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Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1592 - 22 October 1741 At back: Memorandum that on 16 April 1716 Rev. William Eden M.A. by proxy Rev. Thomas Eden was inducted into the Rectory and parish of Elwick, and that on 3 June 1716 he read the 39 articles and Memorandum, 14 October 1701, Rev. John Bowes was inducted into the parish of Elwick and that on 9 November 170l he read the 39 articles

Register of baptisms, 2 March 1741 - 8 May 1797; register of burials, 31 December 1741 - 8 January 1797; register of marriages, 9 July 1741 - 7 May 1752 At end: Note that the minister and parishioners of the Parish of Elwick rode the bounds of the said parish, 1 May 1744. The boundaries are stated. Also memorandum that Rev. Robert Parker M.A. was inducted into the Rectory and Parish Church of Elwick, 16 June 1741

Register of baptisms, 8 February 1798 - 7 November 1812; register of burials, 19 June 1796 - 6 December 1812 At back: List of those who contributed to promote the Glory of God, n.d.

Register of baptisms, 14 March 1813 - 10 February 1922

Register of marriages and banns, 14 April 1754 - 20 August 1811

Register of marriages, 15 April 1813 - 28 November 1835

Register of marriages, 24 November 1838 - 15 December 1956

Register of marriages, 11 January 1958 - 14 September 1974

Register of marriages, 21 May 1975 - 26 July 1986

Register of marriages, 25 October 1986 - 13 August 1994

Register of marriages, 13 August 1994 - 21 October 2005

Register of marriages, 1 July 2006 - 31 March 2013

Register of marriages, 28 June 2013 - 31 May 2019

Register of banns, 8 February 1824 - 21 April 1973 Memorandum in back cover of visit of H.B. Instan, Rural Dean, 6 August 1872

Register of burials, 6 January 1813 - 4 December 1987

Register of services, 7 January 1917 - 16 December 1934

Register of services, 23 December 1934 - 18 September 1960

Register of services, 25 September 1960 - 3 May 1998

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster, to Rev. H. Williamson, Elwick Hall Rectory, Castle Eden, concerning the increase in the parish's endowment through the purchase of 3327 square yards of land in the parish of Hart, 14 February 1933

Photograph of Reverend E. M. Sidebottom, rector of St. Peter's 1957 - 1963, n.d. [c. 1960s]

Licence by the Bishop of Durham allowing G. R. Smurthwaite to administer elements of the Holy Communion in the parish of Elwick Hall, 16 April 1997

Licence by the Bishop of Durham allowing P. E. Cooke to administer elements of the Holy Communion in the parish of Elwick Hall, 16 April 1997

List of rectors of Elwick Church from 1200 - 1901 with accompanying brief history of the church, n.d. [c. early 20th century]

Return of church membership forms, 1980, 1932 - 1983

Letter of acknowledgement and certificate of voluntary contribution for the defence of the country made by the rector, Rev. Richard Richardson, 26 May - 8 June 1798 Originally enclosed in EP/Elw 4/2

Ground plan at present, and ground plan as proposed for re-seating the church of Elwick Hall, St. Peter, by R. Dunipace, architect, West Hartlepool, 1887 Annotated: 'Recommended H.W. Watkins, Archdeacon of Durham, Febry. 21st 1887'; 'Approved J.B. Dunelm' Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]

Ground plan of the church of Elwick Hall, St. Peter, 1887

Longitudinal and cross sections and south elevation of the church of Elwick Hall, St. Peter, showing proposed new roofs and clerestory by John Brooke, 18 Exchange Street, Manchester, 29 January 1894 Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]

East elevation of the church of Elwick Hall, St. Peter, showing the new cross, by John Brooke, 18 Exchange Street, Manchester, Co. Lancs., 17 May 1895 Scale: 1 inch to 4 feet [1:48]

Ground plan of the church of Elwick Hall, St. Peter, n.d. c.1890 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Letter from John Brooke, architect, Lancashire Insurance Buildings, 18 Exchange Street, Manchester, Co. Lancs., to Rev. G.W. Reynolds, Elwick Hall, enclosing a tracing of his revised scheme for raising the pitch of the roof over the nave of the church of Elwick Hall, St. Peter, 1 July 1893

Notification from Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, Westminster, to Rev. Canon D.T. Eastwood, Elwick Hall Rectory, that the church of Elwick Hall, St. Peter, has been included in a list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest, 26 August 1968

Brochure for Elwick Church restoration appeal, n.d. [c. 1980s]

Photograph of the church tower, n.d. [c. 1960s]

Report on the inspection of the electrical installation at the church, 19 March 1983

Specifications for repairs to the church tower and sundry items by I. Nelson, Architect, 56 Avenue Road, Hartlepool, Cleveland, TS24 8AT, 1983

Survey report, and schedule of dilapidations noted, at the quinquennial inspection of the rectory and outbuildings, and of the cottage near the church, by Richard Wylie, diocesan surveyor, 26 October 1929

Valuations of parish property under the provisions of the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, including agricultural land, the church, 2 houses and gardens, grassland off High Barns Farm, glebe land near Stob House, Wolviston, and a school, 25 August - 23 October 1913

Faculty for the removal of the ruinous roof, its replacement with an open timber roof of pitch pine covered with Westmorland green slates, the raising of the pitch of the roof by four feet six inches and the removal of two iron stoves and their replacement with an hot water apparatus, 26 April 1894

Faculty authorising the Reverend George Worthington Reynolds, Thomas Jackson and William Shaw to put the churchyard in decent order and to plant shrubs or small trees in the churchyard while James Dobson Dora Jane Dobson and Travers Dobson are authorised to plant a border of box or privet around the three graves in which their relatives are interred as well as a tombstone and a small footstone with an inscription to be approved by the court and to plant a rose bush on each grave, 2 June 1898

Faculty authorising certain alterations and improvements in the churchyard, 11 June 1898

Faculty authorising the enclosure and reservation of two grave spaces in the churchyard containing the graves of Robert and Jane Bell with a stone plinth and iron railing, 9 December 1902

Faculty authorising the erection of a stained glass window in the east end of the south aisle and to place on the wall beneath the window a mural tablet of marble one foot six inches by one foot and with the inscription 'Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends' and 'Truly this man was the son of God' and 'Remember ye with thanksgiving and all honour before God and men those who gave their lives for King and country in the Great War 1914 - 1918 whose names are here recorded and to whose memory this window and tablet are dedicated', 7 May 1921

Faculty authorising the insertion of stained glass in place of plain glass in the window of the north wall with the inscription 'To the glory of God and in memory of the faithful ministries of George Worthington Reynolds M. A., Rector 1891 - 1916 and of Lucy Frances Reynolds his sister', 17 August 1933

Faculty authorising the installation of an electric lighting system, the tiling of the floor of the Chancel, the decoration of the walls and the erection of a non - conducting fire proof safe, 6 November 1948

Faculty authorising the installation of a pipe organ and an electric blower, 6 May 1953

Faculty authoring the introduction of a Credence table, wafer box and Paten, 26 January 1959

Faculty authorising the installation of an oil - fired central heating boiler and oil storage tank, 29 December 1962

Faculty authorising the repair of the tower by re- building of the castellations with internal and external re - pointing and the general restoration of the exterior stonework of the church, 15 October 1984

Faculty authorising the removal of the existing oil fired heating system including the boiler, pipe coil radiators, pipework and the electrical system as well as the introduction of a new heating system including an oil fired boiler, feed and expansion tank, circulating pump, fan convectors, pipework and an electrical system, 16 January 1986

Faculty authorising the setting of a sun - dial above the key - stone of the main entrance of the church being the south face of the tower, 17 April 1986

Faculty authorising the introduction of lockable steel gates to the entrance to the porch, 24 March 2000

Faculty authorising the replacement of a plain glass window with stained glass as designed by Alan Davis, 12 June 2009

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the replacement of the heating boiler, 8 December 1954

Archdeacon's certificate authorising general repairs and redecoration of the church, 30 May 1958

Quinquennial report by G. E. Charlewood and Curry, Architects, 14 Neville Street, Newcastle - upon - Tyne, 15 November 1962

Quinquennial report by G. E. Charlewood and Curry, Architects, 32 - 34 Mosley Street, Newcastle - upon - Tyne, NE1 1DF, 26 June 1967

Quinquennial report by G. E. Charlewood, Curry, Wilson and Atkinson, Architects, 32 - 34 Mosley Street, Newcastle - upon - Tyne, NE1 1DF, 31 May 1974

Quinquennial report by G. E. Charlewood, Curry, Architects, 32 - 34 Mosley Street, Newcastle - upon - Tyne, NE1 1DF, 1 November 1990

Quinquennial report by C. Downs, Architect, 8 Holmside Place, Heaton, Newcastle - upon - Tyne, NE6 5AJ, 10 June 1996

Churchwardens accounts, Easter 1726 - 1766 Includes recipes for cures for acne, sore eyes, Jauddice, Dropsie and intermitting fever and a violent flux and recipes for: macaroons, carrot pudding, to pot pigeons or any sort of wild fowl, to make a good sauce for fish or any sort of tame fowl, to make a sauce for boiled chicken or lamb, to make sauce for wild fowl, to make a soup, to pickle mushroom, to make white marmalade of Quinches, to make elderberry wine, to make puff pastry, to make a Fake possett, to make cheese cakes, to pickle bacon, to stuff a shoulder of mutton, to bake a rump of beef, to make mead, to make sugar cakes, to make gingerbread, to make little loaves, to make little cakes, to make currant cake, to make biscuits, a Quaking pudding, a Rice pudding, French bread, pottage for Lent, to interlay beef and make it fat, to force a leg of mutton or veal, to stew wild fowls, to make a fine pastry, sauce for turkey, to stew mutton or veal, to make a pudding, to make fine cakes, to pickle cockles, a pudding, to make a carrot pudding, to make almond puddings in skins, to make biscuit puddings in skins, to bake a leg of veal

Churchwardens' accounts, 27 June 1785 - 2 April 1899 Includes subscriptions collected for the Soldiers and Sailors Fund during the Boer War, with names of subscribers

Vestry minute book, 31 March 1891 - 1 August 1952

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 7 August 1953 - 18 May 1979 Includes: Annual Vestry meetings minutes, 1 May 1953 - 19 April 1978

Minutes of meetings, 25 April 1979 - 2 December 1987 Includes: minutes of annual general meetings

Minute book of meetings, 27 January 1988 - 27 September 2005 Includes: minutes of annual general meetings

Electoral roll, 1957 - 1977

Church electoral roll certificates, 1983 - 1984

List of subscriptions to the Widow and Orphans Fund, collected in the township of Dalton Percy, n.d., [late 19 th century]

List of subscriptions for the War Fund from Cote Hill, n.d., [1914-1918]