Parish of wadhurst

For disbursements, 1812-1904 see PAR 498/8/1-3

also includes a note to pay Goodwife Ford for [bell-ringing] on 5 August, the prince's coming home and 5 November [1623]

For similar vouchers made out to the constables, see PAR 498/28/1

For 1653-1654, 1672

for £8 for work done in the church according to articles of agreement of 5 Jun 1700

For similar accounts, 1784-1826 see PAR 498/2/1/1

sums of one or two shillings to named individuals

For other records concerning the bells, see PAR 498/4/5/2, 16/3/6

Edward Benge and Thomas Porter, churchwardens, with Richard Phelps of Whitechapel, [London], bell-founder

Richard Phelps of Whitechapel, [London], bell-founder, to Thomas Porter the younger and Edward Benge of Wadhurst, gents

W: John Patrick, John Stephens, John Cowcher

includes quantity of waste from the old bell; received 17 Jun 1715

Instructions for hanging the 'musical bell' which he has delivered to Aps, one of Mr Hall's [the carter's] men

for carrying a bell to London twice and back again

for blacksmith's work on the bell cast by [Thorpe] Diamond

has been ill for some time so has sent his son to account for the waste and surplus metal, details of which, and PAR 498/10/1/5, are included

Mears and Stainbank, 267 Whitechapel Road, London, to John F Newington [churchwarden], 16 Apr 1891, with receipts, Nov 1891 - Apr 1892

compiled in 1896, with annotations to 1962

Copy notice of consent of the vicar and churchwardens to the proposal of [AW's father] Frederick Wilkin of Lower Cousley Wood to vest the brass memorial to his son Anthony Wilkin in the University of Cambridge

for AW, of King's College, Cambridge, anthropologist and explorer, c1878-1901, see The Times, 24 May 1901

Correspondence of Col HFS Ramsden Moseham Manor, churchwarden, with CEW's husband Frederick Wilkin and the diocesan registrar

file of H F S Ramsden, churchwarden, including extract from J E Couchman, 'Sussex Church Plate' (1913), letter from Couchman concerning the Wadhurst plate and photographs of two cups and a flagon

by Werner, Pfleiderer and Perkins, Kingsway, London

to Andrews and Bennett, solicitors, Wadhurst, forwarded to Colonel H F S Ramsden, Moseham House, [churchwarden]

by Messrs Streatfeild and Atwell, architects, 24 Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, London

by Z D Berry, engineers, Westminster, London

[by Z D Berry, engineers, Westminster, London]

For the faculty, see PAR 498/4/1/5

by H Featherstone [electrical engineer, Tunbridge Wells]

with H Featherstone, electrical engineer, Tunbridge Wells, and unsuccessful contractors; Royal Insurance, Brighton; diocesan registry

with copy documents, including a plan of the church showing points, specification and schedule

by W[illiam] H[enry] Bidlake of Birmingham and Tunbridge Wells, architect

[Bidlake retired to Wadhurst in 1923]

by W[illiam] H[enry] Bidlake of Birmingham and Tunbridge Wells, architect

annotated 'a suggestion' and of the cost of the reredos and side panels

mounted on a lithograph of Christ Church, Broad Green, Croydon [in Surrey]

Papers of J C Lane Andrews of Kirkstone, Wadhurst, as treasurer of the appeal.

the proposal to demolish the cottages did not meet with universal approval: one correspondent did 'not see what is to be gained by pulling down one building which is antique to erect a modern one in its place'

George J Courthope and ten other (named) to William Robert White of Hazlehurst, Ticehurst, esq

to repay the purchase-price and expenses with interest for the purchase of lot 2 in PAR 498/10/4/5 to the limit of the sums set against their names

Upper Church Gates House, two cottages and a shoemaker's shop, The Old Market Square (messuage held of the manor of Scotney) and a walled garden

details of title from 1837 (lots 1-2) and 1843 (lots 3-4); annotated with details of bidding and purchasers and questions concerning rights of water

includes a draft form of subscription

recites the history of the purchase and proposals for the constitution of the parish room trust; includes a list of subscribers, annotated with nine further names

endorsed: extracts from minutes, [Dec 1900]

Cecil Sharpe, The Lodge; Frederick Wilkin, Warren Corner, Farnham in Surrey; Fanny Luck, The Olives; Herbert Fazan, Belmont; George Luck, builder; J W Williams, Pell View; Campbell Newington, Oakover, Ticehurst; concerns the purchase, constitution of the committee and demolition of the buildings

[William Robert White to George J Courthope and W D Watson Smyth]

a messuage in three tenements (N: churchyard; NW: entrance to the churchyard; S: Church Street; SE: messuage occupied by S T Wallis) occupied by late Mrs Allen, Mrs Humphrey and a shoemaker's shop occupied by George Down

to permit any buildings to be used as a parish room (details) as the vicar, churchwardens and chairman of the parish council shall direct

John Newington of Burwash, gent (only brother and heir of Benjamin Newington of Wadhurst, gent, deceased), to the churchwardens and overseers (Robert Noakes, Edward Lambert, Thomas Avard, George Russell and William Latter)

capital messuage called The Old Vine with a barn, buildings, gardens and orchards in Wadhurst Town (S: street; W, N: land late Richard Walter Burgis deceased, before Richard Burgis deceased; E: Hole Lane), lately occupied by Catherine Puxty and William Gurr, before Nicholas Puxty deceased, before Joseph Puxty deceased, purchased by Benjamin Newington from John Legas, gent

W: John Woollett, Thomas Hammond; acknowledged by JN in Chancery, 21 Jul 1778

TNA: PRO C54/6501

For the account of Jeremiah Curteis of Rye for legal work in connection with the conveyance, see PAR 498/31/1/18

Thomas Bettesworth, LLD, dean of South Malling, to John Watches and Thomas Tapsfield, churchwardens

to Edmund Burns Pye of Buckhurst Manor, Wadhurst, esq, and Maurice Watts of Byeways, Wadhurst, esq

to Robert Percy Foster Ashburner of Clearways, Hugh Douglas Cumberbatch of Monks Park, Emily Mary Dorothea Courthope of East Lodge and Hilda Margaret Leigh of Wenbans, all Wadhurst

Henry Carlton Cumberbatch of Buckhurst Manor, Wadhurst, and Francis Henry Hodder of Mayfield Lane, Wadhurst

includes list of candidates confirmed by Bishop Tufnell, 9 May 1892

printed; includes list of subscriptions

Found loose within PAR 498/11/2

For the papers of the committee see PAR 498/16/2

men on active service identified, 1940-1941