Reference
P28/8/1
Title
Vestry Minute book [Ecclesiastical]
Date free text
1839 - 1937
Production date
From: 1839 To: 1837
Scope and Content
Also includes:
Churchwardens' accounts 1838-1843, and (after Vestry Minutes for 1894) summary accounts 1844-1849
Routine business includes the election of Churchwardens, passing of accounts, collection of church rate, subscriptions etc.
Other items recorded in the minutes include the following:
1841 Payment of debt due to Wm.Ayres, Churchwarden
1848 Church Restoration. Report of Mr.Habershon, architect. Borrowing and raising money by subscription and rate
1873 Resignation of Silvester Addington as people's warden - vote of thanks
1877 Protest to be made about the Poor Rate assessment
1886 Churchyard extension and drainage
1890 New pulpit. Removal of church stove
1900 Chancel restoration
1906 Churchyard extension
1913 Appointment of organ blower. Regulation of choir etc.
1919 Gift to the parish of glebe land adjoining the Churchyard 1925 Church restoration
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