Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 1608 - 1727; register of burials, 1608 - 1726; register of marriages, 1608 - 1726 Entries very confused

Register of baptisms, 1608 - 1799; register of burials, 1608 - 1797; register of marriages, 1608 - 1754 First part is a copy of Volume 1 with the entries in order

Register of baptisms, June 1799 - November 1812

Register of baptisms, January 1813 - August 1845 Note of induction, 1826

Register of baptisms, June 1845 - August 1896 Note of archdeacon's visitations, 1878, 1884 Note of the rebuilding and enlargement of the Church

Register of baptisms, August 1896 - January 1917

Register of baptisms, 27 January 1917 - 10 December 1941

Register of baptisms, 3 February 1942 - 16 August 1953

Register of banns and marriages, April 1754 - August 1811

Register of marriages, September 1811 - December 1812

Register of marriages, January 1813 - July 1837

Register of marriages, July 1837 - November 1878

Register of marriages, December 1878 - March 1900

Register of marriages, 28 April 1900 - 24 March 1917

Register of marriages, 12 May 1917 - 6 August 1934

Register of marriages, 11 August 1934 - 28 October 1939

Register of marriages, 11 November 1939 - 20 March 1954

Register of marriages, 20 March 1954 - 26 May 1995

Register of marriages, 27 May 1995 - 26 September 2020

Register of banns of marriage, 17 August 1947 - 23 February 1969

Register of banns of marriage, 16 February 1969 - 5 July 1987

Register of burials, July 1978 - October 1812

Register of burials, November 1813 - May 1849 Note of induction, 1820

Register of burials, May 1849 - December 1873

Register of burials, December 1873 - September 1896

Register of burials, October 1890 - October 1906

Register of burials, 13 October 1906 - 13 May 1926

Register of burials, 13 May 1926 - 20 May 1947

Register of services, 10 February 1918 - 22 August 1937

Register of services, 22 August 1937 - 21 July 1946

Register of services, 22 July 1946 - 29 June 1955

Register of services, 3 July 1955 - 9 September 1970

Register of services, 13 September 1970 - 10 May 1998

Conveyance of land to benefice, including plan, 3 November 1913

Mortgage of the living of Rev. W. Cockin, 12 August 1880

Reports and estimates for repairs to benefice, 23 January 1975

Statements of account re benefice, with related correspondence, 25 March 1872 - 21 November 1944

Map showing the alteration of the areas of the parishes of Medomsley; Leadgate; Blackhill, St. Aidan; and Ebchester, 4 March 1976 Scale: 10 inches to 1 mile [1:6336]

Pastoral order altering the boundaries of the parishes of Medomsley, Leadgate, Ebchester and Blackhill, St. Aidan, 24 June 1976

Order of service for the burial of Rev. William Cockin, for forty-three years the vicar of Medomsley, 11 October 1917

Order of service for the admission of Rev. Maurice Newton Coates to the perpetual curacy of Medomsley, 9 November 1937

Order of service for the burial of Rev. William Cockin, vicar of Medomsley, 16 October 1917

Pastoral order re boundaries of rural deaneries of Durham, 2 November 1970

Altered apportionment of tithes, with plan, 15 April 1844 - 22 May 1917

Photographs: (1) Glebe House, Medomsley, c.1900; at this time tenanted by Mr. G.E. Milburn, a farmer, but in 1922 it became the Vicarage (2) Medomsley Parish Church choir with the Vicar, Rev. W. Cockin, M.A. in the middle of the back row, c.1890 (3) Medomsley Parish Church choir with the Vicar, Rev. R.E. Parr in the centre of the middle row, c.1930 (4) Rev. W. Cockin, M.A., on horseback, c.1890. He was Vicar of Medomsley from 1874 to 1917 (5) Mr. G.E. Milburn of Glebe House, Medomsley, farmer and butcher, c. 1910 (6) Rev. W. Cockin, middle of the front row, with some parishioners outside the church, c.1910 (Glass plate, broken) (7) Photographs of White Byreside Farm taken in 1974, prior to demolition. It was part of the Hamsterley estate, from 1806 in the possession of the Surtees family (1 envelope, 12 prints) (8) Postcards, c.1900 - 1915 Medomsley Church after the restoration of 1877 - 1878 (interior and exterior);Medomsley Schools, built 1886; Medomsley Hall, formerly the Hunter family, but used as a vicarage by Rev. Cockin; Long Close Gate; the Charabanc disaster on Medomsley Bank, 1911; Glebe House; views of the village; the branch Co-operative Store

Photograph of interior of church, 1896 - 1898

Photograph of exterior of church, n.d.

Photograph of the exterior of the church before its restoration in 1877, c.1870

Photograph of the interior of the church looking east along the nave, before its restoration in 1877, c.1870

Ground plan and elevation of the church before its restoration in 1877, c.1870 Scale: 7.5 inches to 30 feet [1:48]

Proposed chapel at the east end of the north aisle: plans as existing, drawing number 78/1, by G.E. Charlewood and Curry, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, February 1967 Scale: 2 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

Proposed chapel at the east end of the north aisle: plans as proposed, version 1, drawing, number 78/2, by G.E. Charlewood and Curry, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, February 1967 Scale: 2 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

Proposed chapel at the east end of the north aisle: plans as proposed, version 2, drawing number 78/2, by G.E. Charlewood and Curry, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, February 1967 Scale: 2 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

Proposed chapel at the east end of the north aisle: plans as proposed, drawing number 78/25, by G.E. Charlewood and Curry, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, February 1967 Scales: 2 feet to 1 inch [1:48]; 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12] and 3 inches to 1 foot [1:4]

Plans of proposed aumbry at the east end of the north aisle, by Charlewood, Curry, Wilson and Atkinson, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, February 1974 Scale: 2 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

Specifications, estimates, and plans, for installation of heating system, January 1970 - 29 July 1970

Orders of Service, one for the dedication of stained glass windows and the chancel screen in the Parish Church at Medomsley, 1898, and the other for the dedication of the mural tablet in memory of Rev. W. Cockin, 1922

Agreement re enlargement of burial ground, including plan, 9 February 1884

Trust deed for church hall for parish of Medomsley with related correspondence, 21 February 1940 - 5 February 1969

Faculty for brass cross, 29 July 1909

Faculty to enclose and reserve grave spaces, with related correspondence, 4 May 1934

Faculty for general repairs, 19 December 1960

Faculty for installation of heating system, with related bills and correspondence, 21 December 1971 - 7 March 1972

Faculty for aumbry, with related correspondence, 21 June 1974

Parish inventory, 17 August 1949 - May 1965

Churchwardens' Accounts, 1803 - 1853

Accounts of sacrament money, 31 March 1839 - 28 October 1864

Account of Hartley Colliery accident subscription, n.d.

Churchwardens' account book, 4 April 1875 - 31 December 1950

Bound volumes of Home Words with notes for Medomsley parish (including Croniwell) at the back, complete for the years: 1884 (2 volumes), 1885 (2 volumes), 1886 (2 volumes), 1887, 1688, 1889, 1891, 1892, 1894 (6 volumes), 1895, 1896 (2 volumes), 1897, 1898, 1699, 1900. The notes are month by month accounts of church services, societies and meetings, etc., and include reports on the National School

List of books and documents delivered to W. Charleton, 21 August 1874

Vestry Minute Book, 1836 - 1917

Minute book of Annual Vestry and Parochial Church Meetings, 25 April 1938 - 8 April 1954 [for 2 April 1918 - 14 April 1937 see EP/Me 78]

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, Christ Church District, enclosing related correspondence, 13 April 1920 - 29 November 1937

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 29 November 1937 - 29 November 1949

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 29 November 1949 - 7 May 1962, including minutes of Annual Vestry and Annual Vestry and Parochial Meetings, 2 April 1918 - 14 April 1937

Statements of account of Medomsley curate fund, 31 December 1937 - 15 December 1966

Statements of account of Medomsley parish church, 30 June 1939 - 7 December 1970

Bank credit counterfoils of Medomsley parish church, 11 May 1961 - 21 November 1966

General accounts, bills and receipts, 31 December 1965 - January 1970 (31 papers, 7 files)

Income and expenditure account of Medomsley parish church, 1966

Income and expenditure account of Medomsley parish church, 1968

Bank book of Parochial Church Council, 4 December 1959 - 18 January 1967

Financial statement, 1951

W.E. Hirst's tender for the sexton's duties at Medomsley church, 5 February 1919

W.E. Hirst's contract of employment as sexton, 30 May 1919

Bank book of Medomsley National Schools, 1 January 1924 - 29 December 1960

Public Liability Policy re Medomsley National Schools, 27 January 1933

Medomsley National Schools general correspondence, 17 November 1955 - 4 March 1958

Statement of account for Medomsley National School, 22 February 1964 - 26 July 1966

Roll book and journal, 4 January 1891 - 7 January 1917

Report on the standard of religious instruction at Medomsley National School, by John H. Batten, diocesan inspector, 12 September 1918

Primrose League enrolment diploma of Mabel Lovat, Buck Grove, Medomsley, 28 March 1905

Account book [for Mothers' Union], 4 September 1949 - April 1965

Mothers' Union branch register, 6 April 1954 - 4 September 1962

Mothers' Union branch register, 4 November 1962 - May 1965

Bank book of Medomsley Church Ladies Working Party, 13 April 1967 - 28 July 1969

Copies of the Parish Magazine including notes for Medomsley Parish Church and Christ Church, Hamsterley, not complete, for the years 1901, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907 1908, 1909, 1910. 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916 (1 only)

Copies of the Parish notes from the Medomsley Parish Magazines from 1930 to 1942, not complete; some duplicate copies; letter (1941) concerning the collection of dried nettle leaves

Copies of the Parish notes from the Medomsley Parish Magazines from 1943 to 1954, not complete; some duplicate copies. Those for 1952 have a reproduction on the cover of an old print of the church before the alterations of 1877 - 1878

Copies of the Parish notes from the Medomsley Parish Magazine from 1955 to 1966, not complete and none for 1959; some duplicate copies

Medomsley Parish Magazines from 1967 - 1975 (March) complete

Medomsley Papers - parish magazine, July 1974

Medomsley parish magazine, January 1891, December 1891, November - December 1911, January 1912, March 1914, August 1953

Old Medomsley. Some studies in village history by Rev. H. Lee

Agreement of Consett Iron Company Ltd., re right of way, with related correspondence, 6 March 1864 - 17 July 1918

Lease to Consett Iron Company Ltd. of coal under glebe lands, with plan, 31 December 1918

Notice of Consett Iron Company Ltd. to terminate wayleave, with related correspondence, 26 June 1939

Agreement of Consett Iron Company Ltd. re curate fund, 20 March 1942

General correspondence, including plan to show district of Christ Church, Hamsterley, 14 May 1906 - 21 August 1963

Picture postcard depicting the new lodge and gates of Hamsterley Hall, 1908

Photographs and ground plans of Byreside Farm, 1972

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