Clergy Residence Act 1826
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1826 c. 66 |
| Year | 1826 |
(7 Geo. 4) C A P. LXVI.
[26th May 1826]
'Whereas in and by an Actof Parliament passed in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty KingGeorge the Third, intituled An Act to promote the Residence of the Parochial Clergy, by miking Provision for the more speedy and effectual building, rebuilding, repairing or purchasing Housesand other necessary Buildings and Tenements for the Use of their Benefices , it was enacted, that where new Buildings were necessary to be provided or erected for the Habitation and Residence of the Rector, Vicar or other Incumbent of any Ecclesiastical Living, Parochial Benefice, Chapelry or Perpetual Curacy, pursuant to the Authority thereby given, it should be lawful for the Ordinary, Patron and Incumbent of every such Living or Benefice to contract, or to authorize, if they should think fit, the Person to be nominated under the Provisions of the said Act to contract, for the absolute Purchase of any House or Buildings in a Situation convenient for the Habitation and Residence of the Rector, Vicar or other Incumbent of such Living or Benefice, and not at a greater Distance than One Mile from the Church belonging to such Living, and also to contract for any Land adjoining or lying convenient to such House or Building, or to the House or Building belonging to any Parochial Living or Benefice having no Glebe lying near or convenient to the same, not exceeding the Quantity thereby limited, and to cause the Purchase Money for such House or Buildings to be paid out of the Money to arise under the Powers and Authorities of the said Act; in all which Cases the said Buildings and Lands should be conveyed to the Patron of such Living or Benefice, and his Heirs, in Trust for the sole Use and Benefit of the Rector, Vicar or other Incumbent of such Living or Benefice for the Time being, and their Successors, and should be annexed to such Church or Chapel, and be enjoyed and go in succession with the same for ever; but no Contract so made by the Nominee should be valid until confirmed by the Ordinary, Patron and Incumbent, by Writing under their Hands; and every such Purchase Deed was to be in the Form or to the Effect contained in the Schedule to the said Act annexed, and should be registered in such Manner and in such Office as other Deeds were thereby directed to be registered: And Whereasan Act was passed in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, to explain and amend the said first mentioned Act: And Whereas in and by an Act of Parliament passed in the Forty third Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, intituled Anne,intituled ‘An Act for the making more effectual Her Majesty's gracious Intentions for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy, by enabling Her Majesty to grant in perpetuity the Revenues of the First Fruits and Tenths, and also for enabling any other Persons to make Grants for the same Purpose,’ so far as the same relate to Deeds and Wills made for granting and bequeathing Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods and Chattels to the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, for the Purposesin the said...
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