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Sunnybrow St. John Parish

Reference: EP/Sun Catalogue Title: Sunnybrow St. John Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1886-1980

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Registration (Ref: EP/Sun 1/1-9)

Register of baptisms, 20 January 1889 - 9 November 1933
(1 volume, calf bound)


Register of baptisms, 30 November 1933 - 6 September 1970
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 10 October 1970 - 24 February 1974
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 1 January 1894 - 16 March 1946
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of marriages, 1 April 1946 - 27 March 1954
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 27 March 1954 - 2 March 1963
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 9 March 1963 - 21 December 1974
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 30 May 1965 - 26 January 1975
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of burials, 9 January 1917 - 18 June 1980 Includes burial plot numbers; for plans of graveyard see ND/WV 2/1-2
(1 volume, vellum bound)

 (Ref: EP/Sun 1/10-13)

Second Deposit

(Acc: 2472)


Register of banns of marriage, 12 December 1893 - 9 May 1920
(1 volume, calf bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 28 February 1937 - 28 September 1947
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 26 October 1947 - 9 January 1955
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 26 December 1954 - 21 March 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Clergy (Ref: EP/Sun 2/1-4)

Notice re consecration of St. John's church, 11 March 1886
(1 paper)


Register of confirmation candidates, 5 March 1935 - 1971
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 15 December 1946 - 4 April 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 3 January 1965 - 7 June 1967
(1 volume, cloth bound)

 (Ref: EP/Sun 2/5-7)

Second Deposit

(Acc: 2472)


Register of services, 24 April 1892 - 12 April 1903 Includes: statements of accounts, 1892/93 - 1902/3
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of services, 19 April 1903 - 31 December 1935
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of services, 1 January 1936 - 25 November 1946
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Sun 4/1-7)

Papers re disputed account with R. and W.A. Johnson, builders, for work done on church hall, 3 May 1968 - 21 February 1972
(19 papers, 3 files)


Statements of accounts, 31 December 1970 - 31 December 1974
(4 papers)


Correspondence re closure of church, sale of church property and possible uses for redundant church, 13 December 1971 - 13 August 1979
(85 papers, 16 files)


Correspondence re land at Helmington Row, which was originally intended for use as a mission house, 28 September 1972 - 15 September 1980
(paper, file)


Architect's report on church including specifications of work required in repairs, September 1973
(paper, file)


Letter from D. Scarr at Wear Valley District Council to Rev. R. Corker re future maintenance of St. John's churchyard, Sunnybrow, 22 October 1979
(1 paper)


Copy of inventory of church, n.d.
(paper)

 (Ref: EP/Sun 4/8-14)

Third Deposit

(Acc: 3070)


Faculty for the erection of tablets of the Creed, the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments, 9 December 1908
(1 paper)


Faculty for the erection of a memorial tablet to the dead of the First World War, 9 May 1923
(1 paper)


Faculty for the erection of a new oak pulpit, a small brass tablet and an oak screen, to remove a tablet, and to replace the re-table, 7 June 1937
(1 paper)


Faculty for improvements in the churchyard, 12 February 1938
(1 paper)


Faculty for the introduction of a new oak lectern, 19 October 1938
(1 paper)


Plan of the proposed new mission church at Sunnybrow by Richard Wylie, architect, Newcastle upon Tyne, n.d. [1886] Scale: 1:192
(1 plan, 39 cm. x 31 cm., tracing paper, colour)


Sketch plans of the proposed church hall at Sunnybrow by W.A. Kellett, architect, Bishop Auckland, August 1914 Scale: 1:96 (1 paper and 3 plans, 38 cm. x 54 cm., glazed linen, colour) Fourth Deposit
(Acc: 3078)

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

Minutes of vestry meetings, 7 June 1886 - 26 April 1889 Originally enclosed in EP/Sun 5/3
(1 file and 1 paper)


Minutes of vestry meetings, 2 May 1890 - 3 March 1932
(1 volume, card bound)

Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Sun 6/1-2)

Copy of church electoral roll, 1972
(paper, typescript)


Minutes of the parochial church council, 24 February 1972 - 3 December 1974
(2 papers)

 (Ref: EP/Sun 6/3-8)

Second Deposit

(Acc: 2472)


Statements of accounts, 5 May 1886 - 1891/92; register of services, 19 April 1903 - 13 March 1904 At beginning: dates of services and size of collections, 5 May 1886 - 1 April 1882
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Church accounts book, 30 March 1913 - 16 May 1935
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Account book, 1 January 1935 - 3 April 1954
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Outstanding accounts, 31 December 1934 Originally enclosed in EP/Sun 6/5
(1 paper)


Parochial account book, 2 January 1955 - 2 January 1969 At end: accounts of reserve fund, 16 April 1968 - 3 January 1971; account of envelope fund, 1958 and 1959
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Church account book, 2 December 1969 - 5 October 1980 At end: account of churchyard fund, 22 March - 25 October 1975
(1 volume, card bound)

 (Ref: EP/Sun 6/9-13)

Fourth Deposit

(Acc: 3078)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 19 April 1933 - 29 September 1950 Includes: attendance record of Parochial Church Council members, 1933 - 1936 and 1946
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 18 January 1951 - [1958] Includes: totals of income from raffles and bingo, c.1972
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Parish hall accounts, 1943 Originally enclosed in EP/Sun 6/9
(1 paper)


Report of the chairman of the Parochial Church Council, [1945] Originally enclosed in EP/Sun 6/9
(3 papers)


Report on the fabric, goods and ornaments of the church, n.d. [c.1945] Originally enclosed in EP/Sun 6/9
(1 paper)

Church Societies (Ref: EP/Sun 13/1)

Minutes of meetings and accounts of the Mothers' Union, 6 October 1958 - 5 March 1962
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Sun 14/1)

Programme for official unveiling of memorial on site of former Prospect Pit, Sunnybrow, 19 March 1976
(paper, file)