Kirkby Overblow, Benefactions transcription

MEMORANDA Respecting the Parish Church of Kirkby Overblow.
This Church was repaired in the Year 1780.
Hugh Barrett, Peter Harland   } Churchwardens
James Barough, William Tate }
William Myers, Chapelwarden.

The Tower of this Church was rebuilt by Voluntary Subscription in the Year of our Lord 1781.

The Piece of Ground allotted for the New Churchyard, was given by the Revd. Henry Blunt, Rector, by permission of the Patron of the Living, and was consecrated, October 1849, The expences were defrayed by the Parishioners.
James Swale, James Wilkinson }
George Lewis, Joseph Hannam } Churchwardens.

The incorporated Society for promoting the Building and repairing of Churches, granted thirty five Pounds, towards reseating and restoring this Church, by which one-hundred-and-forty additional sittings have been obtained, The entire area, will accommodate three-hundred- and twenty-one at the least, The sittings were all free, and subject to assignment by the Churchwardens, suitable provision being made for the poorer inhabitants, The total cost of the work has exceeded one-thousand Pounds, The Church was reopened for the worship of Almighty God. January 30th. 1872.
J.J.TOOGOOD, RECTOR.
Walter Haxworth, Mattw. Brearcliffe } Churchwardens
Charles Hogg, James Wilkinson }