Reference
P85/5/1
Title
Churchwardens Cash Book (income and expenditure)
Date free text
1830 - 1857
Production date
From: 1830 To: 1857
Scope and Content
Routine contents includes income from rents, rates and fees, and expenditure on payments (often just a name and sum paid) to suppliers, for church repairs (including windows, clock and bells), to church officials (Parish Clerk, ringers, organist), Visitation expenses, insurances, contributions to charities (School, Bread Fund, Church Fund, Apprentice Charity), rent to Lord Bute for Fire Engine House etc. Occasional business includes:
1830-3 Repayment of loan for alterations in the church
1831 Repairs to Someries Chapel
1838 Barrett for repairing Church Pier (£3.4.3)
1841 Sale of old workhouse - payment for conveyancing
1843 Barrett, bricklayer, repairing church etc. (£66.14.3)
1845 15 seats for the chancel "bought at Lord Bute's sale"
1847 New Burial Cart house (£20.11.7 to Barrett, bricklayer, and £24.7.9. to Cain, carpenter)
1848 Barrett for churchyard drains (£55.12.8)
1849 Wire for belfry windows (£7.17.6)
1854 New boarding in the roof (by Henry Cain, carpenter (£42.10.5) and James Ellerd, plumber (£56.4.0)
1856-7 New face and other repairs to clock by William Raban (£12)
After accounts: notes on various parish funds, including steeple fund 1880
At back: Subscription list and accounts (£50.10s.) for repairs to the church clock in 1837, by John Oclee (£20) and new slate dial supplied by Cooper & Fores (£14.14.2); Memorandum on new velvet and gold fringe for the pulpit cushion and for the reading desk presented by the Rev.Thomas Sikes, April 1851
Level of description
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