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Darlington St. Luke Parish

Reference: EP/Da.SL Catalogue Title: Darlington St. Luke Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1881-1978

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  • Darlington St. Luke Parish
    • Registration (Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/)
    • Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/section 01)
    • Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/section 02)
    • Clergy (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/)
    • Registers of confirmations (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/section 01)
    • Registers of services (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/section 02)
    • Benefice (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/section 03)
    • Benefice income (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/section 04)
    • Licence for the performance of divine service (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/section 05)
    • Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)
    • Church (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 01)
    • Church site and building (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)
    • Organ (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)
    • Photographs (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)
    • Plan (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)
    • Church hall (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 02)
    • Financial (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)
    • Legal (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)
    • Plans (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)
    • Vicarage (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 03)
    • Faculties and Archdeacons' Certificates (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 04)
    • Terriers and inventories (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 05)
    • Architects' reports (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 06)
    • Ecclesiastical Dilapidations (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 07)
    • Financial records (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 08)
    • Vestry (Ref: EP/Da.SL 5/)
    • Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/)
    • Minutes (Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/section 01)
    • Financial records (Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/section 02)
    • Electoral roll (Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/section 03)
    • Correspondence (Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/section 04)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Da.SL 14/)
    • Parish magazines (Ref: EP/Da.SL 14/)

Catalogue Description

The parishes of Darlington, St Matthew, and Darlington, St Luke, amalgamated in 1979. For entries from 1 March 1979 for Darlington, St Luke, see also:-

EP/Da.SMa 1/13 Register of banns of marriage
EP/Da.SMa 2/7 Register of services, and
EP/Da.SMa/SL for records since 1 March 1979

Catalogue Contents

Registration (Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/)Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/section 01)

1/1-13, 19-20

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/1

Register of baptisms, 31 August 1884 - 12 September 1894
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/2

Register of baptisms, 16 September 1894 - 10 January 1900
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/3

Register of baptisms, 11 January 1900 - 8 April 1903
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/4

Register of baptisms, 26 April 1903 - 19 July 1908
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/5

Register of baptisms, 19 July 1908 - 22 January 1911
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/6

Register of baptisms, 22 January 1911 - 20 July 1913
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/7

Register of baptisms, 20 July 1913 - 11 August 1915
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/8

Register of baptisms, 15 August 1915 - 10 July 1918
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/9

Register of baptisms, 10 July 1918 - 20 April 1921
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/10

Register of baptisms, 24 April 1921 - 27 December 1925
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/11

Register of baptisms, 5 January 1926 - 10 October 1937
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/12

Register of baptisms, 13 October 1937 - 12 September 1948
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/13

Register of baptisms, 26 September 1948 - 13 November 1960
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/19

Register of baptisms, 13 November 1960 - 18 February 1971
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/20

Register of baptisms, 24 February 1971 - 24 September 1978
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/section 02)

1/14-18, 21-23

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/14

Register of marriages, 25 December 1884 - 3 February 1904
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/15

Register of marriages, 9 February 1904 - 15 November 1913
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/16

Register of marriages, 8 July 1922 - 22 December 1934
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/17

Register of marriages, 26 December 1934 - 19 May 1956
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/18

Register of marriages, 23 June 1956 - 14 October 1961
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/21

Register of marriages, 15 November 1913 - 1 July 1922
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/22

Register of marriages, 4 November 1961 - 4 February 1967
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 1/23

Register of marriages, 11 March 1967 - 30 September 1978 [register closed by the Registrar General after the amalgamation with Darlington, Saint Matthew, 16 August 1979]
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Clergy (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/)Registers of confirmations (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/section 01)

2/7

Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/7

Register of confirmations, 8 April 1957 - 6 April 1978
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of services (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/section 02)

2/1

Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/1

Register of services, 23 February 1964 - 24 September 1978
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Benefice (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/section 03)

2/2, 6

Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/2

Notification by the Bishop of Durham of the impending vacancy at Darlington, St. Luke, under the Benefices (Exercise of Rights of Presentation) Measure, 1 July 1954
(1 paper, printed form)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/6

The London Gazette including 'an Instrument substituting the new church of Saint Luke, situate within the new parish of Saint Luke, Darlington, in the County of Durham and in the Diocese of Durham, for the old church of Saint Luke, situate within and hitherto being the parish church of the same new parish', witnessed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Bishop of Durham on 15 February 1917, 20 February 1917

Benefice income (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/section 04)

2/3-5

Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/3

A copy of the London Gazette including details of a grant of a stipend to the incumbent of Darlington, Saint Luke, by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on 27 May 1886, 4 June 1886
(13 papers)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/4

The London Gazette including details of a grant made by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners towards the cost of providing a parsonage for the benefice of Darlington, Saint Luke, on 2 May 1889, 10 May 1889
(1 file)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/5

The London Gazette including details of a grant made by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners towards the cost of providing a parsonage for the benefice of Darlington, Saint Luke (on 23 April 1891), 1 May 1891
(1 file)

Licence for the performance of divine service (Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/section 05)

2/8

Ref: EP/Da.SL 2/8

Licence for the performance of divine service in the church hall adjoining the church of St. Luke on week nights only, 14 January 1921 (1 paper)

Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)Church (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 01)Plan (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)

4/46

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/46

Ground plan of original Brookside chapel [later the first church of St. Luke, Darlington], 13 June 1976 Scale: ¹/8" to 1 foot [1:96]
(1 plan, 42 cm. x 60 cm., ink)

Church site and building (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)

4/33, 36

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/33

Bills of quantities required for Saint Luke's Church, Darlington, prepared by the architects Clark and Moscrop F.R.I.B.A., Darlington, September 1913
(1 file)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/36

31 December 1881 (1) Rev. Thomas Edward Hodgson, clerk, vicar of Darlington, and others (2) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Copy conveyance from (1) to (2) of a parcel of land (1112 sq. yds.) in Leadenhall Street, and building thereon, as a site for the church of St. Luke, Darlington No consideration
(1 file)

Organ (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)

4/28

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/28

Letter from Blackett and Howden, organ builders, Grafton Street Organ Works, Heaton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Rev. J.G. Holborn, St. Luke's Vicarage, concerning organ tuning contract, 6 February 1917
(1 paper, typescript)

Photographs (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)

4/53/1

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/53/1

Photographs showing the inside of the burnt out church of St. Luke's on Good Friday 1921 and the tent used as a church and Sunday school in Christmas 1921 featuring on a card of merit for the attendance record of an Arthur Brown at Sunday school, n.d. [c. 1921]
(2 photographs, 8cm x 7cm, mounted on card)

Church hall (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 02)Plans (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)

4/34, 45, 4/54/1

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/34

Plan of ground floor, with front and side elevations of proposed church hall for Saint Luke's Church, Darlington, n.d. [c.1960 - 1962] Scale: unknown
(1 plan, 64 cm. x 48 cm., pencil and coloured)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/45

Copy ground plan of the old church of St. Luke in Leadenhall Street, Darlington, n.d. Copy made, 1970s Scale: ¹/8" to 1 foot [1:96]
(1 plan, 42 cm. x 60 cm., pencil and ink)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/54/1

Plan, section and elevations of proposed church hall in St. Luke's parish, 8 November 1960
(1 plan, 67cm x 43cm, colour)

Legal (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)

4/37-44, 47

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/37

Correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission, Millbank, Westminster; the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle; the Diocesan Registry, Palace Green, Durham; Rev. S.F. Warth, St. Luke's Vicarage, Darlington; concerning the issuing of a faculty for the conversion of the old church of St. Luke, in Leadenhall Street, Darlington, into a parish hall, 18 February - 19 May 1922
(10 papers)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/38

Authorisation issued by the County Borough of Darlington for the erection of a temporary building in Leadenhall Street, 10 November 1926
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/39

Correspondence between Rev. S.F. Warth, St. Luke's Vicarage, Darlington; Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; the Bishop of Jarrow, The College, Durham; concerning the request by the incumbent of St. Luke that he be allowed to let the former church in Leadenhall Street for secular purposes, 19 November - 8 December 1947
(4 papers)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/40

Correspondence between Sanderson, Townend and Gilbert, chartered surveyors, Bondgate, Darlington; Rev. S.F. Warth, St. Luke's Vicarage, Darlington; the Church Commissioners, Millbank, Westminster; H.E. Ferens and Son, solicitors, 38 Saddler Street, Durham; Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; R. Pemberton, 5 Orchard Road, Darlington; W.C. Wallace, 68 Orchard Road, Darlington; the Treasury Solicitor, Birdcage Walk, St. James' Park, London; Close and Thornton, 17 Northgate, Darlington; concerning the obtaining of a faculty for the letting of the former church in Leadenhall Street to the Ministry of Works, and the terms of the lease, 15 January 1954 - 2 December 1955
(14 papers)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/41

List of deeds relating to St. Luke's church hall, Leadenhall Street, Darlington, transferred to the Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham by Close, Thornton and Hobson, solicitors, Darlington, 12 May 1959
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/42

Correspondence between Sanderson, Townend and Gilbert, 92 Bondgate, Darlington; the Vice-Chairman, Parochial Church Council, 11 Hewitson Road, Darlington; Pickfords Ltd., 205 High Holborn, London; concerning the letting of St. Luke's church hall, Leadenhall Street, to a commercial undertaking, 6 March - 10 August 1965
(10 papers)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/43

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; the Church Commissioners, Millbank, London; the incumbent of the living of St. Luke, Darlington; John Peters, 21 High Street, Doncaster, West Yorkshire; Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; the Hon. Sec., St. Luke's Parochial Church Council, 144 Gladstone Street, Darlington; concerning the possibility of re-letting the church hall, and its legal status, 20 September 1972 - 10 August 1976
(18 papers)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/44

Copy order by the Church Commissioners under Section 54 of the Pastoral Measure, 1968, declaring the old church of St. Luke [the church hall] redundant, 6 August 1976
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/47

1971 (1) Robert Arthur Falla of 2 Reid Street, Darlington, schoolteacher, and others, the trustees of St. Luke's Church Hall, Leadenhall Street, Darlington (2) Bacal Construction (North East) Limited of I'Anson House, Kendrew Street, Darlington Copy lease, for 3 years from 4 May 1971, from (1) to (2), of St. Luke's Church Hall, Leadenhall Street, Darlington Rent: £500 p.a.
(1 file)

Financial (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/)

4/35, 49

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/35

Accounts of income and expenditure and summary of balances for the official opening week of Saint Luke's new church hall, 15 - 21 September 1962 (2 papers)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/49

Returns to the Diocese of Durham, giving the income of St. Luke's, Darlington, 21 January 1962 and 1963
(2 papers)

Vicarage (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 03)

4/48

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/48

2 October 1919 (1) John George Holburn of St. Luke's Vicarage, Darlington, vicar, and others (2) Durham and Yorkshire Building Society Copy mortgage in £300 from (2) to (1) of 25 St. Luke's Terrace, Darlington
(1 paper)

Faculties and Archdeacons' Certificates (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 04)

4/2-9

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/2

Faculty for the insertion of stained glass, 8 August 1917
(1 paper, printed form, embossed seal)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/3

Faculty for the erection of a new clergy stall with brass plate, 30 April 1924
(1 paper, printed form, embossed seal)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/4

Faculty for the erection of a semi-permanent chancel, 5 June 1926
(1 paper, typescript, embossed seal)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/5

Faculty for the erection of a porch at the south west end of the church, 28 November 1935
(1 paper, printed form, embossed seal)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/6

Faculty for the insertion of three oil paintings in the organ case, 21 July 1938
(1 paper, printed form, embossed seal)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/7

Faculty for the erection of a chain pulley over the font and confirming the installation of an electric organ blower, 13 November 1947
(1 paper, embossed seal)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/8

Faculty for the erection of a carved stone figure of St. Luke over the south entrance to the church, 12 October 1959
(1 paper, typescript, embossed seal)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/9

Faculty for the installation of a new electric lighting system, new oil-fired heating boiler and alterations to furnishings, 14 November 1966
(1 paper, printed form, embossed seal)

Terriers and inventories (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 05)

4/1

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/1

Terrier, 1923
(1 paper, printed form)

Architects' reports (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 06)

4/11

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/11

Report of the surveyor under the Repair of Benefice Buildings Measure, 30 August 1978
(1 file, typescript)

Ecclesiastical Dilapidations (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 07)

4/10, 12-27

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/10

Ordinary Assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 23 November 1953
(1 paper, printed form)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/12-27

Miscellaneous correspondence from the Diocesan Office and the Diocesan Registry, Durham, concerning dilapidations at St. Luke's Vicarage, sequestration and presentation to living, state of church hall, 4 December 1953 - 1 December 1955
(16 papers, typescript)

Financial records (Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/section 08)

4/30-31, 50-52

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/30

Account book for planned giving under the parish partnership plan, 29 April 1962 - 7 February 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/31

Account book for planned giving under the parish partnership plan, 14 February 1965 - 26 December 1971
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/50

Statement of income and expenditure, 31 January 1918
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/51

Statements of accounts, 1962 - 1965
(3 papers)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 4/52

Receipts and payment accounts, 1966 - 1968, 1974 - 1976
(15 papers)

Vestry (Ref: EP/Da.SL 5/)

5/1-4

Ref: EP/Da.SL 5/1

Minute book of meetings of the vestry, 16 April 1885 - 7 May 1908
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 5/2

Minute book of meetings of the vestry, 14 April 1909 - 5 April 1960
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 5/3

Minute book of meetings of the vestry, 7 March 1961 - 27 April 1978 For enclosures see EP/Da.SL 4/35-4 and EP/Da.SL 5/4
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 5/4

Minutes of vestry meeting, 27 April 1978
(3 papers)

Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/)Minutes (Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/section 01)

6/11-13

Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/11

Minute book of the meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 12 May 1925 - 25 October 1934
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/12

Minute book of the meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 14 December 1934 - 5 September 1973
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/13

Minute book of the meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 7 November 1973 - 13 September 1978
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Financial records (Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/section 02)

6/1-4, 6-10

Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/1

Receipt and payments book, 6 January 1963 - 26 December 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/2

Receipt and payments book, 1 January - 31 December 1966
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/3

Receipt book, 1 January 1967 - 31 December 1970
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/4

Payments book, 1 January 1967 - 31 December 1970
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/6

Accounts of Parochial Church Council, 1965
(1 file, typescript)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/7-10

Accounts of Parochial Church Council, 1967 - 1970
(3 files and 1 paper, typescript)

Electoral roll (Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/section 03)

6/5

Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/5

Electoral roll, 1966 - 1970
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Correspondence (Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/section 04)

6/14

Ref: EP/Da.SL 6/14

Correspondence of the Parochial Church Council mainly between the secretary and the Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland relating to the financial problems of the church and the redundancy of the old church of Saint Luke, Leadenhall Street, Darlington, 10 November 1975 - February 1977
(52 papers)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Da.SL 14/)Parish magazines (Ref: EP/Da.SL 14/)

14/1-2

Ref: EP/Da.SL 14/1

Parish magazines, January 1906 - December 1907
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Da.SL 14/2

Parish magazine, September 1921
(1 paper, printed)



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