Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Hammerwood, St Stephen - Creation of the consolidated chapelry.

Date:

9 Jul 1880.

Body:

AT the Court at Windsor, the 28th day of June, 1880.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of the Act of the eighth and ninth years of Her Majesty, chapter seventy ; of the Act of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter ninety-seven ; of the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her Majesty, chapter fifty-five ; and of the Act of the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth years of Her Majesty, chapter eighty-two ; duly prepared and laid before Her Majesty in Council a representation, bearing date the twenty-ninth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, in the words following ; that is to say :

"We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of the Act of the eighth and ninth years of your Majesty chapter seventy of the Act of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of your Majesty chapter ninety-seven of the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of your Majesty chapter fifty-five and of the Act of the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth years of your Majesty chapter eighty-two 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 Stephen situate at Hammerwood in the parish of East Grinstead in the county of Sussex and in the diocese of Chichester.

"Whereas at certain extremities of the said parish of East Grinstead and of the parish of Hartfield in the county and diocese aforesaid 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 parishes respectively.

"And whereas it appears to us to be expedient that such contiguous portions of the said parish of East Grinstead and of the said parish of Hartfield should be formed into a consolidated chapelry for all ecclesiastical purposes and that the same should be assigned to the said "church of Saint Stephen situate at Hammerwood as aforesaid.

"Now, therefore, with the consent of the Right Reverend Richard Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester with the consent of the Right Honourable Mortimer Baron Sackville the patron of "the vicarage of the said parish of East Grinstead and with the consent of the Right Honourable Reginald Windsor Earl Delawarr the patron of the rectory and vicarage of the said parish of Hartfield (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 parish of East Grinstead and of the said parish of Hartfield 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 Stephen situate at Hammerwood as aforesaid and that the same should be named 'The Consolidated Chapelry of Saint Stephen, Hammerwood.'

"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 Stephen, Hammerwood, being :—

"All that portion of the parish of East Grinstead 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 part of the west and on the south by the new parish of Forest Row in the said county and diocese on the east by the hereinafter described portion of the parish of Hartfield in the same county and diocese on the north by the Kent Water or in other words partly by the parish of Cowden in the county of Kent, and in the diocese of Canterbury and partly by the parish or parochial chapelry of Lingfield in the county of Surrey and in the diocese of Rochester and on the remaining part of the west by an imaginary line commencing at the point in the said Kent Water where the boundary which divides the said parish or parochial chapelry of Lingfield from the parish of East Grinstead aforesaid crosses the middle of the road leading from the house called or known as Blockfield to Gotwick Farm and extending thence that is from the said Kent Water southward along the middle of the said road for a distance of seventeen chains or thereabouts to its junction at Gotwick Farm aforesaid with the road called or known as East Grinstead lane and leading from East Grinstead to the church of Saint Stephen, Hammerwood, and extending thence first eastward and then south-eastward along the middle of the last described road for a distance of thirty-one and a half chains or thereabouts to its junction on the southern side of Gotwick Wood with the road which leads past the houses called or known respectively as Shovel-strode and Homestall to Ashurstwood and extending thence generally southward along the middle of the last-described road for a distance of one mile and twenty-two chains or thereabouts (thereby passing to the east of the house called or known as Shovel-strode as aforesaid) to the point at or near the said house called or known as Homes tall where the said last-described road is joined by the occupation-road or footway leading towards the public-house called or known as the Three Crowns and extending thence south-westward along the middle of the last-described occupation-road or footway for a distance of eleven chains or thereabouts to the boundary which divides the said parish of East Grinstead from the new parish of Forest Row aforesaid.

"And also all that contiguous portion of the said parish of Hartfield which is bounded on the west partly by the new parish of Forest Row aforesaid and partly by the hereinbefore described portion of the parish of East Grinstead, on the north by the said parish of Cowden or in other words by the Kent Water aforesaid and upon all other sides that is to say on the east and on the south by an imaginary line commencing at the point in the said Kent Water where the boundary which divides the said parish of Cowden from the parish of Hartfield aforesaid crosses the footpath leading from Cowden through Heathersome's Wood into the road which leads from the said church of Saint Stephen, Hammerwood, to Cole-stock and extending thence that is from the said Kent Water first southward and then south-eastward along the middle of the last-described footpath for a distance of sixty chains or thereabouts (thereby passing through Heathersome's Wood aforesaid) to the point where the last-described footpath joins the road leading from the church of Saint Stephen, Hammerwood, to Colestock as aforesaid such point being at the junction of the last-described road with the road or footway which is called or known as Scragg's-lane and which leads past Scragg's Farm and Chandler's Farm to Bassett's Farm and extending thence generally southward along the middle of the last-described road and footway for a distance of sixty-nine chains or thereabouts to its junction at Bassett's Farm aforesaid with the occupation-road or foot-way leading from the last-named farm past Leywood's Farm and North Clays towards Pock Hill and extending thence first south-westward and then westward along the middle of the last-described road or footway for a distance of one mile and sixteen chains or thereabouts to the boundary which, divides the said parish of Hartfield from the new parish of Forest Row 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:

St Mary the Virgin, St Stephen, St Swithun.

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