Collection Browser

Tip: If available, use the + and - to explore this collection more fully.  Click on a description to see further details.

P 51 - Chester St John Parish - 16th century-21st century

1 - Registers and Services

2 - Ecclesiastical Administration

3 - Parish Affairs

1 - Vestry Minutes and Parochial Church Council (PCC) Minutes

2 - Churchwardens' Accounts and Parochial Church Council (PCC) Accounts

3 - Charities

4 - Church Buildings

1 - St. John's Church

1 - Letter from Charles Lett Feltoe to Rev. S. C. Scott containing historical notes on chantries - 30 Apr 1889

2 - Agreement for letting of No. 77 Ermine Road, Newton, by the Retired Teachers Homes Association of Birkenhead and Chester to the Parochial Church Council (PCC) , as a residence for the curate - 21 Feb 1948

3 - Sentence of Consecration - 26 Oct 1830

4 - Memorandum on the church towers - n d [post 1881]

5 - Memoranda on the altar piece - n d [post 1890]

6 - Photograph of the Warburton Chapel - n d

7 - Correspondence relating to removal of a canopy in the ruins of St. John's Church to be placed with the sedilia in the Cathedral, and related memorandum - Jan-Feb 1876

8 - Subscription list and summary account - 1881

9 - Newspaper cutting: letter printed in Cheshire Observer seeking an 'authoritative opinion ... that the Tower cannot be made safe as it stands' - 14 May 1881

10 - Appeal for further subscriptions - 12 Sep 1881

11 - Accounts and related letters - 1882-1883

12 - Subscription list - 1 Oct 1884

13 - Memorandum of bequest of Mrs. Anne Jones of the Newgate, Chester, widow of John Jones of same, cork and pipe manufacturer, of £50 for the purchase of a clock for St. John's church tower, 7 Oct 1863, with related letter - 15 Dec 1870

14 - Letters from Cecil T. Parker, agent to the Duke of Westminster, to Rev. S. Cooper Scott, concerning repairs to the buttresses - Dec 1886

15 - Faculty - 7 Jun 1792

16 - Estimate from Messrs. J. Warner & Sons, Crescent Foundry, London, for rehanging the bells, with related illustration - 10 Dec 1881

17 - Letter from Fred Higgins, Bowdon, to the vicar discussing the provision of a belfry and clock tower - 23 Oct 1885

18 - Letters, estimates and accounts of Douglas and Fordham of Chester, architects - 1885-1888

19 - Citation to lead to Faculty for erection of belfry - 15 Jan 1886

20 - Faculty - 28 Jan 1886

21 - Front and side elevation of proposed bell tower - 1886

22 - Letters, estimates and accounts of J. B. Joyce & Co. of Whitchurch, clock manufacturers - 1886-1888

23 - Account and receipts of William Parrott of Chester, contractor - 1887

24 - Receipted account of Bennett Brothers of Liverpool, ironfounders, kitchen fitters and plumbers, for lightning conductor - 26 Aug 1887

25 - Letters from John Smith & Sons, Midland Steam Clock Works, Derby, concerning provision of chiming machine for bells - May 1909

26 - Case and opinion of William Chas. Townshend concerning the payment of the organist's salary - 8 Jul 1845

27 - Appeal and list of subscriptions for rebuilding the organ (Printed) - Jan 1894

28 - Citation to lead to Faculty for removal and reconstruction of organ and for forming a side chapel of the south transept - 4 Jan 1894

29 - Correspondence concerning the unsatisfactory water engine supplied by the Ross Valve Company of London - 1895

30 - Letters and newspaper cutting referring to the statement that the organ played at Coronation services is the perquisite of the organist - 1901

31 - Contract and correspondence with Charles Whiteley & Co. of Chester, organ builders, relating to the tuning of the organ - 1955-1956

32 - Copy 16th century plan of church and churchyard - n d 18th cent

33 - Copy 16th century plan of church and churchyard - 18th century

34 - Copies of keys accompanying two 16th century plans of the churchyard in the British Museum - 19th century

35 - Articles of Agreement - 1 Nov 1671

36 - Bond in £20 - 29 May 1746

37 - Answer of Thomas Store, proctor of the Consistory Court, on behalf of Thomas Adams, gentleman, who was presented for not sooner repairing the north window which was damaged 'by the late high Wind' - 1757

38 - Agreement - 7 Jul 1775

39 - Fire Insurance Policy No. 657288 of the Northwich Union Fire Insurance Society on the stained glass window 'The Marriage Feast' - 5 Jul 1869

40 - Copy letter and draft deed concerning the proposal of the ladies of St. John's Basket Committee to erect stone altar rails - 1870

41 - Particulars of works carried out at the eastern end of the church 1870-1871 - 1871

42 - Letter from Mr. Titherington to churchwarden Haswell relating to the sale of the altar rails for £4 - 20 Dec 1871

43 - Letter from G. Gilbert Scott to Rev. S. Cooper Scott giving advice on the style of reredos to be erected in memory of the late Rev. W. B. Marsden - 6 Dec 1875

44 - Letter from Morris and Company, London, to Rev. S. Cooper Scott advising a 'much more simple & temporary dressing for the Altar' than the one proposed - 6 Jan 1876

45 - Faculty - 15 Jun 1876

46 - Accounts relating to the Marsden Memorial - 1876-1877

47 - Citation to lead to Faculty for placing stained glass in the west window of the church - 16 Jan 1890

48 - Faculty - 30 Jan 1890

49 - Drawing of proposed west window - n d 1890

50 - Citation to lead to Faculty for a stained glass window - 16 Apr 1896

51 - Faculty - 30 Apr 1896

52 - Citation to lead to Faculty for inserting stained glass in the third window from the west end on the north side of the nave, representing our Lord in the home of Martha, Mary and Lazarus at Bethany, with a brass tablet beneath as a memorial to Mrs. Mary D - 13 Apr 1899

53 - Water colour sketch of proposed west window - 26 Apr 1899

54 - Citation to lead to Faculty for placing stained glass representing the figure of Hiram, architect and artificer, builder of the Temple, in the easternmost window of the north aisle as a memorial to Thomas Meakin Lockwood, architect, deceased, expense to b - 17 Jan 1901

55 - Preservation of the Ruins Fund Bank book - 1899-1900

56 - Conveyance - 25 Nov 1904

57 - Abstract of P 51/7/224 - 1905

58 - Citation to lead to Faculty confirming erection of a memorial tablet - 16 Jul 1914

59 - Faculty - 27 Jul 1914

60 - Letter from Brown, Dobie & Rogers of Chester, solicitors, to Rev. J. Polehampton, informing him of bequest of £300 by Mrs. E. H. Haswell for the completion of the reredos with paintings as a memorial to her father - 20 Mar 1916

61 - Faculty - 6 Mar 1922

62 - Faculty - 26 Apr 1926

63 - Letters from T. J. Rushton on behalf of Sir Charles A. Nicholson, architect, to Canon Child concerning the screen and stalls to be erected in memory of Rev. John Polehampton - 1926-1927

64 - Letter of appeal for contributions for the memorial to Rev. John Polehampton(Printed) - Feb 1927

65 - Citation to lead to Faculty for stained glass window - 25 Sep 1929

66 - Faculty and Copy - 09 Oct 1929

67 - Letters from T. J. Rushton, architect, to Canon Child concerning cost and design of aumbrey and safe - 1932-1933

68 - Bishop's letter of authority for Sacrament to be reserved continuously on week days, the place of reservation being the aumbrey placed in the east wall on the north side of the altar of the south side chapel - 2 Jun 1936

69 - Drawing of safe - c.1936?

70 - Regulations for the Installation of Electric Light in Churches - 1935

71 - Faculty - 29 Apr 1946

72 - Faculty - 29 Apr 1946

73 - 'The Blazon of the Arms on a Monument belonging to the Cotes Family in the Chancel of St. John's church in Chester; north side of the Church.' - n d

74 - Plan of proposed heating installation - Apr 1957

75 - Citation to lead to Faculty for new heating apparatus - 18 Dec 1957

76 - Leaflet advertising Wilson 'Oilheat' Boiler Units - c.1957

77 - Citation to lead to Faculty for a wall safe - 21 Feb 1962

78 - Faculty - 2 Apr 1962

79 - Church Restoration Committee minutes - 1859-1860

80 - Restoration Appeal (Printed) - 1859

81 - Subscription accounts - 1859-1860

82 - Draft minutes and notes - 1859-1860

83 - Faculty - 31 Jan 1861

84 - Faculty - 31 Jan 1861

85 - Restoration accounts - 1862

86 - Reports of John Douglas of Chester, and of Cornelius Sherlock of Liverpool, architects, on the condition of the tower - 1871

87 - Report of John L. Pearson of London, architect, on the condition of the tower - 6 Apr 1881

88 - Extract from Parish magazine describing the fall of the tower - 1881

89 - Petition to the Mayor to hold a public meeting to consider the repair of the tower - 19 Apr 1881

90 - Notices of public meeting - 26 Apr 1881

91 - Church Tower and Porch Restoration Committee minutes - 1881-1884

92 - Draft agenda and minutes - 1881

93 - Letters of apology for non-attendance of meetings - 1881

94 - Appeal for subscriptions - 3 May 1881

95 - Progress report of Thomas Hughes of Aldford, builder - 7 May 1881

96 - Notices of meetings - 1881

2 - St. Barnabas' Mission Church

5 - Churchyard

6 - Visitations

7 - Parochial Statistics

8 - Electoral Rolls

9 - Papers and Correspondence

4 - Civil Affairs

5 - Publications and Memorabilia

7 - Schools