Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Copthorne, St John the Evangelist - Creation of a new parish.

Date:

19 Jul 1881.

Body:

AT the Court at Windsor, the 15th day of July, 1881.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of the Act of the third and fourth years of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and thirteen, of the Act of the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty, chapter thirty-seven, of the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and four, and of the Act of the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth years of Her Majesty chapter fourteen, duly prepared and laid before Her Majesty in Council a scheme, bearing date the seventh day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, in the words and figures following, that is to say ;

"We the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England in pursuance of the Act of the third and fourth years of your Majesty chapter one hundred and thirteen, of the Act of the sixth and seventh years of your Majesty chapter thirty-seven of the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of your Majesty chapter one hundred and four and of the Act of the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth years of your Majesty chapter fourteen have prepared and now humbly lay before your Majesty in Council the following scheme for constituting a separate district for spiritual purposes to be taken partly out of the new parish of All Saints Crawley Down and partly out of the parish of Worth both in the county of Sussex and in the diocese of Chichester and partly out of the parish of Burstow and partly out of the parish of Horne, both which last named parishes are in the county of Surrey and in the diocese of Rochester.

"Whereas it has been made to appear to us that it would promote the interests of religion that the particular portions of the said new parish of All Saints Crawley Down, of the said parish of Worth, of the said parish of Burstow, and of the said parish of Horne which are hereinafter mentioned and described should be constituted a separate district in manner hereinafter recommended and proposed.

"And whereas there is not at present within the limits of the said proposed district any consecrated church or chapel in use for the purpose of Divine worship.

"And whereas a sum of two thousand five hundred pounds four pounds per centum debenture stock of the Highland Railway Company has been transferred into our name in the books of the same Company by Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson of Rowfant in the said county of Sussex Baronet acting on behalf of his wife Dame June Walter Lampson to be held in trust by us as and for a permanent endowment for the minister for the time being of the said proposed district and so soon as the said district shall have become a new parish under the provisions of the hereinbefore secondly mentioned Act then for the incumbent of the said new parish the amount of the annual interest and dividends to accrue due on account of the said sum of stock to be receivable by the said minister or incumbent for the time being when he shall have been duly licensed according to the provisions of the said thirdly mentioned Act.

"And whereas the said sum of two thousand five hundred pounds four pounds per centum debenture stock of the Highland Railway Company aforesaid has been so provided as aforesaid upon the understanding that we the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England should out of our common fund created by the firstly hereinbefore mentioned Act pay to the minister or incumbent for the time being of the said proposed district or (as the case may be) new parish when duly licensed as aforesaid a grant of fifty pounds per annum and upon the further understanding and condition that (such arrangement appearing to us to be expedient) we should recommend and propose to your Majesty in Council that the whole right of patronage of the said proposed district or (as the case may be) new parish and of the nomination of the minister or incumbent thereto should be assigned to the said Dame Jane Walter Lampson, wife of Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson aforesaid and to her heirs and assigns.

"And whereas the said annual grant of fifty pounds will be made and secured by an Instrument to be executed by us under our common seal in accordance with the provisions of the Act of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of your Majesty chapter one hundred and eleven.

"Now therefore with the consent of the Right Reverend Richard Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester and with the consent of the Right Reverend Anthony Wilson Bishop of the said diocese of Rochester (in testimony whereof they have signed this scheme and sealed the same with their respective episcopal seals) we the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners humbly recommend and propose that all those portions of the said new parish of All Saints Crawley Down, of the said parish of Worth of the said parish of Burstow and of the said parish of Horne, 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, shall upon and from the day of the date of the publication in the London Gazette of any Order of your Majesty in Council ratifying this scheme become and be constituted a separate district for spiritual purposes and that the same shall be named 'The District of Saint John the Evangelist Copthorne' and that such district shall be included in and shall form part of the Lewes Rural Deanery. No. 3, of the Archdeaconry of Lewes, and of the diocese of Chichester aforesaid.

"And we further recommend and propose that the whole right of patronage of the said proposed district and when the said district shall have become a new parish as aforesaid then of the said new parish and of the nomination of the minister or incumbent thereto shall without any assurance in the law other than this scheme and any duly Gazetted Order of your Majesty in Council ratifying the same and upon and from the day of the date of the publication of such Order in the London Gazette as aforesaid be assigned to and become absolutely vested in and shall and may from time to time be exercised by the said Dame Jane Walter Lampoon wife of Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson aforesaid and by her heirs and assigns for ever.

"And we further recommend and propose that nothing herein contained shall prevent us from recommending and proposing any other measures relating to the matters aforesaid or to any of them in accordance with the provisions of the said Acts or of either of them or of any other Act of Parliament.

"The SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Scheme has reference.

"The District of Saint John the Evangelist Copthorne, being:—

"All these several contiguous portions of the new parish, of All Saints Crawley Down and of the parish of Worth both in the county of Sussex and in the diocese of Chichester and of the parish of Burstow and of the parish of Horne both in the county of Surrey and in the diocese of Rochester which said portions of such new parish and of such parishes are comprised within and are bounded by an imaginary line commencing upon the county boundary which divides the said parish of Horne from the new parish of All Saints Crawley Down aforesaid at u point in the middle of the London and Brighton turnpike road at its junction with the road leading to the house called or known as Effingham and extending thence southward along the middle of the said turnpike road for a distance of thirty-eight chains or thereabouts to a point opposite to a boundary-stone inscribed 'C. D. St. J. 1881. No. 1' and placed on the western side of the said turnpike road immediately opposite to the middle of the western end of the roadway leading to Sheperd's Farm and extending thence that is from the middle of the said turnpike road due westward to the said boundary-stone and continuing thence due westward and in a direct line for a distance of thirty-nine chains or thereabouts (thereby crossing Westlands Wood, the wood called Chart's Plain, and part of Bashford's Wood), to a boundary-stone inscribed 'C. D. St. J. 1881 No.2' and placed on the eastern side of the public road or way which leads from Copthorne Common through Bashford's Wood aforesaid and past the Rowfant Farm and Rowfant into Wallage-lane and extending thence that is from the last-described boundary-stone first westward to and then southward along the middle of the last-described road or way for a distance of one mile and four chains or thereabouts to its junction with Wallage-lane aforesaid at a point distant about two and a quarter chains to the east of the bridge which carries the same lane over the stream which flows from the wood called or known as the Gill into the fish ponds in Rowfant Park at or near to which said point of junction a boundary-stone inscribed 'C. D. St. J. 1881 No. 3' has been placed and extending thence first westward and then south-westward along the middle of the said Wallage-lane for a distance of forty-three and a half chains or thereabouts (thereby crossing the line of the East Grin stead and Tunbridge Wells Branch of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway at Rowfant Station) to the point at Compasses Corner where the said Wallage-lane joins the road leading from Turner's Hill past Hayheath to Three Bridges such point being upon the boundary which divides the said new parish of All Saints Crawley Down from the parish of Worth aforesaid and extending thence first westward and then north-westward and then northward along the last-mentioned boundary for a distance of one mile and thirty-six and a half chains or thereabouts thereby following in one part the course of the last-described road and in another part the course of the road leading from the said last-described road to Pot Common to a point at the southern end of the said common and extending thence that is from the said last-mentioned boundary north-westward to and along the fence forming the western boundary of the same common for a distance of ten-and-a-half chains or thereabouts to its junction with the fence forming the western boundary of a certain enclosure with a cottage thereon and situate on the western side of the said common and continuing thence still north-westward along the last-described fence for a distance of three-and-a-half chains or thereabouts to its northern end where it rejoins the fence forming the western boundary of the common aforesaid and continuing thence still north-westward along the last-mentioned fence for a distance of two chains, or thereabouts to a boundary-stone inscribed ‘C. D. St. J. 1881 No. 4' and placed at the northern end of the same fence on the southern side of the turnpike-road leading from East Grinstead to Three Bridges and extending thence first northward to and then south-westward along the middle of the last-described turnpike-raid for a distance of twenty-six -and-a-half chains or thereabouts to the bridge which carries the same turnpike-road over the stream flowing from Crabbet Park along the western side of Heathyground Wood and along the eastern side of the house and grounds called or known as Courtland towards Burstow and extending thence generally northward along the middle of the said stream for a distance of one mile and fifty-two chains or thereabouts thereby passing through Heathyground Pond and crossing the county boundary which divides the said parish of Worth from the parish of Burstow aforesaid to a point at the centre of Shipley Bridge which carries Antland-lane over the same stream and extending thence north-eastward along the middle of the last-named lane for a distance of seventy-five and a half chains or thereabouts to its junction at Keepers Corner with Redehall-road and with the road leading past Laurel Cottage and Copthorne Farm into the London and Brighton turnpike-road aforesaid and extending thence that is from Keepers Corner aforesaid south-eastward along the middle of the last-described road for a distance of one mile and four chains or thereabouts (thereby crossing the boundary which divides the said parish of Burstow from the parish of Horne aforesaid) to the junction of the same road with the London and Brighton turnpike-road aforesaid and extending thence south-westward along the middle of the said turnpike-road for a distance of thirty-four chains or thereabouts to the first-described point on the county boundary which divides the said parish of Horne from the new parish of All Saints Crawley Down aforesaid at which point the said imaginary line commenced."

And whereas drafts of the said scheme have, in accordance with the provisions of the secondly hereinbefore mentioned Act, been transmitted to the patrons and to the incumbents of the several cures out of which it is intended that the district recommended in such scheme to be constituted shall be taken, and such patrons and incumbents have respectively signified their assent to such scheme:

And whereas the said scheme 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 scheme, 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 and by the Registrar of the said diocese of Rochester.

Edmund Harrison.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

All Saints, St John the Evangelist, St Nicholas.

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