Reference
P69/8/2
Title
Vestry Minute book
Date free text
1834-1964
Production date
From: 1834 To: 1964
Scope and Content
Regular business includes election of parish officers, passing annual accounts, rates and rating etc., occasional business as follows:
1845-5 cessation of relief to named paupers under the Poor Law Amendment Act and notes of allowances for children etc. and workhouse rules;
1836 letting former parish workhouse;
1837 rating vaulation;
1843 resolution against turning out donkeys and horses on the highways (repeated 1852); fee to organ tuner;
1850 sale of parish gravel pit;
1855 diversion of footpath from Ireland to Yew Tree Lodge;
1860 insurance of church [for policy see P 69/2/2/2];
1861 sale of parish workhouse to Mr.Whitbread for £900;
1864 new church clock;
1867 recasting of tenor bell;
1867-8 new burial ground, scheme considered but not carried out;
1873 churchyard enlargement;
1878 rating of towing path of former Ivel Navigation and rating of osier beds;
1884 new warming apparatus for church;
1891 restoration of lead gutters on church roof;
1897 approach to Chapel Trustees for financial help towards cost of maintaining parish graveyard;
1898 bell restoration, minutes until 1904;
1907 heating apparatus;
1911 new pulpit;
[later minutes not calendared]
Note: see also P 69/5/3 (Churchwardens’ accounts 1785-1952) for Vestry minutes passim especially concerning the restoration of the church in 1811-15
Level of description
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