Catalogue

Register of confirmations, 27 May 1957 - 4 May 1980

Register of preachers, readers and collections, 13 April 1884 - 7 December 1889

Register of preachers, 10 September 1865 - 7 November 1869

Register of services and offerings, 1 December 1889 - 3 April 1902

Register of services and offerings, 6 April 1902 - 30 April 1916

Register of services, 30 April 1916 - 20 April 1919

Register of services, 27 April 1919 - 30 December 1923

Register of services, 1 January 1924 - 1 December 1929

Register of services, 1 December 1929 - 30 November 1935

Register of services, 1 December 1935 - 8 April 1944

Register of services, 9 April 1944 - 2 September 1949

Register of services, 4 September 1949 - 18 October 1952

Register of services, 19 October 1952 - 29 August 1961

Register of services, 1 September 1961 - 7 July 1972

Register of services, 6 August 1972 - 6 March 1981

Register of services, 1 January 1995 - 20 October 1999

Register of services, 21 October 1999 - 29 November 2001

Register of services, 2 December 2001 - 19 September 2003

Register of services, 21 September 2003 - 8 July 2005

Register of services, 10 July 2005 - 4 May 2007

Register of services, 6 May 2007 - 31 October 2008

Register of services, 2 November 2008 - 7 May 2010

Questions and answers regarding the chapelry of Birtley required by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, with acknowledgement, 23 - 27 October 1860

Licence for the performance of divine service at Birtley Church, 1 December 1848

Licence for the performance of divine service at St. Andrew's Mission Church in the parish of Birtley, 7 December 1883

Poster advertising the programme of events, 4 May 1997

Newspaper cutting from the Journal reporting Rev Diana Johnson' s journey, by pony and trap, from Chester le Street to Birtley, recreating the journey of Rev Francis Brewster, 150 years before, 5 May 1997

Photograph, reproduced from the Journal , of Rev Diana Johnson arriving at Barley Mow village hall in a pony and trap driven by Bobby Wilson, [4 May 1997]

Letters and greetings cards to Rev Frank White, from councillor Joan Greenfield, 6 The Avenue, Birtley; Dorothy A. Rand, 11 Industrial Street, Pelton; 'Bill', 3 Pelham Court, Coxhoe; councillor Neil Weatherley, 5 Poplar Crescent, Birtley; Wearside Community Church and Beatrix Salovsky, Deanery Lay chairman, congratulating him on the 150 th anniversary of his church but declining his invitation to attend the celebrations, 26 April - 2 May 1997

Order in Council creating benefice of Oxclose from, among others, part of the parish of Birtley, 23 October 1972

Plan of the parish of Oxclose showing the alterations of the boundaries of the parishes of Washington, Birtley, Fatfield, Penshaw, Burnmoor, 23 October 1972

Form of inquiry upon application being made to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for constituting a new district at Birtley from the parish of Chester-le-Street, 16 February 1848

Correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission, the Rev. F.W. Brewsher and others regarding proposed boundary alterations to the parishes of Birtley and Burnmoor and creation of an ecclesiastical district at Fatfield, 3 June - 8 November 1875

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission to the Rev. Francis Brewsher at Birtley Parsonage regarding the intended Order in Council for a grant towards the benefice, 6 July 1861

Notice of registration under the Coal Act, 1938, sent by the Coal Commission to the vicar of Birtley, 19 March 1941

Licence to curacy of Joseph Butterworth, 11 July 1917

Licence of the Rev. Leonard Lancelot Barclay to the perpetual curacy of Birtley with certificate of his Declaration of Assent to the 39 Articles etc., 14 July 1914

Correspondence between the Rev. A.M. Stephens at Birtley Vicarage, the Lord Bishop of Durham and others regarding the reservation of the sacrament, the introduction of an aumbry and other matters connected therewith, 30 September 1939 - 29 May 1940

Letter from the Bishop of Durham to Rev. M.R.H. Turner, concerning the standing and entitlement to receive Holy Communion of a parishioner, 2 October 1970

Copy of letter sent by the Ecclesiastical Commission to the Rev. W.O. Blunt, Rector of Chester-le-Street regarding purchase of additional land for the parsonage, 7 November 1882

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission to the Rev. W.S. Guest-Williams at Birtley Vicarage regarding Order in Council vesting land for the parsonage, 28 March 1885

List of special offertories made in the years, 1888 - 1891 Originally enclosed in EP/Bir 2/55

Missionary accounts, 1890 - 1897 Originally enclosed in EP/Bir 2/55

Order of service for the Christmas carol service for the Mothers' Union and guests, 15 December 1997

Order of service for an All Souls' Day service at St John's church, 1 November 1998

Order of service for an Advent Carol service at St John's church, 29 November 1998

Order of service for the Christmas carol service for the Mothers' Union and guests, 14 December 1998

Master copy of an order of service for a Christingle service in Barley Mow village hall, 20 December 1998

Hymns for the confirmation service for Chester le Street Deanery, held at St John's church, 7 May 1992

Hymns for Pentecost Praise at St John's church, 18 May [1997]

Handbill advertising a Mothering Sunday service at St John's church, 29 March 1992

Handbill advertising a Christingle service at St John's church, 21 December 1992

Leaflet advertising the Christmas services in St John' s parish, 19 December 1993 - 2 January 1994

Leaflet advertising Harvest Festival and other events at St John's church, Birtley and the Parish Centre, Chester le Street, 2 - 13 October 1994

Handbill advertising an Advent Party at St John's church, 2 December 1994

Leaflet advertising an Easter Day service at St John's church, 30 March 1997

Leaflet advertising services and other events to mark the 150th anniversary of ministry in St John's parish, 4 - 12 May 1997

Leaflet advertising Easter services and events at churches in Birtley, 10 - 12 April 1998

Handbill advertising Harvest Weekend services in St John's parish, 26 - 27 September 1998

Handbill advertising an Advent Carol service at St John's church, 29 November 1998

Mock-up of a handbill advertising Advent services at St John's church, 29 November 1998 - 1 January 1999

Handbill advertising an Advent party in the church hall, 4 December [1998]

Leaflet advertising Easter services and events at churches in Birtley, 2 - 4 April 1999

Mock-up of the programme of the 150th anniversary concert and Harvest Festival services at St John's church, 8 - 10 October 1999

Copy of pastoral order transferring the parishes of Tanfield and Beamish to the rural deanery of Lanchester, 2 November 1970

Copy of pastoral order altering rural deaneries in the archdeaconries of Durham and Auckland, 12 June 1978