Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Hove, St Agnes - Creation of the Consolidated Chapelry.

Date:

29 Jul 1927.

Body:

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 25th day of July, 1927.

PRESENT,

The KING'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of the Act of the 8th and 9th years of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter 70, of the Act of the 14th and 15th years of Her said late Majesty, Chapter 97, and of the Act of the 19th and 20th years of Her said late Majesty, Chapter 55, duly prepared, and laid before His Majesty in Council, a Representation bearing date the 7th day of July, 1927, in the words and figures following, that is to say:-

"We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of the Act of the 8th and 9th years of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter 70, of the Act of the 14th and 15th years of Her said late Majesty, Chapter 97, and of the Act of the 19th and 20th years of Her said late Majesty, Chapter 55, have prepared, and now humbly lay before Your Majesty in Council, the following Representation as to the assignment of a Consolidated Chapelry to the consecrated Church of Saint Agnes, Hove, situate within the New Parish (sometime District Chapelry) of Saint Barnabas, Hove, in the County of Sussex and in the Diocese of Chichester:

"Whereas at certain extremities of the said New Parish of Saint Barnabas, Hove, and of the New Parish (sometime Consolidated Chapelry) of the Good Shepherd, Preston, Brighton, in the said County and Diocese, which said extremities lie contiguous one to another, and are described in the Schedule hereunder written, there is collected together a population which is situate at a distance from the several churches of such New Parishes:

"And whereas it appears to us to be expedient that certain contiguous portions (being the portions containing the population aforesaid) of the said New Parish of Saint Barnabas, Hove, and of the said New Parish of the Good Shepherd, Preston, Brighton, should be formed into a Consolidated Chapelry for all ecclesiastical purposes, and that the same should be assigned to the said Church of Saint Agnes, Hove, situate as aforesaid:

"Now, therefore, with the consent of the Bight Reverend Winfrid Oldfield, Bishop of Chichester, as such Bishop, and also as the Patron, in right of his See of the Vicarage of the said New Parish of the Good Shepherd, Preston, Brighton, and with the consent of the Reverend Archdall Maiden Hill, a Prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Chichester and the Vicar or Incumbent of the Vicarage of the Parish of Hove, in the said County and Diocese, and, as such Vicar or Incumbent, the Patron of the Vicarage of the said New Parish of Saint Barnabas, Hove (in testimony whereof they the said consenting parties have respectively signed and sealed this Representation), we, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, humbly represent, that it would, in our opinion, be expedient that all those contiguous portions of the said New Parish of Saint Barnabas, Hove, and of the said New Parish of the Good Shepherd, Preston, Brighton, which are described in the Schedule hereunder written, all which portions, together with the boundaries thereof, are delineated and set forth on the map or plan hereunto annexed, should be united and formed into one Consolidated Chapelry for the said Church of Saint Agnes, Hove, situate as aforesaid, and that the same should be named 'The Consolidated Chapelry of Saint Agnes, Hove.

"We, therefore, humbly pray that Your Majesty will be graciously pleased to take the premises into Your Royal consideration, and to make such Order in respect thereto as to Your Majesty in Your Royal Wisdom shall seem meet.

"THE SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Representation has reference.

"The Consolidated Chapelry of Saint Agnes, Hove, comprising:—

"I. All that portion of the New Parish (sometime District Chapelry) of Saint Barnabas, Hove, in the County of Sussex and in the Diocese of Chichester, which is bounded upon the east by the Parish of Hove, upon the north by the New Parish (sometime Consolidated Chapelry) of the Good Shepherd, Preston, Brighton, both in the said County and Diocese, and upon the remaining sides, that is to say, upon the west and upon the south, by an imaginary line commencing upon the boundary which divides the said New Parish of the Good Shepherd, Preston, Brighton, from the said New Parish of Saint Barnabas, Hove, at a point in Old Shoreham Road, opposite to the middle of Sackville Road, and extending thence southward to and along the middle of Sackville Road for a distance of 15 1/2 chains or thereabouts to the centre of the bridge which carries the West Coast Line of the Central Section of the Southern Railway across Sackville Road, and extending thence south eastward along the middle of the said line of railway for a distance of 23 1/4 chains or thereabouts to the boundary which divides the said New Parish of Saint Barnabas, Hove, from the said Parish of Hove.

"II. And also all that contiguous portion of the said New Parish of the Good Shepherd, Preston, Brighton, which is bounded upon the west by the Parish of West Blatchington, in the said County and Diocese, upon the south partly by the said New Parish of Saint Barnabas, Hove, and partly by the said Parish of Hove, and upon the remaining sides, that is to say, upon the east and upon the north, by an imaginary line commencing upon the boundary which divides the said Parish of Hove from the said New Parish of the Good Shepherd, Preston, Brighton, at a point on the southern side of Old Shoreham Road opposite to the middle of the road called Shirley Drive, and extending thence northward to and along the middle of Shirley Drive for a distance of 26 1/2 chains or thereabouts to its junction with the road called The Droveway, and extending thence westward along the middle of The Droveway for a distance of 19 1/2 chains or thereabouts to its junction with the road called Goldstone Crescent opposite to the middle of the bridleway leading across Hove Park and past the southern side of the Goldstone Water Works to West Blatchington, and extending thence north westward to and along the middle of the said bridleway for a distance of 24 1/4 chains or thereabouts to a point on the western side of the roadway leading from Old Shoreham Road to the Goldstone Water Works upon the boundary which divides the said New Parish of the Good Shepherd, Preston, Brighton, from the said Parish of West Blatchington."

And whereas the said Representation has been approved by His Majesty in Council: Now, therefore, His. Majesty, by and with the advice of His said Council, is pleased hereby to ratify the said Representation, and to order and direct that the same and every part thereof shall be effectual in law immediately from and after the time when this Order shall have been duly published in the London Gazette pursuant to the said Acts.

And His Majesty, by and with the like advice, is pleased hereby to direct that this Order be forthwith registered by the Registrar of the said Diocese of Chichester.

M. P. A. Hankey.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

Church of the Good Shepherd, St Agnes, St Barnabas.

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