University of Dundee Archives

A History of the Church of St John the Baptist, Dundee'

BrMS 20/8/15
Sub-fonds
c.1970

Cannon Stratton's typed report detailing the history of St John the Baptist Church, Dundee. Includes information about the early days of the church to the changes and finances of the church.

Administrative papers

BrMS 20/5
Series
1992 - 2008

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Correspondence, reports and minutes of meetings relating to the Diocese, clergy, the congregation and community

Annual accounts

BrMS 20/3/2
Item
1987 - 2015

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Reports, statements and balance sheets

Annual General Meeting papers

BrMS 20/2/2
File
1976-1981

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

(1) Minutes of Annual General and Vestry meetings, with some loose papers, relating to finances, activities, the building and lay posts such as the organist and caretaker and any pertinent Diocesan business, 1975-1981

(2) Minutes of Annual General Meetings containing Priest's and Treasurers' reports, plus those of projects such as 'Church in Society', and annual accounts, 1992-2012. Also financial and and congregational returns, 1990-2011

Autographed list of well wishers for Cannon Stratton's 50th Anniversay celebration

BrMS 20/8/11
Item
1990

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

List of well wishers to Cannon Stratton for his 50th anniversary of ordination

Bank books

BrMS 20/3/7
File
1993-2003

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Northern Rock deposit books

Baptisms

BrMS 20/4/9
Item
1990-2013

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Lists details of parents, godparents and child

Bibles

BrMS 20/9
Series
1908 - ?

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

(1) Pulpit Bible, 1908
(2) 'A New Commentary on Holy Scripture including the Apocrypha', 1928
(3) English Missal, 3rd Edition [1934]

Boomerang project

BrMS 20/7/3
File
2000-2012

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Correspondence and related papers concerning the establishment of Boomerang, its licence and relationship with the Church, including Boomerang's constitution. Also papers relating to Boomerang's tenancy of the cafe at the Baxter Park Pavilion. Costs and accounts of the Boomerang Project, with outlie of groups using the centre.

Building report

BrMS 20/6/2
File
1991-2015

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Property inspection schedules, 1991 and 1995 with Quinquennial Building Condition Report, 2015

Burial register

BrMS 20/4/8
Item
1986-2016

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Lists names, addresses and dates of burials

Canon Leslie Verdun Stratton

BrMS 20/8
Series
1937 - 2003

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Church registers

BrMS 20/4
Series
1877 - 2016

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Registers of services, officiates, baptisms, marriages and burials with Parish book

Community engagement

BrMS 20/7
Series
1987 - 2012

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Congregational finance committee

BrMS 20/2/1
Item
1883-1959

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Minutes of meetings, 1883-1833, with inserts:
Agreement with hall keeper, 1906
Service of the Institution of Alastair Iain MacDonald Haggart as Rector of St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee, 1959
Programme of Consecration of the the Right Reverend John Chappell Sprot, Bishop of Brechin in St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee, 1959

Constitutions of St John The Baptist Dundee

BrMS 20/1/1
Item
1935-2010

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Constitutions of St Johns including 1935, 1994, 3 copies of 1998 and 2010. Includes guidance on constitution, duties of vestry, use of funds and appointment of clergy.

Covenants

BrMS 20/3/6
File
1992-2000

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Pledge cards, deeds of covenant and notebook of applicants and cancellations

Cutting from Courier article related to Cannon Stratton's death

BrMS 20/8/14
Item
2003

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Mounted cutting from the Courier about the death of Lesie Verdun Stratton. Contains information about his death and his general life and career.

Cuttings from The Scottish Episcopalian

BrMS 20/8/13
Item
March 2003

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Loose and mounted cuttings from The Scottish Episcopalian related to Cannon Stratton's death. Contains an obituary by Bishop Luscombe, with information about Stratton's career and personal life.

Diocesan reconstruction proposal

BrMS 20/5/2
File
1995

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Report and accompanying correspondence

Edinburgh Theological Collage students

BrMS 20/8/2
Item
1938

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Photograph of group of students in the grounds of Edinburgh Theological Collage. Leslie Verdun Stratton is in the second row fourth from right. Photo from mount

Edinburgh theological students on shore

BrMS 20/8/3
Item
1939

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Photograph of Edinburgh theological students on the shore between Cramond and South Queensferry. L-r John Henderson Foulis (Jack) Wilson; Hugh MacIntosh; Leslie Verdun Stratton; Frank Todhunter; Alastair Iain MacDonald Haggart; Kenneth Fairley Strathern; Arthur Edward Hodgkinson; Lenoard Benn Impson; Einsr Scudamore Hay. Photo in mount

Finance notes

BrMS 20/3/5
File
1989-2013

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

(1) Notes of income, expenditure and balances, 1989-1998
(2) Rough lists of [covenant?] payments with sheet of standing orders and HM Revenue forms, 2012-2013

Financial correspondence

BrMS 20/3/3
File
1988-2007

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

(1) Correspondence, minutes and statements concerning matters such as the Scottish Episcopal Church Unit Trust Pool, clergy vacancy, stipend and allowances and Diocesan quota, 1988-1997
(2) Correspondence and reports concerning matters such as the Scottish Episcopal Church Unit Trust Pool, the Cubs, Ministers' payments and executory, 1997-2007

Financial records

BrMS 20/3
Series
1883 - 2015

Part of St John the Baptist, Dundee

Offertory and general accounts, Trust, stipend and partnership papers, all with correspondence

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