Catalogue

Vestry and Select Vestry Minute Book, 22 April 1794 - 19 May 1828 Includes accounts for enlarging St. Hilda's chapel, 6 July 1787 and for erecting new pews

Select Vestry Minute Book for Westoe township, 19 April 1822 - 14 November 1836 Enclosed: Alphabetical list of subscribers to the Afternoon Lectureship

Vestry and Select Vestry Minute Book. Includes memo of state of workhouse. 22 and 26 July 1836, 3 letters to overseers, etc., regarding supply of goods to Poor House, August, 1836 and notices of meetings of vestry, 1832 and 1836

Select Vestry Minute Book, 25 April 1829 - 4 April 1893. Includes printed circulars, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and annual churchwardens' accounts

Annual Vestry Minute Book and Scrapbook. Items enclosed include newspaper cuttings, printed statements of accounts, correspondence, programmes and orders of service, all relating directly to the work of the Vestry or events in the parish, 1894 - 1954

Minutes of Vestry Meetings at which churchwardens were elected, 21 April 1783 - 26 March 1788. Church Cess Book for panns, docks, glass-houses and tenements, Easter 1782 - Easter 1788. Offertory Accounts, 5 August 1787 - 7 July 1788. Index at the back of the volume.

Vestry Minutes, 6 April 1790 - 1 April 1794. Church Cess Book for panns, docks, glass- houses and tenements, Easter 1787 - Easter 1792, and for all lands in the townships of South Shields, Westoe and Harton, Easter 1790 - Easter 1793. Churchwardens' Accounts, 1788 - 1792. Includes also lists of names of vestrymen, 1791 (p.116), 1793 (p. 197); details of fees for ringing the church bells (p. 117); list of churchwardens, 1787 - 1798 (p. 164); terms of employment of the church bell-ringers, 20 March 1791 (p. 169). Among those matters discussed at the last Vestry Meeting (p. 197) was the payment of subscriptions towards the parish Fire Engines. For index to volume, see inside front page, 1787 - 1792

Copy minutes of a Vestry Meeting held to select the parish representative for South Shields School Board, 28 December 1891

Agendas for the annual Vestry and Parish meeting, 21 April 1938 and 21 April 1949

Receipt for a vestry minute book, 1882 - 1900

Vestry minute book, 1954 - 12 March 1969

Vestrymens' Attendance Register, 10 April 1904 - 7 April 1912

Vestrymens' Attendance Register, 14 April 1912 - 20 March 1921

List of vestrymen with dates of appointment and memorandum on the right of the Vestry to impose church rates, 1852

Printed list of select Vestrymen and plan for collecting the offertories, 1890 - 1891 and 1900 - 1901

Printed list of Select Vestrymen with plan for collecting the offertories, 1903 - 1901

Drawing representing seated figures with numbered faces referring to members of the Vestry listed below, 1904

Notice of a Vestry Meeting to appoint churchwarden' and agree upon a church rate, 11 April 1846

Circular letter of Thomas Salmon, Vestry Clerk, calling a meeting of the Vestry, 28 March 1853

Letter of James Kirkley, Vestry Clerk, to Rev. H.E. Savage concerning the preparation of accounts for presentation to the vestry meeting, 11 April 1892

Printed circular letter calling the annual Vestry Meeting, 4 April 1928

Letter of John Hall, Vestry Clerk to T.H. Mason of Westoe, conveying the best wishes of the Ancient Vestry for his speedy recovery. Enclosed: Programme of services for Holy Week and Easter, 4 April 1929

Copy of an "Act for the regulation of Parish Vestries", 3 June 1818

Copy of an Act to amend [...] an Act [...] for the regulation of Parish Vestries in England, 7 July 1819

Copy of an 'Act for the better regulation of Vestries and for the appointment of auditors and accounts in certain parishes in England and Wales', 20 October 1831

Copy of an Act to prevent the holding of Vestry or other meetings in churches and for regulating the appointment of Vestry Clerks, 5 August 1850

Copy of an 'Act to amend the Acts for the regulation of parish Vestries', 15 August 1853

Copy of the opinion of Counsel in a case which was submitted to Dr. Addams in 1843. Counsel upheld the right of the Select Vestry to impose a church rate without calling a General Vestry Meeting. The outcome of this case was to have an effect on the later appeal of John Lackland in 1854

Letter of William Chater of Hartlepool (?) concerning Mr. Lackland's notice of appeal, 19 January 1854

Copy writ of summons to the churchwardens to appear at the Court House and to produce the church rate books as evidence in the appeal of John Lackland, 1 March 1854

Notice of appeal of John Lackland against the church rates, 18 March 1854

Writ of summons (with 3 copies), to William Jameson, John Paxton, James Brylyfe (?) and James Lamb Barker to give evidence in the appeal of John Lack land against the church rate imposed by the churchwardens, 1 April 1854

Copy of the case for the respondents in the appeal of John Lackland v the churchwardens of St. Hilda's, 3 April 1854

Memoranda re the grounds of objection to the church rate, n.d. c.1854

Memorial from the chair to the mebters of the Vestry requesting representation for the members of the choir on the vestry, 11 March 1893

Album containing photographs of parish notables, n.d. c.1897 (1) Mr. Swinburne (2) R. Chapman (3) J. B. Dale (4) William Wright (5) Matthew Wood (6) J. P. Wardle, Vestryman 1870 - (7) S. Cotteur, Vestryman 1875 - (8) J. Fiarbairn, Vestryman 1876 - (9) James Kirkley, 1890 (10) J. G. Mabane, Vestryman, 1878 (11) Mr. Pollard (12) James Sanderson (13) H. E. Billbrough - Vicar of St. Hilda's (14) Dr. Crisp, (died, 1920) (15) H. T. Duncan (16) Dr. J. F. Armstrong, Vestryman, 1885 (17) J. Reed, Vestryman, 1886 (18) M. Hall, Vestryman, 1886 (19) T. T. Dale, Vestryman, 1887 (20) George Smith, Vestryman, 1888 (21) R. F. Crosthwaite, Vestryman, 1891 - (22) W. S. Young, Vestry Clerk, 1893 - (23) Robert Clark (24) J. McDowell, Vestryman, 1895 (25) J. Winto, Vestryman, 1895 (26) Herbert Todd, Vestryman, 1897 (27) H. R. Carnaby, Vestryman, 1897 (28) F. W. Pollock, Vestryman, 1897 Enclosed: Photograph of an unnamed gentleman wearing Mayor's robes and chain of office Letter of Robert F. Crosthwaite to Mr. Savage concerning the album which the former gave as a present

Album containing photographs of parish officials and dignitaries, 1899 - 1918 (1) Mr. C. Wood (2) James Sedcole, Vestryman, 1899 (3) A.T. Flagg, MA., Vestryman, 1899 (4) E. S. Fenwick, Vestryman, 1899 (5) Bishop Wescott, Bishop of Durham (6) J. Brown, Vestryman, 1902 (7) Peter Norman, Vestryman, 1904 (8) W.A. Armstrong, Vestryman, 1912 (9) W.C. Everson, Vestryman, 1901 (10) W.J. Weston, Vestryman, 1918 (11) C.H. Lawrence, Vestryman, 1912 (12) William Lawson, Vestryman (13) J.H. Robson, Vestryman, 1916

Letter of Bessie Elliott, 17 Winchester Street to Canon Savage, enclosing: Photograph of John Davison, vestryman during Rev. James Carr's ministry [1840s] Hymn sheet for the annual meeting of the church schools in South Shields, 14 June 1904