Records of the Parish of the Resurrection, until 1972 the Parishes of Christ Church,...

M190/1/1-19 Records of the Parish of Christ Church, Bradford (see also M190/2/37) 1862-1974

M190/1/1 Baptism Registers - include St Aidan's, c1879-1898 1862-1974

M190/1/2 Marriage Registers 1862-1968

M190/1/3 Burial Registers 1862-1943

M190/1/4 Baptisms at St Cuthbert's 1910-1913

M190/1/5 Banns Book 1960-1968

M190/1/6 Confirmation Register 1958-1972

M190/1/7 Register of Services 1967-1972

M190/1/8 Vestry Minutes 1863-1969

M190/1/9 Parochial Church Council Minutes 1962-1971

M190/1/10-12 Income 1962-1970

M190/1/13 Expenditure 1964-1971

M190/1/14 Balance Sheet 1970

M190/1/15 Canton Memorial Appeal 1955

M190/1/16 Church of England Men's Society Minutes 1955-1958

M190/1/17 Ancoats, Beswick, Bradford and District Council of Churches Accounts 1960-1973

M190/1/18 Christ Church and Memorial Schools Managers' Minutes 1903-1969

M190/1/19 Miscellaneous Papers 1912

M190/2/1-40 Records of the Parish of St Aidan, Bradford 1880-1981

M190/2/1 Baptism Registers- (for c1879-1898 see M190/1/1) 1899-1974

M190/2/2 Marriage Registers 1899-1974

M190/2/3 Burial Registers 1960-1966

M190/2/4 Banns Books 1899-1908, 1913-1927, 1954-1971

M190/2/5 Registers of Services (see also M190/2/25) Service Sheets (see also M190/2/26) 1895-1974 1949-1967

M190/2/7 Table of Fees 1947

M190/2/8 St Aidan's Parochial Church Council Minutes 1927-1971

M190/2/9 St Aidan's Parochial Church Council Attendance Register 1935-1941

M190/2/10 Electoral Rolls 1937-1972

M190/2/11 Accounts 1899-1935

M190/2/12 Balance Sheets 1944, 1960

M190/2/13 Penny-a-Week Fund Accounts 1941-1950

M190/2/14 Penny-a-Week Fund Balance Sheets 1943-1947

M190/2/15 Tombola Night Accounts 1964-1967

M190/2/16 Miscellaneous Papers about St Aidan's 1897-1950

M190/2/17 Bills and Estimates for St Aidan's Schools 1937, 1952-1953

M190/2/18 Confirmation Register 1974

M190/2/19 Papers relating to the Establishment of the Church 1899

M190/2/20 Clergy Subscriptions and Licences 1937, 1966

M190/2/21 Papers about the Rectory 1960

M190/2/22 Faculties 1904-1966

M190/2/23 Provisional Valuations 1915

M190/2/24 Inventory (St Aidan's or Christ Church) no date

M190/2/25-40 Papers formerly in the possession of Leah Black, daughter of Joseph Black, first churchwarden of St Aidan's

M190/2/25 Register of Services 1880-1887

M190/2/26 Service Sheets 1884-1970s

M190/2/27 Parish Magazines 1940-1973

M190/2/28 Programmes 1938-1951

M190/2/29 Miscellaneous Papers about St Aidan's Church Building 1897-c1970

M190/2/30 Newspaper Cuttings c1959-1981

M190/2/31 Vestry Minutes 1899-1934

M190/2/32 Offertory Accounts 1879-1882

M190/2/33 Balance Sheets 1934-1944

M190/2/34 Papers about Joseph Black's Memorial Fund 1944

M190/2/35 St Aidan's Sunday School Teachers' Minutes 1885-1898

M190/2/36 Sunday School Miscellaneous Papers 1904-1937

M190/2/37 Papers about Christ Church, Bradford 1959-1967

M190/2/38 Photographs of the New Church of the Resurrection 1970s

M190/2/39 Copies of Parochial Church Council Minutes of the Parish of the Resurrection 1986

M190/2/40 Miscellaneous Papers of Joseph Black, Churchwarden of St Aidan's, Bradford 1892-1954

M190/3 Records of the Parish of the Resurrection, Bradford (see also M190/2/38 and 39) 1974-1979

M190/3/2 Marriage Register 1974-1979

<p>The Archives Section of the Local Studies Unit also has papers of Archdeacon John Rushton, showing abortive attempts to establish a church in the area, 1849-1853 (MS f 942.72 R121 volume 47); acknowledgement of a gift for a church for Bradford and Beswick, 1861 (M35/9/7/27); a brochure on Christ Church, 1959 (MISC/814); and an Order about the patronage of Christ Church, 1972 (M416/1/8/1,2).</p>

The following records were deposited in the Library, as Diocesan Record Office, in May and June 1974 by Canon P Hoare, in 1981 by Rev D A Edwards, and in 1982 by Rev G Wright.

An additional deposit, mostly of papers from St Aidan's, was made in October 1997, by Mr A Dewhurst (Accession 1997/59). They had formerly been in the care of Joseph Black, first churchwarden of St Aidan's.

Before 1839 Bradford township was served by the chapelry of All Saints, Newton. In 1839 it was transferred to the parish of St Barnabas, Openshaw.

The foundation stone of Christ Church was laid on 1 June 1861, and the church consecrated on 19 April 1862. A District was assigned to it from St Barnabas, Openshaw, by Order in Council, 30 August 1862, (London Gazette, 5 September 1862).

In 1879 St Mary's, Beswick, was formed from Christ Church, by Order in Council, 4 February, (London Gazette, 7 February 1879).

In 1898 St Aidan's, Bradford, was assigned a District out of Christ Church, by Order in Council, 19 May, (London Gazette, 20 May 1989).

St Aidan's was consecrated on Easter Day 1899.

The two parishes of Christ Church and St Aidan were re-united in 1972, as the parish of the Resurrection, by Order in Council, 24 May, (London Gazette, 30 May 1972).

By Order in Council, 24 November 1982, (London Gazette, 30 November) the parish of the Resurrection was united with the parishes of All Souls, Ancoats, and St Jerome with St Silas, Ardwick, as the parish of the Good Shepherd, Manchester.