Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Notice of intent to unify the Benefices of South Heighton with Tarring Neville and Denton.

Date:

2 Nov 1928.

Body:

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 1st day of November, 1928.

PRESENT.

The KING'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of the Union of Benefices Measure, 1923, duly prepared, and laid before His Majesty in Council, a Scheme bearing date the 26th day of July, 1928, in the words and figures following, that is to say:—

"We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, acting in pursuance of the Union of Benefices Measure, 1923, have prepared, and now humbly lay before Your Majesty in Council, the following Scheme for effecting the union of the Benefice (being an United Benefice) of South Heighten with Tarring Neville, and the Benefice (being a Rectory) of Denton, both of which Benefices are situate in the County of Sussex and in the Diocese of Chichester:

"Whereas Commissioners appointed at our request by the Right Reverend Winfrid Oldfield, Bishop of Chichester, pursuant to the provisions of the said Union of Benefices Measure, 1923, to inquire into and report upon the union of the said two Benefices of South Heighten with Tarring Neville, and Denton, duly made their Report to the said Bishop of Chichester and therein, recommended the union of the said two Benefices and the terms for effecting the union (including an alteration of boundaries affecting the Parish of the Benefice of Newhaven, in the said County of Sussex and in the said Diocese of Chichester) and the said Bishop of Chichester signified in writing his approval of the said Report:

"And whereas we, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, have prepared this Scheme for the union of the said two Benefices based upon the terms recommended in the said Report:

"And whereas both of the said Benefices of South Heighton with Tarring Neville and Denton are now full, the Reverend Maurice Mason Knowles being the present Incumbent of the said Benefice of South Heighton with Tarring Neville and the Reverend William Kimpston being the present Incumbent of the said Benefice of Denton:

"Now, therefore, we, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, with the consent of the said Winfrid Oldfield, Bishop of Chichester (in testimony whereof he has signed this Scheme), do humbly recommend and propose to Your Majesty as follows, that is to say: —

"1. That the said Benefice of "South Heighten with Tarring Neville and the said Benefice of Denton shall be permanently united together and form one Benefice with Cure of Souls under the style of 'The United Benefice of Denton with South Heighton and Tarring Neville' but the Parishes of the said Benefices shall continue distinct in all respects.

"2. That if upon the day when any Order of Your Majesty in Council ratifying this Scheme shall be published in the London Gazette both of the said two Benefices shall be vacant, the union of the same two Benefices shall take effect forthwith; and if the said Benefice of Denton only shall be then vacant the said union shall also take effect forthwith if the Incumbent of the other of the said two Benefices shall consent to become the first Incumbent of the United Benefice, but if he shall not so consent, then the said union shall take effect upon the then next avoidance of the said Benefice of South Heighten with Tarring Neville and the then Incumbent of Denton shall be the first Incumbent of the United Benefice; and if the said Benefice of South Heighton with Tarring Neville only shall be then vacant the said union shall take effect upon the next avoidance of the said Benefice of Denton; and if neither of the said two Benefices be then vacant, then the said union shall take effect on the next avoidance of the said Benefice of Denton if the Incumbent at that time of the said Benefice of South Heighton with Tarring Neville shall have been instituted to South Heighton with Tarring Neville subsequently to the date of the publication in the London Gazette of any Order of Your Majesty in Council ratifying this Scheme or if instituted before that date shall consent to become the Incumbent of the United Benefice; but if he shall have been instituted to South Heighton with Tarring Neville before that date and shall not so consent, then the said union shall take effect immediately upon the next vacancy of the said Benefice of South Heighton with Tarring Neville following such avoidance of the said Benefice of Denton and the then Incumbent of Denton shall become the first Incumbent of the United Benefice.

"3. That upon the said union taking effect the Parsonage House at present belonging to the said Benefice of South Heighton with Tarring Neville shall become and be the house of residence for the Incumbent of the United Benefice.

"4. That after the said union has taken effect the course and succession in which the respective Patrons shall present or nominate to the United Benefice from time to time as the same shall become vacant shall be as follows, that is to say, the right of presentation shall be exercised by the Patrons of the said two Benefices alternately, the Patrons of the said Benefice of Denton having the right upon the first presentation to the United Benefice to be made after the union and every alternate right of presentation and the Patron of the said Benefice of South Heighton with Tarring Neville having the right of presentation upon the second presentation to the United Benefice to be made after the union and every alternate turn thereafter.

"5. That with the consents of John Francis William Deacon, of No. 20, Birchin-lane, in the City of London, Banker, the Reverend Ernest Newton Sharpe, of The Vicarage, Paddington, in the County of Middlesex, Clerk in Holy Orders and a Prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in London; the Very Reverend Henry Lawe Corry Vully de Candole, Dean of Bristol, the Reverend Douglas Harry Grose Sargent, of No. 27, Chancery Lane, in the County of London, Clerk in Holy Orders, and John Malcolm Falconer, of Calverley House, near Leeds, Esquire, as the present Patrons of the said Benefice of Newhaven (testified by their signing this Scheme) and with the consent of the Reverend Samuel Froggatt as the present Incumbent of the said Benefice of Newhaven, upon the union taking effect, a portion of the Parish of the said Benefice of Denton, that is to say so much of the said Parish of Denton as is comprised within the Civil Parish of Denton Urban, shall be severed from the said Parish of Denton and shall become and be annexed for all ecclesiastical1 purposes to the said Parish of Newhaven.

"6. That upon the union (and the transfer of territory referred to in clause 5 of this Scheme) taking effect a portion of the endowments or property of the United Benefice, that is to say (a) a sum of £l,028 13s. London, Midland and Scottish Railway £5 per cent. Redeemable Preference Stock (1955) at present held by the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty for the benefit of the said Benefice of Denton and (b) a portion amounting to £18 11s. 6d. per annum of the annual stipend at present payable by us, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, to the Incumbent for the time being of the said Benefice of Denton shall be severed or diverted from the United Benefice and shall be appropriated for the augmentation of the said Benefice of Newhaven.

"Provided always that nothing herein contained shall prevent us from recommending and proposing any other measures relating to the matters aforesaid, or any of them, in accordance with the provisions of the said Measure, or of any other Measure of the National Assembly of the Church of England, or of any Act of Parliament."

And whereas drafts of the said Scheme have been duly published in accordance with the provisions of the said Union of Benefices Measure, 1923, and Notices have been transmitted to the persons or bodies entitled under the same Measure to receive Notice requiring any objections to such draft Scheme to be stated or transmitted in writing to the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners within the time prescribed in the Statutory Rules applicable to proceedings under the said Union of Benefices Measure, 1923:

And whereas certain objections have been so stated or transmitted to the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners within the time prescribed in the same Rules:

And whereas the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners after giving full consideration to such objections have deemed right to make no alterations in such draft Scheme:

And whereas public notice of the certification to His Majesty in Council of the said Scheme and the consent thereto in writing of the Bishop of Chichester has been duly given in the manner and within the time prescribed in the Statutory Rules aforesaid:

And whereas no appeal has been proceeded with to His Majesty in Council in accordance with the provisions of the said Measure against the said Scheme or any part thereof by any person who has made objection as aforesaid to the said draft Scheme:

And whereas the said Scheme has been approved by His Majesty in Council:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His said Council, is pleased hereby to affirm the said Scheme and to order that the Benefices therein recommended to be united shall be united to the extent and for the purposes recommended in the said Scheme, and further to order and direct that the said Scheme and every part thereof shall be effectual in law immediately from and after the date when this Order shall have been duly published in the London Gazette pursuant to the said Measure.

And His 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.

M. P. A. Hankey.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Leonard, St Mary.

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