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Register of baptisms, 27 September 1866 - 29 August 1920

Register of baptisms, 1 September 1920 - 27 March 1976

Register of baptisms, 13 March 1977 - 23 July 2017

Register of marriages, 26 December 1866 - 3 May 2014

Register of marriages, 20 September 2014 - 11 August 2018 Register closed by General Register Office, 24 October 2019

Register of banns of marriage, 9 December 1866 - 3 August 2014

Register of banns of marriage, 14 August 2016 - 29 July 2018 [two entries only]

Register of burials, 28 May 1869 - 1 December 1903

Register of burials, February 1904 - 29 June 1946

Register of burials, 17 July 1946 - 2 September 2013

Register of confirmations, 28 May 1947 - 22 September 2002

Register of services, 5 June 1927 - 31 December 1943

Register of services, 2 January 1944 - 29 June 1952

Register of services, 6 July 1952 - 10 November 1960

Register of services, 1 January 1961 - 2 November 1980

Register of services, 9 November 1980 - 8 January 2017

Register of services, 14 January 2017 - 10 March 2019

Order in council for the transfer of the ownership of the advowson of the benefices of Saint Michael, Frosterley; Long Newton; Norton; Saint Philip and Saint James, Towlaw; Winlaton; and Wolsingham and Thornley all in the diocese of Durham from the Bishop of Chester to the Bishop of Durham, 18 December 1974

Order in council for the union of the benefices of Stanhope and Saint Michael, Frosterley to be called the benefice of Stanhope with Frosterley and the area of the new benefice shall comprise the parish of Stanhope and parish of Saint Michael, Frosterley while the parishes will continue to be distinct, 26 March 1986

Notification under the Benefices (Exercise of Rights of Presentation) Measure, 1931 by the Bishop of Durham to the Parochial Church Council of St. Michael and All Angels, Frosterley that the benefice will shortly become vacant by the departure of the Reverend A. J. Bealing, 30 October 1984

Letter with accompanying notification from P. Wills, Durham Diocesan Registry, Park Gate House, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, Durham DL14 7NP to Mrs. G. M. Appleby and other Churchwardens of Stanhope with Frosterley, 1 Western Hill, Frosterley, Bishop Auckland, Durham, DL13 2RW concerning the suspension of presentation to the benefice of Stanhope with Frosterley in plurality with Eastgate with Rookhope, 1 February 1997

Letter with accompanying notification of registration of new benefice of Upper Weardale from P. Wills, Durham Diocesan Registry, The Park Gate House, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, Durham DL14 7NP to the Secretary of the Parochial Church Council and the Reverend P. A. Greenhalgh, The Rectory, 48 Front Street, Stanhope, Bishop Auckland, DL13 2UE, 29 March 2004

Letter from the Church Commissioners, London, to Rev. H.N.C. Renner, concerning an increase in benefice income resulting from the recent sale of glebe land, 4 November 1952

Order of service for the institution and induction of Frederic Henry Britton, M.A., 14 February 1970

Letter from W. Hurworth, Finance Secretary, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, Durham, DL14 7QJ to the Reverend A. J. Bealing, The Vicarage, Frosterley, Bishop Auckland, Durham, DL13 2QT concerning a grant from the Repairs and Buildings Sub - Committee, 21 October 1983

Letter with accompanying licence agreement from P. Wills, Durham Diocesan Registry, The Park Gate House, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, Durham, DL14 7NP to the Reverend P. A. Greenhalgh, The Rectory, 48 Front Street, Stanhope, Bishop Auckland, DL13 2UE concerning a licence to use the access way by Wear Valley District Council, 28 June 2004

Table of surplice fees to be taken at the church of Frosterley, St. Michael, December 1866

Order of service for the centenary festival service of thanksgiving and dedication of St. Michael and All Angels Church, Frosterley, 29 September 1969

Final service of thanksgiving and hope in Frosterley Parish Church prior to closure, 10 March 2019

Order of service for the centenary festival service of thanksgiving and dedication, 26 September 1969

Order of service for a community celebration and tribute to Mr Wilf Hume's 100 years, 28 October 2012

Order of service for a celebration service for the life of Wilf Hume, 23 November 2012

Quotas for Stanhope Deanery, January 1982 - January 1983

Parochial statistics, 20 January 2011

A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Durham at his Sixth Visitation by Ven. Edward Prest, M.A., Archdeacon of Durham, addressing contemporary issues within the Church, including recent legislation for the abolition of compulsory church rates, and the continuation of the denominational system for the provision of church education, 30 September 1869

Photograph of three pairs of brass vases, February 1978

Photograph of a solid silver paten and chalice, February 1978

Photograph of two brass altar candlesticks and altar lectern, February 1978

Photograph of brass processional cross on a wooden shaft, February 1978

Photograph of the detail of the brass processional cross on a wooden shaft, February 1978

Photograph of two brass altar vases and a brass alms plate, February 1978

Photograph of a silver plated brass wafer box, February 1978

Photograph of brass candle holders and a brass altar cross, February 1978

Correspondence between the Reverend A. J. Bealing, The Vicarage, Frosterley, Bishop Auckland, Durham and M. Newby, Organ Builder and Piano Tuner, 36 Emerson Avenue, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, Cleveland and W. Hurworth, Finance Secretary, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, Durham DL14 7QF principally concerning the church organ, 22 July 1982 - 5 December 1984

Frosterley parish church organ fund - In Memoriam, 1985

List of subscribers to Frosterley church building, 1867 - 1873

Notice from Weardale Rural District Council of the listing of Frosterley parish church as a building of special architectural or historic interest, 13 August 1971

Scheme for the appropriation of the old church of St. Michael, Frosterley, for educational or charitable purposes, 29 June 1951; reprinted from The London Gazette, 3 July 1951

Draft deed of declaration of trusts by the Bishop of Durham under Section 24 of the Union of Benefices Measure, 1923 , concerning the appropriation of the old church of Frosterley, St. Michael, for educational or charitable purposes, 31 August 1951

Folder containing information on the church, churchyard, parish history, photographs of church, furniture and plate, c2015

Papers relating to the reappearance and potential restoration of the Frosterley marble font, c. 1986 - 10 November 1988

Scheme for the proposed north aisle of the church by J. Niven, Architect, The Old Hall, West Auckland, Durham, DL14 9HL, August 2001

Correspondence from the Diocesan Office, Durham, to Rev. J.G. Bates, Frosterley Vicarage, concerning the bequest of Henry James Pickering for the maintenance of the Pickering family graves in Frosterley churchyard, 15 December 1955 - 6 March 1956

Correspondence from the Diocesan Office, Bishop Auckland, to Canon Britton, Frosterley Vicarage, concerning the investments of the Frosterley (Pickering) Trust, 12-16 May 1975

Letter from F.H. Britton, Frosterley Vicarage, to Wear Valley District Council, advising that the church burial ground extension is nearly filled, 19 February 1976

Notice of the sale of a portion of glebe for an extension to Frosterley graveyard, 28 April 1978

Correspondence from Wear Valley District Council to Rev. A.J. Bealing, Frosterley Vicarage, concerning the consecration of Frosterley churchyard extension, 29 August 1980 Includes: plan of the churchyard, 1980 Scale: 1:2500

Correspondence from the Department of the Environment, London, and Wear Valley District Council, to Rev. A.J. Bealing, Frosterley Vicarage, concerning the closure of the old and new churchyards of Frosterley, and notice and correspondence concerning the removal of grave surrounds, 30 September 1982 - 13 December 1984

Newspaper cutting from 'The Northern Echo' concerning a notice by Wear Valley District Council that it intends to remove all surrounding kerbstones in the churchyards of St. Michael and All Angels, Frosterley and St. John The Evangelist, Rookhope to ensure effective maintenance, 24 December 1984

Letter from M. Black, St. Michael and All Angels Parochial Church Council, 74 Front Street, Frosterley, Bishop Auckland, Durham, DL13 2QS to Mr Macdonald, Cemeteries Department, Wear Valley District Council, Crook concerning the felling of a tree in the churchyard, 7 October 2004

Plan of Frosterley churchyard extension showing location of plots and names, 1938-1952

Plan of Frosterley churchyard extension showing location of plots and names, 1938- 2008 [some of the names are corrected or crossed out]

Memorial inscriptions of St. Michael and All Angels, Frosterley - transcribed for The Weardale Museum by K. Heatherington, 2008 - 2009

Individual tree assessment by S. McGinnety, 22 June 2016

14 October 1908 (1) Frederick William Cory, vicar of Frosterley (2) Valentine Arthur Rippon of Rogerley Hall, Frosterley, esq.; William Lawson Hull of Holmefield, Frosterley, quarryman; and John Raickstow Bousfield of Front Street, Frosterley, signalman; trustees Copy conveyance to (2) of 324.5 sq. yds. land on the south side of Front Street, Frosterley [boundaries specified] as a parish hall Consideration: £20

Balance sheet of the building account for Frosterley new parish hall, 1906 - 1910

Plan, block plan, section, and north, south and west elevations of Frosterley church hall, by John J. Reed, 4 June 1907 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Extract from the minutes of a meeting of the Wartime Emergency Committee concerning Frosterley vicarage drainage improvements, and the occupation of benefice land, and associated correspondence between Rev. N.E. Shepherd and the Diocesan Registrar, Durham, 10-26 March 1943

Plan of 1 1/4r. land adjoining the north side of Frosterley vicarage, June 1935

Closing orders of Weardale Rural District Council for two tenements at the West End, Frosterley, classed as unfit for human habitation, 9 June 1937

1 February 1945 (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (2) Rev. Norman Edward Shepherd, vicar of Frosterley Copy deed of appropriation of a cottage and 433 sq. yds. of land in Frosterley as an addition to the glebe lands Includes: plan Scale: 1 inch to 30 feet [1:360]

8 February 1945 (1) Rev. Norman Edward Shepherd, vicar of Frosterley (2) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (3) Douglas Henry, Bishop of Chester (4) Frosterley Parochial Church Council (5) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance Copy conveyance to (4) of a cottage and 433 sq. yds. of land on the south side of Front Street, Frosterley, as a caretaker's cottage for the parish. Includes: plan. Consideration: £150 Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch [1:360]

Letter from the Diocesan Office, Durham, to Canon Jackson, Frosterley Vicarage, describing church property vested in the Diocesan Board of Finance, 24 December 1949

Correspondence from Weardale Rural District Council; H.E. Ferens and Son, solicitors, Durham; J.S. Tindle and Bullen, solicitors, South Shields; to Canon E. Jackson and Rev. H.N.C. Renner, Frosterley Vicarage, concerning the sale of 1.337a. glebe land to Weardale Rural District Council for a recreation ground, 14 August 1950 - 19 November 1952 Includes: extract from sale particulars and plan of land, c.1950

Correspondence between Canon F.H. Britton, and the Diocesan Office, Bishop Auckland, concerning the sale of the glebe cottage, Frosterley, and the application of the proceeds for the heating of the church hall, 14 January 1975 - 28 June 1976

5 December 1935 1) Reverend W. F. Cullen, Vicarage and Parish of Saint Michael, Frosterley, Durham 2) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Conveyance of an estate in freehold in possession free from incumbrances all that piece of land containing one thousand five hundred and seven square yards or thereabouts situated in the parish of Saint Michael, Frosterley, Durham which said piece of land is bounded on or towards the north and east by glebe land of the said benefice and on or towards the south by the vicarage and on or towards the west by the drive leading to the vicarage Consideration: none

Church log book, 19 July 1972 - August 1992

Church log book, April 1997 Includes: faculty authorising the provision of security gates for the entrance porch, 8 September 2006; faculty authorising the introduction of a sound reinforcement system, 3 May 2013

Inventory, 5 April 1956 - 17 June 2003

Terrier and inventory, June 2015

Faculty authorising the introduction of a new and efficient heating system; screening off the west end and the end of the organ with two curtains; introduction of a new and efficient system of lighting and also ventilation in walls and windows; erection of a lightening conductor; re - seating of the church, choir and clergy stalls in oak; introduction of a new lectern; repair of the organ; addition of outer doors to the porch; completion of the bells and east window; erection of a stained glass windows; removal from chancel of a stand on which the holy table has been placed without faculty; removal of outer altar and all hangings around it; placement of Lord's table on its original resting place; erection of an oak panelled screen behind the holy table with the creed, Lord's prayer and ten commandments with the screen to cover the east end of the church, 6 May 1907

Faculty authorising the replacement of the present system of lighting by oil lamps in the church by an electric lighting system, 6 December 1944

Faculty authorising the setting apart and appropriating of the said piece of ground when so enclosed as the burial place of the said Elizabeth Hannah Edith Pattinson and her sisters Florence Maggie Gertrude White and Frances Adaline Pattinson exclusive of all others and authorising the enclosure of the said piece of ground with a suitable kerb to be approved by the incumbent and the erection, if desired, of a headstone with inscription both to be approved by the incumbent, 31 August 1950

Faculty authorising the replacement of the existing lectern with a new eagle lectern in oak and bearing the inscription 'In grateful memory of William Fitzgerald Cullen, Vicar of Frosterley, 1914 - 1942. The gift of Emily Proud 1950', 9 November 1950

Faculty authorising the removal of six oak benches from the east end of the nave of the church and to fashion new choir seating and desks from the material to replace the existing choir seating; introduction of a choir stall and font cover in oak; introduction of an antique processional cross into the church, 20 February 1953

Faculty authorising the replacement of the existing coke - fired boiler and installation of a new oil - fired heating system and oil storage tank, 19 November 1962

Faculty authorising the removal of all kerbs, provided there is no opposition to the removal by the Wear Valley District Council, from the churchyard of St. Michael and All Angels, Frosterley, Durham, 14 May 1985

Faculty authorising the cleaning and restoration of the organ, 3 September 1985

Faculty Jurisdiction Measure - De Minimis Rules, Schedule B authorising an electrical installation, 8 October 1998

Copy faculty authorising the rewiring of the electrical installation and the introduction of alternative light fittings as part of the general rewiring, 6 September 2011

Faculty Jurisdiction Measure - De Minimis Rules, Schedule B authorising repairs and servicing of the lightning conductor, 16 July 2014

Faculty Jurisdiction Measure 2000 - De Minimis Rules authorising the erection of a Commonwealth War Graves new sign, 10 July 2014

Architect's report by J. A. G. Niven, Niven and Niven Architects, The Old Hall, West Auckland, Durham, DL14 9HL, August 1992

Architect's report by J. A. G. Niven, Niven and Niven Architects, The Old Hall, 57 Front Street, West Auckland, Durham, DL14 9HL, April 1997

Architect's report by J. A. G. Niven, Architect, The Old Hall, 57 Front Street, West Auckland, Durham, DL14 9HL, June 2002

Architect's report by J. A. G. Niven, Architect, The Old Hall, 57 Front Street, West Auckland, Durham, DL14 9HL, June 2009

Architect's report by J. A. G. Niven, Architect, The Old Hall Practice Limited, 57 Front Street, West Auckland, Durham, DL14 9HL, April 2014

Quinquennial report of church inspection by Richard Brown and Partners, architects, Darlington, 19 July 1972

Quinquennial report of church inspection, no. 2, by Donald M. Sponse, Richard Brown and Partners, architects, Darlington, 16 August 1977

Quinquennial report of church inspection, no. 3, by Donald M. Sponse, Richard Brown and Partners, architects, Darlington, 26 May 1982

Quinquennial report of church inspection, no. 4, by John A.G. Niven, Niven and Niven, architects, West Auckland, October 1987

Copy letter from the Church Commissioners, London, to the Secretary of Durham Diocesan Dilapidations Board, concerning the grant for Frosterley parsonage house improvements, 25 November 1969

Schedule of dilapidations for Frosterley vicarage, noted at the quinquennial inspection, and specification of work required in repairs, by A.O. Lee, Diocesan Surveyor, August 1978

Account book, 1866/67 - 1934

Letters from the Churchwardens of St. Michael and All Angels, Frosterley, Durham to the Bishop of Durham concerning the departure of the Reverend A. J. Bealing and the status of the Deacon, Dr D. W. Wood, 23 November 1984 - 9 October 1985

Vestry minute book, 6 October 1866 - 23 April 1935 Meetings are described as 'Vestry and Parochial Church Council' meetings from 1921

Minutes of vestry meetings, 15 March 1937 - 20 March 2002 Vestry Meetings, 15 March 1937 - 24 March 1975 Annual Meeting of Parishioners, 31 March 1976 - 27 March 1985 Annual General Meeting, 10 April 1986 - 20 March 2002

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council and annual meetings of parishioners, 28 August 1946 - 18 February 1984

Minutes of meetings, 2 May 1984 - 15 January 2003

Minutes of meetings, 7 January - 12 July 2004; 18 January 2006 - 14 August 2016

Minutes of meetings, 23 July - 14 September 2009

Minutes of meeting, 24 January 2017

Minutes of meetings, 31 March 2004 - 19 March 2018

Parochial church accounts book, 5 January 1975 - 31 December 1979

Parochial Church Council accounts, 2003 Includes: balances for the Annie Boon legacy; Pickering Trust and Glebe Cottage Trust; Frosterley (Church Halls) Trust, 2003

Receipts and payments account, 2017

Annual statements of account and balance sheets of Frosterley Parochial Church Council, 1980, 1982 and 1983

Statement of accounts, 1976

Statement of accounts, 1977

Statement of accounts, 1979

Statement of accounts and balance of Vicar's and Churchwarden's Trust Fund, 1980

Statement of accounts and balance of Vicar's and Churchwarden's Trust Fund, 1981

Electoral roll certificate, 16 March 1949

Electoral roll certificate, 28 March 1950

Electoral roll certificate, 28 April 1954

Electoral roll, 4 June 1996

Electoral roll, 2010

Electoral roll, 2011

Electoral roll, 2013

Returns of church membership, 1976 and 1982

Return of membership form, 26 February 1997

Correspondence between the vicar, churchwardens and parochial church council of Frosterley; the Archdeacon of Auckland; the parochial church council of Eastgate; and the parochial church council of Rookhope, concerning proposed pastoral reorganisation in Weardale, 25 July - 20 September 1984

Letter from P. Carter, Diocesan Office, The College, Durham to Mrs Rose, Secretary of the Parochial Church Council, St. Michael and All Angels, Frosterley, Durham concerning a grant from the Clerical Incomes and Augmentation Committee, 2 October 1953

Board of Education scheme for the letting and use of John Hinks' School, Frosterley, and the auxiliary foundation of Mary Todd, 11 February 1909

Copy Charity Commission scheme for the Thomas Morgan charity in the parish of Stanhope, 19 December 1922

Correspondence between Canon F.H. Britton, Frosterley Vicarage; Stanhope Parish Council; and British Rail Property Board, North Eastern Region, York; concerning the administration of the Thomas Morgan charity and summary of charities within Stanhope parish, 12 May 1975 - 12 July 1976 and n.d.

Charity Commission scheme for Frosterley parish hall, 30 September 1949

Mother's Union branch register, 1960 - 1970

Newspaper cutting from the Weardale Gazette concerning the 100th anniversary of Frosterley Village Hall, December 2009

Newspaper cutting from the Weardale Gazette concerning the 9th annual Diocesan Youth Event, January 2010

Parish magazine, December 1900

Parish magazine, November 1901

Parish magazine, August 1901

Parish magazine, April 1902

Parish magazine, December 1902

Parish magazine, January 1903

Parish magazine, October 1976

Parish magazine of the united benefice of Upper Weardale, April 2010

The buried Frosterley marble font retrieved and restored from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 1989, n.d. [c. 1980s]

Parish history - Welcome to the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Frosterley, n.d. [c. 1990s]

Visitors' book, 26 February 1992 - 1 November 2018

Weardale's War Heroes, volume 9, Frosterley, by the Weardale Museum, 2009