P32/5/3

Churchwardens' account book (receipts and payments)

1828 - 1883

From: 1828 To: 1883

Routine contents including: income from rates (to 1874) and subscriptions etc., and payments for visitations and confirmations, expenses of vestry meetings, constables' expenses, salary to parish clerk, payments for vermin, church repairs, cleaning, washing surplice, music, ringers, briefs, cleaning and heating the school (ends 1863), and beating the bounds etc. Some vestry resolutions (e.g. 1860-61) Occasional business includes: 1828 "2 Books of Music" (18s.) 1830 Wells' bill (£1.9.7), "Mr.Trapp's Bill for Cloth & Blinds" (£4 5s 7 and a half d.), and bills of Mr.Howard (£2 17s1d) and Mr.Pulley (£7 5s 4and a half d) Laying drain in churchyard (£1 1s6d) Mr.Wells Bill for Matting Basses (£3 0s 4 and a half d) 1836 Cleaning Church after Mason (5s) 1840 Mr.Robinson for making out a List of Lunatics 1850 Ford's bill for repairing Bells (£5) and Watford's bill for repairing Pews (£6 9s 6d) 1853 Freshwater's bill for making window and repairing others (£3 3s4d) 1857 Pages bill for Piping &c on church (£3 5s 0d) 1859 Haynes repairing Church & School (£7 14s 3d) 1862-4 Church restoration accounts [entered after accounts for 1876-7] - payments to contractors, i.e. Reynolds & Son (£137 15s 4d), Freshwater (£155 and £26 2s 6d extra work), Jarvis (£46 8s 1d), and others (total £385 4s 9and a half d in 1862-3); bills of Mr.Horsford (£25 14s 0d) paid in May 1864; receipts for sale of old pew wood (£1 11s 9d) and old roof (£3 13s 0d) in 1862 1864-8 Repayments of loans for church restoration 1870 Note on addition of nine lamps - six donated and three purchased by parish 1872 Repairs to bells by Wyman (£36 10s 0d) Also includes (at back) Renhold Charity Property Accounts 1840-1864: recording receipts of rents and expenditure on cottage repairs and improvements (e.g. new privies 1854), rates and taxes, coal for the poor, dinners for tenants, and other charitable expenses

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Wells,
Trapp,
Howard,
Pulley,
Robinson,
Ford,
Watford,
Freshwater,
Haynes,
Reynolds & Son,
Jarvis,
Horsford,
Wyman

RENHOLD, churchwardens, accounts, Episcopal Visitations, confirmation, parish rates, Vestry, early constables, Parish Clerks, vermin, church fabric, bellringing, Renhold School, church music, churchyard, DRAINAGE, church bells, church furniture, church windows, Renhold charities, coal