Catalogue

Volume of signed Session minutes 1 September 1895 - 7 January 1917

Volume of signed Session minutes 28 January 1917 - 15 December 1940

Volume of signed Session minutes 5 January 1941 - 25 September 1969

Volume of signed Session minutes 12 October 1969 - 8 October 1980

Volume of signed managers' minutes 20 March 1905 - 9 July 1914

Volume of signed managers' minutes 13 December 1914 - 7 January 1926

Volume of signed managers' minutes (volume inscribed 'Deacons' Court Minute Book') 20 July 1926 - 20 June 1945 - on the first page names of trustees and managers

Volume of signed managers' minutes (volume inscribed 'Deacons' Court Minute Book) - 1 July 1945 - 12 April 1961 - in front names of trustees and managers

Volume of signed managers' minutes (in volume inscribed 'Deacons' Court Minute Book')- 18 July 1961 - 30 September 1983 - in front names of trustees and managers

Volume of signed Special Efforts Committee minutes - 31 May 1977 - 26 October 1984 - in the rear notes regarding: stalls in 1980; flower festivals 1981-1983; suggested events; names and addresses, possible of stallholders; names of committee members 1981-1984; monetary totals of special efforts 1977-1984

Volume of signed Special Efforts Committee minutes - 23 November 1984 - 8 December 1999 - in the rear: names of committee members 1986-1992, 1997-1999; events; layout for a bazaar; useful names and addresses; monetary totals of special efforts 1977-1988

Volume of signed Special Efforts Committee minutes - 2 February 2000 - 27 January 2020

Volume of signed elders' minutes 12 October 1980 - 20 January 1992

Volume of signed elders' minutes - 5 February 1992 - 23 May 2006

Volume of signed minutes of elders' meetings - 25 April 2006 - 26 November 2013

Signed minutes of elders; meetings and annual general meetings - 28 January 2014 - 1 September 2024

Volume of minutes of The Vision Group - 2000 - including report of Vision Day 14 May 2000

North West Durham Group of Churches Pastorate Profile - 2000 - St Andrew's, Blackhill; Christ Church, Stanley; The Bethel, Chester-le-Street; - contents: Introduction; Location; Group Pastorate Arrangements; Priorities of the Pastorate; Ministry and Mission; St Andrew's in its Setting; The Bethel Profile; Christ Church Profile; Terms of Settlement

File of Presbytery of Newcastle matters relating to West Stanley - 1956-1971 - Presbyterian Church of England resolution of the Grants Sub-Committee regarding £600 loan to West Stanley; - statistical returns for West Stanley 1956-1958; - West Stanley oversight schedule 1958; - resolution of the presbytery regarding expenses for ministers 1961; - memorandum from the presbytery regarding building or purchase of a new manse; modernisation of existing manses; maintenance of manses 1962; - letter from the presbytery about failure of some congregations to fail to reach the Unified Appeal target July 1970; - memorandum from the presbytery regarding General Assembly 1971 to be held at Newcastle

File on miscellaneous matters - 1901-1970 - governing instrument of Christ Church, Presbyterian Church of England, West Stanley charity 1901; - service order for ordination and induction of Donald Macarthur at Christ Church - 20 July 1932; - letter of thanks from J. Johnston Martin for a gift 1954; - detailed quotation for glazing the church 1956; - invoice from H. C. Roberts of Liverpool (Lancashire) for 150 collecting boxes and 1,000 labels - 1956; - correspondence regarding nuisance of car parking obstructing access to the church - 1957; - invoices for work on the manse at Barnhill - 1957; - order of service for ordination and induction of David Robert Hannen at Christ Church - 18 July 1959; - memorandum and correspondence regarding covenants - 1961; - letter denying excavations by North Eastern Electricity Board had damaged the church steps - 1964; - correspondence regarding possible garage space near the manse at Barnhill - 1964; - estimate by Weddell Hindmarsh of Station Road, Stanley for work at the manse - 1964; - request to use church hall by Chester-le-Street Congregational Church badminton club - 1967; - letter accompanying proposal form from Presbyterian Insurance Company Ltd. - 1968; - thanks for gift of dimmers - 1968; - request for further details of caretaker post - 1970; - offer by the Anglican parish of Beamish of use of its infants' school by Christ Church as a Sunday school - 1970; - appeal by resident of 1 Church Bank against refusal of planning permission to use part of his house as an office - 1970; - thanks for generosity of members in thanking the writer for extracting costs from the National Coal Board for damage to the church buildings - 1970

Receipt given by joseph Watson 20 October 1904 - for £21 from trustees of Presbyterian Church, Stanley in settlement of a claim by him for putting a sewer into the back street behind the church; - witness: J. W. Nicholson of Stanley, solicitor

Memorandum of choice and appointment of new trustees of Stanley Presbyterian Church -18 April 1926; - names of trustees appointed in 1901: Rev Henry King; Robert Wood; Thomas Morland; William Laws; Robert Eltringham; James Knox; James Murphy; John Thomas Castle; Philip Henry Kirkup; Gilbert Logan; William Nattrass; Duncan McInnes; David Wilson; - names of new trustees: James Knox; Duncan McInnes; Thomas Armstrong; George Alfred Clayton; John Alexander Knox [name crossed out]; George Dodd Roberts

Documents relating to Christ Church Presbyterian Church of England, West Stanley 1895-1955 - contents of six deed packets and minute books

Christ Church, West Stanley, statistical return - December 1960

Oversight Schedule Part 2 of Christ Church, West Stanley - 1967

Christ Church, Stanley, church information as of 20 February 2023

Review 2024 Annual Church Return for Christ Church, Stanley

Baptismal register 1911-2022 - details: name of child; sex; name of father; maiden name of mother; employment or profession of father; date of birth; where born; date of baptism; by whom baptised

Volume of admissions 1999-2024 - with names and addresses of those admitted

Communicants' roll book - 1917-1933 - with names and addresses of communicants

Communicants' roll book 1934-1953 - with names and addressed of communicants

Communicants' roll book - 1954-1970 - with names and addresses of communicants

Communicants' roll book 1971-1997

Communicants' roll 1999-2000 - with names and addresses of communicants

Marriage register 1934-1944

Marriage register 1944-1945

Marriage register 1956-1962

Marriage register - 1963-1967

Marriage register 1967-1972

Marriage register 1972-1986

Marriage register 1986-1998

Marriage register 1999-2015

Partially completed book of URC transfer certificates 1978-2000 - part of the book is unused, part is stubs containing the following information: date; name; member; church notified; confirmation of transfer received

Volume of minutes of Junior Church, including annual general meetings 13 January 1988 - 9 November 2000 - at the back previous ministers' present addresses

Volume of minutes of Junior Church, including annual general meetings - 4 March 2004- 27 July 2011

Junior church balance sheets found in UR/St 2/6/2 - 2002-2006

Volume of Men's Club minutes 21 January 1964 - 23 January 1968

Correspondence regarding Men's Club speakers and visits 26 May - 18 July 1960

Disjunction certificate book - 29 May 1962-22 December 1976 - the book is partially incomplete, stubs give the following information: date; certified person and their address; leaving for; certificate from; date

Order of service for induction of Rev Marcus Hargis to Durham & Gateshead Group - 21 March 2020

Names, addresses and telephone numbers of ministers, lay preachers and others - c. 2020

'Church Notice Board - Christ Church URC Stanley' - c. 2020 - names and addresses of ministers and secretary, names of other officers, elders and pastoral visitors and service times

File of papers regarding the church buildings 1913-1970 - claim for subsidence in the chapel as a result of mining by South Derwent Company 1913-1916; - report on dilapidations to the church 1948; - subsidence in the gable between the church and hall and the hall roof, due to mining, with quotation by Norman Raper of Stanley and compensation from National Coal Board - 1954-1956; - summary of necessary repairs and accounts for work done 1955-1956; - report on the organ - 1957; - car parking - 1957; - quotation for seating - 1960; - question of voluntary labour acting as caretakers - 1961; - repointing the spire and defective lightning rod - 1961; - cost of replacing church and church hall - 1961; - exemption from income tax of the manse - 1962; - storm damage - 1962; - snow storm damage - 1963; - subsidence with summary of preceding correspondence from 1913 - 1964-1969; - insurance review 1965; - proposed alterations to church hall central heating with quotation by J. Grass of Stanley - 1966; - redecoration of the church with quotations by J. H. Calvert & Son of Shotley Bridge, Temperley Newton of Spennymoor, Weddell Hindmarsh of Stanley and T. A. Wallis of Stanley - 1966; - quotations for house move of new minister from Wigan (Lancashire) to Stanley - 1967; - contract for maintenance of the organ by Harrison & Harrison Ltd., of Durham - 1968; - liability for tithe - 1968; - rate refund for the manse 1968; - storm damage with estimate for repair by Norman Raper 1968; - claim for damage from subsidence with estimate for repair by Norman Raper - 1969-1970 - roof damage from high winds - 1969

Insurance policy for Christ Church by Presbyterian Insurance Company Limited - 1970-1971

Insurance policy for Christ Church by Presbyterian Insurance Company Limited - 1973

Endorsements to church insurance policy - total sum insured and indemnity - 5 August 1975

Correspondence regarding English Heritage decision to make the building Grade II listed and appeal against this by the church - 28 September 2006 - 9 April 2007

Quinquennial inspection report by Rhys Piercy of Howard Litchfield, Belmont - 22 April - 9 July 2024

Summary quinquennial survey - 25 April 2013

Volume of Finance Committee minutes - 2 February 1984 - 16 September 2008

Volume of Finance Committee minutes 29 September 2009 - 14 June 2012 - at the front names of members of the committee 2013

Treasurer's reports and finance reports found loose in UR/St 4/1/2 - 30 June 2004 - 21 December 2012

File regarding finance 1958-1978 - including the following: - loan of £120 from Home Church Grants Committee - 1958; - loan of £250 for new heating installation at the manse - 1960; - insurance of the church 1968; - application for loan of £500 from Presbytery of Newcastle for buildings works at the church - 1969; - loan of £20 from Home Church Grants, Loans & Property Committee for redecoration - 1970; - financial statements; - decoration including quotation by T. A. Wallis of Stanley - 1972; - repairs to the steeple including quotation by Norman Raper of Stanley - 1972; - poor attendance of Council of Churches Social Evening - 1972; - retirement of auditor - 1972; - refusal by St Andrew's Presbyterian church, Monkseaton (Northumberland) of request for aid - 1972; - partial refusal by Presbytery of Newcastle to grant a loan - 1972; - conversion of solid fuel boiler to gas fuelled - 1972; - application for tenancy of Church Bank in succession to T. A. Wallis - 1972; - loan of £580 by Presbyterian Home Grants Loan & Property Committee to West Stanley for heating installation - 1972; - insurance of the manse 1972; - reports on meetings of the Financial Authority 1972-1978, - storm damage to the roof and insurance claim - 1973-1976; - insurance of the church 1973; - external stone cleaning including specification - 1973; - donation of £10 to Anglican parish of Beamish for upkeep of the Church Institute; - maintenance service agreement for gas boiler; - donation to the church of £50 by the late Miss Long; - balance sheet 1973; - creation of a youth club using the church hall 1974; - estimate by J. H. Calvert & Son of Shotley Bridge for redecorating the manse 1974; - water rate of the manse 1974; - heating of the manse, including schedule of radiators and quote by J. Grass of Stanley and North West Durham Heating & Allied Services of Dipton - 1975; - United Reformed Church memorandum regarding deployment of ministers in Durham District; - invoice and guarantee by C. T. Grant (Plastic Overseal) regarding the church roof - 1976; - application by Brian Sewell, builder, to lease builders' yard adjacent to the church - 1976; - national pay policy 1976; - tender for heating of the manse by W. N. Gray of Swalwell 1975; - Finchale Training College raising £115.76 in Stanley 1976; - Christ Church order of service; - amount required by Unified Appeal Committee - 1978; - letter from St Margaret's URC, South Shields requesting the details of the supplier of Meshlite - 1978

Financial Report quarter ending 31 December 2001 - Treasurer's Report on the reverse

Finance Report quarter ending 30 September 2004; - Treasurer's Report on the reverse

Finance report - quarter ending 31 December 2013

Finance report - quarter ending 30 September 2015

Finance report - quarter ending 31 December 2016 - list of preachers on the reverse

Finance report - quarter ending 30 June 2024

Receipts and payments account - year ended 31 December 2013

Receipts and payments account - year ended 31 December 2015

Receipts and payments account - year ended 31 December 2016

Receipts and payments account - year ended 31 December 2017

Receipts and payments account - 31 December 2018 - list of preachers on the reverse

Receipts and payments account - year ended 31 December 2023

Special Efforts accounts - 2015

Special Efforts accounts - 2016

Special Efforts accounts - 2018

Junior Church accounts - 2015

Junior Church accounts - 2016

Junior Church accounts - 2018

Women's Guild accounts - 2018

Bazaar account, current account and Building Fund account - 1907 - on the reverse notes from a meeting of 25 March 1908

File regarding North West Durham Group - 2000-2013 - purpose and constitution of the North West Durham Group of Churches; - order of service for inauguration of the North West Durham Group of Churches - 31 December 2000; - appointment of a member of the Co-ordinating Committee - December 2000; - draft profile of St Andrew's, Blackhill; - agendas and minutes of meetings of the Co-ordinating Committee - 2000; - agendas and minutes of North West Durham Group - 2000-2003, 2007, 2013; - agendas for meetings of the Co-ordinating Committee - 2001-2003; - rota of moderation of elders' meetings - 2001-2002; - schedule of worship - 2001-2002 - correspondence regarding end of Donald MacKay's term as Interim Moderator - 2002; - names and addresses of Co-ordinating Committee members - 2002-2003; - annual accounts - 2002; - schedule of meetings 2003-2004; - social dates for St Andrew's URC, Blackhill - 2003; - celebration of 150th anniversary of St Andrew's, Blackhill - 2007 - annual accounts 2008, 2010;

File on miliary matters regarding the church - 1940-1945 - military requisition of the church hall and room at the rear - 31 May 1940; - rental compensation - August 1940; - inspection of the church hall, occupied by Royal Artillery - 15 July 1940; - de-requisitioning of the church hall - April 1945; - estimate for repairs to the church hall - with summary of estimates - May-June 1945; - offer of compensation by the War Department Land Agent - June-August 1945; - application for building licence to carry out essential repairs to the church hall - August 1945

Booklet: 'Christ Church, Stanley, County Durham The First One Hundred Years 1895-1995' - with photographs and short pieces on ministers: Henry King (1898-1910); William Scott Nichol (1911-1917, 1920-1925); David Eades (1917-1919); James G. Richie (1925-1930); Donald MacArthur (1932-1938); Brian M. Pratt (1928-1943); Norman A. Hall (1944-1948); Glyn Richards (1949-1954); David Marsden (1954-1958); David Hannen (1959-1967); Howell Thomas (1968-1973); Peter Heckels (1974-1979); Wynn Young (1980-1984); Ron Forster (1985-1992); Peter W. Grey (1993-); - nominal roll of membership 1994 with names and addresses; - list of adherents 1994 with names and addresses; - roll of junior church 1994 with names and addresses; - calendar for a year of celebration 1994-1995

Programme for centenary celebration flower festival - 29 September - 1 October 1995

'From Presbyterian Ponderings to Reformed Ramblings' - c.1995 - by various contributors