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Auckland St. Anne Parish

Reference: EP/Au.SAn Catalogue Title: Auckland St. Anne Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1781-1996

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  • Auckland St. Anne Parish
    • Auckland, St Anne (Ref: EP/Au.SAn)
    • Registration (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/Section 01)
    • Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/section 01)
    • Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/section 02)
    • Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/section 03)
    • Clergy (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/Section 02)
    • Registers of services (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/section 01)
    • Benefice (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/section 02)
    • Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/Section 04)
    • Church (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/section 01)
    • Centenary (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)
    • Church building (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)
    • Minutes and notes (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)
    • Plans (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)
    • Church history (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)
    • Furniture and plate (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)
    • Gifts (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)
    • Pews (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)
    • Faculties and Archdeacons' Certificates (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/section 02)
    • Faculties (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/section 01)
    • Archdeacons' certificates (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/section 02)
    • Quinqennial inspections (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/section 03)
    • Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 6/Section 06)
    • Financial records (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 6/)
    • Schools (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 11/Section 11)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 14/Section 14)

Catalogue Contents

Auckland, St Anne (Ref: EP/Au.SAn)Registration (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/Section 01)Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/section 01)

1/1-3, 13-14

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/1

Register of baptisms, 20 March 1868 - 31 December 1873
(1 volume, calf half-bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/2

Register of baptisms, 7 January 1874 - 2 June 1886
(1 volume, calf bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/3

Register of baptisms, 5 June 1886 - 29 September 1910
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/13

Register of baptisms, 6 October 1910 - 27 April 1938
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/14

Register of baptisms, 29 April 1938 - 30 September 1984
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/section 02)

1/8-12, 15-18
N.B. the register of marriages 1988-2004 went missing from the church

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/8

Register of marriages, 10 June 1855 - 21 November 1874
(1 volume, vellum half-bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/9

Register of marriages, 23 November 1874 - 16 August 1887
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/10

Register of marriages, 27 August 1887 - 22 April 1905
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/11

Register of marriages, 11 June 1905 - 30 August 1914
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/12

Register of marriages, 1 September 1914 - 7 October 1922
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/15

Register of marriages, 11 November 1922 - 19 April 1933
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/16

Register of marriages, 20 May 1933 - 15 September 1945
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/17

Register of marriages, 26 September 1945 - 22 December 1956
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/18

Register of marriages, 26 January 1957 - 30 April 1988
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/section 03)

1/4-7

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/4

Register of banns of marriage, 2 February 1873 - 28 August 1881
(1 volume, calf bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/5

Register of banns of marriage, 11 September 1881 - 8 August 1886
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/6

Register of banns of marriage, 22 August 1886 - 5 July 1891
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 1/7

Register of banns of marriage, 5 July 1891 - 10 June 1900
(1 volume, calf bound)

Clergy (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/Section 02)Registers of services (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/section 01)

2/1-9, 11-12

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/1

Register of services, 18 October 1874 - 30 June 1880
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/2

Register of services, 4 July 1880 - 22 November 1885
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/3

Register of services, 29 November 1885 - 19 October 1890
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/4

Register of services, 26 October 1890 - 24 May 1894
(1 volume, leather bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/5

Register of services, 27 May 1894 - 17 February 1898
(1 volume, leather bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/6

Register of services, 20 February 1898 - 22 December 1901
(1 volume, leather bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/7

Register of services, 6 September 1943 - 21 November 1948
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/8

Register of services, 1 June 1963 - 29 December 1968
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/9

Register of services, 5 January 1969 - 22 January 1976
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/11

Register of services, 25 January 1916 - 9 November 1980
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/12

Register of services, 11 November 1980 - 2 February 1996
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Benefice (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/section 02)

14/1

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 14/1

Copy notes as to the constitution of St. Anne as a separate benefice, the consecration of church and the augmentation of the benefice, by J.M. Loft, Bishop Auckland, June 1939
(1 file)

Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/Section 04)Church (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/section 01)Furniture and plate (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/3

Correspondence and papers, including coloured plans, of proposed reredos for St. Anne's Church, 31 May 1880 - 21 February 1881
(1 file)

Church building (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)Minutes and notes (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/1

Chapel building, pew rent and chapelwardens' accounts, 21 May 1781 - 2 December 1848 Includes: memoranda of Chapel Committee proceedings, 24 May 1787 - 24 December 1846
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/5

"St. Anne's chapel Bishop Auckland, 1846. Copy minute book", dealing with further alterations to St. Anne's, 30 December 1845 - 3 December 1888
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/30

Churchwardens' record of repairs and improvements to St. Anne's Chapel, 1867 - 1869 Includes: copy consent of pew owners to the re-pewing and restoration, 3 July 1867; copy faculty authorising the re-seating and restoration, 9 November 1867; receipts and payments account, including list of subscribers, of the repairs and improvements fund, [1869]
(1 volume, leather bound)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/33

Minute book of meetings concerning the alteration of the chapel, 30 December 1845 - 10 May 1894
(1 volume)

Plans (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/6

Plan of St. Anne's church museum, Market Place, Bishop Auckland, as existing, drawing no. 1, by Wear Valley District Council, 15 December 1977 Scale: 1 : 50
(1 plan, 70.5 cm. x 61 cm., duplicated)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/7

Plan of St. Anne's church museum, Market Place, Bishop Auckland, as proposed, drawing no. 2a, by Wear Valley District Council, 17 July 1978 Scale: 1 : 50
(1 plan, 71 cm. x 84 cm., duplicated)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/34/1

Plan of the ground floor of the church, 19 January 1846 Originally enclosed in EP/Au.SAn 4/33
(1 plan, 19cm x 33cm,)

Pews (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/2

Special case for the opinion of the court in the case between John Proud, plaintiff, and Rev. Edwin Price, Richard Travers, Ralph Peverell, John Heslop and Matthias Hammond, defendants, to establish plaintiff's title to three pews in St. Anne's Chapel, with plans, 1891
(1 file, printed)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/31

Seating plan, showing proprietary pews, rented pews and free pews, n.d., [ c.1867] No scale Originally enclosed in EP/Au.San 4/30
(1 plan, 25 cm. x 38 cm., waxed linen, colour wash)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/34/3

Plan of the arrangement and ownership of the pews on the ground floor of the church, 19 January 1846 Originally enclosed in EP/Au.SAn 4/33
(1 plan, 43cm x 32cm, colour)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/34/3

Plan of the new arrangement and ownership of the pews on the ground floor of the church, February 1848 Originally enclosed in EP/Au.SAn 4/33
(1 plan, 32cm x 42cm)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/34/4

Partial plan of the arrangement and ownership of the pews on the ground floor of the church referred to in the faculty of 9 November 1867 Originally enclosed in EP/Au.SAn 4/33
(1 plan, 41cm x 31cm, colour)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/34/5

Plan of the arrangement and ownership of the pews on the ground floor of the church, n.d. [1840s] Originally enclosed in EP/Au.SAn 4/33
(1 plan, 20cm x 33cm, colour, tracing paper)

Church history (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/4

A copy of "An Account of the Rise and Progress of St. Anne's chapel in Bishop Auckland, AD. 1781", 1781 - 1814
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Centenary (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/13

Order of service for the commemoration of the centenary of St. Anne's church, 22 February 1948 Originally enclosed in EP/Au.San 4/30
(1 booklet, printed)

Gifts (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/)Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/32

Record of gifts to St. Anne's church, 31 October 1965 - 1980
(1 volume)

Faculties and Archdeacons' Certificates (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/section 02)Faculties (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/section 01)

4/8-23

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/8

Faculty for the interior painting and decoration of the church, 17 September 1985
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/9

List describing colours and locations of paints recommended for St. Anne's church, n.d., c.1985
(1 booklet)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/10

Faculty for roof repairs, 13 February 1986
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/11

Faculty for the introduction of a wall-mounted memorial book display case in pine to be fixed to the wall of the north aisle, 13 March 1987
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/12

Faculty for the introduction of a red synthetic fibre carpet for the chancel and walkways of the church, 30 March 1987
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/13

Faculty for the subdivision of the church to provide an 'Action in Retirement Centre' with meeting room and kitchen, 29 June 1987
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/14

Faculty for the installation of a 'Robur' warm air heating system, 25 November 1988
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/15

Faculty for the re-wiring of the lighting and power circuits in the 'worship area' of the church and the installation of new lighting units, 7 August 1989
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/16

Faculty for the installation of an upper floor in the vestry and an access staircase, for the installation of a stainless steel sink unit under the stairs, for the overhaul of the east wall Hopper window, for alterations to the lighting and electrical circuits and for the painting and decoration of woodwork and plaster, 14 March 1991
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/17

Faculty for the installation of an aumbry and sanctuary lamp in memory of Hazel Stroud, 14 November 1991
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/18

Faculty for the introduction of a statue of the madonna and child, 5 December 1991
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/19

Faculty for the introduction of tungsten halogen floodlighting under the eaves of the eastern gable with an infra red detector at low level, 16 November 1992
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/20

Faculty for the introduction of a memorial case to house the roll of those who were killed during the First and Second World Wars, 16 November 1992
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/21

Faculty for the demolition of the chimney stack on the north side of the church, 20 January 1992
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/22

Faculty for the introduction, into the north aisle, of three quartzray overhead heaters and, into the chancel, of two quartzray heaters, 20 January 1993
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/23

Faculty for the attachment of polycarbonate window protectors to all the windows at the east and west ends of the church, 4 March 1993
(1 paper)

Archdeacons' certificates (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/section 02)

4/24-27

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/24

Archdeacon's certificate, 16 January 1970
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/25

Archdeacon's certificate, 2 May 1973
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/26

Archdeacon's certificate for works in the church of St. Anne, Auckland, 8 January 1992
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/27

Archdeacon's certificate for works in the church of St. Anne, Auckland, 15 October 1992
(1 paper)

Quinqennial inspections (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/section 03)

4/28-29

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/28

Report on the quinquennial inspection of the church of St. Anne, Auckland, 21 November 1989
(1 file)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 4/29

Report on the quinquennial inspection, on 6 July 1994, by Geoffrey Holland, Martin Stancliffe Architects, 29 Marygate, York, September 1994
(1 file)

Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 6/Section 06)Financial records (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 6/)

2/10

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 2/10

Parochial return of income and expenditure, 1960
(1 paper, printed form)

Schools (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 11/Section 11)

11/1-5, 14/2

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 11/1

Minutes of the meetings of the managers of St. Anne's C.E. (Controlled) School, 2 July 1965 and 19 December 1966
(5 papers, typescript)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 11/2

List of applicants for the post of head teacher of St. Anne's C.E. (Controlled) Junior Mixed and Infants' School, 1950s
(1 file, printed)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 11/3

1907 (1) Rev. Herbert Gouldsmith, vicar of St. Andrew's, Auckland (2) Herbert Gouldsmith, Samuel Adams, Arthur Speak and Robert Marquis, all of Bishop Auckland, managers (3) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Deed of exchange of lands in Bishop Auckland for the extension of the boundaries of St. Anne's C.E. School, as specified on the plan annexed
(1 file, typescript)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 11/4

Correspondence concerning rebuilding of a wall around St. Anne's C.E. School, 11-26 June 1909
(1 file)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 11/5

Correspondence concerning proposals for selling the old site of St. Anne's C.E. School, 15 and 20 May 1964 and 17 February - 5 May 1970
(6 papers)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 14/2

'St. Anne's School, Bishop Auckland', a history to 1970, by F.M. Carr, c. 1971
(1 file)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Au.SAn 14/Section 14)

14/3-4

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 14/3

Photograph of a late eighteenth century etching of Auckland Market Place, showing the old chapel of St. Anne, cottages later demolished to make way for the Town Hall and the gateway to Auckland Castle in the distance, n.d., [mid 20th century] Originally enclosed in EP/Au.SAn 4/30
(1 photograph, 21.5 cm. x 15 cm., black and white, mounted on board)

Ref: EP/Au.SAn 14/4

Newspaper cuttings relating to the etching, which is the subject of EP/Au.SAn 14/3, n.d., [mid 20th century] Originally enclosed in EP/Au.SAn 4/30
(3 papers, printed)



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