Copy citation and intimation issued by Charles Baring bishop of Durham, for the appearance before the Rt. Hon. Thomas Emerson Headlam, M.A., Vicar General and Official Principal, in Durham Consistory Court on 20 December, of all parishioners and inhabitants of Chester-le-Street having an interest in a petition for the restoration of the parish church, to show cause why a faculty should not be granted to Thomas Hyde Ripley, clerk, M.A., Edward Johnson, Simon Robinson, John Crawford and Matthew Henderson, churchwardens, Rev. Joseph Price De Pledge and Abraham Story, for the renewal of the roof and the decayed beams in the tower, the removal of the gallery at the west end of the church, and the pews now standing to be replaced by new ones all on the ground floor, the removal of the old floor, to be replaced by a new one, the present heating apparatus to be refixed and new oak doors to the porch, new spouts erected and proper drains laid round the church, and other minor alterations, and when the pews are erected to keep them unappropriated, 12 December 1861