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Notification from the Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, Westminster, to Rev. W. Richardson, St. Helen's Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, that the church of Auckland, St. Helen has been included on a list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest, 12 September 1952

Archaeological Watching Brief report by P. F. Ryder, Historic Buildings Consultant, 1 Ford Terrace, Broomhaugh, Riding Mill, Northumberland, NE44 6EJ, July 2008 Includes: CD Rom of report [word text with JPG images]

Report on the stonework of the columns, column bases and font, medieval grave cover and oak door by Hanna Conservation, Sculpture Conservation and Consultancy, 1 The Poplars, Crooked Lane, Kirk Hammerton, York, Y05 8DG, 30 November 1995

Photographic index of archaeological recording of St. Helen's church by P. F. Ryder, The Archaeology Practice, May 2001 Note: 74 photographs, 18cm x 13cm - 15cm x 10cm, colour

Minutes of the Church Roof Committee meetings, 17 July 1955 - 21 November 1961

Leaflet setting out the roof fund appeal, n.d., c.1955

Restoration Fund account book, 5 May 1940 - 31 December 1955 At end: List of subscribers, c.1947

Specification of proposed general repairs to roofs, parapets etc. at St. Helen's church, drawn up by Christopher Downs, chartered architect, The Cathedral Architect's Office, The Great Kitchen, The College, Durham, September 2002

Roof fund appeal, n.d. [1950s]

Appeal for the restoration of the church, n.d. [1940s]

Full-size details of a proposed church notice board, by G. Lowes, King's College Architectural School, Newcastle upon Tyne, July 1964 Scales: full-size [1:1]; 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]

Drawing of tympanum of porch, n.d., [1960s] No scale

Plan of ground floor of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1970s]

Photocopy of a plan of proposed re-seating of church, n.d. [1970s]

Plan of proposed re-seating of church, n.d. [1970s]

Plan of proposed re-seating of church, n.d. [1970s]

Plan of proposed re-seating of church, n.d. [1970s]

Designs of carving for pew end inserts, n.d. [1970s]

Pew book, 1796 - 1839

Report on estimate for the complete restoration and improvement of the organ by G. Coffin, Principal Pipe Organs, The Raylor Centre, James Street, York, Y010 3DW, October 2006 Includes: Plans of principal pipe organs: 1 plan, 60cm x 52cm [1:60]; 1 plan, 63cm x 60cm [no scale]; 1 plan, 60cm x 63cm [1:60] Certificate of Recognition for containing important archaeological material by The British Institute of Organ Studies, 19 June 2010

Report by Diocesan Organs Advisor from Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches, n.d. [2000s]

Letters, plan [1 plan, 43cm x 30cm, 1:20] and report concerning the proposed modification and enhancement of the organ case, October - December 2006

Durham Diocesan Advisory Committee's sub - committee minutes of meeting concerning the provision of internal and external lighting for the church, 23 April 2008

Photograph of guttering on north aisle of roof of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of chancel in St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of east side of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of south side of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of chancel at St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of the west side of the interior of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of porch of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of north east aspect of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of memorial chapel at St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of cross and candles at St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of cross and candles at St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph from the north of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of south aisle roof of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photographs of the roof of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Photographs of interior of St. Helen's church attached on white cardboard, n.d. [1980s]

Photographs of interior of St. Helen's church attached to white cardboard, n.d. [1980s]

Photograph of interior of St. Helen's church, n.d.

Photograph of the altar of St. Helen's church, n.d. [twentieth century]

Photograph postcard of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1930s]

Photograph postcard of front of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1950s]

Correspondence between George Smith, clerk to St. Helen's Auckland Parish Council; churchwardens, St. Helen's Auckland; J.T. Proud & Son, solicitors, 12 Market Place, Bishop Auckland, and Local Government Board, Whitehall, Westminster; concerning a dispute between the churchwardens and the parish council as to whose responsibility it is to maintain the closed churchyard at Auckland, St. Helen, 31 October 1904 - 6 April 1906

Letter from Bishop Auckland Urban District Council, Town Hall, Bishop Auckland, to Rev. W. Richardson, The Vicarage, St. Helen Auckland, Bishop Auckland, acknowledging that the local authority has assumed responsibility for the maintenance of St. Helen's churchyard, 28 September 1950

Notification from Wear Valley District Council, Civic Centre, Crook, County Durham, DL15 9ES to M. Walls, 20 Chapel Street, West Auckland, Bishop Auckland, County Durham that on 23 May 1994: 1) Walls and gates around yard to Church; 2) Building known as the group of table tombs three metres to the east of Church; 3) Building known as headstone to Thomas Corbett twenty metres east of Church; have been included in a list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest [date of letter, 7 - 8 December 1994]

Photograph of the graveyard of St. Helen's church, n.d. [1960s]

Draft lease between Rev. J. Blakesley of St. Helen's, West Auckland and J. Clark of 32 Maud Terrace, West Auckland and M. Walls of Chapel Street, West Auckland and J. Billany of 39 Ullswater Avenue, West Auckland and R. Todd, of 29 Darlington Road, West Auckland for the church hall, 10 November 1981 Includes: letter concerning the formalisation of the lease, 28 December 1990

Formal lease between Rev. J. B. Blakesley of St. Helen's Vicarage, West Auckland and M. Walls of 20 Chapel Street, West Auckland and N. Robinson of 35 Ramsey Crescent, Bishop Auckland to the Scout Association Trust Corporation whose registered office is Baden - Powell House, Queens Gate, London, SW7 5JS for the church hall, 31 July 1992

Sketch ground plan, site plan and artist's impression of proposed expansion to the church hall, n.d. c.1965 Originally enclosed in EP/Au.SH 6/2

Correspondence re new church hall and Sunday School, 1903 - 1909 Includes: minutes of Building Committee; deeds for enfranchisement for piece of land

Photograph of the vicarage of St. Helen's, 1998

Deeds relating to messuage at West end of St. Helen's Auckland, 1688 - 1796

Report on properties in lease to the trustees of Henry Tuke by Smiths, Gore and Co. Chartered Surveyors and Land Agents, 81 Bondgate, Darlington and recommending the sale of all residential properties and a combination of sale / leasing of commercial properties for income to the parish of St. Helen's, 9 March 1955

Faculty (copy) for alterations to fabric, 1864

Faculty to remove gallery, re-seat part of church and re-allot pews, etc., 4 August 1865

Faculty authorising the erection of an oak reredos, inscribed in memory of William White, 26 July 1930

Faculty authorising the conversion of the east end of the north chancel into a side chapel; the introduction of a holy table, communion rails and panelling in oak; and the replacement of the pews in front of the side chapel with new ones in oak, 24 May 1951

Faculty authorising the erection of a bronze memorial tablet, inscribed in memory of members of the Church Lads' Brigade, killed in World War II, 30 January 1953

Faculty authorising the erection of a new notice board to replace the existing one, and the replacement of the hymn board by two new hymn boards, 6 November 1954

Faculty authorising the interment in the closed churchyard of the cremated remains of Thomas M., and Ada Mary, Wilkinson, 28 December 1956

Faculty authorising the replacement of the brass memorial tablet in memory of Radulphus and Robertus Dalton at the west end of the wall in the north aisle, the overhaul of the organ, and the installation of a new electric organ blower in a fireproof cabinet in the organ chamber, 14 May 1958

Faculty authorising the removal of the rood screen and the re-leading and repair of windows, 9 May 1959

Faculty authorising the introduction of a sterling silver ciborium, inscribed in memory of Olive Balmer, 14 August 1959

Faculty authorising the interment of the cremated remains of Elizabeth Little and Christopher Johnson in a portion of ground at the north-west corner of the churchyard, 25 November 1960

Faculty authorising the introduction of a sterling silver chalice, inscribed in memory of Elizabeth Little, 31 January 1961

Faculty authorising the improvement of the central heating system by installing a new gas-fired heating boiler and two additional radiators, and the introduction of a new carpet into the sanctuary, chancel and three front aisles, 5 October 1961

Faculty authorising the introduction of a processional cross in bronze gilt with a fumed oak shaft, inscribed in memory of Ada Seaton, 25 October 1962

Faculty authorising the introduction of a paten and chalice in silver, inscribed in memory of John Harold Pybus, and the repair, cleaning and re-leading of three stained-glass lights of the east window, 5 October 1963

Faculty authorising the interment in the closed churchyard of the cremated remains of Thomas Dunn Wilde, 24 September 1964

Faculty authorising the installation of an aumbry and sanctuary lamp in the side chapel; the erection of a shelf on the north wall of the side chapel with a gilded metal plate inscribed in memory of Winifred Mary Turnbull; and the introduction of an altar flower-stand in oak with a gilded metal plate, inscribed in memory of Winifred Mary Turnbull, 28 August 1965

Faculty authorising the introduction of a ciborium inscribed in memory of Currie Little; the introduction of a sick communion set with a small silver plate inscribed in memory of Mary Constance Boddy; and the re-fit and re-conditioning of the two church bells, 9 April 1966

Faculty authorising the re-wiring of the electrical system and the introduction of new light fittings, 26 April 1979

Faculty authorising the installation of a new floor; the installation of a new heating system; the renewal of the pews in new oak; the installation of rood screen figures; the conservation and mounting of the Frosterley marble cross-slab (at present located in the floor of the north aisle) into the wall by the organ; the setting of the Eden memorials into the south aisle floor adjacent to the organ; re-decoration using lime-wash; and the cleaning and repair of the brasses, 12 April 2001

Faculty authorising the replacement of the sacristy furniture, 26 July 2004

Faculty authorising the repair of broken stained glass, 24 June 1998

Faculty authorising the erection of fifteen stations of the cross, 25 June 1998

Faculty authorising: 1) Complete restoration and improvement of the organ; 2) Modification and enhancement of the organ case; 3) Renewal of floor and associate works in the organ chamber; 7 March 2007

Faculty authorising the introduction of a new stained glass window, 25 May 2007

Faculty authorising: 1) Renewal of the internal lighting system, electrical work and the provision of an external lighting system; 2) Decoration of the interior of the Church in limewash; 2 June 2008

Faculty authorising repairs to lead work and chimney, 10 February 2011

Faculty authorising the sinking of six bore holes in the churchyard as part of preliminary investigations for a new extension to the church on condition that if any human remains are discovered they are reverently re-buried as soon as possible, 24 November 2011

Faculty authorising the provision of a new glazed inner door on condition that the coach screws are omitted, 23 July 2013

Faculty authorising the provision of new south porch doors, 25 September 2014

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the re-decoration of the church, 24 September 1951

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the restoration of the church, 29 May 1956

Archdeacon's certificate authorising repairs to windows and re-decoration of the church, 14 February 1958

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the re-pointing of the external walls and treatment of the choir woodwork, 9 November 1962

Archdeacon's certificate authorising the re-pointing and patching up of minor defects, 18 September 2002

Archdeacon's licence for the provision of a free-standing altar in the chancel; removal of four choir stalls to a position near the organ; and the removal of the existing altar back against the east wall of the chancel for an initial period of one year, 13 May 1999

Interlocutory order authorising repair work to the roof and pointing of the church, 13 October 2010

Church Commissioners' assessment fixing the parish's annual payments towards repairs at the church following the quinquennial inspection, 10 June 1955

Church Commissioners' assessment fixing the parish's annual payments towards repairs at the church following the quinquennial inspection, 1 October 1965

Church Commissioners' assessment fixing the parish's annual payments towards repairs at the church following the quinquennial inspection, 20 July 1971

Quinquennial report by C. Downs, Chartered Architect, Ecclesiastical and Historic Buildings Consultant, The Catherdral Architect's Office, The Great Kitchen, The College, Durham, DH1 3EQ, 25 September 1999

Quinquennial report by C. Downs, Chartered Architect, Ecclesiastical and Historic Buildings Consultant, The Catherdral Architect's Office, The Great Kitchen, The College, Durham, DH1 3EQ, September 2000

Quinquennial report by C. Downs, Chartered Architect, Ecclesiastical and Historic Buildings Consultant, The Catherdral Architect's Office, The Great Kitchen, The College, Durham, DH1 3EQ, 17 June 2006

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the Quinquennial Inspection of November 2000

Schedule of dilapidations noted at the Quinquennial Inspection of June 2005

Order under Section 21 of the principal measure, and under Section 3 of the 1929 amending measure of the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures 1923-1951, 29 December 1964 Originally enclosed in EP/Au.SH 6/2

Churchwardens' accounts, 9 April 1776 - 16 April 1811

Churchwardens' accounts, 31 March 1812 - 10 April 1849

Churchwardens' accounts, Easter 1849 - 31 December 1916

Notes of a meeting at the offices of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners concerning funding for the parish and parochial buildings, 27 September 1906

Freewill offering account book, January 1940 - December 1942; January 1950 - September 1954 At end: List of names and addresses of parishioners, c.1950 - 1955/56

Balance sheets, 1980 and 1981 and for the magazine account 1979 Originally enclosed in EP/Au.SH 4/21

Christian Stewardship Campaign brochure, n.d. [20th century]

Account book, 16 November 1955 - 8 August 1961

Account book, January 1956 - April 1980

Account book, January 1976 - December 1981

Church rate book, 28 January 1832 - 18 September 1833

Church rate book, 20 March 1835 - 25 March 1840

Church rate book, 14 April 1846 - 22 April 1851

Church rate book, 29 March 1853 - 18 July 1854

Church rate book, 17 March 1856 - 17 November 1860