Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 1572 - 1687 and 1689 - 1728; marriages, 1573 - 1728; and burials, 1571 - 1728 Including: List of rectors, 1577 - 1951; Memorandum re pew belonging to Mrs. Lawson of Little Usworth, 1679; Memoranda re inductions and declarations re Articles of Religion (1562), Act of Uniformity, and Solemn League and Covenant, 1665 and 1676; Memorandum re archdeacon's visitation and order to erect communion rails and whiten the church, 1697; At end: list of fees; note re charitable bequest by Samuel Dobson, 1709;award re disputes between the parishioners and the parish clerk over the latter's wages, 1628; notes re collections and their purposes, 1661 - 1664; list of church books, 1615 (partly illegible)

Register of baptisms, 1728 - 1778; marriages, 1728 - 1754; and burials, 1728 - 1778 Including: Note re new Marriage Act and new register; Index to baptisms; Index to burials; Signed memorandum re meeting of objectors to erection of a pew by Mr. Fawcate, the present public pew "being very useful to our under tenants & servants", and note by rector, disagreeing; 1737; List of rectors, 1577 - 1902; List of rectors from Randal's MSS., given in Hutchinson's History, bef.1311 - 1770; Memorandum re sale of Baron's pew by John Greenwell of West Boldon to Captain Harvey Midforth of East Boldon, 1770; Copy of deed of settlement for poor charity under the will of John Stephenson, and covering leter from Matthew Stephenson to the rector, 1761 - 1769; Copy of part of John Stephenson's will, n.d.; Memorandum re archdeacon's visitation and orders re repairs and parish chest, 1763; Memorandum re purchase and particulars of silver communion plate with lists of subscribers, 1740, 1745; Memorandum re gift by the parish to the hospital at Bath, 1742; Memoranda re inductions, 1734, 1770, 1809, 1814; Memorandum re liability of two milns to find the sum due under Harrison's poor charity, 1731; Memorandum re purchase of church clock and font with list of subscribers, 1750 Memorandum re repair of a pew by Henry Wilkinson for the use of his tenants at Brockley Whins, without precluding its use by other parishioners, 1769; Table of fees

Register of baptisms, 1779 - 1812; and burials, 1779 - 1812 Including: Index to baptisms; Index to burials; List of rectors, 1577 - 1951; Notes in margins of baptisms section re payment of "the king's tax" 1784 - 1794; note "Act repealed" in 1794; Archdeacon's visitation 1791; articles of visitation with answers (with note that "Mr. Blackett on examining his ledgers finds, one year with another, that he has been resident for these last twenty years full eight months in the year"); General directions re parish bounds, church windows and graveyard; Queries and answers re church possessions and glebe land; At back of volume: (i) copies of letters re erection of window by Rev. H. G. Liddell, 1851; (ii) printed leaflets re the parish schools, 1866 (appeal for funds) and 1904 - 1905 (rebuilding fund subscriptions); history of the schools and restoration account, 1904 - 1906; note re alterations to meet demands of Education Board and re new school, 1921 - 1925; (iii) church restoration: statement of work done, money-raising events, etc. and printed leaflets and accounts, etc.; (new roof 1866; organ fund 1882 - 1885) 1847 - 1906; (iv) terrier, including description of rectory, out buildings, glebe, tithes, church furniture, repairs, wages, 1806; (v) extract from will of Rev. H. Blackett, 1808; (vi) memoranda re sale of stock (being surplus after redemption of land tax) and its use for school room; and re Blackett's educational charity, 1811 - 1812; (vii) list of subscriptions towards the school room, 1810; (viii) numbers of communicants 1811 - 1818; (ix) census summaries, 1801, 1811, 1861, 1871, 1881; (x) loose papers: opening of new school and Sunday School and choice of benefactors under Blackett's charity, 1811; Memorandum of agreement for building of school, 1859; draft terrier, n.d.; notice by Rev. Blackett re "the indecency, illegality and bad tendency" of permitting servants to work in the fields on Good Friday, and re his intention to present the defaulters at the bishop's visitation, n.d. (c .1770 - 1809); printed leaflet re opening of new domestic science room in W. Boldon Church School, 1933

Register of baptisms,1813 - 1846

Register of baptisms, 1846 - 1891

Register of baptisms, 1891 - 1922

Register of baptisms, 1922 - 1955

Register of marriages and banns, 1754 - 1773

Register of marriages, 1773 - 1812; and banns, 1773 - 1816 Includes index to marriages

Register of marriages, 1813 - 1838

Register of marriages, 1837 - 1914

Register of marriages, 1914 - 1919

Register of marriages, 1919 - 1941

Register of marriages, 1941 - 1953

Register of marriages, 1953 - 1963 1 volume)

Register of marriages, 1963 - 1970

Register of marriages, 22 August 1970 - 15 January 1977

Register of marriages, 18 January 1977 - 8 September 1984

Register of marriages, 8 September 1984 - 11 August 2012

Register of banns, 1906 - 1934

Register of banns, 1934 - 1969

Register of banns of marriage, 6 April 1969 - 25 July 1976

Register of banns of marriage, 11 July 1976 - 31 August 1986

Register of banns of marriage, 1 December 1985 - n.d. [1997]

Register of burials, 1813 - 1856

Register of burials, 1857 - 1872

Transcript of parish registers, baptisms, marriages and burials, 1573 - 1600 Including list of rectors (1577 - 1914), 1918

Register of confirmations, 1904 - 1939

Register of confirmations, 4 December 1940 - 12 June 2005

Register of services, 1899 - 1916

Register of services, 1916 - 1921

Register of services, 1923 - 1926

Register of services, 1926 - 1930

Register of services, 1930 - 1935

Register of services, 1940 - 1943

Register of services, 1943 - 1945

Register of services, 1945 - 1950

Register of services, 1950 - 1955

Register of services, 1955 - 1963 (1 volume)

Register of services, 10 November 1963 - 31 December 1974

Register of services, 1 January 1975 - 12 February 1982

Register of services, 14 February 1982 - 26 August 1985

Register of services, 28 August 1985 - 30 June 1989

Register of services, 2 July 1989 - 14 July 1993

Register of services, 15 July 1993 - 25 January 1998

Register of services, 26 January 1998 - 26 January 2003

Correspondence between Ecclesiastical Commission and Rev. W.H. Bulmer, Boldon Rectory, concerning formation of new parish of Hedworth, 24 August 1877 - 21 March 1882

Instrument of approval by Ecclesiastical Commission of church erected at Hedworth, 23 February 1882

Plan of parish boundaries showing glebe sold and district assigned to parish of Hedworth, 1901 - 1912 No scale

Letters from E.S. Sykes, Hedworth Vicarage, the Bishop of Durham and the Bishop's Secretary to Rev. J.G.B. Knight, Boldon Rectory, concerning proposed alterations of boundaries of Boldon and Hedworth, 9 - 22 November 1910

Order in Council altering boundaries of Boldon and Hedworth parishes, with covering letter, 29 February - 7 March 1912

Plan showing boundary of proposed new parish [Hedworth?], n.d. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]

Extracts from parish magazines concerning suggest ion that new church at East Boldon should be a memorial church, 1917

Papers re funds for new church at East Boldon, 17 September 1917 - 4 December 1923

Letter from Mrs. A.S. Webster, East Boldon to Mr. Leake promising £100 towards memorial church at East Boldon and letter from Steel Maitland & Byers, Sunderland, solicitors, concerning her wishes (since her death), 11 December 1917 and 27 October 1919

Circular letter from Bishop appealing for funds to erect a memorial chapel to serve East Boldon, 21 November 1918

Newspaper cutting concerning laying of foundation stone of new St. George's Church at East Boldon, 1922

Letters from Ecclesiastical Commission to rector concerning endowment of new parish of East Boldon, St. George, 30 November 1929 - 18 December 1944

31 July 1930 (1) Rev. Francis Aubrey Eyton Leake, rector of Boldon (2) Rt. Rev. Herbert Hensley Bishop of Durham, patron (3) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Copy assignment by (1) with consent of (2) to (3) of £3333 6s.8d. £3% stock and another £3333 6s.8d. £3% stock to endow minister when appointed of new parish of East Boldon, St. George

The London Gazette , including Order in Council creating new parish of East Boldon, St. George, 4 November 1930

Plan of the new parish of East Boldon, St. George, 1930 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]

The London Gazette , including Order in Council altering boundaries of Harton Colliery, All Saints and Cleadon, All Saints, 19 December 1930

Map showing alteration of boundaries of Harton Colliery, All Saints and Cleadon, All Saints, 1930 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]

List of money spent by Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Blackett on parish, 1775 - 1785

Receipt for Tenths, 22 April 1825

Bill for First Fruits and Tenths due from Boldon, 7 May 1869

Letter from Bounty Office to Rev. F.A.E. Leake, concerning loan on benefice and first fruits and tenths, 10 - 11 July 1914

Letter from Treasurer of Incorporated Society for promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels to rector thanking him for donation, 17 November 1828

Fees at Boldon church, July 1844

Notice by Rev. Henry Blackett that he will report to the Proctor of the Court of Durham those persons refusing to pay Easter dues, n.d.

Letters from Ecclesiastical Commission and others concerning investments of parish income, 3 January 1906 - 18 October 1950

Statements of annual amounts payable by Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 April 1939

Letters from Bounty Office to Rev. F. Wilson, concerning benefice income, 20 February - 29 March 1945

Balance sheet of benefice income, n.d.

Return of benefice income, n.d.

Balance sheet, Assistant Clergy Fund, 31 December 1943

1 April 1802 (1) Rev. Henry B1ackett, rector of Boldon (2) Rt. Hon. William Lord Auckland and Rt. Hon. Sylvester Lord Glenbervie, Commissioners for Redemption of Land Tax (3) Anthony Hood of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Esq. (4) George Brummell of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, gent, trustee named by (3) Conveyance by (1) with consent of (2) to (4) in trust for (3) of the southernmost part of a close called Great Field in Boldon (8a.2r.10p.), part of the glebe, after redemption of land tax Consideration: £130 17s.4d. by (1) to redeem land tax; £10 8s.4d. to cover costs of redemption and £103 11s.8d. (3) to (1)

1805 (1) Rev. Henry Blackett M.A., rector of Boldon (2) John Humble, gent, of Downhill, Boldon Draft agreement for lease for 12 years of Boldon Glebe Farm at rent of £100 p.a., including scheme of husbandry

Letter from Smiths Gore & Co., London, surveyors to Rev. W.D.Cr,oudace concerning rent for Boldon Rectory Farm, 25 October 1905

16 November 1871 (1) Rev. William Henry Philip Bulmer, rector of Boldon (2) Rt. Rev. Charles Bishop of Durham, patron (3) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Conveyance (and copy) by (1) with consent of (2) to (3) of coal and minerals under 146a.0r.14p. glebe in parish of Boldon as specified in schedule and plan Consideration: £8000 (3) to (1)

5 December 1890 (1) Rt. Rev. Daniel Fox Sandford, rector of Boldon (2) Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss, Bishop of Durham, patron (3) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Conveyance (supplemental to EP/Bo 91) by (1) with consent of (2) to (3) of coal and minerals under 3a.0r.24p. land, the site of the Pontop and South Shields Railway in Boldon parish as specified on plan Consideration: £172 by (3) to (1)

Proviso, to be included in deed, reserving rents payable on railway to rector of Boldon, n.d. [1890]

Letters from John George Wilson, 5 North Bailey, Durham and Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. W. Darnell Croudace, Boldon Rectory, concerning sale of glebe to Ecclesiastical Commission and investment of proceeds, 27 March - 28 November 1905

Letter from Milles & Co., London to J.G. Wilson, esq., North Bailey, Durham, concerning drainage rentcharge on glebe proposed to be sold to Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 15 June 1905

Letter from Smiths Gore & Co., London to Rev. W.D. Croudace, concerning rent on land sold to Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 20 June 1905

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. W. Darnell Croudace, Boldon Rectory, concerning collection of rents on glebe purchased by Commissioners and copy conveyance, 5 October 1905

Letter from Smiths Gore & Co., Darlington, chartered surveyors and land agents to Rev. F. Wilson, concerning sale of glebe to Church Commissioners to erect pair of agricultural workers' cottages for Glebe Farm, 5 July 1949

Letters from McKenzie Bell & Sons, Sunderland, solicitors to Rev. F. Wilson, West Boldon Rectory, concerning sale of glebe to Church Commissioners, 15 April - 9 October 1950

3 August 1950 (1) Rev. Frederick Wilson, rector of West Boldon (2) Church Commissioners for England (3) Rt. Rev. Alwyn Bishop of Durham, patron (4) Said Church Commissioners Conveyance by (1) with consent of (2) and (3) to (4) of 2a.1r.2p. glebe at West Boldon as specified in schedule and plan, with right to build 4 inch sanitary drain and manhole Consideration: £226 (4) to (2) in trust for benefice

Plan of part of glebe showing houses built and in course of erection, 5 October 1876 Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch [1:240]

Correspondence between Rev. W.H. Bulmer, Boldon Rectory and Ecclesiastical Commission, concerning cost of conversion of old stable on glebe into a cottage and general dilapidations, 27 October - 10 December 1879

Letter from Steel Maitland & Byers, Sunderland, solicitors to Rev. J.G.B. Knight, West Boldon Rectory, concerning proportion of interest payable by N.E.R. Company, on their purchase of Boldon Mills, to poor of parish, 28 November 1911

Letter from N.E.R. Estate Agent, York to Rev. J.G.B. Knight, West Boldon Rectory, concerning interest on capital charge on land at Brockley Whins to poor of parish, 2 January 1912

Letters from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. F.A.E. Leake, Boldon Rectory, concerning sale of wayleave land to L.N.E.R., 18 January - 21 March 1938

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. Frederick Wilson, Boldon Rectory, concerning investment of consideration money for redemption of wayleave rent by L.N.E.R., and other benefice income, 20 March 1945

Letters from Chapter Office, Durham, Ecclesiastical Commission and Wilson Ornsby & Cadle, Durham, solicitors, concerning proposed working of coal beneath church by Harton Coal Company Ltd., 19 June 1924 - 8 July 1926

Grants of licences by Rev. Francis Aubray Eyton Leake to Harton Coal Company Ltd to work coal under church and St. Nicholas School, with covering letter, 5 August 1926 - 18 June 1928

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. F.A.E. Leake, West Boldon Rectory, concerning release to Harton Coal Company Ltd of coal under glebe, enclosing report by mineral agents, 28 March - 2 May 1928

8 December 1932 (1) Francis Aubrey Eyton Leake, rector of Boldon (2) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (3) Rt. Rev. Herbert Hensley, Bishop of Durham, patron (4) The Harton Coal Company Limited, South Shields Lease (and draft) for 50.5 years by (1) with consent of (2) and (3) to (4) of coal under two parcels of glebe (12a.3r.24p.) in Boldon as specified on plan Rents as specified

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. F.A.E. Leake, West Boldon Rectory, concerning value of coal under St. Nicholas Church School, 5 September 1944

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. Frederick Wilson, concerning compensation by Coal Commission, 5 September 1945

Letters from McKenzie Bell & Sons, Sunderland, solicitors and J.P. Carter, Diocesan Office, Durham, concerning valuation of West Boldon glebe, 15 September 1949 - 14 October 1950

Notes re rectory and glebe, n.d.

Miscellaneous: Letter to Bishop of Durham, 1900 Specification for building gallery, 1831 Charity Commission report, 1899

Letters from John F. Elliot, Treasurer, Elvet Hill to Rev. J. Collinson, Boldon Rectory, concerning subscriptions to Diocesan Training School, 29 November 1852 - 16 November 1855

List of those saying catechism in church, 1854 - 1855

Notes advocating profession of clergyman, n.d.

Original apportionment and present owners etc., Boldon tithes, January 1905

Receipt for tithe apportionment and plan, 1840, and altered apportionments, 1910 - 1913, from Mann Longden & Mann, Sunderland, solicitors, 26 July 1928

Altered apportionment of tithe rentcharge on lands in Boldon, with map and covering letter, 25 May 1926

Altered apportionment of tithe rentcharge on lands in Boldon, with map, 20 June 1929

Tithe accounts, 1779

Tithe accounts, 1781

Tithe accounts, 1784

Tithe accounts, 1785

Tithe accounts, 1787

Tithe accounts, 1788

Tithe accounts, 1789

Tithe accounts, 1790

Tithe accounts, 1791

Tithe accounts, 1792

Tithe accounts, 1793

Tithe accounts, 1794

Tithe accounts, 1796

Tithe accounts, 1786

Tithe accounts, 1797

Tithe accounts, 1798

Tithe accounts, 1799

Tithe accounts,1780

Tithe accounts, 1815

Tithe accounts, 1818

Tithe accounts, 1819

Tithe accounts, 1820

Tithe accounts, 1821

Tithe accounts, 1824

Tithe accounts, 1825

Tithe accounts, 1826

Tithe accounts, 1828

Tithe accounts, 1817

Account book of tithes, 1795

Account of total receipts of tithes, 18 December 1812

Valuation and schedule of tithes of parish of Boldon, 1814

Deed of merger of tithe rent charge on land at or near Boldon [being sold to Ecclesiastical Commission] , 24 April 1905

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to "Sirs" concerning merger of tithe rentcharge when Ecclesiastical Commission bought an area of glebe (in 1905), 14 December 1926

Certificate of redemption of tithe rentcharge on land in Boldon, with covering letter, 27 - 30 May 1913

Certificate of redemption of tithe rentcharge on land in Boldon, with covering letter, 25 September 1925

Certificate of redemption of tithe rentcharge on land in Boldon, 19 January 1926

Letter from Bounty Office to Rev. F.A.E. Leake, concerning receipt of £147 9s.3d. tithe redemption money for benefit of benefice, 30 September 1926

Certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge on land in Boldon, with covering letter, 4 November 1926

Certificate of redemption of tithe rentcharge on lands in Boldon, 28 April 1931

Certificate of redemption of tithe rentcharge on land in Boldon, 12 May 1932

Letters from Bounty Office to Rev. F.A.E. Leake, concerning Tithe Act 1936 and chancel repairs, 15 April 1939 - 8 April 1941

Record of Ascertainments under Tithe Act 1936, 8 August 1940

Statute duty performed by tenants in East Boldon, 1793 - 1796

Letters from Mann Longden & Mann to Bounty Office and Ecclesiastical Commission, concerning Boldon tithes, 10 December 1926

Restoration Fund: treasurers' cash accounts, 1873 - 1877

Notes on building and repair work carried out by Rev. Mr. Blackett, n.d.

Treasurer's cash account, Boldon Church Restoration Fund, 1 August 1873 - 1 February 1877

Minute book of Church Restoration Committee, 6 November 1874 - 6 November 1877

Notes re restoration of church, 1875 and c.1904

List of subscriptions to Boldon Church Restoration and National Schools Rebuilding Fund, n.d.

Accounts of restoration of church after fire, 1906 - 1907

Specifications and related correspondence concerning restoration of church roof, 7 May 1964 - 7 January 1965

Letter from G.E. Charlewood, Newcastle, chartered architect, to Rev. F. Wilson, Boldon Rectory concerning repairs necessary to plaster on church walls and decoration, 2 May 1949

Notice that church is a listed building, 28 March 1949

Letter from Elizabeth Aldridge, Bradford to Rev. Mr. Leake sending a donation to the Organ Fund, 28 September 1923

Specification and estimate for the proposed rebuilding of the organ, by the Vincent Electric Organ Co., 1 Sunderland Street, Sunderland, 14 February 1939

Order of Service for dedication of clock to memory of Dr. J. Charles Grant, 7 June 1931

Plan of proposed font, 26 October 1956 Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]

Letters from Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Ltd to Rev. F. Wilson, Boldon Rectory concerning claim for theft of chalice, 26 May - 9 June 1950

Bank passbook, New Altar Fund, 30 June 1956 - 7 March 1960

Letter from Helen Laybourne, Hon. Sec. of Diocesan Advisory Committee to [?], concerning installation of heating system, 25 September 1961

Sketch plan showing renewal of heating installation at church (and copy), October 1961 No scale

Ground plan of church, February 1890 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

Longitudinal section of church, February 1890 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

Cross section of church, February 1890 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

West elevation of church, February 1890 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

Plan, section and elevation of church, September 1892 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Site plan of church, 14 February 1958 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Plans, elevations, section and details of church, n.d. No scale

Plan of church and rectory, n.d. Scale: 25.344 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]

Notes re dimensions of church, n.d.

Receipt for 9 guineas from Nicholas Croftor Hunter, esq., of Holywell Hall, Brancepeth to construct a vault in churchyard in memory of family of Nicholas Croftor of North Biddick Hall and Mount Pleasant, Boldon, 11 November 1851

Notice of intention by Secretary of State to close churchyard, 11 October 1872

Order in Council discontinuing burials in West Boldon Church and churchyard, with covering letter, February 1873

Plans, section and elevations of proposed parish hall, April 1934 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Letter from Boldon U.D.C. to Rev. Fred. Wilson, The Rectory, West Boldon, enclosing notice of release of The Institute, West Boldon and claim form for compensation since premises had been taken under Defence (General) Regulations 1939, 31 December 1945

Statements of account, Aubrey Leake Hall Rebuilding Fund, 1956 - 1966

Plan of room, n.d. Scale: 1/4" to 1 foot [1:48]

Income and expenditure accounts of the Aubrey Leake Hall, 1 January 1955 - 16 December 1986

Memoranda as to repairs and alterations made at rectory by Rev. H. Blackett and Rev. J. Brewster, n.d. [post-1814]

Mortgage to raise £108 to improve sanitary arrangements and water supply of parsonage house, 24 June 1903

Mortgage to raise £38 to make sanitary and other improvements to parsonage house and offices and a labourer's dwelling on the glebe, 1 December 1915

Mortgage to raise £105 to improve parsonage house, 23 March 1928

Correspondence between Bounty Office, Diocesan Office, Snowdon Bros., Sunderland, builders, McKenzie & Co., Sunderland, solicitors, and Rev. F. Wilson, concerning alterations and improvements to rectory, 25 July 1945 - 29 September 1950

Mortgage (and copy) to raise £495 towards alterations and improvements of parsonage house, with related letter, 25 September 1947

Plans of proposed alterations to Boldon Rectory, 7 February 1951 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Mortgage to raise £510 towards alterations to parsonage house, 1 February 1954

Plan of West Boldon Rectory Development, June 1960 Scale: 1:1250

Mortgage to raise £80 towards purchase price of land to be purchased as an addition to a site for the residence of the benefice, 1 November 1961

Mortgage to raise £6845 towards cost of building new parsonage house, 1 February 1962

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. F.A.E. Leake, West Boldon Rectory, concerning deeds to parsonage house, 30 August 1921

10 June 1935 (1) Rev. F. Aubrey E. Leake, West Boldon Rectory (2) North-Eastern Electric Supply Company Limited Wayleave agreement for fixing a wire stay near rectory as specified on attached plan, with covering letter

Letter from War Department Land Agent to Rev. F. Wilson, West Boldon Rectory, concerning release of site for two Home Guard ammunition stores in rectory grounds, 20 August 1945

Plans and correspondence concerning proposed road widening at West Boldon, taking strip of rectory grounds, 24 October 1920 - 13 January 1921

Plan of road widening, rectory grounds, 6 November 1922 Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch [1:240]

Letter from South Shields R.D.C. to Rev. F. Aubrey E. Leake, West Boldon Rectory, concerning use of rectory grounds for road widening, with plan, 29 January 1923

Letters from McKenzie Bell & Sons, Sunderland, solicitors to Rev. F.E. Marples, West Boldon Rectory, concerning questions re property at West Boldon and land to be acquired for road widening at Rectory Bank, West Boldon, 7 April 1956 - 29 October 1958

Letter from Church Commissioners to Rev. F.E. Marples, concerning compensation paid for loss of development value in respect of sale by benefice of 2.26a. glebe adjoining parsonage house in 1950, under Town and Country Planning Act 1954, 22 August 1956

Correspondence between Rev. F.E. Marples, Boldon Rectory and Miss Carter, Diocesan Office, concerning effects of road widening on church property, 7 - 9 January 1959

Letter from P. Carter, Diocesan Office to E. Watts Moses, esq., concerning transfer of part of vicarage garden to Boldon U.D.C. to widen road, 29 January 1959

Letter from Gibson Ryle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Rev. William H.P. Bulmer, West Boldon Rectory, concerning erection of leasehold houses at West Boldon, 14 May 1878

Notice by South Shields Union Rural Sanitary Authority of construction of main sewer for parish of Boldon under lands belonging to church, with plan, 8 May 1894

Letters from Barker Dingle & Nelson and McKenzie Bell & Sons, Sunderland, solicitors to rector, concerning ground rents on property in St. Nicholas Terrace, Boldon, 6 April 1937 - 10 June 1950

Letter from McKenzie Bell & Sons, Sunderland, solicitors to Rev. F. Marples, West Boldon Rectory, concerning sale of land in St. Nicholas Terrace, 30 November 1954

Letter from McKenzie Bell & Sons, Sunder land, solicitors to Rev. F.E. Marples, Boldon Rectory, concerning compensation for nos.1-6 St. Nicholas Terrace, West Boldon and notice by Boldon U.D.C. of Compulsory Purchase Order of houses in St. Nicholas Terrace, 26 July 1962 - 28 April 1964

Notice by Boldon U.D.C. to Rev. F.E. Marples of entry to nos.1-6 St. Nicholas Terrace, West Boldon under Compulsory Purchase Order, 10 August 1964

Faculty to erect at their own expense a gallery in church for use of John Andrew, esq., Matthew Bell, esq., Robert Pemberton, gent, and John Henderson, agent, owners of houses and estates in the parish, 26 May 1781

Faculty to erect a gallery in church, 21 January 1831

Faculty to remove all pews, galleries and fittings; to extend the north aisle of the nave; to extend the south aisle of the nave; to lower the floor of the church; to take out the western window of the tower and put in a lancet window; to put in proper drains; to form a heating chamber; to put in a new floor with seats, font, pulpit, reading desk, etc.; and to carry out other necessary restoration, 10 August 1875

Faculty for a dorsal curtain and hangings; and for a brass cross, four brass vases and two brass candlesticks above, and separate from, the Holy Table, 17 November 1890

Faculty to erect a brass tablet mounted on black marble to the memory of Rev. William Henry Philip Bulmer, 25 August 1891 (1 paper)

Faculty authorising the erection of a rood beam at the chancel arch, 20 November 1924

Faculty authorising the erection of a marble tablet on the west wall of the nave, inscribed with a list of the rectors of Boldon, 13 October 1928

Faculty confirming the introduction of electric light in place of gas lighting in the church, and authorising the introduction of a new clock with an octagonal clock face, in the church tower, 12 May 1931

Faculty authorising the introduction of a figure of the Blessed Virgin and Holy Child into the children's corner, 9 March 1932

Faculty authorising the insertion of stained glass into the west window of the south aisle of the church, 7 January 1935

Faculty authorising the insertion of stained glass in a window in the east wall, inscribed in memory of Annie Lavinia Nelson, 20 May 1937

Faculty authorising the erection of a group of carved and painted figures of Our Lady St. Anne and St. Elizabeth on the north wall, inscribed in memory of Dorothy Constance Walker, 8 January 1941

Faculty authorising a wooden statuary on the north wall of the aisle, inscribed in memory of Gordon Edgerton and Norman Walton, 1 September 1944

Faculty authorising the deposit in the sanctuary of an urn containing the ashes of Rev. Francis Aubrey Eyton Leake, 5 December 1944

Faculty authorising the insertion of stained glass in the window on the south side of the chancel, inscribed in memory of Francis Aubrey Eyton Leake, 2 May 1947

Faculty authorising the removal of the glass from the central window on the south side of the chancel and its insertion in the window above the south west door; the insertion of stained glass in the central window on the south side of the chancel; the removal of the existing, hanging pyx and sanctuary lamp; the introduction of an aumbry in the north wall of the sanctuary and the introduction of a sanctuary lamp adjacent to the aumbry, 16 October 1952

Faculty authorising the removal of the octagonal stone from the base of the font; the addition of a moulding to the lower circular base stone and the removal of the font from its present position to a new position two feet to the east; the removal of the bookcase near the font to the south-east bay of the nave; the re-plastering of the walls of the chancel and nave to window level and the removal of four memorial tablets to new positions, viz the Browell memorial tablet to a position near the south-west corner of the nave; the Collinson memorial tablet to the south wall near the south-west corner of the nave; the Hollingsworth memorial tablet to the family vault in the churchyard and the Pemberton memorial tablet to the south-west corner of the nave, 15 December 1956

Faculty authorising the replacement of the existing altar and altar furnishings by erecting a new altar, riddle posts, cross and candlesticks on a stone-paved platform, 6 July 1959

Faculty authorising the replacement of the existing coke-fired heating boiler and two larger radiators in the church, 29 December 1961

Faculty authorising the erection of a new altar in memory of Rev. F.E. Marples, and the introduction of an altar cross, candlesticks and furnishings, 20 May 1969

Faculty authorising the installation of a new organ, 5 October 1971

Faculty authorising the introduction of stained glass into the baptistery window, the removal of pews from the south-west corner of the church and their replacement by small cupboards and a frontal chest, 7 February 1986

Archdeacon's certificate authorising repairs to the roof of the south aisle, 17 July 1964

Archdeacon's certificate authorising unspecified repair work, 9 April 1969

Archdeacon's certificate authorising unspecified repair work, 18 May 1971

Log book, 1965 - 1983

Terrier (and copies), 1792

Terrier and inventory, 5 April 1937 - March 1969

Terrier and inventory, 26 April 1977 - April 1992

Architect's report on church, 22 April 1947

Architect's report on church, with covering letter as to work required, 13 - 21 September 1951

Architect's report on church under Inspection of Churches Measure 1955, 21 December 1960

Architect's report on church under Inspection of Churches Measure 1955, 15 December 1965

Assessment by the Charity Commissioners fixing the parish's annual payments towards repairs identified at the quinquennial inspection, 18 November 1968

Ordinary assessment of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations, 13 April 1948

Ordinary assessment of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations, 9 October 1952

Schedules of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations, with covering letter and architect's report, 30 March - 15 May 1963

Churchwardens' accounts, (including distribution of money collected at Sacrament 1714 - 1793), 1709 - 1792

Churchwardens' accounts, (including distribution of money collected at Sacrament, 1794 - 1819), 1793 - 1835

Churchwardens' accounts, (including Church Rate book, 1835 - 1870), 1836 - 1887

Churchwardens' accounts, 1887 - 1922

Churchwardens' accounts, 1922 - 1946 Infolded: accounts for 1918

Offertory book, 1805 - 1816

Offertory book, 1817 - 1818

Offertory book, 1819 - 1828

Offertory book, 1844 - 1854

Account book of Freewill Offering Scheme, 1961 - 1965

Accounts of totals of Freewill Offering Scheme, 1962 - 1966

Letter from McKenzie & Co., Sunderland, solicitors to Rev. F.A.E. Leake, West Boldon, concerning bequest to church by Rev. Charles Anthony Hood Woods deceased, 25 March 1941

Letters from Barclays Bank Ltd, Darlington to Rev. F.E. Marples, Boldon Rectory, concerning bequest to church by Mrs. Nellie Lightfoot deceased, 11 July - 27 November 1967

Ledger, 1903 - 1943

Bank passbook, rector and wardens of St. Nicholas' Church, West Boldon, 17 November 1936 - 15 October 1937

Balance sheet of Duplex system, 31 December 1943

Statements of income and expenditure accounts, 1961 - 1966

Balance sheets, church magazine account, 1963 - 1966

Statement of accounts, sequestrators, 1950 - 1951

Vestry meetings minutes, 1876 - 1967 Infolded: correspondence, notices, and accounts; including rate payers' requisition for meeting to consider excess expenditure by School Board, 1879

Church Council minutes, 1915 - 1919 Infolded: reports submitted to the meetings, attendance and nomination lists, etc.

Church Council minutes, 1953 - 1958

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 11 January 1938 - 5 December 1966; annual reports of the P.C.C. Secretary, April 1939 - April 1953

Church accounts, 1935 - 1956

Balance sheet, 31 December 1958

Diocesan questionnaire as to income of Parochial Church Council, 31 January 1962

Treasurers' statements, 5 December 1966 - 13 November 1967

Parochial accounts, 1 January 1957 - 31 December 1971

Parochial statistics, 1939

Overseers' accounts, 1705 - 1725

Overseers' accounts, 1745 - 1762

Overseers' accounts, 1762 - 1784

Overseers' accounts, 1784 - 1830

Highway Surveyors' accounts, 1781 - 1796

Highway Surveyors' accounts, 1812 - 1832

Board of Education Final Order appointing foundation managers, including Boldon National School, 6 February 1904

Minute book of managers of Boldon National School, 9 December 1904 - 16 July 1957

Letter from James Sedcole, Barrington Street, South Shields to Mr. Knight, concerning appointment of foundation managers of school, 10 April 1913

Ministry of Education Instrument of Management, including Boldon C.E. School, 7 November 1952

Letter from Education Department to Rev. F. Wilson, West Boldon Rectory, recommending that Boldon C.E. School should be redesignated J.M. & I. and that senior children be transferred to Boldon Colliery Modern School, 10 May 1947

Letter from Education Department to Rev. F. Wilson, Boldon Rectory, concerning his application for "Controlled" status for Boldon C.E. School, 18 October 1950

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. W.D. Croudace, Boldon Rectory, concerning use of old quarry belonging to benefice as school playground, 23 August 1905

Plan of old C.E. School buildings, n.d. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Plan showing old Church Institute and School, n.d. Scales: ¹/8 " to 1 foot [1:96]; 1:2500

Plan of site of school and land adjoining, 17 August 1905 Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch [1:240]

Plan of new classroom, National Schools, 3 November 1905 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Plan, section and elevation of new window to classroom, Church of England Schools, August 1921 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Plan of new window to classroom, Church of England Schools, August 1921 Scale: 1/2" to 1 foot [1:24]

Correspondence between Education Department, Rev. F.A.E. Leake, The Rectory, West Boldon and Board of Education, concerning improvements of lighting and ventilation and additional water closets at Boldon C.E. School and allowance of excess average attendance, 29 September - 16 November 1921

Letter from William & T.R. Milburn, Sunderland, architects to Rev. F.A. Leake, the Vicarage, West Boldon, concerning accounts for fitting new window to classroom at West Boldon C.E. Schools, enclosing specification and description of work, 6 November 1922

Letters from William & T.R. Milburn, Sunderland, Architects and Education Department to Rev. F. Aubrey Leake, The Rectory, West Boldon, concerning new buildings at West Boldon Schools, 21 May 1924 - 1 March 1926

Proposals by Cowiesons Ltd., Glasgow to build school, 22 - 28 August 1924

Letters from Cowiesons Ltd., Glasgow to Rev. F. Aubrey Leake, West Boldon Rectory, concerning specifications for school, 23 May 1924 - 23 May 1925

Blueprint of proposed school at West Boldon, April 1925 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Plan, section and elevations of proposed school at West Boldon, April 1925 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Plan showing suggested position of canteen scullery, Boldon C.E. School, under School Meals Reference No. 3, February 1944 Scales: ¹/8 " to 1 foot [1:96]; 20 feet to 1 inch [1:240]

Plan of Boldon C.E. School, with letter from County Architect recommending closure due to unsuitability of buildings, 14 September 1948

Tender for internal decoration of Boldon C.E. Junior Mixed School, 24 July 1950

Plan, section and elevations of proposed practical room for the managers, West Boldon C.E. School, n.d. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Reports of head teacher M. Wilson to school managers, 3 December 1941, 15 March 1944 and 1 October 1948

H.M. Inspector's report on school, 21 - 22 November 1944

Letter from County Education Committee to Rev. F. Wilson, West Boldon Rectory, forwarding an Inspector's report on Boldon C.E. Junior Mixed and Infants School, 24 January - 24 February 1950

H.M. Inspector's report on school,, 13 - 14 January 1953

Appointments of assistant and head teachers to Boldon C.E. School, with related correspondence, 10 July 1945 - 20 June 1949

Letter from Education Department to Rev. F. Wilson, Boldon Rectory, concerning resignation of head teacher, 3 August 1948

Boldon School, accounts including list of benefactors and subscribers for new school, 1809 - 1860

King's letter to Archbishop of York concerning a collection for the National Society, 2 July 1823

Letter from R.C. Forster, White House to M. Tweddle, esq., enclosing Col. Ellison's donation to Boldon School, 28 July 1862

Letter from S. Adams Beck, Ironmongers Hall, London to [?], concerning grant from Bettons Charity for school, 4 December 1862

Lists of subscribers, 1903 - 1906, and account book, National School, 1906 - 1955

Rough notes re grants promised and subscriptions and donations to Schools Fund, n.d.

Bank passbook, West Boldon National School Account, 17 October 1906 - January 1938

Statements of account, West Boldon C.E. Schools, 1919 - 1943

Letters from Education Department to Rev. F.E. Leake, West Boldon Rectory, concerning provision of air raid shelters at Boldon C.E. School, 18 - 29 August 1939

A.R.P. Survey, Boldon C.E. School, 11 September 1939 Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch [1:240]

Circular letter from Education Department to Corresponding Managers of C.E. Schools asking for their schools to be used as emergency centres under Civil Defence Act (1948), 9 October 1950

Letter from Education Committee to Rev. F. Wilson, West Boldon Rectory, concerning closure of schools for occasional holidays, 7 September 1950

Letter from Education Committee to Rev. F.E. Marples, West Boldon Rectory, concerning use of Boldon C.E. (Controlled) School by West Boldon W.I., 18 February 1954

Letter from John E. Marshall, Durham to Rev. J. Collinson, Boldon, concerning Boldon Charity account, 8 March 1855

Letter from Steel, Maitland & Byers, Sunderland, solicitors to Rev. J.G.B. Knight, West Boldon Rectory, concerning interest due on investments for poor of Boldon, 10 January 1911

Charity Commission Scheme re Susan Peareth Educational Charity, Washington, 24 October 1899

Return of the Endowed Charities of the parish of Boldon, 7 August 1902

Charity Commission Scheme re St. Nicholas Parish Room, East Boldon, 21 February 1908

Income tax claim for Stephenson Charity, 1919

Board of Education Scheme re Henry Blackett Educational Foundation, Boldon, 13 October 1937

Letter from J.P. Carter, Diocesan Office to Rev. F.A.E. Leake, West Boldon Rectory, concerning trust to assist Girl Guides to attend annual camp meeting, 22 June 1940 (1 paper, typescript)

Balance sheet, St. Nicholas (6th Houghton) Girl Guides, 1946

Statements of account, Sunday School, 1963 - 1964

Registration certificate of St. Nicholas, Boldon branch of the Church of England Men's Society, 12 November 1956

22 November 1794 (1) Daniel Macfarlane of South Shields (2) Robert Railston of Jarrow, gent. and William Bewicke of North Shields, Northumberland, gent. and Mary his wife Copy surrender out of court (2) to (1) of half a husbandry of land in a close at the back of a house

18 April 1805 (1) Joseph Yellowley of East Bowdon, gent. (2) Daniel Macfarlane of South Shields, shipwright Copy surrender out of court (2) to (1) of half a husbandry of land in a close at the back of a house, under trusts declared in will of George Merriman of East Bowdon, blacksmith (the purchaser)

Copy admittance of Matthew Wood, son and heir of Christopher Wood late of Westoe, common brewer, deceased, to land at East Boldon (boundaries given) with chapel thereon, 25 August 1840

List of deposits in Savings Bank, 1852

Inclosure award and map of Boldon Fell or Common, 23 September 1859

Circular letter from the Bishop to 3rd Bn. Northumberland Fusilier, concerning their bravery in war and their training at Boldon, 21 November 1918

Church visitors' book, 10 October 1946 - 27 June 1997

Programme of Boldon Peace Celebrations, 19 July 1919 Originally enclosed in EP/Bo 351