Darlington St. Paul Parish
Reference: EP/Da.SP Catalogue Title: Darlington St. Paul Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1848-1986
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- Darlington St. Paul Parish
- Darlington, St Paul (Ref: EP/Da.SP)
- Registration (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 01)
- Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 01)
- Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 02)
- Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 03)
- Clergy (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 02)
- Registers of confirmations (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 01)
- Preachers books and registers of services (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 02)
- Benefice income (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 03)
- Individual clergy (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 04)
- Communicants' lists (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 05)
- Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 04)
- Church (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 01)
- Vicarage (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 02)
- Other property (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 03)
- Faculties and Archdeacons' Certificates (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 04)
- Faculties (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 01)
- Archdeacons' certificates (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 02)
- Financial records (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 05)
- Vestry (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 05)
- Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 06)
- Minutes (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 01)
- Electoral roll (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 02)
- Schools (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 11)
- Charities (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 12)
- Church Societies (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 13)
- Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 14)
Catalogue Description
This parish was created in 1868 from Darlington, Holy Trinity.St Paul's church was destroyed by fire in 1973 and the parish was amalgamated with Darlington, St Mark to create a parish of St Mark with St Paul.
See also: EP/Da.SM and EP/Da.MP
Catalogue Contents
Darlington, St Paul (Ref: EP/Da.SP)Registration (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 01)Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 01)
1-15, 85
Ref: EP/Da.SP 1Register of baptisms, September 1872 - March 1875
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 2Register of baptisms, March 1875 - August 1877
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 3Register of baptisms, August 1877 - October 1882
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 4Register of baptisms, October 1882 - September 1887
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 5Register of baptisms, August 1887 - January 1894
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 6Register of baptisms, February 1894 - May 1900
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 7Register of baptisms, May 1900 - July 1906
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 8Register of baptisms, July 1906 - April 1911
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 9Register of baptisms, April 1911 - May 1916
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 10Register of baptisms, May 1916 - November 1921
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 11Register of baptisms, November 1921 - August 1927
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 12Register of baptisms, August 1927 - December 1936
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 13Register of baptisms, January 1937 - June 1946
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 14Register of baptisms, June 1946 - October 1950
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 15Register of baptisms, October 1950 - December 1963
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 85Register of baptisms, 8 December 1963 - 25 November 1973; 15 September 1974 - 15 June 1986
On 25 November 1973, the church of St. Paul was destroyed by fire. From November 1973 to 15 September 1974, baptisms for the parish of St. Mark and St. Paul were recorded in the register of the parish of St. Mark. After 15 September 1974, the baptisms for the parish of St. Mark and St. Paul were recorded in the register of the parish of St. Paul.
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 02)16-26
Ref: EP/Da.SP 16Register of marriages, September 1872 - December 1887
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 17Register of marriages, December 1887 - June 1900
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 18Register of marriages, June 1900 - October 1909
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 19Register of marriages, November 1909 - March 1918
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 20Register of marriages, March 1918 - December 1925
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 21Register of marriages, December 1925 - February 1935
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 22Register of marriages, February 1935 - November 1941
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 23Register of marriages, February 1935 - November 1941
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 24Register of marriages, March 1948 - March 1955
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 25Register of marriages, March 1955 - July 1966
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 26Register of marriages, July 1966 - October 1973
(1 volume)
Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 03)27-32
Ref: EP/Da.SP 27Register of banns of marriage, February 1926 - October 1933
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 28Register of banns of marriage, October 1933 - August 1939
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 29Register of banns of marriage, July 1940 - January 1945
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 30Register of banns of marriage, January 1950 - September 1951
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 31Register of banns of marriage, September 1951 - July 1957
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 32Register of banns of marriage, July 1957 - March 1966
(1 volume)
Clergy (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 02)For register of services, September 1972 - 10 June 1976 see EP/Da.SM 2/15
Ref: EP/Da.SP 60Copies of the London Gazette , 15 September 1868 and the Ecclesiastical Gazette, 10 November 1868
(1 volume)
Registers of confirmations (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 01)65, 83
Ref: EP/Da.SP 65Register of confirmations, 30 March 1938 - 16 January 1972
(1 volume, cardboard bound)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 83Register of confirmations, 9 March 1955 - 17 March 1958
(1 volume, card bound)
Preachers books and registers of services (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 02)39-43
Ref: EP/Da.SP 39-40Preachers Books, 1893 - 1940
(2 volumes)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 41-43Registers of Services, 1950 - 1958, 1964 - 1972
(3 volumes)
Benefice income (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 03)74-75
Ref: EP/Da.SP 74Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster, to Rev. R.A. Jardine, St. Paul's Vicarage, Darlington, concerning the latter's stipend, 26 November 1927
(1 paper)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 75Statement of payments made by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners towards the incumbent's salary and towards the payment of the assistant curate, in the parish of Darlington, St. Paul, 18 June 1943
(1 paper)
Individual clergy (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 04)61
Ref: EP/Da.SP 61Certificate of declaration of assent by Edmund Hutchinson, M.A., 1909
(1 paper)
Communicants' lists (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 05)48-51
Ref: EP/Da.SP 48-51Communicants Roll Books, 1904 - 27 and n.d.
(4 volumes)
Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 04)Church (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 01)56, 81-82
Ref: EP/Da.SP 56Building Committee Minute Book, 1928 - 1939
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 81Order of service for the dedication of the new clock presented by Thomas Barningham of Manchester in recognition of the 40 years' incumbency of the Rev. Canon Hutchinson, 14 June 1911
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 82Order of service for the dedication of the memorial to the late Canon Hutchinson by Rev. W.D. Shepperd, vicar of the church of the Venerable Bede, Gateshead, 10 December 1913
(1 paper, printed)
Vicarage (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 02)62, 64, 73
Ref: EP/Da.SP 62Mortgage of £392 to cover the expense of alterations to the parsonage, 1913
(1 file)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 64Plans of St. Pauls Vicarage, Darlington, n.d.
(4 plans)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 73Letter from the Bounty Office, 3 Dean's Yard, Westminster, to A.E. Hunter, concerning outstanding amounts due on a mortgage on the parsonage at Darlington, St. Paul, 13 October 1927
(1 paper)
Other property (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 03)67-69, 72
Ref: EP/Da.SP 67-68Abstract of title, 26 August 1848 - 19 June 1863, of Joseph Whitwell Pease to land in Bondgate in Darlington, 1863
(2 files)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 69Abstract of title, 26 August 1848 - 4 December 1867, to land in Bondgate in Darlington, 1871
(1 file)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 72Abstract of title, 12 May 1880, of Anna Maria Bunbury, Mary Catherine Mostyn and Ellen Graham to land in Westmorland Street, Darlington, 1881
(1 file)
Faculties and Archdeacons' Certificates (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 04)Faculties (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 01)63
Ref: EP/Da.SP 63Faculty for the introduction of a new Holy table, 1946
(1 file)
Archdeacons' certificates (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 02)76
Ref: EP/Da.SP 76Archdeacon's certificate for the interior redecoration of the church of Darlington, St. Paul, 18 October 1965, and covering letter from the Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham, to Rev. E.L. Richardson, St. Paul's Vicarage, Darlington, 18 October 1965
(2 papers)
Financial records (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 05)44-47
Ref: EP/Da.SP 44Account Book for Donors and Subscribers to the Parish, 1868 - 1894
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 45-46Churchwardens' Account Book, 1873 - 1940
(2 volumes)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 47Church Account Book, 1937 - 1940
(1 volume)
Vestry (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 05)33-35
Ref: EP/Da.SP 33Vestry minute book, 1862 - 1883
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 34Vestry Minute Book, 1883 - 1905
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 35Vestry Minutes, 1906 - 1922
Includes a number of printed circulars, posters and newspaper cuttings re parish affairs
(1 volume)
Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 06)Minutes (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 01)36-38, 53-54, 84
Ref: EP/Da.SP 36Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, School Managers' and various Church committees, 1904 - 1932
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 37-38Parochial Church Council Minutes, 1932 - 1954
(2 volumes)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 53-54Minutes of the North Road Mission Room Management Committee, 1881- 1928
(2 volumes)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 84Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 28 September 1954 - 24 November 1971
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Electoral roll (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 02)58-59
Ref: EP/Da.SP 58-59Parish Electoral Registers, 1942 - 1943 and n.d.
(2 volumes)
Schools (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 11)70-71, 77
Ref: EP/Da.SP 70-71Correspondence of Rev. E. Hutchinson, North Road, Darlington, concerning the building fund for St. Paul's schools, 16 - 19 August 1878
(2 papers)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 77Letter from the Ministry of Education, Legal Branch, Belgrave Square, London, to Clayhill Son and Feetham, 3 Coniscliffe Road, Darlington, discussing the possibility of the school site's reverting to its original owner, 30 November 1945
(2 papers)
Charities (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 12)78-80
Ref: EP/Da.SP 78Correspondence between the Charity Commission, Whitehall; the Vicar and Churchwardens of Darlington, St. Paul; J.T. Hall, 44 High Row, Darlington, stockbroker; concerning the sale of shares in 'Submarine Cables' and their reinvestment on behalf of the charity, 13 April - 27 June 1894
(4 papers)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 79Correspondence between the Charity Commission, Whitehall, and the Rev. E. Hutchinson, St. Paul's Vicarage, Darlington, concerning the vesting of the capital of the charity in the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds and the unauthorised expenditure of part of the capital of the charity, 21 May - 7 July 1902
(4 papers; 1 file)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 80Notice issued by the Charity Commission, Ryder Street, St. James', London, informing the vicar and churchwardens that the stock belonging to the charity has been transferred from the North Eastern Railway Company to the London and North Eastern Railway Company, 1 August 1923
(1 paper)
Church Societies (Ref: EP/Da.SP Section 13)55
Ref: EP/Da.SP 55Sunday School Teachers' Minute Book, 1890 - 1906
(1 volume)
Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Da.SP section 14)52, 57, 66, 86/1-2
Ref: EP/Da.SP 52District Visitors' Minute Book, 1876 - 1897
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 57Visiting Book, 1930
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 66Parish magazine, February 1929
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 86/1Calendar for St Paul's church, January - December 1895
(12 papers, printed)
Ref: EP/Da.SP 86/2Calendar for St Paul's church, January - December 1896
(12 papers, printed)
