43 Geo. III, cap. 108.
Conveniences.—Permits conveyance of site to any Body Political or Corporate.
—Contains no clause avoiding the conveyance if Service is discontinued for a time.
Inconveniences.—Requires the concurrence of Ordinary.
—Will be avoided (unless made for valuable consideration) if grantor dies within three months.
—Must be strictly for a Church or Chapel.
—Must be enrolled within six months.
—No provision for grant by a person under disability, e.g., tenant for life.
Place of Worship Sites’ Act.
36 & 37 Vict., cap. 50.
Conveniences.—Enables tenant for life to convey.
—Does not require consent of Ordinary.
—Deed will not be avoided by death of grantor within twelve months after execution of it.
Inconveniences.—Contains no power of conveyance to a Body Corporate except permission given to make Ecclesiastical Commissioners trustees of the site.
—Contains clauses involving the loss of the property, (a) if the land be used for any other purpose than that of a site for a place of worship; (b) if Service be discontinued in the place of worship for one year.
—May give difficulty as to consecration, if the Mission Room becomes a Church, owing to possible reversion to profane uses on the temporary discontinuance of Services.
School Sites’ Act.
4 & 5 Vict., cap 38; 7 & 8 Vict., cap. 37.
Conveniences.—Enable tenants for life to convey.
—Permit conveyance to Bodies Corporate making Minister and Churchwardens a corporation with perpetual succession for the purposes of these Acts.
Inconveniences.—Contain clauses involving the loss of the property if used for other purposes than those of education.
—Require enrolment of deeds.
Churchwardens’ Manual
notices of the first edition.
“Churchwardens will find in the Churchwardens’ Manual some useful brief notes put together by the Bishop of Guildford relative to their duties, powers, rights and privileges.”—Guardian, April 9th.
“The Bishop of Guildford has just published a very useful little handbook for the use and guidance of Church wardens . . . The book is a most helpful one with regard to Church matters.”—Hampshire Chronicle.
“The Bishop of Guildford’s Churchwardens’ Manual meets a real want, in that it provides in small compass . . . a handy pocket book containing the many matters legal and ecclesiastical, which concern the Churchwarden’s office . . . No one ought to assume it without being armed with such a work as this, and an Incumbent cannot do better than present his Churchwardens with this little Manual.”—Church Times.
“It is a Manual which ought to be in the possession of every holder of the important office of Churchwarden, and which other Churchmen also would do well to familiarise themselves with, as a better understanding of the subject would be greatly to the advantage of many parishes; clear, precise, handy and cheap, it is precisely the handbook that was wanted.”—Winchester Observer.
“A thoroughly useful and practical work, and just the one which ought to be in the hands both of Incumbents and Churchwardens.”—Ecclesiastical Chronicle.