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Register of baptisms, 2 May 1912 - 9 December 1950

Register of marriages, 27 March 1915 - 1 December 1917

Register of marriages, 22 December 1917 - 22 August 1931

Register of marriages, 24 August 1931 - 20 March 1943

Register of marriages, 27 March 1943 - 31 July 1954

Register of marriages, 31 July 1954 - 11 December 1965

Register of marriages, 25 August 1984 - 23 May 1987

Register of marriages, 20 June 1987 - 9 December 1995

Register of banns of marriage, 8 December 1946 - 8 March 1959

Register of banns of marriage, 12 April 1959 - 11 August 1963

Register of banns of marriage, 11 August 1963 - 21 January 1968

Register of banns of marriage, 7 January 1968 - 21 April 1974

Register of banns of marriage, 9 June 1974 - 18 October 1987

Register of services, 14 September 1905 - 14 March 1915 and 17 November 1919 - 24 March 1920

Register of services, 27 February 1915 - 19 December 1920

Register of services, 21 December 1920 - 24 July 1926

Register of services, 25 July 1926 - 24 July 1932

Register of services, 31 July 1932 - 9 December 1938

Register of services, 1 January 1939 - 27 May 1945

Register of services, 29 May 1945 - 10 February 1950

Register of services, 12 February 1950 - 6 May 1955

Register of services, 8 May 1955 - 22 November 1960

Register of services, 27 November 1960 - 27 December 1970

Register of services, 4 January 1971 - 28 August 1977

Letters from H.F. and H.B.D.V. Wilkinson at the Royal County Hotel, Durham, to the Secretary of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and to the Bishop of Durham concerning the Wilkinson family's being no longer able to pay curate's stipend and maintain church at Wheatley Hill and proposing that a new district be created, 14 August 1913

Letter from Caroe & Passmore at 3 Great College Street, Westminster, architects, to the Secretary of the Ecclesiastical Commission concerning report on All Saint's church in connection with the creation of a separate parish, 22 October 1913

Draft order in council creating district of Wheatley Hill, 1914

The London Gazette containing order in council creating district of Wheatley Hill, 18 August 1914

Instrument of approval of church by Ecclesiastical Commissioners, with covering letter, 24 September - 7 October 1914

Letter from Thomas Willis at Wingate to the vicar of Wheatley Hill concerning the area of Wheatley Hill's portion of Wingate parish, 30 July 1915

Description of parish boundaries, n.d.

Map showing alterations to parish boundaries, 18 February 1963 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]

Letter from Church Commissioners at Westminster to Rev. G.G. Graham concerning alteration of parish boundaries, 25 July 1963

Draft order in council and order in council dividing benefice of St. John with St. Mary, Monkhesleden, and uniting part with Wingate Grange and part with Castle Eden; and altering boundaries of Castle Eden; Deaf Hill cum Langdale; St. John with St. Mary, Monkhesleden; Shotton-with-Haswell; Wheatley Hill; and Wingate Grange; with covering letter, 10 October - 18 November 1963

Pastoral Orders concerning alterations to rural deanery boundaries, 2 November 1970 -12 June 1978

The London Gazette containing grant of stipend of £150 p.a., 27 November 1914

The London Gazette containing grant of stipend of £50 p.a., 9 July 1915

Statement of annual amounts payable by Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1 April 1939

Notification by the Bishop of the impending vacancy of the benefice on the resignation of Rev. A.R.G. Pugh with covering letter, 7 February 1975

Notice of intention to admit Rev. Dr. J.J. Fawcett, with covering letter, 24 June 1975

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. P.T. Casey at Wheatley Hill concerning conveyance of site and fabric of church, 10 December 1914

Notice of dedication of church, 23 February 1915

Guarantee to Barclay & Co. Ltd., bankers, for £200 for Wheatley Hill Mission Church new church fund, 20 February 1912

3 December 1914 (1) Frederick Anthony White of 170 Queen's Gate, Middlesex, esquire; Rev. George Grey Wilkinson of 6 Gerald Road, Chester Square, clerk; Henry Frederick Wilkinson of 91a Waterloo Road, London, retired major; Major Henry Benfield des Voeux Wilkinson of 3 Eaton Terrace, London; Clennel Frank Massy Drew of Drew's Court, Charleville, co. Cork, Ireland, esquire; and Mary Widdrington of Hauxley,Mitcham Common, Surrey, widow (2) Rev. Philip Thomas Casey, incumbent of Wheatley Hill Conveyance by (1) to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for (2) of 1932 square yards of land at Wheatley Hill (boundaries and plan given) to be used for new church Consideration: £10

Letter from J. & W.G. Maddison, solicitors, at Durham, to Rev. P. Casey at Wheatley Hill vicarage concerning land, 1 June 1933

Accounts and receipts for work on church, consecration of church etc., March 1912 - 4 March 1915

Notes on proposed scheme of interior improvements at church, August 1960

Newspaper cutting concerning extensions and improvements to church, n.d.

Letter from Harrison Brothers (Steeplejacks) Ltd., of Darlington, to Rev. G.G. Graham at Wheatley Hill vicarage with quotations in connection with EP/WH 4/52

Letter from Harry Harvey at Acomb, York, designer and craftsman in stained glass, to Rev. G.G. Graham at Wheatley Hill vicarage concerning design for east window, 1 November 1961

Invoice from William Gray & Son, Saddler Street, Durham, academic outfitters, for church furnishings, December 1915

Contract between Rev. G.G. Graham and John Skelton of Sussex, sculptor and designer, to make madonna and child for church, 25 September 1964

Estimate for engraved copper plaque, 20 November 1964

Plan of cross and candlesticks, 1964 Scale: full size

Specifications and description of organ, with receipts for work carried out, 4 May 1920 - 1 January 1946

Details of notice board to screen steel fuel hatch at church, 31 March 1952 Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]

Plan of aumbry light, n.d. Scale: full size

Plan of proposed extension to chancel and new porch, 19 September 1951 Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]

Plan of proposed vestry, with related correspondence, 21 May - 18 June 1958 Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]

Plan of proposed furnishing of lady chapel, 1964 No scale

Details of lady chapel altar, 1964 No scale

Plan of bronze tablet with incised lettering, lady chapel, 1965 Scale: full size

Letters from the Home Office and Diocesan Registry to Rev. P.T. Casey at Wheatley Hill concerning division of burial ground into consecrated, unconsecrated and unappropriated parts, and arrangements for consecration, 5 July 1910 - 26 January 1911

Plan of burial ground showing consecrated, unconsecrated and unallotted plots, plus drains, n.d. [c.1910] Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch [1:360]

Plan of proposed layout of churchyard, July 1955 Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]

Account book of church hall, 9 December 1912 - 9 January 1950

Tenders etc. to build church hall, with Charity Commission Order, April - November 1913

Letter from Superintendent W.C. Pearson, Durham County Constabulary, at Castle Eden, to Rev. Mr. Casey at Wheatley Hill vicarage concerning fire prevention inspection report in connection with licensing church hall for music and dancing, 10 May 1948

Letters to Rev. G.G. Graham concerning legal interest of church hall being vested in Board of Finance, with Charity Commission Scheme, 3 October 1958 - 2 July 1959

Specifications and estimates of work to be carried out on church hall, n.d. Originally enclosed in EP/WH 4/45

Letters concerning grants towards cost of building curatage house at Wheatley Hill, 14 November 1906 - 18 March 1908

Plan of curatage house at Wheatley Hill, 19 January 1907 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inches [1:96]

16 April 1907 (1) Vicar of Thornley, curate of Wheatley Hill and the committee (2) E.M. Tweddle of Osborne Road, West Hartlepool, builder Memorandum of agreement for (2) to build curatage house at Wheatley Hill Consideration: £497 8s.10d.

Letter from P. Carter at the Diocesan Office, Durham, to Rev. G.G. Graham, with Charity Commission Scheme re parsonage, 14 October -14 November 1958

Plan of vicarage, April 1970 Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot. [1:48]

Receipt from Easington R.D.C. for private streetworks at Side Street East, Thornley Road, Wheatley Hill, 6 August 1924

Faculty to erect two iron gates at entrance to churchyard, 25 May 1929

Faculty for the introduction of a sanctuary lamp, with related correspondence, 28 March - 28 May 1949

Faculty to introduce a new carved oak pulpit, 5 May 1951

Faculty to introduce a carved oak credence table, 24 February 1953

Faculty to install oil-fired heating boiler, oil storage tank and three additional radiators, with covering letter, 17 September 1962

Faculty to erect a new oak communion rail, with related correspondence, 8 November - 7 December 1971

Faculty to erect an organ, 3 January 1918

Faculty for repair and complete overhaul of organ, 12 June 1968

Faculty to extend east end of chancel, erect new south aisle, convert entrance to baptistry and erect new entrance porch, to improve heating chamber and to repair walls of church, 1 December 1951

Faculty to erect a new vestry on north side of church, 19 May 1958

Faculty to introduce a credence table and erect altar rails in side chapel, 27 September 1955

Faculty to introduce new furnishings for lady chapel and a dorsal hanging for high altar, with covering letter, 8 February 1965

Faculty to insert stained glass in east window and to introduce an altar cross, candlesticks, two ciboria, a baptismal shell and two stools, 31 May 1962

Archdeacon's certificate for repairs to roof of church, 12 October 1956

Archdeacon's certificate for redecoration of church interior, 22 February 1960

Archdeacon's certificate, 10 August 1950

Architect's report under Inspection of Churches Measure, 16 September 1965

Architect's report under Inspection of Churches Measure, July 1978

Architect's report under Inspection of Churches Measure, July 1983

Assessment of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations, 29 March 1973

Miscellaneous accounts for work on church, 23 January - 22 October 1954

Papers re sequestration, and admittance of Rev. Arthur Preston, 28 May 1949 - 26 October 1950

Minutes of annual vestry meetings and annual parochial meetings, 8 April 1915 - 6 March 1979

Minute book of Parochial Church Council, 27 May 1927 - 22 September 1953

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 25 October 1965 - 12 February 1982

Minutes (signed) of the Parochial Church Council, 14 September 2000; 25 January 2001 - 7 November 2002

Annual report and accounts, March 1982

Correspondence file of Parochial Church Council including letters re new choir vestry, appointment of organist, development of houses at Wheatley Hill, church hall redecoration, parsonage house, deanery boundaries, electoral roll and confirmations, 11 December 1957 -14 November 1969

P.C.C. correspondence, 10 January 1974 - 14 August 1981

Electoral roll, 1969

Electoral roll, 2002

Parish magazine, October 1940

Parish magazines, 1957

Parish magazines, 1958

Parish magazines, 1959

Parish magazines, 1960

Parish magazines, 1961

parish magazines, 1962

Parish magazines, 1963

Parish magazines, 1964

Parish magazines, 1965

Parish magazines, 1966

Parish magazines, 1967

Parish magazines, 1968

Parish magazines, 1969

Parish magazine , February 1974

Parish magazine, April 1974

Parish magazine, August 1974

Parish magazine, October 1937

Parish magazine, May 1952

Parish magazine, September [1956]

Parish magazine, December 1956

Parish magazine, January [1957]

Parish magazine, February [1957]

Parish magazine, March [1957]

Parish magazines, April - December 1981

Parish magazines, January - December 1982

Parish magazines, February - December 1983

Parish magazines, February - December 1984

Parish magazines, Christmas 1984 - Christmas/New Year 1985

Parish magazines, Christmas/New Year 1985 - November 1986

Parish magazines, Christmas/New Year 1986 - Easter 1987

Photographs of the church, clergy, choir, church societies and activities, 1948 - 1982

Notice of centenary celebrations, 6-13 October 1974

All Saints' Church Year book, 1957-58

Plan of slum clearance and proposed housing development at Wheatley Hill, 9 March 1962 Scale: 1:500

Site plan of Thornley Colliery reclamation, n.d. Scale: 1:2500