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Churchwardens' account book (summary receipts and detailed disbursements)

1860 - 1943

From: 1860 To: 1943

General contents includes church cleaning; Visitation expenses; payments to parish clerk, ringers, sexton, and organ blower etc.; heating; insurance; and organ tuning etc. Accounts written by Charles Longuet Higgins, 1865-1884. Churchwardens' income raised by subscriptions from 1870, and detailed lists of subscribers are included among the accounts Few items of importance occur among the main accounts, but the accounts of various special funds are recorded separately at the back of the volume. These include [in reverse order] 1864 Accounts for loan for repairs to church and roof 1864, and memoranda on repayments etc. 1864-1874 1865 Turvey church warming apparatus account 1878 New boiler account 1887 Stove account 1888 Drainage of Church basement (special fund) 1893 Hot water pipes in Chancel 1895 Repairs to the 5th bell 1896 New lightning conductor 1896-1901 new boiler 1892 Turvey church warming fund 1905-6 Accounts for repairing the South Vestry wall 1917 Turvey church heating fund 1922 Turvey church roof fund 1921 Church clock fund, 1921 1932 New boiler 1931 Note on installation of electric light and other repairs

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TURVEY, churchwardens, accounts, Episcopal Visitations, insurance, church bells, insurance, church fabric, Parish Clerks, church heating, DRAINAGE, church clocks, church lighting