Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 26 April 1882 - 1 June 1892

Register of baptisms, 8 June 1892 - 21 August 1930

Register of baptisms, 14 September 1930 - 26 May 2002

Register of marriages, 21 January 1883 - 29 May 1909

Register of marriages, 5 June 1909 - 23 March 1921

Register of marriages, 26 March 1921 - 2 April 1934

Register of marriages, 19 May 1934 - 16 November 1949

Register of marriages, 28 January 1950 - 7 January 1961

Register of marriages, 11 February 1961 - 29 April 1972

Register of marriages, 27 July 1996 - 16 September 2000

Register of banns of marriage, 8 May 1938 - 5 March 1961

Register of banns of marriage, 19 November 1961 - 11 June 1994

Register of marriages, 29 November 1972 - 13 August 1995

Register of banns of marriage, 29 January 1911 - 27 March 1938 Enclosures: EP/MH.SJ 1/10-12, EP/MH.SJ 4/1, EP/MH.SJ 14/1

Register of banns of marriage, 16 July 1995 - 13 August 2000

Marriage licence, 12 January 1803 Originally enclosed in EP/MH.SJ 1/9

Marriage licence, 15 October 1803 Originally enclosed in EP/MH.SJ 1/9

Marriage licence, 23 June 1804 Originally enclosed in EP/MH.SJ 1/9

Register of services, 4 October 1959 - 22 August 1971

Register of services, 1 November 1925 - 1 July 1929

Register of services, 1 January 1934 - 29 February 1948

Register of services, 2 March 1948 - 28 July 1954

Register of services, 1 August 1954 - 30 September 1959

Register of services, 29 August 1971 - 9 January 1983

Register of services, 2 January 1983 - 30 May 2002

Order in Council re union of benefices, 5 July 1966

Correspondence re union of benefices, 29 July 1966 - 25 August 1966

Correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster; Bounty Office, 3 Dean's Yard, Westminster, and Rev. J.A. Little, St. John's Vicarage, Monk Hesleden, concerning the income of the benefice, 10 November - 7 December 1925

Statement issued by the Ecclesiastical Commission of the amount of stock belonging to the benefice of Monk Hesleden and purchased with money derived from the sale of land to Horden Collieries, Ltd., 10 June 1926

Statement of annual amounts payable by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the parish of Monk Hesleden, St. John with St. Mary United Benefice, 1 April 1939

Notice of registration of claim for compensation under the Coal Act, 1938 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in respect of coal and mines under land in the parish of Monk Hesleden owned by Rev. A.D. Sydney Smith, 26 July 1940

Statement of ordinary income and expenditure for the parish of Monk Hesleden, for the year 1 January - 31 December 1953

1 January 1936 (1) Rev. Arthur Daniel Sidney Smith, incumbent of the united benefice of St. Mary with St. John, Monk Hesleden (2) The Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty Mortgage of the income of the benefice for the repayment of £39 borrowed to repair the parsonage

Return of benefice income to the Church Commissioners, 1955 and 1957

Copy Instrument issued by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England approving the church of St. Andrew erected in the District of St. Andrew, Blackhall, 27 November 1930

Copy pastoral measure reorganising the rural deaneries in the archdeaconries of Durham and Auckland, 12 June 1978 (2 papers)

List of incumbents of the parish of Monk Hesleden, St. Mary, 1307 - 1925; of the parish of Monk Hesleden, St. John, 1882-1923; of Monk Hesleden, St. Mary and St. John, 1925-1949, c.1950

Notice that John Frederick Shreeve is to be admitted to the benefice of Monk Hesleden, 3 August 1955

Parochial returns, 1968

Return of income and expenditure to the National Assembly of the Church of England, 1956 and 1958

Return of membership and staff to the National Assembly of the Church of England, 1956 and 1958

Order of service for Remembrance Sunday, n.d. [c.1950]

Visiting list, with names of those to be visited arranged alphabetically, n.d., c.1950

Statement of tithe rent-charge due to the living of Monk Hesleden on 1 July 1925

Copy altered apportionment of rent charge in lieu of tithes on plots 46A and 46B, parts of Roded Edge Moor, 30 December 1882

Copy altered apportionment of rent charge in lieu of tithes on plots 40A and B, 46A, and 2A and B, 25 March 1900

Altered apportionment of tithe rent-charge, 9 September 1932 and 28 March 1936. Attached: copy plan of plots 230 H, J, K, L, 28 March 1936, and memorandum from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, n.d.

Plan of altered apportionments of tithe rent-charges in the township of Monk Hesleden in the parish of Monk Hesleden, part one, 9 September 1932. Scale: 1:2500

Plan of altered apportionments of tithe rent-charges in the township of Monk Hesleden in the parish of Monk Hesleden, part two, 1932. Scale: 1:2500

Altered apportionments of tithe rent-charge in the townships of Sheraton and Hulam in the parish of Monk Hesleden, 18 January 1933 Originally attached to EP/MH.SJ 3/16

Plan of altered apportionments of tithe rent-charge in the townships of Sheraton and Hulam in the parish of Monk Hesleden, 18 January 1933. Scale: 1:2500 Originally attached to EP/MH.SJ 3/15

Certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge on plots 22 and 139-141, 23 January 1911

Copy certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge on plots 2C, 45C-E, 46E-H, 47B-D, F, 50A, 60B-D, 67C, 6 September 1912

Copy certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge on plot '77A etc.', 17 November 1932

Copy certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge on plot 230E, 23 March 1933

Copy certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge on plot '235(D) etc.', 14 June 1935

Copy certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge on plot 133B, 12 July 1935

Letter from the Tithe Redemption Commission, Pearl Buildings, 4 Northumberland Street, Newcastle, to Rev. A.D. Sydney Smith, The Vicarage, Monk Hesleden, concerning the compulsory redemption of tithe annuities, 13 September 1940

Correspondence between the Tithe Redemption Commission, Finsbury Square House, 33-37 Finsbury Square, London; the sequestrators of the benefice of Monk Hesleden; the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, Westminster; Rev. W.P. Stone; concerning the liability for the repair of the chancel of Monk Hesleden church, 10 May - 16 November 1949

Ground plan of St. John's Church, Monk Hesleden, showing the proposed heating scheme by R.T. Vaux and Son, Sunderland, 18 November 1926 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1 : 96]

Ground plan of the church of Monk Hesleden, St. John, giving the number of pew spaces available, by James Garry, architect, West Hartlepool, 26 April 1882

Specification and estimate by R.T. Vaux and Son, Bedford Works, Sunderland, for heating St. John's Church, Monk Hesleden, 18 November 1926 and letter from R.T. Vaux and Son to Rev. J.A. Little, The Vicarage, Monk Hesleden, 27 November 1926

Notes re condition of church, n.d. Originally enclosed in EP/MH.SJ 1/9

Correspondence between J.T. Fatherley and Co., steeplejacks, 39 Summerhill Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; John Taylor and Co., bellfounders, Loughborough, Leicestershire; the Archdeacon of Durham, The College, Durham; Rev. W.P. Stone, The Vicarage, Hesleden; the Dean and Chapter of Durham, The Chapter Office, The College, Durham; The Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Mears and Stainbank, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32 and 34 Whitechapel Road, London; concerning the installation of a new bell in the church of Monk Hesleden, St. John, and the removal of its mediaeval bell, 23 January 1954 - 18 December 1954; 9 March and 13 April 1946 Includes: Sectional elevation A-A and plan view B-B, of the church belfry, at Hesleden, c.1954

Copy letter from Monk Hesleden Parish Council, and copy letter from Durham County Council, to Rev. A.D.S. Smith, Hesleden Vicarage, concerning the maintenance of the church wall and the gate therein, 1 February and 4 March 1938

Application addressed to the Ministry of Works, London, for the re-instatement of iron railings on the boundary wall of the church of Monk Hesleden, St. John, 1947 Attached: sketch plan of the wall and railings, 1947

Newspaper cutting from an unidentified newspaper describing the consecration of the church of Monk Hesleden, St. John, 1882

Photograph, and duplicate, of the interior of the church, looking down the nave to the altar, taken by Fred Eversleigh, photographer, 32 West Parade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, c.1900

Plan of the parish hall at Monk Hesleden showing the proposed heating system, by R.T. Vaux and Son, Heating Engineers, Sunderland, 7 June 1932 Scale: 1 foot to 1/8 inch [1 : 96]

Specification and estimate for heating the parish hall at Monk Hesleden by R.T. Vaux and Son, Bedford Works, Sunderland, 7 June 1932

Report on the Church Hall, Hesleden, by the Durham Fire Brigade, Newker House, Chester-le-Street, 21 April 1948 Attached: letter from the Divisional Superintendent's Office, Durham County Constabulary, to Rev. A.D.S. Smith, The Vicarage, Hesleden, enclosing the report, 13 May 1948

Specification of work to be undertaken on the vicarage, by D. McIntyre, Diocesan Surveyor, The College, Durham, October 1951

Notice giving the conditions of tenancy of the vicarage allotments, 17 November 1949 (1 paper)

24 July 1935 (1) John King of Monk Hesleden, gent (2) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance Agreement that (1) will allow the occupier of Church Cottage, Monk Hesleden, which is vested in (2) to use land belonging to (1) to obtain entrance to the back of the cottage

Letters from the Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, 27 North Bailey, Durham, to Miss Mackenzie, East Terrace, Monk Hesleden, and Rev. A.D.S. Smith, Monk Hesleden, concerning the conveyance of Church Cottage to the Board of Finance, 14 May and 12 July 1934 Attached: account for the conveyance by Wilsons, Ornsby and Cadle, Durham, 1933 - 1934.

Correspondence between Easington Rural District Council; Parochial Church Council of Monk Hesleden, St. John with St. Mary; Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, 27 North Bailey, Durham; the Ministry of Health, Whitehall, London; the Horden Collieries Limited, Castle Eden, concerning the condition of the Church Cottage, 5 May 1939 - 12 July 1939 Includes: front, back and end elevation, cross sections, and roof, ground and site plans of the proposed reconditioning of cottages at Monk Hesleden for Horden Colliery Limited, by A.E. Charlesworth, Chief Engineer, The Horden Collieries Limited, Blackhall Colliery, 10 July 1939

Correspondence between the Charity Commission; Trotter, Bruce and Loft, solicitors, North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland; N.E. Ferens and Son, solicitors, 38 Saddler Street, Durham; Rev. W.P. Stone, The Vicarage, Hesleden; Durham Diocesan Board for Religious Education; concerning the sale of the infants' school, known as Monk Hesleden, St. John Infants' School or as Castle Eden Colliery Infants' School, and the sale of St. Mary's Church Cottage, Hesleden, 15 August 1952 - 31 August 1954

Correspondence and plan re sale of land, 20 January 1967 - 24 March 1969

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Harrison and Harrison, organ builders, Durham; the Bishop of Jarrow, The College, Durham; Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; Rev. W.P. Stone, The Vicarage, Hesleden; Cordingley and McIntyre, The College, Durham; National Coal Board, Durham Division, no. 3 Area, The Castle, Castle Eden; The Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, Westminster, London; Easington Rural District, Council Offices, Easington; C.W. Pratt, sculptor, monumental and general mason, Church Walk, Easington; concerning the demolition of the church of Monk Hesleden, St. Mary, and the transfer of furniture, fittings and monuments to other churches, 25 November 1953 - 19 July 1954 Includes: lists of items to be transferred, May 1954; description of monuments to be transferred, 1953

Newspaper cutting from the Northern Daily Mail, describing the condition of the redundant church of Monk Hesleden, St. Mary, 5 March 1959

Faculty for the breaking of the chancel wall for the introduction of the organ into the vestry, 9 April 1889

Faculty for the introduction of a clock in the tower in memory of the dead of the First World War and of sanctuary lamp in memory of Rev. Archibald Brown, vicar from 1908 to 1924, 8 September 1927

Faculty for the introduction of a new holy table in oak, 24 April 1939

Faculty for the introduction of oak altar rails, an oak chest, four memorial tablets and grave slab, all from the church of Monk Hesleden, St. Mary, and an oak tablet recording the origin of the items, 26 March 1954

Faculty for the removal from the church of Monk Hesleden, St. Mary, and transfer to the conventional district of Peterlee, of a brass altar cross, two brass candlesticks, two brass vases, a wooden hanging cross, a credence table, a sanctuary chair and a lectern bible; for the sale of the organ pulpit and pews; for the storage of the font; for the removal of one church bell to the Dean and Chapter of Durham and for the transfer of the other church bell to the church of St. John, Monk Hesleden, 9 September 1954

Log book, recording alterations and repair sto the church, July 1988 - December 2001

Inventory, 1953, 1954, 1977, 1994

Order under Section 21 of the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure 1923 concerning the parish of Monk Hesleden, St. Mary, and covering letter from the Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, 37 Saddler Street, Durham, to Rev. J.A. Little, The Vicarage, Monk Hesleden, St. John, 5 December 1925

Correspondence between W.J. Moscrop, architect and surveyor, Feethams, Darlington; Rev. J.A.Little, St. John's Vicarage, Monk Hesleden; Durham Diocesan Dilapidations Board, 37 Saddler Street, Durham; Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster; Bounty Office, 3 Dean's Yard, Westminster; concerning dilapidations in Monk Hesleden, St. John, 2 November 1925 - 25 June 1926

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1929 for Monk Hesleden, St. John, 1 May 1937

Amending assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1929, 28 November 1949

Surveyor's report, order and ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1929 for Monk Hesleden, St. John, 2 October 1951 - 7 January 1952

Assessment issued by the Church Commissioners, of annual dilapidation payments due from the parish of Monk Hesleden, St. John, 7 February 1952

Ordinary assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1951, 21 January 1957 (1 paper)

Surveyor's report by Richard Wylie under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1929 on the vicarage at Monk Hesleden, St. John, 22 December 1931

Correspondence between the Bounty Office, 3 Dean's Yard, Westminster; John Pounder, Ltd., electricians, plumbers and general factors, 58 & 60 Stockton Street, West Hartlepool; Richard Wylie, architect, 24 Grainger Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne; Rev. J.A. Little, St. John's Vicarage, Monk Hesleden; concerning repairs to the vicarage, 29 January - 14 October 1932

Order varying the order under section 27 of the Ecclesiastical Dilapidation Measures 1923-1929, 22 November 1949

Surveyor's report under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidation Measures 1923 -1951, by D.C. McIntyre, 31 October 1956

Accounts of churchwardens, 1 May 1806 - 18 April 1812 Originally enclosed in EP/MH.SJ 1/9

Churchwardens' account book, 23 April 1905 - 27 December 1925

Writ of sequestration of the benefice of Monk Hesleden, 1 October 1954

Writ of sequestration of the benefice of Monk Hesleden, 14 August 1957

Minute book of vestry, 20 April 1882 - 1 April 1929

Minutes of the annual vestry meeting, Easter 1925 and minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 29 March 1926 - 18 August 1998

Receipt and expenditure accounts for Monk Hesleden, St. John, 5 July 1945-1953

Receipt and expenditure account for Monk Hesleden, St. John, 8 June 1955-1956

Balance sheet for Hesleden St. Mary, 1951

Electoral roll for the parish of Monk Hesleden, St. John with St. Mary, c. 1954

Electoral roll, 1956

H.M.I.'s report on the mixed department at Monk Hesleden Castle Eden Colliery School, 23 and 24 January 1929

H.M.I.'s reports on the infants' department at Monk Hesleden Castle Eden Colliery School, 27-31 August 1923, 25 January and 29 April 1929

Castle Eden Colliery National School Managers' minute book, 20 March 1905 - 27 July 1931

Reports on religious instruction in the mixed department of Monk Hesleden School, 1926-1928 and 1931

Reports on religious instruction in the infants' department of Monk Hesleden School, 1926-1931

Letter from T.M. Stonehouse, Castle Eden, to Rev. J.A. Little, The Vicarage, Monk Hesleden, 26 July 1927, enclosing a letter from George Little, St. John's Vicarage, Monk Hesleden, to Mr. Stonehouse describing the arrangements for the mistress' house at Monk Hesleden School, 26 November 1900

Letter from A.H. Dunn, Westwood House, Woodlands Road, Darlington, to Rev. J.A. Little, St. John's Vicarage, Monk Hesleden, concerning the actions of the education authority regarding Monk Hesleden School, 18 February 1928

Letter from the Education Department, Shire Hall, Durham, to Rev. J.A. Little, St. John's Vicarage, Monk Hesleden, enclosing a copy of a letter from the Education Department to the headteachers of Monk Hesleden School concerning its reorganisation, 24 November 1931

Letter from the Board of Education, Whitehall, London, to Rev. J.A. Little, St. John's Vicarage, Monk Hesleden, informing him that Monk Hesleden School is no longer a recognised public elementary school, 8 March 1932

Correspondence between Rev. A.D.S. Smith, The Vicarage, Hesleden, and the Durham Constabulary, concerning damage to the school wall, 26 May - 1 June 1948

Description of the inadequacies of the buildings of Monk Hesleden School, n.d., c.1930

Mothers' Union account book, 1976 - 1983

Mothers' Union account book, January 1984 - December 1989

Mothers' Union list of members and subscriptions, January 1984 - December 1989

Description by the secretary of the activities of the Mothers' Union in the parish of Hesleden, St. John, 2 May 1984 - 6 November 1989

Choir attendance book, 26 June 1949 - 26 April 1959

Sunday School Junior Division register, September 1953 - July 1954; 11 - 18 September 1960

Sunday School class register, January - March 1958

Parish magazine, March 1955

Parish magazine, May 1955

Parish magazine, February 1959

List of purchasers of the parish magazine, distributed by Mrs. Parkin, January 1950 - December 1959

List of purchasers of the parish magazine, distributed by J. Clarke, January 1950 - March 1959

List of purchasers of parish magazine, distributed by G. Dobison, January 1956 - December 1959

List of purchasers of parish magazine, distributed by Eileen Holmes, January 1958 - March 1959

List of purchasers of the parish magazine, distributed by Brenda Egglestone, January 1958 - December 1959

List of distributors of the parish magazine, 1959

Newspaper cutting from the Northern Daily Mail , describing a meeting of the residents of Hesleden protesting against the decision of Durham County Council to demolish most of the village and re-house the inhabitants in Peterlee, 27 April 1960