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Register of baptisms, 5 March 1930 - 19 December 1948

Register of baptisms, 26 December 1948 - 22 November 1964

Register of baptisms, 22 November 1964 - 15 September 1974

Register of marriages, 13 December 1930 - 18 December 1937

Register of marriages, 18 December 1937 - 2 June 1945

Register of marriages, 2 June 1945 - 30 March 1957

Register of marriages, 7 June 1957 - 18 October 1958

Register of marriages, 12 November 1958 - 11 June 1960

Register of marriages, 9 July 1960 - 8 August 1964

Register of marriages, 15 August 1964 - 2 March 1968

Register of marriages, 2 March 1968 - 18 March 1978

Register of marriages, 1 April 1978 - 3 February 1982

Register of marriages, 20 February 1982 - 9 May 1992

Register of banns, 28 November 1954 - 9 June 1968

Register of banns of marriage, 3 August 1975 - 25 November 1979

Register of banns of marriage, 25 November 1979 - 10 July 1983

Register of banns of marriage, 3 July 1983 - 2 June 1991

Register of funerals, 2 November 1978 - 17 May 1988

Register of funerals, 16 June 1988 - 22 July 2002

Correspondence concerning the keeping of a baptismal register for the ecclesiastical district of Darlington, St. Mark, 28 April - 31 May 1930

Letter from Durham Chapter Office concerning the suitability of St. Mark's mission church for the solemnisation of marriages, 28 April 1930

Register of confirmation candidates, 10 June 1931 - 8 April 1957

List of parish magazine distribution and advertisement, 1936 - 1946, and list of attendances at confirmation classes, 1961 - 1965 With list of questions and answers for confirmation candidates

Register of services, 18 May 1913 - 16 February 1930

Register of services, 17 February 1930 - 24 June 1936

Register of services, 28 June 1936 - 25 December 1941

Register of services, 26 December 1941 - 5 April 1946

Register of services, 7 April 1946 - 18 November 1949

Register of services, 20 November 1949 - 22 February 1958

Register of services, 23 February 1958 - 9 June 1962

Register of services, 10 June 1962 - 24 March 1967

Register of services, 27 March 1967 - 21 April 1970

Register of services, 22 April 1970 - 10 June 1976 Also includes Darlington, St. Paul from September 1972

Register of services, 13 June 1976 - 6 July 1980

Register of services, 7 July 1980 - 13 September 1986

Register of services, 14 September 1986 - 8 June 1991

Register of services, 9 June 1991 - 20 September 1995

Register of services, 24 September 1995 - 9 October 2000

London Gazette , 17 December 1929, concerning the constitution of the district of St. Mark, with covering letter, 31 December 1929

Copy plan of the district of St. Mark, Darlington 1929 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]

Correspondence and papers concerning the augmentation of the benefice, 22 January 1930 - 23 October 1935

Report and papers of the Commission on the Deployment and Payment of the Clergy, 1969

21 November 1929 (1) Rev. Canon Herbert Gouldsmith, rector of Haughton-le-Skerne (2) Rt. Rev. Herbert Hensley, Lord Bishop of Durham (3) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Assignment from (2) to (3) of £2000 London Midland and Scottish Railway four pounds per cent stock, toward the endowment of the minister, of the intended new district or parish of St. Mark

Licence for the performance of divine service, at St. Mark's mission room, 25 January 1930

Order of Service for the admission of Rev. Arthur Henry Norris, to the ecclesiastical district of St. Mark, 17 February 1930

Order of Service for the laying of the foundation stone of St. Mark's parish church, 11 December 1957

Correspondence concerning the form of service for the consecration of St. Mark's church, and letters of acceptance to attend, 1 July - 3 October 1958

Service for the consecration of the church of St. Mark, 8 November 1958

1 June 1926 (1) George Gosling Plant of Darlington, solicitor (2) Rev. Herbert Clayton, Vicar of St. Paul, Darlington, and trustees Copy conveyance of a parcel of land in Durham Road, of c. 2790 sq. yds., to be applied as a site for a place of worship and residence for a minister officiating in St. Mark's parish Consideration: £600

4 November 1933 (1) Rev. Herbert Clayton of St. Thomas' Vicarage, Kendal, Westmorland, and trustees etc. (2) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Copy conveyance of a parcel of land of c. 2790 sq. yds. in the ecclesiastical district of St. Mark, as specified on the annexed plan, for the purpose of erecting a new church and parsonage house

General correspondence and papers concerning the proposed building of St. Mark's church, 1 June 1926 - 7 April 1935

Plans of the site of St. Mark's church and vicarage, n.d. [1930] Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch [1:480]

Undertaking by Rev. C.H. Norris and the Parochial Church Council to discharge road charges adjoining land for building the new church and parsonage house, 19 September 1933

Account book of the new parish church building fund, under the Sunday School Brick Scheme, 1933 - 1958

Report of the Parochial Church Council Sub-Committee on church design, 13 September 1937

Correspondence and papers concerning the trusteeship of the church and vicarage site of St. Mark's, 28 January 1931 - 14 November 1933

Correspondence and papers concerning the trusteeship of St. Mark's mission room, February - 9 March 1932

Correspondence and papers concerning the transfer of St. Mark's mission room to Durham Diocesan Board of Finance for the benefit of St. Mark's district, including a copy trust deed dated 11 May 1891, 16 February 1931 - 6 May 1932, 31 August - 5 November 1934

Correspondence and accounts of St. Mark (Drinkfield Mission) Trust, 23 May - 9 August 1949

General correspondence with architects, plans, sections, elevations and bills of quantities etc., concerning the building of the new church, 23 March 1956 - 2 July 1959

Correspondence and papers, including appeals for donations of money and second-hand furnishing for the new church, 14, April 1956 - 11 April 1958

Letter from G.E. Charlewood of Newcastle, architect, enclosing plan of paths and paving around St. Mark's church, surveyed July 1956, September 1958

Correspondence, mainly from G.E. Char1ewood, architect, concerning church furnishings, and including detailed drawings of acolytes' torches, candlesticks, altar table, chancel furnishings, sanctuary cross, oak credence table, choir desks and stalls, nave pews and desks, oak pulpit, oak altar rails, and clergy desks, January - 9 October 1958

Correspondence and papers, mainly concerned with internal fittings, concerning the building of St. Mark's church, 19 March 1958 - 26 January 1959

Letter enclosing a donation to the church building fund from Sir Fergus Graham, Bart., M.P., 15 July 1958

Newspaper cuttings concerning the church building fund, n.d. [c.1950]

Correspondence from Kingsgate, Davidson and Co. Ltd., organ builders, concerning the installation of an organ in the new church, 23 May - 2 December 1958

Photograph of stained glass window in memory of Samuel Adams, 13 July 1949

Correspondence and papers concerning provision of funds for the building of St. Mark's vicarage, 14 July 1933 - 14 January 1936

Correspondence and papers concerning charges for work carried out on the building of St. Mark's vicarage, including provision of electric water-heater and surface drains, 9 December 1933 - 16 January 1936

Papers concerning the building of the new vicarage of St. Mark's, including specifications and bills of quantities from Cordingley and Mcintyre of Durham, architects, and newspaper cuttings concerning the dedication, March 1934 - 8 April 1935

28 September 1934 (1) Rev. G.H. Norris, 343 North Road, Darlington (2) T. Coates, Hallgarth Street, Durham, contractor Articles of agreement and schedule of conditions of building contract for erecting a new vicarage at North Road, Darlington

Bill from T. Coates, builder and contractor, for work carried out on St. Mark's Vicarage, 16 September 1935

Terrier and inventory, 20 April 1933 - 1955

Faculty for the introduction of a chair, 2 flower vase stands, 3 servers' stools and a ciborium, 4 November 1960

Faculty for the introduction of a sanctuary lamp and inserting 2 stained glass windows, 1 November 1969

Diocesan scheme concerning the Inspection of Churches Measure, 1955

Ordinary assessments under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1 June 1940, 13 March 1950 and 28 February 1958

General account book 'income', of the Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1948 - 13 March 1960

General account book, 'expenditure', of the Parochial Church Council, 30 January 1948 - 9 March 1960

General account book of income and expenditure of the Parochial Church Council, 20 March 1960 - 28 January 1966

General account book of income and expenditure of the Parochial Church Council, 1 March 1966 - 27 December 1970

Account book of offertory collections, 2 January 1966 - 15 July 1981

Account book, January 1971 - December 1974

Annual balance sheets, 1986

Monthly balance sheets, October - December 1986, February - March 1987

Correspondence concerning the sale of land in Bowman Street, Darlington, 9 January 1956 - 6 July 1957

General correspondence, 19 January 1961 - 15 November 1964

General correspondence, January 1965 - December 1967

General correspondence, 31 October 1967 - 2 April 1969

General correspondence, 3 April 1969 - December 1970

General correspondence, August 1971 - December 1971

Minutes, reports, notes and extracts of Durham Diocesan Pastoral Committee, including a scheme for Darlington, St. Paul's parish, July 1972 - March 1973

Minute book of St. Mark's Mission Church Committee, 28 June 1921 - 29 April 1931

Minute book of the Parochial Church Council, 5 May 1930 - 29 May 1933, also including annual vestry and annual parish meetings, 30 April 1930 - 31 March 1937

Minute book of the Parochial Church Council, 7 June 1933 - 13 December 1938

Minute book of the parochial Church Council, 13 February 1939 - 16 December 1946

Minute book of the Parochial Church Council, 18 March 1947 - 18 September 1956

Minute book of the Parochial Church Council, 23 October 1956 - 14 February 1964

Minute book of the Parochial Church Council, 6 March 1964 - 8 November 1968

Minute book of the Parochial Church Council, 4 December 1968 - 7 December 1973

Minute book of the annual vestry and annual parochial meetings', 20 April 1938 - 4 April 1973

Rough minute book of the Parochial Church Council, 28 September 1932 - 15 April 1936

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 26 January 1972 - 5 September 1983

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 20 April 1982, 10 October 1983 - 11 May 1987

Annual Vestry Meeting and the Annual Parochial Church Meeting minutes, 25 April 1986

Annual Vestry Meeting and Annual General Meeting minutes, 25 April 1988

Reports to the Annual Parochial Church Meeting of the Scouts, Guides, Sunday School and Women's Fellowship, 1986 - 1987

Minutes of ordinary meetings of the Parochial Church Council and of its Standing Committee, 10 June 1987 - 15 December 1991 Includes: attendance register, May 1988 - February 1990

Minutes of ordinary and special meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 8 January 1992 - 29 November 1996

Minutes of ordinary and special meetings of the Parochial Church Council, 3 January 1997 - 7 March 2002

Papers concerning the Thomas Metcalfe Barron Charity, 1 January - 8 April 1937

Correspondence and newspaper cuttings concerning the bequest of Thomas Teasdale, 14 August 1954 - 23 March 1955

Extract from the will of Elizabeth Jane Crosby, concerning a bequest to St. Mark's Church, with accounts attached, December 1972 - 30 April 1973