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Licence for the performance of Divine Service at Bishopwearmouth Church Hall, with related correspondence, 14 - 15 September 1932

Letter from the Clerk to the Sunderland Union to Canon Cockin concerning offer made by Cockin to provide a curate to perform divine service at the workhouse, 14 December 1867

Register of confirmations, 1909 - 1938

Confirmation register, 1 March 1939 - 29 September 1974

Register of sermons, preachers, etc., 1866 - 1873

Register of sermons, preachers, etc., 1873 - 1880

Register of sermons, preachers, etc., 1880 - 1890

Register of sermons, preachers, etc., 1891 - 1901

Register of sermons, preachers etc., 1 September 1901 - 25 April 1911

Register of sermons, preachers etc., 30 April 1911 - 31 December 1918

Register of preachers, readers, collections etc., 1 January 1919 - 6 January 1924

Register of services, 1 January 1924 - 1 March 1934

Register of services, 4 March 1934 - 26 April 1939

Register of services, 21 July 1929 - 1 January 1943

Register of services, 3 January 1943 - 9 January 1948

Register of services, 4 January 1948 - 20 March 1953

Register of services, 20 March 1953 - 31 December 1957

Register of services, 1 January 1958 - 23 April 1960

Register of services, 24 April 1960 - 5 May 1963

Register of services, 6 May 1963 - 31 August 1969

Register of services, 1 September 1969 - 28 September 1974

Register of services, 3 January 1979 - 19 October 1985

Register of services, 20 October 1985 - 2 April 1988

Register of services, 3 April 1988 - 14 September 1990

Register of services, 15 September 1990 - 20 February 1993

Register of services, 21 February 1993 - 6 January 2003

Register of services, 25 January 2003 - 26 April 2009

The London Gazette containing a copy of the Order in Council constituting the district of Monkwearmouth, All Saints, 18 September 1844

The London Gazette containing a copy of the Order in Council constituting the consolidated chapelry of The Venerable Bede, Monkwearmouth, 16 May 1871

The London Gazette containing a copy of the Order in Council assigning a district chapelry to St. Margaret, Castletown, 1 December 1874

The London Gazette containing a copy of the Order in Council assigning a district chapelry to Christ Church, Bishopwearmouth, 7 December 1875

The London Gazette containing a copy of the Order in Council assigning a district chapelry to St. Stephen, Ayres Quay, 27 August 1878

The London Gazette containing a copy of the Order in Council assigning a district chapelry to St. Cuthbert, Monk Wearmouth, 26 November 1880

The London Gazette containing a copy of the Order in Council assigning a district chapelry to St. Ignatius the Martyr, Hendon, 23 August 1889

The London Gazette containing a copy of the Order in Council assigning a consolidated chapelry to St. Hilda, Millfield, 28 August 1894

The London Gazette containing a copy of the Order in Council altering the boundaries between Bishopwearmouth and St. Mark, Millfield, 30 May 1899

The London Gazette , Official Intelligence Section, containing a copy of the Order in Council altering the boundaries of Monkwearmouth parishes, 28 February 1919

The London Gazette containing a copy of the Order in Council altering the boundaries of St. Gabriel's and Christ Church, Bishopwearmouth, 17 December 1929

New plan of the town of Sunderland including Bishop Wearmouth, Monkwearmouth and Southwick, by Thomas Younger, Borough Surveyor, with addition shewing the boundary of the parish of Bishopwearmouth, 1876 - 1877

Certified copy of the sealed instrument of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners approving Bishopwearmouth, St. Gabriel, 11 July 1912

Certified copy of the sealed instrument of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners approving Bishopwearmouth, St. Nicholas, 29 August 1939

Copy of sealed order of the Church Commissioners uniting the parish of St. Peter, Bishopwearmouth with that of St. Michael, Bishopwearmouth. Plan attached, 21 December 1948

Plan of Bishopwearmouth shewing the boundaries of the parishes of Pallion, Deptford, Millfield, Hendon and Bishopwearmouth, n.d., c.1880

Map shewing the alterations to the boundaries of the parishes of Bishopwearmouth, Christ Church, Bishopwearmouth, St. Gabriel, and Bishopwearmouth, St. Michael, 1929

Correspondence received by the Rector of Bishopwearmouth from the Ecclesiastical Commission regarding alterations to parish boundaries, with draft of Order in Council to effect the same, 10 October - 24 December 1929

Scheme for the reorganisation of parishes in Bishopwearmouth and Sunderland, 1948

Map of the parish of Bishopwearmouth, as reorganised, 1948

Map of the parish of Sunderland, as reorganised, 1948

Draft scheme made by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the reorganisation of the parishes of St. Michael, St. Thomas and St. Peter, Bishopwearmouth, and St. John and Holy Trinity, Sunderland, and accompanying explanatory letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission to the Secretary of Bishopwearmouth Parish Council, 11 June 1947

Copy of a deed of endowment between Rev. Robert William Stannard; Right Rev. Herbert Hensley, Lord Bishop of Durham; and the Ecclesiastical Commission for England, proposing 'a separate district for spiritual purposes' by the name of 'The District of Saint Nicholas Bishopwearmouth', 4 November 1936

Photograph of Rev. Canon Markham inspecting a gift during a celebration of the 60th anniversary of his ordination, taken at Sunderland Minster, 1996

Photograph of Rev. Canon Markham holding up a gift during a celebration of the 60th anniversary of his ordination, taken at Sunderland Minster, 1996

Photograph of Rev. Canon Markham receiving a gift from a woman during a celebration of the 60th anniversary of his ordination, taken at Sunderland Minster, 1996

Photograph of Rev. Canon Markham receiving a gift from a woman during a celebration of the 60th anniversary of his ordination, taken at Sunderland Minster, 1996

Photograph of Rev. Canon Markham receiving a gift from a woman during a celebration of the 60th anniversary of his ordination, taken at Sunderland Minster, 1996

Photograph of Rev. Canon Markham, centre, with guests at a celebration of the 60th anniversary of his ordination, taken at Sunderland Minster, 1996

Photograph of a clergyman making a speech during a celebration of the 60th anniversary of Rev. Canon Markham's ordination, taken at Sunderland Minster, 1996

Photograph of a clergyman making a speech during a celebration of the 60th anniversary of Rev. Canon Markham's ordination, taken at Sunderland Minster, 1996

Photograph of a clergyman making a speech during a celebration of the 60th anniversary of Rev. Canon Markham's ordination, taken at Sunderland Minster, 1996

Photograph of Dr. Alan Smithson, Bishop of Jarrow, right, and Rev. Dr. James M. Francis, left, taken during the licensing of Rev. Dr. Francis as Associate Team Vicar at Sunderland Minster, 20 April 1997

A sermon presented at Bishopwearmouth on "the anniversary of the accession of our gracious sovereign to the throne", by Robert Gray, D.D., Rector of Bishopwearmouth, and Prebendary of Durham and of Chichester, 25 October 1803

A sermon on national education, by Robert Gray, 14 December 1816

A sermon preached on the day of the interment of King George III, by Robert Gray, D.D., 16 February 1820

A sermon preached on the occasion of the resignation of Robert Gray, D.D. as Rector of Bishopwearmouth upon his appointment to the see of Bristol, 20 March 1827

Farewell sermon delivered by the Reverend C.P. Miles, B.A., Curate of Bishopwearmouth and proceedings at the presentation of a testimonial to him, 6 - 8 August 1843

The Certain Way to True Happiness, a sermon by M. Martindale, 1805

A Sermon Preached at the Parish Church of Bishop-Wearmouth , by Robert Gray, Rector of Bishopwearmouth, 25 October 1809

Two Sermons Preached at Bishopwearmouth Church , by Rev. George Stephenson, Vicar of Kelloe, Curate of Bishopwearmouth, Trinity Sunday 1812

Religious influences amongst working men and Bible classes as a method of Church work , a paper read by Rev. Edgar Boddington, Curate of Bishopwearmouth, 24 May 1887

Some Principles underlying the External Form of Worship , by Rev. Edgar Boddington, Vicar of Saint Ignatius the Martyr, Sunderland, 26 November 1890

The 'Natural Boundary' between Bishopwearmouth and Sunderland Parishes, by George W. Bain, 15 January 1901

Order of service for 'The Licensing of Reverend Dr. J.M.M. Francis as Non-Stipendary Associate Team Vicar', 20 April 1997

Order of service for 'The Collation and Induction of Reverend Canon Stephen Taylor', 7 May 2000

Order of service for the licensing of the Rev. Alison Marshall as co-ordinator of Chaplaincy Services and full-time Anglican Chaplain at the University of Sunderland, and as Team Vicar in the Sunderland Team Ministry, 13 March 2003

Order of service for the institution and induction of Rev. Canon Brian Hails as team rector, 22 February 1996

Order of service for the Patronal festival Eucharist, marking the retirement of Rev. Canon Brian Hails, Rector of Sunderland and Industrial Chaplain for the City of Sunderland, 29 September 1999

Copy curacy licence of Charles Alexander Adams, A.K.C., 12 June 1960

Copy curacy licence of Roger Derrick Masson Grey, A.K.C., 9 June 1963

Copy curacy licence of Dermot McDowell Killingley, 22 September 1963

List of subscribers: to the Canon Cocken memorial, May 1890; and to the Archdeacon Long Memorial Fund, 1909 - 1910

Address to Canon Cockin by the parishioners of Bishopwearmouth, with his reply, 5 July 1870

Copy address to Canon Cockin by the wardens, sidesmen and others of Bishopwearmouth Parish Church, 6 August 1883

Circular seeking contributions to Canon Cockin's testimonial, June 1883

Circular seeking subscriptions to a memorial for the late Canon Cockin, 30 March 1889

Statement of funds received by the Archdeacon Long Testimonial Fund and by the Memorial Fund, 6 February 1907 - 2 September 1909

Details of sums raised and expended as a gift for Revd. J.S. Nye, December 1924

An Act for vesting the Glebe Lands and Endowments of the Rectory of Bishop Wearmouth in the County and Diocese of Durham in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England and for making Provision for the Endowment of the said Rectory in lieu thereof; and for the Promotion of other Ecclesiastical Purposes connected therewith , 30 and 31 Victoria, c.xxvi, 31 May 1867 Known as the Bishopwearmouth Rectory Act

18 July 1867 (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (2) The Reverend William Cockin of Bishop Wearmouth, Clerk, Rector Duplicate agreement for the payment by (1) to (2) of £2,000 p.a. in lieu of the income arising from the glebe lands etc. of the Rectory conveyed to (1) by EP/Biw 182 above

13 September 1787 (1) Henry Taylor and Jane, his wife (2) Richard Atkinson of Bishop Wearmouth, joiner Admittance of (2) on the surrender of (1) to 5 perches of ground in Bishopwearmouth. Manor of the Rectory of Bishop Wearmouth

Correspondence between Longden, Walker and Renney, Solicitors, 14 John Street, Sunderland; Durham Diocesan Office; Bishop Skelton, Abbotsford Grove, Sunderland; and Rev. E.M. Shegog, Thornhill Terrace, Sunderland; concerning the estate of Ethel Stewart, 22 March 1974 - 28 March 1979

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission concerning the stipend of an assistant curate at Bishopwearmouth, 20 January 1868

Correspondence with the Ecclesiastical Commission and the Bishops of Durham and Jarrow concerning duties and emoluments of assistant curate, 3 June - 27 July 1925

7 July 1832 (1) The Hon. and Reverend Gerald Valerian Wellesley, Clerk, D.D., Rector of Bishopwearmouth (2) The Rt. Reverend William, Lord Bishop of Durham (3) The Reverend John Haydon, Clerk, Perpetual Curate of Ryhope Grant by (1) to (3) of the annual stipend of £100

24 February 1915 (1) The Reverend Herbert Gouldsmith, Rector of Bishopwearmouth (2) The Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty Mortgage of benefice income (under the Gilbert Acts) to secure £250 and interest

Circulars and details of services in connexion with the Church of England Mission for the Borough of Sunderland, September - October 1879

Circulars, posters, details of services etc. in connexion with the Sunderland General Church Mission, October - November 1890

Order of memorial service for H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale, 20 January 1892

Orders of service and related papers for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 20 June 1897

Order of memorial service (20 May 1910) for King Edward VII, with admission ticket, details of seating arrangements, the civic and church processions, 14 - 20 May 1910

Order of service for the day of the coronation of King George V (22 June 1911), with details of procession and seating arrangements, 20 - 22 June 1911

Songs and hymns sung at a united demonstration for church defence, 9 May 1893

Orders of service for the laying of the foundation stone and the consecration of St. Hilda's Church, Millfield, with related papers, 18 May 1892 - 5 July 1894

Order of service for the inauguration of the Minster Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Sunderland, 11 January 1998

List of psalms and hymns for a thanksgiving service for the Rectory Park Church Schools, 9 July 1964

Order of service for 'Service of Thanksgiving for 750 years of Continuous Worship and Witness' at Bishopwearmouth Church, 28 September 1964

Order of service for 'A Celebration of Flowers', 2 June 1995

'Order of service for 60th Anniversary of the Re-dedication of St. Michael's Church', 4 June 1995

Order of service for 'City Harvest Celebration Service', 9 October 1997

De-accessioned 1 February 2017 as duplicate of 1233

Order of service for 'A Short Service of Thanksgiving for all that the people of Vaux Breweries Ltd. have done for Sunderland and its Community', 21 June 1999

Order of service 'Celebrating the Life of a School, St. John and St. Patrick's, 1981 - 1999', 1999

Order of service for 'City Harvest Celebration Service', 7 October 1999

'Service of Confirmation' by Right Reverend Michael Turnbull, 2 November 1999

Order of service for 'Sunderland Minster City Carol Service', 18 December 2000

Order of service for 'The Sunderland Branch Parachute Regiment Association Arnhem Service', 1 October [n.y.]

Order of service for 'The Parachute Regimental Association and Airborne Forces North East Region, Service of Dedication to celebrate The Millennium', 25 June 2000

Order of service for 'The Sunderland Branch of the Parachute Regiment Association Arnhem Service', 30 September 2001

Order of service for 'Sunderland Minster Christingle Service', Christmas Eve, 2001

Order of service for 'Service to Celebrate the First Year of Sunderland Housing Group', 15 March 2002

Order of service for 'A Service to Commemorate the Queen's Golden Jubilee', 9 June 2002

'Sunderland Minster City Carol Service', 18 December 2002

'Sunderland Minster Carol Service', 22 December 2002

'Sunderland Minster Christingle Service', Christmas Eve 2002

'A Service to Celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of Sunderland Minster', 6 January 2003

Order of service for 'The Friends of Sunderland Minster Festival', 8-11 May 2003

Order of service 'Songs of Praise from Sunderland Minster', 18 May 2003

'Sunderland Minster Order of Service for Candlemas', n.d.

Memorial service of thanksgiving for Barbara Mary White at St. Michael's Church, Bishopwearmouth, 19 March 1997

Order of service for the inauguration of the Minster church of St. Michael and All Angels, 11 January 1998

Order of service for the Sunderland Branch of the Parachute Regiment Association Arnhem Service, 27 September 1998

Order of service at Sunderland Minster for the service of thanksgiving for the life of Professor Yvonne Stewart-Smith (1941-1998), Director of the School of Education, Sunderland University, 3 October 1998

Order of service for All Souls' Day, a service of thanksgiving and a commemoration of the departed from the University of Sunderland, 2 November 1998

Order of service for the University of Sunderland Chaplaincy Services Carol Service in preparation for Christmas, 10 December 1998

Order of service for a Christmas memorial service, 'Their names are written in Heaven', 14 December 1998

Order of service, 'Come to the Cradle', for Sunderland High School Carol Service, 15 December 1998

Order of service for a carol service, 20 December 1998

Order of service for B.B.C. 2 recording of 'Sunday Half Hour', 9 February 1999

Order of service for a farewell Eucharist for Rev. Canon Richard Davison, Area Dean of Wearmouth, and previously vicar of Christ Church, Bishopwearmouth, 13 June 1999

Order of service for the Parachute Regiment Association Arnhem Service, 26 September 1999

Order of service for a Christmas concert with the City of Sunderland String Orchestra directed by David Murray, with guest soloist, Teresa Troiani, 17 December 1999

Order of service for a festival of nine lessons and carols, 19 December 1999

Order of service for a service of thanksgiving for the life of Joseph Robert Kayll, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.E.C.D.L., 1914-2000, 12 May 2000

Order of service for Roland Bradford Coombs, 13 May 2000

Order of service held in memory of George Richardson, 8 March 1931 - 18 May 2000, 26 May 2000

Order of service for the 60th anniversary memorial service for those who died on the SS City of Benares , 17 September 1940, held at Sunderland Minster, 17 September 2000

Order of service for All Souls-Tide, commemorating the departed, 5 November 2000

Order of service for confirmation with Eucharist, by Michael, Bishop of Durham, 9 November 2000

Order of service for a millennium celebration at Sunderland Minster, 21 November 2000

Order of service for 'The Spirit of Christmas', Sunderland High School Carol Service, 13 December 2000

Order of service for a festival of nine lessons and carols, 17 December 2000

Order of service for Evensong, 31 December 2000

Order of service of celebration 'Enlarge the place of your tents', to commemorate the 125 th anniversary of the Mothers' Union in the Archdeaconry of Sunderland, 9 August 2001

Order of service for Deanery Evensong in commemoration of Ceolfrith, Abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, died 25 September 716, 23 September 2001

Order of service for All Souls-tide, commemorating the departed, 4 November 2001

Order of service of carols at Sunderland Minster, 23 December 2001

Order of service of thanksgiving with the Bishop of Durham, the Rt. Rev. Michael Turnbull, celebrating the life of Faith in North East England and as a farewell to Frank and Alison White, 25 January 2002

Order of service of re-dedication of the Victoria Hall memorial, Mowbray Park, 12 April 2002

Order of service to commemorate the life of H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 14 April 2002

Order of service of covenant renewal of city centre churches, Burn Park Methodist, St. George's United Reformed Church, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Sunderland Minster, and West Park United Reformed Church, 19 May 2002

Order of service of remembrance on the 20th anniversary of the Falklands conflict, 6 July 2002

Order of service for the Sunderland branch of the Parachute Regimental Association Arnhem service, 29 September 2002

Order of service for Evensong, sung by Durham Cathedral choir, 26 October 2002

Order of service for Remembrance Sunday, 10 November 2002

Order of service for the official switching on of the new floodlights by Professor Peter Fidler, University of Sunderland, 10 December 2002

Order of service for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association carol service, 11 December 2002

Order of service for Sunderland High School carol service, 17 December 2002

Order of service for the funeral of Alan Gordon Wilson, 1922 - 2002, n.d., 2002

Order of service of dedication for the installation of the Morris window, previously in Christ Church, Bishopwearmouth, 8 March 2003

Order of service for Christmas Midnight Eucharist, n.d.

Order of service for the licensing of the Rev. Paul Hutchinson, as co-ordinator of chaplaincy services and full-time Anglican chaplain at the University of Sunderland, and as assistant curate in the Sunderland Team Ministry, 22 September [n.y.]

Order of service for the Laying of the Standard, for the Wearside branch of the Dunkirk Veterans Association, n.d.

Order of service for the Salvation Army Christmas Concert, with Pantastic Steel Band; The Timbrels, Sunderland songsters and the Monkwearmouth Salvation Army Band, compered by Pam Royle of Tyne Tees Television, n.d.

Biographical sketches of the Rectors of Bishopwearmouth (1848 - 1908) from the Parish Magazine, n.d.

Notes on the Rectors of Bishopwearmouth, by Herbert Maxwell Wood, 1903

The Rectors of the ancient Parish Church of Bishopwearmouth, compiled by Brian A. Myers, c.1975

Deanery of Wearmouth (formerly the Northern Division of Easington Deanery) Ruri-decanal Conference (formerly Chapter) meetings rninutes, 1859 - 1890 Enclosed: related papers

Report of the East End Commission to the Ruri-decanal Conference of Wearmouth Deanery, 20 November 1896