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South Westoe St. Michael Parish

Reference: EP/SW Catalogue Title: South Westoe St. Michael Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1873-2015

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South Westoe St Michael and All Angels (Ref: EP/SW)Registration (Ref: EP/SW 1/)Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/SW 1/section 01)

1/1-12, 45-48, 54/1-5


Register of baptisms, 17 November 1878 - 15 July 1889
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of baptisms, 21 July 1889 - 5 August 1894
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of baptisms, 15 August 1894 - 21 November 1900
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of baptisms, 21 November 1900 - 19 April 1903
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of baptisms, 19 April 1903 - 1 January 1908
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of baptisms, 5 January 1908 - 17 July 1912
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of baptisms, 24 July 1912 - 28 June 1916
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of baptisms, 28 June 1916 - 8 May 1920
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of baptisms, 9 May 1920 - 14 November 1923
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Register of baptisms, 14 November 1923 - 6 May 1928
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 9 May 1928 - 11 October 1933
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 15 October 1933 - 18 June 1939
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 18 June 1939 - 19 August 1945
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 26 August 1945 - 2 May 1948
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 2 May 1948 - 12 June 1955
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 19 June 1955 - 23 September 1962
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 30 September 1962 - 1 November 1970
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 1 November 1970 - 28 March 1982
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 28 March 1982 - 19 July 2009
(1 volume)


Register of baptisms, 9 August 2009 - 1 July 2012
(1 volume)


Register of baptisms, 7 July 2012 - 19 January 2015
(1 volume)

Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/SW 1/section 02)

1/13-29, 49-53, 56/1-5


Register of marriages, 5 June 1882 - 4 June 1893
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of marriages, 11 June 1893 - 4 June 1898
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of marriages, 18 June 1898 - 13 January 1902
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of marriages, 21 January 1902 - 9 July 1906
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of marriages, 14 July 1906 - 12 July 1910
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 16 July 1910 - 22 July 1914
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 27 July 1914 - 14 February 1918
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 16 February 1918 - 27 December 1920
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 28 December 1920 - 4 June 1924
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 7 June 1924 - 14 April 1928
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 15 April 1928 - 4 June 1932
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 7 June 1932 - 15 February 1936
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 22 February 1936 - 21 June 1939
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 21 June 1939 - 14 February 1942
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 16 February 1942 - 10 November 1945
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 15 November 1945 - 19 March 1949
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 19 March 1949 - 16 September 1953
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 19 September 1953 - 11 October 1958
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 11 October 1958 - 31 July 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 21 August 1965 - 20 September 1969
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 30 September 1969 - 22 February 1975
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 1 March 1975 - 9 January 1982
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 9 January 1982 - 17 May 1991
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 7 June 1991 - 10 December 2010
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 2 April 2011 - 22 January 2013
(1 volume)


Register of marriages, 23 February 2013 - 21 June 2014
(1 volume)


Register of marriages, 28 June 2014 - 25 July 2015
(1 volume)

Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/SW 1/section 03)

1/30-43, 55/1


Register of banns of marriage, 7 July 1929 - 12 March 1933
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 12 March 1933 - 31 May 1936
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 10 May 1936 - 12 March 1939
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 5 March 1939 - 13 July 1941
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 29 June 1941 - 26 November 1944
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 12 November 1944 - 7 December 1947
(1 volume, card bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 30 November 1947 - 6 March 1949
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 27 February 1949 - 21 May 1950
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 7 May 1950 - 24 February 1952
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 17 February 1952 - 18 October 1953
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 11 October 1953 - 8 September 1957
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 8 September 1957 - 11 August 1962
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 5 August 1962 - 30 July 1967
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 23 July 1967 - 17 March 1974
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 24 April 1988 - 3 May 2003
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Registers of burials (Ref: EP/SW 1/section 04)

1/44


Register of burials, 27 February 1882 -3 February 1889
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Clergy (Ref: EP/SW 2/)Registers of confirmations (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 01)

2/1-3


Register of confirmations, 1897 - 6 May 1912
(1 volume, card bound)


Register of confirmations, 18 March 1924 - 14 June 1944
(1 volume, card bound)


Register of confirmations, 17 March 1945 - 22 November 1959
(1 volume, card bound)

Registers of services (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 02)St Michael (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 01)

2/4-10, 50-52, 94/1-2


Register of services, 27 April 1924 - 15 March 1925
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 16 March 1925 - 4 September 1932
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of services, 11 September 1932 - 30 December 1945
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of services, 1 January 1946 - 29 May 1952
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 6 September 1962 - 12 November 1967
(1 volume, paper)


Register of services, 13 November 1967 - 26 March 1972
(1 volume, paper)


Register of services, 27 March 1972 - 5 March 1977
(1 volume, paper)


Register of services, 1 June 1952 - 6 May 1962
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Rough register of services, 7 May - 2 September 1962 Originally enclosed in EP/SW 2/50
(1 booklet)


Register of services, 7 March 1977 - 13 December 1981
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 29 December 1994 - 16 November 2006
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Register of services, 19 November 2006 - 1 May 2010
(1 volume)

St Andrew's Mission (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 02)

2/53-54


St. Andrew's Mission: register of services, 27 April 1924 - 28 July 1937
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Andrew's Mission: register of services, 28 July 1937 - 28 September 1941
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Creation of the parish (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 03)

2/13-19, 31-44, 93


Draft of letter from the vicar of South Shields to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners concerning the endowment of the benefice of St. Hilda's: "... £355 even is a very inadequate endowment for the mother parish of a large and important Town with a Manufacturing Population of between 60,000 and 70,000 ..."; and a site for a church at Westoe, 17 June 1873
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester, St. Hilda's Vicarage, South Shields, concerning the provision of a site for a proposed church, burial ground and parsonage house at Westoe from the Durham Chapter estates, 30 November 1874
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester, South Shields, concerning an application for a grant "... in aid of the maintenance of an additional Curate in a part of the above Parish called Westoe where you state, it is proposed at once to erect a temporary Iron Church ...", 3 June 1876
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester, South Shields, concerning the erection of a temporary iron church on the site intended for a permanent church at Westoe, 5 June 1876
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester, South Shields, agreeing to contribute £1,000 towards the cost of a new church at Westoe, 9 August 1876
(1 paper)


Copy of letter from Rev. T.H. Chester, The Vicarage, South Shields, to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners seeking clarification of the conditions for granting new endowments, 2 March 1877
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester in response to EP/SW 2/18 and advising on the steps to be taken for forming Westoe into a separate ecclesiastical district, 28 March 1877
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, concerning the payment of any part of their promised contribution towards the church at South Westoe, 27 January 1880
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, approving plans and specifications for the new church and promising the payment of a moiety of their promised contribution of £1,000 on completion of the works now proposed, 21 June 1880
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, concerning a grant of land from the Durham Chapter Estates for the proposed church, parsonage house and schools at South Westoe, 22 December 1880
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, concerning conveyance of the sites for the proposed church, parsonage house and schools, 28 February 1881
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, concerning the payment of part of their promised contribution for building the new church, 4 May 1881
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, acknowledging receipt of the architect's certificate in respect of the new church and authorising payment of part of their promised contribution to the building costs, 9 September 1881
(1 paper)


Letters from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, declining to make a further contribution towards the cost of building the new church, 17-28 November 1881
(2 papers)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, advising that Mr. Ewan Christian has been instructed to survey the proposed church on their behalf, 6 January 1882
(1 paper)


Notification by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, that the conveyance of land as sites for a church and parsonage house at Westoe has been sealed and transmitted to Durham, 23 January 1882
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, advising that payment of the balance of the contribution to the new church will now be paid, 20 February 1882
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, forwarding copies of the instrument of approval of South Westoe church, 23-27 February 1882
(1 paper; parchment, 2 membranes)


Circular letter issued by the vicar and churchwardens of South Shields, St. Hilda, inviting the inhabitants of Westoe to a meeting to consider the building of a new church there, 28 October 1874
(1 paper)

Parish boundaries (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 04)

2/11-12, 20-28, 84-86, 4/125


Draft Order in Council to constitute district of South Westoe, n.d. [c.1878]
(1 file, paper)


The London Gazette, containing Order in Council constituting district of South Westoe, with covering letter, 24 - 29 May 1878
(paper, 1 file, printed and 1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester forwarding a draft description [not included] of the proposed boundaries of the proposed ecclesiastical district of South Westoe, 22 January 1878
(1 paper)


Copy of letter from Rev. T.H. Chester, The Vicarage, South Shields, to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners objecting to details of the proposed boundaries of the proposed district of South Westoe, 24 January 1878
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester, agreeing to the restoration of the boundaries originally proposed for the proposed district of South Westoe, 1 February 1878
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester, South Shields, recommending further amendments to the boundaries of the proposed district of South Westoe, with marginal comments by the recipient, 8 February 1878
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester, South Shields, concerning further amendments to the proposed boundaries of the proposed district of South Westoe, 2 March 1878
(1 paper)


Copy of letter from Rev. T.H. Chester, The Vicarage, South Shields, to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, containing further observations on the proposed boundaries, 4 March 1878
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester, South Shields, forwarding a revised draft description and plan of the boundaries of the proposed district of South Westoe for certification and return, 9 March 1878
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester, South Shields, forwarding a copy of the draft scheme constituting the ecclesiastical district of South Westoe, 22 March 1878
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. T.H. Chester, South Shields, advising that the scheme constituting the ecclesiastical district of South Westoe has been forwarded for ratification to the Privy Council Office, 13 May 1878
(1 paper)


Map showing alterations to the boundaries of the parishes of Harton Colliery, All Saints; South Shields, St. Oswin; South Westoe; Harton; and Cleadon Park, St. Mark and St. Cuthbert, 13 July 1967 Scale: 10 inches to 1 mile [1:6336]
(1 plan, 65 cm. x 75.5 cm.)


Copy of Order-in-Council for altering the boundaries of Harton Colliery, All Saints; South Shieds, St. Oswin; South Westoe; Harton; and Cleadon Park, St. Mark and St. Cuthbert, 13 November 1967
(1 paper)


Map showing alterations to the boundaries of Harton; Rekendyke; South Shields, All Saints; and South Westoe, 8 October 1985 Scale: 12 inches to 1 mile [1:5280]
(1 plan, 34.5 cm. x 81.5 cm.)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, Millbank, London, to the Rev. C.E. Adamson, The Vicarage, Westoe, forwarding a copy of the instrument of approval of the church erected within the ecclesiastical district of St. Oswin, South Shields, 20-22 September 1910
(2 papers)

Licence for the performance of divine service (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 05)

2/49


Licence for the performance of divine service at St. Andrew's Mission Room, South Westoe, 22 January 1894
(1 paper)

Benefice income (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 06)

2/29-30, 45-48


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, South Shields, transmitting a print of The London Gazette, 23 August 1878, publishing an instrument for securing the grant of a stipend of £200 p.a. to the incumbent of South Westoe, 30 August 1878
(2 papers)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, transmitting a print of The London Gazette, 5 May 1882, publishing the contents of an instrument for securing to the incumbent a stipend of £100 p.a. and a capital sum of £1,500 towards providing a parsonage house, 10 May 1882
(1 paper, 1 file)


Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, transmitting a print of The London Gazette, 26 January 1883, publishing the contents of an instrument for securing to the living a stipend of £120 p.a. for a curate, 29 January 1883
(1 paper, 1 file)

Reordering and redecoration of church (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 07)

2/87-88, 90-92


Invitation to a service of dedication by the Bishop of Durham of the bell and book of remembrance at South Westoe, 24 October 1954
(1 paper)


Press report, and photographs from The Shields Gazette, of those attending the service of dedication on 24 October 1954, 25 October 1954
(1 paper)


Order of service, and notice of dedication, for the new furnishings of the Lady Chapel, 20 July 1969
(2 papers)


Photographs of the ceremony of rededication of the church, 27 October 1989
(2 photographs)


Order of service of thanksgiving for the rescue, restoration, and reordering of the church, 29 October 1989
(1 booklet)

Individual clergy (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 08)Licences to the curacy (Ref: EP/SW 2/)

2/55-76


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Alfred Knight, 25 July 1898
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Stanley Latham Connor, 17 September 1912
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Charles Browning Snell, A.K.C., 10 December 1924
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Alfred Lane-Davies, M.A., 18 February 1925
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. William Edward Wright, B.A., 18 Decemebr 1927
(1 paper)


Copy of liclence to the curacy of the Rev. Thomas Woods, B.A., 12 September 1928
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Reginald Dru Drury, L.Th., 22 December 1929
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Joseph Harrison, B.A., 21 December 1930
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Erwyn Morgan Dennis, B.A., 31 May 1931
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Thomas Elliott, B.A., 11 June 1933
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. William Alan Lathaen, M.A., 13 June 1937
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Thomas Hugh Corden, B.A., 19 December 1937
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. William Taylor Hinkley, B.A., 21 July 1938
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Jeffrey Fulton, B.A., 18 December 1938
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Thomas Anderson Drewette, 12 May 1942
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Ernest John Tinsley, M.A., 22 September 1944
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. John Raymond Bullock, M.A., 23 May 1948
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Theodore John Lee Warner, B.A., 16 December 1951
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. John Peter Patrick, A.K.C., 8 June 1952
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Edward Simpson Baird, 25 September 1955
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. William Stephenson, 23 September 1962
(1 paper)


Copy of licence to the curacy of the Rev. Frank Roylance, 7 October 1964
(1 paper)

Rev. C.E. Adamson (Ref: EP/SW 2/)

2/80, 14/21


Local Church Arrangements in the 18th Century by the Rev. C.E. Adamson, n.d. Overprint from the Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, vol X, pp. 183-187
(2 papers)


The Vicars of Haltwhistle by the Rev. C.E. Adamson, M.A., vicar of South Westoe, 1897
(1 booklet)

Correspondence (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 09)

2/77-79, 81-83


Letter from Joseph M. Moore, Harton Hall, South Shields, to the Rev. C.G. Adamson, vicar of St. Michael's concerning funding for tracery round three sides of the corbels, 29 November 1896
(1 paper)


Letter from the Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe Vicarage, South Shields, to Mr. Walford, corcerning the writer's father, 3 October 1898
(1 paper)


Copies of letters from the Rev. C.E. Adamson, Westoe, South Shields, and the Rectory, Houghton-le-Spring, to Mr. Oxberry, concerning off-prints of a memoir, 8 September 1910 - 18 October 1910
(3 papers)


Letters from Clara Adamson, 1 Belford Terrace, Sunderland, to Mr. Oxberry thanking him for an obituary notice of her husband and pictures of the house where he was born, 4-14 December 1922
(2 papers)


Letter from Robert Wilson, 46 Rosebery Avenue, South Shields, to Miss Muriel L. Hall, Senior School, offering spiritual guidance, 22 February 1911
(1 file)


Letters to the Rev. Canon J.M. Hancock, St. Michael's Vicarage, South Westoe, from J. Conway, Superintendent, Students' Room, The British Library, Great Russell Street, London, and Peter J. Begent, 82 Farm Road, Maidenhead, concerning St. Michael's cross, 25 October 1988 - 3 November 1989
(3 papers)

Orders of Service (Ref: EP/SW 2/section 10)

2/89


Order of service for the funeral of Alderman C.J.R. Laybourn, mayor of South Shields, 14 May 1955
(1 paper)

Churchwardens (Ref: EP/SW 4/)Church (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 01)Church grounds (Ref: EP/SW 4/)

4/47-56


24 December 1931 (1) The Rev. H.G. Hastings Shaddick, vicar of St. Michael's (2) The mayor, aldermen and burgesses of South Shields Memorandum of agreement for dedicating to the public church ground fronting on West Road and Mowbray Road, South Westoe
(1file)


18 September 1945 (1) The Ecclesiastical commissioners (2) The Rev. A.H. Plantagenet Squance, vicar of South Westoe (3) The mayor, alderman and burgesses of South Shields Deed of appropriation and conveyance by (1), with the consent of (2), to (3) of 3 pieces of land comprising 2,020 square yards for a garden of rest
(1 file)


Plan referred to in EP/SW 4/48, n.d. [1945] Scale: 1:500
(1 plan, 42 cm. x 33.2 cm.)


Plan of proposed extension of gardens on Mowbray Road front of St. Michael's Church, n.d. [1945] Scale: 1:500
(1 plan, 48 cm. x 50.3 cm.)


Plan of proposed rest garden, n.d. [1946] Scale: 1:500
(1 plan, 39.5 cm. x 37.7 cm.)


16 May 1947 (1) The Church Commissioners (2) Rev. William Alan Lathaen, vicar of South Westoe (3) The mayor, aldermen and burgesses of South Shields Copy of conveyance by (1), with the consent of (2) to (3), of 978 square yards for extension of the rest garden Includes: plan showing area conveyed Scale: 1:500
(1 file)


Plan of proposed extension of gardens on Mowbray Road front, n.d. [1948] Scale: 1:500
(1 plan, 47.2 cm. x 50 cm.)


Annotated plan of proposed extension of gardens on Mowbray Road front, n.d. [1949] Scale: 1:500
(1 plan, 48.5 cm. x 50.7 cm.)


Correspondence between the Town Clerk, Town Hall, South Shields, and the Rev. F.S.M. Chase, St. Michael's Vicarage, South Shields, concerning the provision of a bus shelter on the land originally conveyed for providing a garden of rest, 4 April 1967 - 29 January 1968
(6 papers)


Plan and elevation of proposed bus shelter at St. Michael's Church, January 1968 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]
(1 plan, 69.5 cm. x 44 cm.)

Organ (Ref: EP/SW 4/)

4/69-75


12 June 1901 (1) Harrison and Harrison, organ-builders, Durham (2) The vicar and churchwardens of St. Michael's, South Westoe Agreement for work to the organ Consideration: £190
(1 paper)


Papers relating to the acquisition and sale of the organ, 15 February 1985 - November 1992
(3 booklets, 28 papers)


Correspondence between Dr. Donald Wright, 2 Hackwood Park, Hexham, Northumberland; Niven and Niven, The Old Hall, West Auckland, architects; Martin Goetze and Dominic Gwynn, Tan Gallop, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire, organ builders; the Rev. John Hancock, The Vicarage, St. Michael's, South Shields, and others, concerning the installation of a new organ, 5 December 1987 - 6 December 1992
(108 papers)


Report by Dr. Donald Wright, 2 Hackwood Park, Hexham, Northumberland, organ consultant, concerning the installation of a new organ, April 1988
(1 file)


1989 (1) The Parochial Church Council of South Westoe (2) Martin Goetze and Dominic Gwynn, 5 Tan Gallop, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire Draft contract for the purchase and installation of a new organ Consideration: £98,750
(1 file)


Photograph of new organ console, n.d., c.1992
(1 photograph)


Progress report of an ad hoc committee appointed by the Parochial Church Council to investigate the feasibility of disposing of the organ and replacing it on financial grounds with an electronic instrument, 2 March 1994
(1 paper)

Plans (Ref: EP/SW 4/)

2, 7-8, 10-11, 15, 18-19, 25-29, 35-36, 38, 133-137, 148/1-14
For building of the church see also EP/SW 2/13-49


Ground plan of church showing proposed extension [13 August 1894] Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]
(1 plan, 56 cm. x 36 cm., waxed linen)


Drawing of design for oak altar rails by G.E. Charlewood, 14 Neville Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, architect, March 1957
(1 paper)


Drawing of details of lettering on the proposed wall tablet commemorating vicars of the parish, by G.E. Charlewood, 14 Neville Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, architect, April 1957
(1 paper)


Plan and sections, by G.E. Charlewood and Curry, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle, architects, of the church before proposed lighting installations, May 1967 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]
(1 plan, 75.5 cm. x 65 cm.)


Plan, section and elevation, by G.E. Charlewood and Curry, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle, architects, of proposed pews and desks for the north chapel, April 1968 Scales: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1:24] 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12] Full scale
(1 plan, 105.5 c.m. x 67.5 cm.)


Sketch detail by G.E. Charlewood and Curry, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle, of the chancel east window showing areas of mullions, sills and tracery to be repaired, April 1970
(1 plan, 70 cm. x 49 cm.)


Plan of church, as existing, by Niven and Niven, The Old Hall, West Auckland, 4 August 1987 Scale: 1:100
(1 plan, 59 cm. x 42.5 cm.)


Proposed re-ordering scheme for church by Niven and Niven, The Old Hall, West Auckland, October 1987 Scale: 1:100
(1 plan, 59 cm. x 42 cm., 1 paper)


Base plan of church by Niven and Niven, The Old Hall, West Auckland, 20 January 1988 Scale: 1:50
(1 plan, 84 cm. x 59.5 cm.)


Preliminary plans for the restoration following the fire, 20 January 1988 - 5 April 1989 Scales: 1:50; 1:20
(9 plans, 84 cm. x 59 cm., and 59 cm. x 42 cm.)


Architect's drawings of proposed views of the west end of the church; the proposed worship area; a general view of the nave; the proposed north porch; and elevation of cross section of the organ gallery, January 1988 - July 1988
(5 papers)


Plan and section of new sacristy and office, by Niven and Niven, The Old Hall, West Auckland, 3 February 1988 Scale: 1:50
(1 plan, 59 cm. x 42.5 cm.)


Plan, by Niven and Niven, The Old Hall, West Auckland, of the proposed balcony for St. Michael's church, 18 February 1988 Scale: 1:50
(1 plan, 42 cm. x 59 cm.)


Drawings of arch infills for church alterations by Niven and Niven, The Old Hall, West Auckland, architects, 1 December 1988 Scale: 1:20
(1 paper)


Plan of church site as proposed, 12 December 1988
(1 plan, 84 cm. x 59.5 cm.)


Drawings, and sections, of door infills for internal alterations to the church by Niven and Niven, The Old Hall, West Auckland, architects, May 1989
(1 paper)


Detail of carving on roof bracket, n.d., c.1886
(1 plan, 46 cm. x 34 cm.)


Pencil sketch of the exterior of the church annotated 'S. Michaels Westo. as intended (Sketched at Ovingham from memory and imagination. 1889 N.S. Hicks', 1889
(1 paper, 20.5 cm. x 27.9 cm.)


Ground plan, section, and west elevation of new aisle and porch and ground plan of vestry, by Hicks and Charlewood, 42 Grainger Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, c.1894 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]
(1 plan, 43 cm. x 60.3 cm., oiled linen, colour-wash)


Ground plan, giving dates of building of each part of the church, by Hicks and Charlewood, 4 Mosley Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 1920 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]
(1 plan, 56 cm. x 46 cm., oiled linen)


Elevation, section, ground and first floor plans of the tower, by G.E. Charlewood, 14 Neville Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, January 1952 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]
(1 plan, 52 cm. x 60.5 cm., duplicated)


Plan showing longitudinal section of the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, 13 July 1988
(1 plan, 59cm x 42cm)


Plan showing the cross section of the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, 13 July 1988
(1 plan, 59cm x 42cm)


Plan showing sections of the stairwell in the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, 13 July 1988
(1 plan, 59cm x 42cm)


Plan showing the proposed elevations of the north porch of the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, 11 August 1988
(1 plan, 59cm x 42cm)


Plan showing the proposed balcony with beam and joist layout in the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, 18 September 1988
(1 plan, 42cm x 59cm)


Plan showing the foundation and drainage of the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, 11 October 1988
(1 plan, 84cm x 59cm)


Plan and elevations of the door and windows leading to the sacristy and Lady Chapel in the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, October 1988
(1 plan, 59cm x 42cm)


Plan showing the steel staircase in the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, October 1988
(1 plan, 59cm x 42cm)


Plan, section and elevation of the south porch access steps outside the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, October 1988
(1 plan, 59cm x 42cm)


Plan showing the section details of the first floor window seats in the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, 17 November 1988
(1 plan, 42cm x 30cm)


Plan showing a section of the balustrade in the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, November 1988
(1 plan, 21cm x 29cm)


Plan and section showing the lift in the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, November 1988
(1 plan, 41cm x 30cm)


Plan and elevation showing the relocated screen and new balcony in the church, November 1988
(1 plan, 83cm x 59cm)


Plan and elevations showing the panelling to the meter room, lift and motor room in the church by Niven and Niven architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, County Durham, DL14 9HL, 1 December 1988
(1 plan, 59cm x 42cm)

Photographs (Ref: EP/SW 4/)

4/123, 138-144


Photograph of altar frontal, 1953
(1 photograph)


Postcard view of the exterior of St. Michael's church and vicarage, c.1906
(1 card, 13.10 cm. x 8.8 cm., coloured)


Postcard of the interior of the church looking towards the altar, taken before the enlargement of the church, c.1890
(1 card, 13.8 cm. x 8.89 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the interior of the church looking towards the altar, c.1920
(1 photograph, 8.8 cm. x 12.2 cm., sepia)


Photograph of the interior of the church showing the altar screen and organ, n.d.
(1 card, 13.11 cm. x 8.6 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the interior of the church showing the altar screen, lectern and north aisle, n.d.
(1 photograph, 14.2 cm. x 9 cm., sepia)


Photograph of the interior of the church showing the altar screen, pews and organ in the south aisle, c.1960
(1 photograph, 24 cm. x 20.2 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the interior of the church looking towards the east end, showing the aftermath of the fire, c.1989
(1 photograph, 20.1 cm. x 25.3 cm., coloured)

Alterations, enlargement, restoration, maintenance (Ref: EP/SW 4/)

4/3, 5, 13, 16-17, 20, 22-24, 30-34, 37, 39-46


Enlargement account submitted to the Easter vestry meeting, 22 April 1897
(1 paper)


Receipted account of John Christie, Nile Street, South Shields, for building the new morning chapel, with financial statement of monies subscribed and expended, 1 - 25 October 1910
(2 papers)


Specification of works and materials for internal redecoration and cleaning of the roof and ceiling timbers by G.E. Charlewood and Curry, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, architects, November 1968
(1 file)


Specification, and schedule of work, for provision of toilet accommodation in former entrance lobby by Charlewood, Curry, Wilson and Atkinson, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, August 1984
(1 file)


Letter from Wheldon Houlsby and Scott, Town Hall Chambers, 7 Beach Road, South Shields, to the vicar and churchwardens of St. Michael's concerning an award of £1,500 to the Church Restoration Fund made under the will of the late John Edmund King, 17 June 1987
(1 paper)


Estimated costs and proposed schedules of work for repairs, restoration, and reordering of the church, 16 October 1987 - 13 February 1989
(15 papers)


Names and addresses of consultants, contractors, and restoration services for building works following the fire, n.d. [1987]
(4 papers)


Photographs of fire damage and restoration work, 1987-88
(25 photographs)


Photographic record of the fire and reconstruction, 1987-90
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Responses by churches dedicated to St. Michael countrywide in response to an appeal for funding for restoration work following the fire, 21 February 1988 - 22 June 1990
(35 papers, 3 booklets)


Correspondence between Niven and Niven, The Old Hall, West Auckland, architects, and Hayes and Finch, Hanson Road, Aintree, Liverpool, Lancashire, ecclesiastical furnishers, concerning the renovation of church furniture, 25 April 1988 - 30 April 1991
(27 papers)


Correspondence between Niven and Niven, The Old Hall, West Auckland, with various contractors engaged in restoration and repair work following the fire, 12 May 1988 - 16 July 1990
(129 papers)


Responses by various charitable trusts to applications for funding for restoration work following the fire, 16 May 1988 - 16 March 1989
(14 papers)


Bills of quantities for the proposed alterations to St. Michael's church, November 1988
(1 file)


Maintenance Committee report on repairs and improvements, with plans of proposed reordering scheme by Niven and Niven, Bishop Auckland, architects, October 1987 - May 1989
(11 papers)


Account of the fire and restoration, prepared for the reopening and dedication of the church, 27 October 1989
(1 booklet)


Financial statements incorporating a record of interim payments and the estimated final cost of restoration work, April - December 1989
(25 papers)


Letters from South Tyneside Borough Council to the Rev. Canon John Hancock, St. Michael's Vicarage, Westoe Road, South Shields, concerning a grant from South Tyneside Community Chest, 17 August 1989 - 2 September 1989
(2 papers)


Correspondence between Niven and Niven, The Old Hall, West Auckland, architects, and Stonewest Cox, Wells House, 231 High Street, Sutton, Surrey, concerning the cleaning and restoration of stonework, 6 April 1990 - 25 June 1990
(32 papers)


Letters from Aegis Marbles, Forth Street, Newcastle, to the Rev. Canon J. Hancock, St. Michael's Vicarage, Westoe Road, South Shields, concerning a disputed account for restoration of marble treads and risers, 3 October 1990 - January 1991
(7 papers)


Final account for proposed alterations to St. Michael's Church, South Westoe, 13 March 1991, and tender report for proposed alterations, March 1989
(1 file and 6 papers)


Copy of an illustrated article by Niven and Niven of West Auckland, architects, on the repair of, and alterations to, St. Michael's following the fire of 4 December 1987, published in Project, summer edition, 1991
(2 papers)


Plans and correspondence between various parties and the Rev. Canon J. Hancock, St. Michael's Vicarage, South Westoe, concerning the roofwork authorised in EP/SW 4/112, 20 January 1995 - 10 April 1996
(43 papers)

Bells (Ref: EP/SW 4/)

4/4


Correspondence from Messrs J.E. Moor and Armstrongs, 35 Market Place, South Shields, solicitors, to the Rev. C.E. Adamson, The Vicarage, South Westoe, concerning a bequest by Miss M.A. Young for providing a bell tower and bells, 18 June 1904 - 13 December 1904
(4 papers)

Windows (Ref: EP/SW 4/)

4/6, 14, 21


Receipted account for stained glass memorial window by Maile and Son Ltd., Euston Road, London, 7 July 1933; copy of memorial inscription, post 17 July 1968
(2 papers)


Specification notes for masonry repairs to the tracery, mullions and sills of the chancel east window, by G.E. Charlewood and Curry, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, architects, April 1970
(1 file)


Photograph of the fire-gutted east window, December 1987
(1 photograph)

Lighting (Ref: EP/SW 4/)

4/12


Specification for new lighting and electrical installation by G.E,. Charlewood and Curry, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, architects, April 1968
(1 file)

Church Hall (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 02)

4/9, 61-68


Plan of alterations to the church hall, by Peter Tong, 19a Old Elvet, Durham, February 1967 Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]
(1 plan, 77.5 cm. x 60.5 cm.)


6 November 1909 (1) The vicar and churchwardens of St. Michael's, South Westoe (2) Robert Redhead of South Garth, Westoe, esq. Receipt by (1) from (2) of a loan to build a church hall Consideration: £1,500 and interest
(1 paper)


6 November 1909 (1) The vicar and churchwardens of St. Michael's, South Westoe (2) Robert Redhead of South Garth, Westoe Guarantee by (1) to (2) for repayment of loan to build a church hall Consideration: £1,500 plus interest Endorsed with discharge of (1) by (2), 15 December 1921
(1 paper)


Receipted account of W.E.O. Scott to Robert Redhead for professional services in connection with a loan to vicar and churchwardens of South Westoe, 2 December 1909
(1 paper)


Final statement of accounts by Henry Grieves of Albany Chambers, South Shields, architect and surveyor, for a new parish hall and Sunday School for St. Michael's Church, South Westoe, October 1910
(1 file)


Agreement between the late vicar and churchwardens of St. Michael's and Robert Redhead of South Garth, Westoe, alderman, for repayment of the loan in EP/SW 4/61, 18 September 1912
(1 paper)


Minutes of the Church Hall Committee, 21 April 1950 - 19 March 1997
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Plan of church hall by Peter Tong, 28 Market Place, Durham, May 1966 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96] The church hall was demolished in 1990
(1 plan, 65.5 cm. x 31 cm.)


Plan of proposed alterations to the church hall by Peter Tong, 28 Market Place, Durham, architect, May 1966 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot
(1 plan, 65.5 cm. x 30 cm.)

Vicarage (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 03)

4/145


Photograph of the exterior of the vicarage, by T.G. Flynn, 30 Marshall Wallis Road, South Shields, c.1960
(1 photograph, 19 cm. x 15.5 cm., black and white)

Other church property (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 04)

4/120


29 October 1908 (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners (2) William Clunie of South Shields, builder Lease for 999 years of land and dwellinghouse known as 49 Blagdon Avenue, South Shields Consideration: rent of £3 7s. 6d. p.a.
(1 parchment)

Faculties and Archdeacons' Certificates (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 05)Faculties (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 01)

4/83-112


Faculty for building a tower, 16 November 1907
(1 paper)


Faculty for inserting a stained glass window in the second bay from the organ on the south aisle in memory of Thomas Coulson of Westoe, killed in action in France on 7 October 1916 in his twenty-first year, 6 September 1917
(1 paper)


Faculty for removing the paintings from above the Holy Table to the side chapel, for erecting an alabaster reredos, for erecting additional oak panels in the chancel, for erecting a chancel screen with two brass plates, for inserting stained glass in a window in the bay adjoining the organ chamber, 15 July 1919
(2 papers)


Faculty for inserting stained glass in a window in the north wall of St. Margaret's chapel in memory of the members of St. Andrew's Mission who gave their lives in the Great War, 6 October 1923
(1 paper)


Faculty for inserting stained glass in a window in the south aisle in memory of Anne Barnes, who died on 15 July 1924, 3 November 1924
(1 paper)


Faculty for inserting stained glass in place of plain glass in the window in the south chancel, 10 September 1925
(1 paper)


Faculty for inserting stained glass in place of plain glass in a window in the south wall of the nave in memory of George Trevelyan Thornton (1897 - 1925), 10 April 1926
(1 paper)


Faculty for inserting stained glass in place of plain glass in a window in the Lady Chapel in memory of Cuthbert Edward Adamson, first vicar of the parish (1878-1910), 10 May 1929
(1 paper)


Faculty for removing the existing organ and replacing it with a new one with an electric blower, 12 November 1931
(1 paper)


Faculty for inserting stained glass in a window in the south west porch, 28 March 1933
(1 paper)


Petition for a faculty to place a canopy over the font and to introduce in the church a processional cross, 20 November 1934
(4 papers)


Faculty for introducing a processional cross and for placing a canopy over the font, 12 February 1935
(1 paper)


Faculty for inserting stained glass in the two windows immediately west of the Lady Chapel, in memory of Richard Gibson, 2 March 1946
(1 paper)


Faculty for installing a bell, introducing an oak bookcase and book of remembrance, and incising the names of parishioners killed in the Second World War on the side panelling of the Sanctuary, 7 July 1954
(1 paper)


Faculty for removing and relocating the communion rails, introducing new communion rails, and erecting an oak tablet to commemorate the vicars of South Westoe, 1 July 1957
(1 paper)


Faculty for laying vinyl floor tiles, 27 April 1962
(1 paper)


Faculty for introducing a new altar rail into the Lady Chapel, 26 July 1966
(1 paper)


Faculty for introducing a silver almsdish, 25 August 1967
(1 paper)


Faculty for introducing new seating in the Lady Chapel and renewing the electric wiring and light fittings, 7 November 1968
(1 paper)


Faculty for installing a new oil-fired boiler and oil storage tanks, 29 August 1973
(1 paper)


Faculty for introducing an amplification system, introducing a chair to be used in conjunction with a desk in the Lady Chapel, and for undertaking minor roof repairs, 27 April 1983
(1 paper)


Faculty for introducing a glass-topped oak case containing a book of remembrance in memory of Edith Baird, who died on 4 June 1985, 26 March 1986
(1 paper)


Faculty for cleaning and repairing the church following fire damage, for internal reordering, and for external repairs of the stonework and brickwork, 23 August 1988
(1 paper)


Letters from the Diocesan Registrar, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, to the Rev. J.M. Hancock, St. Michael's Vicarage, South Shields, concerning the petition for a faculty for a new floodlighting and heating system, 4 October 1989 - 5 June 1990
(13 papers)


General citation for a faculty for the installation of a new pipe organ, 31 January 1990
(1 paper)


Faculty for the installation of a new pipe organ, 6 March 1990
(1 paper)


Faculty granting a right of way to Nathan Richmond Country Homes Ltd., across part of the unconsecrated churchyard, 3 July 1990 Plan attached
(2 papers)


Confirmatory faculty for the installation of a Crolla CE 355 Pressurair heating unit, and the installation of external floodlighting, 13 July 1990
(1 paper)


Faculty for the placing of the original choir pews in the balcony, modifying the front pew and the adding of an infill panel to extend the organ case woodwork, 5 August 1992
(1 paper)


Faculty for reconstruction of the north aisle parapet gutter in stainless steel, and the amendment of rainwater fall pipes, 13 December 1995
(1 paper)

Archdeacons' certificates (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 02)

4/113-119


Archdeacon's certificate for works to the church, 29 June 1962
(1 paper)


Archdeacon's certificate for works to the church, 9 March 1966
(1 paper)


Archdeacon's certificate for works to the church, 25 November 1968
(1 paper)


Archdeacon's certificate for works to the church, 16 September 1971
(1 paper)


Archdeacon's certificate for works to the church, 29 June 1975
(1 paper)


Archdeacon's certificate for works to the church, 11 April 1977
(1 paper)


Archdeacon's certificate for works to the church, 11 July 1986
(1 paper)

Inventories (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 06)

4/76-77, 132


Inventory of gifts made at the opening of St. Michael's Church on 2 February 1882, 19 December 1927 Originally enclosed in EP/SW 4/72
(2 papers)


Inventory, 1931 - 1937
(1 volume, leather, half-bound)


List of items in the sanctuary, the chancel, St. Margaret's Chapel, the nave, and the choir and clergy vestries, c.1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Quinquennial Inspections (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 07)

4/124, 147/1


Quinquennial report on St. Michael's Church, South Westoe, 8 August 1969
(1 file)


Quinquennial inspection report on St Michael and All Angels church, by Christopher Downs, chartered architect, ecclesiastical and historic buildings consultant, 8 Holmside Place, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, 31 March 1997
(45 papers, typescript)

Sequestration (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 08)

4/121


Writ of sequestration, 9 May 1927
(1 paper)

Financial records (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 09)Other financial records (Ref: EP/SW 4/)

4/1, 81-82, 122, 126-131


Notice of resolution by vicar, churchwardens and sidesmen concerning raising money to prevent deficit in church finances, 16 October n.y. [1896 - 1902] Originally enclosed in EP/SW 14/3
(1 paper, printed)


Payments made by the vicar on behalf of the churchwardens, January 1924 - October 1962
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Accounts and balance sheet for 1989
(1 paper)


Acknowledgement by the vicar and churchwardens of the receipt of £100 from Mrs. Alice Hayton of Derwent Lodge, Westoe Village, to be invested and the income applied as a bonus for the cleaner of the church, 8 March 1935 Attached: preference share certificate of the Shields and Tyne Dock Permanent Building Society in the sum of £100, 9 September 1938
(2 papers)


Bank pass book for 'The Westoe Church Building Fund', 5 November 1874 - 1 January 1883
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Bank pass book for the fund for the enlargement of the church, 8 May 1894 - 1 December 1899
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Bank pass book for the bazaar fund, 2 March 1899 - 18 November 1902
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Bank pass book for the organ fund, 30 June 1900 - 15 November 1901
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Circular appealing for money to re-point the stonework of the church and church hall and renew the lighting in the church, c.1955
(1 paper)


Circular letter from the churchwardens soliciting subscriptions for a gift for Rev. E.S. Baird on his leaving the parish, 1958
(1 paper)

Churchwardens' accounts (Ref: EP/SW 4/)

4/78-80


Churchwardens' accounts, including Church Institute and School Treat accounts, 11 March 1877 - March 1896
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Churchwardens' accounts for the year ending 5 April 1896
(1 paper)


Churchwardens' cash account, 25 April 1897 - 5 April 1903
(1 volume, leather bound)

St Andrew's Mission (Ref: EP/SW 4/section 10)

4/57-60, 146


Mission Room accounts, including subscription and building accounts, 12 April 1877 - 24 September 1877
(1 volume, paper bound)


St. Andrew's Mission accounts for the year ending 31 Decemebr 1938
(1 paper)


St. Andrew's Mission accounts for the year ending 31 December 1939
(1 paper)


Tracing of site of Mission Church, South Westoe, by Henry Grieves, South Shields, n.d. Scale: 1:500
(1 plan, 21.3 cm. x 23.5 cm., tracing paper)


Photograph of the interior of the mission church of St. Andrew, Derby Terrace, c.1930 Endorsed: 'Destroyed by Enemy Action Oct 1941'
(1 photograph, 10.9 cm. x 15.5 cm., black and white)

Vestry (Ref: EP/SW 5/1-3)

Minutes of meetings held in connection with the enlargement of the church, 29 November 1893 - 22 April 1897
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Annual vestry meetings minutes, including minutes of the Building Committee, 7 December 1874 - 27 September 1901
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Annual vestry meetings minutes, 6 March 1902 - 5 April 1921
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/SW 6/1-15)Minutes (Ref: EP/SW 6/section 01)

6/1-11


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 3 May 1920 - 13 March 1929 Includes: Annual Vestry Meetings minutes, 14 April 1920 - 4 April 1929 Standing Committee minutes, 22 April 1929 - 16 September 1929
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 23 September 1929 - 8 March 1939 Includes: Annual Vestry Meetings minutes, 10 April 1930 - 21 April 1938
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book (indexed), 8 June 1939 - 16 June 1949 Includes: Annual Vestry Meeting minutes, 20 April 1939 - 21 April 1949
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 29 September 1949 - 26 May 1953 Includes: Annual Vestry Meetings minutes, 20 February 1950 - 16 April 1953
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book (indexed), 29 June 1953 - 24 November 1958 Includes: Annual Vestry Meetings minutes, 22 April 1954 - 17 April 1958
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book (indexed), 26 January 1959 - 28 September 1964 Includes: Annual Vestry Meetings minutes, 9 April 1959 - 1 April 1964
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book (indexed), 26 October 1964 - 12 January 1970 Includes: Annual Vestry Meetings minutes, 21 April 1965 - 9 April 1969
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book (indexed), 2 February 1970 - 14 July 1975 Includes: Annual Vestry Meetings minutes, 15 April 1970 - 23 April 1975
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book (indexed), 15 September 1975 - 2 August 1979 Includes: Annual Vestry Meetings minutes, 26 April 1976 - 3 April 1979
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book (indexed), 4 September 1979 - 11 June 1985 Includes: Annual Vestry Meetings minutes, 24 April 1980 - 15 April 1985
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book (indexed), 15 July 1985 - 12 March 1992 Includes: Annual Vestry Meetings minutes, 21 April 1986 - 17 April 1991
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Financial records (Ref: EP/SW 6/section 02)

6/12-15


Parochial accounts, 1 January 1978 - 31 December 1982
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial accounts, 1 January 1979 - 31 December 1983
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial accounts, 1 January 1984 - 31 December 1990
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial accounts, 1 January 1985 - 31 December 1989
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Church Societies (Ref: EP/SW 13/)South Shields Churchworkers' Union (Ref: EP/SW 13/1-6)

Membership card, with list of fixtures, South Shields Churchworkers' Union, 1896 - 1897 Originally enclosed in EP/SW 14/3
(1 paper, printed)


Member's ticket, with note of lectures, South Shields Churchworkers' Union, 16 February - 15 March n.y. [1896 - 1902] Originally enclosed in EP/SW 14/3
(1 paper, printed)


Tickets for church history lecture by Rev. Canon Savage, South Shields Churchworkers' Union, 15 - 30 November n.y. [1896 - 1902] Originally enclosed in EP/SW 14/3
(2 papers, printed)


Ticket for church bazaar, 28 November - 1 December 1899 Originally enclosed in EP/SW 14/3
(1 paper, printed)


List of slides, required for lecture at St. Andrew's Mission Church, 24 November 1904 Originally enclosed in EP/SW 14/3
(1 paper)


Ticket for 'at home', 1 February 1905 Originally enclosed in EP/SW 14/3
(1 paper, printed)

Sunday School (Ref: EP/SW 13/7-12)

Sunday School cards belonging to Ethel and Lily Gambling, 1896-97
(2 cards)


Photographs of the Rev. J.G. Lane-Davies, vicar, the Rev. Alfred Lane Davies, curate, and Sunday School teachers at St. Michael's church, 24 April 1927
(2 photographs)


Photograph of Sunday School teachers and the Rev. J. Harrison at Goathland, 1934
(1 photograph)


Photograph of Sunday School teachers at Ryton, 1934
(1 photograph)


Photograph of St. Michael's Nursery Sunday School, July 1950
(1 photograph)


Photograph of the Junior Department of St. Michael's Sunday School, July 1950
(1 photograph)

Recreation Club (Ref: EP/SW 13/13-18, 31-32)

Draft rules of the Recreation Club, n.d.
(2 papers)


Church Recreation Club general meetings minutes, 21 August 1925 - 28 September 1950
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Copy of the minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Church Recreation Club, 28 September 1950
(2 papers)


Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Church Recreation Club, 19 September 1951
(2 papers)


Audited financial statement, of the Church Recreation Club, 17 September 1951
(1 paper)


Photographs of the Church Recreation Club Soccer Team, 1922; and the Rugby Team, 1923
(2 photographs)


The Church Recreation Club meetings minute book, 31 August 1925 - 26 April 1952
(1 volume, paper bound)


Minutes of the General Purposes Committee of the Church Recreation Club, 2 February 1950
(2 papers)

Guild of Players (Ref: EP/SW 13/19, 22-26)

Photographs of the Church League Tennis Championship Team, 1932; and a scene from the Nativity Play by the Guild of Players, n.d. [c.1935]
(2 photographs)


Programme for John Whose Surname Was Mark by the Rev. P.G. Morgan Dennis, performed by the members of St. Michael's Guild of Players in St. Michael's Hall, Mowbray Road, 10 and 11 April 1933
(1 paper)


Programme for Niobe by H. and E. Paulton, performed by St. Michael's Guild of Players at St. Michael's Hall, Mowbray Road, 12 December [1934] Endorsed: account of ticket money and cash account dated 30 January 1935
(1 paper)


Photograph of St. Michael's Guild of Players, 1935
(1 photograph)


Invitation to, and programme for, St. Agnes by E. Harris, performed by St. Michael's Guild of Players at St. Michael's Hall, Mowbray Road, 7 April 1936
(2 papers)


Programme of the second annual drama festival of the South Shields and District Drama League, 24-28 January 1938
(1 booklet)

Badminton Club (Ref: EP/SW 13/20-21)

St. Michael's Badminton Club general meetings minutes, 27 September 1932 - 15 September 1948
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


St. Michael's Badminton Club annual meeting minutes, 16 September 1949
(1 paper)

Girls' Friendly Society (Ref: EP/SW 13/27-28)

Photographs of members of St. Michael's Girls' Friendly Society at Durham and at the vicarage garden party, n.d. [c.1930]
(5 photographs)


Photograph of St. Michael's Girls' Friendly Society at Boldon, 1951
(1 photograph)

Scouts (Ref: EP/SW 13/29)

7th Tyne Scout Troop logbook, 4 February 1927 - 29 January 1940
(1 volume)

Youth Club (Ref: EP/SW 13/30)

Youth Club Management Committee minutes, 21 July 1983 - 19 March 1987
(1 volume, card bound)

Bridge Association (Ref: EP/SW 13/33)

St. Michael's Bridge Association meetings minute book, 15 September - 23 October 1948
(1 booklet)

Mothers' Union (Ref: EP/SW 13/34-35)

Register of members, 1939 [provides names and addresses]
(1 volume)


Committee minute book, 27 January 1954 - 6 January 1997
(1 volume)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/SW 14/)Parish Magazines (Ref: EP/SW 14/)

14/1-18, 24


Parish magazines, January 1884 - December 1889
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, January 1890 - January 1897
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, June 1896 - December 1902. Includes newspaper cuttings and tickets for functions Enclosures: EP/SW 4/1 and 13/1-6
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Parish magazines, January 1903 - December 1907 Enclosure: EP/SW 14/20
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Parish magazines, January 1912 - December 1922
(1 volume, card bound)


Parish magazines, January 1923 - December 1927
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, January 1928 - December 1934
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazine, November 1934
(1 booklet, paper)


Parish magazines, January 1936 - November 1941
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, January 1942 - December 1947
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, January 1948 - September 1950
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, December 1950 - December 1953
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, January 1954 - December 1956
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, January 1957 - December 1959
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, January 1960 - December 1962
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, January 1963 - December 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, January 1966 - December 1968
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazines, January 1961 - December 1971
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parish magazine, October 1919
(1 booklet)

Photographs (Ref: EP/SW 14/)

14/26-27, 31-33, 35-36, 40-43, 45


Photograph of members of a parish outing to Wooler, 9 June 1930
(1 photograph)


Press photograph of the Rev. H.G. Hastings Shaddick at 'Ye Olde Fishing Stall' at the Jubilee Bazaar of St. Michael's Church, South Shields, 17 November 1931
(1 paper)


Photograph of the Rev. Norman Edmondson, April 1933
(1 photograph)


Photograph of woman and two dogs, n.d. [1930s]
(1 photograph)


Photograph of outing of church members, n.d. [c.1935]
(1 photograph)


Photograph of woman and child, n.d. [c.1940]
(1 photograph)


Photographs of the Rev. F.S.M. Chase, vicar of St. Michael's, and members of the parish on their pilgrimage to Lindisfarne priory, by D.M. Smith, Berwick on Tweed, 11 September 1967
(3 photographs)


Photograph of the Rev. Canon John Hancock and Mr. William Crook of Kidderminster with the stolen silver plate, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photograph of church exterior, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photograph of nave and altar, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photograph of a men's group, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photographs taken at a presentation to an individual identified as Fred, n.d.
(16 photographs)

Church history (Ref: EP/SW 14/)

14/19-20, 22, 25, 30, 37-39, 44, 46-47


Poster commemorating silver anniversary of parish, 1932
(1 paper, printed)


Medal commemorating silver anniversary of parish, 1932 Originally enclosed in EP/SW 14/4
(1 medal)


Typescript notes concerning the early history of St. Michael's Church, South Westoe, 28 October 1874 - 27 November 1910
(84 papers)


Souvenir booklet and historical summary published to mark the 50th anniversary of the constitution of the parish, 7 and 8 November 1928
(1 booklet)


History of Westoe, St. Michael's Church, church music and the incumbents, n.d. [1932]
(1 booklet)


Programmes of events marking the centenary of St. Michael's parish, 24 May 1978 - 18 June 1978
(4 papers)


St. Michael's News concerning restoration work following the fire, n.d. [December 1988]
(1 paper)


Press cuttings relating to the church fire, stolen silver, the loss of invested restoration funding, restoration plans, and the early years of St. Michael's, 4 December 1987 - 29 March 1993
(17 papers)


Angel, concerning an open day to show the extensive restoration, n.d.
(1 paper)


Cutting from the South Shields Daily Gazette describing the history of the church as it approaches its 50th anniversary, 11 September 1931
(1 paper)


A Hundred Years of Christian Witness: A History of a Parish Church, its Music, Past Incumbents and Organisations, booklet marking the centenary of the church, 1978
(1 booklet)

Book of Remembrance and Roll of Honour (Ref: EP/SW 14/)

14/23, 48


Book of remembrance of those killed in the war of 1914 - 1918, n.d.
(1 volume, leather bound)


Roll of Honour of those of the parish who have been killed, are serving, or are prisoners in the Second World War, post 1940 and pre 1945 Gives name, address, rank, branch of service
(1 volume, card bound)

Events (Ref: EP/SW 14/)

14/28-29, 34


Programme of St. Michael's Jubilee Bazaar and related activities, 17 November 1931 - 7 February 1932
(1 paper)


Programme for the Festival of Commemoration marking the 50th anniversary of St. Michael's, January - February 1932
(1 booklet)


Programme of a garden fête to be held in the vicarage grounds, 17 July 1937
(1 paper)