Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Crawley Down, All Saints - Approval of District Chapelry.

Date:

4 Nov 1862.

Body:

AT the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 1st day of November, 1862.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of the Act of the fifty-ninth year of His Majesty King George the Third, chapter one hundred and thirty-four ; of the Act of the second and third years of Her Majesty, chapter forty-nine ; and of the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her Majesty, chapter fifty-five ; duly prepared and laid before Her Majesty in Council a representation, hearing date the seventh day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the words and figures following ; that is to say :

"We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of the Act of the fifty-ninth year of His Majesty King George the Third, chapter one hundred and thirty-four; of the Act of the second and third years of your Majesty, chapter forty-nine ; and of the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of your Majesty, chapter fifty-five; have prepared, and now humbly lay before your Majesty in Council, the following representation as to the assignment of a district chapelry to the consecrated church of All Saints, situate at Crawley Down, in the parish of Worth, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester.

"Whereas it appears to us to be expedient that a district chapelry should be assigned to the said church of All Saints, situate at Crawley Down aforesaid.

"Now, therefore, with the consent of the Right Reverend Ashhurst Turner, Bishop of Chichester, testified by his having signed and sealed this representation, we humbly represent that it would, in our opinion, be expedient that all that part of the said parish of Worth, described in the schedule hereunto annexed, all which part, together with the boundaries thereof, is delineated and set forth on the map or plan hereunto also annexed, should be assigned to the said church, and that the same should be named 'The District Chapelry of All Saints, Crawley Down.'

"And, with the like consent of the said Ashhurst Turner, Bishop of Chichester, testified as aforesaid, we further represent that it appears to us to be expedient that banns of matrimony should be published, and that marriages, baptisms, churchings, and burials, should be solemnized or performed at such church, and that the fees to be received in respect thereof should be paid and belong to the minister of the same church for the time being.

"We therefore humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to take the premises into your Royal consideration, and to make such order with respect thereto as to your Majesty in your Royal wisdom shall seem meet."

The SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Representation has reference.

"The District Chapelry of All Saints, Crawley Down, being :—

"All that part of the parish of Worth, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, which is situate to the east and north-east of an imaginary line commencing upon the boundary which divides such parish from the parish of Burstow, in the county of Surrey, and in the diocese of Winchester, at a point in the middle of Rushmore-lane, and opposite to a boundary stone inscribed 'C.D. A.S. D.C. 1862, No. 1.' and placed on the eastern side of such lane ; and extending thence first south-eastward, and then south-westward, and then southward along the middle of the same lane (passing Pot Common and the eastern side of Crabbett Park), as far as a point opposite to a boundary stone inscribed C.D. A.S. D.C. 1862, No. 2.' and placed on the eastern side of the said lane at the middle of the northern extremity of the fence which divides the close numbered 609, upon the Tithe Commutation Map of the said parish of Worth, and upon the Map hereunto annexed, from the lose numbered 590, upon the same Maps; and extending thence first south-eastward to the said Boundary stone, and then southward along the middle of the said fence, and along the middle of the fences which divide the close numbered 609, as aforesaid, and the closes numbered respectively 307, 606, and 604, upon the said Maps, from the closes numbered respectively 592, 593, 598, 599, and 599a, upon the same Maps, to a boundary stone inscribed ‘C.D. A.S. D.C. 1862, No. 3,' and placed on the northern side of the road which leads from Crawley to Turners Hill, at a point opposite to the middle of the southern extremity of the fence which divides the said close numbered 604, from the close numbered 599A as aforesaid, and near to and on the eastern side of Hay Heath ; and extending thence first south-eastward along the middle of the last described road (crossing the line of the East Grin-stead Branch of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway), as far as a point where the road leading from Worth Church and the road leading from Standing Hall Farm, join the said road leading from Crawley to Turners Hill; and continuing thence first eastward and then south-eastward along the road last referred to (passing the southern side of Telley's Farm), as far as a point opposite to a boundary stone inscribed 'C.D. A.S. D.C. 1862, No. 4,' and placed on the southern side of such road at the middle of the north-western extremity of the fence, which divides the close numbered 999, upon the said Maps, from the close numbered 991, upon the same Maps; and extending thence still south-eastward to the last mentioned boundary stone; and continuing thence in the same direction along the middle of the last described fence, and along the middle of the fences which divide the close numbered 999, as aforesaid, and the closes numbered respectively 998 and 997, upon the said Maps, from the closes numbered respectively 992 and 996, upon the same Maps, to a boundary stone inscribed 'C.D. A.S. D.C. 1862, No. 5,' and placed upon the boundary which divides the said parish of Worth from the parish of West Hoathly, in the said county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester aforesaid."

Her Majesty, having taken the said representation, together with the map or plan thereunto annexed, into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve thereof; and to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the proposed assignment of a district chapelry to the consecrated church of All Saints, situate at Crawley Down, in the parish of Worth, in the county of Sussex, to be called "The District Chapelry of All Saints, Crawley Down." be accordingly made; and that the recommendations of the said Commissioners, with reference to the publication of banns, and the solemnization of marriages, baptisms, churchings, and burials, in the said church, and with reference to the fees to be paid in respect of those offices, be carried into effect agreeably to the provisions of the said Acts; and Her Majesty is further pleased to direct that this Order be forthwith registered by the Registrar of the diocese of Chichester.

Arthur Helps

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

All Saints.

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