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In my work on the Scrovegni Chapel I've come across similar estimates of the
church's value, and they seem to correspond to the value of the original
endowment made by the founder. This consisted primarily of rents.
laura
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Subject: [M-R] how are churches valued?
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> I've been reading Matthew Paris' Chronicles (the nice illustrated
> paperback of about 3 years), and realized that I don't understand how
> churches, etc., were valued. He's continually saying that such and such
> a place was "worth" 100 pounds, or 200 marks, or something. Is the
> valuation due to, say, the agricultural produce of the place?
> Parishoners' tithes? What's the nature of the income and how could it
> be stably estimated?
>
> Dale Hample
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