Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

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

Date:

30 Dec 1904.

Body:

INSTRUMENT substituting the New Church of Saint Peter, situate within the new parish of Saint Peter, Stonegate, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, for the Old Church of Saint Peter, situate within and hitherto being the Parish Church of the same new parish.

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

WHEBEAS a new church has lately been built within the new parish of Saint Peter, Stonegate, 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, George John Courthope, of Whiligh, in the parish of Ticehurst, in the said county of Sussex, Esquire, as the patron of the vicarage of the said new parish of Saint Peter, Stonegate, and the Reverend Sedborough Mayne Wade, Clerk in Holy Orders, as the Vicar or Incumbent of the said vicarage, have by an Instrument under their hands, bearing date on or about the thirtieth day of November, 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 new parish of Saint Peter, Stonegate, that the said new church of Saint Peter, situate within such new parish, should be substituted for the old parish church (also dedicated to Saint Peter) of the same new 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 consents (testified as hereinafter mentioned) of the said Ernest Roland, Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester, and of the said George John Courthope, and of the said Sedborough Mayne Wade, hereby declare that the said new church of Saint Peter, situate within the said new parish of Saint Peter, Stonegate, 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 new parish, and that such new church shall henceforth be the parish church of the said new parish of Saint Peter, Stonegate, 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 new 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 new parish of Saint Peter, Stonegate, or of or belonging to the Vicar or Incumbent thereof, to the said new church of Saint Peter (now being by virtue of these presents the parish church of the said new parish of Saint Peter, Stonegate), and to the Vicar or 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 George John Courthope and the said Sedborough Mayne Wade have respectively set their hands and affixed their seals this fifteenth day of December, in the year one thousand nine hundred and four.

Ecclesiastical Commissioners. (L.S.)

Ernest R. Cicestr. (L.S.)

George J. Courthope. (L.S.)

S. Mayne Wade. (L.S.)

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Peter.

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