SUBSCRIPTIONS
£ . s . d
Trinity College Cambridge
25.00.0
Diocesan Society
45.00.0
National Society
30.00.0
Collections in church 1864
14.10.0
Sale of Old Organ
5.00.0
H B Whitworth Esq
110.00.0
Dr Septimus Wray
20.00.0
Rev H W & Mrs Smith
10.00.0
Ven Archibald Bickersteth
5.00.0
Rev J W Irwing
1.01.0
C A Hay Esq
5.00.0
C J Athawes
2.02.0
Rev J T Athawes
1.01.0
Ladies at Scarborough and friends
15.6
Stony Stratford Charity
5.05.0
Rev R C Green
177.05.6
TOTAL
457.00.0
(Besides carting done by the farmers).
School Days
The donation by Trinity College, Cambridge, was due to the living of the church being held by the college. H B Whitworth, who donated a total of £110 - almost a quarter of the cost of the building, was the village squire and one of the original projectors of the scheme. Dr Wray was a Harley Street physician, and he lived in a house on the Green. Two generations of the Athawes family held the vicarage of Loughton from mid-Victorian times until 1915. Of the ladies at Scarborough and their friends we have unfortunately been able to find nothing. The Stony Stratford Charity Feofees held a considerable amount of land in Loughton and their donation of £5.5.0 ploughed back into the village some of the money - though only a very small proportion - taken out in the form of rents. Finally, we come to the Rev R C Green, who contributed the outstanding balance of £177.5.6d. This gentleman was a clergyman academic attached to All Souls College, Oxford, and he had a house in Loughton. He was obviously a man of considerable private wealth, for in 1866 he contributed £500 towards the cost of the new vicarage and later had found the balance of £194.18.11d making a total contribution of a little over £872 to the village in two years. (Taken from "The Building of Loughton National School" by A B Crossman, 1972.)