Catalogue

Register of baptisms, September 1779 - August 1785

Register of baptisms, August 1785 - September 1789 3 Burial entries, 1788

Register of baptisms, September 1789 - September 1793 Entry of people giving candles for the Sunday Schools, 1789

Register of baptisms, October 1793 - April 1798

Register of baptisms, March 1798 - December 1798

Register of births, 1716 - 1807 Compiled 1791 - 1797 from other sources. Not in chronological order

Register of births, 1717 - 1789 Compiled 1795 - 1797 from other sources. Not in chronological order 2 marriage entries 1773, 1782

Index of births in EP/Mo.SP 9

Copy of births, 1702 - 1790, not chronological; September 1779 - October 1786 from the day books; Occasional entries 1801 - 1836 Account of the fire of April 12th, 1790 which destroyed the original registers, and necessitated copies being made

Register of baptisms, October 1786 - January 1812

Register of baptisms, January 1812 - December 1812 Note of a grant of £2,000 to the curacy of Monkwearmouth for investment in land

Register of baptisms, January 1813 - April 1823

Register of baptisms, April 1823 - December 1825

Register of baptisms, December 1825 - January 1833

Register of baptisms, January 1833 - December 1838

Register of baptisms, January 1839 - July 1844

Register of baptisms, July 1844 - November 1850

Register of baptisms, November 1850 - July 1857

Register of baptisms, July 1857 - March 1866

Register of baptisms, March 1866 - October 1877

Register of baptisms, October 1877 - February 1888

Register of baptisms, February 1888 - July 1890

Register of baptisms, July 1890 - February 1895

Register of marriages, 1735 - 1785 Compiled 1791 - 1798 from other sources. Not in chronological order

Index of marriages

Register of marriages, 1735 - 1793 Account of a fire in 1790 necessitating new copies of the register Index to all the volumes of marriages up to 1900

Register of marriages, October 1785 - December 1806; register of banns, January 1786 - December 1799

Register of marriages, December 1806 - December 1812

Register of marriages, January 1813 - October 1822

Register of marriages, October 1822 - August 1825

Register of marriages, August 1825 - May 1832

Register of marriages, May 1832 - June 1836

Register of marriages, June 1836 - June 1837

Register of marriages, July 1837 - May 1840

Register of marriages, May 1840 - February 1843

Register of marriages, February 1843 - September 1845

Register of marriages, September 1845 - November 1847

Register of marriages, November 1847 - March 1850

Register of marriages, March 1850 - December 1852

Register of marriages, December 1852 - December 1855

Register of marriages, December 1855 - January 1860

Register of marriages, January 1860 - June 1864

Register of marriages, June 1864 - May 1870

Register of marriages, June 1870 - September 1877

Register of marriages, September 1877 - March 1882

Register of marriages, March 1882 - January 1893

Register of burials, One page of entries, 1743 - 1785

Register of burials, April 1788 - February 1794

Register of burials, January 1792 - December 1812 (January 1792 - February 1794 is a copy of EP/Mo.SP 48) Copy of the burial register, 1683 - March 1706/7 Index of burials 1683 - 1706 and 1768 - 1701 Smallpox deaths December 1798 - February 1799 Note of visitation of 1801

Register of burials, January 1813 - September 1826

Register of burials, September 1826 - June 1S30

Register of burials, June 1830 - April 1835

Register of burials, April 1835 - May 1840

Register of burials, May 1840 - October 1845

Register of burials, October 1845 - September 1849

Register of burials, September 1849 - October 1853

Register of burials, October 1853 - September 1862

Register of burials, September 1862 - June 1880

Register of burials, June 1880 - March 1891 One entry for September 1919

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Register of burials, 1768 - 1791

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Questionnaire, completed by Thomas Hylton, vicar, re numbers of parishioners, income, etc., c. 1738

File containing: (1) List of vicars of the parish church of Monkwearmouth and of its chapelries, 1736 - 1885 (2) Circular questionnaire from the Bishop of Durham re parochial matters, 1758 (3) Letter: Jonathan Iveson to the Bishop of Durham re the number of Papists, 23 December 1780

Grant to William Taylor of pew rights in Monkwearmouth Church, 6 July 1750

Copy of the London Evening Post containing an advertisement for the sale of Monkwearmouth advowson, 28 - 30 June 1753

Appointment by the churchwardens and overseers of persons to examine weights and measures, 23 November 1819

Appeal to parishioners for contributions towards the restoration of St. Peter's Church (printed), January 1872

Register of services, 6 January 1856 - 18 August 1872

Register of services, 20 May 1875 - 29 January 1888

Register of services, 1 January 1888 - 26 April 1905

Plan of the township of Southwick for tithe apportionment, 1839 No scale

Details of Monkwearmouth tithes: annexation of rent charge in the township of Southwick; names of landlords; tenants; amounts payable; altered apportionment; correspondence from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; 1847 - 1908

Correspondence between Forster and Dunn at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Thomas Milburn, architect, at Sunderland, James Phorson at Carley Hill, Sunderland and others regarding tithe rent charges payable on land at Carley Hill etc., 22 February 1888 - 8 November 1897

A page from The Shields Daily Gazette and Shipping Telegraph containing a court report re Westoe tithes, 8 December 1898

Copy of circular from the Tithe Commission regarding adjustments to tithe apportionment by 23 and 24 Vic., c 93, 532, 1 January 1862

Churchwardens' account book with minutes of the annual vestry meeting, 12 April 1814 - 7 April 1874

Churchwardens' account book with minutes of the annual vestry meetings (newspaper cuttings regarding the reopening of the church after restorations attached), 30 March 1875 - March 1907

Terrier and inventory, 1888

Vouchers relating to the church restoration, 29 February 1872 - 25 June 1875

Account from Robert Allison for building work on Monkwearmouth vicarage, 1868

Architect's certificate with bills and receipts attached for war damage repairs to the church, 1 August 1946 - 30 August 1949

Miscellaneous correspondence from the Archdeacon of Durham, Wales and Strang, stained glass manufacturers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and others regarding church restoration and rebuilding, 25 November 1895 - 29 February 1896

18 October 1879 (1) The Rev. Charles Popham Miles, vicar of Monkwearmouth (2) The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne (3) Joseph Keech Aston of Dean's Yard, Westminster, Esquire Mortgage (and counterpart) by demise of 35 years (1) to (3) in trust for (2) of the income of the benefice Consideration: £125 (2 papers, counterpart with embossed seal of (2))

1 June 1887 (1) Thomas Scott of No. 4 Woodside, Sunderland, ship owner; Henry Scott of Blyth Villas, Frents, Sussex, gentleman; Charles Stanley of Vilette Mount, Sunderland, shipwright; John Maddison of Dock St., Sunderland, shipwright (2) John Sanderson of the Elms, Sunderland, steam ship owner Appointment by (1) of (2) as a new trustee under the trust deed of 10 September 1855 of property on the south of Dame Dorothy Street, Sunderland

Fire Insurance Policy for the mission room, school room and vestry in Dame Dorothy Street, Sunderland, 21 May 1889

22 May 1886 (1) Sir Hedworth Williamson of Whitburn Hall, Baronet; William Stobart of Pepper Arden, Yorkshire, Esquire; Victor Alexander Williamson of Lower Belgrave St., Middlesex, Barrister at Law; Edward Killwick -Calver of Sunderland, Commander R.N.; The Rev. Charles Popham Miles of Kew Gardens, Surrey (2) The first four above mentioned; Robert Keate Alves Ellis of Roker, solicitor; Edward Featherstonhaugh of Bishopwearmouth, gentleman; and the Rev. Charles Girdlestone Hopkinson, vicar of Monkwearmouth Copy conveyance (1) to (2) of a parcel of ground in Charles Street, Monkwearmouth Shore upon trust to allow the premises to be used as a school for 'the education of children and adults or children only of the labouring manufacturing and other poorer classes' according to the principles of the National Society¿; conditions regarding the management committee under the chairmanship of the vicar; arrangements regarding religious instruction

Papers relating to Monkwearmouth National School containing a list of subscribers and accounts (1886-7) circulars and application forms to the Board of Education under the 1902 Education Act and a report of the town clerk on the trust deeds of non-provided schools, 1886 - 1902

Minute book of the Band of Hope, 16 December 1880 - 5 October 1886

Minute book of the Monkwearmouth branch of the Church of England Temperance Society, with lists of members, 14 January 1879 - 13 July 1880

Plan of the estate at Hedworth field, sometime the property of Monkwearmouth Church, n.d. [late C19] No scale

Sermon book, 4 August 1870 - 10 January 1907

Correspondence between the Rev. Charles Popham Miles, vicar of Monkwearmouth, the Rev. James Henry Hancock at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and others, regarding the appointment of Hancock to the incumbency of the Venerable Bede, including various testimonials, 28 April 1871 - 15 April 1873

'Bible' or 'No Bible', a sermon preached in St. Paul's Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne by the Rev. J.H. Hancock, 1870

Churchwardens' account book, 4 August 1870 - 5 April 1897

Faculty for installation of an Aumbry, 14 August 1954

Archdeacon's certificate, 8 May 1951

Minutes of annual vestry meetings, 24 January 1881 - 16 April 1903

Details of subscriptions and other money raised for St. Cuthbert's church, 1880

Correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission and the Rev. C.P. Miles, vicar of Monkwearmouth, regarding the creation of a new district chapelry there, use of a former Presbyterian chapel, surveying buildings, arranging grants, boundaries, Order in Council, application for the assignment of a district, 10 May 1878 - 27 January 1881

Correspondence between the Rev. C.P. Miles, vicar of Monkwearmouth, the Bishop of Durham, the Rev. A. Duncombe Shafto at Brancepeth Rectory (Durham Diocesan Committee of the Church Building Society), the Rev. David Johnston at the Manse, Harray by Thurso, Robert Preston at the Grange, Sunderland, Sarah Tyzack at Sowerby House, Thirsk, White Barrett and Company at Whitehall Place, London S.W., Samuel Rowlandson at the College, Durham and others regarding purchase of Hamilton Street Chapel, repairs to it, delays in conveyance, appeals for money, donations, arrangements for its consecration etc., 18 March 1873 - 20 December 1880

Estimate population for the St. Cuthbert's district, 1878

Insurance policies for church workers, the caretaker's house, sports hut, boathouse and boats and church institute, 16 June 1920 - 5 February 1936

Vouchers for mission church, July 1875 - November 1877, June - September 1887

Plan of proposed alterations to Mission Chapel, Hamilton Street, Monkwearmouth, by Joseph Potts junior, architect, Sunderland, 9 February 1880 Scale:1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]

Plan of proposed alterations to St. Cuthberts Church Parish Rooms, Hamilton Street, by George Brough, architect, Sunderland, n.d. Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]

31 August 1875 (1) Edward Richardson of Monkwearmouth, sawyer (2) The Trustees of The Provident Wellington Permanent Benefit Building Society Mortgage (1) to (2) of a dwellinghouse and parcel of land on the southside of Hamilton Street, Monkwearmouth to the west of Hamilton Street Chapel Consideration: £110

2 November 1896 (1) Thomas Wood Bryers (2) William Alexander McGonigle and others (trustees for the vicar and churchwardens of St. Cuthbert's Monkwearmouth) Declaration of trusts as to land and a dwellinghouse in Hamilton Street conveyed to (2) by indenture of even date

Map showing proposed re arrangement of boundaries between Monkwearmouth St. Peter, St. Cuthbert and Venerable Bede, n.d. [early c20]

Statement of information concerning the benefice of St. Cuthbert relative to the proposed reunion with St. Peter's, n.d.

Report of the Durham Diocesan Committee in aid of the Incorporated Society for the Building and Enlargement of Churches and Chapels, 1877

Register of baptisms, 13 February 1895 - 27 March 1901

Register of baptisms, 31 March 1901 - 16 December 1906

Register of baptisms, 16 December 1906 - 28 May 1913

Register of marriages, 1 February 1893 - 2 August 1903

Register of marriages, 3 August 1903 - 2 August 1915

Register of marriages, 4 August 1915 - 1 January 1925

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St. Peter's Church, A report on the fabric by a special committee of the Architectural and Archaeology Society of Durham and Northumberland, 1870, with a paper by C.A.R. Radford, 1954

Part of a report by a vestry committee appointed to promote restoration of the church, 24 November 1871

Copy of a letter from Rev. Canon Charles Popham Miles, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, to Mrs. Tyzack concerning an outstanding mortgage on the Mission Chapel, 29 November 1879

James Patterson, A Handbook to the Church of St. Peter Monkwearmouth, 672 - 1915, 1920

A report on the fabric for The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Central Council for the Care of Churches by Donald W. Insall, architect, 1961

Reproduction of drawing of the church by L.S. Lowry, 1961

Schedule of repairs compiled from the report by Donald W. Insall (EP/Mo.SP 131/5 above) with specifications for pointing and estimates for scaffolding, 14 August 1962

Notes on 19th century monuments etc. in the church, n.d.

Notes on the lost parish registers prepared by D.W. Smith, n.d.

Tom Corfe, St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth. A guide for children and teachers (Wearmouth Historical Pamphlet: no 2), n.d.

Graham Trasler, A bibliography of St. Peter (Wearmouth Historical Pamphlet: no 3), 1 May 1973

R.H. Lowe, Monkwearmouth Church in the 19th century (Wearmouth Historical Pamphlet: no 6), n.d.

St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, n.d.

Inventory of items in church, n.d. [post 1967]

Photographs of fire at St. Peter's n.d. [1984]

Article on the fire at St. Peter's from Northern Cross, April 1984

Parish directory, 1987 - 1989

A Guide to St. Peter's, 1988

Festival of Flowers programme for Benedict Biscop 1300, 29 June - 2 July 1989

Order of service for Benedict Biscop 1300, n.d. [1989]

Parish directory, 1991

James Patterson, Some Saxon remains at Monkwearmouth Church, 1 April 1901

St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth. Notes on the work of repairing the tower and the west wall, by W. and T.R. Milburn, 21 November 1924 - 29 October 1925

J.J. Wilkinson, The Monkwearmouth Amphisbaena, 29 January 1929

'The Ornamented West Facade at Monkwearmouth' from Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, xlii, pp.75-83, n.d. [1964]

Rosemary Cramp, 'A name-stone from Monkwearmouth' from Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, xlii, pp.294-298 [1964]

Notes on the remains of the original church of St. Peter, Monkwearmouth and on some of the sculptured stones found in the restoration, by Rev. G.F. Browne, n.d. [1886?]

Grave covers and memorials at St. Peter's, Monkwearmouth, n.d.

F.F. Bretherton, 'Wesley's visits to Monkwearmouth' from The Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, pp.29-33, n.d. [?1924]

F.F. Bretherton, 'John Wesley's visits to Sunderland', Wesley Historical Society, North East Branch, July 1973

J. Gordon Holmes, Wesley and Wearmouth (Wearmouth Historical Pamphlet: no 1)

J. Gordon Holmes, Wesley and Wearmouth n.d. [a slightly shortened version of EP/Mo.SP 131/32 above]

The Life of Ceolfrid, a commemoration sermon, 1733

'Trial and Execution of Jacob Freidrich Ehlert for murder ... on board the Phoenix of Stettin in Sunderland Harbour ...,' 1839

Farewell Sermon at Bishopwearmouth Parish Church of Rev. Charles Popham Miles, curate of Bishopwearmouth, 6 August 1843

Articles on 'Monkwearmouth in the Olden Time' and 'Monkwearmouth Church' by Robert Robson, reprinted from the Sunderland Times, 1866

(Bede and medieval civilization) by Gerald Bonner [reprinted from Anglo-Saxon England, volume 2], 1973

Charles R. Denton, 'Countryside of the Venerable Bede' from Country Life, 15 February 1973

Helen Bowling and Tom Corfe, History in Sunderland: a guide, 1974

Rex Gardner, 'Miracles of healing in Anglo-Celtic Northumbria as recorded by the Venerable Bede and his contemporaries' from the British Medical Journal, 1983

H.L. Robson, The Great Days of Wearmouth, n.d.

H.L. Robson, 'Bede of Wearmouth or Bede of Jarrow?' from Proceedings of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society, vol. xxxiii, n.d.

Register of baptisms, 28 May 1913 - 5 May 1920

Register of baptisms, 5 May 1920 - 3 December 1924

Register of baptisms, 3 December 1924 - 26 October 1930

Register of baptisms, 26 October 1930 - 31 December 1936

Register of baptisms, 3 January 1937 - 18 June 1944

Register of baptisms, 18 June 1944 - 4 January 1948

Register of baptisms, 4 January 1948 - 28 May 1950

Register of baptisms, 31 May 1950 - 30 August 1959

Register of marriages, 18 January 1925 - 22 October 1934

Register of marriages, 10 November 1934 - 1 April 1944

Register of marriages, 1 April 1944 - 18 August 1956

Register of confirmations, 22 March 1926 - 23 November 1947

Register of services, 7 July 1957 - 21 March 1962

Register of banns of marriage, 15 April 1956 - 23 May 1971

List of funerals including burials in Mere Knolls and other cemeteries, 14 October 1941 - 15 March 1957

Service register, 27 April 1905 - 16 April 1920

Register of services, 22 March 1931 - 7 August 1940

Notice that divine worship to celebrate Wesley Day is to be held in St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, 24 May 1954

The London Gazette recording the creation of the consolidated chapelry of Venerable Bede, Monkwearmouth from, among others, part of the parish of St. Peter, 16 May 1871

The London Gazette recording the removal of part of the area of the parish for the district of Hedworth, 9 April 1878

Correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission, Whitehall Place, London, and Rev. Dr. Miles, St. Peter's Vicarage, concerning the establishment of the parish of St. Cuthbert, Monkwearmouth, 3 and 9 July 1880

The London Gazette defining the boundaries of the district chapelry of St. Cuthbert, 26 November 1880

Copy instrument of approval by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Hedworth church, 23 February 1882

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 10 Whitehall Place, London, to Rev. C.P. Miles, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, Sunderland, concerning the instrument of approval of Hedworth church, 1 March 1882

The London Gazette recording the alteration of the parish boundaries of All Saints and the Venerable Bede, 3 December 1886

The London Gazette including scheme for the union of the benefices of St. Peter and St. Cuthbert, 2 April 1935

Correspondence between Rev. A.R.G. Pugh, St. Peter's Vicarage, Monkwearmouth and Miss P. Carter, Diocesan Office, The College, Durham, concerning the relative population of the Monkwearmouth parishes, 30 May 1962 - 27 May 1963

Table of surplice fees fixed by the vestry, Easter 1875 and approved by the bishop, 20 April 1875

The London Gazette recording an increase in the stipend of the incumbent, 19 February 1869

The London Gazette recording the transfer of the advowson of the living from Sir Hedworth Williamson of Whitburn, bart., to the bishop of Durham, 28 August 1883

The London Gazette recording income for an assistant curate and capital to discharge mortgages on the parsonage house, 9 November 1883

The London Gazette recording the grant of income for two assistant curates, 30 November 1883

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, Whitehall Place, London, to Rev. C.G. Hopkinson, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, enclosing a statement of stock held for St. Peter's, 2 July 1884

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. C.G. Hopkinson, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, concerning stock held on behalf of St. Peter's, 4 October 1887

Letter from Robert K. Ellis, County Court, Sunderland, to Rev. D.S. Boutflower, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, enclosing valuation and report on the use of a piece of ground near the vicarage, 9 January 1889 and 13 January 1913

Letter from Hon. Treasurer, Monkwearmouth and Southwick Hospital, to Rev. D.S. Boutflower, Bridge Street, Sunderland, enclosing a key to, and list of contents of, deed box at Messrs. Lambtons' bank, 11 March 1903 and letter from Secretary, Monkwearmouth and Southwick Hospital to Rev. W.S. [sic] Boutflower, informing him that a corporation bond has been deposited in the hospital deed box, 4 May 1903

Correspondence between Smiths Gore and Company, surveyors, 7 Little College Street, Westminster Abbey, London; D.S. Boutflower, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, Sunderland; the Ecclesiastical Commission, Millbank, Westminster; 'The Estate Agent', North Eastern Railway, York; the bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; J.G. Wilson, Chapter Office, The College, Durham; concerning income from a wayleave over Hedworth Field House Farm granted to J. & R.W. Brandling and due to the vicar of Monkwearmouth, 2 November 1907 - 27 July 1908

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Note by D.S. Boutflower, vicar of St. Peter's, concerning the disposal of the Hedworthfield Estate, property of the incumbent of Monkwearmouth and the confirmation by the Ecclesiastical Commission of income from the estate to the incumbent of Monkwearmouth, 1908

Letter from J.G. Wilson, Chapter Office, The College, Durham, to Rev. D.S. Boutflower, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, Sunderland, concerning the payment of solicitors' fees, 29 July 1908

Letter from the Estate Agent, North Eastern Railway, York, to Rev. J.T. Brown, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, Sunderland, concerning the payment of Kennicott's wayleave and rent for severed land, part of the Hedworthfield Estate, 13 March 1909

Letter from C.G. Hopkinson, Whitburn Rectory, to Rev. J.T. Brown, concerning the Hedworth Glebe and Lady Williamson School, Monday in Whitsun week, 1910 (1 paper) 174 Correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission, Millbank, Westminster, and Rev. J.T. Brown, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, Sunderland, concerning the payment by the North-Eastern Railway of rent for a piece of land, part of the Hedworthfield Estate, 24 December 1912, 6 and 17 January 1913

13 December 1934 (1) Robert Hyslop of Sunderland (2) Rev. John Kendall Hawke, vicar of Monkwearmouth, St. Peter Assignment from (1) to (2) of the copyright in 'The Story of St. Peter's Wearmouth' Consideration: £5

Copy instrument fixing the table of fees for St. Peter with St. Cuthbert, Monkwearmouth, 4 July 1940

9 January 1847 (1) Rev. George Townsend, D.D., canon of the tenth canonry of the Cathedral Church of Durham (2) Very Rev.George Waddington, D.D., Dean, and the Chapter of Durham (3) Rt. Rev. Edward, Bishop of Durham (4) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Copy annexation by (1) and (2), with the assent of (3) and (4), to the church of Monkwearmouth of £81 7s., part of the annual rent charge due to (1) from the township of Southwick, to compensate for the loss of dues to Monkwearmouth resulting from the formation of the separate ecclesiastical district of Southwick and Hylton

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Letter from C.D. Forster Dunn, 24 Grainger Street, Newcastle, to Rev. J. Phorson, Carley Hill, Sunderland, concerning the payment of a tithe rent charge, 7 March 1888

Letter from James Phorson, Carley Hill, Sunderland to Rev. D.S. Boutflower commenting on the non-payment of tithes by Appleby and Brunton, 24 December 1896

Letter from James Phorson, Wearmouth Coal Company, Ltd., Wearmouth Colliery, Sunderland to Rev. D.S. Boutflower, St. Peter's Vicarage, Monkwearmouth, enclosing correspondence concerning the payment of tithes to the latter, 27 January 1897

Copy tithe plan of the township of Southwick in the parish of Monkwearmouth, c.1840 Copy made, 26 May 1899 Scale: 4 chains to 1 inch [1:3168]

Certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge payable to Margaret Thompson of Monkwearmouth Grange, spinster, in the township of Fulwell, 25 February 1903

Notice of assessment for income tax on tithes, 1903 and draft letters of objection to the assessment from Rev. D.S. Boutflower to the Assistant Overseer of the Sunderland Union, 28 November and 28 December 1903

Certificate of redemption of rent charge on property in Fulwell, 15 August 1904

Letter from the Bounty Office, Dean's Yard, Westminster, to the vicar of Monkwearmouth acknowledging the receipt of tithe redemptions to be held for the benefit of the living, 27 December 1906

Copy tithe apportionment for the township of Southwick in the parish of Monkwearmouth, St. Peter with later annotations concerning the subsequent ownership by the vicar of St. Peter's of tithes held at the time of the apportionment by lay appropriators, 1908

Copy letter from D.S. Boutflower, The Vicarage, Monkwearmouth, to Joseph Potts and Son, John Street, Sunderland, concerning the tithe rentcharge on Mrs. Stafford's lands in Southwick, 4 January 1909 Attached: list of tithe rentcharges in Southwick collected in the year 1908

Copy certificate of redemption of a tithe rentcharge in the township of Fullwell, 30 April 1930

Bank book for Monkwearmouth church in account with Lambton and Company's Bank, December 1867 - 14 June 1878

Statement of income and expenditure for the year ending 31 December 1946

Statement of accounts, 31 December 1945

Account book, January 1942 - December 1944

Statements of income and expenditure, 1931-1934; 1936-1944 Originally enclosed in EP/Mo.SP 192

Statement of expenditure on behalf of the Williamson legacy and of compensation paid for the institute and comments on decision, later reversed, to combine the amounts, 1941

List of freewill offerings, 1921 - 1938

List of freewill offerings, 1939 - 1946

Account book, January 1942 - December 1952

Accounts, January 1931 - December 1936

Parochial Church Council meetings and annual vestry meetings minute book, 15 April 1920 - 3 November 1931 At end: electoral roll arranged by street, March 1920

Bill for drawing up plans for Monkwearmouth Shore Parsonage, 26 February - 2 June 1868

21 November 1944 (1) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (2) Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation and Maintenance of Poor Clergy (3) Rev. James McIntosh Scott, incumbent of the united benefice of Monkwearmouth St. Peter and St. Cuthbert Copy conveyance from (1), at the direction of (2), to (3) of freehold of 32 Roker Park Road Consideration: £150 Attached: ground plan Scale: 100 feet to 1 inch [1:1200]

20 November 1944 (1) Edward Field of St. Martin's, Newbottle Bank, Houghton-le-Spring, model-maker, and Margaret Ellen Stevens of 13 Sancroft Drive, Houghton-le-Spring, wife of Harold Stevens (2) Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation and Maintenance of Poor Clergy (3) Rev. James McIntosh Scott, incumbent of the united benefice of Monkwearmouth, St. Peter with St. Cuthbert Assignment of the residue of a lease of 999 years from 25 December 1885 from (1) to (3) with consent of (2) of ground and messuage known as 32 Roker Park Road, Sunderland Consideration: £1125 from (2) to (1)

Letter from Bernard Taylor Ford Associates, architects, 22 Dickinson Street, Manchester, to Rev. A.R.G. Pugh, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, concerning the decoration of the new vicarage then in construction, 25 October 1965

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, Whitehall Place, London, to Rev. C.G. Hopkinson, The Vicarage, Monkwearmouth, confirming the former's contribution to the repair of the church, 20 January 1896

Proposal by Hicks and Charlwood, architects, for increasing the choir accommodation in St. Peter's church, 1902

Detail of choir seats and detail of proposed extension, by Hicks and Charlwood, architects, 67 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, 28 May 1902 Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1:24]

Correspondence between Hon. Secretary, Monkwearmouth Parochial Church Council, and William and T.R. Milburn, Fawcett Street, Sunderland, concerning the restoration of the Saxon church tower and wall, 23 July 1924

Correspondence between the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Rev. A.R. Pugh, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, Sunderland; Historic Church Preservation Trust, Fulham Palace, London; S.W. Milburn and Partners, architects, The Esplanade, Sunderland; County Borough of Sunderland, Town Hall, Sunderland; Henry Laybourne, 16 The College, Durham; the Diocesan Registry, The College, Durham; The Pilgrim Trust, Great Peter Street, London; Sir John Priestman Charity Trust, John Street, Sunderland; T. Wetherell and Son, Ltd., Close Street, Millfield, Sunderland; the Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle; McKenzie, Bell and Sons, John Street, Sunderland; the Bishop of Jarrow, Gilesgate, Durham; Rosemary Cramp, Department of Archaeology, Durham; the Council for the Care of Churches, 83 London Wall, London; and others, concerning the restoration of St. Peter's church, including the strengthening of the tower and new stained glass, 19 December 1960 - 26 November 1968

Plans and elevations of proposed scheme for strengthening the west tower at St. Peter's Monkwearmouth, by S.W. Milburn and Partners, 9 The Esplanade, Sunderland, January 1963 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]

'Specification for work on the tower at the west end where extensive cracking is present particularly towards the top' by S.W. Milburn and partners, architects, Sunderland, February 1963

Draft outline of recommended repairs to the church of St. Peter, Monkwearmouth, as agreed between the architects to the fabric and consultants to the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, 1 August 1963

Photograph of the tower of St. Peter's church, c.1963

Photocopy of design of proposed east window by L.C. Evetts, The Stead, Woolsington, Newcastle upon Tyne, July 1967 Scale: 1:10

Expanded description of the new east window, October 1967

Letter from Ross Woodroff Ltd., Incorporated Practitioners in Advertising, Newgate Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, to Rev. A.R. Pugh, St. Peter's Vicarage, Sunderland, enclosing a draft description of the new east window, 27 October 1967

Sketch schemes of proposed vestry extension, drawing no. 9179, by S.W. Milburn and Partners, architects, The Esplanade, Sunderland, c.1968 Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]

Sketch plans of proposed new vestry and choir vestry, etc., drawing no. 9183, by S.W. Milburn and Partners, architects, The Esplanade, Sunderland, c.1968 Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]

Sketch plans and elevations of proposed extensions, drawing no. 9192, by S.W. Milburn and Partners, The Esplanade, Sunderland, c.1968 Scale: 1 foot to 1/8 inch [1:96]

Ground plan and elevations of proposed vestry extension, by S.W. Milbrun and Partners, The Esplanade, Sunderland, drawing no. 9241, February 1968 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Faculty for the introduction of a stained glass window, 7 June 1968

Ground and site plans and elevations of proposed extensions to the vestry, drawing no. NS1065/4, by S.W. Milburn and Partners, Sunderland, June 1971 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Visitors' book, 30 May 1934 - 28 August 1957

Visitors' book, 11 September 1957 - 18 June 1970

Visitors' book, 24 June 1970 - 15 April 1972

3 June 1887 (1) Thomas Scott of 4 Woodside, Sunderland, shipowner; Henry Scott of Blyth Villa, Trents, Sussex, gent; Charles Storey of Villette Mount, Sunderland, mason; John Maddison of Dock Street, Monkwearmouth, shipwright; John Sanderson of The Elms, Sunderland, steam-ship owner (2) Rev. William John Townsend of Richmond Hill, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs., president of the conference of the Methodist New Connexion (3) Rev. Charles Girdlestone Hopkinson, vicar of the parish of Monkwearmouth and others, trustees Copy conveyance from (1) to (3) with the consent of (2) of a parcel of land and buildings thereon, previously used as a Methodist New Connexion chapel known as Providence Chapel, the buildings to be used as a Sunday School and meeting place for the religious education of young people and for religious and philanthropic societies Consideration: £535

14 December 1942 (1) Walter Angus Ellis of Sunderland, solicitor, the surviving trustee (2) Parochial Church Council of the parish of St. Peter and St. Cuthbert, Monkwearmouth (3) The Durham Diocesan Board of Finance Appointment of (3) as trustee in the place of (1) of property in Dame Dorothy Street as conveyed in EP/Mo.SP 225

Correspondence between Rev. J.J. Moore, St. Peter's Vicarage, Monkwearmouth; The Diocesan Office, The College, Durham; Joseph L. Thompson and Sons, Ltd., North Sands Shipbuilding Yard, Sunderland; County Borough of Sunderland, Town Hall, Sunderland; H.E. Ferens and Sons, Saddler Street, Durham; Charles Bell, Sons and Barnes, Green Terrace, Sunderland; Rev. A.R.G. Pugh, concerning the disposal of the site of the mission hall in Dame Dorothy Street and the use to which the resultant capital may be put, in particular the enlargement of the vestry, 14 April 1943, 27 November 1962 - 26 January 1969

Scheme issued by the Charity Commission for the mission room in Dame Dorothy Street, 2 April 1964

Correspondence between the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Northumberland Avenue, London, and Rev. C.G. Hopkinson, Monkwearmouth Vicarage, concerning the re-conveyance to Sir Hedworth Williamson of land inadvertently conveyed to the church institute, 25 November 1894 - 1 February 1895

Letters from McKenzie and Company, John Street, Sunderland, to Rev. J.J. Moore, St. Peter's Vicarage, Monkwearmouth, concerning the sale of St. Peter's Church Institute, Whitburn Street, 14 November 1940 - 27 August 1941

Copy letter from the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham, to Mr. Milburn concerning compensation for the Lady Williamson School, Charles Street, Sunderland, destroyed by enemy action, 12 May1948

Letter from P. Carter, Diocesan Office, The College, Durham, to Rev. A.R.G. Pugh, St. Peter's Vicarage, concerning the Broke Street Trust, 29 December 1967

Men's Institute building fund accounts and list of subscribers, 5 February 1895

Letters promising subscriptions for, and accounts of, a fund for the widow of George Thomson, who drowned in November 1905, 22 November 1905 - 31 January 1906 (11 papers) 235 Balance sheet for Monkwearmouth Parish Church Institute, 31 August 1906

Subscriptions to Monkwearmouth Parish Church Missionary Association, December 1906

Monkwearmouth Parish Church Institute Boating Club balance sheet, 1906

Balance sheet for Men's Service, Sick and Poor Fund, Curates' Fund and total balance, 1906

List of subscriptions made to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 14 January 1907

List of subscriptions to overseas missions, the parochial association and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1907

Statement of accounts, 1906 - 1907

'List of Persons to be invited to subscribe to Parochial Fund' and list of names with sums of money written against each, c.1910

Vicar's parish accounts for the mission room, Sunday school, the sick and poor, the magazines and the schools, 1 January 1937 - April 1944 At end: List of items lent to the A.R.P. post, Dundas Street, 1940s; list of recipients of Dame Dorothy dole, 1944 - 1948; note that mission room, parish magazine and schools funds transferred to church wardens, and Sunday school fund to P.C.C. Secretary, c.1950

List of subscribers to the appeal fund, the east window find and the organ fund, c.1962 - c.1968

Alphabetical list of subscribers to the restoration fund, 1964-1968

Account submitted to Rev. C.G. Hopkinson by Kidson, McKenzie and Kidson, for expenses in preparing a new trust deed for elementary schools, 8 April - 28 June 1886

Letter from Diocesan Office, The College, Durham to Rev. A.R.G. Pugh, St. Peter's Vicarage, Monkwearmouth, reproaching the latter for allowing the former Church of England School in Milburn Terrace to fall into disrepair, 15 October 1962

Rules of Communicants' Guild, n.d.

Proposals for the joint operation of the 79th Sunderland Boy Scout Group, St. Peter's Monkwearmouth, and the 20th Sunderland Boy Scout Group, Venerable Bede, Monkwearmouth, agreed 29 February 1960

Circular letter from the bishop of Durham refuting charges of nepotism in the appointment of clergy in the diocese, 1 December 1875 (1 paper) 251 Notes concerning the fees payable to a sexton under the Burial Act (63 & 64 Victoria ch.15), n.d.

Report on endowed charities in the parishes of Bishopwearmouth, Monkwearmouth and Sunderland and the county borough of Sunderland, 25 February 1904

Church Army: Durham Diocesan Mission Van reports on the missions in parishes in the rural deaneries of Jarrow, Gateshead, Chester-le-Street, Lanchester, Durham, Houghton-le-Spring and Wearmouth, written by the clergyman of each parish, 11 October 1949 - 17 November 1954 [St. Peter, Monkwearmouth, is not included]

Register of services, 21 March 1962 - 17 September 1969

Register of services, 20 March 1977 - 30 December 1983

Register of services, 1 January 1984 - 21 October 1990

Register of marriages, 20 August 1956 - 5 July 1975

Register of marriages, 12 July 1975 - 14 September 1991