Catalogue

Register of baptisms, May 1870 - July 1882

Register of baptisms, 26 July 1882 - 4 October 1895 Certificates of delivery of premature stillborn children 15 November 1911 - 14 December 1912 (Endorsed in EP/Si 1/2)

Register of baptisms, 7 October 1895 - 10 September 1902

Register of baptisms , 10 September 1902 - 11 February, 1914

Register of baptisms, 11 February 1914 - 25 December 1924

Register of baptisms , 28 December 1924 - 6 November 1940

Register of baptisms, 13 November 1940 - 27 April 1958

Register of baptisms, 27 April 1958 - 22 December 1974

Register of baptisms, 12 January 1975 - 4 February 1990

Register of baptisms, 18 February 1990 - 16 November 1997

Register of baptisms, 16 November 1997 - 20 November 2005

Register of baptisms, 27 November 2005 - 17 June 2012

Register of marriages, 23 September 1872 - 15 March 1890

Register of marriages, 3 May 1890 - 26 February 1908

Register of marriages, 27 February 1908 - 29 June 1915

Register of marriages, 20 July 1915 - 14 June 1930

Register of marriages, 21 June 1930 - 8 April 1944

Register of marriages, 8 April 1944 - 4 May 1957

Register of marriages, 21 May 1957 - 11 September 1971

Register of marriages, 11 September 1971 - 4 June 1977

Register of marriages, 11 June 1977 - 23 October 1982

Register of marriages, 23 October 1982 - 2 July 1988

Register of marriages, 9 July 1988 - 25 October 1996

Register of marriages, 2 November 1996 - 30 December 2015

Register of banns of marriage, 24 July 1949 - 12 December 1953

Register of banns of marriage, 15 November 1953 - 23 March 1963

Register of banns of marriage, 27 June 1971 - 2 September 1973

Register of banns of marriage, 20 January 1963 - 4 July 1971

Register of banns of marriage, 26 August 1973 - 11 April 1982

Register of banns of marriage, 4 April 1982 - 22 February 1987

Register of banns of marriage, 15 February 1987 - 22 April 1990

Register of banns of marriage, 8 April 1990 - 10 October 1993

Register of banns, 3 October 1993 - 15 July 2012

Register of burials, 6 August 1872 - 14 December 1886

Register of burials, 15 December 1886 - 6 March 1904

Register of burials, March 1904 - 11 October 1911

Register of burials, 23 October 1911 - 31 July 1919

Register of burial, 2 August 1919 - 1 March 1928

Register of burials, 8 March 1928 - 29 December 1937

Register of burials, 1 February 1938 - 6 February 1948

Register of burials, 7 February 1948 - 19 March 1955

Register of burials, 26 March 1955 - 20 May 1965

Register of burials, 26 June 1965 - 14 August 1980

Register of burials, 27 August 1980 - 2 December 2013

List of confirmation candidates, 1935 - 15 March 1950

Register of confirmations, 26 March 1952 - 14 June 1968

Register of confirmations, 14 May 1969 - 3 June 2007

Register of services, 1 May 1952 - 29 October 1957

Register of services, 1 November 1957 - 22 December 1961

Register of services, 25 December 1961 - 14 May 1967

Register of services, 15 May 1967 - 31 December 1971

Register of services, 1 January 1972 - 29 December 1977

Register of services, 1 January 1978 - 6 November 1983

Register of services, 9 November 1983 - 9 May 1993

Register of services, 12 May 1993 - 28 December 2005

Notice from the Bishop of the suspension of presentation to the benefice for 5 years, 1 May 1972

Letter from Phyllis Carter, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, to Rev. J.E. Peers, St. Matthew's Vicarage, New Silksworth, Sunderland, requesting the Parochial Church Council's approval of the continuation of the suspension of presentation for a further 5 years, and copy of Rev. J.E. Peers's reply, 24 May - 8 June 1977

Notice from the Bishop of Durham renewing the suspension of presentation for a further 5 years, 1 December 1982

' Map of the parishes of Sunderland, (Pennywell) St. Thomas and Sunderland, (Springwell) St. Mary the Virgin with Thorney Close, St. Peter. Also showing the alterations of the areas of the parishes of Bishopwearmouth, St. Gabriel and Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas ', 6 March 1985 Scale: 9 inches to 1 mile [1:7040]

Order in council confirming the pastoral scheme creating the new benefices and parishes of Sunderland, (Pennywell) St. Thomas; Sunderland, (Springwell) St. Mary the Virgin with Thorney Close, St. Peter; and altering the areas of the parishes of Bishopwearmouth, St. Gabriel, and Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas, 31 July 1985

Map showing the alteration of the boundaries of the parishes of St. Aidan, Grangetown; Christ Church, Bishopwearmouth; St. Matthew, Silksworth and Ryhope, 9 November 1951 Scale: 1:2500

Map showing the alteration of the boundaries of the parishes of Christ Church, Bishopwearmouth; St. Barnabas, Middle Hendon; St. Aidan, Grangetown and St. Matthew, Silksworth, 14 May 1969 Scale: 20 inches to 1 mile [1:3113]

Order in council authorising a scheme to unite the benefice of Hendon with the benefice of St. Ignatius, Hendon and the benefice of St. Barnabas, Middle Hendon; and alter the boundaries of the parishes of Christ Church, Bishopwearmouth; St. Barnabas, Middle Hendon; St. Aidan, Grangetown and St. Matthew, Silksworth, 4 February 1970

Plan of Church Cottage, New Silksworth, showing the house as existing, and the proposed new scheme, and a plan of the proposed new drain, by Cordingley & McIntyre, architects, Owengate, Durham, January 1957 Scales: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96] and 1:500

25 August 1964 (1) Rev. Richard Harptree Gurney of Silksworth Vicarage, Silksworth, clerk in holy orders, incumbent of the benefice of Silksworth, St. Matthew (2) Church Commissioners for England (3) Bishop of Durham, patron of the benefice (4) George Wharton of The Gardens, Silksworth, gardener Copy conveyance by (1) to (4) of the church cottage, adjacent to St. Matthew's church, Silksworth Consideration: £4500

Copy agreement whereby the Parochial Church Council will let Glebe Farm, Silksworth, to E.J. Hall for 6 months, 1 July 1961

Correspondence between Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London; S. Russell Cowan and Co., solicitors, 15/17 Ridley Place, Newcastle upon Tyne; Rev. P.R. Cornwell, and subsequently, Rev. J.E. Peers, St. Matthew's Vicarage, New Silksworth, Sunderland; Gordon Durham & Co. Ltd., civil engineering contractors, East Boldon; Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Charles Bell Sons and Barnes, chartered surveyors, Manor House, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland; and Smiths Gore, chartered surveyors, 26 Coniscliffe Road, Darlington, concerning the management and letting of a piece of glebe land to the west of St. Matthew's church yard and east of The Oaks, Silksworth, 31 October 1968 - 10 December 1981

Notice of the proposal of the Durham Diocesan Board of Finance to sell 0.27 acres of glebe land, 18 July 1986 Originally part of a bundle with EP/Si 4/47, 4/50-54

1 August 1952 (1) Edward Brown Lynn, clerk in holy orders, incumbent of the vicarage of Silksworth (2) Church Commissioners for England Mortgage for 20 years by (1) to (2) of 'The Glebe', Silksworth Consideration: £3850 Endorsed: Church Commissioner's certification that the mortgage has been discharged, 14 September 1956

Notice to the churchwardens of the Bishop's intention to admit Peter Raphael Cornwell to the benefice, 18 July 1966

Letter from H. Cecil Ferens, Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham, to the churchwardens, explaining the legal and financial implications of the admittance of Rev. P.R. Cornwell to the benefice before he is able to take up residence, 22 August 1966

Correspondence between the churchwardens of St. Matthew's church, Silksworth, Sunderland; Rev. Paul Walker, The Glebe House, Newgate Street, Barnard Castle; Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Rev. S. Rycroft, St. Matthew's Vicarage, Silksworth Road, Silksworth, Sunderland; Bishop of Jarrow, The Old Vicarage, Hallgarth, Pittington; Rev. R.I. Davison, Rural Dean of Wearmouth, Christ Church Vicarage, 7 St. Bede's Park, Sunderland; J. Lowery, 59 The Strand, Lakeside Village, Sunderland; City of Sunderland Council, Civic Centre, Sunderland; Ven. Derek Hodgson, Archdeacon of Durham, 15 The College, Durham and Mrs. A. Burnikell, 34 Fairgreen Close, Hall Farm, Sunderland, concerning the appointment of a curate for the areas of Moorside, Doxford Park and Hall Farm; the planning of a new church to serve the area and the creation of a conventional district, 8 February 1993 - 15 February 1995

Licence to the perpetual curacy of Peter Raphael Cornwell, clerk, 22 August 1966

Order of service for the presentation and licensing of Rev. John Edward Peers, as priest-in-charge of St. Matthew, Silksworth, 21 October 1972

Order of service for the licensing of Rev. Richard Bradshaw, 2 July 2000

Order of service for the licensing of Rev. Richard Bradshaw, 24 June 2001

Certificate of Peter Raphael Cornwell attesting to his having made the declarations, 22 August 1966

Returns of church membership for the years ended 31 December 1986 - 1992

Parochial statistics for the year ended 31 December 1968

Parochial statistics for the years ended 31 December 1986 - 1987

Parochial statistics for the years ended 31 July 1993 - 1994

Parochial statistics for the years ended 31 December 1997 - 2000

Parish profile, n.d. [1982]

Parish profile, n.d. [c. 2000]

Order of service for All Saints Day, 1 November 1958

Correspondence between Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Rev. R.H. Gurney, St. Matthew's Vicarage, Ryhope Road, New Silksworth; Clerk to Tunstall Parish Council, 13 Hawthorn Avenue, New Silksworth; Sunderland Rural District Council, 1 The Esplanade, Sunderland; Sunderland Corporation Planning Office, Town Hall, Sunderland; Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Whitehall, London; The Dean of Windsor, The Deanery, Windsor, Berkshire; British Council of Churches, 10 Eaton Gate, London; Missionary and Ecumenical Council of the Church Assembly, Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster; Lee Bolton & Lee, 1 The Sanctuary, Westminster; Bishop of Leicester, Bishop's Lodge, Springfield Road, Leicester and Rev. K. Waights, Thornhill Terrace, Sunderland, concerning Sunderland County Borough's plans for a major new housing development at Hall Farm, Chapelgarth and Moorside and negotiations about a site for a church to serve the area, 23 August 1961 - [December] 1966

Plan and elevations of layout of fittings at Silksworth church, by Cordingley & McIntyre, architects, Owengate, Durham, September 1958

Plan of proposed electrical installation at Silksworth Church, 19 December 1955 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Plan of proposed new drainage system to the south side of the church, by Cordingley & McIntyre, chartered architects, Owengate, Durham, 21 May 1959 No scale

Plan, elevation and section of proposed aumbry, safe, oak panel and carved door to be set into existing nitch ( sic) on north side of the sanctuary by D. Tindale, 1984 Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1:24]

Plan of the restoration of the fire damaged porch, by Hayton Lee & Braddock, architects and surveyors, Owengate House, Durham, December 1985 Scales: 1:20, 1:10

Invitation to the dedication of the new vestry, 1 November 1958

Specification of labour and materials required to erect a new clergy-vestry and w.c., by Cordingley and McIntyre, architects, Owengate, Durham, February 1958

Correspondence between Mears and Stainbank, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32 and 34 Whitechapel Road, London; Rev. R.H. Gurney, Silksworth Vicarage, Silksworth, Sunderland; and Reid, Ferens & Co. Ltd., solicitors; concerning repairs to the church's lightning conductor and the re-casting and re-hanging of the church bells, 13 March - 12 April 1958

Quotation for felting the flat roof at the rear of the [vestry], by Robert Dawson Ltd., St. Mark's Crescent, Sunderland, 21 September 1971

Specification and schedule of work for the restoration of fire damage at St. Matthew's church, by Hayton, Lee & Braddock, chartered architects, Owengate House, Durham, 4 December 1985

Correspondence concerning the redecoration of the interior of the church, 27 August 2008 - 1 September 2009

Photographs of flowers in the church to mark Maundy Thursday, 13 April 2006

Flower arrangements around the Madonna candle and book of remembrance

Flower arrangements around the altar rail

Album of photographs depicting St. Matthew's Flower Festival, n.d. [1997]

Welcome flowers

Welcome cross on the right side of the entrance

Welcome cross on the left side of the entrance and in the porch

Font and base

'Ministers of God'

Bookcase arrangement

Decorated pews, close-up

'Gateway to God'

General view of decorated pews and 'Gateway to God', looking towards the back of the nave

Decorated pews and rood screen

Decorated pews and rood screen

Top of the rood screen

Right side of the rood screen

'Church Music'

Bishop's chair

'St. Matthew'

'Diana: People's Princess'

'Floral Carpet'

'Word of the Lord'

'The Lord is Risen', close-up

'The Lord is Risen' and stained-glass windows behind

'For All the Saints'

Madonna candle

Arrangement by the Mothers' Union

Arrangement representing the Youth Group

Arrangement representing the Sunday School

Memorial to the fallen

'Baptism'

'Eucharist'

'Confirmation'

'Marriage'

'Herrington Flower Club Pearl Celebration', side view

'Herrington Flower Club Pearl Celebration', front view

'Flower Arranger's Prayer', framed and mounted on the wall

Negatives of EP/Si 13/19 (1) - (34)

Christmas card depicting St. Matthew's church, from a drawing by Bernard Driscoll, printed and published by Noel Tatt Ltd., Lyminge, Kent, n.d. [1990s]

Contract of employment as church organist of Robert William Beattie of 40 Rosemount, Hylton, 13 July 1962

List of amendments to the organist's contract of employment, 3 May 1964

Book of graves, 1897 - 1902

Book of graves, n.d. [c 1950]

21 February 1922, copied 27 February 1922 (1) William Grey Robinson of Quedgeley House, Gloucester, esq. (2) Rev. William Atkinson, clerk in holy orders, vicar of Silksworth, St. Matthew (3) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Copy conveyance by (1) to (3) of 1 acre of land in the parish of Silksworth, St. Matthew, as an extension to the churchyard Plan attached

19 October 1950 (1) Anne Stewart Best (2) Parochial Church Council of Silksworth, St. Matthew (3) Church Commissioners for England Conveyance by (1) to (3) of 1 acre of land adjoining the churchyard Plan annexed

Income and expenditure accounts of Silksworth Churchyard Fund, 1 January 1957 - 28 December 1990

Income and expenditure accounts of Silksworth Churchyard Fund, 7 January 1991 - 28 March 2002

Plan showing additions to the churchyard, by A.B. Tiffin, architect and surveyor, 7 Norfolk Street, [Sunderland], November 1902 Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch [1:240]

Plan showing proposed wall to the churchyard, by Borough of Sunderland Department of Planning, May 1984 Scale: 1:1250 Originally part of a bundle with EP/Si 2/25, 4/27, 4/50-54

Correspondence between the Imperial War Graves Commission, United Kingdom District, Wooburn House, Wooburn Green, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; Rev. Richard H. Gurney, Silksworth Vicarage, Sunderland; H. Cecil Ferens, Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; Surveyor, Sunderland Rural District Council, 1 The Esplanade, Sunderland; J. E. Ruscoe, Durham Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches; and Department of the Environment, 2 Marsham Street, London; concerning the maintenance of the churchyard and the war graves within it, 14 January 1957 - 30 October 1984 Includes: lists of war graves, 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945

Transcription and plan of monumental inscriptions in St. Matthew's churchyard, New Silksworth, compiled by Silksworth Heritage Group, 1991

Lists of the dead, from the parish, of the 1st and 2nd World Wars, n.d. [1980s]

15 September 1952; copy made, 10 October 1952 (1) Lilian Mabel Edgar of 'The Glebe', New Silksworth, widow (2) The Church Commissioners for England (3) Rev. Edward Brown Lynn, incumbent of the benefice of the vicarage of Silksworth Certified copy conveyance by (1) to (3) of 1 rood of land at New Silksworth called 'The Glebe', with the buildings on it, as the site for a parsonage Plan annexed

Correspondence between Rev. R.H. Gurney, St. Mary's Rectory, 347 Durham Road, Low Fell, Gateshead; Rev. P. Cornwell, St. Matthew's Vicarage, New Silksworth, Sunderland; Gordon Durham & Co. Ltd., civil engineering contractors, East Boldon; Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Middleton & Co., solicitors, 51-52 John Street, Sunderland; Charles Bell, Sons & Barnes, Manor House, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland; Wallhead, Gray & Coates, chartered surveyors, 21 Athenaeum Street, Sunderland; and Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London, concerning the release of a restrictive covenant on the former parsonage house, 'The Oaks', Silksworth, 19 December 1969 - 10 January 1973

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Rev. S. Rycroft, 55 Vicarage Close, Silksworth, Sunderland; William Parkin, Penshaw Stables Farm, Penshaw, Tyne & Wear; A.O. Lee, Owengate House, Durham; Diocesan Registry, 21A Elvet Bridge, Durham; Chief Superintendent Community Services, Northumbria Police, Ponteland, Northumberland; Smith, Roddam & Co., solicitors, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland; Joseph Huntley & Son Ltd., Marion Street, Sunderland; The Friends of the Clergy Corporation, 27 Medway Street, Westminster; Greatham Hospital, Estate Office, Greatham, Hartlepool; Borough of Sunderland, Planning Division, P.O. Box 104, Town Hall and Civic Centre, Sunderland; Tocsin Security, 19 Edison Road, Swan Industrial Estate, Washington, Tyne & Wear; and Valuation Office, Inland Revenue, Pennine House, Washington, Tyne & Wear, concerning the planning and construction of a new vicarage, and the sale of a portion of glebe for the construction of a private house, 8 February 1984 - 15 November 1988 Originally part of a bundle with EP/Si 2/25, 4/27, 4/47, 4/50-54

Artist's impression of the view of the proposed new vicarage from the north, by Hayton Lee & Braddock, architects, Owengate House, Durham, 18 June 1985 Originally part of a bundle with EP/Si 2/25, 4/27, 4/47, 4/50, 4/52-54

Site plan and location plan of proposed site for 1 house on land off, and south of, the B1286 trunk road, Silksworth, by [Hayton Lee & Braddock, architects and surveyors, Owengate House, Durham], 24 September 1985 Scales: 1:500; 1:1250 Originally part of a bundle with EP/Si 2/25, 4/27, 4/47, 4/50-51, 4/53-54

Preliminary design report on Silksworth vicarage, by Hayton Lee & Braddock, chartered architects, Owengate House, Durham, September 1985 Originally part of a bundle with EP/Si 2/25, 4/27, 4/47, 4/50, 4/52-54

Ground and first floor plans of proposed new vicarage, Silksworth, by Hayton Lee & Braddock, architects and surveyors, Owengate House, Durham, January 1986 Scale: 1:50 Originally part of a bundle with EP/Si 2/25, 4/27, 4/47, 4/50-53

Bishop of Jarrow's consent to the vicar of Silksworth to take out a mortgage to purchase 'The Glebe' as a vicarage, n.d. [1952]

Elevations, sections, floor plans and site plan of proposed new vicarage for St. Matthew, Silksworth, scheme 'B', by Hayton, Lee & Braddock, architects and surveyors, Owengate House, Durham, July 1985 Scales: 1:100, 1:500

Order of service for the opening and dedication of the St. Matthew's Silksworth Youth Centre, 7 April 1965

Circular from the churchwardens about the service to mark the centenary of St. Matthew's Mission Room, 3 July 1991

5 May 1961 (1) Parochial Church Council, landlord (2) T.M. Walker, tenant Tenancy agreement for 44 sq. yds. of land adjacent to St. Matthew's Mission Room, for 6 months Consideration: £10 a year rent

1 July 1961 (1) Parochial Church Council, landlord (2) Mr. R. Moore, tenant Tenancy agreement for 207 sq. yds. of land adjacent to St. Matthew's Mission Room, Silksworth, for 6 months Consideration: £10 a year rent

7 June 1979 (1) Parochial Church Council (2) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance (3) Anthony Helmut Pfendt of 49 Blind Lane, Silksworth, Sunderland Lease for five years by (1) to (3) of a piece of land lying between St. Matthew's Youth Centre grounds and the back street behind Blind Lane Consideration: annual rent of £120 Includes: plan

[15 June 1995] (1) Parochial Church Council (2) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance (3) City of Sunderland Council Copy lease for 15 years by (1) to (3) of St. Matthew's Mission Room, as a community centre Consideration: annual rent of £2750, reviewed regularly after 5 years Includes: plan

Brochure appealing for residents to join the Silksworth Youth Centre Development Committee, n.d. [1962]

Photographs of the construction of the Silksworth Youth Centre on the Mission Room field and the refurbishment of the Mission Room

Mission Room viewed from the road, by W. Oughtred, photographer, 3 North Railway Street, Seaham, 1963

Mission Room interior viewed from the stage, by W. Oughtred, photographer, 3 North Railway Street, Seaham, 1963

Mission Room interior looking towards the stage, by W. Oughtred, photographer, 3 North Railway Street, Seaham, 1963

Mission Room viewed from the rear, by W. Oughtred, photographer, 3 North Railway Street, Seaham, 1963

Mission Room field, with Silksworth C.E. School in the background, by W. Oughtred, photographer, 3 North Railway Street, Seaham, 1963

Vicarage, viewed from the corner of the Mission Room, n.d. [1964]

Site for the Youth Centre being cleared, n.d. [1964]

Site for the Youth Centre being cleared and marked out, n.d. [1964]

Digging foundations of the Youth Centre, n.d. [1964]

Mission Room stripped out and bricks stacked ready to begin construction and refurbishment, n.d. [1964]

Bricklayers at work on the Youth Centre, n.d. [1964]

Youth Centre walls laid up to damp-proof course level, n.d. [1964]

Crane bringing in a large lintel, n.d. [1964]

Lowering the lintel into place, n.d. [1964]

Lintel being lowered into place, viewed through building's timber frame, n.d. [1964]

Construction of the Youth Centre walls, with the Mission Room and vicarage in the background, n.d. [1964]

View of the Mission Room from atop the Youth Centre site, n.d. [1964]

View of the refurbished Mission Room roof from atop the Youth Centre site, n.d. [1964]

Interior of the Mission Room during refurbishment, n.d. [1964]

View of the completed Youth Centre & Mission Room with exterior landscaping works underway, n.d. [1964]

Rear view of the Youth Centre nearing completion, n.d. [1964]

Youth Centre entrance nearing completion, n.d. [1964]

Vicar with local dignitaries, possibly at the opening of the Youth Centre, n.d. [1965]

Vicar, making a presentation, flanked by local dignitaries, possibly at the opening of the Youth Centre, n.d. [1965]

Youth Centre Committee Room, a photograph reproduced from the Sunderland Echo, February 1965

Correspondence between Smith Roddam, solicitors, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland; the vicar of St. Matthew, Silksworth, The Vicarage, Silksworth Road, Sunderland; City of Sunderland Council, Civic Centre, Sunderland; Smiths Gore, chartered surveyors, 26 Coniscliffe Road, Darlington; T. Pfendt, builders' merchant, Blind Lane, Silksworth, Sunderland; J. Scaife, Blind Lane, Silksworth, Sunderland; Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Hepper Robinson, surveyors and property consultants, 12/14 Albert Road, Middlesbrough, Cleveland; Halifax Property Services, 48 Athenaeum Street, Sunderland; Snowball, Worthy & Lowe, solicitors, 51 John Street, Sunderland; Charles Bell Sons & Barnes, chartered surveyors, Manor House, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland; Anchor Housing Association, MEA House, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, and R. Sidney, handicraft supplier, 52 Blind Lane, New Silksworth, concerning the management of property belonging to the parish, including the Mission Room (later Silksworth Community Association), the Youth Centre, the former tennis court and land in between, 3 December 1964 - 24 July 1995

Minutes of the Youth Club Building Committee, 22 March - 22 August 1962

Youth Centre building fund appeal leaflet, n.d., [1962]

Silksworth Youth Centre Development Committee appeal brochure, n.d., [c. 1964]

Building contract for the extension and adaptation of the youth club, by Philip R. Middleton and Partner, 309 Marton Road, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, 8 April 1964

Grant application to Durham County Council, Education Department, Youth and Social Service, 22 October 1964

4 December 1964 (1) Parochial Church Council of the parish of Silksworth, St. Matthew (2) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance (3) Rev. Richmond Harptree Gurney of St. Matthew's Vicarage, Silksworth, clerk in holy orders; Frederick George Carrick of the Post Office, Silksworth, postmaster; George Rollason of 43 Holly Avenue, Silksworth, National Coal Board chemist; and Wesley Weightman of Hall Farm, Silksworth, farmer Lease by (1) to (3) of the Mission Room for youth work, for 28 years Rent: £5

Declaration of trust relating to a lease, dated 4 December 1964, 4 December 1964

Copy scheme for the management of the Silksworth (Church of England) Youth Centre Trust Fund, made by the Secretary of State for Education and Science, 8 June 1965

Correspondence between Graham Foley, Director of Religious Education, Diocese of Durham, Hallgarth House, Hallgarth Street, Durham; Rev. R.H. Gurney, Silksworth Vicarage; Youth Organiser, County of Durham Education Committee, North Eastern Division, 25 Foyle Street, Sunderland; J.H.P. Rea, Whinfield, Middleton Lane, Middleton St. George; Philip R. Middleton & Partner, 301 Marton Road, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire; Ministry of Education, Curzon Street, London; Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Lloyds Bank Ltd., 6 Maritime Terrace, Sunderland; Miss Coates, 44 Orr Avenue, New Silksworth; and Rev. N. Nattress, 2 Athol Grove, New Silksworth; concerning the planning, funding, construction work and legal arrangements associated with the creation of the youth club, 23 June 1961 - 13 July 1967

Correspondence between the Department of Education and Science, Elizabeth House, York Road, London; Rev. J. Peers, The Vicarage, New Silksworth; B. Lumsdon, 21 Dumoyne Close, Sunderland; Charity Commission, 14 Ryder Street, St. James's, London; Rev. Alan D. Chesters, Diocesan Director of Education, Hallgarth House, Hallgarth Street, Durham; Smith, Roddam & Co., solicitors, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland; and Director of Education, County Borough of Sunderland, Town Hall and Civic Centre, Sunderland, concerning the conversion of the youth centre into a community association with provision for youth work, 19 January 1973 - 12 October 1979

24 February 1965 (1) Parochial Church Council (2) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance (3) Roland Sidney of Blind Lane, Silksworth, hardware dealer Lease for 5 years by (1) to (3) of 190 sq. yds. of land adjacent to Tunstall House, Silksworth Consideration: annual rent of £15 Includes: plan

Plan of proposed site for hutted accommodation at Silksworth for army cadets, by the Territorial Army & Air Force Association of the County of Durham, November 1945 No scale

Plan and elevation of a proposed hutment for army cadets at Silksworth, n.d. [1945] No scale

Faculty authorising the laying of a new chancel floor, alterations to the hot water system, and re-furnishing, 3 June 1908

Faculty authorising the erection of a stained-glass window in the south aisle, 3 November 1914

Faculty authorising the erection of a new pulpit, clergy and choir stalls in oak, 1 February 1917

Faculty authorising the erection of an oak screen at the entrance to the chancel, an oak tablet at the west end of the church, and a replacement oak door in the vestry, 8 May 1923

Faculty authorising the insertion of a stained-glass window at the north side of the church, commemorating the dead of World War 2, 1 June 1950

Faculty authorising the erection of an oak book-cupboard on the west wall, commemorating a former churchwarden, John Forster, and his wife, 29 February 1952

Faculty authorising the introduction of 6 brass altar-candlesticks and 2 standard, oak candlesticks, inscribed in memory of Harry Coates, 3 September 1953

Faculty authorising the installation of a permanent kneeler at the communion rail in the Lady Chapel, and an alms box near the porch, 18 June 1956

Faculty authorising the installation of an electric lighting system, and the introduction of a ciborium and a new carpet in the centre aisle, 18 April 1956

Faculty authorising the installation of an overhead gas heater on a pillar in the side chapel, 5 January 1957

Faculty authorising the erection of a vicars' tablet in oak on the west wall, and the introduction of a brass sanctuary lamp, inscribed in memory of a former vicar, William Atkinson; a new carpet in the chancel, and 2 oak vase-stands, one inscribed in memory of the Hunter family, 21 January 1958

Faculty authorising the erection of a new clergy-vestry, and the carrying out of improvements in the choir vestry, 29 March 1958

Faculty authorising the renewal of the lightning conductor; the recasting of 2 bells, and the renewal of the bell fittings; and the cleaning and overhaul of the organ, 3 June 1958

Faculty authorising the introduction of a new carpet into the side chapel, 4 July 1961

Faculty authorising the erection of a nameboard at the main entrance to the churchyard; the provision of a new entrance to the churchyard; the removal and destruction of the Lord's Prayer and Apostles' Creed boards on the west wall of the church, 15 May 1964

Faculty authorising the introduction of a new chalice and paten, 22 August 1966

Faculty authorising the installation of a new gas-fired central heating system, 10 December 1966

Faculty authorising the removal of kerbstones, rails and damaged headstones from the old section of the churchyard, 3 May 1974

Faculty authorising the removal of all kerbstones, damaged and indecipherable headstones, from the section of the churchyard on the east and south east sides of the church, 23 May 1975

Faculty authorising the removal, or re-siting, of specified gravestones; the laying of a drive to serve the new vicarage; the removal of the entrance gates and piers to widen the access; and the erection of bollards and chains across the paths leading from the drive to the church, 7 May 1986 Originally part of the bundle with EP/Si 2/25; 4/50-54

Faculty authorising the introduction of an aumbry and lamp into the north side of the sanctuary, 24 October 1984

Faculty authorising the introduction of fifteen stations of the cross, 7 July 1989

Faculty authorising the introduction into the churchyard of a memorial to Abigail Caroline Deacon, 9 December 1991

Faculty authorising the introduction of a representation of the Madonna and Child in the side chapel, 25 August 1992

Faculty authorising the introduction of a sound re-inforcement and loop system, 21 May 2001

Faculty authorising the introduction into the churchyard of a memorial seat bearing a plaque inscribed in memory of John Holt, 17 March 2005

Faculty authorising the redecoration and a small area of re - plastering as per the Churchwarden's letter and enclosures of 6th November 2008 and notes of the visit on 5 December 2008, 1 September 2009

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the renewal of rainwater gutters, 6 September 1957

Archdeacon's certificate authorising roof repairs, 7 August 1963

Archdeacon's certificate authorising general repairs and interior decoration, 8 May 1964

Archdeacon's certificate authorising unspecified maintenance work at the church, 12 February 1986

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the protection with polycarbonate sheets of 8 clerestory windows on the north and 8 on the south side of the church, 17 May 1999

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the protection with polycarbonate sheets of windows in the east end, the chancel wall and the Lady Chapel; south wall, north wall and north-west corner, and west end of the church, 21 July 1999

Terrier and inventory, 1899 - 1951

Terrier, n.d., [1900]

Terrier, 12 February 1958 - 18 February 1981

Inventory, 12 February 1958 - 18 February 1981

Log book, 1973-1980

Quinquennial inspection report on Silksworth church by Cordingley and McIntyre, architects, Owengate, Durham, May 1961

Quinquennial inspection report on Silksworth church by Hayton & Lee, architects, Owengate House, Durham, October 1973

Quinquennial inspection report on Silksworth church by A..O. Lee, architect, Owengate House, Durham, November 1978

Quinquennial inspection report on the church by A.O. Lee, architect, Owengate House, Durham, November 1988

Quinquennial report on St. Matthew's church, by Hayton, Lee & Braddock, Owengate House, Durham, November 1983

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Matthew's church, by Hawkins Heath Partnership, chartered architects, 3 Grange Terrace, Stockton Road, Sunderland, April 1993

Quinquennial inspection report on the church by Hawkins Heath Partnership, chartered architects and planning supervisors, 3 Grange Terrace, Stockton Road, Sunderland, August 1998

Quinquennial inspection by J. S. Burns, Mackellar Architecture Limited, Thorne House, 77 - 87 West Road, Newcastle - upon - Tyne, NE15 6RB, August 2005

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of the vicarage, by A.O. Lee, diocesan surveyor, Owengate House, Durham, September 1983

Schedule of dilapidations and repairs required to the vicarage, noted at the quinquennial inspection by M. Galley, diocesan surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, February 2001

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of the vicarage, by D.L. Renton, diocesan surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, June 1991

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of the vicarage by D.L. Renton, diocesan surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, January 1997

Promotional brochure publicising St. Matthew's planned giving campaign, 1960

Brochure publicising the parish's Development Campaign of planned giving, 1963

Leaflet publicising the parish's planned giving scheme, 1974

Statements of account of St. Matthew's church for the years ended 31 December 1982 - 1988

Cash book of the church deposit account and restoration appeal, and the vicarage decoration account, 1 January 1991 - 15 April 2002

Sequestration order during the vacancy following the cession of Rev. Richmond Harptree Gurney, 18 July 1966

Parochial Church Council minute book, 4 August 1921 - 27 June 1938

Parochial Church Council minute book, 29 August 1938 - 7 May 1957

Parochial Church Council minute book, 13 June 1957 - 6 September 1967

Parochial Church Council minute book, 10 April 1967 - 29 November 1972

Parochial Church Council minutes, 28 February 1979 - 18 March 1981

Parochial Church Council minutes (incomplete), 24 March 1982 - 29 April 1992

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 24 June 1993 - 12 January 1997; minutes of annual meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 23 March 1988 - 20 April 1995; Treasurer's correspondence, 29 June 1994 - 3 March 1997; Secretary's correspondence, 12 January - 31 March 1997

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 9 March 1997 - 11 May 1998

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 22 April 1998 - 7 March 1999

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 16 May 1999 - 4 March 2001

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 23 May 2001 - 9 March 2003

Projected budgets, 1960 - 1966

Statement of accounts for the year ended 31 December 1963

Statement of accounts for the year ended 31 December 1964

Statement of accounts for the year ended 31 December 1965

Statement of accounts for the year ended 31 December 1972

Statement of accounts for the year ended 31 December 1973

Parochial accounts, 3 January 1978 - 31 December 1983

Parochial accounts, 4 January 1984 - 23 December 1995

Electoral roll, February 1978 - February 1983

Electoral roll, 1994

Electoral roll, April 1996

Electoral roll, April 1998

5 September 1957 (1) Richmond Harptree Gurney, vicar of Silksworth (2) Parochial Church Council of Silksworth (3) George Oswald Randall of 12 Cornelia Street, Silksworth Agreement to employ (3) as sexton, including a schedule of duties

Correspondence between Miss M. Penk, Church of England School, Old Silksworth, Sunderland; Durham County Council Education Department, Shire Hall, Durham; Vicar of Silksworth, The Vicarage, Silksworth; Director of Religious Education, Diocese of Durham, Hallgarth House, Hallgarth Street, Durham City; Ministry of Education (later Department of Education and Science), Curzon Street, London; Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; and Miss P. Carter, Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; concerning the management of Silksworth Church of England School, proposals to close it, and negotiations about whether the parish should support either the building of a new aided school in New Silksworth to replace it, or the construction of a pastoral unit in the new township, 15 August 1925 - 22 December 1967

General correspondence of Rev. S. Rycroft, St. Matthew's Vicarage, New Silksworth, relating to his role as a governor of Benedict Biscop Church of England Primary School, 14 September 1984 - 23 May 1990 Includes: copy minutes of Governors' meetings, 8 November 1984 - 23 May 1990; Governors' annual reports, 1986/7 - 1988/9

Sunderland Church of England Voluntary Aided Schools (Articles of Government) Order 1989: Benedict Biscop Church of England Aided Primary School, 3 January 1989 Originally enclosed in EP/Si 11/2

Plan of [Silksworth C.E. School], n.d. [c.1900] Scale: 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot [5:48]

Analysis of the catchment area of Silksworth C.E. School, listing townships and neighbourhoods and the numbers of children attending from each, n.d. [ c.1900]

Silksworth C.E. School accommodation, attendance and staffing statistics prepared by the head teacher, Isabella Foster, n.d. [ c.1900]

Notes of visit following up an inspection of Silksworth C.E. School by Durham County Council Education Department officers, 24 June 1925

National Savings Movement certificates of affiliation of Old Silksworth Village Church of England School penny savings bank, 4 July 1933 - 22 June 1937

Certificate of Old Silksworth Village C.E. Junior Mixed School, pledging to help the missionary work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 18 January 1950

Copy of an article from the Sunderland Echo about the history of Silksworth Village C.E. School, and its closure, 21 July 1967

Article entitled, 'St. Matthew's Church and the Church of England School, Silksworth, by Jennie Adams, 1991

Frances Gibson's membership card of the Sunderland branch of the Girls' Friendly Society, October 1903

Girls' Friendly Society certificate of merit awarded to Frances Gibson, Sunderland Branch, n.d. [ c.1905]

Frances Gibson's membership card of the Guild of the Servants of Jesus, 1908

Frances Gibson's membership card of the Guild of St. Mary, 1911

Ella Adams's enrolment card in the 1914 League of Honour for Women and Girls of the Empire, n.d. [1914]

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, June 1985

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, August 1985

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, September 1985

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, December 1985

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, March 1986

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, August 1986

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, October 1986

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, January - April 1987

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, July 1987

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, September - November 1987

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, January - December 1988

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, February - May 1989

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, August 1989

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, December 1989

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, January - December 1990

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, January - December 1991

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, January - December 1992

Saint Matthew's parish magazine, January - December 1993 (12 booklets) Fourth Deposit

St. Matthew's Monthly News, February - April 1985

St. Matthew's Monthly News, July 1985

St. Matthew's Monthly News, October - November 1985

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January - February 1986

St. Matthew's Monthly News, April - July 1986

St. Matthew's Monthly News, September 1986

St. Matthew's Monthly News, December 1986

St. Matthew's Monthly News, May - June 1987

St. Matthew's Monthly News, August 1987

St. Matthew's Monthly News, December 1987

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January 1989

St. Matthew's Monthly News, June - July 1989

St. Matthew's Monthly News, September - November 1989

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January - December 1994

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January - August 1995

St. Matthew's Monthly News, October - December 1995

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January - July 1996

St. Matthew's Monthly News, September - November 1996

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January 1997

St. Matthew's Monthly News, March 1997

St. Matthew's Monthly News, May - September 1997

St. Matthew's Monthly News, November - December 1997

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January - December 1998

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January - December 1999

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January - December 2000

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January - December 2001

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January - December 2002

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January - November 2003

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January 2004 See EP/Si 14/65/1 for the remainder of 2004

St. Matthew' s Silksworth Monthly News, December 1981

St. Matthew' s Silksworth Monthly News, January 1982

St. Matthew's Monthly News, February - December 2004 See EP/Si 14/47 for January 2004

St. Matthew's Monthly News, January - November 2005

St. Matthew's Monthly News, December 2005 - April 2006; June - November 2006

St. Matthew's Monthly News, February - November 2007

St. Matthew's Monthly News, December 2007 - October 2008

St. Matthew's Monthly News, February - March; May - August; October - November 2009

St. Matthew's Monthly News, December 2009 - September 2010; November 2010

St. Matthew's Monthly News, December 2010 - January 2011; March - September 2011; November 2011

Outreach, March 1974

Photograph of an unidentified group of [church members], taken by T. Inkson, Sunderland, 1910

Postcard photograph of a pageant entitled 'The World for Christ', taken by J. Thompson, n.d. [1910]

Postcard photograph of a nun and two boys, part of the same pageant as EP/Si 14/49, taken by J. Thompson, n.d. [1910]

Photograph of a Christmas pageant at the Mission Hall, taken by H. Bradwell, Cliff House, Ryhope, n.d. [ c.1920]

Programme of events to celebrate the centenary of the parish, 18 September - 2 October 1968

Programme of a St. Matthew's church centenary concert by Silksworth Senior Mixed School, 28 June 1972

Poster advertising a St. Matthew's church centenary year musical concert, 5 July [1972]

Annual church fete day programmes, 7 July 1956 - 28 June 1958

Annual church fete day programmes, 1 July 1960 - 2 July 1966

Plans, schedules, posters, leaflets, and correspondence relating to the Christmas and Summer Fayres, 8 October 1986 - 20 June 1987

Schedule of an arts and crafts exhibition in the Miners' Hall, 13 April 1957

Leaflet publicising Silksworth Millennium celebrations, 14 - 16 July 2000

Article from the Sunderland Echo outlining the County Borough's plans to build a new township to house 20,000 people at Silksworth, 23 March 1966

Leaflet publicising an exhibition of Sunderland County Borough's proposals for a new township at Silksworth, to be held at the Central Art Gallery, 23 - 30 March 1966