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Fishburn St. Catherine Chapel

Reference: EP/Fis Catalogue Title: Fishburn St. Catherine Chapel Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1918-2022

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  • Fishburn St. Catherine Chapel
    • Registration (Ref: EP/Fis 1/)
    • Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Fis 1/section 01)
    • Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Fis 1/section 02)
    • Clergy (Ref: EP/Fis 2/)
    • Registers of services (Ref: EP/Fis 2/section 01)
    • Parish boundaries (Ref: EP/Fis 2/section 02)
    • Dedication of new church (Ref: EP/Fis 2/section 03)
    • Parish profile (Ref: EP/Fis 2/section 04)
    • Orders of service (Ref: EP/Fis 2/section 05)
    • Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Fis 4/)
    • Church (Ref: EP/Fis 4/section 01)
    • Church building and site (Ref: EP/Fis 4/section 02)
    • Financial records (Ref: EP/Fis 4/section 02)
    • Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Fis 6/)
    • Minutes (Ref: EP/Fis 6/section 01)
    • Schools (Ref: EP/Fis 11/)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Fis 14/)
    • Newspaper articles (Ref: EP/Fis 14/1)
    • H M Queen Elizabeth II death (Ref: EP/Fis 14/2)
    • Church anniversaries and centenary (Ref: EP/Fis 14/3-5)

Catalogue Description

In 2007, St Catherine's joined with the following parishes to form Upper Skerne Parish:
- Bishop Middleham, St Michael
- Fishburn, St Catherine
- Sedgefield, St Edmund
- Trimdon, St Mary Magdalene
- Trimdon Grange, St Alban with St Paul

Catalogue Contents

Registration (Ref: EP/Fis 1/)Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Fis 1/section 01)

1/1

Ref: EP/Fis 1/1

Register of baptisms, 26 May 1938 - 13 October 1996
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Fis 1/section 02)

1/2

Ref: EP/Fis 1/2

Register of marriages, 26 May 1996 - 29 August 2013
(1 volume)

Clergy (Ref: EP/Fis 2/)

For confirmations see EP/Se 2/6

Registers of services (Ref: EP/Fis 2/section 01)

2/1-2, 4, 7, 2/8/1

Ref: EP/Fis 2/1

Register of services, 18 October 1922 - 31 December 1939 (1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Fis 2/2

Register of services, 7 January 1940 - 4 May 1980
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Fis 2/4

Register of services, 11 May 1982 - 8 April 1990
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Ref: EP/Fis 2/7

Register of services at Fishburn, St. Catherine, 11 April 1990 - July 1998 (1 volume, plastic bound)

Ref: EP/Fis 2/8/1

Register of services, 5 July 1998 - 5 September 2012
(1 volume)

Parish boundaries (Ref: EP/Fis 2/section 02)

2/10

Ref: EP/Fis 2/10

Plan of parish boundaries, with list of streets in Fishburn, n.d. [2000s]
(2 papers)

Dedication of new church (Ref: EP/Fis 2/section 03)

2/6

Ref: EP/Fis 2/6

Poster advertising the dedication service of the new church at Fishburn, and a public tea in the schoolroom afterwards, printed by George Bailes, printer, bookbinder and stationer, 24 Silver Street, Durham, 18 October 1922 Originally enclosed in EP/Se 14/13
(1 paper, printed)

Parish profile (Ref: EP/Fis 2/section 04)

2/3

Ref: EP/Fis 2/3

Fishburn Parish Profile, September 1990 (1 file, printed)

Orders of service (Ref: EP/Fis 2/section 05)

2/9/1

Ref: EP/Fis 2/9/1

Order of service for the Eucharist led by Right Reverend Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham, with a collection to be taken for those affected by the fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Trinity 2, [2017]
(1 booklet, printed)

Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Fis 4/)Church (Ref: EP/Fis 4/section 01)Church building and site (Ref: EP/Fis 4/section 02)

4/1-5, 8

Ref: EP/Fis 4/1

Blueprint of a proposed new church to seat 200, by E.F. Blakeley & Co. (Liverpool) Ltd., Vauxhall Ironworks, Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, 7 February 1922 Scales: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]; 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]
(1 plan, 59 cm. x 40 cm.)

Ref: EP/Fis 4/2

Correspondence between W. Tinkler, Mill House, Sedgefield; E.F. Blakeley & Co. (Liverpool) Ltd., constructional engineers, Vauxhall Ironworks, Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire; W. Ayre, 13 Park View, Fishburn, and Ginger, Lee & Co., Plymouth Avenue, Longsight, Manchester, concerning the proposal to build an iron church at Fishburn, 17 March - 21 April 1922
(4 papers, typescript)

Ref: EP/Fis 4/3

Priced design for a mission church, no. 201a by Ginger, Lee & Co., manufacturers of iron and wood buildings, Plymouth Avenue, Longsight, Manchester, April 1922 Originally enclosed in EP/Se 14/13
(1 file, printed)

Ref: EP/Fis 4/4

Specification of mission church design, no. 201a, by Ginger, Lee & Co., Plymouth Avenue, Longsight, Manchester, n.d. [1922]
(1 paper, typescript)

Ref: EP/Fis 4/5

Postcard depicting mission church design no. 201a, built by Ginger, Lee & Co., contractors, Plymouth Avenue, Longsight, Manchester, n.d. [1922]
(1 photograph, 13.5 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)

Ref: EP/Fis 4/8

Survey report on the structure of St. Catherine's church, by Bill Gray, Michael Broadhead and Brian Fisher, 4 September 1999 Originally enclosed in EP/Fis 6/2 (2 papers, typescript)

Financial records (Ref: EP/Fis 4/section 02)

4/6-7

Ref: EP/Fis 4/6

Cash book and income and expenditure accounts of St. Catherine's church, 5 January 1947 - 3 March 1963
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)

Ref: EP/Fis 4/7

Statements of account of St. Catherine's church, for the years ended 31 December 1998 - 2001 Originally enclosed in EP/Fis 6/2
(7 papers; 2 typescript)

Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Fis 6/)Minutes (Ref: EP/Fis 6/section 01)

6/1-2

Ref: EP/Fis 6/1

Minutes of the St. Catherine, Fishburn, sub-committee of Sedgefield, St. Edmund Parochial Church Council, 24 February 1936 - 10 March 1971; minutes of Fishburn District Church Committee, 4 February - 3 June 1987
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Fis 6/2

Minutes of Fishburn District Church Council, 3 September 1997 - 28 January 2003 (1 volume, cloth bound)

Schools (Ref: EP/Fis 11/)

11/1-4

Ref: EP/Fis 11/1

Ground plan and elevation of Fishburn C.E. School showing proposed new sliding partition and doorway, June 1918 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]
(1 plan, 37 cm. x 22 cm., waxed linen, ink and colour-wash)

Ref: EP/Fis 11/2-4

Correspondence received from Clark and Moscrop, architects of Feethams, Darlington, and others regarding design and cost of sliding partition, 18 June - 16 July 1918
(2 papers and 1 file, typescript)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Fis 14/)

14/1

Newspaper articles (Ref: EP/Fis 14/1)Ref: EP/Fis 14/1

Newspaper cutting from the Daily Mail reporting the first ever wedding at Fishburn, St. Catherine, 28 May 1996 Originally enclosed in EP/Fis 2/7
(1 paper, printed)

H M Queen Elizabeth II death (Ref: EP/Fis 14/2)

H M Queen Elizabeth II was born 21 April 1926 and died on 8 September 2022
During a National Period of Mourning for ten days following her death, a books of condolence was made available in the church

Ref: EP/Fis 14/2

Book of condolence, September 2022
(1 file)

Church anniversaries and centenary (Ref: EP/Fis 14/3-5)

14/3-6

Ref: EP/Fis 14/3

Order of service for the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the dedication of the church, and a blessing of a memorial to those who lost their lives in Fishburn Pit, n.d. [2012]
(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: EP/Fis 14/4

A history of the Church of Saint Catherine, Fishburn, on its centenary, 2022 Includes a list of the men who died at Fishburn Colliery
(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: EP/Fis 14/5

Poster advertising the 100th birthday celebrations for St Catherine's, Fishburn, 2-3 July [2022]
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: EP/Fis 14/6

Digital photographs of St Catherine, Fishburn 100th anniversary, [2022]
(4 CDs, 2.35GB)



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