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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

5 - Churchyard

1 - Conveyance (Lease and Release; Release missing) - 8 Nov 1726

2 - Lease for 99 years - 28 Jan 1756

3 - Case and opinion of Ll. Kenyon of Middle Temple concerning the claim of Mrs. Orange for 'an Arbitrary payment of Ten Shillings from all persons laying any Gravestone in the Church Yard Alledging that---her Herbage is thereby Injured' - 5 Dec 1771

4 - Conveyance (Lease and Release) - 21, 22 Nov 1774

5 - Deed of Covenant - 10 Aug 1776

6 - Conveyance (Lease and Release) - 27, 28 Jan 1794

7 - Recommendation of vicar and churchwardens for regulating burials in the churchyard because of 'the great inconveniences arising from the very uncertain & irregular Hours of Funerals being brought to Church for Interment' - 7 Nov 1810

8 - Bishop's order regulating burials - 9 Nov 1810

9 - Memos. relating to the road through the churchyard leading to two houses at Dee side in occ. of Mr. Ward and Archdeacon Wrangham - 1 May 1830

10 - Declaration of Joseph Carter of Union Street, aged 81 years, concerning the fees he received when he was sexton - 3 Jun 1846

11 - Faculty - 22 Jul 1851

12 - Order in Council for discontinuing burials in the church and churchyard [at the south side of the church] from 1 May 1855, and covering letter - Feb 1855

13 - Order in Council for discontinuing burials in the church and churchyard [at the south side of the church] from 1 Jan 1856 instead of 1 May 1855, and covering letter - Mar 1855

14 - Notice of intention of Richard [Grosvenor], Marquess of Westminster, to stop up the road leading from Barkers Lane alias Union Street to the point where the same unites with the footway called the Black Walk - 23 Jun 1865

15 - Correspondence concerning the right of way across the south side of the churchyard to Rock Cottage - 1867-1870

16 - Licence for the future interment of Mrs. Jane Kearsley in a brick grave with her late husband in the churchyard - 30 May 1873

17 - Bill to amend the Burial Laws - 1873

18 - Queries and replies in connection with the amendment of the Burial Laws - 1875

19 - Notice of intention to recommend that burials be discontinued wholly in St. John's churchyard - 2 Jul 1875

20 - Order in Council for discontinuing burials wholly in the churchyard, and covering letter - Oct, Nov 1875

21 - Notes on the closure of burial grounds - n d [1875]

22 - Faculty - 6 Apr 1876

23 - Plans of churchyard showing proposed alterations to the approach - 1876

24 - Letter describing the area of land detached from the grave yard and added to the roads - 30 Dec 1879

25 - 'Plan of Graves on the south side of St. Johns Church Tower, Chester, from measurements taken April 21. 1881.' - 23 Apr 1881

26 - Letter from Sam. Smith, Deputy Town Clerk, to Rev. S. C. Scott concerning arrangements for the Spital Burial Ground to be formally given into his possession, the vicar of St. John's being the rightful owner - 11 Jan 1884

27 - Correspondence and plans relating to the Improvement Committee's proposals for footways through the south side of St. John's churchyard - 1897-1898

28 - Citation to lead to Faculty for levelling the burial ground on the north and south sides of the church - 31 Oct 1907

29 - Faculty - 20 Aug 1908

30 - Photographs of tombstone and memorial tablet of Susannah Jane Scott, the Vicar's wife - Post 1909

31 - Letter from Alderman P. H. Lawson to Rev. A. W. G. Duffield relating to his transcript of the monumental inscriptions at St. John's - 1953

32 - Record of Graves and Inscriptions - 1953

33 - Correspondence and deeds relating to the demise of the churchyard to Chester Corporation for 99 years and the constitution of the Corporation as Guardians of the ruined portions of the church - 1953-1961

6 - Visitations

7 - Parochial Statistics

8 - Electoral Rolls

9 - Papers and Correspondence

4 - Civil Affairs

5 - Publications and Memorabilia

7 - Schools