Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Selsey, St Peter - Substitution of old church for new.

Date:

11 Mar 1904.

Body:

INSTRUMENT substituting the New Church of Saint Peter, situate within the parish of Selsey, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, for the Old Church of Saint Peter, situate within and formerly having been the parish church of the same parish, but now pulled down with the exception of the chancel.

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

WHEREAS a new church has been built within the parish of Selsey, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, and has been consecrated and dedicated to Saint Peter. And whereas the Right Reverend Ernest Roland Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester as diocesan and as patron in right of his See of the rectory and vicarage of the said parish of Selsey, and the Reverend John Cavis-Brown as Incumbent of the said rectory and vicarage, have by an Instrument under their hands bearing date on or about the fourth day of February, in the year one thousand nine hundred and four, certified to us the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England that it would be for the convenience of the said parish of Selsey that the said new church of Saint Peter, situate within such parish, should be substituted for the old parish church (also dedicated to Saint Peter of the same 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 late Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter seventy, and in the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her said late 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 Ernest Roland Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester, and of the said John Cavis-Brown, hereby declare that the said new church of Saint Peter, situate within the said parish of Selsey and duly consecrated as aforesaid, shall be and the same is hereby substituted for the said old parish church (dedicated to Saint Peter as aforesaid) of the same parish, and that such new church shall henceforth be the parish church of the said parish of Selsey, in lieu of the said old parish church of Saint Peter, as fully in all respects as if the said new church of Saint Peter so hereby substituted, had been originally the parish church of the same 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 Saint Peter as aforesaid of the said parish of Selsey, or of or belonging to the Incumbent thereof, to the said new church of Saint Peter (now being by virtue of these presents the parish church of the said parish of Selsey), and to the 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 Ernest Roland, Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester, has set his hand and affixed his episcopal seal, and the said John Cavis-Brown has set his band and affixed his seal this twenty-fifth day of February, in the year one thousand nine hundred and four.

Ecclesiastical Commissioners. (L.S.)

Ernest E. Cicestr. (L.S.)

John Cavis-Brown. (L.S.)

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Peter, St Wilfrid, Church Norton.

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