Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Turners Hill, St Leonard - Approval of District Chapelry.

Date:

10 Mar 1896.

Body:

AT the Court at Windsor, the 6th day of March, 1896.

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-third day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six 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 Leonard Turner's Hill situate in the parish of Worth in the county of Sussex and in the diocese of Chichester.

"Whereas at certain extremities of the said parish of Worth of the parish of Ardingley of the parish of West Hoathly and of the new parish (sometime district chapelry) of All Saints Crawley Down all in the county and diocese aforesaid which said extremities be 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 and of such new parish respectively.

"And whereas it appears to us to be expedient that certain contiguous portions (being the portions containing the population aforesaid) of the said parish of Worth of the said parish of Ardingley of the said parish of West Hoathly and of the said new parish of All Saints Crawley Down should be formed into a consolidated chapelry for all ecclesiastical purposes and that the same should be assigned to the said church of Saint Leonard Turner's Hill situate as aforesaid.

"Now therefore, with the consent of the Right Reverend Ernest Roland Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester as such Bishop, with the consent of the Reverend. George Wilson Banks Clerk in Holy Orders, the rector and patron of the rectory of the said parish of Worth and also as such rector the patron of the vicarage of the said new parish of All Saints Crawley Down, with the consent of the Reverend James Bowden, Clerk in Holy Orders, the rector and patron of the rectory of the said parish of Ardingley and with the consent of the Right Honourable Hardinge Stanley Baron Halsbury, now Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, the patron, on behalf of the Crown, of the vicarage of the parish of West Hoathly aforesaid (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 Worth of the said parish of Ardingley of the said parish of West Hoathly and of the said new parish of All Saints Crawley Down 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 Leonard Turner's Hill situate as aforesaid and that the same should be named “The Consolidated Chapelry of Saint Leonard Turner's Hill.”

"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 Leonard Turner's Hill comprising:—

"All those several contiguous portions of the parish of Worth, of the parish of Ardingley, of the parish of West Hoathly, and of the new parish (sometime district chapelry) of All Saints Crawley Down, all in the county of Sussex and in the diocese of Chichester which are comprised within and are bounded by an imaginary line commencing upon the boundary which divides the parish of East Grinstead in the said county and diocese from the new parish of All Saints Crawley Down aforesaid at the northern outlet from the upper of the two ponds which are situate to the west of Fen Place Mill and extending thence westward and in a straight line across the said upper pond for a distance of ten chains and a half or thereabouts to the point where the stream which flows from Butcher's Wood enters the same pond and extending thence first generally west ward and then southwestward along the middle of the said stream for a distance of one mile and twenty-five chains or thereabouts (thereby passing along the northern side of Home Wood and the south-eastern side of Warren Wood) to the centre of the bridge or culvert distant seven chains or thereabouts to the south of Miswell Farm which bridge or culvert carries the road leading from Crawley Down to Turner's Hill aforesaid over the same stream and extending thence westward and in a straight line for a distance of sixty-nine chains or thereabouts thereby crossing the wood called or known as the Gill to a point in the middle of the road called Major's Hill at its junction with the road leading to Hall Farm upon the boundary which divides the said new parish of All Saints Crawley Down from the parish of Worth aforesaid and extending thence south-eastward along the middle of the last-mentioned road for a distance of twenty-seven chains or thereabouts (thereby following the last-mentioned boundary) to the point opposite to Quarry Cottages where such road is joined by the footpath which leads to the wood called or known as Wakehurst Park and extending thence first southwestward then generally south-eastward and then generally southward along the middle of the last-mentioned footpath for a distance of seventy-three chains or thereabouts (thereby passing between Lodge Wood and Quarry Wood then passing to the north-east of the house called the Grove then crossing the road leading from Cuckfield to Turner's Hill aforesaid and then passing through Grove Farm) to the point near the most westerly corner of Threepoint Wood where the Boundaries of the said parish of Worth of the parish of Ardingley aforesaid and of the parish of West Hoathly aforesaid all meet and extending thence south-westward along the boundary dividing the said parish of Worth from the parish of Ardingley aforesaid for a distance of sixty chains or thereabouts to the point in the wood called or known as Wakehurst Park aforesaid where such boundary is met by the boundary which divides the said parish of Ardingley from the parish of Balcombe in the county and diocese aforesaid and extending thence south-eastward along the last-mentioned boundary for a distance of thirty-five chains or thereabouts to the point where the stream which flows from a pond a little to the north-west of the pheasantry in Wakehurst Park aforesaid into West wood Pond is joined by the stream flowing from Threepoint Wood aforesaid and extending thence north-eastward along the middle of the last-mentioned stream for a distance of four chains or thereabouts to the point where such stream is crossed by the path or roadway which leads from Wakehurst Warren past Newhouse Farm to Sheep-wash Wood and extending thence generally south-eastward along the middle of the last-mentioned path or roadway for a distance of sixty-five chains or thereabouts to the centre of the bridge or culvert in Sheep-wash Wood aforesaid which carries such path or roadway over the stream which flows from the coppice on the southwest of Selsfield House and extending thence generally north-eastward along the middle of the last-mentioned stream for a distance of sixty-one chains or thereabouts (thereby following in part the boundary, which divides the said parish of Ardingley from the parish of West Hoathly aforesaid) to the point where such stream is crossed by the footpath leading from the house called Pearcelands to Selsfield Common and extending thence first northward and then north-eastward along the middle of the last-mentioned footpath for a distance of thirty-six chains or thereabouts to its junction at Selsfield Common aforesaid with the road which leads from Turner's Hill to West Hoathly and extending thence south-eastward along the middle of the last-men tinned road for a distance of twenty-three and a half chains or thereabouts to its junction with Vowel's-lane and extending thence generally north-eastward along the middle of the last-named lane for a distance of one mile and thirty chains or thereabouts to the point opposite to the house called Tickeridge where such lane is crossed by the boundary which divides the said parish of West Hoathly from the parish of East Grinstead aforesaid and extending thence northward along the last-mentioned boundary for a distance of eight chains and a half or thereabouts to the boundary which divides the said parish of East Grinstead from the new parish of All Saints Crawley Down aforesaid and extending thence generally north-westward along the last-mentioned boundary for a distance of sixty chains or thereabouts to the firstly hereinbefore-mentioned point at the northern outlet of the upper of the two ponds west of Fen Place Mill aforesaid where 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.

C. L. Peel.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Leonard.

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