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D1751 - Parish of Buxton St John the Baptist, later the parish of Buxton with Burbage and King Sterndale - 1718-1996

A - Parish records - 1718-1996

PC - Parochial Church Council - 1867-1980

PF - Charities - 1882-1962

PI - Parish incumbent’s records - 1718-1996

1 - Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials - 1718-1812

2 - Baptism registers - 1813-1907

3 - Marriage registers - 1813-1949

4 - Banns registers - 1824-1967

5 - Burial registers - 1813-1939

6 - Drafts - 1869-1876

7 - Confirmation roll - 1912-1956

8 - Service and preacher record book - 1893-1996

9 - Marriage licences 1973, 1983 - 1973-1983

10-21 - Numbers not used

22 - Draft petition for a faculty to build a chancel and make other alterations - 1895

23 - Citation to lead to a faculty for alterations to the of Buxton - 1895

24 - Faculty for Alterations to the Church of Buxton - 1896

25 - Duplicate faculty for alterations to the Church of Buxton - 1896

26 - Copy citation to lead to a faculty for decorating the east wall of the chancel - 1902

27 - Faculty for Decorating the east wall of the chancel - 1902

28 - Faculty for Placing a memorial brass in the church to the late Mr T M Keely and his wife - 1904

29 - Faculty for Alterations and improvements to the west gallery placing an oak screen at the west entrance of the church and re-seating the church with oak benches - 1904

30 - Faculty for Placing a mural tablet on the west wall of the north transept - 1916

31 - Faculty for Placing a memorial window in the church - 1919

32 - Faculty for Placing mosaic on the wall over the east window - 1933

33 - Letter of licence authorising the placing of two polished brass candlesticks on the altar - 1935

34 - Faculty for Completing the mosaic on the east wall - 1936

35 - Faculty for Reconstructing the roof and forming and furnishing a side chapel in the south transept - 1937

36 - Faculty for Erecting a war memorial tablet - 1947

37 - Faculty for Erecting a rood in the chancel arch and fixing bronze memorial tablet under the rood beam - 1950

38 - Faculty for Rehanging the re-cast and re-tuned bell in the bell frame - 1960

39 - Faculty for Forming a garden of remembrance in the churchyard - 1960

40 - Faculty for Installation of an aumbry in the north wall of the sanctuary - 1969

41-120 - Correspondence, plans and tracings, relating to extensions and improvements, including the works of Sir Arthur Blomfield, architect - 1894-1912

121 - Letter to the Rev C C Nation concerning plans and elevations which Ashould accompany instructions for petition 31 Jul - 1895

122-123 - Note concerning account and receipt for altar hangings from the School of Embroidery, Sisters of Bethany, 6 Lloyd Street, Pentonville - 1903

124-158 - Papers relating to repairs to the Church, including the restoration and the reconstruction of a damaged mechanism of the organ - 1937

159-162 - Photographs relating to the condition of the roof - c1937

163-165 - Photographs of church interior - 1944-1947

166-187 - Papers relating to the war memorial tablet - 1947-1952

188-207 - Correspondence relating to recasting and rehanging the bell - 1958-1961

208-218 - Papers relating to improvements to the Church by Lawrence H Bond and Robert W Read, architects, Grantham, Lincolnshire - 1960-1961

219 - Letter from Sidney A Jeavons, Hardwick Lodge, Hardwick Road, Streetley, Staffordshire, to the Rural Dean, concerning the provenance of a set of silver plate with suggested insurance estimates, 13 May - 1961

220-221 - Receipt and covering letter from William Deacon’s Bank Ltd, Buxton, for the deposit of a plate - 1965

222 - Note concerning the receipt by H V Percival from the Rev J Meux of a communion set for the Victoria and Albert Museum, 18 May - 1971

223-227 - Papers concerning the purchase and erection of a shed at St John’s Church - 1966

228 - Letter from the Derby Diocesan Registry, to the Rev K J Meux, concerning an application for a faculty, 20 Mar - 1969

229 - Certificate of completion of works authorised by a faculty, 20 Mar - 1969

230 - Letter from Bowdens, Shipton & Tomlinson, solicitors, Buxton, to the Rev K J Meux, enclosing a duplicate faculty, dated 1 October 1896, which appears to relate to St John’s, 19 Aug - 1971

231 - Act for establishing a church or chapel of ease at Buxton (51 George III, chapter 69) - 1811

232 - Memorandum of agreement between John Gaymer, trading as Cornish and Gaymer, builders and contractors, of North Walsham, Norfolk, and Charles Codrington Nation, of the Vicarage, Buxton, Thomas Henry Lowthian, manufacturer, of the Gables, Buxton, and John Henry Orme, solicitor, of Glenwood, Buxton, in consideration of the sum of £2,342 regarding various alterations and additions to the Church of Saint John at Buxton, 13 Jul - 1896

233 - Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, to the Rev C C Nation, regarding the proposed constitution of the new parish of St John the Baptist, Buxton, 29 Aug - 1898

234-237 - Newspaper cuttings relating to the formation of the Parish of St John the Baptist - 1898

238 - Memorandum of agreement of tenancy between Frank Drewry of Buxton, esq, as agent of the Duke of Devonshire, and the Rev Charles Codrington Nation of the Frank Drewry agrees to let to Charles Codrington Vicarage, Buxton, whereby the said Nation a plot of land situated at Buxton and adjoining St John’s Church, 28 Nov - 1901

239-276 - Correspondence relating to Fernilee and Hope - 1903-1906

277 - Handwritten memorandum by the Rev C E Scott- Moncrieff, stating that ‘In 1912 the Duke of Devonshire wrote to me offering to make a gift to the Church of the land previously rented and the Churchwardens and I accepted this gift’, 1 Aug - 1938

278 - Counterpart agreement between Geoffrey Townshend Carlisle, MA, Clerk in Holy Orders and Vicar of Buxton, of the first part, the Parochial Church Council of Buxton of the second part, and Charles Jackson Lockett of Torcross, Lansdowne Road, Buxton, relating to the appointment of the said Charles Jackson Lockett as Organist and Choir Master of the Parish Church of St John, Buxton 18 Jun - 1941

279 - Letter from, G D Goodman, Eccles House, near Chinley, Derbyshire, relating to the circumstances of the formation of the parish 11 Oct - 1948

280-282 - Correspondence relating to the listing of St John’s and St Anne’s Church as buildings of special architectural or historic interest - 1951

283 - Letters from H S Rees, Diocesan Registrar, to the Rev C Storrs-Fox, regarding the conveyance of a piece of land which the Borough Council wish to purchase, 25 May - 1956

284 - Stipendiary curate’s licence granted to John Jordan Stark, BA, 20 Sep - 1964

285 - Letter from the Derby Diocesan Registry, enclosing the copy licence for deposit in the Parish Chest, 22 Sep - 1964

286 - Stipendiary curate’s licence granted to Peter Dawkes, 25 Mar - 1970

287 - Letter from the Derby Diocesan Registry, to the Rev K J Meux, enclosing the copy licence for deposit with the Parish records, 2 Apr - 1970

288 - Pastoral Order that the Rural Deanery of Buxton be transferred from the Archdeaconry of Derby to the Archdeaconry of Chesterfield, 4 May - 1971

289 - Notice concerning Reserved Elements for the Communion of the Sick

290 - Minute Book of St John’s Churchyard Restoration Committee - 1878-1886

291-301 - Order for the closing of St John’s and St Anne’s churchyards and related correspondence - 1898

302-303 - Printed regulations relating to the Garden of Remembrance at Buxton Parish Church

304 - Notes prepared by the Central Council for the Care of Churches on the disposal of cremation ashes and the construction of columbaria

305 - Certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge on land in the township of Fernilee in the parish of Hope, 15 Dec - 1900

306-307 - Certificates of redemption of tithe rent charge on land in the township of Buxton in the parish of Bakewell, 7 and 12 May - 1903

308-312 - Correspondence from the Ecclesiastical Commission, concerning war stock and funding stock - 1919-1920

313 - Charging assessment by the Governors of Queen Anne’s Bounty to the benefice of the Vicarage of Buxton, 1 Jan - 1939

314 - Letter from the Church Commissioners to the Rev G T Carlisle concerning funding stock, 11 Jan - 1950

315-320 - Sunday School: Copy prints of deed of conveyance by the Duke of Devonshire, to the Reverend William Malam, the Vicar of the Parish of Buxton, George Francis Barnard, wine and spirit merchant, one of the churchwardens, George Hobson the Elder, hotel keeper, Philip le Gros, hotel keeper, and Frederick Rowland, grocer, all of Buxton of a piece or parcel of land situated in the Parish of Buxton adjoining Bath Street and containing1,080 square yards, 22 Aug - 1884

321 - Vicarage: Receipt by C Wilshaw from the Buxton Parochial Church Council for the sum of £8 19s for fixtures at 13 Silverlands, 13 Jul - 1924

322 - Vicarage: Letter from Simpson & Ainsworth, solicitors, Buxton to T H Cooper, esq, enclosing a copy of the statement of account received from Messrs Ramsom and Hutton, relating to No.13 Silverlands, 15 Jul - 1924

323 - Vicarage: Statement of receipts and payments by the Southwell Diocesan Finance Association in account with the Parochial Church Council of Buxton, relating to the purchase of No.13 Silverlands Road, Buxton, as a curate’s house - ?1924

324 - Vicarage: Letter from the Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Ltd, to the Rev G T Carlisle, the Vicarage, Buxton, enclosing a fire insurance policy on Parsonage House, amended in accordance with an Order of the Diocesan Dilapidations Board, 18 Nov - 1938

325 - Endorsed insurance policy relating to the Parsonage House, issued by the Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Ltd, 18 Nov - 1938

326 - Endorsed insurance policy, increasing the sum insured on the Parsonage House, issued by the Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Ltd, 18 June - 1954

327 - Letter from the Ecclesiastical Insurance Office, to the Rev Storr Fox, the Vicarage, Buxton, relating to a revision of the fire insurance on the Parsonage House, 23 June - 1954

328 - Discharge of mortgage in connection with vicarage repairs, 21 Sep - 1955

329 - Letters from the Church Commissioners, to the Rev C S Fox, acknowledging receipt of a cheque from Mr J R Dean, Finance Secretary of the Parochial Church Council in discharge of a loan and enclosing the cancelled charging assessment, 22 Sep - 1955

330 - Copy deed of conveyance by F Allcock and Sons Ltd, whose registered office is at Allcock’s Yard, Market Street, Buxton, to Frederick Vincent Brown of 41 High Street, Buxton, pharmaceutical chemist and Marion Edith Brown, his wife, of a plot of land forming part of the Lismore Estate, Buxton, and containing 1,124 square yards, 13 Feb - 1959

331 - Copy deed of conveyance by Frederick Vincent Brown and Marion Edith Brown, both of 17 Lismore Road, Buxton, by the direction of the Church Commissioners of England, to the Rev Kenneth John Meux, the incumbent of the benefice of Buxton St John, of all that plot of land forming part of the Lismore Estate, Buxton, and containing in all 1,214 square yards and also a detached dwelling house, garage and outbuildings erected on the said plot of land and known as ‘Joyburn’. 17 Lismore Road, Buxton 9 Sep - 1969

332 - Letter from the Church Commissioners, to the Rev K J Meux, the Vicarage, 17 Lismore Road, Buxton, enclosing a copy of the conveyance of the existing parsonage house of the benefice, together with a copy of the conveyance of 13 Feb 1959, 12 Feb - 1970

333 - Counterpart mortgage by Kenneth John Meux, the incumbent of the benefice of Buxton, in consideration of £9,250 paid by the Church Commissioners for the purpose of building a house in connection with the proposed team ministry at Buxton, of all the glebe, rents and other profits and emoluments arising from the said benefice with the payment to the Commissioners of the said sum of£9,250, by twenty five yearly installments on 1 Sep in each year, 1 Sep - 1971

334 - Letter from the Church Commissioners, to the Rev K J Meux, enclosing the counterpart mortgage deed sealed by the Commissioners, 15 Sep - 1971

335 - Extract from a letter concerning St John’s Church. Reference is made to ‘the filthy condition of the floor which spoils alike gentlemen’s hats and ladies’ dresses’. It is also noted that ‘the keeping the doors at both ends open after the service has commenced is remarked upon as unsuited to rheumatic patients’, 26 Sep - 1877

336-337 - Copies of Buxton Parish Magazine, May 1887 and Nov 1911 - 1887-1911

338-339 - Copies of the London Gazette, 15 Nov 1895 and 25 Oct 1898, the latter showing the Order for the creation of the new Parish of Buxton - 1895-1898

340 - Handwritten list of incumbents of St John’s Church, Buxton, from 1830 to 1938 - 1830-1938

341 - Letter from Mr Ernest Axon, 1 Belvedere Terrace, Buxton, to Dr. Shipton, concerning the history of St John’s Church, 1 May - 1942

342 - ‘Quinquennial Survey’ of the Parish of Buxton, sent to the Patron, Nov - 1943

343 - Letter from the Town Clerk to the Rev G T Carlisle concerning the wall at the rear of Rock Terrace 30 Jun - 1944

344 - Minute Book of the Buxton Branch of the Church of England Men’s Society - 1951-1957

345 - Letter from the Film Department, the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, to the Rev C Storrs Fox, concerning the regulations in connection with the exhibition of 16 mm films, 18 Feb - 1957

346 - Printed notice entitled ‘The New Education Act’ being a reprint from the ‘Church Observer’, Oct 1959 - c1959

347-358 - Printed copies of the Notice of Withdrawal under By-Law of Local Education Authority or under Section 13 of the Education Act 1936, from instruction in Religious Subjects in schools

359 - Programme of ‘The Trial of Jimmy Brown’, a modern morality play, performed at the Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Buxton on 10, 11 and 12 Feb - 1960

360 - Order of service of St John’s Church, Chapleau, Ontario, for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2 Oct - 1960

361 - Programme of an ‘Orchestral and Organ Concert’, Sun 11 Dec - 1960

362 - Receipt from Shaw Bros, ironmongers, 9-11 Market Street, Buxton

363-373 - Papers relating to the Third Jubilee of the Parish of St John the Baptist Buxton - 1961

374 - Booklet relating to Buxton Christian Stewardship Campaign - c1962

375-412 - Miscellaneous collection of photographs, postcards and newspaper cuttings relating to the Church and incumbents, including photographs of the Revs Ernest Weigall, Stephen Ray Eddy, William Malam and Charles Codrington Nation. The newspaper cuttings, dated 1938, refer to the arrival of the Rev G T Carlisle.

413-424 - Parish News, Apr to Dec - 1976

425 - Guide book of St John’s Church - 1976

426 - Architect’s inspection report, with correspondence and plan of vestibule (architect: J Gordon McBeath) Scale and sketch drawing of bell tower. - 1957-1959

427 - Plans - 19th-20th cent

428 - Inventory (covering St John, St James, St Anne and St Mary). - 1908

429 - Terrier (with duplicate) - 1908

430 - St John’s Church committee - 1955-1981

431 - Buxton Parish Overseas Committee - 1948-1974

PV - Vestry - 1742-1818

PW - Churchwardens - 1825-1907

UL - Parish of Buxton St John the Baptist (later Buxton with Burbage and King Sterndale): unlisted records - 1957-2008

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

Tweets by DRO

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Strutt family of Belper

National Coal Board

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

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