Catalogue

Register of baptisms, October 1843 - May 1860

Register of baptisms, May 1860 - September 1883

Register of baptisms, September 1883 - May 1901

Register of baptisms, May 1901 - April 1915

Register of baptisms, April 1915 - August 1921

Register of baptisms, August 1921 - August 1938

Register of baptisms, September 1938 - December 1957

Register of baptisms, January 1958 - October 1963

Register of baptisms, 15 December 1963 - 7 December 1986

Register of baptisms, 4 January 1987 - 27 July 2003

Register of baptisms, 27 July 2003 - 30 September 2012

Register of marriages, November 1845 - December 1866

Register of marriages, January 1867 - December 1881

Register of marriages, January 1882 - December 1907

Register of marriages, December 1907 - August 1918

Register of marriages, August 1918 - February 1926

Register of marriages, March 1926 - August 1935

Register of marriages, August 1935 - April 1942

Register of marriages, April 1942 - January 1948

Register of marriages, 24 January 1948 - 28 January 1961

Register of marriages, 4 March 1961 - 12 October 1968

Register of marriages, 19 October 1968 0 8 July 1978

Register of marriages, 8 July 1978 - 23 May 1987

Register of marriages, 25 May 1987 - 9 September 2000

Register of marriages, 17 September 2000 - 31 July 2004

Register of marriages, 14 August 2004 - 22 August 2008

Register of marriages, 27 September 2008 - 15 November 2014

Register of marriages, 6 April 2015 - 28 August 2016

Register of marriages, 24 September 2016 - 4 August 2018

Register of marriages, 11 August 2018 - 2 November 2019

Register of banns, 1845 - 1875

Register of banns, 23 July 1966 - 6 May 1979

Register of banns, 15 April 1966 - 16 March 1986

Register of banns, 6 April 1986 - 21 July 1991

Register of banns of marriage, 4 August 1991 - 21 July 2002

Register of burials, January 1844 - March 1866

Register of burials, March 1866 - April 1872

Register of burials, May 1872 - September 1876

Register of burials, 29 September 1876 - 27 October 1946

Register of burials, 27 August 1946 - 28 November 1955

Marriage licence, Robert Wilkinson of The Institute Coniston, Lancashire, and Isabel Elms of 6 Myrtle Grove, Roddymoor, 12 August 1957

Marriage licence, Ralph Peacock of 13 Prospect Terrace, Willington, and Vera Booth of 9 Low Albert Terrace, Billy Row, 5 March 1962

Marriage licence, Laslo Szakacs of 181 Holborn Hill, Millom, Cumberland, and Christine Elsie Davey of The Corner Shop, Roddymoor, 5 March 1962

Marriage licence, John McKinley Arthurs of 16 Victor Terrace, Bearpark, and Jean Dunnill of 6 Langdale Avenue, Crook, 11 August 1966

Marriage licence, Richard Harry Walton of Spot House, Westgate, and Mary Patricia Bridges of 41 Arthur Street, Crook, 2 March 1967

Certificates of publications of banns of marriages, 19 February 1995 - 9 July 2001

Register of confirmations, 1914 - 1957

Register of confirmations, 27 March 1958 - 10 February 1977

Register of services, 1927 - 1934

Register of services, 1914 - 1944

Register of services, 1944 - 1965

Register of services, 5 August 1934 - 15 August 1951

Register of services, 19 August 1951 - 16 July 1958

Register of services, 20 July 1958 - 26 August 1962

Register of services, 2 September 1962 - 17 July 1966

Register of services, 19 July 1966 - 19 July 1970

Register of services, 22 July 1970 - 31 December 1975

Register of services, 1 January1976 - 16 March 1980

Register of services, 19 March 1980 - 30 April 1982

Register of services, 1 May 1982 - 29 March 1986

Register of services, 21 November 1965 - 27 February 1984

Register of services, 4 March 1984 - 31 June 1994

Register of services, 30 March 1986 - 13 April 1994

Register of services, 17 April 1994 - 19 February 2006

Register of services, 20 February 2006 - 21 June 2015

Licence for the performance of divine service in Mission Chapel at Pease's West, 12 November 1890

The London Gazette , including Order in Council creating consolidated chapelry of Sunnybrow, St. John, 5 February 1889

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Rev. J. King, The Rectory, Crook, concerning boundaries of consolidated chapelry of Sunnybrow, St. John, 12 August 1902

The London Gazette, including grant of £726 to build parsonage, 4 December 1885

9 July 1914 (1) J. Ridley Barker, rector (2) Mrs. Sarah Allan, Colliery Inn, Job's Hill, Crook Lease for a year of Glebe Acre, Job's Hill Rent: 2 guineas

Notice of termination of suspension of presentation, 3 November 2000 Form 34 Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986, Appointment of Parish Representatives, 15 November 2000 Form 31 Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986, Notice of Vacancy to Patron and Parochial Church Council, 8 November 2000 Letters concerning the termination of the suspension of presentation, 8 - 15 November 2000

Licence to the curacy of Simpson Bailey, 7 June 1914

Licence to the curacy of Alfred John Langton Heaver, 12 June 1927

Licence to the curacy of John Phillips Inman, 29 September 1936

Licence to the curacy of William Herbert Jefferson, 21 September 1939

Licence to the curacy of Barry Jack Cooper, 7 October 1964

Letter from Alfred Jobson, Pease & Partners Ltd., Colliery Offices, Darlington, to Rev. John King, Crook, concerning their terms for giving site for mission room at Billy Row, 17 July 1888

Letter from J.G. Wilson, 5 North Bailey, Durham to Rev. J. King, The Rectory, Crook, concerning deeds vesting parish room in the Official Trustee of Charity Lands, 8 September 1902

Order of service of thanksgiving for victory, 1945 Originally enclosed in EP/Cro 83

Photograph of war memorial and St. Catherine's Church, Crook n.d. [1950s - 1960s]

Photographic postcard with image of interior of St. Catherine's Church, Crook, n.d. [c. 1914]

13 February 1959 (1) Rev. Norman Ross Edmondson, rector (2) Jacob Dent of Cemetery Lodge, Crook; Joseph William Dodds of 19 West View, Wheatbottom, Crook, and George William Mawson of 4 Garden Place, Church Hill, Crook, churchwardens (3) Parochial Church Council (4) U.D.C. of Crook and Willington Agreement for (4) to lay out and maintain churchyard as an open space

Extract from the conveyance of the site of Crook church hall and parish room, noting the uses to which the hall and room may be put, 20 October 1900; copy made n.d. [ c.1920]

1 November 1889 (1) Rev. John King, rector (2) The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne Mortgage for £200 to enlarge parsonage house

Report on the rectory under the Repair of Benefice Buildings Measure, 1972 , by A.O. Lee, Owengate House, Durham, May 1984

Report on the rectory under the Repair of Benefice Buildings Measure, 1972 , by D.L. Renton, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, October 1989

Faculty to enlarge and re-seat church, 7 April 1877

Citation to lead to faculty to rebuild chancel, 22 May 1884

Faculty to rebuild chancel, 17 June 1884

Faculty to erect chancel screen and tablets and insert stained glass windows, with covering letter, 15 July 1920

Faculty to erect new organ, 16 March 1891

Faculty to install electric organ blower, 20 May 1948

Faculty to erect stained glass windows, 26 July 1924

Faculty to insert stained glass in a window and erect two small tablets on window sill, 9 June 1961

Faculty to introduce stained glass window and tablet, 5 April 1966

Faculty to erect reredos, panel sanctuary in oak, erect oak communion rail, introduce oak choir seats and insert stained glass in window, 21 January 1926

Faculty to introduce marble pavement into sanctuary, 4 July 1930

Faculty to add gate to sanctuary rail, 1 March 1934

Faculty to install electric lighting, 15 December 1931

Faculty to lay Accotile flooring, 16 February 1949

Faculty to install electrically operated recorded peal of bells, 13 August 1951

Faculty to introduce side altar and communion rail, 14 July 1953

Faculty to erect choir vestry, remove pews and change position of font, 2 June 1960

Faculty to introduce oak bookcase and book of remembrance, install new light fittings and decorate interior, 7 November 1960

Faculty to introduce a Bishop's Chair, 30 August 1961

Terrier, 1932 - 1951

Terrier, n.d. [post 1905]

Terrier, n .d. [post 1907]

Terrier and inventory, February 1960

Garden fete accounts, 11 July 1959 Originally enclosed in EP/Cro 83

Garden fete accounts, July 1965 Originally enclosed in EP/Cro 86

Account book of parochial hall, 3 January 1912 - 12 December 1936

Bank book, church account, 23 April 1917 - 28 May 1929

Bank book, memorial fund, 17 December 1919 - 3 January 1922 Enclosures: see EP/Cro 64

Invoices re rood screen and memorial tablet, 30 November 1920 - 14 December 1921 Originally enclosed in EP/Cro 63

Account book of offertories, 5 April 1920 - 11 December 1943

28 September 1972 (1) Rev. E.G. Moore, Vicar General and Official Principal (2) Rev. Charles Smith, Rural Dean of Stanhope, William Johnson, Norman Smith and Sidney Addison Writ appointing (2) as sequestrators

Writ of sequestration appointing Rev. Charles Smith, William Johnson, Norman Smith and Sidney Addison as sequestrators of the income and expenditure of the parish following the cession of Canon Norman R. Edmondson, 28 September 1972

Writ of sequestration appointing Rev. Charles Smith, William Johnson, Norman Smith and Delvin Ford as sequestrators of the income and expenditure of the parish following the resignation of Rev. Frank T. Baker, 24 September 1974

Fifth report under the Inspection of Churches Measure, 1955 , by A.O. Lee, Owengate House, Durham, June 1983

Sixth report under the Inspection of Churches Measure, 1955 , by A.O. Lee, Owengate House, Durham, September 1988

Report under the Inspection of Churches Measure, 1955 , by John A.G. Niven, The Old Hall, Front Street, West Auckland, November 1993

5 January 1947 (1) Rev. D.J. Herbert, rector (2) Walter Shenton, organist and choirmaster Agreement of engagement of (2) as organist, outlining duties

29 November 1962 (1) Rector and Parochial Church Council (2) Hilda Hosey of 94 South End Villas Agreement appointing (2) as caretaker, outlining duties

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 9 March 1921 - 10 December 1935

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 10 December 1947 - 4 September 1957

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 23 September 1957 - 22 May 1967

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 16 October 1967 - 28 November 1978

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 26 February 1979 - 11 April 1988

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 16 May 1988 - 14 February 1994

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 25 April 1994 - 11 December 2000

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council, 27 April 1997 - 16 October 2006 Annual General Meetings: minutes of meetings, 9 April 1987 - 23 April 2006; reports from Fabric sub - committee, 1993, 1997, 2002 - 2004; reports from Parochial Church Council, 2002 - 2004 Finance: statement of accounts, 1987 - 2005 [missing 1988, 1990, 1994 - 1995, 1997 - 1999]; financial report, 2005; general fund receipts and payments, 2005 - 2006; balance sheets, 2000 and 2005; Central Board of Finance of Church of England - transactions during 2005; general accounts, 1992 - 1993 Letters: property, 2 January - 13 November 2006; joint services between Anglican and Methodist churches, 27 October 2003; grants, 4 September 2002 - 4 September 2003; repairs, 5 November 2002 - 2 August 2003 Agreement: between Revd. N. R. Edmondson of St. Catherine's, Crook of the first part, the churchwardens, J. Dent of Cemetery Lodge, Crook, J. W. Dodds of 19 West View Wheatbottom, Crook, and G. W. Mawson of 4 Garden Place, Church Hill, Crook of the second part, the Parochial Church Council of St. Catherine's Church of the third part, and the Urban District Council of Crook and Willington of the fourth part for the management and maintenance of the churchyard, 13 February 1959

Minutes of Standing Committee of Parochial Church Council, 6 May 1971 - 17 October 1993

Continuation Committee meetings minute book, 23 January 1979 - 5 December 1988 The Continuation Committee dealt with planned giving in the parish.

Bank book, Parochial Church Council, 8 February 1937 - 26 April 1941

Accounts of the Parochial Church Council, 4 November 1944 - 31 December 1955

Accounts of the Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1956 - 28 December 1966 Includes statement of accounts for the year 1955

Accounts of the Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1967 - 31 December 1976

Accounts for the Church Hall of the Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1937 - 31 December 1955

Parochial Church Council: secretary's correspondence, 9 October 1968 - 6 December 1979

Electoral roll, 1920 - December 1969

Order of the Charity Commission concerning the administration of the Sunday School and Church Institute Charity and the Sunday School and Mission Room Charity, 13 June 1939

Register of admissions and attendances, n.d. [c.1909/10]

Parish magazines, January 1914 - December 1923

Crook and Stanley parish magazine, August 1989

Parish magazines, January - December 1980

Parish magazines, January - December 1981

Parish magazines, January - December 1982

Parish magazines, January - December 1983

Parish magazines, January - December 1984

Parish magazines, January - December 1985

Parish magazines, January - December 1986

Parish magazines, January - December 1987

Parish magazines, January - December 1988

Parish magazines, January - December 1989

Parish magazines, January - December 1992 Note: April / June / July missing

Parish magazines, January - December 1993

Parish magazines, January - August, November 1994

Parish magazines, February - March 1995

Parish magazines, January - December 1999

Parish magazines, January - December 2000