Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 1907 - 1934

Register of baptisms, 6 May 1951 - 21 April 1968

Register of baptisms, 17 July 1934 - 4 February 1951

Register of baptisms, 21 April 1968 - 14 September 2014

Register of marriages, 1912 - 1929

Register of marriages, 1929 - 1940

Register of marriages, 1940 - 1945

Register of marriages, 20 June 1945 - 19 February 1955

Register of marriages, 19 February 1955 - 25 March 1967

Register of marriages, 25 March 1967 - 25 July 1981

Register of banns of marriage, 23 September 1923 - 3 November 1935

Register of banns of marriage, 24 November 1935 - 15 April 1945

Register of banns of marriage, 5 April 1964 - 27 January 1974

Register of banns of marriage, 20 January 1974 - 19 April 1981

Register of banns of marriage, 22 March 1987 - 18 September 2011

Registers of services, 1897 - 1971

Register of services, 7 November 1971 - 31 May 1979

Register of services, 3 May 1979 - 4 October 1981

Register of services, 7 October 1981 - 1 June 1986

Register of services, 2 June 1986 - 4 October 1991

Register of services, 5 October 1991 - 28 February 1995

Register of services, 1 March 1995 - 22 August 1998

Register of services, 4 September 1998 - 2 February 2002

Register of services, 3 February 2002 - 31 December 2007

Register of services, 1 January 2008 - 15 June 2013

Register of communicants, 14 January 1884 - 29 December 1888

Register of comunicants, 6 January 1889 - December 1899

Register of communicants, April 1914 - 15 September 1918

Register of communicants, 20 July 1941 - 27 September 1942

Register of churchings of women, 16 May 1907 - 19 May 1936

Copy order-in-council uniting the benefices and parishes of Hendon, St. Ignatius and Middle Hendon, St. Barnabas; and altering the boundaries of the parishes of Middle Hendon, St. Barnabas; Bishopwearmouth, Christ Church; Grangetown, St. Aidan; and Silksworth, St. Matthew; 4 February 1970

The London Gazette, concerning the assignment of part of the new parish of Ryhope as set out in the accompanying schedule become a district chapelry to the church of St. Aidan and be called The District Chapelry of St. Aidan, Grangetown, 22 December 1911

The London Gazette, concerning the grant of a yearly stipend of £200 to the incumbent and his successors of the vicarage of St. Aidan, Grangetown, 26 January 1912

Notifications from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England of the agreed level of grant of yearly stipend for the benefice of Grangetown, St. Aidan, 18 October 1917 - 24 October 1918

Notification from the Ecclesiastical Commission of an additional annual grant of £6 to enhance the stipend of the incumbent of Grangetown, St. Aidan, 11 April 1940

Briefs, reports, and recommendations of the committees of the Bishop of Durham's Commission on the Church in Sunderland, 1971

Wearmouth deanery synod minutes, 7 May 1971 - 26 January 1973 Originally enclosed in EP/Gra 103

'Details of heating chamber for St. Aidan's Church', by John Grundy Ltd., heating engineers, London, Blackburn and Tyldesley, 9 April 1931 Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1:24]

Plan showing the proposed arrangement of heating the church by Grundy's 'Reyrec' system, by John Grundy Ltd., heating engineers, London, Blackburn and Tyldesley, n.d., [1931] Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]

Plan showing arrangement of cold air supply and warm air supply at St. Aidan's Church, n.d., [1931] Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1:24]

Ground floor and basement plans of St. Aidan's Church, by Cordingley & McIntyre, chartered architects, Owengate, Durham, May 1967

Elevations of St. Aidan's church, by Cordingley & McIntyre, chartered architects, Owengate House, Durham, June 1967

Bill of quantities register for the proposed completion of St. Aidan's Church, 1924

Grangetown church building fund account book, 27 May 1907 - 31 December 1919

Incomplete condition report on Grangetown, St. Aidan, by Cordingley & McIntyre, chartered architects, Owengate House, Durham, December 1965

Specification of internal redecoration work at the church, by Cordingley & McIntyre, chartered architects, Owengate, Durham, February 1960 Originally attached to EP/Gra 79

Specification of internal redecoration to the church, by Hawkins Heath and Nelson, 3 Grange Terrace, Sunderland, March 1970 Originally attached to EP/Gra 82, 94

Music licence issued by the Performing Rights Society Ltd., to St. Aidan's parish hall, 9 January 1950

Assessment of the parish's annual payments towards repairs identified at the last quinquennial inspection, 4 March 1971

Deeds and correspondence re St. Aidan's church institute, Ocean Road, Grangetown, Sunderland, 1920, 1964

29 August, 1960; copy made, September 1960 (1) Rev. Norman Moses, clerk in holy orders, incumbent of the benefice of Grangetown, St. Aidan (2) Church Commissioners for England (3) Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the County Borough of Sunderland Copy conveyance, by (1) and (2) to (3) of 234 square yards of land on the east side of Grange Terrace, Grangetown, for the purpose of widening the road Includes: site plan by T. Donkin, Borough Engineer, Sunderland Scale: 1:1250

Letters from the Diocesan Office, The College, Durham, to Rev. N. Moses, St. Aidan's Vicarage, Grangetown, concerning the legal ownership of the Mission Room, 14 Grange Terrace, Grangetown, 7-15 April 1971 Includes: copy plan of the site, n.d., [c.1900] Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch [1:480] This is an original bundle

Faculty authorising the introduction into the church of a brass lectern and two brass, standard candlesticks, 25 June 1912

Faculty authorising the erection of a shrine commemorating the men of Grangetown killed in the First World War, 26 August 1920

Faculty authorising the introduction into the church of a sanctuary lamp, 19 November 1927

Faculty authorising the completion of the church by adding a chancel, south aisle, south chapel, clergy and choir vestries, heating chamber and apparatus, an organ, and furnishings; and the insertion of stained glass in the east window, 12 October 1931

Faculty authorising the insertion of a stained glass memorial window in the east window of the chapel, 22 October 1934

Faculty authorising the introduction of a new pulpit, 29 May 1936

Faculty authorising the erection of a wooden chancel-screen, 21 August 1939

Faculty authorising the erection of an organ blower, 7 March 1946

Faculty authorising the introduction of a new altar cross and two candlesticks, 20 July 1955

Faculty authorising the installation of an electric lighting system, 7 April 1956

Faculty authorising the installation of an aumbry and the erection of a hanging lamp, 12 October 1957

Faculty authorising the installation of an oil-fired burner and an oil storage tank, and the overhaul of the heating system, 4 April 1960

Faculty authorising the introduction of a new altar in the Lady Chapel; the replacement of candlesticks in the sanctuary, and the introduction of an oak font-cover and silver chalice and paten, 9 February 1961

Faculty authorising the laying of linoleum tiles in the sanctuary, chancel and Lady Chapel; the decoration of the roof shields and the re-gilding of furnishings, 8 June 1961

Faculty authorising the introduction into the Lady Chapel of two new prayer-desks and two floodlight fittings, 5 July 1961

Faculty authorising the introduction of a case to contain the book of remembrance, 1 April 1964

Faculty authorising the reconstruction of the church organ, 11 October 1965

Faculty authorising the installation of a new sound system, and a chapel in the north aisle; the introduction of new furnishings, and two carved limewood figures into niches in the oak screen behind the proposed chapel; the re-use of the cross, candlesticks, hangings and frontals; and the gilding of parts of the carved bressumer and tracery on a scarlet-red background, 10 March 1970

Faculty authorising replacement of the central heating boiler, and introduction at the east end of the nave of two fan convector radiators, the re-siting of the organ blower, and introduction of six funeral tapers, decorated in ebony, red and gold, 5 March 1974

Faculty authorising the introduction of an oak crucifix to be hung above the chancel step, behind the nave altar, 5 August 1980

Faculty authorising the introduction of the Victorian reredos by Kempe, formerly in the church of South Shields, Holy Trinity, 11 October 1982

Faculty authorising the introduction of a carved processional-cross, 6 February 1984

Faculty authorising the introduction of oak communion benches, and confirming the introduction, in 1978, of the nave altar and platform, 22 April 1987

Faculty authorising the introduction at the sacristy door of a brass sacristy-bell, 15 December 1987

Faculty authorising the introduction into the Lady Chapel of four candlesticks and a crucifix for the altar, 7 March 1988

Faculty authorising the introduction of a pair of acolyte tapers to match the processional cross introduced in 1984, a double base to store them, and two single bases for them, 9 April 1992

Archdeacon's certificate authorising general repair work, 16 April 1959

Archdeacon's certificate authorising general repairs, 15 March 1960 Originally attached to EP/Gra 92

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the overhaul of the church organ, 20 September 1960 Originally attached to EP/Gra 96

Archdeacon's certificate authorising repairs to the roof, 26 November 1962

Archdeacon's certificate authorising work on the radiators in the porches, 7 August 1967

Archdeacon's certificate authorising internal redecoration, 23 December 1970 Originally attached to EP/Gra 94, 97

Archdeacon's certificate authorising general repairs, 17 September 1975

Archdeacon's certificate authorising general repairs, 9 May 1977

Archdeacon's certificate authorising general repair work, 7 July 1992

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the replacement of the altar frontal, 14 July 1995

Inventory, 15 May 1960 - 1 June 1977

Terrier, n.d., [early 1960s] - 15 April 1982

Architect's report on Grangetown, St. Aidan, by Cordingley & McIntyre, chartered architects, Owengate, Durham, February 1960 Originally attached to EP/Gra 78

Architect's report on Grangetown, St. Aidan, by A.O. Lee, Owengate House, Durham, November 1981

Quinquennial survey of the church fabric by Hawkins Heath & Nelson, 3 Grange Terrace, Sunderland, March 1970 Originally attached to EP/Gra 82, 97

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection of St. Aidan's vicarage, July 1981

Grangetown mission room offertory book, 6 December 1883 - 31 December 1905

Parochial Church Council minutes, 1920 - 1964

Minutes of ordinary and annual meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 19 February 1964 - 29 November 1972

Cash book, 1 January 1969 - 31 December 1975

Account of cash deposited with the Diocesan Board of Finance by the Parochial Church Council, to be held in the Central Board of Finance Deposit Fund, until required for church restoration, 29 November 1965

Ledger with annual accounts, 1970 - 1998 Includes bazaar and Christmas market accounts at the back, 1970-1987

Order of the Charity Commission establishing a management scheme for the Charity of Joseph Short, 31 August 1923

Church of England Mens' Society, Grangetown branch, membership, attendance and account book, 1 February 1908 - 1930

Scrapbook containing samples of circulars re church services and activities, 1919 - 1940