Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Burwash Weald, St Philip - Creation of chapelry.

Date:

30 Oct 1877.

Body:

AT the Court at Balmoral, the 23rd day of October, 1877.

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 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-sixth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven in the words and figures 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 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 Philip situate at Burwash Weald, in the parish of Burwash, in the county of Sussex and in the diocese of Chichester.

"Whereas at certain extremities of the said parish of Burwash of the parish of Mayfield, in the said county of Sussex, and in the said diocese of Chichester, and of the parish of Heathfield, in the same county and diocese, which said extremities lie contiguous one to another, and are described id the Schedule hereunder written, there is collected together a population which is situate at a distance from the several churches of such respective parishes.

"And whereas it appears to us to be expedient that such contiguous portions of the said parish of Burwash, of the said parish of Mayfield, and of the said parish of Heathfield, should be formed into a consolidated chapelry for all ecclesiastical purposes, and that the same should be assigned to the said church of Saint Philip situate at Burwash Weald as aforesaid.

"Now, therefore, with the consent of the Right Reverend Richard, Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester, as such Bishop and also as the patron, in right of his see, of the vicarage of the said parish of Heathfield with the consent of the Reverend John Coker Egerton, Clerk in Holy Orders, now Incumbent of the rectory and vicarage of the said parish of Burwash, as the patron of the same rectory and vicarage, and with the consent of the Reverend Henry Thomas Murdoch Kirby, Clerk in Holy Orders, now Incumbent of the vicarage of the said parish of Mayfield, as the patron of the same vicarage (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 Burwash, of the said parish of Mayfield, and of the said parish of Heathfield, 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 Philip situate at Burwash Weald as aforesaid, and that the same should be named 'The Consolidated Chapelry of Saint Philip, Burwash Weald.'

"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 Philip, Burwash Weald, being :—

"All those several contiguous portions of the parish of Burwash, of the parish of Mayfield, and of the parish of Heathfield, all in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, which said portions of such parishes are comprised within and are bounded by an imaginary line commencing at the point where the river Rother is joined by the stream flowing from Coggingsmill-street called or known as Pound Bridge Stream, and at which point the boundary which divides the consolidated chapelry or new parish of Tidebrook in the said county and diocese from the parish of Burwash aforesaid joins the boundary dividing the last-named parish from the parish of Mayfield aforesaid and extending thence generally south-westward for a distance of one mile and a quarter or thereabouts along the middle of the said river Rother to the boundary at the junction of the same river with the Stream called or known as Broadhurst Stream, and flowing from Little Bigknowle which boundary divides the said parish of Mayfield from the parish of Heathfield aforesaid and extending thence generally westward for a distance of about half a mile along the last-mentioned parish boundary thereby continuing along the course of the river Rother aforesaid to the point where the same river is joined by the stream flowing from Olive's Wood past Potten's Mill into the said river and extending thence generally southward for a distance of one mile and sixteen chains or thereabouts along the middle of the last-mentioned stream to the point where it divides into two branches, one branch forming the mill stream of Potten's Mill aforesaid and the other branch forming the backwater of such mill stream and extending thence south-westward for a distance of two and a half chains or thereabouts along the middle of the last-described branch stream or backwater thereby passing to the west of the said mill to the point where the same branch stream or backwater is crossed by the bridle road leading from the house called or known as the Mill House past Potten's Mill aforesaid to Olive's Farm and extending thence that is from the said last-mentioned branch stream or backwater first eastward for a distance of two chains or thereabouts along the middle of the said bridle road (thereby passing between the said Potten's Mill and the millhead) and then generally southward for a distance of forty-five chains or thereabouts along the middle of the same bridle road to its junction on the western side of the Olive's Farm Homestead with the occupation road which leads there from through Olive's Wood aforesaid into the Lewes and Hurst Green turnpike road and continuing thence still southward for a distance of forty-four chains or thereabouts along the middle of the said occupation road to its junction with the Lewes and Hurst Green turnpike road aforesaid and continuing thence still southward and in a direct line across the said turnpike road to a boundary stone inscribed 'B.W. St. P.C. C. 1877, No. 1' and placed on the southern side of the same turnpike road at a point immediately opposite to the middle of the southern end of the occupation road aforesaid and extending thence south-eastward and in a direct line for a distance of sixty-nine chains or thereabouts (thereby crossing Rough Wood) to the point on the western side of Deep Wood where the stream flowing from Little Tottingworth through Church Wood and through Brailsham Wood and the stream flowing through Binglett's Wood unite and form the river Dudwell, and extending thence generally eastward for a distance of nearly one mile along the middle of the last-named river to the boundary which divides the said parish of Heathfield from the parish of Burwash aforesaid and extending thence that is from the said river first southward and then south-westward along the last-mentioned boundary to its junction a little to the south-west of the house called or known as Watkins Down with the boundary which divides the said parish of Burwash from the parish of Warbleton in the county and diocese aforesaid and extending thence first south-eastward then eastward and then again southeastward along the last-mentioned boundary to its junction with the boundary which divides the said parish of Burwash from the parish of Dallington and extending thence first southeastward and then north-eastward along the last-mentioned boundary, thereby following in part the course of Willingford Stream and passing through Cox's Mill Pond, to the point where the last-named stream is joined by the Hacksbank Stream flowing past the northern side of the house called or known as Hacksbank and where the said last-mentioned boundary is joined by the boundary which divides the said parish of Burwash from the parish of Brightling in the county and diocese aforesaid and extending thence first generally northward along the last-mentioned boundary, thereby following in part the course of Willingford Stream aforesaid, then generally north-eastward along the same boundary thereby following the course of the river Dudwell aforesaid to a point at the centre of Willing Ford Willingford-lane crosses the said river and continuing thence generally south-eastward along the same boundary thereby following the course of the stream called or known as the Black Brook to a point in the middle of Willingford-lane aforesaid a little to the south of the house called or known as Perch Hill and extending thence for a distance of fifty-three chains or thereabouts first northward then north-westward and then westward along the middle of the last-named lane to the above described point at Willing Ford aforesaid, upon the boundary dividing the said parish of Brightling from the parish of Burwash as aforesaid, and extending thence north-westward and in a direct line for a distance of forty-six chains or thereabouts to a boundary stone inscribed ‘B. W. St. P. C. C. 1877 No. 2' and placed on the south-eastern side of the Hurst Green and Lewes turnpike road aforesaid at a point opposite to the middle of the southern end of Halton-lane and extending thence for a distance of forty-three chains or thereabouts first north-westward to and along the middle of Halton-lane aforesaid and then north-eastward along the middle of the same lane to a point opposite to a boundary stone inscribed 'B. W. St. P. C. C. 1877 No. 3' and placed upon the north-western side of the same lane due west of the house called or known as Woodlands and extending thence (that is, from the last-mentioned point in the middle of the same lane) north-westward and in a direct line to the last-mentioned boundary stone, and extending thence in a direction due north-west and in a straight line for a distance of twenty-six and a quarter chains or thereabouts (thereby crossing Alder Wood and Pasture Wood) to a point in the middle of the stream called or known as Furnace Gill and flowing from Burwash Common through Bough Wood into the river Rother aforesaid, and extending thence generally north-eastward for a distance of one mile and thirty-five chains or thereabouts, along the middle of the last-described stream to a point at the junction of such stream with the river Rother aforesaid upon the boundary which divides the said parish of Burwash from the new parish of Saint Peter Stonegate otherwise Ticehurst in the county and diocese aforesaid and extending thence generally north-westward along the last-mentioned boundary thereby following in part the course of the said river Rother to the point a Little to the south of the junction of the same river with the stream called or known as the Tidebrook Stream, and flowing from Markcross through Tidebrook, where the said last-mentioned boundary joins the boundary dividing the said parish of Burwash from the consolidated chapelry or new parish of Tidebrook as aforesaid and extending thence generally westward along the last-mentioned boundary thereby following for the most part the course of the said river Rother to the first-described point where the same river is joined by the stream called or known as Pound Bridge Stream and flowing from Coggingsmill-street as aforesaid and where the said last-mentioned boundary joins the boundary dividing the said parish of Burwash from the parish of Mayfield aforesaid at which point the said imaginary line commenced."

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.

G. L Peel

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

All Saints, St Bartholomew, St Dunstan, St Philip.

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