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Houghton-le-Spring St. Michael Parish

Reference: EP/Ho Catalogue Title: Houghton-le-Spring St. Michael Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 06 Parochial Church Council

Covering Dates: 1911-1988

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  • Houghton-le-Spring St. Michael Parish
    • Houghton le Spring, St Michael (Ref: EP/Ho)
    • Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Ho )
    • Minutes (Ref: EP/Ho section 01)
    • Parochial Church Council minutes (Ref: EP/Ho section 01)
    • Committee minutes (Ref: EP/Ho section 02)
    • Financial records (Ref: EP/Ho section 02)
    • Statements of accounts and balance sheets (Ref: EP/Ho section 01)
    • Account books (Ref: EP/Ho section 02)
    • Treasurers' reports (Ref: EP/Ho section 03)
    • Other (Ref: EP/Ho section 04)
    • Parochial statistics (Ref: EP/Ho section 03)
    • Parish officers (Ref: EP/Ho section 04)

Catalogue Contents

Houghton le Spring, St Michael (Ref: EP/Ho)Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Ho )Minutes (Ref: EP/Ho section 01)Parochial Church Council minutes (Ref: EP/Ho section 01)

740-745

Ref: EP/Ho 740

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 17 May 1920 - 13 January 1944 Includes: Annual Parochial Church Meetings minutes, 13 April 1920 - 27 April 1943
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 741

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 16 March 1944 - 1 February 1945 Includes: Annual Vestry and Parochial Church Meetings minutes, 17 February 1944 - 30 May 1945
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 742

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 28 November 1945 - 4 February 1965 Includes: Annual Vestry and Church Electors' Meetings minutes, 14 February 1946 - 8 April 1964
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 743

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 17 June 1965 - 11 December 1975 Includes: Annual Church and Electors' Meetings minutes, 28 April 1965 - 10 April 1975
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 744

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 29 January 1976 - 23 November 1982 Includes: Annual and Church Electors' Meetings minutes, 27 April 1976 - 29 April 1982
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 745

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 20 January 1983 - 24 November 1988 Includes: Annual Church Electors' Meetings and Annual General Meetings minutes, 28 April 1983 - 28 May 1988
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Committee minutes (Ref: EP/Ho section 02)

421-422, 683, 746, 761-762, 995-996

Ref: EP/Ho 421

Ladies' working party minute and account book, 1911 - 1915
(1 volume, paper)

Ref: EP/Ho 422

Men's Institute minute book, January 1924
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 683

Minute book of Houghton-le-Spring Parochial Church Council Finance Committee meetings, 15 December 1943 - 20 February 1952 Fabric Committee meetings, 16 September 1947 - 23 May 1948
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 746

Minutes of a meeting of the Standing Committee, in connection with the church heating, 27 May - 28 August 1936 Minutes of a meeting of a sub-committee concerned with the appointment of a verger-caretaker, 29 December 1945 - 5 January 1946
(1 booklet)

Ref: EP/Ho 761

Minutes of the sub-committee appointed to oversee the freewill offering scheme, 18 January 1953
(2 papers)

Ref: EP/Ho 762

Notes of meetings of the Finance Committee, 13 September 1961, 12 September 1962 and 22 March 1970
(4 papers)

Ref: EP/Ho 995

Church Institute Committee Meetings minute book, 22 February 1924 - 16 February 1957 At beginning: Debating Society Committee minutes, 30 January - 2 February 1923 The Church Institute closed on 8 February 1958
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 996

Notes of meetings and reports of the Christian Stewardship Committee, 2 December 1962 - 27 April 1976
(16 papers)

Financial records (Ref: EP/Ho section 02)Statements of accounts and balance sheets (Ref: EP/Ho section 01)

547-548, 747-749

Ref: EP/Ho 547

Statement of parochial accounts for 1964
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: EP/Ho 548

Statement of parochial accounts for 1966
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: EP/Ho 747

Balance sheets, and statements of accounts, 1940, 1941, 1944 - 1954, 1967
(14 papers)

Ref: EP/Ho 747A

Balance sheets and accounts, 31 December 1955 - 31 December 1966
(33 papers and 6 files)

Ref: EP/Ho 748

Balance sheets and accounts, 31 December 1968 - 31 December 1976
(24 papers and 2 files)

Ref: EP/Ho 749

Copy balance sheets and accounts, 31 December 1977 - 31 December 1985
(46 papers)

Account books (Ref: EP/Ho section 02)

753-759

Ref: EP/Ho 753

Account book, 1 January 1948 - 31 December 1970
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 754

Account book, 1 January 1966 - 31 December 1968
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 755

Cash book, 1 January 1969 - 31 December 1976
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 756

Account book, 1 January 1974 - 31 December 1977
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 757

Account book, 1 January 1978 - 31 December 1980
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 758

Account book, 1 January 1981 - 31 December 1983
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 759

Account book, 1 January 1984 - 31 December 1986
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Treasurers' reports (Ref: EP/Ho section 03)

760, 763

Ref: EP/Ho 760

Hon. Treasurer's reports to the Parochial Church Council, 20 April 1949 - 5 April 1967; 16 April 1969
(92 papers)

Ref: EP/Ho 763

Treasurer's reports for 1971 and unidentified year
(2 papers)

Other (Ref: EP/Ho section 04)

750-751, 764

Ref: EP/Ho 750

Copy of letter to the Diocesan Secretary concerning the payment of clerical and lay assistants in the parish of St. Michael, Houghton-le-Spring, 3 April 1946
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Ho 751

Appeal by the Bishop of Durham concerning clerical stipends, and response of the Houghton-le-Spring Parochial Church Council, 30 June - 18 October 1947
(2 papers)

Ref: EP/Ho 764

Budget proposals, and revisions, for Houghton-le-Spring parish church, 1974 - 1979
(6 papers)

Parochial statistics (Ref: EP/Ho section 03)

752

Ref: EP/Ho 752

Copy of parochial statistics for 1947, 23 February 1948
(2 papers)

Parish officers (Ref: EP/Ho section 04)

546

Ref: EP/Ho 546

Terms of employment of a steward and verger, 1964
(1 file, typescript)



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