Catalogue

Register of baptisms, April 1759 - December 1796; register of marriages, April 1763 - July 1780

Register of baptisms, January 1798 - December 1812

Register of baptisms, January 1813 - December 1851 Includes: regulations for grants to increase livings, 1841; form of thanksgiving at the end of the Boer war, 1902; leaflet concerning the Durham Diocesan Fund

Register of baptisms, January 1852 - March 1904 Includes: census figures for 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891; note of an induction, 1865; note of alterations at the rectory, 1875; note of the opening of the board school, 1877; notes of repairs to the school and school house, 1877; details of charities in the parish

Register of baptisms, June 1904 - December 1953

Register of baptisms, 14 November 1953 -­ 14 May 1978

Register of baptisms, 4 June 1978 - 19 November 1989

Register of marriages, July 1860 - June 1965

Register of marriages, 7 August 1965 -­ 12 April 1980

Register of marriages, 12 April 1980 -­ 16 January 1988

Register of marriages, 26 March 1988 - 22 December 1996

Register of marriages, 1 February 1997 - 2 September 2020

Register of banns of marriage, 19 November 1933 -­ 12 March 1967

Register of banns of marriage, 5 March 1967 -­ 14 July 1985

Register of banns of marriage, 7 July 1985 -­ 27 May 1990

Register of banns of marriage, 6 May 1990 - 6 June 2004

Register of burials, November 1869 - January 1936 Includes: note of a cholera epidemic, 1866; list of surplice fees, 1867; note of a grant of a burial ground, 1868; list of subscriptions for the new church, 1872; newspaper report of the consecration of the new church, 1876; note of a vestry decision to pull down the old church, 1877; details of the constitution and work of the Drainage District Committee

Register of burials, 12 March 1936 -­ 2 September 1980

Register of burials, 19 September 1980 - 26 April 2017

Register of confirmations, 1929 - 1971

Register of confirmations, 24 May 1972 - 4 December 1996

Register of services, 2 May 1943 - 19 May 1955

Register of services, 22 May 1955 -­ 28 February 1965

Register of services, 22 October 1972 -­ 9 March 1988

Register of services, 13 March 1988 - 29 December 2005

Plan of parish boundaries, based on Ordnance Survey 6 inch scale map, post -1945

The London Gazette, including Order in Council assigning district chapelry to Wolviston, St. Peter, 17 June 1859

Plan of Billingham Urban District Council, showing existing and suggested boundary of the parish of Wolviston; built-up areas and development areas, by the Engineer and Surveyor 's Office, Council Offices, Haverton Hill, 10 February 1948 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]

Draft scheme altering the boundaries of the parishes of Billingham and Wolviston, 1956

Map showing the alteration of the boundaries of the parishes of St. Aidan, Billingham and Wolviston, 17 February 1969 Scale: 9 inches to 1 mile [1:7040]

Copy order in council confirming a scheme to alter the boundaries of the parishes of Billingham, St. Aidan and Wolviston, 23 May 1969

Pastoral order creating the rural deaneries of Gateshead West and Sedgefield, 12 June 1978

Ordnance survey sheet reference Durham XLIV, second edition, including the northernmost part of the village of Wolviston, 1897 Scale: 25.344 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. William Eade, Wolviston Parsonage, concerning conversion of Wolviston from perpetual curacy to rectory, 22 November 1866 Originally enclosed in EP/Wo 21

The London Gazette, including Order creating Wolviston a rectory, 30 November 1866

The London Gazette, including Order in Council granting £126 p.a. to perpetual curacy of Wolviston, 29 April 1842

Copy correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster, and Rector of Wolviston, The Rectory, 1 Clifton Avenue, Billingham, concerning the income of the benefice, March 1935 - 1 July 1952

1 April 1965 (1) Ronald George Smith, clerk in holy orders, incumbent of the benefice of Wolviston (2) Church Commissioners Copy counterpart mortgage by (1) to (2) to secure the repayment of a loan of £255

Letter from Joseph Hutchinson, The College, Durham, to Rev. William Eade, Wolviston Rectory, concerning agreement re glebe land at Billingham, 14 November 1877 Originally enclosed in EP/Wo 21

Rough plan of land, n.d. Originally enclosed in EP/Wo 21

Correspondence between William Armstrong & Sons, chartered surveyors, mining engineers and mineral valuers, Collingwood Buildings, Collingwood Street, Newcastle upon Tyne; Rector of Wolviston, The Rectory, Wolviston; Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; H.E. Ferens & Son, solicitors, 38 Saddler Street, Durham; J. Gilchrist Smith, solicitor, 86 Borough Road, Middlesbrough; Ministry of Transport, St. Christopher House, Southwark Street, London; Thos. Selby & Son, Martins Bank Chambers, 93 High Street, Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside; District Valuer, Sheraton House, 2 Skinner Street, Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside; E.E. Wren, Wolviston Riding School, Wolviston; Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London; Darnton, Elgee, Wrightson, Jackman & O 'Connor, architects and surveyors, 'Chesterfield' , Mill Lane, Norton and Smiths Gore, chartered surveyors, 26 Coniscliffe Road, Darlington, concerning the management of the rector's glebe lands, including rights to mine anhydrite under 25 acres of land; the sale of 17 acres to Mr. Bell; land in Grosvenor Road, Billingham; land required for the construction of the East of Snaith-Sunderland trunk road, Wolviston by-pass and the use of land adjoining the churchyard by the Wolviston Riding School, 31 May 1960 - 17 April 1980

Letter from Rev. G.A. Harrington, St. Andrew' s Vicarage, 31 Peterson Road, Wakefield, Yorkshire, to Rev. Smith, describing what it was like to be parish priest at Wolviston, 29 January 1963

Stockton Deanery' s Longest-Serving Rector: The Reverend Martin Brack , by Rev. David T. Youngson, December 2005

A letter to Rev. Mr. Butcher, Vicar of Wolviston from Rev. D.R. Falconer, Rural Dean, with reference to the establishment of the new deanery of Hartlepool, 22 July 1888

Correspondence between councillor G. Fleming, School House, The Green, Wolviston, and Rev. R.G. Smith, The Rectory, 1 Clifton Avenue, Billingham, concerning remarks Mr. Fleming made at a council meeting, 23 - 24 September 1971

Report on the parish of Wolviston presented to the Bishop of Durham for the purpose of the Bishop's progress, 14 June 1967

Development plan for the parish of Wolviston, St. Peter, January 2000

Archdeacon's visitation articles, 1999

Minutes of meetings, 2 December 1996 - 2 December 2002

An Act for the Abolition of compulsory Church Rates, 31 July 1868

A form of Thanksgiving Service for Queen Victoria' s Golden Jubilee, 26 June 1887

Tithe accounts, 1784

Wolviston, tithe plan and apportionment, 1838

Newton Bewley, tithe plan and apportionment, 1838

The London Gazette, including Order in Council transferring tithes to incumbent of Wolviston, 16 May 1860

Working drawing of the renewal of the existing oil-fired heating installation at St. Peter's church, by Rosser & Russell (Northern) Ltd., 3 Exchange Place, Middlesbrough, Teesside, November 1969

Plan depicting the existing church and three stages of proposed extensions, 1970 - 1973, n.d. [1969] No scale

Elevations, section, ground plan and location plan of proposed extension to St. Peter's church, by Elder, Lester & Partners, architects, Eastry House, Yarm, Yorkshire, 30 July 1971 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]

Elevations and plan of proposed alteration to the south entrance of St. Peter's church, by Elder, Lester & Partners, architects, Eastry House, Yarm, Yorkshire, n.d. [1971] Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]

North elevation of St. Peter's church and window detail of extension, n.d. [1972] No scale

St. Peter' s church extension and restoration appeal leaflet, n.d. [c.1970]

Handbill publicising the service of dedication for the church organ, 1 September 1910

Revised additions to specification to be observed in estimating cost of rebuilding church, 16 November 1875

Copy assessment fixing the benefice' s annual payments towards the cost of repairs to the church during the five-year period beginning 1 January 1953

Copy assessment fixing the benefice' s annual payments towards the cost of repairs to the church during the five-year period beginning 25 April 1967

Correspondence between the Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; Rev. R.G. Smith, The Rectory, Wolviston; Billingham Urban District Council, Council Offices, Town Square, Billingham; Thos. Selby & Son, chartered auctioneers and estate agents, Martins ' Bank Chambers, 93 High Street, Stockton-on-Tees; Trotter, Bruce & Loft, (later Smith, Roddam & Co.), solicitors, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland; J. & W. Lowry Ltd., builders and contractors, 64 Bath Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne; Elder, Lester & Partners, architects, 2 Town Square, Billingham; Teesside and District Church Extension Committee, 79 The Grove, Marton-in-Cleveland, Teesside; Durham County Council, County Planning Officer, County Hall, Durham; Stockton Rural District Council, Cromer Lodge, Yarm Lane, Stockton-on-Tees; Bishop of Whitby, 60 West Green, Stokesley, Teesside; and National Westminster Bank Ltd., 42 Albert Road, Middlesbrough, concerning the planning, funding and construction of an extension to St. Peter 's church, 20 July 1967 - 11 October 1972

Roof survey report and estimate for work to St. Peter's church, by O' Connor Roofing Services, Whitburn Street, Hartlepool, Cleveland, 19 March - 2 April 1993

Photographs of church plate, taken to accompany the inventory, n.d. [1990s]

Paten, ciborium with lid, and christening shell

Silver flagon and chalice

Altar cross

Alms dish

Pair of brass vases

Two large and one small glass decanter

Brass book-stand

Photograph of paschal candlestick, n.d. [1990s]

Photographs and negatives depicting church plate, all pictured with a ruler to denote size, n.d. [ c.2000]

Christening shell, front

Christening shell, back

Stainless steel tray presented by the Mothers' Union to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee, back

Stainless steel tray, as above, front

Ciborium, without lid

Ciborium, with lid

Ciborium, base, with inscription

Silver flagon, front

Silver flagon, right side

Silver flagon, left side

Brass flagon, left side

Brass flagon, base

Alms dish, front

Altar cross, front

One of a pair of candlesticks

A pair of candlesticks

Two glass decanters

Wafer box, base

Chalice, front

Paten, front

Paten, back

Brass book-stand

Wafer dish

Negatives relating to EP/Wo 85/1-23

Postcard depicting the chancel of Wolviston, St. Peter, n.d. [mid 20th century]

Postcard depicting St Mary Magdalene Church in Wolviston before its demolition in 1878, n.d. [1870s]

Postcard depicting St Peter's church in Wolviston, n.d. c 1970s This church was built in 1876 to replace the old one that went into disrepair

Papers re building wall round new burial ground, 1867 - 1868 Originally enclosed in EP/Wo 21

Plan of Wolviston churchyard proposed development scheme to create a memorial garden, August 1990 No scale

Ground plan and site plan of the church hall, showing proposed access door to adjoining house, by Elder & Lester, chartered architects, 2 Town Square, Billingham, 15 November 1962 Scales: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48] and no scale

Correspondence between Thos. Selby & Son, chartered surveyors, Martins Bank Chambers, 93 High Street, Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside; Rev. R.G. Smith, The Rectory, 1 Clifton Avenue, Billingham, Teesside; J.H. Proudlock Ltd., building contractors and joinery manufacturers, Simpson Street, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough; Mrs. N. Clark, 38 High Street, Wolviston; J.P. Campbell, 11 Grantham Road, Norton; K. Appleton, 1 Wynyard Road, Wolviston; Swinburne & Jackson, solicitors, St. Nicholas Court, Market Place, Durham; Durham County Council, County Hall, Durham, and Stockton Rural District Council, Cromer Lodge, Yarm Lane, Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside, concerning alterations to the church hall and adjoining Church Cottage and their subsequent sale for redevelopment as housing, 21 December 1962 - 19 November 1971

Correspondence between Rev. R.G. Smith, The Rectory, 1 Clifton Avenue, Billingham, and Billingham Urban District Council, Council Offices, Haverton Hill, concerning a proposed scheme to widen the A19 road and create a housing scheme to the west of it, 24 January 1963 - 11 August 1971

Plan of Wolviston by-pass section of the proposed A19 trunk road East of Snaith to Sunderland, n.d. [mid 1960s] Scale: 1:2500

Plan of Wolviston showing location of shops, public buildings and grounds; petrol station, industry and vacant property; allotments, market garden and residential property, prepared to illustrate Rev. R.G. Smith's appeal against refusal of planning permission for a proposed development at St. Peter's church, June 1968

Letter from W. Clepham, Stockton, to Rev. L.C. Clarke concerning survey of parsonage house and proposed alterations, 8 May 1850

Correspondence between Thos. Selby and Son, Martins' Bank Chambers, 93 High Street, Stockton-on-Tees; Trotter, Bruce & Loft, solicitors, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland; Stockton Rural District Council, Cromer Lodge, Yarm Lane, Stockton-on-Tees and Rev. R.G. Smith, The Rectory, Wolviston, concerning Rev. Smith ' s appeal against the refusal of permission for the erection of a parsonage house, 15 September 1967 - 3 July 1968

Copy notification from the Ministry of Local Government and Planning that The Rectory, 1 The Green, Wolviston, has been included in the list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest, 3 March 1957

Floor plans and block plan of proposed alterations to The Rectory, Wolviston, by Dainton, Elgee & Wrightson, chartered architects and surveyors, 13 Victoria Road, Darlington, February 1967 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Rev. R.G. Smith, Wolviston Rectory, 1 Clifton Avenue, Billingham; Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Smith, Roddam & Co., solicitors, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland, and Ven. G.J.C. Marchant, Archdeacon of Auckland, 38 South Street, Durham, concerning the sale by the diocese of the former rectory, 1 The Green, Wolviston, 31 August 1973 - 20 January 1975

South and west elevations of proposed improvements and additions to Wolviston Chapel by [Robert] Newham, Stockton on Tees, surveyor, 1824 Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]

Proposed west elevation of Wolviston Chapel by Robert Newham, Stockton on Tees, surveyor, n.d., [ c. 1824] Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]

Ground plan of proposed alterations to Wolviston Chapel, n.d., [c.1824]

Copy of west and south elevations of design for the improvements and additions at Wolviston Chapel (St. Mary Magdalene) by Newham, Stockton-on-Tees, n.d. [ c.1830] Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Copy ground plan of Wolviston Chapel (St. Mary Magdalene), as proposed to be altered, n.d. [c.1830]

Reproduction of a pen and ink sketch of Wolviston, St. Mary Magdalene , n.d. [1960s]

Correspondence between Rev. R.G. Smith, The Rectory, Wolviston; Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London; Thos. Selby & Son, chartered auctioneers and estate agents, Martins ' Bank Chambers, 93 High Street, Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside; and Stockton Rural District Council, Cromer Lodge, Yarm Lane, Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside, concerning the proposal to de-consecrate the site of the former St. Mary ' s Chapel in Lax Terrace, Wolviston, and sell it for housing development, 11 May 1964 - 21 December 1970

Plan of proposed electricity sub-station at Lax Terrace, Wolviston, by the North Eastern Electricity Board, Tees Area, Trenchard Avenue, Thornaby, 5 August 1966 Scale: 1:500

Order in council empowering the Church Commissioners to sell the site of the old church at Wolviston (St. Mary Magdalene), 19 October 1970

Auction sale particulars of a building site at Lax Terrace, Wolviston, 16 March 1971

Faculty to remove old church, level site and mark site by boundary stones, 26 July 1877

Log book, 13 August 1979 - February 1994

Schedule of registers and Communion Plate in the parish of Wolviston, 13 May 1887

Inventory, n.d. [1992 - 1993]

Inventory, n.d. [1994 - 1995]

Inventory, 1999

Terrier and inventory, 20 April 1977 - 8 May 1987

Terrier and inventory, 9 April 1995

Terrier and inventory, 24 March 1996

Terrier and inventory, 15 April 1998

Terrier and inventory, April 2001

Terrier and inventory, April 2002

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Peter' s church by Elder & Lester, chartered architects, Midland Bank Chambers , Town Square, Billingham, 23 October 1959

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Peter' s church by Elder & Lester, chartered architects, Midland Bank Chambers, Town Square, Billingham, 15 December 1964

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Peter' s church by Elder, Lester & Partners, chartered architects, 2 Town Square, Billingham, Teesside, 25 September 1969

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Peter' s church by Elder, Lester & Partners, chartered architects, Eastry House, High Street, Yarm, Cleveland, 14 May 1975

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Peter' s church by Elder Lester Associates, chartered architects, Eastry House, High Street, Yarm, Cleveland, 17 September 1979

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Peter' s church by Elder Lester Associates, chartered architects, Eastry House, High Street, Yarm, Cleveland, 29 May 1984

Quinquennial inspection report by D. M. Spouse, Architect, 200 Park Road, Hartlepool, TS26 9NF, 7 December 1994

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of Wolviston Rectory, by D. McIntyre, diocesan surveyor, 26 January 1962

Statement describing the conditions, needs and traditions of the parish, November 1999

Archdeacon' s pre-vacancy enquiries, 3 November 1999

Archdeacon' s enquiry of the Deanery Pastoral Committee, concerning the nature and needs of the parish, 17 November 1999

Account book of churchwardens, including notes on common land, agreements, rebuilding chapel, 1716, arrangement of pews, disbursement of poor money, 1672 - 1842

Churchwarden' s accounts for the year ending Easter 1887, 1887

Sequestration accounts, 5 June 1975 - 8 February 2001

Remarks on the memorial of the churchwardens of Wolviston, 8 March 1860 Originally enclosed in EP/Wo 21

Vestry minutes, 1830 - 1846

Churchwardens' accounts, vestry minutes and charity accounts, 1844 - 1935 See also EP/Wo 21, 51

Minute book of Parochial Church Council meetings, 9 May 1955 - 18 March 1965 Includes: minutes of Annual Vestry and Parochial meetings, 1956 - 1 March 1964

Minute book of Parochial Church Council meetings, 28 March 1965 - 11 March 1971 Includes: minutes of Annual Vestry and Parochial meetings, 28 March 1965 - 8 March 1970

Copies of minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 6 May 1971 - 27 July 1989

Parochial Church Council minutes of meetings, 16 October 1989 - 29 March 2001

Copies of minutes of Annual Meetings, 21 March 1971 - 1997

Annual general meeting minutes of meetings, 16 April 1998 - 26 April 2001

Minutes of meetings, 12 November 1996 - 4 February 2003

Standing sub-committee minutes of meetings, 9 January 1997 - 17 February 2000

Building and grounds sub-committee minutes of meetings, 14 January - 11 June 1997

Worship forum minutes of meetings, 27 October 1998 - 1 February 1999

Parochial cash book, 4 January 1995 - 28 December 2001

Financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2002

Electoral roll, n.d. [c.1960 - c.1970]

Electoral roll, March 1972 - March 1983

Estimates to build school, 1877 Originally enclosed in EP/Wo 21

Particulars of cost of building parochial schoolroom at Wolviston, n.d. [1877] Originally enclosed in EP/Wo 21

Ground plan and front elevation of Wolviston Parochial School built in 1836, n.d. [ c. 1835]

Extract from will of Lydia Wilson, deceased, including bequest of £100 to distribute to poor, proved 26 March 1876

Letters from Dodds & Co., Stockton on Tees, to Rev. William Eade concerning legacy of £100 by Lydia Wilson, 18 - 25 October 1876

Letter from Charity Commission to Rev. W. Eade, Wolviston Rectory, concerning Lydia Wilson's Charity, 15 November 1876

Charity Commission Order re investment of £100, Lydia Wilson's Charity, 15 November 1876

Share certificate, Lydia Wilson's Charity, 29 November 1876

Letters from Charity Commission to rector and churchwardens concerning stock belonging to Lydia Wilson's Charity, 22 December 1876 - 9 May 1884

9 May 1958 (1) Graham Anthony Harrington of The Rectory, Wolviston, clerk in holy orders (2) John Henry Antrobus of 13 Ravensworth Road, Billingham; Harry Moore of 6 Ravensworth Road, Billingham; and June Neilson Challenger of 8 Northfield Road, Billingham, trustees of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Associations in the parish of Wolviston Grant by (1) to (2) of a licence to use a piece of land adjoining the parish church of St. Peter, Wolviston, part of Ordnance Survey field number 133 for Boy Scout and Girl Guide activities, and permission to erect a headquarters building

Letter from Dorothea Brack, 'Dunelm' , Brighton Road, Shermanbury, Horsham, Sussex, to Rev. Smith, describing an occasion when Sybil, Lady Eden addressed Wolviston Mothers' Union in the church, 15 November 1973

Parish magazine, January 1907

Newspaper cuttings re church and town, n.d Originally enclosed in EP/Wo 21

' Stockton Rural District: Village Study' , prepared for Durham County Council by J.R. Atkinson, County Planning Officer, n.d. [1968]

Notes concerning the history of the rectory, n.d. [mid 1970s]

Notes on the history of Wolviston Chapel, n.d. [late 20th century]