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Register of burials 27 April 1670 - 1767; register of baptisms and marriages, 1701 - 1767 Includes: Copy of resolution concerning pewholders and a list of pewholders, 17 June 1703

Register of baptisms and burials, 3 January 1768 - 29 December 1810

Copy of entries in baptism and burial register, 1811 - 1812 Includes: List of confirmations, 1814 List of registers, c.1813

Register of baptisms, 10 January 1813 - 16 February 1844

Register of baptisms, 18 February 1844 - 3 May 1970

Register of marriages, 7 October 1754 - 22 December 1812; register of banns, 13 May 1770 - 28 June 1812

Register of marriages, 3 February 1813 - 30 December 1866

Register of marriages, 9 November 1837 - 11 August 1990 [Register closed (pattern obsolete) by the Registrar General, 11 January 1991]

Register of banns, 18 April 1824 - 25 June 1978

Register of burials, 25 January 1813 - 25 May 1860

Register of burial, compiled by J.A. Gargett, sexton, 12 March 1885 - 28 November 1904

Register of burials, 26 May 1860 - 24 May 1996

Transcript of extracts published in the church magazines giving details from the parish registers Including: baptisms, 8 December 1895 - 2 November 1907; marriages, 28 April 1901 - 1 June 1907; burials, 19 November 1896 - 16 November 1906

Transcript of ' Bowes Parochial Records: including list of wills proved at Richmond, 1541 - 1648 and 1660 - 1700; Commonwealth wills proved in London, 1649 - 1660; register transcripts, 1615 - 1700, compiled and tr anscribed by the Rev. W. Oliver', 1947

Register of confirmations, 17 May 1919 - 13 May 1948

List of candidates confirmed, 30 May 1946 Originally enclosed in EP/Bow 2/10

Register of services, 31 March 1867 - 20 May 1888

Register of services, 27 May 1888 - 23 October 1904

Register of services, 30 August 1914 - 12 December 1920

Register of services, 19 December 1920 - 30 March 1941

Register of services, 3 January 1965 - 1 November 1992

Letter from Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London, to Miss J. Gargett, Honorary Secretary, Bowes Parochial Church Council, Moor View, Bowes, outlining the reasons why the Commissioners have rejected the P.C.C. ' s representations relating to the draft scheme to unite the benefices of Bowes and Startforth, 15 May 1980

Order in council confirming a pastoral scheme to unite the benefice of Startforth and the benefice of Bowes, to create the benefice of Startforth with Bowes, 28 July 1980

Minute book of 'Richmondshire Church Endowment Association' for augmenting the small livings in the three rural deaneries of Richmond, 25 March 1882 - 17 March 1883 Including: lists of letters sent and copies of letters received by the Honorary Secretary, the Rev. R.V. Taylor, March 1882 - March 1886; and summaries of subscriptions and expenses, 1882 - 1884 Enclosures see EP/Bow 2/6-9 and EP/Bow 12/2

Newspaper reports and correspondence concerning the Richmondshire Church Endowment Association and the need to help those in small livings, n.d.[c.1882 - 1883]

A letter from the Rev. R.V. Taylor, Melbecks' Vicarage to an unnamed correspondent asking for comments about the proof copy of the new circular of the Richmondshire Church Endowment Association, 5 April 1884

A circular explaining the aims of the Richmondshire Endowment Association and giving details of donations and subscriptions for 1882 Including: on the back, a letter from the Rev. R.V. Taylor to the vicar of Bowes concerning receipts, expenses and a promised collection (of 1882), 8 March 1884

A circular explaining the aims of the Richmondshire Endowment Association and giving details of donations and subscriptions (for 1882 - 1883), 1884

London Gazette , dated 16 February 1877 including a notice issued by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, granting an augmentation to the stipend of the incumbent of Bowes, 8 February 1877

London Gazette , dated 16 November 1877, including a notice issued by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners granting an augmentation to the stipend of the incumbent of Bowes, 8 November 1877

London Gazette, dated 6 December 1878, including a notice issued by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners granting an augmentation to the stipend of the incumbent of Bowes, 28 November 1878

London Gazette , 27 May 1904, including a notice issued by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners granting an augmentation to the stipend of the incumbent of Bowes, 19 May 1904

London Gazette , dated 16 June 1905, including a notice issued by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners granting an increase in the stipend of the incumbent of Bowes, 8 June 1905

Correspondence between the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 3 St. James' s Square, London; the Vicar of Bowes, The Vicarage, Bowes; Ecclesiastical Commission, 10 Whitehall Place, London (later 1 Millbank, London); Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance, Gordon Chambers, Bond Street, Leeds (later 5 Albion Place, Leeds); Church of England Pensions Board, 58 Tufton Street, Westminster; T. Gilbert Dugdale, Hethfelton, Wool, Dorset and Miss J. Gargett, Moor View, Bowes, concerning the income of the vicar and its augmentation, March 1904 - October 1958

' Plan of the perpetual Curacy Lands at Bowes purchased by the Revd. M. Wilson, 1820 ' surveyed by Jon Horn, n.d.

List of property belonging to the perpetual curacy of Bowes, extracted from the estates ' register of Queen Anne's Bounty, c.1872

Minutes of a meeting of some members of St. Giles' s congregation to consider what steps might be taken to promote the appointment of Rev. E.I. Frost to the vacant incumbency, 21 March 1904

Mandate for induction of Ernest Isaac Frost, clerk, to the vicarage of the parish church of Bowes, 10 June 1904

Notice from the Bishop to the Parochial Church Council of the imminent vacancy in the benefice due to the resignation of Rev. Thomas Leonard Wardle, 23 May 1957

List of vicars of Bowes, 1660 - 1958 Originally enclosed in EP/Bow 14/18

Parochial statistics for the year ended 31 December 1921

Parochial statistics for the years ended 31 December 1993 - 1996

Parochial statistics for the year ended 31 December 1992

Order of service for baptism, confirmation and Holy Communion at Bowes, St. Giles, 4 March 2007

Pastoral order uniting the rural deaneries of Bedale and Wensleydale to create the rural deanery of Wensley; uniting the rural deaneries of Richmond East, Richmond North and Richmond West to create the rural deanery of Richmond and transferring the parishes of Danby Wiske with Yafforth and Hutton Bonville, and Langton-on-Swale to the rural deanery of Wensley, 25 May 1972

Correspondence between the Tithe Redemption Commission, Finsbury Square House, 33 - 37 Finsbury Square, London; Rev. N.C. Leece, The Vicarage, Bowes, and the Bounty Office, 3 Dean's Yard, Westminster, concerning the effect of the 1936 Tithe Redemption Act on the liability of various parishioners to pay for repairs to the chancel, 15 April 1939 - 20 June 1941

Specification for an organ for St. Giles' s church, by Wordsworth & Co., Hanover Avenue, Leeds, Yorkshire, organ builders, 27 September 1909

Correspondence between Diocesan Registry, Ripon, Yorkshire; Rev. W.H. Rowlands, The Vicarage, Bowes and Wordsworth & Co., organ builders, Hanover Avenue, Leeds, Yorkshire, concerning the commissioning of, faculty for and installation of a new organ in St. Giles 's church, 29 September 1909 - 22 February 1910

'Sketch of proposed organ front for Bowes church' by Wordsworth & Co., organ builders, Leeds, Yorkshire, n.d. [1909] Scale: 3/4 inch to 1 foot [1:16]

Front elevation of new organ for St. Giles's church, n.d. [c.1910] No scale

Copy letter dated 6 February 1949 from Rev. Eldon O. Butler, The Vicarage, Bowes, to Mr. H. Thompson, offering him the post of organist at St. Giles 's church, n.d. [mid 20th century]

Letter from Neville Hogarth, 1 Ravensbourne Drive, Chelmsford, Essex to Rev. and Mrs. Broadbent, The Vicarage, Startforth, discussing options for the repair or replacement of the church organ, 4 March 1993

Condition report on the church organ together with specification and estimate for cleaning and overhauling the organ, by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd., organ makers, Brandon, Suffolk, 13 October 1993

Correspondence between the vicar of Bowes, St. Giles, The Vicarage, Bowes; W. Richardson & Co., heating engineers, Darlington; T. Gilbert Dugdale, Griffin Lodge, Blackburn, Lancashire; Joseph J. Burdon, painter, paperhanger, sign writer, house and church decorator, High Northgate, Darlington; Alfred Alderson, joiner, Bowes; H. & J. Thompson, painters and paperhangers, Moor View, Bowes; J.A. Gargett, Moor View, Bowes, and William Potts & Sons Ltd., clock manufacturers, The Guildford Clock Works, Bankfield Terrace, Leeds, Yorkshire, concerning routine maintenance of the church, including heating system, interior decoration and the church clock, 30 September 1905 - 31 January 1949

8 December 1936 (1) Thomas Gilbert Dugdale of Gilmonby Hall, Bowes, Yorkshire, esq. (2) Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance (3) Parochial Church Council of the parish of Bowes Copy deed of declaration of trust relating to a gift by (1) of £300 to (2) in trust to pay the income to (3) for the maintenance of the parish church and churchyard

Plan of the church showing the proposed layout of electric lighting points, n.d. [1950]

Condition survey of St. Giles' s church by Norman Dent, chartered architect and surveyor, Finkle Street Chambers, Richmond, Yorkshire, 2 February 1959

Correspondence between the Charity Commission, Ryder Street, London; The Vicar of Bowes, The Vicarage, Bowes, and Sole, Sawbridge & Co., solicitors, 68 Aldermanbury, London, concerning the legacy bequeathed to the vicar of Bowes by J.T. Roper to 'repair and beautify' St. Giles's church, 9 February 1909 - 12 May 1925

Certified copy probate dated 3 April 1865 of the will and codicil of John Thomas Roper of 10 Bowater Crescent, Woolwich, Kent, gent., dated 8 April 1862 and 2 March 1865, 30 March 1909

A Latin transcript of the will made on 15 July 1404 by Thomas Wodecock, a native of Bowes who had become porter of the monastery of Saint Mary at York. He bequeathed money for a porch for the church at Bowes, n.d. [c. 1907]

Statutory record of the consecration of the additional burial ground at Bowes, 31 August 1874 Endorsed: site plan of new burial ground and old churchyard

Copy order in council discontinuing burials in Bowes parish church and placing restrictions on burials in the old churchyard and the new part added in 1874, 6 November 1883

Agreement by E. Newbold for a tenancy of the churchyard at an annual rent of £1, 7 July 1903

Application and correspondence accepting the erection of a memorial to a Gordon Bolam in Startforth churchyard, 13 May - 28 June 1998

Order of the Governors of Queen Anne' s Bounty listing the fixtures at the vicarage, which belong to the benefice, 13 April 1934

Letter from the Bounty Office, 3 Dean' s Yard, Westminster, to the Secretary to Bowes Parochial Church Council, giving notice of the incumbent's intention to sell part of the vicarage garden to H.M. Office of Works, 16 July 1935

Plan showing proposed extension of the boundary of Bowes Castle, n.d. [1936] With covering letter from the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, Westminster, to Rev. T.L. Wardle, The Vicarage, Bowes, concerning the purchase, by the patron of the living, of 2178 sq. yds. of the vicarage garden in 1936, 4 June 1956

Registration documents relating to the rights of the vicar and churchwardens over Bowes Moor, Thornberry and Sealgill quarries, 9 May 1969

Faculty authorising the removal of pews from the south transept to the north transept; the exchange in position of two pews from the south side o f the central transept and two longer pews on the north side of the transept; the shortening of another pew; the relaying of a new floor in the south transept and the erection thereon of a new organ; the creation of a vestry immediately behind the organ chamber; the removal of the old organ and the erection of pews in place of the old organ, 30 November 1909 Includes: plan

Faculty authorising the re-opening of the old pathway from the south porch to the back lane; the erection of a storage shed; the erection of double doors to the porch and the unblocking of the south porch to accommodate funerals, 10 March 1913

Faculty authorising the erection of a memorial tablet commemorating the men of the parish killed in the First World War, between the first and second windows from the east end of the south wall of the nave, 2 December 1920

Faculty authorising the repair and rehanging in the church turret on new fittings of the two bells dated 1661 and 1823, 4 July 1938

Faculty authorising the installation of electric lighting, 10 January 1950

Faculty authorising the erection of a brass plaque inscribed in memory of Margaret Eleanor Robinson, 5 October 1970

Faculty authorising the hanging of a Greek icon on the north wall to the right of the main door and the hanging of a framed picture depicting the gravestone and saga of 'Edwin and Emma', on the west wall below the window, 19 February 1988

Faculty authorising the re-gilding of the clock face; the removal, maintenance and re-assembly of the mechanism and the introduction onto the clock case of a brass plaque commemorating Sam Butterell, 8 July 1993

Archdeacon' s certificate authorising unspecified work proposed in an application dated 20 September 1958, 30 September 1958

Inventory, 27 April 1939 - 1 October 1988

Inventory of moveable goods in St. Giles' church, 15 December 1902

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Giles' s church by D.F. Butterell, architect, Ivy Hall, Bowes, March 1991

Letter to the Rev. F. Summersgill, Vicar of Bowes, North Riding of Yorkshire from W.G. Hannah, Secretary of Queen Anne 's Bounty, Bounty Office, 3 Dean' s Yard, Westminster, S.W.1 enclosing the assessment for dilapidations for the next five years, 28 March 1939

Report on dilapidations at Bowes vicarage, by William J. Moscrop, architect, diocesan surveyor, Feethams, Darlington, and order of the diocese stating the liability of Rev. Harry Straker, 18 February - 11 July 1919

Report on dilapidations at the vicarage, outbuildings, ash pit and grounds, by Charley, Gribbon and Foggit, chartered architects, 3 Park Place, Leeds, with covering letter to Rev. F. Summersgill, The Vicarage, Bowes, giving advice as to how to proceed, 14 - 15 May 1928

Schedule of immediate repairs required at Bowes vicarage, drawn up by Guy D. Channon, diocesan surveyor, 5 Albion Place, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1 November 1938

Surveyor' s report on dilapidations at the vicarage and order of the Diocesan Board of Finance authorising repairs, 19 September - 19 October 1944

Surveyor' s report on dilapidations at the vicarage, manure pit, outbuildings, grounds and ash pit and order of the Diocesan Board of Finance authorising repairs, 1 November - 1 December 1948

Report on dilapidations at the vicarage house and grounds, manure pit and stick house, by Guy D. Channon, chartered architect, diocesan surveyor, Malton, Yorkshire, and order of the Ripon Diocesan Dilapidations Board authorising repairs, 22 April - 22 May 1959

Audited and signed statements of accounts for 1923 - 1936, 1938 - 1941 and 1943

Income and expenditure accounts of St. Giles' s church for the years ended 31 December 1941 - 1942

Income and expenditure account of St. Giles' s church for the year ended 31 December 1950

Income and expenditure accounts of St. Giles' s church for the years ended 31 December 1954 - 1955

Income and expenditure account of St. Giles' s church for the year ended 31 December 1957

Income and expenditure accounts of St Giles's church for the years ended 31 December 1992 - 1993

National Provincial Bank Ltd., Barnard Castle, bank account book of the vicar and churchwardens of Bowes, 26 August 1937 - 9 June 1941

National Provincial Bank Ltd., Barnard Castle, bank account book of the vicar and churchwardens of Bowes, 17 May 1941 - 31 December 1947

Assessments fixing the annual payments due from the incumbent of Bowes to meet the cost of repairs, insurance and administration, 1 November 1944 - 10 August 1959

Minute book of vestry meetings, 14 October 1870 - 28 March 1910

Minute book of vestry meetings, Easter Tuesday, 1919 - 12 April 1928 Including: List of communicants, Easter 1913 - 30 June 1918; Copy of the balance sheet of the churchwarden' s accounts as published in the parish magazine, July 1919; Lists of confirmations, 17 May 1919 - 11 April 1930; List of those from Bowes Parish killed in the Great War of 1914 - 1919, 1919; Minutes of parochial church meetings, 14 September 1918 - 4 April 1921; Details of the Bowes Living Augmentation Fund, 25 August 1920 - 12 November 1926; Distribution of Lord Wharton's bibles and prayer books, 1921 For enclosures see EP/Bow 4/1

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 1 May 1922 - 25 March 1935 Includes: annual parochial meetings minutes, 24 April 1922 - 5 April 1934

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 16 September 1935 - 13 April 1943 Includes: annual parochial meetings minutes, 24 April 1935 - 6 May 1943

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 6 May 1943 - 12 August 1987

Minutes of the annual parochial meeting of the parish of Bowes, 10 March 1997

Agenda papers for annual meetings of the parish and the Parochial Church Council, 15 March 1993 - 14 March 1994

Minutes of ordinary and annual meetings of the Parochial Church Council of Bowes, St Giles; special joint meetings of the Parochial Church Council of Bowes and the Parochial Church Council of Startforth and Rokeby with Brignall and meetings of the united benefice, 11 March 1998 - 12 January 2004

Minutes of meetings, 8 October 1987 - 23 May 1994 Includes: Income and expenditure accounts, 1987 - 1993 Annual General Meetings minutes, 14 March 1988 - 14 March 1994

Minutes of meetings, 5 September 2005 - 9 March 2009 Includes: Vestry and Annual General Meeting minutes of meetings, 28 February 2005 - 23 March 2009 Annual reports, 31 December 2005 - 31 December 2008 Financial statements, 31 December 2004 - 31 December 2008 Statements of investments, 31 December 2004 - 31 December 2005 Fabric Committee reports, 5 September 2005 - 10 March 2008 Fundraising Committee meetings, 23 September 2006 - 23 January 2007 Electoral roll, March 2007 - 23 March 2009 Statistics, 2005 - 2007

Balance sheet, 1942 Originally enclosed in EP/Bow 6/1

Receipts and payments accounts of the Parochial Church Council, 4 January 1959 - 31 December 1981

Receipts and payments account of Bowes Parochial Church Council for the year ended 31 December 1995

Summary of accounts, 1925 - 1945

Electoral roll, 1953 - March 1990

Electoral roll, March 2001

Correspondence of the Secretary to the Parochial Church Council, 23 January 1943 - 31 October 1957

Letter from Ripon Diocesan Advisory Committee for the care of churches, St. Mary's Street, Leeds, to R. Long, P.C.C. Secretary, Startforth, 22 Teesdale Road, Startforth, suggesting that Boldron Mission church should be closed if local residents were unable to finance its upkeep or there was no likelihood of a shared building agreement with the Methodists, 13 April 1994

Copy general rules governing Bowes Grammar School, drawn up by the headmaster, W. Hood, 9 September 1884

Income and expenditure accounts of Bowes Grammar School for the years ended 31 May 1901 - 1902

Resolution of the governors of Bowes Grammar School relating to the control of outbreaks of infectious disease, 17 January 1903

Letter from F.H. Newman, Education Offices, County Hall, Northallerton, to the chair of the governors of Bowes Grammar School, setting out options for the re-organisation of the school, restructuring of the staff and creation of a higher department, 7 November 1908

Report of H.M. Inspector on Bowes Grammar School, 26 June 1935

Draft instrument of management of Bowes Grammar School issued by the Ministry of Education, 8 September 1949

Order of the Minister of Education establishing a new scheme of management of Hutchinson 's Endowed School, 9 May 1950

Account book of the different sums of charity money belonging to the poor of Bowes, 7 January 1815 - January 1846

Obituary of Mr. Abraham Hilton of Galgate, Barnard Castle aged 87 who was active as a politician and philanthropist and settled the Bowes Cross Charity, 4 October [1902]

Copy of the will of Margaret Eleanor Robertson of The Manor House, Bowes, 24 August 1961

Opinion of counsel, J.B. Clark, Newcastle upon Tyne, concerning the meaning of a clause in the will of Margaret Eleanor Robertson, 22 May 1962

10 September 1964 (1) Walter Alwyn Carr of 28 Market Place, Barnard Castle, bank manager; Sarah Colley of Dunnas Cottage, Brompton, Northallerton, Yorkshire, widow; Marjorie Bennett of Dunnas Cottage, widow; and Edith Tarn of 6 Baliol Street, Barnard Castle, wife of Frederick Tarn (2) Church Commissioners for England (3) Bishop of Ripon on behalf of the incumbent of the benefice of Bowes Certified copy conveyance dated 25 August 1964 by (1) to (3) of The West Garth of Manor House, Bowes, reserving rights of access to repair boundary walls, use and maintenance of gutters, spouts, downcomers, and water drains and manor ial rights attaching to the land Consideration: £400 paid by (2) to (1) Includes: plan

Estate and distribution accounts of the executors of Margaret Eleanor Robertson, by Dawson, Arnott and Pickering, solicitors, Barnard Castle, 1965

Correspondence between the vicar of Bowes, The Vicarage, Bowes; Watsons, solicitors, Barnard Castle; P.D. Nicholls, 4 Low Road, Bowes, and Tilly Bailey & Irvine, solicitors and notaries, 8 Newgate, Barnard Castle, concerning Miss Dent's Charity, and the leasing of the field called East Annums, which she bequeathed to the Parochial Church Council, 13 August 1970 - 14 December 1999 Includes: abstract of title

Copy order of the Charity Commission establishing a scheme for the management of the Bowes, Gilmonby and Boldron District Nursing Association Charity, 24 April 1951

Letter from the Charity Commission, Charity Database Division, PO Box 451, Liverpool L69 7TN to Reverend D. Ryan, The Vicarage, High Startforth, Barnard Castle, DL12 9AF concerning the annual return of accounts for the Startforth Morritt Memorial Church of England (Controlled) Primary School Cottages Charity, 19 November 2001

Estimate by Protim Services Limited for re-plastering of the school cottage at Startforth to address rising damp, 8 November 2000

Estimate by V. F. S. Electrical for a full rewire of the School Cottage, Startforth, 14 November 2000

Estimate by P. Craddock, Building Contractor, for re-plastering of the ceiling of the School Cottage, Startforth, 12 December 2000

National Provincial Bank Ltd., Barnard Castle, Sunday School bank account of the vicar and churchwardens of Bowes, 14 May 1941 - 31 December 1947

Account of receipts and payments of the Sunday School outing, 1951

Register of Church Missionary Society donation boxes given out in the parish of Bowes, and record of the amounts collected, December 1941 - December 1949

A letter to the Rev. W.H. Rowlands, vicar of Bowes, Barnard Castle from the Rev. Ernest J. Frost, [probably the previous incumbent at Bowes] Petworth, Sussex, giving him information about the architecture of the church at Bowes, 12 June 1907

Correspondence from the Rev. J. Clare Hudson of Thornton vicarage, Horncastle to the Rev. W.H. Rowlands vicar of Bowes, Barnard Castle and his friend Mr. Wharton, giving details of the various dioceses to which Bowes has belonged and names of books and manuscripts which should be consulted for the Ecclesiastical History of Bowes, 27 June - 18 July 1907

A letter to the Rev. F. Summersgill, vicar of Bowes, Barnard Castle from William Oliver, jnr., Greta Bridge, Rokeby, Barnard Castle, concerning information about Bowes church and its incumbents from the following sources: a book on Mallet 's Poems by Dr. F. Dinsdale; Sir Stephen Glynne's church notes in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal , volume 15, p.110, published 18 January 1856; an account of the first visitations of the Archdeaconry by the Bishop of Chester, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, volume 15, p.401 Also: a tracing of a grave slab, from Boutell' s Christian Monuments, p.36, 16 December 1921

"100 Years Ago: Whorlton, Bowes and Gainford, The Keeper of the Church Registers", an article from the Darlington and Stockton Times dealing with the Rev. Richard Wilson, perpetual curate of Whorlton (1797 - 1822) and of Bowes (1810 - 1822), and his work with the parish registers at Gainford, Whorlton and Bowes, 27 May 1922

A letter to the Rev. S.O. Butler, Bowes Vicarage, Barnard Castle from Mr. W. Marston Acres of Glanville Lodge, Wedmore, Somerset, enclosing a copy of his article on "The Morice Family of Werrington" published in Notes and Queries Magazine of 3 May 1947 Also: Notes in answer to the vicar's queries about the Wharton and Morice families with particular reference to Richard Wharton, curate of Bowes 1674­1691 and to the problem of a lead coffin plate of Catherine Morice, 10 July 1947

A letter to the Rev. S.O. Butler, Bowes Vicarage, Barnard Castle from F.G.B. Hutchings, City Librarian, Central Library, Leeds, concerning the vicar's queries about the Wharton and Morice families and the lead coffin plate of Catherine Morice, 6 August 1947

A letter to the Rev. S.O. Butler, Bowes Vicarage, Barnard Castle from Professor Bruce Dickins, M.A., Hon. Director of the English Place Names Society, 7 Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge, giving suggested meanings for the following field names: Pry Rigg, Broats, Thackholme and Farewell, 2 November 1948

Baskerville's original edition of Edwin and Emma , first printed in 1760, reprinted by J. McCreary, Black-Horse Court, London, with illustrations of local subjects drawn and etched by George Arnald, and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row, London, 1810

Article entitled, 'A Church in the Dickens Country', about St. Giles' s, Bowes, extracted from The Illustrated Church News, 15 October 1897

Newspaper cuttings from The Sunday Times, Darlington and Stockton Times and Teesdale Mercury , relating to the history of Bowes and the surrounding area, 19 July 1899 - 2 April 1938 This is an original bundle

Extracts from, and transcripts of, newspaper cuttings; articles from historical and archaeological periodicals; text books, local histories, topographical works and guide books relating to Bowes and the surrounding area, dated 1908 - 1933, n.d. [ c.1935]

Schedule of owners of ' ancient lands and tenements' in the manor of Bowes, 6 November 1907

Official guide to Bowes Castle, by R.S. Simms, assistant inspector of ancient monuments for England, 1934

'My Yorkshire Childhood' , by Winifred Gane Waterfield, nee Wardale, daughter of Rev. C.B. Wardale, vicar of Bowes, 1871 - 1904, January 1961

Church visitors' book, 6 September 1949 - 20 September 1960

Church visitors' book, 7 May 1962 - 6 February 1967

Church visitors' book, 6 February 1967 - 12 August 1982

List of men from Bowes who died on active service during the First and Second World Wars, n.d. [late 20th century]

Account of receipts and expenses of Bowes parish church annual sale of work, concert and dance, 1 January 1942

Account of receipts and expenses of Bowes parish concert, supper and dance, 1 January 1943

Account of receipts and expenditure of the manor of Bowes for the year ended April 1908

Notification and request for agreement by the freeholder to the leasing of the moor in the manor of Bowes by the Steward J. H. McBain, 27 October 1995