Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Danehill, All Saints and Holy Trinity - Substitution of old church for new.

Date:

25 Apr 1893.

Body:

INSTRUMENT substituting the New Church of All Saints, situate within the New Parish of Danehill, in the County of Sussex, and Diocese of Chichester, for the Old Church of Holy Trinity, situate within and hitherto being the Parish Church of the same New Parish.

To all to whom these presents shall come, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England send greeting:

WHEREAS a new church has lately been built within the new parish of Danehill, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, and has been consecrated and dedicated to All Saints.

And whereas the Right Reverend Richard, Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester, Guy Charles Hardy, of Danehurst, in the said county of Sussex, Esquire, the patron of the vicarage of the said parish of Danehill, and the Reverend Walter Summers, Clerk in Holy Orders, the Vicar or Incumbent of the same vicarage, have, by an instrument under their hands, bearing date on or about the fifteenth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, certified to us, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, that it would be for the convenience of the said new parish of Danehill that the said new church of All Saints, situate within such new parish, should be substituted for the old parish church (dedicated to Holy Trinity) of the same new parish.

Now, therefore, we, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in exercise and execution of the power or authority in that behalf contained in the Act of the eighth and ninth years of Her present Majesty, chapter seventy, and in the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her said Majesty, chapter fifty-five, and of all other powers or authorities in anywise enabling us in the same behalf, do, by this instrument under our common seal, with the consent (testified as hereinafter mentioned) of the said Richard, Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester, and of the said Guy Charles Hardy, and of the said Walter Summers, hereby declare that the said new church of All Saints, situate within the said new parish of Danehill, and duly consecrated as aforesaid, shall be and the same is hereby substituted for the said old parish church (dedicated to Holy Trinity as aforesaid) of the same parish, and that such new church shall henceforth be the parish church of the said new parish of Danehill, in lieu of the said old parish church of Holy Trinity as fully in all respects as if the said new church of All Saints, so hereby substituted, had been originally the parish church of the same new parish.

And we, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in further pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities aforesaid, and with such consents as aforesaid (testified as hereinafter mentioned), do hereby transfer all the endowments, emoluments, and rights of or belonging to the said old parish church (dedicated to Holy Trinity as aforesaid) of the said new parish of Danehill, or of or belonging to the Vicar or Incumbent thereof, to the said new church of All Saints (now being by virtue of these presents the parish church of the said new parish of Danehill), and to the Vicar or Incumbent thereof, and his successors for ever.

In witness whereof to these presents, we, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, have set our common seal, and the said Richard, Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester, has set his hand and affixed his episcopal seal, and the said Guy Charles Hardy and the said Walter Summers have respectively set their hands and affixed their seals, this twenty-third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

E. Ciceslr. (L.S.)

Ecclesiastical Commissioners. (L.S.)

G. C. Hardy. (L.S.)

W. Summers. (L.S.)

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

All Saints, Holy Trinity.

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