P24/5/1

Churchwardens' account book (summary receipts and detailed disbursements)

1767 - 1869

From: 1767 To: 1869

Routine expenditure includes Visitation fees, Vermin payments, purchase of Communion bread and wine, bell ropes, salary of parish clerk, church cleaning, and minor repairs etc. Receipts of rent of Church land Occasional expenditure etc., includes the following: 1767 Purchase of cushion and cloth, £4 19s. 6d. 1775 Repairs to "Church Beams" and purchase of 500 bricks 1778 Repairs to clock 1786 Work at church and repairs to clock 1788 Purchase of a pitch pipe 1790 Repairs to Mr. Hadow's pew [i.e. Vicar's pew] 1793 Roof repairs - various payments 1794-5 Repairs to Church clock by Mr. Sharp of Leighton 1795 Churchyard fences 1798 "Paid William Cooper teaching the Children 1 year at Church, £2 2s." - Sunday School 1805 Purchase of book and teaching to sing psalms 1809 Repairs to church and whitewashing 1814 Sale of the old church clock for £5 5s. 1823 Payment of £17 6s. 5½d. to Travell, the glazier 1850 Repairs by Mr. Bass, bricklayer, £18 11s. 2d. 1869 Loose bills (a few only)

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Hadow,
Sharp,
Cooper, William,
Travell,
Bass

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