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Bishopwearmouth St. Nicholas Parish

Reference: EP/Biw.SN Catalogue Title: Bishopwearmouth St. Nicholas Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1932-2015

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Registration (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 1/)Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 1/section 01)

1/7-8, 1/19/1


Register of baptisms, 7 June 1931 - 20 July 1947
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 27 July 1947 - 19 March 1978
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of baptisms, 2 April 1978 - 20 December 2015
(1 volume)

Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 1/section 02)

9-16, 18


Register of marriages, 17 April 1933 - 1 August 1938
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 4 August 1938 - 14 March 1942
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 14 March 1942 - 15 July 1944
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 27 July 1944 - 8 October 1945
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 13 October 1945 - 19 July 1947
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 19 July 1947 - 27 September 1958
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 6 December 1958 - 31 January 1968
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 9 March 1968 - 4 August 1979
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of marriages, 4 August 1979 - 16 January 1993
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 1/section 03)

1-6, 17


Register of banns of marriage, 26 February 1933 - 25 November 1945
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 29 April 1945 - 25 June 1950
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 18 June 1950 - 4 September 1960
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 11 September 1960 - 11 December 1966
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 4 December 1966 - 25 August 1979
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of banns, 2 September 1979 - 3 February 1984
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Register of banns of marriage, 20 January 1985 - 7 July 1991
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Clergy (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 2/1-24/1)Registers of confirmations (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 2/section 01)

24/1


Register of confirmations, 23 November 1950 - 25 June 2000
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of services (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 2/section 02)

1-11, 23/1


Register of services, 5 June 1927 - 18 January 1937
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 20 January 1937 - 31 December 1946
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 1 January 1947 - 9 March 1955
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 13 March 1955 - 29 August 1957
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 1 September 1957 - 30 November 1960 [sic]
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 27 November 1960 [sic] - 30 November 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 1 December 1965 - 31 March 1968
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 1 April 1968 - 31 August 1970
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 1 September 1970 - 29 June 1975
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Register of services, 1 July 1975 - 22 December 1985
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Register of services, 24 December 1985 - 22 October 1995 (1 volume, plastic bound) Third Deposit
(Acc: 2809)


Register of services, 24 October 1995 - 8 October 2006
(1 volume)

Licenses for the performance of divine service and marriages (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 2/section 03)

12-13


Licence to perform divine service in St. Nicholas's church hall, 8 October 1932
(1 paper, typescript)


Letter from H. Cecil Ferens, Secretary to the Bishop of Durham, Chapter Office, The College, Durham, to Rev. W.E. Wright, 9 Ivanhoe Crescent, Sunderland, explaining how the licensing of marriages at St. Nicholas's church would affect the rector's entitlement to fees, 9 November 1932
(1 paper, typescript)

Parish boundaries (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 2/section 04)

20


Extract from the London Gazette containing a copy of an order in council, dated 23 November 1939, ratifying a supplementary scheme altering the provisions of an order dated 29 March 1935, which united the benefices of Monkwearmouth, St. Cuthbert and Monkwearmouth, St. Peter, so that the curate fund that the order provided should instead be used to endow the new District of Humbledon, together with the proceeds of sale of the redundant church of Monkwearmouth, St. Cuthbert, 9 February 1940
(2 papers, printed)

Individual clergy (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 2/section 05)Licenses for curacy (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 2/)

14-19


Copy licence to the curacy of Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas, granted to Rev. John James Smith by the Bishop of Durham, 18 April 1940
(1 paper, printed form)


Copy licence to the curacy of Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas, granted to Rev. Irving Dent by the Bishop of Durham, 23 July 1940
(1 paper, printed form)


Copy licence to the curacy of Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas, granted to Rev. Ernest Moody by the Bishop of Durham, 27 May 1945
(1 paper, printed form)


Copy licence to the curacy of Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas, granted to Rev. William Gregory by the Bishop of Durham, 16 December 1948
(1 paper, printed form)


Copy licence to the curacy of Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas granted to Rev. Francis Arthur Patrick Allen, by the Bishop of Durham, 10 October 1957
(1 paper, printed form)


Copy licence to the curacy of Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas granted to Rev. Frederick Hutley David Davey by the Bishop of Durham, 25 September 1960
(1 paper, printed form)

Admissions, institutions, inductions and resignations of clergy (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 2/)

21-22


Notification to the churchwardens of the Bishop of Durham's intention to admit Rev. Ieuan Samuel to the benefice, 22 December 1949
(1 paper, printed form)


Order of service for the admission of Rev. Robert Lawther Haver to the perpetual curacy of Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas, 18 May 1955
(1 booklet, printed)

Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 4/1-10)Church (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 4/section 01)Building the church (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 4/2-3)

Building contract for the church of Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas, between the vicar and churchwardens and Gordon Durham & Co. Ltd., East Boldon, 31 October 1938
(1 booklet, printed form)


28 March 1939 (1) Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, 27 North Bailey, Durham; Rev. Richard Henry Talbot, clerk in holy orders, incumbent of Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas; Parochial Church Council of Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas (2) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Copy conveyance by (1) to (2) of a parcel of land (3012 sq. yds.) as the site of a new church, and a parcel of land (582 sq. yds.) as the site of a parsonage house Includes: plan Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]
(1 booklet, typescript)

Church hall (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 4/section 02)Plans (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 4/)

4-8


Ground floor plan, site plan, elevations and cross section of proposed extension to the church hall by Matkin and Hawkins, architects, 3 Grange Terrace, Stockton Road, Sunderland, 10 January 1967 Scales: ?
(1 plan, 71 cm. x 50.5 cm., duplicated)


Details to curtain walling of the church hall, by Matkin and Hawkins, architects, 3 Grange Terrace, Stockton Road, Sunderland, 17 January 1967 Scales: 1/4 full size [1:4] and 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(1 plan, 102 cm. x 70 cm., duplicated)


Details of canopy and entrance door and screen of the church hall, by Matkin and Hawkins, architects, 3 Grange Terrace, Stockton Road, Sunderland, 4 April 1967 Scales: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]; half full-size [1:2]
(1 plan, 70.5 cm. x 51 cm., duplicated)


Plan and elevations of proposed kitchen layout of the church hall, by Matkin and Hawkins, architects, 3 Grange Terrace, Stockton Road, Sunderland, n.d., [April 1967] No scale
(1 plan, 48 cm. x 40 cm., duplicated)


Detail of kitchen annexe hatch of the church hall, by Matkin and Hawkins, architects, 3 Grange Terrace, Stockton Road, Sunderland, 18 May 1967 Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]
(1 plan, 70.5 cm. x 51 cm.)

Deeds (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 4/)

1


Schedule of deeds relating to the church hall and parsonage house, which have been deposited with the Durham Diocesan Board of Finance, 14 December 1932
(2 papers, typescript)

Vicarage (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 4/section 03)

See 4/1, 3

Quinquennial inspections (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 4/section 04)

9-10


Quinquennial survey report on Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas, by Charlewood, Curry, Wilson & Atkinson, architects, 32-34 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, 26 January 1985
(14 papers, typescript)


Quinquennial survey report on Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas, by Ian Curry and Associates, chartered architects, 30 West Park, Middle Herrington, Sunderland, 17 October 1994
(21 papers, typescript)

Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 6/1-6)Minutes (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 6/section 01)

1-5


Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 18 January 1961 - 20 December 1968 Includes: Annual Parochial Meetings minutes, 10 March 1961 - 12 March 1967
(1 volume, card bound)


Parochial Church Council meetings minutes, 17 January 1969 - 15 February 1980 Includes: Annual Parochial Meetings minutes, 23 March 1969 - 21 March 1980
(1 file)


Parochial Church Council meetings minutes, 20 March 1987 - 21 September 1990 Includes: Annual Parochial Meetings minutes, 5 April 1987 - 12 March 1989
(1 file)


Minutes of the New Church Building Committee of the Parochial Church Council, 17 March 1938 - 8 August 1939 Includes: lists of donations, October 1938 - July 1939; orders of service for the foundation stone laying ceremony, 4 February 1939, and the consecration of the church, 13 September 1939; and invitations to both events, n.d., [1939]
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Minutes of an emergency meeting of the Parochial Church Council, 12 October 1939 Originally enclosed in EP/Biw.SN 6/4
(2 papers, typescript)

Financial records (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 6/section 02)

6


Income and expenditure account for the year ended 31 December 1964 Originally enclosed in EP/Biw.SN 6/4
(2 papers, typescript, duplicated)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 14/1-32)Parish magazines (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 14/section 01)

1-31


St. Nicholas Review, May - December 1955
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1956
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1957
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1958
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - July, September - December 1959
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1960
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1961
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1962
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1963
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1964
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1966
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1967
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1968
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1969
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1970
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1971
(1 volume, cloth bound)


St. Nicholas Review, January - April, June - December 1973
(11 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, January, March - May, July - December 1974
(10 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, January - September, November 1975
(10 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, February - May, September - November 1976
(7 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, March - December 1977
(10 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, January - June, August - November 1978
(10 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, January - February, April - December 1979
(11 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1980
(12 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1981
(12 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1982
(12 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1983
(12 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1984
(12 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1985
(12 booklets)


St. Nicholas Review, January - December 1986
(12 booklets)

Sales of work, garden parties, meals etc (Ref: EP/Biw.SN 14/section 02)

32


Menu of the parish Christian Stewardship Campaign Loyalty Supper, 24 April 1969
(1 card, printed)