Accounts for ironwork carried out in Jesus college between November 1879 and October 1880.
Ironwork in college rooms includes: new parts for stove in Geldard's room (17s 6d); lock repairs in Mr Street's room (3s); new key for the Practice Room (3s 6d); registering stoves in No. 4 (£1 16s) and Mr Jacomb's room (£1 18s).
Also for cleaning and repairing brass door locks, new screws, new spindle, and brass handle. in No. 1, D staircase; new doorknobs and spindles for bedroom and repairs to rim lock on gyp room in No. 1, G staircase; repairs to locks on bedroom door in No. 1, K staircase; stove repairs, new iron plates, new backs, new rivets, nuts and screws in No. 1, L staircase; new cheek and backs, screws and nuts in No. 5, L staircase; stove repairs in No.7 in L staircase; stove repairs, 2 chimney bars and 2 slips in No. 11, L staircase. Amount spent on these repairs totalling £4 8s 6d. Also includes repairs to the coalscoop and Combination room (2s 6d).
For the estates: iron bracket for pipe at 127 Fitzroy St. (1s 6d); one range in Dawkins, Little Manor St. (£1 8s 6d); bricklayers' labour (11s 6d); new range at 2 Belmont Place (£1 3s); 5 cast iron posts on Pike's Walk (£4 2s 6d); repairs to posts and fence (£1 8s); 14 1/2 feet iron and zinc pipe at 40 Jesus Lane "by order of Seymour" (13s 6d); (in another hand) Tree protectors (£4 5s). Total for estates' ironwork at £13 13s 6d).
For the courts: latch repairs and fixing the latch to the door of the Porter's Lodge (3s); cleaning and repairing lock on the gates next to Shoeblack's (2s 6d). Total of 5s 6d.
For the Master's Lodge: stove repairs (2s 6d, and 4s 6d); lock repairs (6s); attaching the hot water supply to the range via a galvanised hot water cistern and cover, ballcock and ball, 2 "best" brass cocks, 28 feet of steam pipe with elbows, lead, galvanised chimney, india rubber bolts and labour (total £16 18s 6d- no individual sums given). Also repairs to the gate (4s) and bottom to the range (3s 6d). Total cost of £17 19s.
For the chapel: new key to the chapel door (17s 6d), new door and dead plate and fixing to the chapel stove "by order of Frisby" (18s); new fire stones and repairs to the chapel stove (£2 8s). Total cost of £4 3s 6d.
For the kitchen includes: oiling smoke jack (4s 6d); 2 covers and grates for hot plates (19s 8d); work on the smoke jack, 2 pints of oil, candles and labour (13s); repairs to the oven, sweeping the new socket and links to the chain, repairs to the beef tongs (4s 6d); 1 trap top (2s); repairs to hot plates and smoke jack, new pan and 3 pints of oil, cotton waste, labour (£1 18s); brass bushes, oil and jack repairs (£1 4s 6d); work to smoke jacks, hotplates, brass bushes, irons, 4 pints of oil, 1/2 pint of turps waste, labour (£2 16s 6d); 3 cast iron backs and fixing to the kitchen range (£9 9s); repairs to smoke jack, 2 new arms to fliers, brass bush, oil, waste cloth and labour (£2 4s); 23 feet of wrought iron pipes, 3 connections, 3 tees, 4 elbows, 1 socket, 3 cross pipe, 1 copper furnace door and furnace bars, fixing to the boiler in kitchen and copper in Potato Room (£5 18s); copper tinned inside and tinned iron cover (£3 8s 6d); 1 extra large and strong iron steamer with lid and handles, iron handles "for potatoes" (£3 10s 6d). Total cost £38 6s 8d.
For the New Buildings: new handles and roses to doors (4s); removing gate and repairing hanging irons, refixing and repairing lock and making 2 new keys, for under the arch in New Buildings (£1 18s). Total cost of £2 2s.
Summary of accounts on back page also includes £17 18s 9d for work done to the "Steward's" and £3 7s 3d for the Gardens: these pages are absent in the accounts themselves. Total cost for ironwork in college amounts to £97 9s 4d.
Folded in the accounts is a sheet of rough workings.
