Reference
P97/5/1
Title
Churchwardens' account book (summary receipts and detailed disbursements)
Date free text
1822-1900
Production date
From: 1822 To: 1900
Scope and Content
Regular expenditure includes Visitation fees, salary of parish clerk, cleaning, communion wine, purchase of bellropes, vermin payments (sparrows and eggs), repairs to church property (houses and blacksmith's shop) etc., with regular receipts for rent for church property (at front and passim, 1822-1900). Minutes re Church rates, passing accounts, and election of churchwardens etc.
Occasional expenditure includes:
1823 Purchase of new account book and banns register
1824 Ironmonger's bill (John Green) £7.11s 6d
1826 For '3 loads of stone out of the field'
1828 'Paid Mr Thorpe sone mason a bill', £15 18s 0d Purchase of a sundial from John Osborn.
1829 Purchase of a cushion, £6 10s
1832 Draper's bill (£3 4s 7 3/4 d) and payments for painting and lining Dr Moor's pew. Work and materials for the privy [church Estate?], Purchase of new straw to thatch the poor houses.
1840 New doors to the belfry
1842-53 Repayment of £70 borrowed from Messrs Trapp and Halfhead, bankers, for church repairs [see below]
1854 Plastering the church and repainting walls & roof etc
1856 Puchase of hot air stove and carriage from Birminham etc. New suplice
1857 'Dan White for cutting hivey' [ivy]
1859 Repairs to the chancel, £13 0s 1d
1865 Recasting a bell (£30 - cost partly met by a subscription of £15), a new wheel to great bell
1866 Resignation of Robert Jefferies as churchwarden, having 'served the office for more than thirty years to the great satisfaction of the parish.'
1869 Repairs to the church leads. Building a new house near the Blacksmith's shop, £143
1873 Purchase of 24 chairs and 25 hassocks.
1880 Death of Thomas Howkins, churchwarden for 13 years.
(at front) vestry minute re. letting a house belonging to the church to Joel Taylor and Ann Norton, 31 March 1823.
(near the back of volume) detailed accounts of expences for alterations and repairs to the church in 1841, total £62 10s 0d
(at back) vestry minute re. lease of sward ground called old Layton Bank (4 and a quarter ac) to Timothy Hawkes [conditions and rent given] 14 April 1827.
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