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RefNoKP76/8/1
AltRefNoP76/8/1
TitleVestry audit book
DescriptionIncludes yearly accounts, 1847/1848 to 1931, vestry minutes, elections of churchwardens (and later sidesmen), and authorisation of Church rates (1847 - 1852).
Minutes of the Easter Vestry are missing for the period 1905 - 1911.
Also includes the following proposals and memoranda:
donations to the Church (on end leaves) 1848 - 1865
appropriation of the funds of Means Charity to assist in building a new school (formerly the interest on £20 was paid to the schoolmaster for teaching poor children) 1848
appointment of a committee to survey the necessary extent of repairs 1849
the churchwardens to apply for tenders for repairing the two aisles and the tender of Mr. Edlin of Cambridge to be accepted 1850
fire precautions and the provision of water carts, etc., voluntary contribution for the sufferers by the fire of June 28, & erection of 10 memorials 1853
revised rents for recreation ground 1870, 1872
revised rent for church land 1874
payment of gratuities, and gift of six alms bags 1877
resolution to pay the rent of the Recreation Ground into the general parish account instead of to the churchwardens' 1880
resolution to proceed with the rebuilding of the churchyard wall and discussion of rent for church land 1882
contribution towards street lighting 1883
erection of new churchyard fence between the north gate and the Parish Room 1885
finance for the proposed Chapel of Ease at the Heath, for which Merton College have promised a site, and which Mr. St. Aubyn estimates will cost £800 1885
further report re Chapel of Ease 1886
discharge of debt on St. Silvester's Church at the Heath 1887
proposed new organ and fund 1888
closure of churchyard and new burial ground 1890
tenancy and draining of church land 1894
review of church land rent 1897
bells rehung, new treble bell added, and two bells recast by Messrs. Day and Son of Eye, Suffolk 1898
appointment of committee for heating and lighting the Church 1914
insurance of the Church 1921, 1930
Date11 September 1847 - 7 April 1932
CreatorNameGamlingay Parish Church
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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