Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 17 May 1868 - 14 October 1877

Register of baptisms, 18 November 1877 - 21 May 1914

Register of baptisms, 28 May 1914 - 31 July 1935

Register of baptisms, 31 July 1935 - 19 August 1979

Register of marriages, 16 January 1878 - 5 August 1916

Register of marriages, 16 September 1916 - 22 December 1923

Register of marriages, 29 December 1923 - 13 May 1933

Register of marriages, 22 June 1933 - 27 December 1941

Register of marriages, 28 February 1942 - 8 December 1951

Register of marriages, 1 March 1952 - 3 October 1964

Register of marriages, 24 October 1964 - 8 December 1973

Register of marriages, 5 January 1974 - 5 September 1992

Register of banns of marriage, 26 February 1950 - 28 July 1963

Register of banns of marriages, 21 July 1963 - 27 August 1972

Register of banns of marriage, 10 September 1972 - 28 May 1989

Register of burials, 17 December 1877 - 20 October 1923

Register of burials, 2 November 1923 - 25 October 1949

Register of burials, 18 November 1949 - 18 April 2008

Register of strange preachers, 15 November 1877 - 19 June 1892

Register of preachers, offertory and communicants, 10 October 1893 - 30 March 1902

Register of preachers, offertory and communicants, 23 February 1912 - 25 July 1920

Register of services, 24 August 1919 - 28 January 1934

Register of services, 22 March 1948 - 19 May 1963

Register of services, 29 September 1972 - 18 October 1980

Register of services, 19 October 1980 - 28 January 1989

Register of services, 22 May 1963 - 29 September 1972

Register of services, 29 January 1989 - 30 December 1993

London Gazette, 11 August 1874, containing order constituting the ecclesiastical district of St. Cuthbert, Marley Hill

Copy of the instrument of approval by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of the new church in the district of St. Cuthbert, Marley Hill, 15 November 1877

Plan showing the area between the Lobley Hill turnpike road and the Bowes Bridge engine marked with the sites of churches, n.d. c.1900

Copy pastoral order of the Bishop of Durham, transferring the parish of Beamish and the parish of Tanfield to the rural deanery of Lanchester, 2 November 1970

Copy pastoral order of the Bishop of Durham, creating two new rural deaneries, called, 'the Rural Deanery of Gateshead West,' and 'the Rural Deanery of Sedgefield,' transferring a number of parishes from one deanery to another and listing the parishes comprised in the two new deaneries, including Marley Hill, St Cuthbert, which is included in the rural deanery of Gateshead West, 12 June 1978

Map showing the alteration of the boundaries of the parishes of Burnopfield St. John the Evangelist, Dipton St Cuthbert, Marley Hill, Tanfield, Collierley, Medomsley and Whickham, 1952 Scale: 1:5000 See also EP/Ma 2/25/1

Map showing the alteration of the boundaries of the parishes of Burnopfield St. John the Evangelist, Dipton St Cuthbert, Marley Hill, Tanfield, Collierley, Medomsley and Whickham, 1953 Scale: 1:5000 See also EP/Ma 2/25/2

Scheme of altering the boundaries of parishes of Burnopfield St. John the Evangelist, Dipton St Cuthbert, Marley Hill, Tanfield, Collierley, Medomsley and Whickham enclosed with a letter from the Church Commissioners to the Parochial Church Council of St Cuthbert in Marley Hill, 10 November 1952 See also EP/Ma 2/24/1

Copy of an Order of HM in Council for altering the boundaries of Burnopfield St. John the Evangelist, Dipton St Cuthbert, Marley Hill, Tanfield, Collierley, Medomsley and Whickham, dated 11 February 1953, enclosed with a letter from the Church Commissioners to the Reverend F.W. Probert, vicar of the parish of St Cuthbert in Marley Hill, 23 March 1953 See also EP/Ma 2/24/2

London Gazette, 11 December 1874, containing order on the stipend of the incumbent

Table of surplice fees, 19 November 1877

London Gazette, 21 December 1877, containing order varying the stipend and providing a capital sum for building a parsonage house

London Gazette, 18 July 1879, containing order for payment of stipend for an assistant curate (1 file)

Notice to the incumbent of the registration of the patronage of the benefice, 4 January 1989

List of the vicars and curates of the parish of Marley Hill, St Cuthbert, 1877 - 1928

Parochial statistics for the year ended 31 December 1953

Order of service for a thanksgiving Eucharist for the centenary of St Cuthbert's church, 20 March 1974

Order of service for a Eucharist on the feast of the church's consecration, 15 November 1978

Ticket for a centenary lecture, entitled, 'Some Aspects of the Church in the North,' by Ven. C. J. Stranks in St Cuthbert's church hall, 4 October 1974

Ticket for the centenary parish supper and annual meeting, 26 April 1974

Order of service for the Gateshead Borough Sunday service, 18 May 1980

Order of service for a festival Eucharist to celebrate the silver jubilee in the priesthood of Rev. Alan Gales, 11 June 1985

Licence for the performance of divine service in Byermoor Mission Hall, Byermoor, 6 January 1894

Marley Hill Mission Church minute book, 23 September 1873 - 6 November 1877 (1 volume, leather bound)

Notice of the laying of the foundation stone of the church by Charles Mark Palmer, M.P., 17 August 1876

Notice of the consecration of the church by the Bishop of Durham, 15 November 1877

Bill for building an extension to the vestries, 9 September 1903 Originally enclosed in EP/Ma 2/8

Specification of works for the proposed new vestries by Hicks and Charlewood, architects, 67, Westgate Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1901

North and east elevations, ground and cellar plans, and section of vestries and heating cellar, proposed to be added to the church at Marley Hill by Hicks and Charlewood, architects, 67, Westgate Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 8 July 1901 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Plan of Marley Hill Churchyard and church building, showing grave spaces to the western side, 29 June 1903 Includes names of those buried, probably up to the 1950s

Plan of St Cuthbert's Garden of Remembrance with names of those commemorated, presumably by burial of ashes, and position relative to vestry steps, n.d. [late 20th Century]

Correspondence between William Johnson, agent to Lord Ravensworth, French Hall, Ravensworth; the vicar of Marley Hill, St Cuthbert, The Vicarage, Marley Hill; the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Durham County Council, Education Department, Shire Hall, Durham; Rev. Graham Foley, Director of Religious Education, Diocese of Durham, Hallgarth House, Hallgarth Street, Durham and Lumsden, Ramsay & Galbraith, solicitors, 48 West Street, Gateshead, concerning the granting of a site for a church hall at Sunniside and the subsequent management of the building, 25 September 1909 - 7 June 1962

14 November 1922 1)John Arbuckle of Marley Hill Vicarage, Swalwell, clerk in holy orders; William Charlton of Greenfield House, Marley Hill, cashier and John Young of Fairholme, Marley Hill, store keeper, trustees of the church hall, Sunniside 2)Durham County Council Counterpart lease for 5 years by (1) to (2) of the Church Hall at Sunniside, together with the yard and outhouses, at an annual rent of £50

1931 1)F. W. Probert of The Vicarage, Marley Hill, clerk in holy orders, representing the Trustees of the Marley Hill Mission 2)Durham County Council Agreement whereby (1) agrees to grant to (2) for the purpose of widening the road, 43 yards of land adjoining the Burnopfield to Gateshead main road and (2) agrees to erect a military fence along the frontage, re-erect the gates and gate posts and protect the trees growing in front of the church hall. Plan attached

29 July 1897 (1) Rev. William Darnell Croudace, incumbent of the benefice of Marley Hill, St. Cuthbert (2) Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne Mortgage, in £37, of the income of the benefice for improvements to the water supply to the parsonage house

28 October 1926 (1) Claude George, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (2) John Herbert Bowes-Lyon of St. Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire, and John William Weston of 35, Essex Street, Strand, London, solicitor (3) John Bowes and Partners Limited, Milburn House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (4) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Copy conveyance from (1) and (3) to (4) of all coal in the Busty Seam and all the ironstone, fireclay and other minerals in the Busty Seam, under all that piece of land comprising the site of the parsonage house of the benefice of Marley Hill, St. Cuthbert, and a further area adjoining the site Plan attached Consideration: £1000 from (4) to (2)

Ground and first floor plan of the vicarage at Marley Hill, showing the proposed position of the switches and lights, 25 November 1932 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1, Millbank, London, to Rev. F.W. Probert, The Vicarage, Marley Hill, indicating that the Commission is prepared to contribute a sum of money towards the cost of installing electric light in the vicarage, 9 December 1932

Undertaking by the Parochial Church Council that it will repay the sum of £700, plus interest, to the Church Commissioners, 24 September 1959

1 October 1959 (1) Gordon Scott, Clerk in Holy Orders, incumbent of the benefice of Marley Hill, St. Cuthbert (2) The Church Commissioners Mortgage in £700 of the revenue of the benefice of Marley Hill for improvements to the parsonage house

Subscription card for Byermoor Parish Hall, n.d., [c.1893] [enclosed in EP/Ma 4/4]

Site plan of the Byermoor Mission Hall, n.d., c.1894

Report on the inspection of Byermoor Mission Hall, on its being requisitioned, by Sanderson, Townend and Gilbert, surveyors, 3 & 5 Mosley Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 26 September 1941

Correspondence between the Strathmore Estates Office, Victoria Buildings, West Street, Gateshead; Rev. A. Gales, The Vicarage, Marley Hill; The Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; concerning the surrender of the lease on the site of the Byermoor Mission Hall, 17 October - 14 November 1966

Terrier and inventory, 1888 - 1944

Faculty for the erection of a dais eight inches high on which the Holy Table is to be placed, to make a wooden covering for the heating pipes behind the Holy Table, and to place a brass cross, two brass vases and three brass branched candlesticks on the cover, 8 December 1890

Faculty authorising the erection of a stained glass window on the north side of the nave, inscribed in memory of Cuthbert Berkley, 4 September 1913

Faculty authorising the erection of a chancel screen, inscribed in memory of parishioners who were killed in the First World War, 8 August 1919

Faculty authorising the insertion of stained glass in the window in the south of the nave, second from the pulpit, inscribed in memory of Cuthbert Berkley, his wife, Barbara and son, Richard William and the introduction of a brass eagle lectern, inscribed in commemoration of the ministry of Rev J. Arbuckle, 27 September 1927

Faculty authorising the installation, in the church, of 6 overhead radiant gas heaters and the erection, against the churchyard boundary wall, of a building to house a gas meter, 28 April 1950

Faculty authorising the introduction of a bronze tablet, on an oak mount, inscribed in memory of those who were killed in the Second World War, 4 August 1951

Faculty authorising the removal of all kerbs and rails surrounding graves in the churchyard, 19 December 1972

Faculty authorising the introduction into the rear of the church, close to the main entrance, of two books of remembrance, inscribed in memory of John Rogerson Aveling and Mary Proudlock, to be placed in a polished oak case with a glass lid, 26 April 1990

Architect's report, no. 6, under the Inspection of Churches Measures, on Marley Hill, St. Cuthbert, made by A. O. Lee of Hayton, Lee and Braddock, Owengate House, Durham City, August 1987

Ordinary assessments fixing the annual payments towards dilapidations to be made by the parish for the quinquennial periods beginning 30 May 1960 - 30 December 1970

Schedule of dilapidations of Marley Hill Vicarage noted at the quinquennial inspection of November 1980

Schedule of dilapidations of Marley Hill Vicarage noted at the quinquennial inspection of February 1985

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1929, 1 July 1940

Record of offertories, 15 November 1877 - 25 March 1894

Churchwardens' accounts, 25 November 1877 - 2 March 1896

Sunday Schools and Church Choir accounts, 1895 - 1896 [enclosed in EP/Ma 4/7]

Accounts of the Church Improvement Fund and the Parish Room Fund, 5 December 1885 - October 1893

Income and expenditure account of St Cuthbert's church for the year ended 31 December 1935

Appointment of sequestrators, 9 April 1892 (1 paper)

Articles of enquiry of the churchwardens at the ordinary visitation of the Archdeacon of Durham, 1890s [enclosed in EP/Ma 4/4]

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 11 January 1973 - 12 December 1974

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 9 January 1975 - 9 December 1976

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 13 January 1977 - 14 December 1978

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 11 January 1979 - 11 December 1980

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 15 January - 10 December 1981

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 7 January - 9 December 1982

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 13 January 1983 - 12 December 1985

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 9 January 1986 - 12 March 1987

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 9 April 1987 - 8 December 1988

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 12 January 1989 - 13 December 1990

Minutes of the Vestry Meeting and the Annual Parochial Church Meeting, 31 March 1968 - 26 April 1990

Financial statements, 1965 - 1990

Copy of the order appointing additional trustees of the Gibside Chapel charity, 24 May 1892 [for more records relating to Gibside Chapel see: EP/Gib; EP/Win and EP/Whm]

Order of the Charity Commission vesting in the Official Trustee of Charity Lands, a piece of land at Streetgate, containing 1021 square yards, held in trust for the Sunniside Church Hall Charity, 26 September 1913

Notice and card for the annual soiree, tea, concert and ball of the Marley Hill Mechanics' Institute, 8 July 1872

St Cuthbert's Cross, parish magazine of Marley Hill, St Cuthbert, October 1974

St Cuthbert's Cross, November 1978