Catalogue description Minute Book Vestry room 2, 3

Reassessment of parish 6-9; assistant overseer 12; John Bigg elected Master of the Poor House, 1805, 15; lease of stable adjoining the church-yard 20; salary of Master of the Poor House raised 27; revaluation of the parish, 1814, 44, 46; pulpit and reading desk moved 51-53; manorial waste for cultivation by the poor, 1816, 54; rooms for parish business to build adjoining the workhouse, 64; appointment of perpetual overseer 1820, 72; Archdeacon's report at parochial visitation, 213; rates 216; 220-231 Account of Sacrament money reversed; rates 235-236; proposal for providing funds for memorial to Lord Sandys, 240-241; insurance policy taken out 1851, 241; appeal against rates, 244; rearrangement of church seating, 250; list of bellringers ordered to be given to churchwardens who in future shall say when bells shall be rung, 259; minor repairs to the fabric, 260, 267; extract from the will of Edward hunt, 1854 relating to a benefaction for the poor, 261; oak chair, 264: see also 210; communion table, 267; kneeling cushion on altar steps, 270; Ruridecanal visitation, 272; alteration of interior of church and church sittings, 274-275; Ruridecanal visitation, 279; sale of organ, 1858, 281; removal of cottages in Dunn St., 282; Archidiaconal visitation, 287; contributions to reseating fund, 1857, 292; new seating and old seatings allowed, 294-295; ruridecanal visitation, 302; removal order relating to a lunatic pauper, 303; Hunt's benefaction, 304, 310; ruridecanal visitation, 315; stopping up of footpaths, 1862, 316; organ presented by Maj. Best in the name of Mrs Best, his mother, 322; church heating committee set up, 323; heating, 324-326; Hunt's benefaction, 325; schoolmaster appointed deputy parish clerk, 1864, 329; parish valuation, 330; heating, 331; Ruridecanal visitation, 332; improvements made to the church, 333; Hunt's benefaction, 334, 340; chancel windows, 337; Ruridecanal visitations, 344; Hunt's benefactions 344, 349, 353, 359, 366, 373, 376, 380, 382, 386, 390, 393, 399, 402, 408, 420, 424, 432, 436, 437, 441, 443, 445, 446, 448, 450, 452, 455, 458, 462, 466, Walter Hickmott, Master of the Poor House 1827, 95; seats in the gallery for the Sunday School children; wooden pillars replaced by hollow iron; folding doors inside west door; sale of musical instruments 1832, 112; William Merrall, organist 1833, 114; revaluation of parish, 116, 118; office of Assistant Overseer abolished and salary of Master of the Poor House increased in consequence of his taking on the work, 126, 128; church clock, 131; church heating, 132; parishes to be joined into districts for highway purposes, 134; sale of Poor House 1836, 135; parish Surveyors accounts, 136, 137, 140; owners of property to be rated rather than occupiers, 141; Poor Law Act, 1836, 142; Poor House, 143; stopping up a footpath 1836, 144; Vestry to meet at old school House, 1836; maintenance of Martha Ball, 146; sale of Poor House, 147; Rate collector appointed, 148; enforcement of last poor rate, 151, 152; money borrowed to subsidise emigration 1838, 153; voters registered in rate book, 153; repair of church roof, 161, 162; emigration 163, 164, 166, 170; church rates unpaid, 168, 167; successful removal order appeal, 170; bellringers' allowances, 173; Highway accounts, 174; emigration resolution rescinded, 175; emigration 176, 177; rates, 184, 204; enlargement of gallery to north aisle 1847, 204; appointment of churchwardens: system changed, 1548, 207; rates, 208; impossible to enlarge gallery: narrow pews in north aisle made available for school, children, 208; alterations to the fabric, 209; problems relating to burial fees, 210-211; church broken into: refusal of owner of the porch to repair it, 212; money for the poor from a house in Faversham and the principal sum paid off by the trustees of the Rochester Road, 212; 468, 471, 473, 480, 483, 486, 489; improvement of road from Penenden Heath to Boxley St., 345; stained glass window, 348; churchyard steps repaired, 349; altar and pulpit furnishings presented by Mrs. Best, 353; rates, 358; Ruridecanal visitation, 358; parochial visitation by the Archdeacon, 365; churchyard maintenance and enlargement, 368; payment of ringers, 368; education, 369; pall offered by Maj. Best, 371; money for support of school, 371; agreement to provide money towards the expense of educating children from Dunn St., Boxley at Bredhurst [to Bredhurst Board of Management], 372; Ruridecanal visitation, 376; church lighting in the nave provided, 379; organ, 384; churchyard, 386; use and ownership of church porch, 389; confirmation by Bishop of Dover, 390; seating and restoration of the church with improvements, 394-396; Lych gate and stone pulpit, 396; ruridecanal visitation, 399; stained glass in south aisle, 404; voluntary church rate, 1881, 405; proposal to build a smallpox hospital in the parish refused, 406; stained glass in south aisle, 406; Home Office to be asked about burial space, 407, 408-412; stained glass in north aisle, 412; churchyard consecration, 412; Highway diversion on Maidstone-Bredhurst road 1883, 415-416; oak gate made to match Lych, 418; protest against the use of Rochester Bridge Funds for things other than the bridge or river [Boxley was a contributory parish], 419-420; altar furnishings, 422; new infants classroom, 423; organ committee (see 384), 425; Archdeacon's visitation, 426; new cassocks and surplices for the choir, 426; new pole on church tower, 426; new flag, 428; stopping up a footpath to the Gibraltar Inn, 1887, 429-430; committee for new parish valuation, 431; church heating, 435; new clock, 435; Archdeacon's visitation, 438; Ruridecanal visitation, 443; chimney shaft built, 446; alterations in the services 1894, 448; lights for the chancel, 449; funeral bier presented, 457; altar furnishings presented, 453; death of vicar, 453; retirement of Assistant Master and organist, 456; organ, 456; new wall in memory of late vicar, 457; organ repaired, 458; mosaics at east end in memory of late vicar, 458; sidesmen appointed, 461; ruridecanal visitation, 462; organ account, 464; payment to bellringers, 467; new cassocks and surplices for the choir, 469; churchyard maintenance, 470; falling headstones, new bellropes and new flag, 470; curates fund to be used for services rendered until a curate was appointed, 473; money for bellringers, 473; falling off of voluntary subscribers, deficits in funds, gift of lights for the choir, bellringers' money, damage to stained glass window by robbers, 475-476; ruridecanal visitation, 482; funds, 481; death of Mrs. Whatman of Vintners, funds, deficits, death of R.A. Hamilton Seymour of Boxley Abbey, 484-485; death of Maj. Best, 1907, 487; thanks to Rev. C.E.W. Dalison, 487; organist's salary, 488; parish finances, churchyard enlargement, death of vicar, memorial to vicar, ruridecanal visitation, 490; reversed at back Sacrament money accounts 1856-1882.