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Croydon Parish Church
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Croydon Parish Church

  • PR1
  • Collection
  • 1702 - 1927

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England Parish Records

Croydon Parish: Vestry Records

The Vestry was the governing body of the parish, largely concerned with civil (non-ecclesiastical) matters. It comprised an assembly of all male ratepayers. The `Select Vestry' (technically a Parish Committee) was a smaller and more manageable committee of 5-20 householders, which dealt with matters relating to the poor. It was established at the Vestry meeting of 9 June 1819, under powers granted by the Sturges Bourne Act 1819, 'for the care and management of the concern of the poor'.

Croydon Parish: Select Order Books

Contain lists of applicants for poor relief, giving, in tabular for: their place of abode; age; family (if any); present relief; remarks about the case, which sometimes go into lengthy accounts of the applicant's past life and current circumstances; and the order made by the Vestry.

Croydon Parish: Trustees for Repairing the Parish Church Minute Books

A Committee for the Repair of the Parish Church was appointed at a meeting of Croydon Vestry on 22 August and 8 September 1760: the early part of the first minute book records the meetings of this Committee. It promoted the passage of an Act of Parliament `for Repairing the Parish Church of Croydon', which was passed in 1761 (1 George III). The Committee then reconvened under the terms of the Act, and first met as the Trustees for Repairing the Parish Church on 23 March 1761. The initial estimate for the cost of necessary repairs was ú1500. The Trustees were mainly concerned with the practicalities of raising this money (which they did through various means, including borrowing money, the purchase of annuities, and the levying of Church Rates); and with making arrangements for carrying out various repairs. At a meeting on 29 April 1761, the Clerk was ordered to prepare a 'proper Minute Book'; a book for recording workmen's bills; an Annuity Book for recording payments and receipts relating to annuities; and a (general) Account Book. In fact, many of these other financial details continued to be recorded in the minute books.

Croydon Parish: Wasteland Trustees Records

The Waste Lands Trustees (formally known as the Corporation for the Management of the Wastelands of the Parish of Croydon) were appointed under the terms of the Croydon Enclosure Act of 1797, to take responsibility for the various small but scattered parcels of land which came into the hands of the Parish. They first met on 2 May 1801. In theory, the Trustees were subsidiary to the Parish Vestry, but in practice they became the more powerful body. An Act of Parliament for Rebuilding the Court House and Butter Market House of 1806 empowered them to carry out this rebuilding, financed through the sale of some of the parcels of land in Norwood. The result was the new Town Hall (Courthouse and Cornmarket), completed in 1809; and the Butter Market of 1810. Thereafter, the Trustees were responsible for maintaining these buildings, for running the markets, and for various other matters, such as (in the early 1820s) paving the footpaths and causeways of the town. The Trustees consisted of the Vicar, Churchwardens, Overseers, and six inhabitants of Croydon. In their early years, they met at irregular intervals, but normally a few weeks apart. Meetings became gradually less frequent, and in January 1826 it was agreed that they should meet half-yearly: in fact, they more often met annually from then on. Their first meeting(s) was/were held in the Greyhound Inn, but from December 1801 they met in the Town Hall, except for the period when it was being rebuilt, 1807-1809, when they met either at the King's Arms or in the Vestry Room. In August 1805, the Trustees authorised the engraving of a common seal. As other local government bodies were established in Croydon, the Waste Lands Trustees became something of an anachronism. They were wound up in July 1869, and their property passed to the Local Board of Health.

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