Catalogue Item

Register of baptisms, 1578 - June 1657; marriages, July 1579 - 24 November 1655; and burials, 2 January 1579 - 25 January 1659 Entries after November 1655 were added to pages 12, 26, 27 and 46 Some, but probably not all, of the latest entries are duplicated in the second parish register (EP/Coc 1/2)

Register of baptisms, 14 February 1652 - 4 October 1747, marriages, 29 June 1655 - 12 July 1747; and burials, 17 April 1653 - 29 September 1747

Register of baptisms, 28 March 1747 - 13 December 1806; marriages, 3 May 1747 - 17 June 1753; and burials, 30 March 1747 - 28 December 1806

Register of baptisms, 14 December 1806 - 31 May 1812

Register of baptisms, 10 January 1813 - 12 July 1846

Register of baptisms, 26 July 1846 - 2 January 1891

Register of baptisms, 4 January 1891 - 28 March 1927

Register of baptisms, 31 March 1927 - 19 February 1950

Register of banns of marriage and marriages, 28 April 1754 - 4 July 1812

Register of marriages, 21 June 1813 - 24 June 1837

Register of marriages, 22 July 1837 - 4 August 1924

Register of marriages, 27 December 1924 - 24 September 1932

Register of marriages, 24 October 1932 - 20 July 1940

Register of marriages, 17 August 1940 - 12 July 1952

Register of marriages, 19 July 1952 - 26 February 1966

Register of marriages, 2 July 1966 - 6 March 1982

Registers of marriages, 26 February 1983 - 4 May 1991

Register of marriages, 18 May 1991 - 6 June 2015

Register of banns of marriage, 16 August 1857 - 4 February 1906

Register of banns of marriage, 8 July 1906 - 3 March 1957

Register of banns of marriage, 3 February 1957 - 7 August 2016

Register of burials, 10 May 1813 - 16 September 1884

Register of confirmations, 30 March 1933 - 1 December 1954

Register of services, 19 September 1897 - 1 October 1911

Register of services, 7 October 1911 - 18 August 1918

Register of services, 21 July 1918 - 24 February 1927

Register of services, 27 February 1927 - 19 May 1935

Register of services, 22 May 1935 - 27 March 1946

Register of services, 24 March 1946 - 7 April 1956

Register of services, 8 April 1956 - 28 December 1965

Register of services, 1 January 1966 - 28 December 1969

Register of services, 4 January 1970 - 13 April 1979

Register of services, 14 April 1979 - 17 May 1987

Register of services, 19 May 1987 - 2 June 2002

Register of services, 9 June 2002 - 4 September 2016

Service order for a service of wholeness and healing 30 July 2006

Notice concerning Benefices (Exercise of Rights of Presentation) Measure, 1931, due to vacancy by resignation of Rev. H.S.C. Spurrier, 9 February 1942 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 6/I

Correspondence etc. concerning glebe land at the rear of Cockfield Rectory, 26 July 1948 - 18 May 1970

Letter from G. Guyll, Clerk of the Barnard Castle Urban District Council, to Rev. P. Lund, Cockfield, concerning the future of Cockfield as a viable village, 18 February 1965

Correspondence file 1992-2006 - estimate to repair cast iron heating pipework by Team Building Services Engineers of Belmont; - estimate for heating repair work by D. Brooksbank, plumber and heating engineer of Crook; - estimate for asbestos removal by Barton Environmental Services Ltd of Billingham; - correspondence regarding weatherboard and threshold bar; - correspondence regarding lock; - summary of cost of repair work needed; - correspondence regarding lightning conductor; - correspondence regarding roof repairs; - details of One Way Café, Cockfield and The Lighthouse, Copley/Woodland; - plan of the church; - correspondence regarding insulation of chancel roof; - correspondence regarding water and drainage connection, disabled WC and servery; - letter regarding summer placement of a student at Cranmer Hall, St John's College, Durham; - concert by 'Concordia'; - statistics for mission; - parish share apportionment; - correspondence regarding cocks and strengthening of door and quinquennial inspector; - LA21 Partnership Project Fund; - correspondence regarding removal of north aisle pews, insulation and redecoration of north aisle roof; - interlocutory orders; - correspondence with and application to County Durham Foundation; - Durham County Council member initiative fund application; - planning application for advertisement consent for installation of four heritage-based interpretation panels at Cockfield Fell; - resignation of governor of Cockfield School; - invoice from D. W. Walton Stonemason & Builders Ltd., Copley; - change of organ tuning arrangements; - newspaper article - rural church points way to avoid ruin'; - sale of glebe land; - constitution of Lipscomb Hall Cockfield Management Group; - programme of activities; - Cockfield PCC health and safety policy statement; - flyer for Butterwick Glade Trees Planting Scheme for Butterwick Hospice, Bishop Auckland; - St Mary's, Cockfield confidential response form; - church leaflet - 'Can We Afford to keep Our Church'; - greetings card with black and white painting of St Mary's church by L. Maroney; - photograph of interior of St Mary's church chancel looking east; - calendar featuring painting of St Mary's church from the south-west; - report n 2006 for Lipscomb Hall; - church leaflet - 'Are you a friend of St Mary's can you help close the gap?'

Return of church membership form, 1993

Minutes of meetings of Barnard Castle Deanery Synod, 9 May, 19 September, 21 November 1988

Minutes of meetings of Barnard Castle Deanery Synod, 8 May, 3 July, 20 September, 20 November 1989

Minutes of meetings of Barnard Castle Deanery Synod, 26 February and 18 June 1990

Minutes of meetings of Barnard Castle Deanery Synod, 11 May, 29 June, 14 September, 23 November 1992

Minutes of meetings of Barnard Castle Deanery Synod, 22 February, 10 May, 28 June, 27 September, 22 November 1993

Minutes of meetings of Barnard Castle Deanery Synod, 18 April, 27 June, 26 September 1994

Report of the Parochial Church Council on the organisation of pastoral care in Barnard Castle Deanery, 7 July 1992

Income and expenditure account for Barnard Castle Deanery Synod, 31 December 1988

Income and expenditure account for Barnard Castle Deanery Synod, 31 December 1993

Certificate of redemption of tithe rentcharge, with covering letter, 31 December 1921 - 4 January 1922

Altered apportionment of tithe rentcharge, n.d.

Altered apportionment of tithe rent charge, with accompanying plan, 14 September 1911

Photograph of church interior, n.d.

Photograph of Cockfield Church, n.d. given [pre 1927]

Photographs of church plate 24 August 2000 - paten; - ewer, flagon and ciborium; - flagon, ciborium and two patens; - ciborium, ewer and flagon; - box for wafers; - top of the ewer; - second paten; - top of the flagon

Annual reports on church, 1940 - 1941 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 6/1

Memorandum of agreement between Harrison and Harrison Limited, Organ Builders of Durham and St. Mary's church for the servicing of the organ, 18 March 1961

Memorandum of agreement between Harrison and Harrison Limited, Organ Builders of Durham and St. Mary's church for the servicing of the organ, 9 December 1971

Agreement for duties and salary of organist, n.d. Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 6/2

Agreement for duties and salary of organist, n.d. Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 6/1

Church log book 1983-1993

Quinquennial inspection report 10 April 1978 - carried out by J. C. Smith of W. B. Edwards & Partners of Newcastle upon Tyne

Quinquennial inspection report 4 May 1983 - carried our by W. B. Edwards & Partners of Newcastle upon Tyne

Quinquennial inspection report July 1988 - carried out by W. B. Edwards & Partners of Newcastle upon Tyne

Quinquennial inspection report May 1998 - carried out by George Stastny of Barnard Castle

Quinquennial inspection report November 1993 - carried out by John A. G. Niven of Niven & Niven Architects of West Auckland

Quinquennial inspection report May 2004 - inspected by George Stasny of Barnard Castle

File on the Glebe Garden project 2004-2012 - correspondence with Diocesan Board of Finance; - progress meeting minutes; - correspondence with Conservation Foundation; - correspondence with Northern Gas Networks; - invoice from Ramshaw Skip Hire; - invoice from BTL Timber & Hardware Ltd of Toronto; - correspondence with Big Lottery Fund Community Spaces including application form; - bar chart on progress; - sketch plans of possible layout; - invoice from Maudes Coaches of Barnard Castle; - change of use application for 107 front Street, Cockfield to be a community garden; - letters of support from Archdeacon of Auckland, Cockfield Parish Council, Cockfield Primary School and Teddy Edward Baby & Toddler Group; - newspaper cuttings; - invoices from Trevor Atkinson & Company Ltd, industrial landscape contractors of Mickleton; - Glebe Garden gateway entrance artist's brief; - designs for the garden by schoolchildren; - invoices from D. W. Walton, Stonemason & Builders Ltd of Copley; - initial progress report; - leaflet - 'Discover Cockfield Fell'; - sustainability grant application form; - text and photographs from a presentation; - invoices from Marcus Byron Interpretation & Design of Haydon Bridge (Northumberland); - invoice from Mel Tuck Welding & Fabrication of Bishop Auckland; - invoices from Parrot Printing of Shildon; - flyer for Cockfield Glebe Garden public launch; - invoices from Stephen Iredale, chainsaw sculptor of Staithes (North Yorkshire); - quotations and invoice from Monk General Services of Cockfield; - invoice from Rotters Community Composting of Startforth; - invoice from Seagraves Metal & Wood Recycling Services of West Auckland; - invoices from Groundwork North East; - Community Spaces end of grant report

Accounts of church hall, 1932 - 1941 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 6/1

Cockfield Church Hall accounts, 1939 - 1976; Lipscomb School Purchase Fund accounts, June 1973 - September 1976

List of work carried out at Lipscomb Hall 2005-2007

Letter from Diocesan Board of Finance with three deeds relating to Lipscomb Hall - 24 May 2005 (I) Photocopy conveyance 30 June 1897 Parties: (1) Rev Harry Curteis Lipscomb of Staindrop , honorary canon of Durham cathedral; (2) minister and churchwardens of Cockfield Operative Part - (1) conveyed (a) to (2) Property [as shown on included plan]: (a) piece of land containing 214 square yards in Cockfield bounding: N on high road; S by path to the school and a garden of Ralph Walker's executors; E by village green; W by premises of Lord Barnard with all buildings thereon used for last fifty years as a school Habendum: - to (2) in trust to be used as a school called Lipscomb School Witnesses: - W. James Watson of Barnard Castle, solicitor - John J. Walker, clerk to Watson of Barnard Castle, solicitors (II) photocopy appointment of trustees 6 October 1899 Parties: (1) Rev Harry Curteis Lipscomb of Staindrop, Rector of Cockfield; (2) Harry Curteis Lipscomb, Herbert Legard Fife of Staindrop, land agent and William Henry Ralston of Streatlam, land agent Reciting: - deed poll of 19 December 1864 from Harry George Vane, 2nd Duke of Cleveland to Harry Curteis Lipscomb, William Thomas Scarth and Ralph Dent as trustees and declaring that the number of trustees would be three, i.e. the rector of Cockfield, William Thomas Scarth and his successors as chiel land agent of the Lord of the manor of Cockfield and Ralph Dent and his successors as chief land agent of the owner of Cockfield Hall Estate (then property of John Bowes) as long as they were of the protestant religion; - Thomas Scarth and Ralph Dent were both dead and had been succeeded respectively by Herbert Legard Fine and William Henry Ralston Operative Part - (1) appointed (2) as fellow trustees; - (1) conveyed (a) to (2) Property: [as shown on included plan]; (a) land with schools erected thereon Witnesses: - P. W. Dixon; - J. Gurthwait of Raby Estates Office, Staindrop ; - Herbert Bradley, clerk to William Henry Ralston (III) Conveyance 19 July 1978 Parties: (1) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance as trustee; (2) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance as diocesan authority; (3) Cockfield PCC Reciting: - Diocese of Durham (Educational Endowments) Order 1975 vesting (a) in (1) with power of sale for £3,100; - (2) was diocesan authority under Section 6 of the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956 Operative Part - (3) paid £3,100 to (2); - (1), by direction of (3) conveyed (a) to (2) Property: (a) piece of land in Cockfield containing 214 square yards bounding: N on high road; S partly by path and partly by garden late of executors of Ralph Walker; W by village green; W by property of Lord Barnard; with premises erected thereon formerly used as a school called Lipscomb Church of England School Habendum: - to (2) Witnesses: - J. C. Smith; - Phyllis Carter; - John A. Forbister of 17 The Green, Cockfield, police officer

Correspondence concerning the old Rectory, Cockfield, with final valuation, August 1959 - 13 March 1965

Correspondence concerning the building of the new Rectory, Cockfield, 15 March 1965 - 9 February 1970

Petition of Cockfield Parish Council to the Bishop of Durham, requesting that an acre of the burial ground at Cockfield be consecrated, 23 December 1907

Account book of churchwardens, including terrier 1792, accounts of alms collections, settlement certificates, charities, vestry minutes and memorandum of agreement 1831 re repair of church, 1702 - 1834

Account book of churchwardens, including vestry minutes, 1834 - 31 December 1925 Enclosure: see EP/Coc 4/4

Statements of accounts, 1886 - 1925 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 4/2

Statements of accounts, 1932 - 1941 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 6/1

Statements of accounts, 1945 - 1948 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 6/2

Receipt from Durham Diocesan Board of Finance for £103 18s.6d. from churchwardens to be held in trust to maintain church and churchyard, 28 October 1940 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 6/1

File on repairs to the church roof 2005-2009 - correspondence with English Heritage; - correspondence with Christopher Downs of The College, Durham, chartered architect; - internal and external photographs of the church; - development grant contract (1) Trustees of National Heritage Memorial Fund and English Heritage, (2) PCC of St Mart's, Cockfield; - correspondence with Historic Churches Preservation Trust; - timetable for works; - correspondence with Northumbria Historic Churches Trust; - correspondence with Diocese of Durham Board of Finance; - correspondence with William Leech Charity; - invoices from D. W. Walton, Stonemason & Builders Ltd of Copley; - maintenance plan; - copy faculty; - accessibility audit report for the church; - invoices from Wensley Roofing Ltd of Chester le Street; - correspondence with Sir John Priestman Charity Trust

Minute book of vestry, 29 April 1834 - 31 March 1896 Enclosure: see EP/Coc 5/2

Notice of vestry meeting to consider supply of water to village of Cockfield, 5 March 1878 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 5/1

Minute book of vestry, later , annual meeting of parishioners, 20 April 1897 - 22 April 1996 Includes: list of parishioners and subscribers to the restoration fund, December 1867; accounts for the church restoration, 1867; minutes of a meeting of the rated inhabitants of Cockfield parish for making a church rate, 19 June 1868; minutes of meetings of the Sanitary Committee of Cockfield Township, established under s.4 of the Sanitary Act, 1866, 19 June 1868 - 26 January 1872; vestry accounts for 1868 and 1869; minutes of a meeting of the rated inhabitants of Cockfield parish for appointing churchwardens, 30 March 1869; minutes of meetings of the rated inhabitants of Cockfield township for considering the supply of water and provision of sewers in the village, 27 April 1869 - 6 May 1869; copy of mortgage deed for securing a £500 loan to the Sanitary Committee from the Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance Co., 4 February 1870 copy of an agreement between the Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance Co. and the Sanitary Committee to discharge the loan of £500 by a sinking fund, 4 February 1870

Minute book of Parochial Church Council, 27 January 1933 - 21 September 1942 Enclosures: see EP/Coc 2/11, 4/5, 4/7, 4/8, 4/9 and 6/4

Minute book of Parochial Church Council, 2 November 1942 - 5 May 1958 Enclosures: see EP/Coc 4/6 and 6/3

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 7 July 1958 - 18 February 1974

Signed minutes of PCC and annual parochial church meetings 18 March 1974 - 3 March 1986

Indexed signed minutes of PCC meetings, committee meetings and annual parochial church meetings 2 February 2005 - 5 September 2014

Rector's reports to parochial annual general meetings, November 1971 - 21 March 1977

Parochial Church Council, Secretary's reports and accounts, 31 December 1958 - 31 March 1969

Papers for the annual meeting of the Parochial Church Council, with accompanying reports, 28 March 1990 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 5/3

Papers for the annual meeting of the Parochial Church Council, with accompanying reports, 15 April 1991 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 5/3

Treasurer' s report to the annual meeting of the Parochial Church Council and audited accounts for the year ending 31 December 1994 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 5/3

Secretary' s report to the annual meeting of the Parochial Church Council for the year ending 31 December 1996 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 5/3

Annual parochial church meeting minutes, reports and accounts 2003

Annual parochial church meeting minutes, reports and accounts 2005

Annual parochial church meeting minutes, reports and accounts 2010

Account book of Cockfield Parochial Fund, parish fees and Sunday School, 5 February 1911 - 31 December 1923

Parochial accounts and balance sheets, 1977 - 1985 [incomplete]

Audited accounts for the annual meeting of the Parochial Church Council for the year ending 31 December 1995 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 5/3

Audited accounts for the annual meeting of the Parochial Church Council for the year ending 31 December 1996 Originally enclosed in EP/Coc 5/3

Electoral roll, 1 March 1951 - 1963 or after

Electoral roll March 2009

Correspondence between the Rector of Cockfield Rev. D.J. Hawkins, the Diocesan Director of Education Canon A.D. Chesters and Miss P. Carter of the Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, concerning the former Church of England Schools and Garden in Cockfield and the purchase of the Lipscomb School by the parish, 27 October 1976 - 21 December 1976

Miscellaneous correspondence relating to the Lipscomb School, 28 May 1973 - 4 August 1976

Summary of annual contributions received by the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel from the diocese of Durham, arranged by deanery and parish, 31 December 1976

Summary of annual contributions received by the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel from the diocese of Durham, arranged by deanery and parish, 31 December 1977

The Staindrop and Cockfield Parish Messenger, April 1927

The Staindrop and Cockfield Parish Messenger, November 1948

Parish magazine, August and November 1966

Parish magazine, September - October 1967

Parish magazine, February - April, June - August and October 1968

Parish magazine, January - March, July - November 1969

Parish magazine, December 1970

Parish magazine, July, October - December 1971

Parish magazine, January - April, June - September 1972

Parish magazine, January - July, November - December 1973

Parish magazine, January, March, June, August - December 1974

Parish magazine, February - May, July - December 1975

Parish magazine, January - April, June - December 1976

Parish magazine, January - April, June - December 1977

Parish magazine, January - June, August - December 1978

Parish magazine, February - September, December 1979

Parish magazine, January - March, May - December 1980

Parish magazine, January - September, November - December 1981

Parish magazine, January - February, April - June 1982

Parish magazine, June and September 1988 [on 11 September 1988 the church celebrated the start of its 800th anniversary year]

Papers relating to proposed open cast coal workings at Buckhead and of the subsequent public inquiry, 29 October 1976 - 6 October 1978

Order of consecration of Rev. John Stapylton Habgood as Bishop of Durham by the Lord Archbishop of York at York Minster, 1 May 1973

Order of enthroning John, Lord Bishop of Durham, at Durham Cathedral, 19 May 1973

Order of institution and installation of Rev. Eric William Heaton as Dean of Durham at Durham Cathedral, 1 May 1974

Programme of garden fete in the Rectory Glebe Field, Cockfield, 23 June 1979

Correspondence and accounts of the Field Reeves and Stint Owners of Cockfield Fell regulated pasture, April 1963 - 2 May 1979

Minutes of the Steering Committee with constitution and objects of the Cockfield Community Association, 14 July 1975

File on 'See More in Cockfield' local history project 2004-2010 - Gaunless Valley Steering Group meeting minutes; - BHEC Community Partnership meeting minutes; - 'Wearlife' newsletter of Mineral Valleys project; - Whorlton Village Community Association redecoration project letter; - correspondence with Heritage Lottery Fund including applications; - Durham Rural Community Council annual general meeting ; - Scargill programme flyer; - Harperley Prisoner of War Camp Museum flyer; - National Trust leaflet on places to visit in the North East; - 'Partnership News' County Durham Local Action newsletter; - Cockfield Christmas Tree Festival flyer and photograph; - list of vicars of Cockfield 1884-2004; - flyer on South West Durham Heritage Corridor meeting; - report on potential Cockfield St Mary's Heritage Centre; - partnership working agreement and correspondence with Groundwork West Durham; - black and white photographs of the church, churchyard and Lipscomb Hall; - letter of support from Cockfield Primary School; - letters of support from Durham County Council and Teesdale District Council; - summary of groundwork's roles and responsibilities and community group's roles and responsibilities in the project; - flyer for David Reid Memorial Lecture by Ken Baddley 'Mow Cop to Cockfield Fell'; - draft tim etable of activities; - update on South West Durham Heritage Corridor Project; - memorandum of agreement between Cockfield PCC and consultant Jeanette Stephenson, Information & Community Development Manager; - correspondence with and invoices from Groundwork West Durham & Darlington; - invoices from ADP Micro Ltd of Leeds (West Yorkshire); - invoices from Wright's Office Supplies of Darlington; - invoices from Harrison & Harrison organ builders of Meadowfield; - invoice from John Seymour of High Shincliffe; - application from planning permission from Teesdale District Council; - tender document for Cockfield Fell Interpretation Project; - invoice from Maudes Coaches of Barnard Castle; - invoice from Durham County Record Office for visits; - invoice from Cockfield Primary School; - invoices from Therefore Creative Ltd of Newcastle; - summary of archives used by the project; - invoices from British Data Archive; - invoice from Naval & Military Press Ltd.; - invoice and friends' newsletter from Weardale Museum & High House Chapel, Ireshopeburn; - invoices from Viking Direct; - invoice from Three-16 Productions of Alnwick (Northumberland); - invoice from A. Tuck, joiner of Cockfield; - invoice from D. Clennell Electrical of Cockfield; - invoice from SME Invoice Finance; - black and white photocopy of Discover Cockfield Fell flyer

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