
(2 volumes)

06 Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Sh Section 6)Minutes (Ref: EP/Sh section 01)

52-53


Minute book of Church Council and Parochial Church Council, including annual meetings, 12 October 1917 - 5 February 1945 Enclosure: see EP/Sh 51
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Minute book of Parochial Church Council, including Finance Committee and annual meetings, 5 March 1945 - 25 March 1968 Enclosures: see EP/Sh 47 - 50, 54, 68 - 70
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Attendance (Ref: EP/Sh section 02)

57


Register of attendances at Parochial Church Council meetings, 1968 - 1969 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 53
(1 paper)

Annual meetings (Ref: EP/Sh section 03)

54, 56


Agendas, minutes and notices of annual parochial meetings, 1961 - 1966 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 53
(5 papers, typescript)


Annual report on church, 5 February 1968 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 53
(5 papers, typescript)

Financial records (Ref: EP/Sh section 04)

48, 55


Statements of accounts, 1961 - 1967 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 53
(4 papers, printed)


Estimated yearly budgets, 1961 - 1963 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 53
(4 papers, printed)

11 Schools (Ref: EP/Sh Section 11)St John's School (Ref: EP/Sh)Managers' minutes (Ref: EP/Sh section 01)

8, 61-63


Shildon National School, minutes of managers' meetings, 1904 - 1934
(1 volume)


Minute book of St. John's Church of England Schools Foundation Managers, 20 April 1928 - 13 June 1949 Enclosures: EP/Sh 58, 59, 60
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Minute book of St. John's C.E. School Managers, 12 December 1934 - 27 November 1949 Enclosures: EP/Sh 63, 64, 65, 66, 67
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Minutes of meeting of St. John's Church School Managers concerning erection of wash-house at school house and use of school handicraft room by Mens' Club, 12 March 1935 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 62
(1 paper, typescript)

Annual meeting (Ref: EP/Sh section 02)

64


Notice of annual meeting of St. John's Schools' subscribers, 11 January 1929 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 62
(1 paper, typescript)

Financial records (Ref: EP/Sh section 03)

9-10, 58-60


Shildon National School, accounts, 1879 - 1904
(2 volumes)


Statements of accounts, St. John's Schools, Shildon, 1923 - 1928 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 61
(5 papers, typescript)


Statement of accounts, St. John's C.E. School Renovation Fund, 31 December 1928 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 61
(1 paper, typescript)


Balance sheets, St. John's C.E. School, 1928 - 1929 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 61
(2 papers, typescript)

Plans (Ref: EP/Sh section 04)

12-16


St. John's School, proposed alterations and additions, 1901
(5 plans)

Correspondence (Ref: EP/Sh section 05)

11, 65-67, 82


Miscellaneous correspondence etc. re Shildon National School, 1876 - 1913
(1 bundle)


Letter from James J. Winn, St. John's School House, Shildon to Mr. Rea concerning the use of the school yard by the youth club, 25 September 1947 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 62
(1 paper)


Letter from James J. Winn, St. John's School House, Shildon to Mr. Rea concerning repairs to school house, 29 September 1947 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 62
(1 paper)


Letter from W.K. Hill, Sanitary Inspector of Shildon U.D.C., Shildon to W. Reay, 48a St John's Road, Shildon, concerning defective closets and rat infestation at St. John's Church of England School, 14 November 1949 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 62
(2 papers, typescript)


Letter from Horatio Spurrier, Shildon Vicarage to Richard Bowser 'solicitor' enclosing enquiry from Education Department concerning appointment of trustees and information on Old Shildon National School, 20 - 27 August 1873
(2 papers)

Charity Commission (Ref: EP/Sh section 05)

83-84, 114-115


Charity Commission Order appointing trustees to administer charity of Shildon National School, 1 September 1876
(1 paper, printed)


Charity Commission Order allowing trustees to use proceeds from sale of old school, to build new Shildon National School, 27 April 1877
(1 paper, printed)


Copy order issued by the Charity Commission appointing trustees of the school at Shildon, 1 September 1876
(1 paper, printed)


Copy authorisation issued by the Charity Commission for the sale of the school at Shildon, 27 April 1877
(1 paper, printed)

Middridge School (Ref: EP/Sh)

122


Letter from Trotter, Bruce and Loft, solicitors, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland, to Rev. K. Bradford, The Vicarage, Shildon, concerning the sale of school at Middridge, 15 May 1959 Attached: sketch plan showing the site of the school, n.d.
(2 papers)

12 Charities (Ref: EP/Sh Section 12)Metcalfe Charity (Ref: EP/Sh)

74, 80-81, 85-90


Letter from Horatio Spurrier, Shildon Vicarage to Charity Commission concerning sale of Edward Metcalfe's Charity field to provide additional burying ground, 9 October 1885
(1 paper)


Letter from Local Government Board to Rev. Horatio Spurrier, Shildon Vicarage concerning acquisition of 1a land from Trustees of Metcalfe's Charity for school site, 29 June 1872
(1 paper)


Letter from National Society to Rev. F. B. Beaven concerning conveyance of school site by Metcalfe Charity Trustees, 6 June 1914
(1 paper, typescript)


Letter from Charity Commission to Messrs. Bowser & Ward, Bishop Auckland, solicitors, with copy of reply, concerning £6 p.a. assigned by school trustees to Metcalfe's Charity from rental of school cottage as compensation for school site taken from charity land, 20 October 1879
(1 paper)


Letter from R. Bowser, Bishop Auckland, solicitor to Rev. H. Spurrier, Shildon, with copy of reply, concerning £6 p.a. given by school trustees to Metcalfe Charity as compensation for school site, 16 December 1879
(1 paper)


Letter from A. H. Ruscell, York to Rev. Horatio Spurrier concerning documents re Metcalfe Charity and shareholders of N.E.R., 10 November 1890
(1 paper)


Letter from G. W. Jennings, Bishop Auckland, solicitor to Mr. Beaven, Shildon Vicarage concerning his taking the place of the late Canon Spurrier in administration of Metcalfe charity, 23 July 1913
(1 file, typescript)


Newspaper cuttings re accusations of misuse by trustees of Edward Metcalfe Charity, n.d.
(3 papers, printed)


An Account of the Charities As Left to Shildon by Messrs. Medcalfe, Walton and Bouch, 1896
(1 booklet, printed)

13 Church societies (Ref: EP/Sh Section 13)

7


Sunday School Teachers meeting, minutes and accounts, 1907 - 1917
(1 volume)

14 Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Sh Section 14)Parish magazines of St. John's Shildon (Ref: EP/Sh section 01)

129/1-35
The parish magazines in this series of records change title names several times between 1961 and 2002
For magazines 1994 - 1998 see EP/Sh 131/1-5


Shildon Parish Magazine, July - December 1961
(6 booklets, printed)


Shildon Parish Magazine, January - May; August - December 1962
(10 booklets, printed)


Shildon Parish Magazine, January - December 1963
(12 booklets, printed)


Shildon Parish Magazine, January - June; August - November 1964
(10 booklets, printed)


Shildon Parish Magazine, January - March; May 1965
(4 booklets, printed)


Shildon Parish Magazine, July - August 1966
(2 booklets, printed)


Shildon Parish Magazine, January - June 1967
(6 booklets, printed)


Steam newsletter, February - April; August - November 1968
(7 papers, printed)


Steam newsletter, January - April; June - December 1969
(11 papers, printed)


Steam newsletter, April; June - September; November - December 1970
(7 papers, printed)


Steam magazine, January; March; May - July; September - December 1971
(9 papers, printed)


Steam newsletter, January - December 1972
(12 papers, printed)


Steam newsletter, January - February; April - May; July; September - December 1973
(9 papers, printed)


Steam newsletter, July 1975
(1 paper, printed)


Steam newsletter, March 1976
(1 paper, printed)


Steam newsletters, April; June; October - December 1978
(5 papers, printed)


Steam newsletters, January - July; September; November - December 1979
(10 papers, printed)


Steam newsletters, March; May - July; September - December 1980
(8 papers, printed)


Steam newsletters, January - August; October - November 1981
(10 papers, printed)


Steam newsletters, January - March; June - July; September; December 1982
(7 papers, printed)


Steam newsletters, January - June; August; September - December 1983
(11 papers, printed)


Steam newsletters, January - February; April - December 1984
(11 papers, printed)


Steam newsletters, January - December 1985
(12 papers, printed)


Steam newsletters, January - April; June - July; September - December 1986
(6 booklets and 4 papers, printed)


Parish Magazine of St. John's, Shildon and St. Mark's, Eldon, February - December 1987
(10 booklets, printed)


Parish Magazine of St. John's, Shildon and St. Mark's, Eldon, January - December 1988
(11 booklets, printed)


Parish Magazine of St. John's, Shildon and St. Mark's, Eldon, January - February 1989; parish magazine of St. John's, Shildon, March - December 1989
(11 booklets, printed)


Parish Magazine of St. John's, January - June; September - December 1990
(10 booklets, printed)


Parish Magazine of St. John's, January - December 1991
(11 booklets, printed)


Parish Magazine of St. John's, February - December 1992
(10 booklets, printed)


Parish Magazine of St. John's, January - December 1993
(11 booklets, printed)


Parish Magazine of St. John's, January - February 1994
(2 booklets, printed)


Parish Magazine of St. John's, January - April; July - December 2000
(5 booklets, printed)


Parish Magazine of St. John's, January - August, 2001
(4 booklets, printed)


Church and Community Chronicle, September 2001; Church Magazine, October 2001 - February 2002 Note: One magazine covers December 2001 and January 2002
(5 booklets, printed)

Parish Magazines of Churches in Shildon (Ref: EP/Sh section 02)

131/1-5
Includes: Shildon Methodist Church, Salvation Army, Religious Society of Friends - Quakers [SF/Sh/PM], All Saints, New Shildon [EP/NSh] and St. Thomas's Roman Catholic Church [RC/Sh]. N.B. It is unclear which Methodist Church in Shildon is referred to in the magazines.


Pathfinder magazine, March - December 1994
(5 booklets, printed)


Pathfinder magazine, January - December, 1995
(6 booklets, printed)


Pathfinder magazine, January - April; September - December 1996
(4 booklets, printed)


Pathfinder magazine, January - December 1997
(6 booklets, printed)


Pathfinder magazine, January - February; May - October 1998
(4 booklets, printed)

Church fete (Ref: EP/Sh section 03)

68-70


Interim statement of accounts, St. John's Church Garden Party, 2 July 1960 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 53
(1 paper, typescript)


Statement of accounts, St. John's Church Garden Fete, 6 July 1963 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 53
(1 paper, typescript)


Programme for St. John's Church Garden Fete, 1 July 1967 Originally enclosed in EP/Sh 53
(1 paper, typescript)