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Register of baptisms, 1872 - 1933

Register of baptisms, 17 December 1933 - 5 July 1998

Register of marriages, 1872 - 1925

Register of marriages, 1940 - 1945

Register of marriages, 1945 - 1953

Register of marriages, 1953 - 1962

Register of marriages, 1962 - 1971

Register of marriages, 18 July 1925 - 16 March 1940

Register of marriages, 1 April 1972 - 30 April 1983

Register of marriages, 28 May 1983 - 2 October 1999

Register of marriages, 8 October 1999 - 20 August 2011

Register of marriages, 8 June 2013 - 3 August 2019

Register of banns, 1873 - 1947

Register of banns of marriage, 13 April 1947 - 4 March 1973

Register of banns of marriage, 1 April 1973 - 19 February 1989

Register of burials, 1872 - 1947

Register of burials, 29 January 1947 - 29 January 1997

Marriage licences, 12 November 1970 - 23 July 1977

Register of confirmations, 10 May 1906 - 22 May 1958

Registers of Services, 1872 - 1879, 1916 - 1925, 1942 - 1971

Register of services, 21 April 1905 - 13 April 1916

Register of services, 4 October 1925 - 20 November 1933

Register of services, 26 November 1933 - 6 December 1942

Register of services, 7 October 1971 ­ 29 December 1983

Register of services, 1 January 1984 - 31 December 1986

Register of services, 1 January 1987 - 30 September 1990

Register of services, 2 October 1990 - 31 December 1995

Register of services, 4 January 1996 - 21 September 2000

Register of services, 22 September 2000 - 15 June 2004

Register of services, 16 June 2004 - 5 December 2008

Application form for constitution into a separate parish, n.d. (c . 1870)

Ordnance Survey 3rd edition sheets XXVII N W and XXVII N.E. with Sherburn parish boundaries added, 1923 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]

Pastoral Order for the transfer of Sherburn, Pittington and Shadforth parishes from the rural deanery of Easington to that of Durham, 2 November 1970

Pastoral order transferring the parishes of Sherburn, Pittington, Shadforth, and the extra-parochial place of Sherburn House, from Easington Rural Deanery to Durham Rural Deanery, 20 November 1970

Order in council confirming a scheme uniting the benefices of Pittington and Sherburn to form the benefice of Sherburn with Pittington, 11 February 1983

The London Gazette, Ecclesiastical Commission grant to the benefice of Sherburn of one thousand and five hundred pounds towards defraying the cost of a house of residence for the said benefice, 27 December 1872

The London Gazette Ecclesiastical Commission grant of the annual tithe commutation rent charges and also all that close, piece or parcel of land and hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging containing one acre, three roods and thirty - eight perches situated at Sherburn in the parish of Pittington as described in the first and second parts of the annexed schedule, 4 December 1873 Ecclesiastical Commission grant to the incumbent of the vicarage of Sherburn and to his successors a yearly sum or stipend of one hundred and ninety pounds, 4 December 1873

The London Gazette, Ecclesiastical Commission grant to the incumbent of the Vicarage of Sherburn and his successors all that piece or parcel of land and hereditaments, with the appurtenances thereunto belonging containing two acres and comprising two fields known as Middle Field and Town Field situated at Sherburn in the parish of Pittington as described in the annexed schedule, 8 August 1978

1 June 1970 (1) David Edward Davison and others, Sequestrators of the benefice of Sherburn, St. Mary (2) The Church Commissioners for England Counterpart mortgage by (1) to (2) of the glebe, rents etc. of the benefice to secure the repayment of £5160 by two instalments

Circular from the Church Commissioners listing securities held under the Benefice (Stabilization of Incomes) Measure, 1951, 1 July 1952

Photograph of Rev. W.E. Latimer, late vicar of Sherburn, receiving a presentation cheque, taken from the Durham Advertiser, n.d. [ c.1970]

Returns of parochial statistics, 1891

Parochial statistics, 1937 - 1940, 1950 and 1953

Letter from T. Murray Ltd., Estate Offices, Haswell to Rev. W.E. Latimer, at Sherburn Vicarage regarding compensation under the Town and Country Planning Act, 3 October 1951

Returns and provisional valuations for duties on land values under the Finance (1909 - 1910) Act, 1910, 30 March - 7 April 1914

Instrument fixing the table of fees for the parish of Sherburn, 22 July 1937

Correspondence received from Smiths, Gore and Company, surveyors at Darlington and the Ecclesiastical Commission regarding mistaken claim for payment of tithe rent charge upon the churchyard and parsonage, 21 - 25 July 1913

Plan showing course of a drain leading from St. Mary's church, n.d. Scale: 1 to 2500

Photographs of St. Mary's Church

Photograph of Sherburn Church, n.d. [late 19thC]

Photograph of font [decorated for harvest festival], 1913

Photograph of the interior of Sherburn Church looking towards the altar, n.d. [post 1947]

Photograph of the interior of St. Mary's Church, 1958

Correspondence received from the Ecclesiastical Commission and H.S. Vincent and Company, organ builders of Hylton Road, Sunderland regarding restoration, improvements and modifications to the church organ, 26 July 1909 - 4 September 1911

Organ tuning agreement at £5 p.a. from 1 January 1945 with Harrison and Harrison, with covering letter from them, 18 October 1944

Fire insurance policies and related correspondence, 22 July 1912 - 23 June 1937

Vouchers relating to the construction of an altar table, prayer desk and related furnishings in Sherburn church, April 1928 - 23 June 1930

Correspondence between Charles S. Errington, chartered architect, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the Diocesan Registry at Durham and the Rev. W.E. Latimer at Sherburn regarding modifications to the chancel screen as a war memorial, with various illustrations and plans, 10 - 16 October 1946

Correspondence received from the Imperial War Graves Commission regarding the kinds of headstone to be erected and future maintenance with miscellaneous plans of same, 15 October - 8 June 1959

Letter from the Clerk to Sherburn Parish Council to the Rev. C. Parkinson at Sherburn Vicarage regarding the provision of burial ground for Shadforth Ecclesiastical Parish, 23 December 1936

'Burial roll', recording names of people buried in St. Mary's churchyard, each person's reference number in the burial register and each person's grave space reference, 1926 - n.d., [ c.1950]

Correspondence and plans re the building of the parish hall, 1905

Letter from Smiths, Gore and Company, London, surveyors, to the Rev. C. Parkinson regarding site for proposed church hall, 13 November 1905

Mortgage of Sherburn living to the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty for money to erect a vicarage, 1874. with letter of consent from the Bishop of Durham, 1873

Correspondence re complaints of damage to the vicarage due to colliery workings, 1922

7 January 1965 Agreement between the Reverend W. B. Latimer and others with Durham County Council concerning the dedication of 14 square yards of land belonging to the benefice fronting the road B1283 and forming part of a paddock adjoining St. Mary's Vicarage, Sherburn to be taken for road widening in consideration for the sum of one pound and the execution of works to the permanent advantage of the benefice at the expense of Durham County Council

Faculty for the introduction and use of certain ornaments, 27 October 1883

Faculty for the erection of a stained glass window, 4 December 1919

Faculty for the erection of a chancel screen, 26 July 1920

Faculty for the conversion of the east end of the south aisle into a side chapel, 27 October 1927

Faculty for the insertion of stained glass in the centre light of the west window, 23 October 1953

Faculty for the renewal of the electric lighting system, 20 November 1956

Unopposed faculty for renewing boiler and radiators, 6 April 1971

Unopposed faculty for the removal of headstones and improvements to the churchyard, 1 May 1973

Archdeacon's certificate for repairs and interior decoration, 15 July 1961

Terrier, 1888 - 1895

Terrier, 1901 - 1934

Quinquennial survey report by Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, 27 January 1978

Quinquennial survey report by Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, 24 June 1983

Surveyor's report under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 1923, 11 September 1925

Order under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1929 for the installation of a central heating system at the vicarage, with related correspondence and quotations from W. Harold Fairclough, heating engineers, at Sunder land, 31 January - 14 July 1931

Assessment under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1951, 9 December 1966

Assessment, amended assessment, and covering letter from the Church Commissioners, under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1951, 8 June - 30 September 1971

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection, by D.L. Renton, diocesan surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, November 1988

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection, by D.L. Renton, diocesan surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, October 1993

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection, by M. Galley, diocesan surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, September 1999

Specification of repairs required following the quinquennial inspection, prepared by M. Galley, diocesan surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, 6 October 1999

Collections' accounts, 1924 - 1939

Cash book, 1 January 1951 - 31 December 1967

Cash book, 4 January 1984 - 8 January 1991

Cash book, 18 January 1991 - 27 January 1996

Vestry and parish meetings' minutes, 1872 - 1936, with electoral lists, 1937 - 1940

Parochial Church Council meetings' minutes, 1920 - 1965, with electoral lists, 1920 - 1936

Minutes of ordinary and annual meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 21 April 1966 - 7 September 1987

Correspondence re the use of the church school room, 1957

Conveyance, from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Vicar and Churchwardens of Pittington parish, of land in Sherburn for the erection of a school, 1863

The School Guardian containing articles on the Caerphilly School case, 29 November 1913

The Public Schools Act, 1868

The Endowed Schools Act, 1869

Sherburn Youth Club deposit account pass book, 20 December 1957 - 9 January 1965

Sherburn Parish Magazine, July 1895

Sherburn Parish Magazine, September 1903

Durham Diocesan Gazette, volume 1, 1887

History of Sherburn and St. Mary's Church by Rev. H. L. Neat

Sherburn, the story of our village by Agnes Cowley, February 1960

Photographs of Sherburn Hospital buildings, gateway and grounds, n.d. [c .1955]

Photograph of unidentified farm buildings with cattle in front, n.d. [c .1930s?]

Miscellaneous papers, including a table of kindred affinity, an episcopal circular re the licensing of lay readers, 1882, Sherburn Cottage Almanack, 1869; manuscript extracts from obituaries of Thomas Charles Thompson of Sherburn Hall, d. 1892