Barnard Castle St. Mary Parish
Reference: EP/BC Catalogue Title: Barnard Castle St. Mary Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 12 Charities
Covering Dates: 1796-2003
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- Barnard Castle St. Mary Parish
- 12 Charities (Ref: EP/BC 12/)
- General (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 01)
- Reports and returns (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 01)
- Financial records (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 02)
- Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 03)
- Christmas and Easter Charities (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 02)
- Dent's Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 03)
- Hospital Charities (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 04)
- Hutton's Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 05)
- John Glentin Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 06)
- Lady Barnard Memorial Fund (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 07)
- Lord Crewe and Rev. John Sharp's Charities (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 08)
- Mary Munro's Coal Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 09)
- Old Men and Women' s Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 10)
- Owen Longstaff' s Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 11)
- Percival' s Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 12)
- Richardson Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 13)
- Bede Kirk Trust (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 14)
- Bede Kirk site (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 01)
- Trustees (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 02)
- Trustees minutes (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 03)
- Correspondence (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 04)
Catalogue Contents
12 Charities (Ref: EP/BC 12/)
For accounts of Christmas and Easter Charities, 1825 - 1834 see EP/BC 5/2
General (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 01)12/1-3, 5-11
Reports and returns (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 01)12/2, 5-6
Ref: EP/BC 12/2Extract from 21st report of the Commissioners for enquiring concerning charities, 7 January 1829
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/BC 12/5Report on the Endowed Charities of the parish of Gainford, including the chapelries of Barnard Castle and Whorlton, 1902
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/BC 12/6Return of the Charities Affecting the Parish of Barnard Castle, 27 February 1913
(1 booklet, printed)
Financial records (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 02)12/3, 7-8
Ref: EP/BC 12/3Account book of Committee for the Distribution of coals etc., 1872 - 1881, and distribution of soup and bread, January 1891
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: EP/BC 12/7Balance sheet, St. Mary's charities, 1912 - 1913
(1 file)
Ref: EP/BC 12/8Statements of accounts, 1938 - 1941
(7 papers, typescript)
Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 03)12/1, 9-11, 37
Ref: EP/BC 12/1Act for the registering and securing of Charitable Donations , 9 July 1812, copy dated 4 February 1815
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: EP/BC 12/9Notes on charities for which vestry is responsible, 1946
(6 papers, typescript)
Ref: EP/BC 12/10Papers re Barnard Castle Charities, 1960 - 1970
(1 file, typescript)
Ref: EP/BC 12/11Papers re provisions for old and needy, 1963 - 1968
(1 file)
Ref: EP/BC 12/37A list of legacies, investments, covenants and other 'excetera' compiled by T. Summerson, Treasurer in June 1954
(1 volume)
Christmas and Easter Charities (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 02)12/20
For accounts of Christmas and Easter Charities, 1825 - 1834, see EP/BC 5/2
Account book of Christmas Charities, 1847 - 1882 and Easter Charities, 1848 - 1882; and offertory, 1847 - 1861
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Dent's Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 03)12/15-19
Ref: EP/BC 12/15Notice re charity to educate ten poor boys, "Dent's Scholar's", 1826
Originally enclosed in EP/BC 11/1
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: EP/BC 12/16Papers re Dent's Charity, 16 April 1853 - 30 March 1910
(12 papers)
Ref: EP/BC 12/17Letters from vicar and churchwardens to Education Department concerning scheme for William Dent's Charity, 25 June 1909 - 11 March 1910
(2 files, typescript)
Ref: EP/BC 12/18Bank passbook, Dent's Charity, 12 December 1961 - 6 October 1970
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/BC 12/19Letter from D.S.S. to Rev. J.B. Browne, concerning registration of William Dent Foundation, 8 January 1968
(1 paper, typescript)
Hospital Charities (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 04)12/21-22
Ref: EP/BC 12/21Scheme for the Regulation and Management of St John's Hospital at Barnard Castle, 1864
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/BC 12/22Letter from Charity Commission to Rev. J.B. Browne concerning F.R. Sherlock Charity for a Cottage Hospital, 5 November 1969
(1 paper, typescript)
Hutton's Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 05)12/14, 30
Ref: EP/BC 12/14Account book of Hutton's Charity, 10 November 1805 - 12 December 1829
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/BC 12/30List of recipients of bread under Hutton's Charity, June 1958 - June 1969
(1 volume, leather bound)
John Glentin Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 06)12/27
Ref: EP/BC 12/27Charity Commission Order concerning John Glentin and Others Charities, with covering letter, 19 June 1946 - 9 May 1947
(2 papers, typescript)
Lady Barnard Memorial Fund (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 07)12/28
Ref: EP/BC 12/28Letters from W.J. and H.C. Watson, Barnard Castle, solicitors to Rev. J.B. Browne, concerning The Lady Barnard Memorial Fund, 10 June 1964 - 25 July 1966
(2 papers)
Lord Crewe and Rev. John Sharp's Charities (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 08)12/4
Ref: EP/BC 12/4Scheme for the future regulation and management of the charities of Lord Crewe and the Rev. John Sharp, 29 June 1875
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Mary Munro's Coal Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 09)12/29
Ref: EP/BC 12/29Account book of Mrs Mary Munro's Coal Charity, 21 January 1909 - December 1952
(1 volume, leather bound)
Old Men and Women' s Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 10)12/12-13
Ref: EP/BC 12/12Minute book of Old Men and Women's Charity, 31 March 1796 - 24 December 1865
(1 volume, calf half-bound)
Ref: EP/BC 12/13Papers re investment of The Old Men and Women's Charity, 7 February - 11 March 1862
(4 papers, printed)
Owen Longstaff' s Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 11)12/23-24
Ref: EP/BC 12/23Copy of will, 4 November 1861, of Owen Longstaff, deceased, bequeathing £200 to be invested, the interest to be distributed among the poor, proved 31 August 1872
(1 paper)
Ref: EP/BC 12/24Papers re Owen Longstaff's Charity, 1873
(6 papers, printed)
Percival' s Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 12)12/25
Ref: EP/BC 12/25Correspondence between E.R. Hanby Holmes and P.S. Summerson, Barnard Castle, concerning sale of field at Startforth belonging to Percival's Charity, plan attached, 12 - 26 February 1940
(3 papers)
Richardson Charity (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 13)12/26
Ref: EP/BC 12/26Papers re Robert Taylor Richardson Charity, 1940 - 1963
(45 papers and 1 file)
Bede Kirk Trust (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 14)The Bede Kirk Trust was created on 31 January 1923 by Robert Taylor Richardson who granted the house and hereditaments of Bede Kirk to trustees to accumulate income over 21 years and then be used by the trustees to further the work of the parish of Barnard Castle or the Church of England.
Bede Kirk was originally a church dating from the twelfth century before being altered to a farm.
12/32-35
Ref: EP/BC 12/3231 January 1923
(1) R. T. Richardson, Esq. of Barnard Castle
(2) Right Reverend Father in God Lord Bishop of Durham and Venerable P. A. Derry, Archdeacon of Auckland and H. C. Watson, retired Colonel of Barnard Castle and J. S. Helman, retired Bank Manager of Barnard Castle
Conveyance of land of a dwelling house and funds from (1) to (2) for the benefit of the Church of England in the parish of Barnard Castle
(8 papers, typescript)
Ref: EP/BC 12/33Particulars and conditions of a sale by auction of a freehold small holding situated on Harmire Road, Barnard Castle known as 'Bede Kirk' extending to three and a half acres by Messrs. G. Tarn Bainbridge and Son at Parkinson's Sale Rooms, Barnard Castle, 28 August 1946
(2 papers, 1 plan, tracing paper, 19cm x 15cm)
Ref: EP/BC 12/3428 April 1930
(1) Trustees of the Bede Kirk Trust
(2) Cleveland and Durham County Electric Power Company
Draft wayleave agreement for underground electric cables at Barnard Castle, Carliol House, Newcastle - upon -Tyne between (1) and (2) with (2) paying two shillings and six pence on the 31 December every year from the commencement of this agreement
(2 papers, 1 plan, tracing paper, 20cm x 16cm)
Ref: EP/BC 12/35Order of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales allowing the trustees of the Bede Kirk Trust to sell, within twelve calendar months of this order, the property containing three acres situated on the east side of Harmire Road, in the parish of Barnard Castle with the dwelling houses and farm building erected upon for not less than £1, 725, 11 October 1946
(1 paper, typescript)
Trustees (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 02)12/31/1-2
Ref: EP/BC 12/31/110 May 1933
(1) H. C. Watson, Solicitor of Barnard Castle and J. S. Helmer retired Bank Manager of Barnard Castle
(2) T. P. S. Summerson, Company Secretary of Barnard Castle
Appointment of a new trustee from (1) to (2) of the Bede Kirk Trust
(2 papers)
Ref: EP/BC 12/31/216 June 1934
1) J. S. Helmer Esq, retired Bank Manager and T. P. S. Summerson of Barnard Castle aforesaid Company's Secretary
2) W. I. Watson Esq., Solicitor of Barnard Castle
Appointment of a new trustee from (1) to (2) of the Bede Kirk Trust
(2 papers, typescript)
Trustees minutes (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 03)12/36/1-5
Ref: EP/BC 12/36/1Minutes of meetings of the Bede Kirk Trustees, 2 December 1925 - 12 March 1946
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/BC 12/36/2Minutes of a meeting of the Bede Kirk Trustees, 27 November 2000
(10 papers, printed)
Ref: EP/BC 12/36/3Minutes of a meeting of the Bede Kirk Trustees, 7 January 2001
(2 papers, printed)
Ref: EP/BC 12/36/4Minutes of a meeting of the Bede Kirk Trustees, 10 November 2002
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: EP/BC 12/36/5Draft minutes of a meeting of the Bede Kirk Trustees, 4 February 2003
(1 paper, printed)
Correspondence (Ref: EP/BC 12/section 04)12/38
Ref: EP/BC 12/38Correspondence concerning the transfer of the property of the Bede Kirk Trust to the Parochial Church Council of Barnard Castle with Whorlton, Barnard Castle, 22 April 2002 - 30 October 2003
Includes: public notice for the transfer of property under Charities Act 1993 on 4 February 2003
(13 papers, printed)
