P25/5/1

Churchwardens' account book (summary receipts and detailed disbursements)

1765-1913

From: 1765 To: 1913

Routine business includes cleaning, vermin, visitation and confirmation expenses, repairs to churchyard fences, rents from Town Land, small repairs (glazier, bricklayer, carpenter etc.), and Clerk's salary etc. Occasional expenditure includes: 1765-6 Tiles for the steeple, and other repairs 1768 Cloth for the pulpit and cushion, £3 6s. 2d. 1773 Sale of old bell by faculty - equal sums of £16 13s. 6d. paid to the Minister and Churchwardens 1774 New Surplice, £3 15s. Lead work, £6 9s. 2d. 1793 Key for the Belfrey door, 8d. 1794 Bricklayer's bill, £8 2s. 4d., purchase and carriage of bricks etc. 1803 New churchyard gate made by Mullins, carpenter 1804 Bells recast by John Bryant, Hertford, bellfounder, £4 2s. Expense of teaching to sing and psalm books, £3 15s. 7½d. 1809-10 Various repairs by carpenter, plumber and bricklayer 1818-19 Bills of plumber (Mr.Travell £35 6s. 11d.) and carpenter (G.Waller £119 1s. 9½d.) for unspecified works 1824 Removing soil in the churchyard "Hill - book binder £1 6s." 1824-5 Painting the church, repairs etc. 1826-7 Plaster work in church by Mr. Stevens - cost nearly £100 1854 George Peck's Bill for Whitewashing the church, £1 10s. 1859 "For Printing 100 rules for cottage gardens" 9s. 1864 Paid Miss Hills bill for binding bible, 13s. 6d. 1886 Work on the north door of the Church 1896 Alterations to furnishings etc. 1897 Purchase of a Tortoise stove, £6 3s. 6d. 1901 Repairs to West window after a severe hailstorm 1903 Repairs to belfry beams and steeple roof Also contains: (at front) List of persons from Sharpenhoe and Streatley vaccinated (names of all people given) 18 July 1823 (at back) Church rate assessment for Streatley & Sharpenhoe, 1784. Contract with Mr.R.D.Hicks, surgeon, of Toddington for medical attendance [details given] on the poor of the parish for the year ensuing for three guineas, 7 April 1790; Further contract with Hicks to continue medical attendance on the same terms, 27 April 1791. (Pinned inside back cover) Letters from the Registrar to the Churchwardens concerning payment of Visitation fees etc., Oct/Nov. 1854

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Mullins,
Bryant, John,
Travell,
Waller, G.,
Hill,
Stevens,
Peck, George,
Hicks, R D

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