Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 1 March 1868 - 18 September 1912

Register of baptisms, 22 September 1912 - 25 January 1948

Register of baptisms, 8 February 1948 - 15 March 1964

Register of baptisms, 10 May 1964 - 6 December 1987

Register of marriages, 13 April 1868 - 1 January 1923

Register of marriages, 6 January 1923 - 13 April 1936

Register of marriages, 30 May 1936 - 8 December 1945

Register of marriages, 15 December 1945 - 26 June 1954

Register of marriages, 17 July 1954 - 28 October 1967

Register of marriages, 16 December 1967 - 7 March 1998

Register of marriages, 4 May 1998 - 12 August 2000

Register of marriages, 9 September 2000 - 19 March 2005

Register of marriages, 29 April 2005 - 28 June 2008

Register of marriages, 4 August 2008 - 14 February 2015

Register of marriages, 29 May 2015 - 1 February 2020

Register of banns, 30 September 1951 - 12 February 1961 (1 volume, cloth bound)

Register of banns of marriage, 24 April 1904 - 25 March 1934

Register of banns of marriage, 18 March 1934 - 14 October 1951

Register of banns of marriage, 19 February 1961 - 12 December 1971

Register of banns of marriage, 20 February 1972 - 13 April 1986

Register of banns of marriage, 4 May 1986 - 5 May 2002

Register of burials, 5 March 1868 - 19 February 1913

Register of burials, 3 March 1913 - 22 August 1931

Register of burials, 26 August 1931 - 9 February 1946

Register of burials, 9 February 1946 - 12 March 1963

Register of burials, 22 May 1963 - 18 April 1985

Register of confirmations, 7 April 1936 - 10 May 1992

Register of services, 1 January 1900 - 27 November 1910

Register of services, 12 February 1950 - 6 February 1955

Register of services, 25 May 1962 - 15 May 1968

Register of services, 17 May 1968 - 30 December 1973

Register of services, 6 January 1974 - 28 February 1984

Register of services, 1 March 1984 - 30 October 1992

Register of services, 1 November 1992 - 25 December 1996

Register of services, 29 December 1996 - 6 October 2002

Register of services, 13 October 2002 - 11 March 2012

The London Gazette including the order-in-council including part of the parish of Christ Church, Lumley, in the district of Burnmoor, 21 May 1867

The London Gazette including the order-in-council assigning the patronage of the parish of Burnmoor to the Earl of Durham, 11 August 1874

Notice of the vacancy of the benefice of Burnmoor, 31 January 1951

Notification issued by the Diocesan Registrar of a vacancy in the benefice of Burnmoor, and covering letter from the Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham, to the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council, informing him of the parish's right to consent to the patron's choice, 17 August 1954

The London Gazette including the grant by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of the stipend of £100 to the incumbent of the perpetual curacy of Burnmoor and the grant of £1,400 for the building of a parsonage house, 1 May 1868

Statement of amounts payable by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and included in the quarterly payments scheme, 1 April 1939

Notice of the admission of Rev. Sydney Montgomery Reynolds to the benefice of Burnmoor, 14 August 1903

Institution of the Rev. Arthur John Gadd to the rectory of the parish church of Burnmoor, 14 May 1922

Notice of the admission of Rev. John Richardson to the benefice of Burnmoor, 31 March 1951

Notice of the admission of Rev. Eric Stanistreet Barnett to the benefice of Burnmoor, 5 January 1955

Notice of the admission of Rev. John Sell to the benefice of Burnmoor, 26 March 1962

Order of service for the institution and induction of the Rev. John Richardson, 16 May 1951

Order of service for the institution and induction of the Rev. Joseph Clayton Hancock, 17 May 1968

Letter from the Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham, to the churchwardens of the parish of Burnmoor making arrangements for the institution of the Rev. E.S. Barnett, 11 January 1955 (1 paper)

Letter from Reverend B. C. Johnson, The Rectory, Burnmoor, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, DH4 6EX to The Lord Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, County Durham concerning the nomination of a member of the parish to assist with the administration of the Eucharist, 9 October 1984

Order of service for the unveiling of the statue of victory in memory of the third and fourth Earls of Durham, 23 June 1929

Table of fees for the parish of Burnmoor, 14 March 1946

Houghton-le-Spring Ruri-decanal Chapter meetings minute book, 15 June 1945 - 10 July 1964

Photograph of the exterior of the church showing a celtic cross erected in memory of Beatrix Frances, Countess of Lambton [d.1871], c.1873

Photograph of the interior of Burnmoor church taken from the west end by Joseph Borrow, c.1873

Photograph of the interior of Burnmoor church and of the Lambton memorial in the churchyard, c.1948 (2 photographs, 7.5 cm. x 11.5 cm., mounted on paper)

Photograph of candlestick inside St. Barnabas Church, n.d. [c. 1940s]

Photograph of a trowel and accompanying inscription on a wall in the Church of St. Barnabas, n.d. [c. 1940s]

Photograph of a statue in the Church of St. Barnabas, n.d. [c. 1940s]

Sketch of altar rail, n.d. Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1 : 24]

Detail of fastening on altar rail, n.d.

Order-of-service for the re-opening of the chancel, 19 July 1888

Accounts of, and list of subscribers to, the chancel improvements in memory of the Earl of Durham, 1889

Invoice issued by Percy Bacon and Brothers, Newman Street, London, for executing the altar for Burnmoor church, 25 September 1901

'Private Research Project on the Re-Use and Modification of Designs in Stained Glass Made by Morris and Co. (1861-1940) and by Duncan Dearle (1940-1954)' by D.J.R. Green, Cheltenham, Gloucester, 6 August 1989 [Mentions the window depicting Samuel brought to Eli installed in St. Barnabas, Burnmoor , in 1919]

Invoice issued by Morris and Company, London, for light in stained glass depicting Samuel, 10 April 1919, and invoice, issued by Edward H. Thew, Newcastle, for engraving memorial brass tablet, 25 November 1919

Declaration by the churchwardens concerning the reasons for, costs of, and consequences of, a new electrical installation, 16 January 1962

Correspondence between the Lambton Estate Office, Burnmoor, Fence Houses, the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council; Wilson and Co., 5 North Bailey, Durham; Rev. A.J. Gadd, Burnmoor Rectory, Fence Houses; The Official Solicitor, Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster; The Diocesan Registry; The College, Durham, concerning the gift by the Earl of Durham of a piece of land for an addition to the churchyard, 31 October 1945 - 10 March 1948

10 September 1946 (1) Rt. Hon. Frederick, Earl of Durham (2) Parochial Church Council of the parish of Burnmoor (3) Ecclesiastical Commission for England Copy grant from (1) to (3) with the agreement of (2) of a piece of land (1.4 acres) as additional burial ground for the parish of Burnmoor No consideration Plan attached

Record of graves including their location, 1871 - 1977

Record of graves including their location, 1942 - 1999

Letters from the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham, to A.H. Cossar, Bonnyrigg, The Boundary, Houghton-le-Spring, concerning methods of giving money to the parish for the care of graves, 30 June and 16 July 1965 (3 papers)

Agreement between the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 40-42 High Street, Maidenhead, Berkshire, and the Rector of Burnmoor, concerning the maintenance of war graves, 12 November 1968

Lease of land from The Right Honourable J. George, Earl of Durham to the Reverend S. M. Reynolds concerning land situated at Burnmoor, County Durham for the purpose of a parish hall, 30 April 1908

Plan of the proposed parish hall at Burnmoor, 9 May 1978

Proposed scale of charges to be used for the hire of the church hall, n.d. (1 paper)

Assignment of land by J. Y. Hendry Esquire and G. Baker to the Reverend A. J. Gadd and others concerning hereditaments situated at Burnmoor, County Durham, 11 October 1930

Faculty for the installation of oak panelling as far as the string course, and pine panelling above the string course, on the side walls, the division of the panelling of the roof, the introduction of bosses at the intersection of the ribs and a carved cornice at the eaves, the painting and gilding of the woodwork and roof, the insertion of carvings in the panels of the reredos and two additional stops in the organ, 23 July 1888

Faculty for the insertion of two lights on each side of the chancel and stained glass in a window in the east end of the south aisle in memory of the Hon. Francis Lambton, Royal Horse Guards, killed 31 October 1914, of Geoffrey Lambton, Coldstream Guards, killed 1 September 1914 and of Sarah Mary Reynolds, 13 June 1919

Faculty for the insertion of a stained glass window at the west end and brass tablet on the north wall in memory, respectively, of Frederick Blunt of the 25th Durham Regiment who died on 28 June 1918 and of all the men who died in the First World War, 24 June 1921

Faculty for the introduction of a statue into the north east corner of the church in memory of the third and fourth Earls of Durham, 19 June 1929

Faculty for the insertion of stained glass in the south window of the church in memory of George and Elizabeth Gray, 11 July 1929

Faculty for the insertion of stained glass in the south window in memory of Ethel Annie Tower, 10 October 1929

Faculty for the introduction of stained glass into the north-east window in memory of Frederick William, 4th Earl of Durham, 5 February 1931

Faculty for the erection of a brass tablet on the north wall of the church in memory of Rev. Alfred Merle Norman, first rector of the parish, 15 October 1935

Faculty for the installation of a new gas-fired central heating system, 26 March 1966

Faculty for the introduction of four new pulpit falls and one book marker, 3 November 1967

Faculty for the removal of kerbs and illegible headstones and the tidying and maintenance of the churchyard by Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, 30 August 1973

Archdeacon's certificate for work to repair the boundary wall, 15 December 1961

Archdeacon's certificate for rebuilding approximately 48 yards of the wall surrounding the curtilage of the north side of the parish church and the removal of three pews from the south west corner of the Church, 25 July 1979

Archdeacon's certificate for the introduction of an aumbry safe made of polished steel into the south wall of the sanctuary, 10 May 1982

Archdeacon's certificate for the repositioning of the existing gate and gateposts at the western entrance to the Church from the A183 road with associated realignment and extension of the existing dwarf brick wall; the re-siting of the existing wooden notice board within the church grounds; the clearance of all shrubbery within the area of the Church grounds, 6 June 1983

Archdeacon's certificate for the creation of metal barred gates to enclose the south porch of the Church, 23 November 1987

Archdeacon's certificate for the removal of kerbs from the churchyard to facilitate maintenance of the churchyard, 6 July 1988

Archdeacon's certificate for the removal of four pews from the north west corner of the church and the fitting of carpet in that area to match the side chapel carpet; the introduction of a brass plaque to be affixed to the floor and inscribed as follows: 'In memory of Edward Dodds Churchwarden 1975 - 1987', 1 June 1989

Archdeacon's certificate for the removal and replacement of the existing heating system with a new small bore gas fired heating system incorporating fan assisted convector heaters, 29 June 1989

Quinquennial inspection by Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Architects and Surveyors, Owengate House, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 3HB, November 1994

Quinquennial inspection by Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Conservation and Historic Building Consultants, Owengate House, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 3HB, October 1999

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of Burnmoor Rectory, April 1955

Order under section 21 of the principal measure, and section 3 of the 1929 amending measure, of the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923 to 1951, 5 May 1960

Surveyor's report under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923-1951, 1 April 1960

Letters from the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, Westminster, to Rev. E.S. Barnett concerning dilapidations at Burnmoor, 18 May and 7 June 1960 Enclosed: ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidation Measures, 30 May 1960

Copy surveyor's report, and order, under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923 to 1951, 30 August and 30 November 1965 (2 papers)

Schedule of dilapidations, April 1960

Schedule of dilapidations, August 1965

Photocopy of terrier and inventory for the parish of St. Barnabas, Burnmoor, 1982-1994

Draft inventory, n.d.

Terrier and inventory, 13 March 1972 - 1981

Terrier and inventory, 20 April 1982 - 17 April 2001

Parish log book, 1971-1996

Account of money collected in the parish, for charitable purposes, 1870 and 1871

Cash book, 1 January - 31 December 1978; 6 January - 31 December 1980; 10 January - 31 December 1982; 1 January - 28 February 1984; 28 June 1984 - 31 December 1986

Cash book, 1 January - 31 December 1981; 1 January - 31 December 1983

Cash book, 1 January 1987 - 31 December 1988

Cash book, 1 January 1989 - 31 December 1990

Cash book, 1 January 1991 - 31 December 1992

Cash book, 1 January - 31 December 1993

Cash book, 1 January 1994 - 31 December 1995

Proof of booklet, including photographs of the church, designed to encourage increased giving to St. Barnabas Church, Burnmoor, February 1964

Writ of sequestration of the benefice of Burnmoor, 5 August 1903

Writ of sequestration of the benefice of Burnmoor, 9 February 1951

Writ of sequestration of the benefice of Burnmoor, 17 September 1954

Vestry meetings minute book, 10 February 1868 - 16 April 1952; annual church meetings minutes, 6 April 1965 - 2 March 1971 (1 volume, leather quarter-bound)

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 24 March 1948 - 4 June 1957

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 30 September 1957 - 22 August 1967

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 26 March 1968 - 29 February 1972

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 9 June 1920 - 31 January 1948

Reports of Annual General Meeting, 2000 - 2001

Account book, 1 January - 31 December 1972

Account book, 19 January - 30 December 1974

Account book, 1 January - 31 December 1977

Account book, 30 June 1903 - 3 September 1936

Account book, 6 January 1952 - 19 March 1962

Account book, 3 January 1968 - 11 October 1970

Account book, 27 April - 3 December 1969

Account book, 5 January 1970 - 29 December 1973

Account book, 3 January - 31 December 1973

Account book, 5 January - 31 December 1975

Account book, 3 January - 30 December 1976

Statements of account, 1893, 1916, 1918 - 1919, 1922 - 1943, 1945 - 1950, 1952 - 1968, 1972 - 1974, 1976 - 1978

Summary of accounts, 1953-1961

Statements of account of church hall trustees extracted from the church accounts, 1935 - 1945 Attached: covering letter from unidentified writer, Biddick House, Fence Houses, to A. Vardy, 16 April 1946

Statement issued by the Durham Diocesan Board of finance relating to the appointment of the quota parish by parish, 1963 and 1964

Notes on proposed envelope scheme, n.d., c.1950 (2 papers)

Correspondence between William Norman, West Lane, Chester-le-Street, building contractor; Durham County Council, Health Department, Shire Hall, Durham; Rev. A.J. Gadd, The Rectory, Burnmoor; Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council; George Cairns and Sons, Millers Hill, Herrington Burn, builders; Isaac Berriman Ltd., The Woodland Joinery Works, Fence Houses, builders; Fennell and Baddiley, Bridge End Chambers, Chester-le-Street, architects and surveyors; McCarrick Construction Company Limited, The Turnpark, Station Road, Chester-le-Street, concerning the heating boiler, alterations to the ceiling and alterations to the kitchens of Burnmoor church hall, 24 February 1941 - 3 June 1966 Includes: plans of proposed alterations to the kitchens, 1965

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council; Rev. E.S. Barnett, Burnmoor Rectory, concerning the Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Scheme K for the augmentation of stipends, 25 May 1946 - 9 October 1968

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council; North-Eastern Electricity Board, Wear Sub-Area, 1 Front Street, Chester-le-Street; Punchard and Hamilton, 8 Johnson Crescent, Houghton-le-Spring, concerning dilapidations and repairs to the rectory, 29 September 1950 - 10 June 1968

Correspondence between English Clock Systems Ltd., 153-155 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, Scotland, and the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council, concerning the installation of a new church clock, 5 November 1953 - 24 January 1956

Correspondence between the National Coal Board, Durham Division no. 2 Area, Stockton Road, Sunderland; the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council; Cordingley and McIntyre, Owengate, Durham, architects, concerning damage by subsidence, to St. Barnabas' Church, Burnmoor, 9 March - 21 July 1960

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council; the Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham, concerning unauthorised kerbstones in the graveyard, 19 - 23 September 1960

Correspondence between the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council; Gordon Durham and Company, Ltd., East Boldon, builders; The Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; The Diocesan Office, The College Durham, concerning repairs to the church, 9 January 1961 - 24 August 1963

Correspondence between the Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham, and the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council, concerning the right of the P.C.C. to influence the choice of a new incumbent for the parish, 11 May - 5 June 1961

Correspondence between Lambton Estate Offices, Chester-le-Street, and the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council, concerning the insertion of a window from Biddick Hall into Burnmoor Church, 5 - 30 June 1961

Correspondence between the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council; the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Lambton Estate Office, Chester-le-Street; the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London; the Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; the Archdeacon of Durham, The Grove, Quarryheads Lane, Durham, concerning the appointment of new incumbents, the creation of the parish of Oxclose, the building of a new rectory and the maintenance of the graveyard, 26 July, 31 August 1961, 4 September 1972 - 10 September 1974

Correspondence between the churchwardens of the parish of Burnmoor; the Rt. Hon. Lord Lambton, Biddick Hall, Chester-le-Street; Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council, concerning the appointment of clergymen to the parish and parish functions, 18 August 1961 and 18 August 1967 - 1 April 1968

Correspondence between the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council, and the Rt. Hon. Lord Lambton, Biddick Hall, Chester-le-Street, concerning the former's congratulations of the birth of the latter's son, 21 October 1961 and n.d.

Correspondence between the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council; John Parsons (Builders) Ltd., Diamond Hall Works, Lisburn Terrace, Pallion, Sunderland; A. Hector Grabham, Ltd., 21 Blandford Street, Sunderland, painting contractors, concerning alterations to the church boiler house and the church hall, 15 July - 24 August 1963

Correspondence between the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council and the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham, concerning the construction of a new rectory, parochial trusts, the income of the parish and the church hall, 16 May 1972 - 4 October 1974

Correspondence between Fennell and Baddiley, Bridge End Chambers, Chester-le-Street, architects; the Hon. Secretary, Burnmoor Parochial Church Council; Chester-le-Street Rural District Council; County of Durham Education Committee, North Central Division; Boundary Residents' Association, 49 Bourn Lea, Shiney Row; Civic Trust for the North East, 34-35 Saddler Street, Durham; White's Burners, Parsons Industrial Estate, Washington; Stephen R. Taylor, 35 Middle Chare, Chester-le-Street, plumbing, heating and electrical engineers; Hayton and Lee, Owengate House, Durham City, architects; North Eastern Electricity Board, Manor House, New Penshaw; County Engineer, County Hall, Durham; Leslie Hood, 3 Queen Street, Seaham; Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches for the Diocese of Durham, concerning the new rectory, the church hall, a new youth club, the churchyard, the quinquennial survey of the church and a proposal for a pedestrian crossing near the church, 2 August 1972 - 6 July 1974

Copy out-letters, 29 May 1972 - 28 October 1974

'Lines Suggested by a Visit to Bourn Moor Church Yard in the Winter of 1874'

Special Forms of Service in Commemoration of His Late Majesty King Edward VII of Blessed and Glorious Memory to be used in all churches and chapels in England and Wales and in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed Either on the Day of the Funeral or on the most Convenient Day within the Octave, Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1910

Photograph of Lambton coke ovens, c.1920 Endorsed: Forster, 26 Gill Cres. So., Fencehouses, n.d.

Coronation edition of Burnmoor parish magazine, 2 June 1953

Brochure titled 'The Parish Church of St. Barnabas, Burnmoor, built by Johnson and Hicks between 1867 - 1868 and Dedicated 1868' by the Reverend N. Chamberlain, n.d. [c. 2000s]