P74/5/2

Churchwardens' account book. (Summary receipts & detailed disbursements)

1888-1957

From: 1888 To: 1957

Contents generally as in P74/5/1 i.e. Regular business includes the purchase of Communion bread & wine, cleaning of church, clerk's dues, visitation & confirmation expenses, ringing, purchase of candles & coal, Sunday School expenditure. Occasional expenditure includes the following: 1888 Repairs to clock face. 1889 Clearing out Parish ditch 1897 Note of church restorations. 1862 Nave and Chancel. £842 1891 Windows, heating, lighting & ornaments. £320 1896 Repair of bell chamber, new bell & restoration of bells. £220 1898 E.R. Wingfield for clock. £7 10s rec'd John Taylor for clock. £5 1900 Cleaning clock 1902 Purchase of church flag 1901+ Regular payments to Bishop & Son for tuning organ. 1908 Jarvis. Repairs to chimney. 1914 Lindley. Repairing clock. 1920-36 Separate organ fund account 1926 New churchyard gates erected. £20 1949 Carey memorial window. £226 11s 10d

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Wingfield, E.R.,
Taylor, John,
Bishop & Son,
Jarvis,
Lindley,
Carey

BIDDENHAM, churchwardens, accounts, Parish Clerks, Episcopal Visitations, bellringing, Sunday Schools, church clocks, church fabric, church heating, church lighting, church windows, church bells, church clocks, church organs, churchyard