Catalogue

Plan of proposed oak screen endorsed with note that screen was carved and erected by Mr. Thompson of Kilburn, Yorks., 28 March, 1937 Scale: 1.5 inches to 1 foot

Alternative design for screen doors, 1937 Scale: l inches to 1 foot

Plans of proposed vestibule screen in English oak, May 1940 Scale: 1.5 inches to 1 foot

Block plan of St. Giles' church showing drains, gas pipes and electricity cables, n.d.

Correspondence of Harrison and Harrison, organ builders of Durham concerning an electric organ-blowing installation enclosing specification and estimate, April - December 1933

Order of service for the dedication of a memorial east window and information about the latter, November 1898

Correspondence chiefly between Rev. Mr. Fowler at Durham, Rev. Mr. Sullivan at Durham and Clayton Bell, glass painters, of London concerning an East window for St. Giles Church and including proposed scheme of subjects and account for window, 9 November 1897 - 6 December 1898

Correspondence of the County of Durham Electrical Power Distribution Company Ltd., at Newcastle to Rev. Mr. Aird and specification concerning electrical installation at St. Giles church, October 1929 - April 1930

List of donations promised for restoration of the entrance to St. Giles church, n.d.

Correspondence, reports, plans, and newspaper cuttings, concerning the re-ordering of the south aisle of St. Giles' church and the associated consistory court hearings, 22 June 1987 - 22 May 1997

Correspondence, reports, plans, and newspaper cuttings, concerning the re-ordering of the south aisle of St. Giles' church and the associated consistory court hearings, 3 July 1987 - 16 May 1995

Tender documents, plans, and correspondence, concerning the re-ordering of the south aisle of St. Giles' church, 2 January 1992 - 7 August 1996

Correspondence, reports, plans, and newspaper cuttings, concerning the re-ordering of the south aisle of St. Giles' church and the associated consistory court hearings, 6 January 1993 - 8 November 1994

Correspondence, reports, plans, and newspaper cuttings, concerning the re-ordering of the south aisle of St. Giles' church and the associated consistory court hearings, 12 October 1993 - 10 February 1996

Pew book, etc. 1768 - 1840

'St. Giles Church, Durham: An Archaeological Assessment' by P. J. Ryder, October 1991

Register of burial place, 1870 - 1891 Attached: Order in council ordering discontinuation of burials in Giles' churchyard, 18 October 1854 and order in council ordering discontinuation of burials in certain cases, 11 October 1861 Enclosed: List of enclosures made in St. Giles' mew burying ground before 1 May 1884 Enclosed: Plans of Block III of churchyard and list of enclosures

Letters of the Ministry of Health at London to Rev. G.H. Aird concerning proposed extension of St. Giles churchyard and plan of site, 25 June 1925 - 17 February 1926

Sketch plan of part of the graveyard showing the number and name of twenty graves, n.d. post 1945 Originally enclosed in EP/Du.SG 354

Plan of graveyard providing plot numbers and some names, 1927 Consecrated 20 July 1927

Plan of churchyard and traced from original drawing by R. Wylie, Architect and Surveyor, Newcastle - upon - Tyne, 1927

Papers relating to old parish hall and old school including payment of caretaker of hall, minutes and accounts of Parish Room meetings, music and dancing licence, etc. 1886 - 1939

Tenders for erecting St. Giles Mission Hall (1 file, paper)

Receipts for work done at the Mission Hall, Gilesgate, August 1886 - July 1887 (1 file, paper)

Certificate of the contract for the redemption of Land Tax of Rev. R.J. Pearce of St. Giles on the site of a proposed Mission Hall as shown in plan attached (1 file, paper and waxed linen, 30 cm. x 27 cm., ink, colour wash)

Reports of the condition of the structure of St. Giles Parochial Hall, when surveyed on 5 March and 1 August 1940 (2 files, paper, typescript) (1 paper)

Application to the Dean and Chapter for permission to open a path from the parsonage of St. Giles into Pelaw Leazes Lane, 14 July - 20 July 1849 Includes: plan of access and note of permission granted

17 April 1886 (1) Rev. Henry Baker Tristram on behalf of the trustees of the Durham Diocesan Training College for School Mistresses (2) Rev. Robert John Pearce, vicar of St. Giles Memorandum of Agreement between (1) and (2) for (2) to connect a drain leading from the vicarage to the main college drain and to have joint use of the latter

Report on drainage of St. Giles Vicarage, 17 August 1891

Correspondence concerning the provision of a bathroom and garden for the 1913 Parsonage house, January 1905 - May 1913

Deeds relating to parish lands in the manor of Gilesgate, 1373 - 1619

15 February 1840 (1) John Nicholson and Elizabeth his wife (2) John Tiplady of Durham Copy of surrender (out of Court) by (1) to (2) of 3 messuages with garths behind lying south of Gilesgate, north of the churchyard and east of the vennel to the parish church. In trust for Robert Brown and Jane, his wife. Consideration: 2s. to the Lord of the Manor of Gilligate and services or fine of £1 7s.8d.

3 December 1873 (1) Thomas Henry Boyd (2) William Henry Marshall of Durham, in trust for Robert Huntley and Thomas Wittingham Copy of surrender (out of Court) by (1) to (2) of property as in EP/Du.SG 145 Consideration: as in EP/Du.SG 145

Extract from a surrender of 3 December 1873

24 April 1883 (1) Mrs Fanny Marshall of Newcastle devisee of W.H. Marshall, Thomas Wittingham of Shadforth, William Proud of Sherburn Hill executors of Robert Huntley, Thomas Wittingham of Shadforth (2) Rev. J.G. Norton Copy of surrender (out of Court) by (1) to (2) of property as in EP/Du.SG 145 Consideration: as in EP/Du.SG 145

2 November 1882 (1) William Proud of Sherburn Hill, Thomas Wittingham of Shadforth trustees of the will of Robert Huntley (2) John George Norton of the Vicarage of St. Giles Articles of Agreement between (1) and (2)

Additional abstract of title to copy hold land and premises in Gilesgate belonging to Messrs. Wittingham and Proud and contracted to be sold to the Rev. J.G. Norton, 10 March, 1873

Abstract of title to a copyhold dwelling house, being No. 55 Gilesgate, 3 December 1873 - 6 April 1880

(1) Richard Lyon of Gilesgate Moor (2) Rev. Robert John Pearce, vicar of St. Giles Memorandum of Agreement that (1) agrees to remove wooden erection and garden produce from a piece of ground near the Causeway foot and transfer his tenancy to (2) Consideration: £5

Abstract of title to freehold and copyhold hereditaments in or near Gilesgate in the City of Durham belonging to Robert Story and other, 7 April 1877 - 24 November 1917

Additional abstract of title to freehold and copyhold hereditaments in or near Gilesgate belonging to Mr. Robert Story and others, 11 July 1910 - 23 September 1912

Abstract of title to freehold and copyhold hereditaments in or near Gilesgate, 30 October 1894 - 8 August 1918 concerning proposes New Cemetry, 1920

Church log book, July 1989 - 8 December 2002

Terrier and inventory, 27 April 1994 - 17 April 2002

Faculty to restore and enlarge the parish church of St. Giles, 17 May 1873

Faculty for a new oal frontal and end pieces to the Holy Table, 21 June 1926

Faculty for the installation of the electric light, 14 February 1929

Faculty for the introduction of a wrought iron processional cross, 19 July 1956

Faculty for the introduction of an altar cross and candlesticks, 8 February 1962

Faculty to carry out improvements to the entrance and surrounding of the parish church, 22 October 1975

Letter of the Registrar of the Diocesan registry to Rev. E.G. Casey concerning a faculty for removal of gravestones, 30 July 1964

Certificate of the Archdeacon of Durham under the Faculty Jurisdiction Measure, 1938, for the re-decoration of the parish church, 5 November 1960

Forms and surveyors report re Ecclesiastical Dilapidations measures, July - August 1944

Churchwardens' accounts,1841 - 1916

Churchwardens Accounts, Easter 1879 - December 1886

St. Giles Building Committee minutes and subcommittee minutes; Church and school accounts and school buildings accounts, 1872 - 1877

Church rate, 1828 and 1842

Statements from the Ecclesiastical Commission concerning Local Loans £3% stock, 1931 - 1936

Statement of Account for year ending 31 December 1925

Statement of Account for year ending 31 December 1934

Account of Thomas Coates, builder, at Durham for erecting parish room for St. Giles

Account book, January 1961 - December 1968

Account book, January 1969 - December 1972

Account book, January 1973 - December 1979

Account book, January 1954 - December 1960

Accounts, January 1980 - December 1990

Receipts and payments accounts of St. Giles's church and parochial hall for the years ended 31 December 1952 - 1961

Receipts and payments accounts of St. Giles's and St. Francis's churches, for the years ended 31 December 1962 - 1966

Receipts and payments account of St. Giles's church for the year ended 31 December 1968

Receipts and payments account of St. Giles's church for the year ended 31 December 1970

Grassmans' books, 1578 - 1790

Watch rate, 1838

Miscellaneous papers including:- Replies to application for augmentation of benefice, architect's statement as to alterations and re-building of church, terrier and account of church property, estimates for peal of bells, Act for abolition of compulsory church rates (31 & 32 Vict. c. 109), 1830 - 1911

27 November 1920 (1) John Falshaw Hobson for College of St. Hild, Durham (2) Rev. Francis Thomas rector of St. Giles, and John Howe and Francis Lockey churchwardens Agreement as to timber growing on field at Bower Banks in Gilligate