Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Mark Cross, St Mark - Creation of chapelry.

Date:

10 Jul 1874.

Body:

AT the Court at Windsor, the 7th day of July, 1874.

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 eleventh day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the words and figures following; that is to say :

"We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners fir 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 Mark, situate at Mark Cross, in the parish of Rotherfield, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester.

"Whereas at certain extremities of the said parish of Rotherfield, of the parish of Wadhurst, in the said county of Sussex, and in the said diocese of Chichester, and of the consolidated chapelry of Tidebrook, also in the said county of Sussex, and in the said diocese of Chichester, which said extremities lie 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 consolidated chapelry respectively.

"And whereas it appears to us to be expedient that such contiguous portions of the said parish of Rotherfield, of the said parish of Wadhurst, and of the said consolidated chapelry of Tidebrook, should be formed into a consolidated chapelry for all ecclesiastical purposes, and that the same should be assigned to the said church of Saint Mark, situate at Mark Cross as aforesaid.

*Now therefore, with the consent of the Right Reverend Richard, Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester, with the consent of the Right Honorable William, Earl of Abergavenuy, the patron of the rectory of the said parish of Rotherfield, with the consent of the Warden, Fellows, and Scholars of Wadham College, in the University of Oxford, the patrons of the vicarage of the said parish of Wadhurst, with the consent of the Reverend John Foley, the vicar or incumbent of the said vicarage of the parish of Wadhurst, and, as such vicar or incumbent, the alternate patron of the perpetual curacy of the said consolidated chapelry of Tidebrook, and with the consent of the Reverend Henry Thomas Murdoch Kirby, the vicar or incumbent of the parish of Mayfield, in the said county of Sussex, and in the said diocese of Chichester, and, as such vicar or incumbent, the other alternate patron of the said perpetual curacy of the consolidated chapelry of Tidebrook (in testimony whereof the said Richard, Bishop of Chichester, William, Earl of Abergavenny, John Foley, and Henry Thomas Murdoch Kirby have respectively signed and sealed this representation, and the said Warden, Fellows, and Scholars of Wadham College aforesaid have affixed their common or corporate seal to 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 Rotherfield, of the said parish of Wadhurst, and of the said consolidated chapelry of Tidebrook, 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 Mark, situate at Mark Cross as aforesaid, and that the same should be named 'The Consolidated Chapelry of Saint Mark, Mark Cross.’

"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 thereof, 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 Mark, Mark Cross, being:—

All those several contiguous, portions of the parish of Rotherfield, of the parish of Wadhurst, and of the consolidated chapelry of Tidebrook, all in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, wherein the present incumbents of such parishes and of such consolidated chapelry now respectively possess the, exclusive cure of souls, all which said portions of such cures are comprised within and are bounded by an imaginary line commencing upon the boundary which divides the parish, of Frant, situate partly in the said county of Sussex and partly in the county of Kent, and wholly in the diocese of Chichester aforesaid, from the parish of Wadhurst aforesaid, at a point near River hall in the middle of the cross road which leads from Riverhall Bridge on the Frant and Wadhurst turnpike-road into the road leading from Wadhurst through Mark Cross to Rotherfield, and extending thence, that is from the said parish boundary, for a distance of one mile and three-quarters or thereabouts first southwestward and then south-eastward along the middle of the said cross road to its junction at Skinners' farm with the road which leads from Wadhurst through Mark Cross to Rotherfield as aforesaid, and extending thence westward for a distance of one-third of a mile or thereabouts along the middle of the last-described road to its junction with, a certain bridle road which leads past the western side of the buildings and premises called or known as Bassett's farm into the Old Mayfield road, and extending thence first southward, then westward, and then south-westward, for a distance of one mile and one-third or thereabouts, along the, middle of the said bridle road to its junction at, or near to Little Trodgers farm with the Old May field road aforesaid, and extending thence, for a distance of a quarter of a mile or thereabouts, first south-eastward and then southward along the middle of the last-named road to the boundary which divides the said consolidated chapelry of Tidebrook from the parish of Mayfield, in the county of Sussex and diocese of Chichester aforesaid, and extending thence north-westward along the last-described boundary to its junction at the Tunbridge Wells and Mayfield turnpike road with the boundary which divides the said parish of Mayfield from the parish of Rotherfield aforesaid, and extending thence for a distance of half a mile or thereabouts, first southward and then south-westward, along the last-described boundary, thereby following the course of the last-mentioned turnpike road to its junction with Yew Tree Road, and extending thence, that is from the said last-described boundary for a distance of three quarters of a mile or thereabouts, first westward and then north-westward, along the middle of the last-named road to a point opposite to a boundary stone inscribed 'M.C., St.M.C.C., 1873, No. 1,' and placed on the northern side of the same road opposite to the middle of the northern end of the road leading from Rugham Farm, and extending thence, first northward, to such boundary stone and continuing thence, still northward and in a direct line, for a distance of three hundred and ten yards or thereabouts to the point where Grove Wood Brook joins Town Row Brook, thereby passing to the east of the hamlet of Town Row, and crossing the road leading from Town Row to Mark Cross (the point at which the last-described road is crossed), being indicated by a boundary stone inscribed 'M.C., St.M.C.C., 1873, No. 2,' and placed op the northern side of the same road, and extending thence, that is from the point where Grove Wood Brook joins Town Row Brook as aforesaid, westward for a distance of one hundred, and fifty-nine yards or thereabouts along the middle of the last-named brook to the centre of the bridge which carries the road leading from Town Row past Town Row Green and Danegate to Eridge Green over the same brook, and extending thence for a distance of one mile and three quarters or thereabouts, alternately northward and north-westward, along the middle of the last-described road to a point a little to the north-west of Danegate aforesaid upon the boundary which divides the said parish of Rotherfield from the new parish of Eridge Green, in the county of Sussex and diocese of Chichester aforesaid, and extending thence northward along the last-described boundary to its junction at or near to a certain chalybeate spring in Eridge Park with the boundary which divides the said parish of Rotherfield from the parish of Frant aforesaid, and extending thence generally eastward along the last-described boundary and along the boundary which divides the said parish of Wadhurst from the parish of Frant aforesaid to the first-described point near Riverhall, in the middle of the road which leads from Riverhall Bridge, on the Frant and Wadhurst turnpike road into the road leading from Wadhurst through Mark Cross to Rotherfield as 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 hare 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.

Arthur Helps.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Denys, St John the Baptist, St Mark, St Peter & St Paul.

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