| Description | Comprising `Estimate to Plan for Enlarging Meriden Church' (?to plan No.1) for cost of materials and building and repair work etc., No Date, ?early 1825 (DR0261/65/1); `Specification for new Pewing ... to Plan No. 2', 9 July 1825 (DR0261/65/2); Specification and Estimate for New Pewing, Erecting Galleries etc. specifying individual work and specifications for masons, carpenter, painter, slater, plasterer and the contractor himself, 20 Oct 1825 (DR0261/65/3-4); Memorandum of Agreement between Bradford and the vicar and churchwardens for repairing and pewing the Church, in which Bradford agreed, in consideration of £1,171 (to be paid in instalments - specified), to take down the North and South walls to the foundations and rebuild them, to erect 2 new galleries with staircases on the North and South side, take down the present pews and reconstruct them, remove the stone from the chancel to the middle aisle, remove 2 monuments etc. with agreements re the execution of the work and the quality of the materials (Bradford "being allowed Stone from Meriden quarry for getting and being at liberty to use such of the Old Materials in the Pewing as stated in his said specification"), 10 Apr 1926(DR0261/65/5); correspondence from J.N. Woodcock (p.p. Bradford) enclosing Bradford's bill for building the porch and extra work, 17 July 1827, and related jottings re bills and the building account (DR0261/65/6-10); cheques paid to Bradford (through Messrs. Little, Woodcock & Son of Coventry, bankers) with accompanying receipts from Bradford acknowledging payment, 28 Apr 1826 - 17 Dec 1827(DR0261/65/11-36). |