Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Roffey, All Saints - Creation of District Chapelry.

Date:

30 Dec 1878.

Body:

AT the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 30th day of December, 1878.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of the Act of the fifty-ninth year of His Majesty King George the Third, chapter one hundred and thirty- four ; of the Act of the second and third years of Her Majesty, chapter forty-nine ; and of the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her Majesty, chapter fifty-five, duly prepared and laid before Her Majesty in Council a representation, bearing date the twelfth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight in the words following; that is to say:

"We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of the Act of the fifty-ninth year of His Majesty King George the Third, chapter one hundred and thirty-four ; of the Act of the second and third years of your Majesty, chapter forty-nine ; and of the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of your Majesty, chapter fifty-five, have prepared, and now humbly lay before your Majesty in Council, the following representation as to the assignment of a district chapelry to the consecrated church of All Saints situate at Roughey otherwise called Roffey in the parish of Horsham in the county of Sussex and in the diocese of Chichester.

"Whereas it appears to us to be expedient that a district chapelry should be assigned to the said church of All Saints situate at Roughey otherwise called Roffey as aforesaid.

"Now therefore, with the consent of the Right Reverend Richard Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester (testified by his having signed and sealed this representation), we, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners humbly represent, that it would, in our opinion be expedient that all that portion of the said parish of Horsham, which is described in the schedule hereunder written, all which portion, together with the boundaries thereof, is delineated and set forth on the map or plan hereunto annexed, should be assigned as a district chapelry to the said church of All Saints, situate at Roughey otherwise called Roffey as aforesaid, and that the same should be named 'The District Chapelry of All Saints Roughey otherwise Roffey.'

"And with the like consent of the said Richard Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester (testified as aforesaid), we, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, further represent, that it appears to us to be expedient that banns of matrimony should be published, and that marriages, baptisms, churchings and burials should be solemnized or performed at the said church of All Saints situate at Roughey otherwise called Roffey as aforesaid, and that the fees to be received in respect of the publication of such banns and of the solemnization or performance of the said offices should be paid and belong to the minister of the same church for the time being : Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as expressing any intention on the part of us the said Commissioners to concur in or approve the taking of any fee for the performance of the said office of baptism or for the registration thereof.

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

"The SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Representation has reference.

"The District Chapelry of All Saints Roughey otherwise Roffey being :—

"All that portion of the parish of Horsham in the county of Sussex and in the diocese of Chichester wherein the present Incumbent of such-parish now possesses the exclusive cure of souls which is bounded on the south-east partly by the parish or chapelry of Lower Beeding and partly by the consolidated chapelry or new parish of Saint Saviour Colgate both in the county and diocese aforesaid on the north-east by the parish of Rusper in the county and diocese aforesaid and on the remaining sides that is to say on the west and on the south by an imaginary line commencing upon the boundary which divides the said parish of Rusper from the parish of Horsham aforesaid near the point where the private road leading from the house called or known as the Nunnery, joins the high road leading from Rusper to Horsham and extending thence southward along the middle of the said high road for a distance of two and three quarter miles or thereabouts to its junction at Crossways with the Horsham and Crawley turnpike road and extending thence north-eastward along the middle of the said turnpike road for a distance of eighteen chains or thereabouts to its junction at or near to the Horsham Union Workhouse with Comptons Brow-lane and extending thence southward along the middle of the last-named lane for a distance of fifty-two chains or thereabouts toils intersection by Hamper's-lane and extending thence first north-eastward and then south-eastward along the middle of the last-named lane for a distance of twenty chains or thereabouts to the boundary which divides the said parish of Horsham from the parish or chapelry of Lower Beeding aforesaid."

And whereas the said representation has been approved by Her Majesty in Council: now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her 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 Her 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.

C. L. Peel.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

All Saints, St Mary the Virgin.

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