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Chester-le-Street Congregational Church

Reference: C/CS Catalogue Title: Chester-le-Street Congregational Church Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1814-1979

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  • Chester-le-Street Congregational Church
    • Chester le Street Congregational Church (Ref: C/CS )
    • Registration of baptisms, marriages and burials, including membership lists and church meeting minutes (Ref: C/CS section 01)
    • Minutes (Ref: C/CS section 02)
    • Deacons' meeting minutes (Ref: C/CS 3, 17-19)
    • Church meeting minutes (Ref: C/CS 4-7)
    • Sunday School Teachers' meetings (Ref: C/CS 8)
    • Financial records (Ref: C/CS section 03)
    • Plans (Ref: C/CS section 04)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: C/CS section 05)

Catalogue Contents

Chester le Street Congregational Church (Ref: C/CS )Registration of baptisms, marriages and burials, including membership lists and church meeting minutes (Ref: C/CS section 01)

1-2, 20/2

Ref: C/CS 1

Church records, 1849-1888 containing: 1) Historical account of the church 1818-1888 2) Church meeting minutes, 1849, 1864 3) Collections, 1859 4) Rolls of members, 1857-1883 5) Register of baptisms, 1860-1875
(1 volume)

Ref: C/CS 2

Church records, 1883-1902 containing: (1) Historical accounts of the church, 1814-1888 (2) Details of preachers, 1884-1887 (3) Church Meetings minutes, 1849-1859, 1864-1865, 1883-1902 (4) Details of collections, 1883-1890 (5) Roll of members, copy of earlier roll plus 1883-1895 (6) Register of Marriages, 1884-1902 (7) Register of Baptisms, 1883-1886 (8) Register of Burials, 1883-1886
(1 volume)

Ref: C/CS 20/2

Directory and list of members, March 1979
(5 papers)

Minutes (Ref: C/CS section 02)Deacons' meeting minutes (Ref: C/CS 3, 17-19)Ref: C/CS 3

Deacons' Meetings minutes, 1949-1961
(1 volume)

Ref: C/CS 17

Deacons meetings minute book, 25 November 1925 - 25 June 1936
(1 volume)

Ref: C/CS 18

Deacons meetings minute book, 25 June 1936 - 28 March 1949
(1 volume)

Ref: C/CS 19

Deacons meetings minute book, 15 January 1962 - 12 September 1972
(1 volume)

Church meeting minutes (Ref: C/CS 4-7)Ref: C/CS 4

Church Meetings minutes, 1878-1883
(1 volume)

Ref: C/CS 5

Church Meetings minutes, 1909-1938
(1 volume)

Ref: C/CS 6

Church Meetings minutes, 1939-1960
(1 volume)

Ref: C/CS 7

Church Meetings minutes, 1960-1969
(1 volume)

Sunday School Teachers' meetings (Ref: C/CS 8)Ref: C/CS 8

Sunday School Teachers Meetings, minutes and secretary's reports, 1929-1961
(1 volume)

Financial records (Ref: C/CS section 03)

10

Ref: C/CS 10

Accounts, 1866-1881
(1 volume)

Plans (Ref: C/CS section 04)

9

Ref: C/CS 9

Site plan of church by Albert H. Fennell & Co., architects, Chester-le-Street and Gateshead, 1939
(1 plan)

Miscellaneous (Ref: C/CS section 05)

11-16, 20/1

Ref: C/CS 11

Church Year Book, 1911
(1 booklet)

Ref: C/CS 12

Report of the Church Secretary (A. P. Hall) read at the Centenary Meeting of the church, 10 June 1914
(1 file)

Ref: C/CS 13

Communion tickets, certificates of commendation for members transferring to the church, bills, receipts etc., 1873-1877
(1 bundle)

Ref: C/CS 14

Notes on the history of the church to 1865 by Richard Tait, n.d.
(1 bundle)

Ref: C/CS 15

Triple Jubilee brochure, 1964
(1 booklet)

Ref: C/CS 16

An Illustrated Account of Durham & District published by W. T. Pike & Co., Brighton, [1893]
(1 volume)

Ref: C/CS 20/1

Ordination of John Francis White, 12 July 1941
(1 paper)



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