Catalogue

Draft Instrument re payment of pew rents, with scale of pew rents and plan, 1850

Plan of proposed font cover etc. by L.C. Evetts, M.A., A.R.C.A., September 1973 Scales: 1:1 and 1:8

Order of service for 125th anniversary of church, 11 October 1973

Order in Council confirming declaration of redundancy of the church of St. Paul, Low Team, 20 April 1983

Copy order in council confirming a scheme uniting the parish and benefice of St. Cuthbert with St. Paul, Gateshead, with the parish and benefice of St. Chad, Bensham, to form the parish and benefice of Bensham; naming Bensham, St. Chad as the parish church and declaring the church of Gateshead, St. Cuthbert redundant, 20 March 1991

Correspondence between Rev. C. Wren, Bensham Rectory, Dunsmuir Grove, Bensham, Tyne and Wear; Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London; Gateshead Council, Civic Centre, Regent Street, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear; Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Rev. Christopher Atkinson, The Rectory, 56 Rectory Road, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, and British Gas Trading, Credit Management Team, P.O. Box 215, Albert Road, New Barnet, concerning the search for a use for the redundant church of St. Cuthbert, and repeated attempts by the Church Commissioners to draft an acceptable redundancy scheme, 21 July 1993 - 2 December 2002

Site plan, 27 December 1889 Scale: 208 1/3 feet to 1 inch [1:2500]

Plan of mission church and parochial church hall, 23 February 1906 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Correspondence etc. concerning the churchyard, 17 August 1896 - 17 July 1967

Miscellaneous schemes of government, accounts and correspondence concerning St. Cuthbert's Church Institute, 23 May 1941 - 12 May 1952

Valuation of St. Cuthbert's Parish Hall by J.M. Clark & Partners, chartered surveyors, 7 December 1972

Letter from Silvester Ashton Partnership, chartered architects, 309 Marton Road, Middlesbrough, to Rev. Christopher Wren, St. Chad's Vicarage, Dunsmuir Grove, Bensham, Tyne and Wear, outlining two alternative schemes to provide a church hall at St. Cuthbert's Church of England School, 16 October 1991

Plan of St. Cuthbert's Church of England School, as existing, October 1991 Scale: 1:200

Proposed alterations to St. Cuthbert's Church of England School to form a church hall, proposed scheme 1, by Silvester Ashton Partnership, chartered architects, 309 Marton Road, Middlesbrough, October 1991 Scale: 1:200

Proposed alterations to St. Cuthbert's Church of England School to form a church hall, proposed scheme 2, by Silvester Ashton Partnership, chartered architects, 309 Marton Road, Middlesbrough, October 1991 Scale: 1:200

Plans of St. Cuthbert's Parsonage, 1866 Scales: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96] and 30feet to 1 inch [1:360]

Certificate of approval of plans and specification for vicarage by Commissioners of Queen Anne's Bounty, 1 March 1872

Abstract of title to land at Bensham belonging to Robert Stirling Newall, 21 March 1877

Draft building conditions for land on vicarage site at Rectory Road, Bensham, 13 August 1903

Specification and plans for work at vicarage, 8 - 21 September 1903 Scales: 32 feet to 1 inch [1:384], 1 foot to 3/4inch [1:16]

Plan of vicarage, n.d. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Specification and work schedule of a proposed new vicarage for Gateshead, St. Cuthbert, by Hayton, Lee & Braddock, chartered architects and surveyors, Owengate House, Durham, November 1983

Faculty to build an aisle, reseat and restore and make certain additions to the church, 18 October 1873

Faculty for the erection of an oak tablet, 23 October 1919

Faculty for creating a chapel between the organ and the north aisle wall, 11 July 1906

Faculty to introduce an oak chair and erect a marble tablet to the memory of Rev. Frederick Lorance Cope, M.A., Vicar 1894 - 1899, 8 September 1914

Faculty to insert stained glass memorial window for those killed in the First World War, 20 July 1917

Faculty for the introduction of altar lights, 9 September 1938

Faculty and correspondence (including details of costs) for repairs to roof, windows and heating system, 27 January 1983 - 1 March 1984

Faculty for the removal of pews, minor alterations and redecoration, 12 August 1985

Faculty for test boring to determine the safe bearing capacity of the sub-soil beneath the foundations, 5 October 1987

Faculty authorising the continuation of a loan of a silver alms dish, presented to the church in 1903, to the Shipley Art Gallery, 14 November 1991

Archdeacon's Certificate and correspondence concerning rewiring of the church, 27 November 1972 - 15 December 1972

Archdeacon's Certificate, 5 March 1973

Terrier, 1887 - 1908

Report on dilapidations and conditions by Richard Wylie, A.R.I.B.A., Diocesan Surveyor, June 1937

Schedule of dilapidations, August 1972

Schedule of dilapidations, 27 June 1980

Cash book, 24 March 1921 - 9 May 1931; Gift Day accounts, March 1939 - 1940

Account of receipts and payments, 1 January 1931 - 4 December 1953

Account of income and expenditure, 8 January 1953 - 1 January 1965

Account of income and expenditure, 1 January 1965 - 29 March 1972

St. Cuthbert's foreign missions account, 1 January 1909 - 27 December 1939

Account book for donations to miscellaneous missionary organisations, 1 January 1909 - 1928

Miscellaneous accounts including cleaning, stipends, Sunday School, special offerings etc., 1921 - 1931

Executors' accounts of the estate of Edith Jane Stephenson, died 27 May 1953, n.d.

Executors' accounts and correspondence, Sinton & Co., 32 Portland Terrace, Newcastle, with the vicar, concerning a bequest by Miss L.M. Todd of Whitlaw, West Park Road, Gateshead, 19 February 1975 - 4 October 1977

Copy of will of Elizabeth A. Henderson of Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, containing bequest to St. Cuthbert's Church, 26 December 1976

Sequestration account, 28 December 1971 - 1 May 1972