P115/5/1

Churchwardens' account book (summary receipts and detailed disbursements)

1728-1844

From: 1728 To: 1844

Regular expenditure includes purchase of communion wine, new bell repairs clock lines, collections on charitable briefs, payments for cleaning, bell-ringing, clock-winding, clerk's wages, minor repairs, glazing windows, repairs to clock and bells, vermin payments, expenses at Visitation and confirmation Occasional expenditure includes 1728 Repairs to church windows 1730 New churchyard gate and fences etc. 1739 Repairs to clock and bells 1744 Thomas Russell paid for casting a bell brass (6s. 2d.) 1745 Writing a Terrier of the glebe lands 1749 New church gate, staple, hasps and latch 1751 Work in church - James Catesby paid £8 1s.11d. and John Wooding paid £2 1s. 6d. 1768 Repairs to church leads and windows by the glazier (£3 9s. 9d.) 1775 New ladder for the church, basses and mat for the communion rail Plank bridge to Yelno Lane 1787-8 Various minor repairs at the church 1789 New casting the leads on the north side of the church 1795 New casting leads on church roof [nave?] 1800-4 Roof repairs and re-leading the leads on the south side of the church 1813 New iron chest 1821 New church clock obtained from Mr. Corby for £22 Sale of old bell weighing 52 lb. 1830 Purchase of new bible and prayer book by subscription 1833 Repaving the north aisle (£18 19s. 3.5d.). 1837 Woodwork at church 1841 Making the terrier and purchase of parchment Also includes (among entries) Church rate assessments 1815-1838 (at back) Highway accounts 1779-1782; Note on distribution of old bellropes, n.d.; Population figures 1831 and 1841

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Russell, Thomas,
Catesby, James,
Wooding, John,
Corby

ODELL, churchwardens, accounts, church clocks, church bells, church windows, Parish Clerks, vermin, Episcopal Visitations, confirmation, churchyard, terriers, glebe, Odell Yelnoe Lane, church fabric, Bible, Church Rate, POPULATION, town & local roads