Churchwardens' Accounts - extracts 1745-1817 |
These extracts relate mainly to repairs to the church and churchyard, but churchwardens would have been responsible for a large number of matters that would be the responsibility of local government or the Department of Work and Pensions today.
Date |
Item |
£ |
1745 |
Henry Wood, for work and materials |
£0.5.0 |
|
Thomas Rich, for the Jossing block [3] |
£1 |
1747 |
Fetching sand and ? etc for lime |
£0.2.6 |
|
Henry Wood, for work and tiles? at the church |
£0.6.6 |
1748 |
Day's work a brishing [1] the churchyard |
£0.1.6 |
|
Breecks and tiles and lime |
£0.4.3 |
|
Fetching the things for the church |
£0.3.0 |
|
Thomas Rich for work done at the church |
£1.4.0 |
|
Henry Wood, for work done at the church |
£0.3.11 |
1750 |
Repairs to the pulpit and panelling |
£0.15.9 |
|
Making the churchyard hedge and ? |
£0.3.6 |
|
For 500 of tiles |
£0.8.6 |
|
Fetching the tiles and lime |
£0.7.6 |
|
Thomas Chittenden for new shingling |
£10.11.9 |
|
22 hundreds of shingles |
£5.10.0 |
|
John Wikenden |
£1.16.0 |
|
Martin Driver |
£2.8.4½ |
|
55 feet of oak timber |
£2.15.0 |
|
The sawyer |
£1.2.1½ |
|
The blacksmith |
£0.6.11 |
|
For lead |
£0.9.1 |
|
The bricklayer |
£0.11.0 |
1755 |
Mr Lovegrove |
£13.2.0 |
|
John Wickenden |
£1.0.3 |
|
Mr Lovegrove for the windows |
£0.19.6 |
|
John Treadwell |
£0.1.8 |
|
William French |
£2.4.6 |
1756 |
Bricklayer |
£0.14.6½ |
|
Thomas Rich |
£3.6.0 |
1760 |
Cleaning the church |
£0.3.6 |
1761 |
Fetching sand and lime |
£0.10.0 |
|
30 bushels of lime |
£0.10.0 |
|
Mr Treadwell for 5 bundles of laths |
£1.0.0 |
|
Fetching fills |
£0.10.0 |
|
Mr Ashdown |
£2.15.11 |
|
Hill's bill |
£1.12.1 |
|
Wood's bill, bricklayer |
£3.12.4½ |
|
Wickenden's bill |
£3.13.7 |
|
Martin Driver |
£4.0.3½ |
|
Peter Child, plumber |
£1.13.11½ |
|
Tiles |
£1.16.0 |
1762 |
Mr John Colyer for bushes and stakes |
£0.4.0 |
|
Mr Small |
£0.12.7 |
|
Mr Rich |
£3.5.6 |
1763 |
Bricklayer |
£0.14.3 |
|
Lime |
£0.2.6 |
1765 |
Blacksmith |
£0.0.6 |
|
Carpenter |
£0.1.6 |
|
Bricklayer |
£0.6.10½ |
1767 |
A Shovel |
£0.4.3 |
1768 |
Brishing [1] the churchyard hedge |
£0.0.3 |
1769 |
Mr Rich |
£1.5.3 |
1770 |
Bricklayer |
£0.3.6 |
|
Lime and fills |
£0.2.0 |
1771 |
Bell founder |
£9.13.0 |
|
Mr Hodsel |
£1.1.0 |
|
Expenses going to London |
£0.15.0 |
|
Carpenter |
£1.5.6 |
|
Blacksmith |
£0.12.0 |
|
Bushes and stakes |
£0.5.0 |
|
Lime |
£0.8.4 |
|
Fetching lime and sand |
£0.5.0 |
|
John Wood, for work done at the church |
£1.4.0 |
|
Mr Edmeads, for bricks and tiles |
£0.7.9 |
1772 |
2 Ropes |
£0.1.6 |
|
Bricklayer |
£0.11.8 |
|
Blacksmith |
£0.2.0 |
1773 |
2 bell ropes |
£0.9.0 |
|
Mending the windows |
£0.9.4 |
1775 |
Bricklayer |
£0.3.6 |
1776 |
Beer for the bricklayer |
£0.2.0 |
|
Beer for the Carpenter |
£0.0.8 |
|
Carpenter |
£3.0.2 |
1779 |
200 of tiles |
£0.4.0 |
|
Lime and fetching it |
£0.7.6 |
|
Bricklayer |
£0.8.0 |
1782 |
Mending the church steeple |
£0.4.0 |
|
Mending the church windows |
£0.6.8 |
1783 |
Bricklayer |
£0.5.10 |
1786 |
Sharpe's bill |
£2.18.3 |
|
3 deals [2] |
£0.7.6 |
|
Blacksmith, for altering the transfer the church gates |
£0.6.9 |
|
Carpenter |
£2.14.10 |
1791 |
Glasier |
£0.12.4 |
1792 |
Bricklayer's bill for 2 years back |
£0.15.8 |
1795 |
5 hundred of tiles at 27s per thousand |
£0.6.9 |
|
Carriage of same |
£0.2.6 |
|
Half a hundred of lime |
£0.4.6 |
|
Carriage of lime and sand |
£0.2.6 |
|
Bricklayer |
£0.11.3 |
|
A feast |
£0.3.0 |
|
Glasier |
£0.11.8 |
|
5 pots of beer for the bricklayer |
£0.1.8 |
|
7 hundreds of stakes and 6 b of rods ?? |
£0.6.7 |
1797 |
Mr Chapman |
£2.7.8 |
|
Mr Sharp |
£7.3.1 |
|
Richard Treadwell |
£7.16.3 |
|
Mr Alchin |
£17.17.1 |
|
Beer for the carpenters [4] |
£1.10.4 |
|
Beer for the bricklayers |
£0.5.6 |
|
The disbursement |
£8.3.10½ |
|
Blacksmith |
£1.0.4½ |
1800 |
Mr Everist for tiles (Oct 2nd) |
£3.5.3 |
|
Carriage of the same |
£0.5.0 |
|
200 lime (Apr 2nd) |
£1.0.0 |
|
Carriage of the same from Dartford |
£0.8.0 |
|
Carriage of sand from Longfield Court |
£0.3.0 |
|
Carriage of timber from Eynsford |
£0.12.0 |
|
Mr Treadwell for cleaning the church |
£0.2.6 |
1805 |
Bricklayer |
£2.7.6 |
|
Cleaning the church this year |
£0.5.0 |
1806 |
Cleaning the church this year |
£0.2.6 |
1807 |
Cleaning the church this year |
£0.2.6 |
|
Mr Treadwell, for hinge to the door |
£0.1.6 |
1809 |
Cleaning the church |
£0.2.6 |
1810 |
Cleaning the church |
£0.2.6 |
1811 |
Cleaning the church |
£0.2.6 |
1812 |
Catching the moles in the churchyard |
£0.3.2 |
|
Cleaning the church |
£0.2.6 |
|
Mr Treadwell for cleaning the church when church was repaired |
£0.2.6 |
1814 |
Cutting the bushes and making the hedge in the churchyard |
£0.8.6 |
|
6 bundles of stakes for churchyard |
£0.3.9 |
|
6 bundles of rods for churchyard |
£0.3.9 |
|
A set of bell ropes |
£0.16.0 |
|
Allowance for bricklayer |
£0.17.6 |
|
Mr Bensted for making the churchyard fence the time before |
£0.16.0 |
|
Cast iron chest (Mr Rich) |
£4.4.0 |
|
Mr Treadwell for mending the clapper of the bell |
£0.2.6 |
1815 |
Cleaning the church last year |
£0.2.6 |
|
Cleaning the church this year |
£0.2.6 |
1816 |
Cleaning the church |
£0.2.6 |
|
New shovel for use of church as the last was stolen by some person unknown |
£0.4.6 |
|
Paid Hook for mending church windows |
£0.3.2½ |
1817 |
Cleaning the church |
£0.2.6 |
[1] Brish is a Kentish dialect word for
brush, in the sense of trimming eg a hedge
[2] Deal is a
plank of timber
[3] Jossing block is another word of Kentish
origin, which is a block or step to assist in mounting a horse.
[4]
This probably equates to over 200 pints of beer!