Catalogue

Register of baptisms, February 1720/21 - December 1812; register of marriages, November 1721 - June 1753; register of burials, April 1721 - October 1762 and 1779 - December 1812 Includes: Note on the building of a new parsonage, 1758; Note of repairs to the church, 1807; Note on the consecration of a new churchyard, 1811

Register of baptisms, January 1813 - December 1852 Includes: Note on the opening of a new school house and a list of contributors, 1822; Note on the building of a school for the poor, 1851

Register of baptisms, January 1853 - November 1869 Includes: Copy of a curate's licence, 1840

Register of baptisms, 28 November 1869 - 27 September 1959

Register of baptisms, 4 October 1959 - 12 August 1979

Register of baptisms, 12 September 1979 - 11 August 2019

Register of banns and marriages, March 1754 - November 1812; register of banns, September 1814 - November 1817 Includes: Notes for the clergy explaining the Marriage Act, 1754

Register of marriages, October 1814 - December 1836

Register of marriages, July 1837 - November 1872

Register of marriages, November 1872 - March 1940

Register of marriages, 13 October 1979 - 4 July 1987

Register of marriages, 13 April 1940 - 1 May 1943

Register of marriages, 8 November 1943 - 11 March 1950

Register of marriages, 11 April 1950 - 2 January 1956

Register of marriages, 4 February 1956 - 12 September 1959

Register of marriages, 24 October 1959 - 17 July 1965

Register of marriages, 24 July 1965 - 8 September 1979

Register of marriages, 11 July 1987 - 20 June 1998

Register of marriages, 4 July 1998 - 20 September 2003

Register of marriages, 4 October 2003 - 7 September 2007

Register of marriages, 15 September 2018 - 28 December 2019

Register of marriages, 17 May 2008 - 14 July 2018

Marriage banns, 1826 - 1963

Register of burials, February 1813 - May 1857 and April 1862 - April 1864 Includes: Note of a new churchyard, 1862

Register of burials, April 1864 - February 1891

Register of burials, 9 February 1891 - 6 August 1964

Register of burials and funerals, 27 April 1988 - 15 June 1999

Register of preachers, offertory and communicants, 1 April [1894] - [18 April 1897]

Register of services, 27 July 1884 - 21 September £1893]

Register of services, 10 April 1904 - 4 April 1920

Register of services, 5 April 1920 -31 July 1932

Register of services, 13 March 1932 - 13 August 1941

Register of services, 17 August 1941 - 15 November 1953

Register of services, 20 November 1953 - 2 December 1961

Register of services, 3 December 1961 - 26 February 1971

Register of services, 28 February 1971 - 15 February 1980

Register of services, 17 February 1980 - 21 January 1987

Register of services, 25 January 1987 - 19 January 1996 (1 volume, plastic bound)

Register of services, 26 January 1997 - 25 August 2009

Copy order-in-council transferring Trimdon Grange to the parish of Kelloe, August 1896 (1 file)

Union of the benefice of Trimdon with the benefice of Saint Alban and Saint Paul, Trimdon Station and creating a new benefice called The Benefice of the Trimdons and the new benefice will comprise the parish of Trimdon and the parish of Trimdon Station, 1 March 1996 - 14 September 2003 Includes: Proposals for the union of the benefice of Trimdon with the benefice of Saint Alban and Saint Paul, Trimdon Station with accompanying map, 1 March 1996 Order in council, 23 July 1996 Notice of vacancy to Patron and Parochial Church Council for the benefice of the Trimdons, 19 September 1996 Patronage Benefices Measure Register, 10 September 1996 Joint Parochial Church Council minutes of meetings, 17 October 1996 - 6 March 2003 Joint Parochial Church Council meeting with Archdeacon, the Venerable S. Conway, 14 September 2003

Order-of-service for the admission of Rev. Canon Stanley Landreth to the perpetual curacy of St. Mary Magdalene, Trimdon, 24 August 1960 (1 booklet)

Register of offertory and communicants, [25 April 1897] - [12 June 1904]

Copy returns made to the Church Assembly, giving details of services, communicants, Sunday Schools, clerical staff, parochial church council and finances, 1917-1932, 1935-1940

Brief report of Archdeacon's visitation, 26 September 1994

Apportionment of the rent charge in lieu of tithes in the parish of Trimdon, 23 July 1840 For plan see EP/Tr 40

Altered apportionment of tithe rent charge with map attached, 31 December 1919

Map of the parish of Trimdon showing the apportionment of tithe rent charges, 1939 Scale: 4 chains to 1 inch [1:3168]

Altered apportionment of tithe rent charge with map of Trimdon, 27 July 1914

List of seats taken in the church at a meeting of the inhabitants, 8 November 1824

Letter from Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London, SW1 to Reverend Canon S. Landreth notifying him that the church of St. Mary Magdalen has been included in a list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest, 7 March 1968

Outline specification for internal redecoration of the church by C. Downs, Chartered Architect, 8 Holmside Place, Heaton, Newcastle - upon - Tyne, NE6 5AJ, June 1993

Outline specification for proposed improvements to entrance hall and repairs to floors by C. Downs, Chartered Architect, Cathedral Architect's Office, The Great Kitchen, The College, Durham, DH1 3EQ, May 2004

Outline specification for proposed provision of refreshment facility in west end of north aisle by C. Downs, Chartered Architect, Cathedral Architect's Office, The Great Kitchen, The College, Durham, DH1 3EQ, February 2005

Outline specification for proposed alterations to entrance area and in west end of north aisle by C. Downs, Chartered Architect, Cathedral Architect's Office, The Great Kitchen, The College, Durham, DH1 3EQ, May 2006

Sentence of consecration of additional burial ground, 7 April 1862

Grant of licence for the burial of the dead on land provided as additional burial ground, 11 March 1880

Petition for the consecration of land provided as additional burial ground, n.d. [1880]

Plan of cemetery, April 1888 Scale: 1 inch to 8 foot [1:96]

Correspondence concerning the churchyard, 8 October 1926 - 23 November 1944

Extract from London Gazette stating that burials are to be discontinued in the parish of Trimdon, 22 October 1856

Statement of names, dates and particulars appearing on tombstones and monuments in the closed churchyard of St. Mary Magdalene under the Open Spaces Act 1906 by Sedgefield Rural District Council, 23 February 1959 Includes plan of locations of the above tombstones and monuments, scale 1:500, 46cm x 31cm

List of gravestones laid flat for safety reasons, 31 October 1988

Alphabetical list of gravestones left flat for safety reasons, 1 November 1988

List of tombstones existing in the churchyard of St. Mary Magdalene church, n.d. [c. 1950s]

Incomplete list of memorial inscriptions, n.d. [c. 1980s]

Miner's memorial appeal income and expenditure account book, 19 January 1989 - 18 December 1995

Order of service of thanksgiving and re-dedication following the restoration of the Miner's Memorial and the east cemetery, Trimdon, 16 March 1991

Public letters of notification about developments at the east end cemetery and Garden of Remembrance with accompanying plan of the Garden of Remembrance, October 2005

1 May 1975 (1) Donald Morton and his wife, Joan, both c/o 3 Wattress Terrace, Wingate (2) Church Commissioners for England (3) Rev. David Nigel Tindall, incumbent of the benefice of Trimdon Copy conveyance from (1) to (3), at the direction of (2), of 'The Gables', East Lane, Trimdon Village Consideration: £16,500

Letter from G. W. Heslop, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7QJ to Mrs L. Tate, 2 Front Street South, Trimdon Village, TS29 6LZ concerning the sale of Trimdon vicarage, 18 March 1996

Faculty authorising the erection of a cabinet in oak on the west wall, 1 May 1950

Faculty authorising the installation of an aumbry and sanctuary lamp, 9 August 1957

Faculty authorising the laying out and maintaining of the closed churchyard adjoining the parish church as an open space under the Open Spaces Act of 1906, 25 July 1959

Faculty authorising the introduction of a new lectern and altar rails, 3 March 1960

Faculty authorising the installation of an electric organ blower, 11 August 1961

Faculty authorising the installation of a new electric lighting system, 21 September 1963

Faculty authorising the installation of a new oil - fired boiler and oil storage tank, 2 September 1972

Faculty authorising the removal of kerbstones, mounds, railings and the reseeding with grass as well as generally tidying up and improving them appearance of the detached burial ground, 1 June 1973

Faculty authorising the erection of a church notice board at the churchyard gate, 19 October 1988

Faculty authorising the lowering of the step in the altar area to create a uniform height; the relocation if the altar rail to a site 15 foot west to the edge of the present sanctuary area; the removal of the choir pews from the chancel and the provision of carpet throughout the church, 18 January 1989

Faculty authorising the removal of the existing floor tiles in the chancel and subsequent excavation of the floor to a depth of 30cm and the replacement of the floor and tiles, 15 February 1989

Faculty authorising the cleaning of the miner's memorial and its restoration with stone panels to be set into the ground around the memorial and showing the names so as to replicate the original; the repair and replacement of 27 fallen gravestones in original positions; relaying of paths in the churchyard and around the memorial; the placement of the gravestones of Thomas Armstrong between the graveyard wall and memorial, 21 June 1990

Faculty authorising the setting aside of an area for the interment of cremated remains in the east churchyard with the area to be approximately 22 yards by 32 yards; a plan of the land recording interments and a book recording the names of those persons interred to be kept in the parish church; but no individual memorials shall be permitted in the above area unless with a faculty, 14 November 1990

Faculty authorising the introduction of a free standing solid oak memorial book desk to contain the book recording interment of cremated remains in the detached east graveyard; the desk is to be positioned at the west end of the north aisle in the font area behind the rear pew, 17 March 1992

Faculty authorising the introduction of a commemorative stone of natural sandstone to be positioned near the graveyard entrance at the detached east graveyard to the left of the path with an inscription, 21 May 1992

Faculty authorising the rewiring and relighting of the church, 13 August 1992

Faculty authorising the introduction of a pair of cut glass cruets, aumbry curtain, altar frontal, veil and burse in a green Lichfield rose design material with gold trim, 22 September 1993

Faculty authorising the introduction of a book trolley for the storage of hymn books, a silver plated ciborium and silver plated wafer box with various inscriptions, 2 February 1994

Faculty authorising a brass vase ten and a half inches with an inscription in memory of Mrs Elise Mcdonaugh, 22 February 1995

Faculty authorising the laying of a gas connection pipe across ten metres of consecrated churchyard with certain conditions, 3 June 1996

Faculty schedule B authorising the provision of lexan overglazing as per the quote received from Abbey Stained Glass, 30 September 1999

Faculty authorising the installation of a sound reinforcement and loop system, 12 January 2000

Faculty authorising proposed improvements to entrance area and repairs to floors, 9 November 2004

Faculty authorising the removal of the font and provision of refreshment facilities at the west end of the north aisle and the current font be reverently buried in the churchyard and a map showing the location of the burial be kept while the new movable font when not in use is to be kept at the west end of the north aisle, 20 May 2005 See also EP/Tr 112/3

Faculty authorising the installation of a lightning conductor to the church, 21 October 2005

Consistory Court order subsequent to faculty granted 9 November 2004 be amended to accord with the revised specification of C. Downs, Chartered Architect, 12 June 2006 See also EP/Tr 104/23

Consistory Court order subsequent to faculty granted 20 May 2005 that the whole of the font be buried and not just the bowl, 12 June 2006 See also EP/Tr 104/24

Faculty jurisdiction measure 2000 authorising the fixing of an internal noticeboard and cupboard surround to meter area to match other furniture, 25 January 2010

Archdeacon's certificate authorising repairs to the heating system, 31 October 1960

Log book, 1987 - 1994

Log book, 1993 - 2005

Terrier, 1918, 1920-1924, 1931

Architect's report by A. O. Lee, Architect, Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Owengate House, Durham, DH1 3HB, October 1983

Quinquennial inspection by C. Downs, Architect, Charlewood and Curry Partnership, 32 - 34 Mosley Street, Newcastle, NE1 1DF, 13 September 1988

Quinquennial inspection by C. Downs, Architect, The Cathedral Architect's Office, The Great Kitchen, The College, Durham, DH1 3EQ, 21 December 2001

Quinquennial inspection by C. Downs, Architect, 8 Holmside Place, Heaton, Newcastle - upon - Tyne, NE6 5AJ, 21 December 1993

Archaeological assessment of St. Mary Magdalene church by P. F. Ryder, Historic Buildings Consultant, 1 Ford Terrace, Broomhaugh, Riding Mill, Northumberland, NE44 6EJ, July 1993

Surveyor's report, order, ordinary assessment, under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1951, 24 June, 1 August and 19 August 1966

Letter from the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London, to Rev. Canon S. Landreth, Trimdon Vicarage, concerning arrangements for the payment of the cost of the repairs ordered under the Dilapidations Measures, 25 August 1966

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of April 1996 by D. L. Renton, Diocesan Surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7QJ

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of February 1991 by D. L. Renton, Diocesan Surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7QJ

Account book of churchwardens, 7 April 1907 - 30 September 1916

Account book of churchwardens, 1 October 1916 - 18 April 1926

Sequestration account of St. Mary Magdalene, 1 October 1974 - 21 March 1975

Vestry Meeting, minutes, 1862 - 1946 Including Churchwardens' accounts, 1864 - 1906)

Vestry and Annual Meetings minute book, 18 April 1944 - 19 April 1968

Vestry and Annual Meetings minute book, 11 April 1969 - 28 April 1988

Parochial Church Council minutes, 1936 - 1958

Minutes of meetings, 24 July 1996 - 29 November 2004 Includes: Sedgefield Deanery minutes of meeting, 17 July 2003 Locality Council minutes of meeting, 16 June 2004

Minutes of meetings, 27 July 1981 - 30 September 1992 Includes annual general meeting, 1983 - 1992

Minutes of a meeting, 4 April 2005

Minutes of meetings, 27 April 1989; 17 April 1991 - 23 April 1997; 28 April 1999 - 26 April 2004

Income and expenditure accounts for the year ending 2004, 30 January 2005

Electoral roll, 1957 - 1969

Electoral roll, 1962 - 2005

Electoral roll, 2007 - 2010

Trimdon Fraternal Society minutes of meeting, 4 November 1992 Fourth Christian Council minutes of meeting, 28 January 1993 Social Fundraising Committee minutes of meeting, 5 April 1993

Trimdon Parochial School cash account book, 1900 - 1904

Plan of proposed new classrooms and other alterations to existing premises of school, 9 July 1926 Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]

Plan of proposed addition of a combined practical room at school, 11 April 1931 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Plan of proposed extension to scheme for combined practical room at school, 1 July 1931 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

'Relief Order Book', accounts of Christmas grants, for clothing, coal etc., 1926 - 1987

Mother's Union branch register, 2 November 1959 - December 1967

Mother's Union branch register, 1970 - 1975

Parish magazine, September 1955

Parish magazines, May and November 1975

Parish magazine, February 1977

Parish magazines, October and December 1979

Parish magazines, January - December 1980

Parish magazines, January - December 1981

Parish magazines, January - December 1982

Parish magazines, January - December 1983

Parish magazine, February 1984

Parish magazines, September - October 1987

Parish magazines, January - December 1988

Parish magazines, January - September, November - December 1989

Parish magazine, February 1990

Parish magazines, January - December 1990

Trimdon Parochial Magazine , January 1918 - December 1919

Trimdon Parochial Magazine, January 1920 - December 1921

Trimdon Parochial Magazine, January 1922 - December 1923

Trimdon Parochial Magazine, January - December 1924

A brief history of St. Mary Magdalene church, Trimdon, n.d. [c. 1980s]

Parish profile of St. Mary Magdalen church, n.d. [c. 1990s]

Memorial book of members serving in H. M. Forces, n.d. [c 1940f]

Book of condolences on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, 3-5 September 1997

Visitors' book, 28 September 1957 - 12 July 1997

Book of condolence, September 2022