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Register of baptisms, 1842 - 1863

Register of baptisms, 1863 - 1879

Register of baptisms, 1879 - 1899

Register of baptisms, 1899 - 1913

Register of baptisms, 1913 - 1920

Register of baptisms, 2 May 1920 - 6 February 1927

Register of baptisms, 13 February 1927 - 8 January 1939

Register of baptisms, 22 January 1939 - 13 April 1947

Register of baptisms, 21 April 1947 - 6 August 1982

Register of marriages, 1845 - 1896

Register of marriages, 19 December 1896 - 5 April 1920

Register of marriages, 10 April 1920 - 28 December 1929

Register of marriages, 28 December 1929 - 26 May 1940

Register of marriages, 1 June 1940 - 3 July 1948

Register of marriages, 6 July 1948 - 6 December 1958

Register of marriages, 6 December 1958 - 1 March 1975

Register of marriages, 30 March 1975 - 1 June 2019

Register of marriages, 30 July 1908 - 20 November 1929

Register of banns of marriage, 1922 - 1935

Register of banns of marriage, 1944 - 1950

Register of banns of marriage, 1950 - 1956

Register of banns of marriage, 1956 - 1964

Register of banns of marriage, 1964 - 1971

Register of burials, 1842 - 1873

Register of burials, 1873 - 1892

Register of burials, 1892 - 1911

Register of burials, 1911 - 1918

Register of burials, 21 July 1918 - 15 March 1927

Register of burials, 18 March 1927 - 9 April 1938

Register of burials, 16 April 1938 - 7 November 1950

Register of burials, 10 November 1950 - 20 March 1959

Register of services, 25 June 1893 - 31 March 1909

Register of services, 1 April 1909 - 18 April 1920

Register of services, 6 June 1920 - 10 February 1932

Register of services, 1 October 1946 - 2 October 1950

Register of services, 6 October 1950 - 10 May 1961

Register of services, 1961 - 1966

Register of services, 1966 - 1970

Register of services, 8 March 1970 - 29 September 1973

Register of services, 30 September 1973 - 23 May 1981

Register of services, 24 May 1981 - 14 April 1990

Register of services, 15 April 1990 - 29 December 1998

Register of services, 1 January 1999 - 29 December 2010

Register of services, 2 January 2011 - 29 December 2021

Register of services, 25 October 1936 - 31 March 1945

Register of services, 14 January 1923 - 22 October 1936

Register of services, 1 April 1945 - 23 August 1947

Strange Preachers' book, 1873 - 1882

Instrument substituting new church of St. James for old, 31 July 1873

Application form to enlarge mission hall, n.d.

Certificate stating parish will be remembered in prayer in Durham Cathedral on 25 March each year, n.d.

Licence for the solemnization of marriages at St. James Chapel, Coundon, 1844

O.S. 1st ed. map, sheet XLIII showing parish boundaries, 30 September 1859 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]

O.S. 1st ed. map, sheet XXXV showing parish boundaries, 30 April 1861 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, enclosing draft order in council constituting district of Chilton, 14 August 1925

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, concerning constitution of district of Chilton, 26 October 1925

Pastoral Order under section 14 of the Pastoral Measure 1983 concerning the alteration of the parish boundaries of St. James's, Coundon and St. Paul's, Spennymoor, 3 May 1987 Includes a colour map showing the alterations to the areas of the parishes of St. James's, Coundon and St. Paul's, Spennymoor

Notice of grant from Ecclesiastical Commission for curate, 20 October 1916

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, concerning payment of curate grants, 8 March 1921

Papers concerning St. James' House, Coundon, a charity for residence for assistant curate, 30 January - 30 May 1934

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, concerning grant for curate, 9 July 1934

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, concerning additional grant of £50, n.d. [1923/24]

Letters from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, concerning grant of £100, 14 April - 15 June 1932

Letter from Durham Diocesan Board of Finance to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, concerning payment of debt, 18 February 1937

Counterpart mortgage for securing the payment of £750 with interest between Reverend J. A. H. Wynne and the Church Commissioners, 1 January 1974

Notification of the resignation of Rev. George Fielding, incumbent of the parish of St. Andrew, Auckland, 1847

Signification of admittance to benefice of Rev. F.J.W. Hill, 27 February 1902

Letter from Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage to [unnamed person], concerning his resignation as vicar's churchwarden, 17 January 1939

Plan of memorial tablet for Elijah Elsdon Capp, n.d. Scale: full size

Plans of Lady Chapel, n.d. [1953 - 1955] Scale: 2 feet to 1 inch [1:24]

Plans of altar and altar rail, n.d. [1953 - 1955] Scale: 1 foot to 3 inches [1:4]

Plans of oak cross and candlesticks, Lady Chapel altar, n.d. [1953 - 1955] Scale: full size

Plan of proposed Lady Chapel and vestry alterations by Hayton and Lee, Chartered Architects, Owengate House, Durham, 31 January 1973

Letters from H. Cecil Ferens, Diocesan Registry, Durham; Douglas Crawford & Ellis, Bishop Auckland, chartered architects; and P. Carter, Diocesan Office, Durham to Rev. H.S. Horobin, Coundon Vicarage, concerning conversion of north transept into a lady chapel and erection of memorial tablet, 10 November 1953 - 1 July 1955

Letters from Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, concerning fund to repair damage to church caused by mining operations, enclosing earlier correspondence, 4 March 1933 - 26 November 1937

Invoice for repairs to church walls, 6 March 1945

Specification of work relating to the quinquennial inspection by A. O. Lee, Diocesan Surveyor, Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Owengate House, Durham, DH1 3HB, March 1982

Specification and schedule of work relating to the leaning porch by Stringer and Jones, Architects, The Old School, Stainton, Middlesbrough TS8 9AZ, October 2007

Papers concerning gift of gospel candlesticks and Mothers' Union banner commemorating Miss Martha Walker and her mother Mrs. Margaret Birbeck Walker, 21 August 1937 - 26 April 1938

Register of gravediggers' fees, 1958 - 1968

Form of consecration of burial ground, 1902

Form of consecration of burial ground, 1927

Petition for consecration of additional burial ground, n.d.

Blueprint of proposed extension to churchyard, n.d. [1925/26] Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch [1:240]

Tenders to lay field drains in churchyard, 23 October 1925

Letters from Dorman, Long & Co., Zetland Road, Middlesbrough to Rev. F.J. W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, concerning burial ground taking more land than was conveyed (in 1925), 29 April - 22 May 1937

Letter from Etta Burkett, 89 Coniscliffe Road, Darlington to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, concerning papers re churchyard, 9 June n.y.

Order in Council to end burials in St. James's churchyard, 21 April 1980

Letter from Diocesan Registry, Durham to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, concerning faculty for Leeholme Church Hall, 30 August 1934

Papers re repairs to vicarage, 3 November 1936 - 13 July 1937

Plan of drainage system at vicarage, 10 May 1939 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Ground plan showing proposed alterations to the hot water heating system by Dinning and Cooke, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 21 August 1907 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]

Plan of ground and first floor of St. James's vicarage regarding electrical rewiring and damp eradication, 6 October 1972

Plan of proposed improvements to St. James's vicarage by Matt C. Robson and Son, Chartered Architects, Newgate Street, Bishop Auckland, May 1973

Abstract of title (11 February 1867 - 28 February 1879) of John Lloyd Wharton esq., to freehold land at Coundon, 1886

Sections A.B. and C.D., and north and east elevations, of an unidentified school house, approved, 24 June 1901 No scale given

Faculty to erect tablet on s. wall of chancel, to erect wooden screen in n. aisle of church and to place chairs in church, 24 October 1903

Faculty to erect mural tablet, 29 May 1919

Faculty authorising the installation of a new oil - fired heating boiler, 21 January 1967

Faculty authorising the erection of a sanctuary lamp bracket in front of the aumbry in the church, 12 August 1968

Faculty authorising the installation of new electric lighting, power circuits and new light fittings, 19 June 1980

Faculty authorising the introduction of a baptism banner on the west wall of the church, 12 January 2006

Faculty authorising the installation of a combined sound and inductive loop system, 24 January 2006

Faculty authorising the installation of approximately twelve linear metres of black rotary anti - climb barrier with purpose made iron fixing brackets to allow the barrier to be installed above the guttering. Fixing of the brackets to be with 712 anchor bolt. The finish to all steel is to be hot dip galvanizing to BS 729. Fixings to be to vulnerable parts of church building being the rear north (organ housing) and west wall (porch), 26 October 2006

Faculty authorising the placement of the stations of the cross in the church being fifteen posters by 'Demetz' depicting traditional images of the stations to be mounted on a dark hardwood background and to be situated around the church safely secured by screws, 7 December 2006

Faculty authorising the introduction of a chrome single chained gothic style thurible for liturgical use, 31 May 2007

Faculty authorising the re - ordering of the church as per the letter, specification and drawings of Dennis Jones dated 24 October 2007 as well as the provision of a learning porch with interpretative panels as per the incumbents letter and the designs and panels of Christina Unwin, 11 February 2008

Faculty authorising the mechanical and electrical services from distribution board located in the new kitchen to the newly erected stud walling and the redecoration of the interior of the church in Farrow and Ball, estate emulsion, '1 Lime White', 16 September 2008

Faculty authorising repairs to the damage to the roof following theft, including the repair and making right of damage to the bay at the north west, including the box gutter on the north aisle together with associated outlet; two sections of abutement flashing and further flashing in the adjoining gutter and replacement of broken slates with lead and terne steel, 8 October 2008

Inventory, 10 May 1930 - 24 February 1962

Architect's report by A. O. Lee, Architect, Owengate House, Durham, October 1979

Architect's report by A. O. Lee, Hayton, Lee and Braddick, Architects, Owengate House, Durham, DH1 3HB, October 1989

Quinquennial inspection, October 1994

Quinquennial inspection, October 1999

Order under section 46 of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 1923 re buildings not worth repairing, 26 October 1931

Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Assessment, 21 January 1957

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection by A. O. Lee, Diocesan Surveyor, Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Owengate House, Durham, DH1 3HB, March 1982

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection by A. O. Lee, Diocesan Surveyor, Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Owengate House, Durham, DH1 3HB, November 1986

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection by D. L. Renton, Diocesan Surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7QJ, June 1991

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection by D. L. Renton, Diocesan Surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7QJ, February 1996

n.d. [1920's] (1) Vicar and churchwardens of Coundon, St. James (2) Secretary and treasurer of Leeholme Church Mission Grant of offertories taken at Leeholme except on Easter Day

10 February 1938 (1) Vicar and churchwardens of Coundon, St. James (2) Members of Leeholme Church Mission Grant of offertories

Church account book, 1871 - 1894 and Building Committee minute book, 1871 - 1873

Churchwardens' account book, 1894 - 1915

Communicants' roll book, 1913 - 1917

Minutes of Parochial Church Council and annual general meetings, 23 May 1922 - 20 January 1936

Minutes of Parochial Church Council and annual general meetings, 28 October 1940 - 27 November 1951

Minutes of Parochial Church Council and annual general meetings, 26 February 1952 - 9 February 1965

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council and annual general meetings, 16 February 1965 - 19 February 1986 Includes: finance committee reports, receipts and payments accounts, as well as Christian Stewardship Campaign brochures

Minutes of Parochial Church Council and annual general meetings, 1 April 1986 - 29 June 2004 For enclosures see: EP/Cou 123/1-2, 124/6, 134/3-5, 137

Joint Parochial Church Council minutes of meeting consisting of St. John's in Shildon, St. Mark's in Eldon and St. James in Coundon, 11 November 1999 Originally enclosed in 124/5

Accounts for the parish of St. James for the year ended 31 December 2000 Originally enclosed in EP/Cou 124/5

Annual reports and accounts of the Parochial Church Council, 31 December 2002 Originally enclosed in EP/Cou 124/5

Treasurer's report, 10 October 2003 Originally enclosed in EP/Cou 124/5

Annual reports and accounts of the Parochial Church Council, 31 December 2007 - 2012

Letter from P. W. Stringer, Acting Secretary to Diocesan Pastoral Committee, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7QJ to B. Scott, Secretary to Parochial Church Council, 11 South View, Coundon, Bishop Auckland, DL14 8NB concerning the termination of the group ministry established for the benefice of Coundon and Eldon and the benefice of Shildon, 26 April 2001

Letter from P. W. Stringer, Acting Secretary to Diocesan Pastoral Committee, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7QJ to B. Scott, Secretary to Parochial Church Council, 11 South View, Coundon, Bishop Auckland, DL14 8NB concerning the termination of the group ministry established for the benefice of Coundon and Eldon and the benefice of Shildon, 9 October 2001

Letter from the Reverend G. Nicholson, West Emd Villas, Coundon, Near Bishop Auckland, Durham, DL14 8PP to A. Hamilton, The Coundon and Leeholme Youth and Community Project, 13 Tees Walk, Coundon, Near Bishop Auckland, Durham concerning the feasibility study and the future of St. James's Youth Centre, 22 January 2003 Originally enclosed in EP/Cou 124/5

Letter from J. Colville, Stuart Edwards Estates Agents Ltd., 13 Dalton Way, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 4DJ to the Reverend G. Nicholson, St. James Vicarage, Collingwood Street, Coundon, Durham DL14 8LG concerning the sale of the site adjacent to St. James's Church, Coundon, 23 May 2004 Originally enclosed in EP/Cou 124/5

Letter comprising an estate agency agreement from J. Colville, Stuart Edwards Estates Agents Ltd., 13 Dalton Way, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 4DJ to the Reverend G. Nicholson, St. James Vicarage, Collingwood Street, Coundon, Durham DL14 8LG concerning the sale of St. James's Community Hall, Coundon, 29 July 2004 Originally enclosed in EP/Cou 124/5

School Managers' minute book, 1904 - 1923

Board of Education Final Order re Coundon National School, 22 February 1904

n.d. (1) Trustees of Coundon Council School (2) Commissioners of H.M. Works and Public Buildings Offer of licence to use infants classrooms plus w.c. and lavatory accommodation

Account book, 1900 - 1903

Account book, 1903 - 1904

Statements of accounts, Old National Schools, November 1932 - June 1935

Summary of expenditure for upkeep of old National Schools, 10 October 1933

Correspondence re Coundon Council Schools (formerly National), 1926 - 1938

Letter from County Education Department, Shire Hall, Durham to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, concerning decision not to transfer Coundon C.E. School to Education Authority due to serious defects, 26 October 1921

Letter from Rev. F.J.W. Hill, chairman of Coundon C.E. School Managers, to Director of Education, concerning resolution to hand over C.E. School to County Education Committee, 30 August 1923

Letters from W. Hope & Sons, Church Street, Coundon, joiners, builders and contractors, to Rev. F.J.W. Hill, Coundon Vicarage, concerning settlement of their account for Old National Schools, 10 - 27 December 1935

Plan of Coundon National School, n.d. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Plan of proposed classroom at Coundon National School, n.d. Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

Plan of extensions to National School, n.d. No scale

Minutes of the Management committee of St. James's Youth Centre, 1 December 1968 - 13 April 1999 Includes: accounts

Extract from parish magazine re Wayfarers' Benevolent Association Hostel at Windlestone Hall, Ferryhill, July n.y. [1933]

Parish magazine, May 1935

Parish magazines, April 1940 - December 1941

Parish magazines, February 1942 - December 1943

Parish magazines, April 1944 - November 1945

Parish magazines, January - November 1946

Parish magazines, February 1947 - November 1948

Parish magazines, January - September 1949

Parish magazines, February 1950 - November 1952

Parish magazines, January 1953 - October 1955

Parish magazines, January - March 1956

Parish magazine, February 1959

Parish magazine, January 1967 - December 1968

Parish magazine, December 2006 - January 2007

Parish magazine, December 2007 - January 2008

Parish magazine, February - March 2009

Parish magazines, December 2010 - January 2011

Parish magazine, December 2011 - January 2012

Parish magazine, February - March 2012

Parish magazine, April - May 2012

Parish magazine, June - July 2012

Parish magazine, August - September 2012

Parish magazine, October - November 2012

Parish magazine, December 2012 - January 2013

February - March 2013

Parish magazine, April - May 2013