Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Ebernoe, Holy Trinity - Creation of the chapelry.

Date:

14 May 1875.

Body:

AT the Court at Windsor, the 13th day of May, 1875.

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 eighteenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, 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 the Holy Trinity, situate at Ebernoe, in the parish of Kirdford, 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 the Holy Trinity, situate at Ebernoe 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 part of the said parish of Kirdford, which is described in the, schedule hereunder written, all which part, 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 the Holy Trinity, situate at Ebernoe as aforesaid, and that the same should be named 'The District Chapelry of the Holy Trinity, Ebernoe.'

"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 such church, 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 to your Majesty, in your Royal wisdom, shall seem meet.

"The SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Representation has reference.

"The District Chapelry of the Holy Trinity, Ebernoe, being:—

"All that part of the parish of Kirdford, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, which is bounded on the north by the parish of Northchapel, in the said county and diocese, on the west partly by the last-named parish, and partly by a certain detached portion of the parish of Lurgershall, in the said county and diocese, on the south by the parish of Petworth, in the county and diocese aforesaid, and on the remaining side, that is to say, on the east, partly by the last-named parish, and partly by an imaginary line commencing upon the boundary which divides the said last-named parish from the parish of Kirdford aforesaid, at a point in the middle of the stream called or known as Arun Head, about twenty-five yards to the south of Isling Bridge, which carries the road leading from Petworth to Kirdford over the said stream ; and extending thence for a distance of nearly one mile and a quarter, first northward, and then north-westward, along the middle of the same stream, to the point where it is joined by the stream called or known as Round-wick Brook ; and extending thence, northward, for a distance of nearly one mile and three-quarters, along the middle of the last-mentioned stream, to the boundary which divides the said parish of Kirdford from the parish of Northchapel 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:

Holy Trinity, St John the Baptist.

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