Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Hadlow Down, St Mark - Consolidation of chapelry.

Date:

11 Aug 1837.

Body:

The Church Commissioners-Office, August 4, 1837.

THE following is a copy of an Order of Her Majesty in Council, for the assignment of a consolidated chapelry district to Saint Mark's Chapel, Hadlow Down, taken from the respective parishes of Mayfield and Buxted, in the county of Sussex, under the provisions of the 6th section of the 59th of George the Third, cap. 134 ;

At the Court at Saint James's, the 21st day of June 1837, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fifty-eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act for building, and promoting the building of additional churches in populous parishes," it is, amongst other things, enacted, "that in every case in which the Commissioners appointed for carrying into execution the purposes of the said Act, shall be of opinion that it will be expedient to divide any parish into two or more distinct and separate parishes, for all ecclesiastical purposes whatever, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, with the consent of the Bishop of the diocese in which such parish is locally situated, signified under his hand and seal, to apply to the patron or patrons of the church of such parish for his consent to make such division, and for such patron or patrons to signify his or their consent thereto, under his hand and seal ; and the said Commissioners shall, upon the consent of the said patron or patrons so signified, represent the whole matter to His Majesty in Council, and shall state in such representation the bounds by which it is proposed, with such consent as aforesaid, to divide such parish, together with the relative and respective proportions of glebe land, tithes, moduses, or other emoluments, which will by such division arise and accrue, and remain and be within each of such respective divisions, and also of the relative proportions of the estimated amount of the value or produce of fees, oblations, offerings, or other ecclesiastical dues or profits which may arise and accrue within each of such respective divisions; and if, thereupon, His Majesty in Council shall think fit to direct such division to be made, such Order of His Majesty in Council shall be valid and good in law for the purpose of effecting such division; provided always, that no such division of any parish into distinct parishes shall completely take effect until after the death, resignation, or other avoidance of the existing incumbent of the parish to be divided;" and it is thereby further enacted, "that in any case in which the said Commissioners shall be of opinion that it is not expedient to divide any populous parish or extra parochial place into such complete, separate, and distinct parishes as aforesaid, but that it is expedient to divide the same into such ecclesiastical districts as they, with the consent of the Bishop, signified under, his hand and seal, may deem necessary, for the purpose of affording accommodation for the attending divine service, according to the rites of the United Church of England and Ireland, to persons residing therein, in the churches and parochial chapels already built, or in additional churches or chapels to be built therein, and as may appear to such Commissioners to be convenient for the enabling the spiritual person or persons who may serve such churches or chapels to perform all ecclesiastical duties within the districts attached to such respective churches and chapels, and for the due ecclesiastical superintendence of such districts, and the preservation and improvement of the religious and moral habits of the persons residing therein, the said Commissioners shall represent such opinion to His Majesty in Council, and shall state in such representation the bounds by which such districts are proposed to be described; and if, thereupon, His Majesty in Council shall think fit to direct such division to be made, such Order of His Majesty in Council shall be valid and good in law for the purpose of effecting such division;” and whereas by an Act, passed in the 39th year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, for building, and promoting the building, of additional churches in populous parishes," after reciting, "that a considerable population is frequently collected together at the extremities of, and locally situate in, parishes, or extra parochial places contiguous to each other, at a distance from the respective churches or chapels of such respective parishes, or extra parochial places, it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, with such consent as is required by the said herein before recited Act, in the case of district parishes to unite and consolidate any such contiguous parts of such parishes, and extra parochial places, into a separate and distinct district for all ecclesiastical purposes, and to cause such district to be named, ascertained, and marked out by described bounds, and such name and the description of such bounds, when approved by His Majesty in Council, to be enrolled in the High Court of Chancery, and in the office of the Registry of tae diocese to which such district shall belong, under the provisions of the said Act ; and to make grants or loans for or towards the building of, or to build, any chapel or chapels, with or without cemetrics, in and for the use of the inhabitants of any such district, in such manner, and under such regulations as may, in the judgement of the Commissioners, appear from the circumstances to be most expedient, and to constitute any such district or consolidated chapelry; and every such chapelry shall be under the superintendance of such spiritual person as shall be appointed, under the provisions of the said Act now in recital, to serve any such chapel; and such spiritual person shall have the cure of souls in such district, and the right of presentation and appointment of such spiritual person shall thenceforth belong to such person or persons, and be exercised in such manner as may be agreed by the several patrons of the churches or chapels of such parishes and extra parochial places respectively, with the approbation of the Commissioners ; and banns of marriage maybe published, and that marriages, christenings, churchings, and burials may be solemnized and performed in any such chapel, immediately and at all times after the consecration thereof; and the pew rents in such chapel shall be fixed, and salaries to the minister and clerk assigned therefrom, in such manner as is directed in the said hereinbefore recited Act, or in the said Act now in recital, concerning pew rents and salaries in separate or district parishes ; and that all fees and offerings which may arise and accrue within such chapelry, according to such table of fees as the Commissioners shall make, with the approbation of the Bishop, may be demanded, received, sued for, prosecuted, and recovered by the spiritual person having cure of souls therein, and by the clerk and sexton of such chapelries, in like manner as if every such chapelry was a distinct parish; and that it shall be lawful for such said Commissioners, and they are by the the Act now in recital required in every said case, to ascertain and make compensation, in manner directed in like cases under the said recited Act, for any loss which may be sustained by the incumbent of any contiguous parish, or extra parochial place, which shall form any part of such district, by reason of any fees, oblations, and offerings being transferred to the spiritual person serving any such chapel ; and that all such chapelries shall be deemed to be benefices, and be subject to the jurisdiction of the Bishop and Archdeacon within whose diocese and archdeaconry the altar of such chapel shall be locally situate, and to all the laws in force concerning presentation and appointment to benefices and churches and lapse, and all other laws relating to the holding of benefices and churches:"

And it is, by the said Act now in recital, amongst other things, further enacted "that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, in the same manner and with the like consents as are required in case of division into ecclesiastical districts under the said herein-before recited Act, or the said Act now in recital, to assign a particular district to any chapel of ease1 or parochial chapel already existing, or to any chapel built, or which might thereafter be built, or required under the powers of the said former Act, or the said Act now in recital; and such district shall be under the immediate care of the Curate appointed to serve such chapel, but subject, nevertheless, to the superintendence and controul of the incumbent of the parish church ; and that all such Curates shall be nominated by the incumbent of the parish to the Bishop for his licence, except where the right of nomination shall already be legally vested in any other person or persons, and in every such case by the person or persons possessing such right of nomination, subject to all the laws in force relating to Stipendiary Curates, except as to the assigning, of salaries to such Curates; provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, with, the consent of the Bishop of the diocese, to determine whether any and what part or proportion of the fees or dues for marriages, baptisms, churchings, and burials shall be assigned to any such Curate; and whether banns of marriage shall be published, and marriages or baptisms, churchings or burials, shall be solemnized or performed in any such chapel or not; and in any case in which marriages shall be allowed in any such chapel, the Commissioners shall cause the boundaries of the district assigned to such chapel to be enrolled in the High Court of Chancery, and in the office of the Registry of the diocese, any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding; and no such chapelry shall become a benefice by reason of any augmentation of the maintenance of the Curate, by any grant or bounty under the provisions of any Act or Acts of Parliament, or law or laws for augmenting small livings, any thing in such Act or Acts of Parliament, or law or laws, to the contrary notwithstanding;" and whereas by another Act, passed in the 7th and 8th years of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act to amend the Acts for building, and promoting the building, of additional churches in populous parishes;" and by another Act, made and passed in the 1st and 2d year of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, An intituled Act to amend and render more effectual an Act, passed in the 7th and 8th years of His late Majesty, intituled “An Act to amend the Acts for building, and promoting the building, of additional churches in populous parishes;" and also by another Act, made an passed in the 2d and 3d years of His said late Majesty, intituled "An Act to render more effectual an Act, passed in the 59th year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, for building, and promoting the building, of additional churches in populous parishes," further provisions are made for carrying such divisions into effect;

And whereas the said Commissioners have made a representation to His late Majesty in Council, stating that when the last census was taken, the parish of Buxted, in the county of Sussex, and diocese of Chichester, contained a population of 1,612 persons, and the adjoining parish of Mayfield, in the same county and diocese, contained a population of 2738 persons; that the parish church of Buxted affords accommodation for 550 persons, and that of Mayfeid for 800 persons; that a new chapel, called Saint Mark's Chapel, has recently been erected on Hadlow Down, in the parish of Buxted, near the extremity of the said parish, where it adjoins to the parish of Mayfield, and which affords accommodation for 436 persons, including 345 free seats, appropriated to the use of the poor; that the said chapel is distant upwards of three miles from the parish church of Buxted, and upwards of three miles from, that of Mayfield, which are the places nearest to the said chapel, appropriated to the celebration of divine service, according to the riles of the Church of England ; that the extremities of the said parishes of Buxted and Mayfield which lie contiguous to each other, at Hadlow Down, and are delineated in the plan accompanying the said representation, and contain a population of 1,010 persons :

And whereas the said Commissioners have further represented to His late Majesty that, having taken into consideration all the circumstances above mentioned, it appears to them to be expedient to unite and consolidate the said contiguous parts of the said parishes of Buxted and Mayfield into a separate and distinct district, to be assigned to the said chapel for all ecclesiastical purposes, and to constitute such district a consolidated chapelry, under the 6th section of the said Act, passed in the 59th year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, for the purpose of affording accommodation for attending divine service to the persons residing in the said district, and for enabling the spiritual person serving such chapel to perform all ecclesiastical duties within the said district, attached to such chapel, and for the due ecclesiastical superintendence of such district, and the preservation and improvement of the moral habits of the persons residing therein, and that such district should be named the Consolidated Chapelry of St. Mark, Hadlow Down, and that the boundaries should be as follows:

The boundary of the district, commencing on the west, at Page's shop, is carried by Fitness's cottage, along the red brook to the point where the red brook and the stream by Howbourne Farm meet; from this point of junction along the stream to Howbourne, from Howbourne along the brook to Little Forge, from Little Forge long the boundary line between Mayfield and Rotherfield to the brook on the Stockyard's Farm that divides Rotherfield from Mayfield ; from this point along the brook to the shed on Woodreed Farm, from this shed along the road to Skipper's-hill into the main road, by the Gate house, turning off to the right, to the new cottages; from this point along the main road to Lewes as far as the parish of Mayfield extends; then along to the boundary between Mayfield and Framfield parishes to Tinker's-gate; from hence, along the stream to Pounsley, then along the boundary between Framfield and Buxted, to near the Hundred-house ; then along the road to Shepherd's-hill, and from Shepherd's-hill along the road to Page’s-shop, as the same is more particularly delineated in the plan annexed to the said representation, and therein coloured blue and red:

That the consents of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, under whose peculiar jurisdiction the said parishes of Buxted and Mayfield are placed, and of the Lord Bishop of Chichester, within whose diocese the same are situate, have been obtained thereto, as required by the above mentioned section of the said Act of the 59th year of His Majesty King George the Third, and, in testimony of such their approbation, the said Archbishop and Bishop have signed and sealed the said representation; and humbly praying, that His late Majesty would be graciously pleased to take the premises into His royal consideration, and to make such order in respect thereto, as to His late Majesty should seem meet;

Her Majesty, having taken the said representation, together with the plan thereunto annexed, into consideration, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the proposed union and consolidation be accordingly made and effected, agreeably to the provisions of the said Acts.

Wm. L. Bathurst.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Dunstan, St Margaret the Queen, St Mark.

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