Catalogue

Register of marriages, 1 June 1882 - 7 July 1990

Register of marriages, 28 September 1991 - 12 December 2020

Register of banns of marriage, 14 May 1882 - 24 April 2005

Register of services, 1 November 1897 - 24 April 1904

Register of services, 1 May 1904 - 19 March 1912

Register of services, 3 3anuary 1934 - 17 August 1958

Register of services, 20 March 1912 - 15 July 1917 At end: list of people confirmed, 21 March 1912 - 11 March 1921

Register of services, 22 July 1917 - 17 June 1922

Register of services, 18 June 1922 - 16 April 1927

Register of services, 17 April 1927 - 31 December 1933

Register of services, 24 August 1958 - 22 November 1992

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, London to W.B. Mills, Cotherstone concerning endowments, patronage, possible grants and possible assignment of a District to the proposed new church at Cotherstone, 18 June 1879

Licence to publish banns and solemnize marriages at Cotherstone, with assent of Henry Cleveland (Rector of Romaldkirk) and John Bowes (Patron of the Rectory of Romaldkirk) subscribed. Plan attached, 24 February 1887

Annual statistics of the parish of Cotherstone, 1926, 1927

List of services for Holy Week, 31 March - 5 April 1890

Poster advertising a harvest festival, 18 September 1902

Programme for Jubilee Week, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of St. Cuthbert's Church, Cotherstone, 13 - 20 December 1931 Originally enclosed in EP/Cot 2/9

Order of service for the centenary festival service of thanksgiving, 15 December 1981

Order-of-service for the reopening of the chapel at Lartington Hall by Archdeacon of Richmond, 2 December 1919

Certificate of the redemption of tithe-rent charges in the township of Cotherstone, 12 September 1921

Minutes of Cotherstone Church Building Fund, 30 September 1879 - 24 February 1881

Appeal for contributions, Cotherstone Church Building Fund, n.d. [1879 - 1882]

Statement of account of the Treasurer with Cotherstone Church Fund and report to subscribers, 11 July 1883

Statements of account of the Treasurer with Cotherstone Church Fund, 1881 - 1884

List of subscriptions to Cotherstone Church, n.d. [1879 - 1882]

List of subscriptions received by J. Pearson, London, n.d. [1879 - 1882]

Pass book of the Cotherstone Church Bazaar Account with Jonathan Backhouse and Company, Barnard Castle, 3 September 1879 - 5 April 1881

Statement of account of the Treasurer with Cotherstone Bazaar Fund, 16 August 1882 - 14 July 1883

Offprint of advertisement for bazaar in the Music Hall, Barnard Castle, 26 - 28 August 1879

Admission ticket to bazaar in the Music Hall, Barnard Castle, 15 - 16 August 1882

Account of Joseph Kyle, Barnard Castle, contractor for erecting the church, March 1882

Account of R.H.J. Pearson, High Street, Notting Hill, London, ironmongers for material supplied to Cotherstone Church, 11 July 1881 - 11 May 1882

Correspondence received accepting invitations to church bazaar, arranging or declining to attend meetings, making subscriptions to the building fund etc., 19 August 1879 - 2 May 1881

Architect's certificates for work on Cotherstone Church, 23 July 1881 - 14 June 1882

Miscellaneous bills and receipts for work done and materials supplied in connexion with the building of Cotherstone Church, 6 September 1880 - 4 September 1884

Lists of possible subscribers, persons to be approached, n.d. [c.1880]

Circular letter to subscribers reporting progress of work and calling up their subscriptions, 8 April 1881

Statement of account of the churchwardens with Cotherstone Church, 1 April 1883 - 14 April 1884

Statement and accounts of Cotherstone Church Building Fund, 11 July 1883

Programme for a 'Grand Bazaar and Swiss Fancy Fair' to be held in the Music Hall, Barnard Castle, in aid of the Cotherstone Church Building Fund, n.d.

Notice announcing the intention to hold a bazaar in Barnard Castle to reduce the debt on the church and soliciting items of needlework, articles and money as contributions to the bazaar, 16 May 1882

Poster depicting a Swiss scene, announcing 'A Grand Bazaar - and Swiss Fancy Fair', 15-17 August 1882

Circular issued by the churchwardens and members of the church building fund, appealing for contributions for a fund-raising bazaar at Barnard Castle, or donations of money to help defray the debt outstanding on the new church building, 16 May 1882

Sections, elevation and ground plan of the proposed church of St. Cuthbert, Cotherstone, by C. Purdon Clarke, architect, 1 July 1879 Scale: ¹/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]

Design for a plaque in memory of Jonathan Pearson, founder of the church, (who died on 15 June 1899), c.1900

Plan, section A.B, and elevation, of proposed addition to the W.C. for a tool-house at Cotherstone Church, c.1900 Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1:24]

West and south elevations and perspective sketch of the proposed spire at St. Cuthbert's Church, Cotherstone, by Clark and Moscrop, architects, Darlington, July 1912 Scale: 6.5 inches to 50 feet [1:92]

'Proposed design for St. Cuthbert's church, Cotherstone' by Caspar P. Clarke, esq., of London, architect, lithographed by Hare, n.d. [1881]

Pen and ink sketch of St. Cuthbert's Church, Cotherstone, by J.J. Bateson, 16 December 1953

Bill of quantities for the proposed extension to St. Cuthbert's Church, Cotherstone, 27 March 1900

Tenders for the extension submitted by William Stobbart and Isaac Hetherington, 14 April 1900

Letter from J. Roddam, The Limes, Cotherstone, to the Rector of Romaldkirk, concerning the church organ, the caretaker of the church and church accounts, 30 December 1940 Includes: list of duties of caretaker, 1940

Organ Fund accounts, 1895

Photographs of the spire of the church, n.d. [c. late 1980s]

Photographs of church silver, crystal, plate, furniture, stained glass windows and inscriptions by the Reverend D. Dalton, September 1969

Letter from Wetherell, Dent & Pickersgill, Lloyd's Bank Chambers, Barnard Castle, to the Rector of Romaldkirk and Wardens and Trustees of St. Cuthbert's Church, Cotherstone, concerning rot in the floor of St. Cuthbert's Church, 20 February 1933

Front and side elevations, plan, and section A-A of the church hall at Cotherstone as at present, drawing no. 2566, by Dent and Partners, architects and surveyors, Dilston House, 2&3 Robinson Terrace, Washington, April 1974 Scale: 4 feet and 1 inch [1:48]

Front and side elevations, plan, and section A-A of the proposed alteration to the church hall at Cotherstone, drawing no. 2567, by Dent and Partners, architects and surveyors, Dilston House, 2&3 Robinson Terrace, Washington, April 1974 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

Letter from Dent and Partners, architects and surveyors, Finkle Street Chambers, Richmond, North Yorkshire, to Canon J.E. Lee, The Rectory, Romaldkirk, concerning the deposit of building plans of the church hall with Teesdale District Council and enclosing a notice concerning the plans, 27 July 1977

Structural report on the church hall by Forsyth and Stastny, Britannia Chambers, 18A Horsemarket, Barnard Castle, County Durham, 21 January 1983

General correspondence concerning extensions to Ashfield, Moor Road, Cotherstone, 28 May 2004 - 16 September 2005 Includes: 2 plans of the vicarage, 84cm x 60cm, scale 1:50, October 2003 2 plans of the vertically boarded garage doors, 30cm x 42cm, scale 1:100, n.d. [c. 2004]

Letter from E.R. Hanby Holmes, Barnard Castle, to Rev. Claud Snushall, offering to sell the latter a piece of land near Cotherstone Church on behalf of the trustees of Canon S.G. Beal, deceased, 30 September 1930 Enclosed: plan of land with details of its purchase, 1930

31 May 1893 1) T. Alderson, Barnard Castle, gentleman; R. T. Richardson, Barnard Castle, gentleman 2) G. Dent and his wide M. Dent both from Bowes, North Yorkshire, gentleman 3) M. A. Bowsfield, Bowes, spinster 4) Right Honourable Claude Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne; Baron Bowes of Streatham Castle Conveyance of a close of land situated at Cotherstone in the North Riding in the County of York Consideration: £150

12 February 1897 (1) Robert Ayre Smith of Warden Lawe, 373 Norwood Road, West Norwood, London, esq. (2) Rev. Henry Remington Allen Wilson of The Rectory, Bolton by Bowland, Yorkshire Copy lease, for 3 years, from (1) to (2) of a messuage and croft in Cotherstone Rent: £27 per annum

Architect's report on St. Cuthbert's Church by G. Swainston, Surveyor of the Diocese of Ripon, 'Sunnycrest', 1 Gallowfields Road, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 4DB, 23 February 1984 Note: incomplete report

Quinquennial inspection by M. Overton, Wales, Wales and Rawson, Chartered Architects and Town Planners, The Gatehouse, Skipton Castle, North Yorkshire, BD23 1AL, October 2006

Account book of churchwardens, 25 March 1894 - 31 December 1921

Private account book of churchwardens, 25 March 1894 - 14 April 1903

Parochial account book including: Parochial Fund, Sick and Poor Fund, mission account, Sunday School treats account, guild accounts, organ fund, aanuary 1911 - November 1928

Accounts of Sunday School Fund and Parochial Fund, January 1933 - May 1934

Minutes of meetings, 14 June 1989 - 11 May 1994

Abstract of accounts for the year ending 31 December 1925

Abstract of accounts for the years ending 31 December 1928, 1929, 1930

Statements of account, 1931 - 1934, 1936 - 1938, 1940

Electoral roll, 1984

List of caretaker's duties, c. 1940

Newspaper article from Darlington and Stockton Times concerning the resignation of the parish chairwoman, 7 September 1991

'Book of Proceedings and Rules, Ordinances, Provisos and Laws relating to the Free-School at Cotherston. Founded A.D. 1834', containing only copy of deed founding the school, 4 June 1834

Letter from E.R. Hanby Holmes, Barnard Castle, to Rev. S.G. Beal, Rector of Romaldkirk, discussing the status of the school at Cotherstone and enclosing an abstract of the deed of conveyance of 1893 [ see EP/Cot 11/3], 26 August 1918

Note of papers concerning Cotherstone School in the custody of E.R. Hanby Holmes, 4 April 1922

Letter from W.H. Ralston, Streatlam Castle, to Rev. S.G. Beal, concerning the status and duties of the trustees of Cotherstone School, 28 February 1903

Nomination paper, signed by the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, making W.H. Ralston a foundation manager of Cotherstone Church of England School, June 1904

Notice issued by the North Riding of Yorkshire County Council Education Committee appointing Mrs. Emma Agnes Carter as headteacher of Cotherstone C.E. School, c.1910

13 December 1893 (1) Rt. Hon. Claude, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Bowes of Streatlam Castle (2) Rev. Samuel Gilbert Beal, Clerk in Holy Orders, Rector of the Parish of Romaldkirk; the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Bowes; John Sherlock Helmer of Wildon Grange, Romaldkirk, gent. Conveyance from (1) to (2) of a parcel of land (1,502 sq. yds.), part of Kill Garth Close, in the parish of Cotherstone, in trust for the erection thereon of a free school for the instruction of poor children of the parish of Cotherstone in the principles of the Church of England Plan in margin

Note of a meeting of trustees of Cotherstone school concerning the decision to build a new school and a change in the sewing mistress at the school, c.1893

Proofs of newspaper article recounting the laying of the memorial stone of the new school at Cotherstone by the Earl of Strathmore, c.1894

4 June 1834 1) William Spencer, Duke Of Devonshire 2) Reverend G. Price, rector of the parish of Romaldkirk; E. Walton of Cotherstone, timber merchant; J. Waistell of Westpark, gentleman; J. Hutchinson of Hoggarth Hill, Cotherstone, yeoman Conveyance of a parcel of ground on which a free school has been built at Cotherstone in the parish of Romaldkirk, County of York Consideration: 10 shillings

15 August 1958 1) Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance, 5 Albion Place, Leeds 2) Parochial Church Council of Romaldkirk in the County of York and Diocese of Ripon Conveyance of all piece or parcel of land situated in village and township of Cotherstone in North Riding of County of York and containing in the whole 1502 square yards or thereabouts together with school buildings, school house and outbuildings erected theron and known as Cotherstone School Hall, Cotherstone, North Riding of County of York Consideration £250

6 December 1985 1) Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance, St Mary's Street, Leeds, LS9 7DP 2) Parochial Church Council of the parish of Romaldkirk 3) Mr and Mrs G. A. Kingsley, Glebe Cottage, Laithkirk, Middleton - in - Teesdale, Barnard Castle Conveyance of a piece or parcel of land situated at Cotherstone in County Durham formerly in North Riding of County of York containing in the whole 1502 square yards or thereabouts together with the buildings erected thereon or on some part thereof and known as Cotherstone Church School Consideration £26050

Letter from William Watson, Barnard Castle, to Edward Walton, West Park, Cotherstone, enclosing a bill for the manufacture of the 'Cotherstone School Book', 31 January 1842 Originally enclosed in EP/Cot 11/1

Vouchers for expenditure at Cotherstone Church of England School, 1885, 1892, 1897 - 1902

Account submitted by J.H. Robinson, Springbank House, Cotherstone, for decorating work done at Cotherstone School, 2 October 1947

H.M.I.'s reports on Cotherstone Church of England School, 1891 - 1907, 1910

Correspondence between the Education Committee, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council, Northallerton, N. Riding of Yorkshire; Ripon Diocesan Education Council, 8 The Crescent, Ripon, N. Riding of Yorkshire; North Riding Joint Committee of Voluntary Organisations in Time of War, Rural Community Council Offices, 9 Minster Yard, York, N. Riding of Yorkshire; H.M. Carass, Hovingham Spa, York; Rev. M. Reith, Cotherstone, N. Riding of Yorkshire; concerning the re-opening of Cotherstone Church of England School to accommodate children evacuated from Gateshead and Sunderland, 18 - 25 September 1939

Letter from the North Riding of Yorkshire Education Committee, Education Offices, County Hall, Northallerton, to Rev. C. Snushall, Romaldkirk Rectory, informing the latter that the temporary council school will transfer from the premises of the Church of England School to the Methodist School, 29 November 1939

Block plan, ground plan, south, east and west elevations, section A.B, and ground plan of earth closets, of mixed school at Cotherstone, by Gibson Kyle, 16 May 1893

Ground plan of Cotherstone C. of E. School, 1890s

Correspondence between the Education Committee, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council, Education Offices, County Hall, Northallerton, N. Riding of Yorkshire; Rev. S.G. Beal, The Rectory, Romaldkirk, N. Riding of Yorkshire; Board of Education, Whitehall, London, S.W., concerning the closure of Cotherstone Church of England School, 6 January - 25 September 1916

Notice issued by the Board of Education, Whitehall, London, that Cotherstone Church of England School has been removed from the list of public elementary schools in receipt of parliamentary grants, 1 May 1917

General correspondence concerning the sale of Cotherstone school hall including advertisement literature preceding the sale, 4 November 1985 - 17 November 1986

Number not used

Order, issued by the Charity Commission, for the removal and appointment of trustees of Pearson's Charity in the chapelry of Cotherstone, 6 September 1912

Letters from J.H. Bourne, The Green, Cotherstone, to Rev. J.S. Beal, Rector of Romaldkirk, concerning support offered for the higher education of a child, 10 August and 18 September 1917

Statements of account for the Sunday Schools at Romaldkirk and Baldersdale, 1890 - 1892

Letter from Richardson & Piper, Barnard Castle, to J.H. Holmes, solicitor, Barnard Castle, concerning the possible purchase of land at Cotherstone from Mr. Bousfield's trustees, 24 January 1893

Copy byelaws and regulations for Cotherstone Regulated Pasture, copy instructions to field reeves and copy scale of stinting adopted on Cotherstone Regulated Pasture, 1909

Parish News, 1983