Reference
P27/5/1
Title
Churchwardens' account book (summary receipts and detailed disbursements)
Date free text
1797 - 1860
Production date
From: 1797 To: 1860
Scope and Content
Routine business includes Visitation fees and expenses; parchment for the register transcripts; briefs; vermin payments; purchase of communion bread and wine; bell-ropes; forms of prayer; "playing the [fire] engine"; glazing; cleaning; Confirmation expenses; minor repairs; salary of the parish clerk; repairs to clock; and brief minutes re nomination of Churchwardens.
Occasional expenditure includes the following:
1803-4 "Pd for Ringing the Harvest Bell for 2 years" 12s. [this is a recurrent item of expenditure]
1804-5 Repairs to the Vestry
1805-6 Purchase of candlesticks £1 16s., and a timepiece £7 7s.
1810-11 "Pd for Carring Mr. Richmond to church in the sedan" 2s.
1815 Recasting the tenor bell, by Taylor of St. Neots [cost £54 15s. 6d.]
1818-19 Purchase of an ink stand for the Vestry
1819-20 Purchase of table linen for the altar etc. "Tolling the Bell at the Death of the King" 6s.
1820-21 Purchase of psalm books for the gallery, 11s.
1821-2 Purchase of a new prayer book, £2 12s. 6d.
1822-3 "Pd for a Terrier" 15s. 8d.
1823-4 "Pd Thos Pinkerd's Bill for writing texts of Scriptures in the Church", £13 19s. 2d.
1824-5 "Pd for 12 Hymn Books for the singers" 12s.
1825-6 Repairs to the North door and weather-cock.
1826-7 "Paid to Mr. Richmond for new Surplus £2 19s." Tolling bell for the Duke of York.
1831-2 "Oiling Weathercock" 1s.
1834-5 "Paid for Base-bow and string" 6s. 9d.
1839-40 Recasting bell and carriage [Mr. Taylor's bill, £40]
1843 Parish begins contract with Charles Longuet Higgins for lighting and heating the church [continues to c.1884]
1844-5 Paving the church, £46 2s. 7d.
1845-6 Contribution of £90 towards repairs of roof
1849-50 Payment to organ blower [first occurrence]
1854-5 "Paid the Ringers at Church opening" £1
1857-8 Repairs to parish fire engine, £8 17s. 4d.
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