Item 1 - Receipt for Plumbing and Glazing Works in College

11 items, paper, pinned.

Receipt for plumbing works carried out in college between November 1874 and October 1875 by Messrs Favell, Ellis, and Sons. Total cost £117 13s, paid by cheque, signed by T. Ellis.

Works include:

• Master's Lodge: fixing servants' WC in garden; taking up, cleaning, repairing, and refixing WC in lodge; fixing new trap to butler's sink; making and fixing new joints; new valve to kitchen tap; white lead by carpenters; new valves to kitchen pump; new square of glass in WC; new valve to tap in store room; repairing valves to taps in WC; cleaning windows and glass in lights; glazing windows before painting in drawing room, dining room, front landing, bedroom, housekeeper's bedroom, study, bedroom over kitchen, passage, and south bedroom; new windows in servants' bedrooms; unstopping pipes, taking up basin, cleaning and guiding in valve in garden WC. Includes costs of materials (lead pipe, 1 1/2 inch cap and screw; joints; flanch screw, glass) and labour (plumbers, general labourers).
• Courts and staircases: new glass for greenhouse in Fellows' Garden; new glass for windows in servants' hall; unstopping sink in E staircase; new glass for windows in Leigh Bennett's rooms, Hoskyn's rooms, A.B. Willson's rooms, Lawson;s rooms, and various other staircases; filling regulators in various student rooms with oil and repairing their handles; filling filters on roof with charcoal; repairing/replacing glass in lamps; new valves and taps; new lead pipes to replace those damaged by frost; new valve and flanch screws for pipes in Mr Morgan's rooms, and replacement of stop tap; repairing burst pipe in M staircase; new valve box and leather bucket for Pump Court; soldering cracks in library roof; new glass for L, K, and P staircases; small panes of glass for windows in L and M staircases; underground pipes leading to WC (L and M staircase?); unstopping rainwater pipe over library; new screws and repairing brass handle in students' WC; new glass in servants' hall; new lead for roof of chapel north transept; white lead for Carpenter's rooms; 'cleaning and correcting' students' WC; lead casements, cementing, priming, puttying, and banding glass to new frames in school room windows. Includes costs of materials (glass, brass handles, joints, valves, taps, lead, stop taps) and labour (glazers, plumbers, blacksmiths). Credit comes from selling off some of the old pipes being replaced in B staircase, M staircase, Mr Morgan's rooms, and the cloisters.
• All roofs: soldering cracks in lead work; letting in new lead and general repairing. Includes costs of materials (lead, nails) and labour.
• New glass for lamp over gateway, and new glass for ventilator in Porters' Lodge.
• Carpentry work to various windows: repairing old sashes and fitting new wooden casements etc.
• Glazing work in Mr Shields' rooms costing £3 transferred to private account by order of the Dean, after it had previously been debited to the college account.
• In Mr Morgan's gyp room: 1/2 in basin tap, new pipe, joints, guide and thimble, flanch screw, and valve. (Credit for old tap and piping.)
  Chapel: cleaning and fixing ventilators; repairing and fixing lead work to casement; painting bars (21 short, 6 long); glazing new stained window and taking out old; releading and cementing window lights. (Credit from old piping and glass (16s 3d).
  Hall, Combination Room, Buttery: new glass in Combination Room; dusting stone work and cleaning windows in Hall; new glass and tap in buttery.
  College Kitchen: new squares of glass.