Gloucester Diocese

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The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1500-2005
Places:	Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Church of England > Dioceses
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C9116 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O38028 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	16th cent-2014: court books, act books, visitation books and papers, diocesan surveys; papers relating to episcopal palaces; bishops' corresp and accounts; papers concerning advowsons and the ordination, licensing, presentation and institution of clergy and schoolmasters; papers rel to the augmentation and sequestration of benefices; faculties and papers rel to the consecration of churches and the building, repair and sale of parsonages; records of episcopal estates; papers of Diocesan Registrar and Diocesan Secretary; dissenters meeting house certificates, confirmation returns; marriage licence bonds and allegations; glebe terriers and inventories; tithe maps; papers concerning Peculiar jurisdictions	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR	NRA 11942 Gloucester diocese See IM Kirby, Diocese of Gloucester: Catalogue (1968); HMC 18th Report, 206-11; HMC 55: Various Collecti
2	1841-1985: Diocesan Trust minutes, reports and accounts	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/1
3	1888-1988: Diocesan Board of Finance minutes, accounts, registers, parish files and papers	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/2
4	1905-74: Diocesan Conference minutes and reports	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/3
5	1909-35: Diocesan Sunday School Association minutes	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/4
6	1949-77: Diocesan Pastoral Committee minutes	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/5
7	1907-86: Diocesan Missionary Council minutes and reports	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/6
8	1911-83: Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare, Council for Social Work and Board of Social Responsibility minutes, reports and papers, include case lists and reports of St Mary's Lodge	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/7
9	1947-79: Diocesan Association for the Deaf minutes, accounts and reports	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/8
10	1924-94: Diocesan Council of Education and Education Committee minutes, reports, survey and register of schools, corresp and papers	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/10
11	1922-62: Diocesan Women's Board minutes	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/12
12	1938-84: Diocesan Lay Readers Board minutes	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/13
13	1900-85: Diocesan Advisory Committee corresp and papers	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/15
14	1965-81: Diocesan Stewardship Committee minutes and papers	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A17/17
15	1970-83: Diocesan Synod minutes	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR A19	See Annual Return 2004
16	16th cent-1898: Diocesan Consistory Court act book, minutes, accounts and cause papers	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR B1-4
17	1872-1988: Diocesan Dilapidations Board, Parsonages Board and Houses Committee minutes, accounts, dilapidations books, surveyors reports and papers	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR F6
18	1872-1957: Diocesan Church Schools Committee minutes and accounts, with some misc records of Diocesan Council for Education	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR S5
19	1541-1857: Diocesan Probate Registry wills and inventories, registered copies of wills, and wills proved in Peculiar jurisdictions	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR W
20	1948-82: Diocesan Council for Social Work Adoption Committee minutes and registers of children adopted	Gloucestershire Archives	K603