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Register of baptisms, 21 February 1923 - 7 May 1994

Register of marriages, 30 May 1893 - 24 July 1954

Register of marriages, 21 August 1954 - 25 June 1960

Register of marriages, 9 July 1960 - 28 July 1984

Register of marriages, 18 August 1984 - 19 November 2016

Register of banns of marriage, 11 February 1923 - 23 February 1964

Register of burials, 23 March 1923 - 2 September 1994

Register of services, 31 March 1907 - 1 August 1920

Register of services, 16 February 1921 - 14 October 1938

Register of services, 16 October 1938 - [? ] 1949

Register of services, 26 February 1949 - 1 April 1960

Register of services, 3 April 1960 - 4 August 1971

Letter from Neville C.W. Brooks, The Vicarage, Kimblesworth, to Canon Meux discussing the future of the parish of Kimblesworth, 16 November 1960

Letter from the Archdeacon of Durham, The Grove, Quarry Heads Lane, Durham, to Mrs. M.M. Waggott, Kimblesworth Grange, Kimblesworth, concerning the future of the parish of Kimblesworth, 7 December 1971

Notice of suspension of the presentation to the living of Kimblesworth, 28 February 1973

Correspondence between Rev. G.J.C. Marchant, St. Nicholas Vicarage, Durham; Mrs. M. Waggott, Hon. Secretary, Kimblesworth P.C.C.; the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle; R.H. Suddick, concerning future arrangements for the pastoral care of the parish of Kimblesworth, 18 March - 29 August 1974

Correspondence between the Assistant Secretary, Durham Deanery Synod, 21 Westcott Drive, Durham; the Hon. Secretary, Kimblesworth P.C.C.; the Archdeacon of Durham, 7 The College, Durham; the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle; concerning the possibility of uniting Kimblesworth with the parish of Sacriston, 18 October 1979 - 4 June 1980

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle; Mrs. M. Halligan, 1 Bells Buildings, Nettlesworth; Archdeacon of Durham, 7 The College, Durham; the Secretary for Appointments, 10 Downing Street, London; the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London; the Registrar, Privy Council Office, Downing Street, London; concerning the creation of the united benefice of Sacriston and Kimblesworth, 18 July 1985 - 12 August 1987

Copy notice issued by the Diocesan Registry, 21A Elvet Bridge, Durham, that the Crown is to be the patron of the living of Sacriston with Kimblesworth, 4 January 1989

Correspondence between Rev. A. Watts, Witton Gilbert Rectory, and J.T. Atkinson and J. Russell, wardens of Kimblesworth Mission Church, concerning a possible increase in the curate's salary and the possible separation of Kimblesworth to form an independent parish, 30 March - 1 April 1915

Statement of benefice income compiled by the Church Commissioners, July 1960

Plan of the area of the proposed new parish of Kimblesworth, by 'J.F.H.', September 1919 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]

Plan of the district of Kimblesworth, 1923 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]

Photograph of the presentation at the Christmas Bazaar, of a watch, to the Rev. G.E. Elliott, to mark his leaving the parish, November 1971 (1 photographs, 12 cm. x 16.5 cm., black and white)

Parochial returns of membership and staff made to the Central Board of Finance of the National Assembly of the Church of England, 1956, 1958

24 June 1892 (1) Sir George Elliot of 23 Great George Street, City of Westminster, bart. (2) The Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Company, Ltd. (3) Rt. Hon. John George, Earl of Durham. Surrender by (1) on behalf of (2) to (3) of remainder of a lease of 99 years from 1 January 1873 on a parcel of land to be surrendered by (3) to trustees for use as a mission church and institute in Kimblesworth Plan endorsed: Scale: 1:2500

Correspondence between the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle; the Chapter Office, The College, Durham; Rev. W.F. McCready, Church House, Kimblesworth; Rev. A.H. Robinson Asher, The Rectory, Witton Gilbert; concerning alterations to, and the consecration of, the church at Kimblesworth, 9 November 1923 - 17 July 1924

4 June 1925 (1) George Liddell of Startforth, N. Riding of Yorkshire, and others, trustees (2) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Conveyance from (1) to (2) of a piece of land (3r. 25p.) in Kimblesworth and the unconsecrated building thereon, intended for use as a church and known as St. Paul, Kimblesworth Plan attached: Scale: 1:2500

Plans, elevations and sections of Kimblesworth church showing proposed alterations, by W.J. Moscrop, Darlington, December 1925 Scale: 5 inches to 40 feet [1:96]

Plans, elevations, sections of Kimblesworth church showing proposed alterations, by W.J. Moscrop, Darlington, December 1925 Scale: 5 inches to 40 feet [1:96]

Plan of detail of font, n.d. Inch scale [1:12]

Ground plan of Kimblesworth church showing proposed heating scheme, plan B/6, by Dinning and Cooke, G. Edward Carr, Ltd., Heating and Ventilating Engineers, Percy Ironworks, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 17 February 1926 No scale

Sketch plan of proposed end of choir stalls [?] in Kimblesworth church by The North of England School Furnishing Co., Ltd., 17 August 1933

Plans, elevations and sections of Kimblesworth church, as existing, drawing Dch 35/4, by Cordingley and McIntyre, architects, Owengate House, Durham, August 1963

Correspondence between R. Hann, 26 Heugh Edge, Sacriston; the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster, London; Durham Diocesan Board for Church Building and Church Extension, 37 Saddler Street, Durham; Rev. W.F. McCready, The Vicarage, Kimblesworth; C.W. Milburn, architect, Feethams, Darlington; concerning the erection of new clergy and choir vestries and other alterations at Kimblesworth church, 31 March 1928 - 12 November [1933]

Report on the fabric of Kimblesworth church by Cordingley and McIntyre, architects, The College, Durham, August 1949 Attached: ground plan of the church, 2 August 1949 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Letter from Cordingley and McIntyre, architects and surveyors, Owengate, Durham, to Rev. N.C.W. Brooks, The Vicarage, Kimblesworth, concerning damage to the church caused by subsidence and enclosing a schedule of repairs necessary through mining subsidence in the structure, October 1959, 26 January 1960

Letter from the National Coal Board, Green Lane, Spennymoor, to Rev. G.E. Elliott, The Vicarage, Kimblesworth, concerning repairs to Kimblesworth church, 23 January 1970

Correspondence between the Hon. Sec., the Advisory Committee for the Repair of Churches of the Diocese of Durham, The Vicarage, South Hylton, Sunderland; R. Kirton-Darling, Plawsworth Farm, Plawsworth; Mrs. M. Halligan, Wayside, 1 Bells Buildings, Nettlesworth; the Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle; concerning repair to the roof of the church, 8 July - 21 October 1983 Includes: Archdeacon's certificate for works on the church, 2 September 1983

Certificate of guarantee issued by Rentokil Limited, concerning treatment in the church of St. Philip and St. James, Kimblesworth, 25 September 1984

Letter from T.D. Davison, 52 Bek Road, Newton Hall, Durham, to Kimblesworth PCC, enclosing an estimate for moving the organ from Allendale Methodist church to Kimblesworth church, 24 August 1976

Letters from the Diocesan Registry, Durham, to Rev. A. Watts, Witton Gilbert Rectory, concerning the possible consecration of a new burial ground at Kimblesworth, 6 - 21 May 1897

Letter from G.H. Wheeler, Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster, London, to Rev. S.H. Bates, The Vicarage, Kimblesworth, concerning the right of the inhabitants of the district of Kimblesworth to burial in the churchyards of the parishes from which the district was formed, 18 April 1934

Memoranda by L.H. Cumberland, minister of the district of Kimblesworth, concerning the acquisition by a parishioner of a grave in the churchyard, 5 June 1955, and concerning the activities of the Dunelm Granite Company in the removal and erection of headstones, c.1955

Correspondence between J.T. Atkinson, Clerk to Plawsworth Parish Council, 4 Granby Terrace, Plawsworth Gate, Chester-le-Street; Rev. F.E. Giles, The Vicarage, Sacriston; Rev. N.C.W. Brooks, Kimblesworth Vicarage; concerning the burial of a parishioner from Kimblesworth, 12 September - 15 October 1960

Letter from the Chief Administrative Officer, the Imperial War Graves Commission, Wooburn House, Wooburn Green, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, to J.R. Nuttall, Vicar's Warden, 5 Park Place, Park Road, Chester-le-Street, concerning the maintenance of three war graves of named servicemen who died in the second world war, 7 June 1956

Questionnaire issued by the Department of the Environment, requesting information for the closure of a churchyard under section 1 of the Burial Act, 1853, partly completed with reference to the churchyard at Kimblesworth, c.1979

Order-in-Council closing the churchyard, 14 March 1979

Letter from Swinburne and Jackson, Cestria, High Chare, Chester-le-Street, to Rev. D.H. Laws, 1 Church View, Sacriston, informing the latter of a legacy by Mrs M.C. Walker for the upkeep of her and her mother's grave, 25 July 1980

Graveyard plan showing grave spaces and giving names, c.1980

Correspondence between the Archdeacon of Durham, The Grove, Quarry Heads Lane, Durham; Mrs. M.M. Waggott, Kimblesworth Grange, Kimblesworth; the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; D. Nicholson, Southill Hall, Chester-le-Street; concerning the provision of a new vicarage for Kimblesworth, 10 January 1972 - 24 October 1973

Petition for a faculty for the removal of the existing organ and the installation of a re-conditioned organ, for the introduction of a new Mothers' Union banner, for the re-painting of the interior and exterior of the church and for the substitution of the vestry for the existing Lady Chapel, 14 December 1976 and comment on the proposals by J.F. Ruscoe, Durham Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches, 21 December 1976

Petition for faculty for the installation of pictures of the stations of the cross; glass communion cruet; one tapestry picture and a plaque in memory of Winifred Maddison, 9 September 1979

Letter from the Diocesan Registry, 21A Elvet Bridge, Durham, to Mrs. A. Hutchinson, Sunniside Cottage, Plawsworth Gate, Plawsworth, concerning the parish's petition for a faculty [as in EP/Ki 4/21], 25 January 1980

Faculty for the removal of grave mounds and levelling of the surface in the part of the churchyard furthest from the church, 2 October 1950

Form of faculty in unopposed proceedings authorising the removal of kerbstones and the repair of the fencing by Durham R.D.C., 23 May 1973

Archdeacon's certificate for work to be carried out on Kimblesworth church, 11 April 1979

Archdeacon's certificate for works at Kimblesworth church, 7 September 1984

Report of the first quinquennial inspection under the Inspection of Churches Measure, 1955 by Charlewood and Curry, architects, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 24 June 1965

Report of the quinquennial inspection under the Inspection of Churches Measure, 1955, by Charlewood, Curry, Wilson and Atkinson, 23 November 1970

Report of the quinquennial inspection under the Inspection of Churches Measure, 1955, by Charlewood, Curry, Wilson and Atkinson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 8 August 1975

Report of the quinquennial inspection under the Inspection of Churches Measure, 1955, by Charlewood, Curry, Wilson and Atkinson, architects, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 30 May 1981

Minutes of parochial church council and annual meetings, 10 April 1934 - 13 December 1952

Kimblesworth Mission Church Council meetings minutes, 10 October 1911 - 10 January 1923; Parochial Church Council meetings minutes, 19 March 1923 - 6 March 1934 Includes: Annual parochial church meetings minutes, 2 April 1923 - 17 January 1934

Parochial accounts, 16 January 1957 - 31 December 1964

Parochial accounts, 3 January 1965 - 30 December 1968

Parochial accounts, 1970

Parochial accounts, 1971

Parochial accounts, 1972

Parochial accounts, 1973

Parochial accounts, 1974

Parochial accounts, 1975

Parochial accounts, 1976

Parochial accounts, 1985

Parochial accounts, 1986

Parochial accounts, 1987

Parochial accounts, 1988

Parochial accounts, 1989

Parochial accounts, 1990

Statements of accounts, 1970-1977; 1984-1989

Parochial Church Council accounts, 1969, 1977-1984

Receipt and payment accounts for the year ended, 31 December 1982, 31 December 1983, 31 December 1984 and 31 December 1987

Electoral roll, 1978

Electoral roll, c.1957 - c.1981

Electoral roll, post 1971 (15 papers)

List of duties of, and payments to, the caretaker at Kimblesworth Church, 3 May 1926

Rules of the Kimblesworth Youth Club, November 1957