Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 23 February 1913 - 30 September 1956

Register of marriages, 17 June 1944 - 18 March 1950

Register of marriages, 25 March 1950 - 15 June 1963

Register of marriages, 10 August 1963 - 26 May 1973

Register of marriages, 30 June 1973 - 24 July 1976

Register of marriages, 18 December 1976 - 11 August 2001

Register of marriages, 11 August 2011 - 20 December 2014

Register of marriages, 7 November 2015 - 3 October 2020

Register of banns of marriage, 12 November 1944 - 16 September 1962

Register of banns, 20 January 1963 - 15 May 1988

Register of services, 8 April 1896 - 19 April 1908

Register of services, 1 January 1922 - 22 May 1932

Register of services, 26 May 1932 - 18 January 1942

Register of services, 1 January 1942 - 8 June 1950

Register of services, 11 June 1950 - 28 October 1956

Register of services, 1 November 1956 - 12 August 1961

Register of services, 13 August 1961 - 26 November 1970

Register of services, 29 November 1970 - 20 July 1978

Register of services, 22 July 1978 - 24 May 1987

Register of services, 28 May 1987 - 18 June 2000

Papers regarding the creation of a new parish of St. John's, Durham, 1997 - 2001 Includes: appointment of new rector; legal creation of new parish and united benefice; creation of new church estate charity scheme; consecration of St. John's parish church and transfer of land; preparation for vacancy

Order of service for dedication of new Church Centre, 29 October 1994

Order of service for centenary celebrations of St John, Neville's Cross, 20 October 1996

Invitation card for the centenary celebration of St. John, Neville's Cross, 20 October 1996

Programme of special Sunday events at St. John's, Neville's Cross, 1995 - 1996

Plan showing land at Nevilles Cross sold to St. John's church and Mr. Kell, n.d. Scale: 44 feet. to l inch [1:528]

Plan of proposed garden layout of St. John's church, n.d. Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]

Photocopy of map of Nevilles Cross showing position of St. John's church, n.d. Scale: 1:1250

Photographs of St. John's church and [Rev. G. Ellam], [1905]- 1962

Photograph showing "first Harvest Festival" and interior of St. John's church, n.d.

Specification for masonry work on St. John's Church as noted in quinquennial inspection of 2003, April 2003

Specification for work on the roof of St. John's Church as noted in quinquennial inspection of 2003, April 2003

Specification for builders work on St. John's Church as noted in quinquennial inspection of 2003, April 2003

Correspondence between the Rev. C.S. Rogerson, St. John's Vicarage, The Avenue, Durham; Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Niven & Niven, architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland; Hayton, Lee & Braddock, architects and surveyors, Owengate House, Durham; and various building and roofing contractors, concerning repairs and alterations made to St. John's Church, March 1973 - March 1987 Includes: plan, and elevations, of the proposed church hall at St. John's Church, March 1973 Scales: 1:125 and 1:200

Correspondence between Dr. C.G.B. Williams, Honorary Treasurer, St. John's Church Parochial Church Council, 32 Baliol Square, Merryoaks, Durham, and the Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, concerning the repayment of a loan made by the diocese, to St. John's Church, towards the cost of the church extension, 30 October 1992 - 17 December 1996 Includes: a statement of account and summary of variations concerning the work on the church extension prepared by Trinick, chartered quantity surveyors and construction cost consultants, 11 April 1995

Copy minutes of the Hall Management Committee of St. John's Church, 27 February 1978 - 19 June 1989

Papers re purchase of land adjoining St. John's church for building of Church Hall, 10 December 1925 -31 May 1926

St. John's Neville's Cross New Church Centre, March 1973 - 27 April 1995 Includes: minutes of meetings principally between J. W. Samson, Chartered Architect, members of the Parochial Church Council and associated contractors; orders of service for the dedication of new Church Centre and thanksgiving service; notification of a commendation awarded for the Church Centre in the Durham Environment Awards; various plans of the existing Church, its boundaries and the new Church Centre [24cm x 26cm - 85cm x 60cm] and [1:20 - 1:1250] paper and transparent paper; correspondence; working paper on financial implications of acceptance of tender for new Church Centre; Church Centre funding appeal papers; account of St. John's Church Neville's Cross building fund; plan relating to previous unrealised scheme of a new church hall, [1:125, 85cm x 60cm, paper]

Papers relating to planning procedures for the Community Hall project, January 1993 - 11 May 2004

Notes on the terms and membership of the Steering Committee, 6 February 1997

Steering Committee minutes of meetings, correspondence and agendas concerning the Community Hall, 6 February 1997 - 3 March 2001

St. John's Community Hall - analysis of questionnaire answers, June 1997

Parochial Church Council minutes, accounts, correspondence and discussion papers regarding the Community Hall project, 18 September 1998 - 8 October 2001

Open letter to the residents of St. John's Road, Durham regarding the proposed Church Community Hall by the Reverend M. Rusk, 10 February 1999

Papers regarding part of the final costing for the Community Hall project, 7 June 2001

Church Community Hall appeal brochure, n.d. [1990's]

Sale of Church Hall, 6 December 1990 - 22 April 1997 Includes: sales literature for Church Hall; Charity Commission order; correspondence; transfer deed; planning application; Treasurer's report on Church Hall; Church Hall constitution, Church Hall Management Committee accounts

Plan of internal alterations and extension by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, September 1991

Plan of west end extension by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, January 1994

Plan of site by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, October 1996

Plan of initial layout by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, December 1997

Plan of proposed new community hall by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, January 1998

Plan of proposed ground floor plan [scheme 3] by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, May 1998

Plan of proposed ground floor plan [scheme 4] by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, July 1998

Plan of ground floor as proposed (scheme 5) by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, September 1998

Plan of ground floor by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, September 2000

Plan of amended elevations (north, south, east and west) by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, February 2001

Plan of amended ground floor by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, March 2001

Plan of amended ground floor by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, April 2001

Plans of conveyed area of land, n.d. [c. 1990s]

1976 (1) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland and the Parochial Church Council of the parish of St. Margaret of Antioch, Diocese of Durham (2) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance Transfer of land and buildings on the north west side of The Avenue, Durham City (St. John's Vicarage) No consideration

Correspondence concerning the sale of St. John's Vicarage, 13 July 1990 - 3 December 2000

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

9 June 1947 (1) Georqe Edward Forster of Barnet, Hertfordshire, motor engineer (2) Parochial Church Council for the parish of St. Margaret, Durham (3) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance Conveyance by (1) to (3) of a parcel of freehold land situate at Neville's Cross, Durham for the use of (2) Consideration: £1,000

Architects report by J. W. Samson, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE34 6AL, 1991 - 1996

Quinquennial Inspection Report of St. John's Church, May 1977

Quinquennial Inspection Report of St. John's Church, 19 July 1982

Quinquennial inspection by J. W. Samson, Architect, 255 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6AL, 1992

Quinquennial inspection by I. Ness, Architect, 26 Grosvenor Place, Newcastle, NE2 2RE, 5 February 2002

Terrier and inventory, May 1994

Terrier and inventory, 21 July 1998

Terrier and inventory, n.d. [c. 1900s]

Account book of St. John's Parish Room, 13 April 1907 -31 December 1937

Account book, with minutes of communicants' meetings, April 1909 - 6 May 1927

Account book of free will offerings, 2 September 1917 - 24 December 1927

Cash book, 1 January 1923 - 31 December 1930

Accounts, St. John's church hall, 1944 - 1970

Account book of St. John's church, 1 January 1961 - 29 December 1968

Account book of St. John's church, 2 January 1969 - 31 December 1976

Minute book of Church Committee, 14 December 1944 - 5 April 1957

Minute book of the Church Committee of St. John's Church, 26 May 1957 - 18 February 1966

Summary of the minutes of the Parochial Church Council of St. Margaret's and St. John's Churches, 13 March 1980 - 5 December 1985

Minute book of the District Church Council of St. John's Church, 1 April 1966 - 19 July 1979

Minutes (signed) of the District Church Council of St. John's Church, 27 September 1979 - 26 March 1984

Minutes (signed) of the District Church Council of St. John's Church, 10 May 1984 - 7 November 1985

Parochial Church Council minutes of meetings, 17 May 1990 -18 September 1997; District Church Council minutes of meetings, 16 January 1986 - 8 February 1990

Parochial Church Council minutes of meetings, 28 May 1998 - 22 April 2004

Parochial Church Council minutes of meetings, 13 May 2004 - 8 April 2010

Annual General Meetings minutes, 16 April 2000 - 18 April 2010

Minute book of the sidesmen, the communicants and the Ellam Memorial Committee of St. John's church, 8 September 1904 - 18 December 1908

Minute book of the 'clergy and sidesmen' of St. John's church, 22 April 1909 - 11 February 1916

Minute book of sidesmen's meetings, 4 May 1916 - 8 December 1938

Minute book of the communicants of St. John's church (later St. John's Church Committee) , 13 April 1928 - 16 November 1944

Accounts of St. John's Church, 1967-1976

Accounts of St. John's Church, 1977-1994

Account book of the District Church Council, of St. John's Church, 2 January 1977 - 10 January 1983

Account book of St. John's Church, 2 January 1983 - 31 December 1994

Memoranda concerning financial support to missions and the future of the parish of St. Margaret and St. John, 15 October 1981 - 12 November 1989

Annual reports and account of the Parochial Church Council for the year ending, 31 December 1995 - 31 December 2010

Reports of St John's Church Committee, 5 May 1967 - 17 March 1972

Reports, 11 September 2005 - March 2010 Includes: Churchwarden's reports; Deanery Synod reports; Shared Ministry Development Team policy and reports; 'LOL' Youth Ministry plan and report; Sunday Children's Worship, Alpha Project and 'Superkids' reports; 'Giving For Life' and 'Outward Giving' reports; parish profile; draft application to become a registered charity; list of fees to be charged for various church services; draft fire emergency plan, summary of responses to a questionnaire; brief history of St. John's Neville's Cross Church / Community Hall fund

Copy of plan of proposed scout hut at St. John's church, 15 May 1966 Scales: 1/8"and 1/4" to 1 foot [1:96, 1:48]

Photocopy of lease of scout hut at Nevilles Cross, 7 October 1968

19 March 1990 (1) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance and Parochial Church Council of St. Margaret, Durham (2) Linda Christine Thompson, Linda Denise Hutchinson and John Row Aberdeen Lease for a term of two years all that piece or parcel of land now forming part of St. John's Church at Neville's Cross, Durham and known as St. John's Scout Hut Consideration: £0.05

5 March 2007 (1) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance and Parochial Church Council of St. Margaret, Durham (2) Ian Peele, Nicholas Hayes, Malcolm Wilkinson and Susan Margaret Oliver (trustees of 19th Durham (Neville's Cross) Scout Group Lease for a term of ten years all that piece or parcel of land now forming part of St. John's Church at Neville's Cross, Durham and known as St. John's Scout Hut Consideration: £1.00

Crosslinks: The Magazine of St. John's Neville's Cross, January - November 1995

Crosslinks: The Magazine of St. John's Neville's Cross, January, March, May 1996

St. John's Church, Neville's Cross, February, July, November 1998

St. John's Church, Neville's Cross, March, June 1999

St. John's Church, Neville's Cross, October 2002 - January 2003

St. John's Neville's Cross, November 1998 - January 1999

St. John's Neville's Cross, December 1997 - April 1998; September - November 1998;

St. John's Neville's Cross, March - August 1999

St. John's Neville's Cross, September - December 2000

St. John's Neville's Cross, January - July; September - October; December 2001

St. John's Neville's Cross, February 2002