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Register of confirmations, 27 March 1955 - 16 May 1980

Register of confirmation candidates, n.d. - 18 March 1959

Register of preachers, readers, collections etc., 8 December 1870 - 4 April 1880

Register of preachers, readers, collections etc., 4 April 1880 - 13 January 1889 Includes: appointment of committee to investigate and draw up account of parish charities, 28 March 1880; minutes of General Committee of North Eastern County School, 20 April 1880 - Spring 1881; notes re Sunday School centenary, 27 June - 4 July 1880; ruri-decanal Chapter meeting, 5 August 1880; Diocesan conference, 21 - 22 September 1880; establishment of Church Temperance Society, 9 November 1880 - Spring 1881; establishment of Society of Lay Workers, Spring 1811

Register of services, 1 January 1889 - 5 October 1894

Register of services and official parochial register, 1 January 1894 - 25 August 1900

Register of services, 26 August 1900 - 1 January 1907

Register of services, 1 January 1907 - 25 May 1917

Register of services, 27 May 1917 - 31 July 1927

Register of services, 1 August 1927 - 15 February 1935

Register of services, 17 February 1935 - 28 March 1944

Register of services, 29 March 1944 - 18 February 1953

Register of services, 21 February 1953 - 31 December 1958

Register of services, 1 January 1959 - 17 December 1965

Register of services, 19 December 1965 - 3 October 1969

Register of services, 5 October 1969 - 1 June 1973

Register of services, 3 June 1973 - 23 January 1977

Register of services, 24 January 1977 - 1 October 1980

Register of services, 5 October 1980 - 1 July 1990

Register of services, 4 July 1990 - 31 October 1999

Register of services, 3 April 1938 - 26 April 1992

Register of services, 28 June 1992 - 24 September 2010

Copy petition to House of Commons to create Barnard Castle as separate parish from Gainford, n.d.

Order in Council creating parish of Barnard Castle, 19 June 1850

The London Gazette, including creation of Barnard Castle as vicarage, 5 June 1866

O.S. map of Teesdale, showing parish boundaries, sheets 25 and 26, 1904 Scale: 1" to 1 mile [1:63360]

Letters from Lord Barnard and H. Gouldsmith to Rev. L.B. Ashby concerning Bishop's Commission re boundary changes to parish, 20 January - 10 February 1909

Order in council uniting the benefice of Barnard Castle and the benefice of Whorlton to form the benefice of Barnard Castle with Whorlton, 22 June 1983

Merger of the parishes of Barnard Castle and Whorlton Includes: confirmation of scheme for the union of the parishes of Barnard Castle and Whorlton, 13 April 1994; correspondence, 6 January 1994 - 16 July 1998; applications to incumbent for permission to introduce a memorial into a churchyard or to add or amend an inscription, 1 June - 13 November 1998; Joint Planning Group for Barnard Castle's and Whorlton's Parochial Church Councils - Groups and Aims, c. 1990s; Joint Planning Group's report on constitutional matters, 11 October 1993; newspaper cutting from the Teesdale Advertiser, Tuesday 20 July 1993; Finance Sub - Group report from St. Mary's, Barnard Castle, 17 October 1993

Licence for the performance of divine service in the Church Institute, 14 April 1934

Notice of unredeemed acre money payable according to Inclosure Act (1783), c.1824

Letters from the Bounty Office, 3 Dean's Yard, Westminster, to Reverend J.T. Penrose and Reverend L.B. Ashby, concerning tithe redemption account interest payments, 14 December 1904 and 24 August 1906

Correspondence between the Bounty Office, 3 Dean's Yard, Westminster, and Reverend L.B. Ashby, The Vicarage, Barnard Castle, concerning the payment of money under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act 1871 , 28 November 1906 - 22 August 1907 Includes: receipts

30 June 1862 (1) George Dugard, perpetual curate of Barnard Castle (2) The South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway Company Conveyance of 2.621a. land in Boldron, parish of Startforth, Yorkshire. Plan attached Consideration: £195

"A Plan of North Field Farm belonging to The Revd George Dugard" in Boldron, Startforth, Yorkshire, n.d. No scale

Letters from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 3 St. James's Square, London, to Reverend John T. Penrose, concerning the possible sale of glebe land, 22 February 1905

Photograph of clergyman, n.d.

Photograph of an unidentified vicar sitting at a desk in an unidentified room (possibly the vicarage study), n.d. [20th c.]

Licence to curacy of Samuel Moore, 7 June 1925

Licence to curacy of Fred Vernon Robinson, 19 July 1934

Register of occasional offices, 25 April 1959 - 2 November 1971

Lists of perpetual curates, vicars, assistant curates and churchwardens, c .1960

Order of service for institution and induction of Rev. Bertie Selwyn Smith, and institution, 11 July 1935

Order of service for institution and induction of Rev. Alan Brunskill Webster, 21 February 1953

Newspaper cutting, Darlington and Stockton Times , concerning induction of Rev. Alan Brunskill Webster, 1953

Order of service for institution and induction of Rev. John Burnell Browne, 22 April 1959

Newspaper cutting, Darlington and Stockton Times, including article re annual meeting and prospect of getting two curates, 23 April 1955

Papers concerning curates, 1960 -1970

Newspaper cutting, Teesdale Mercury , including article, concerning theological students from Westcott House, Cambridge visiting Barnard Castle, 16 March 1955

Newspaper cutting, Darlington and Stockton Times , including article on speech by Rev. K.M. Carey on marriage, divorce and the church, 19 March 1955

Newspaper cutting, Darlington and Stockton Times , concerning church of the future by Rev. A.B. Webster, n.d.

Newspaper cutting, Darlington and Stockton Times, including article re visit of Dr. Donald Soper, President of the Methodist Conference, n.d.

Letter from Durham Light Infantry Regimental Fund to Rev. J.B. Browne, Barnard Castle concerning transfer of colours of 1st Durham Militia (later 4th Battalion) to Barnard Castle church, 8 April 1961

Papers re lay readers, 1958 - 1971

Typescript copy of a letter from J. [sic ] Brown [Frederick Brown, vicar of Barnard Castle, 1865-1898], The Vicarage, Barnard Castle, to 'My Lord Bishop' concerning the local activities of a 'sect' known as the Salvation Army, under the leadership of William Robinson, n.d. [c.1878-1879] 20th c. Although founded in 1865, the Salvation Army took that name only in 1878. The letter was written before the Salvation Army was widely recognised as a church ('I spoke strongly against this establishing a new sect ') something that was certainly happening in the north east by 1880. The letter makes reference to the Salvation Army's use of drums and fiddles. If written after 1879 it would almost certainly mention brass instruments as the first Salvation Army band was formed in Consett in 1879.

Copy letter from J. Brown, The Vicarage, Barnard Castle to the Bishop, concerning his work with the Salvation Army, 20 May 1882

Survey of church attendance etc. in Barnard Castle, 1967

Parish profiles of St. Mary's Barnard Castle and St. Mary's Barnard Castle with Whorlton, 8 September 1981

Parish profiles of St. Mary's Barnard Castle and St. Mary's Barnard Castle with Whorlton, October 1999

Parochial statistics, 1934 - 1940

Archdeacon's enquiry, 5 December 1978

Archdeacon's enquiry, 7 September 1981

Forms of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God to be used on the National Day of Prayer, 23 March 1941

Form of national prayer and dedication for use on the third anniversary of the outbreak of war, n.d. [September 1942]

A solemn thanksgiving for the English Prayer Book on the 400th anniversary of its first authorization, 19 June 1949

'A Litany for the Parish', n.d. [20th c.]

Prayers for Day and Sunday Schools and Children's Services, 1921

A Form of Prayer to Almighty God at this Time of War, 1939

Family Prayers Especially for use in Time of War, n.d. [c. 1900s]

Prayers for Sunday School - A Liturgy for Church Sunday Schools, n.d. [c. 1900s]

Order of service for the laying-up of colours of the Durham Militia (now 4th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry), 9 July 1914

Order of service for the laying-up of colours of the 4th (Militia) Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 16 December 1956

Order of service for 200th anniversary of The Durham Light Infantry, 17 May 1958

Order of service for dedication of chapel of St. Margaret of Scotland, 15 September 1957

Programme of services for Lent, 1903

Order of service for a carol service, 31 December 1950

Special forms of service in commemoration of His Late Majesty King George VI of Blessed and Glorious memory, 1952

Card outlining the meaning and structure of the Holy Communion Service, n.d.

Order of service - Thanksgiving for Victory, 1945

Order of service - Order of Divine Service for Trinity Sunday 31 May 1953 being the Sunday preceding Her Majesty's Coronation

Order of service for opening of parish hall, n.d. [1957]

Licence for the performance of divine service in Stainton National School, with covering letter, 2 - 12 December 1902

Papers re furnishing Stainton School Church, 1902

Order of service for re-opening of Stainton School Church after renovation and enlargement, 3 January 1903

Statement of accounts, Stainton Church, 1903 - 1908

Minute book of Barnard Castle Rural Deanery Chapter, 1 May 1924 - 12 January 1954

Papers re ruri-decanal conference, 1966 - 1968

Minutes of the Barnard Castle Rural Deanery Chapter, 12 February 1965 - 8 December 1977

Minute book of Barnard Castle Rural Deanery Chapter, 12 October 1977 - 3 February 1993

Minutes of the Barnard Castle Rural Deanery Chapter, 3 March 1993 - 1 October 2003

Minutes of the Barnard Castle Deanery Synod, 7 April 1976 - 25 January 1982

Minutes and agenda of meetings of the Barnard Castle Deanery Synod, 22 March 1982 - 22 April 2002 Includes: receipts and payments accounts, 31 December 1981, 31 December 1984 - 31 December 1988, 31 December 2000; report of the Barnard Castle Deanery Day, 13 May 2000; Area Dean's accounts, 1999; result of voting in the Deanery Synod on the motion of the ordination of women to the priesthood, c. 1990s; Diocesan Structures Review - response from Barnard Castle Deanery Synod Standing Committee, c. 1990s; report on 'Children in Way', c. 1980s; review of Barnard Castle Deanery, 1979 - 1982, 1984 - 1987; review of Deanery Synod lay representation, 1984 - 1986; report by rural Deans on answers provided to the 1985 questionnaire, c. 1980s; parsonage assessments, 1982, 1984