York Minster: enabling the Dean and Chapter to raise money to discharge debts and restore and repair the cathedral Act 1842
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1842 c. 19 |
| Year | 1842 |
ANNO QUINTO & SEXTO
VICTORLE REGIN^.
Cap.
19.
Aii Act for enabling the Dean and Chapter of the
Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint
Peter of York to raise Money for the Discharge
of Debts, and for effecting the Restoration and
Repair of the said Cathedral Church.
[9th July 1842 J
HEREAS the Dean of the Cathedral and Metropolitical
Church of Saint Peter of York and the Chapter of the
same Church are seised of or entitled to a certain Estate
called the Rectory of Topcliffe, being Part of the Fabric Estate, the
Rents and Profits whereof are wholly or in part applicable to the
Repairs and Improvement of the said Cathedral Church : And whereas
the Saint Peter's Estate, consisting in part of One Sixth of the com-
mon Estate of the said Dean and Chapter, is applicable to the like
Purpose: And whereas in or about the effecting of divers Improve-
ments in the Minster Yard of the said Cathedral Church and the
Places adjacent, and in making good and repairing the Damage
sustained by the said Cathedral Church from the Fire which happened
therein in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine,
and in restoring the Organ, Fittings, and Furniture
thereof,
the said
Dean and Chapter have expended very considerable Sums over and
above the Monies available by them for those Purposes from the
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Produce of their Estates called the Saint Peter's Estate and the
Fabric Estate, and also in addition to the Amount raised by voluntary
Subscriptions for making good the Damage occasioned by the said
Fire,
and have incurred considerable Debts, which remain unpaid, and
the clear annual Income of the said Estates, after defraying the
ordinary Charges thereon, is inadequate to discharge the Principal
of the said Debts: And Whereas a Particular of the said Debts now
remaining unpaid is contained in the First Schedule to this Act:
And whereas the Roof of the Nave and the Interior of the South-
western Tower of the said Cathedral Church, with the Clock and
Bells therein, were destroyed by Fire on the Twentieth Day of May
One thousand eight hundred and forty, and the Expence of rein-
stating the same has been estimated at the Sum of Twenty-five
thousand Pounds, and the Sum of Fourteen thousand Pounds or
thereabouts has been contributed by public Subscription towards
the Restoration of the same: And whereas the North Transept
of the said Cathedral Church is in a very dangerous State, and
a considerable Outlay will be required to preserve the same, and other
Parts of the said Cathedral Church'are in a State of great Dilapidation,
and the Expence of such last-mentioned Repairs is estimated at the
Sum of Twenty-eight thousand two hundred Pounds: And whereas
it is expedient that the Dean and Chapter of the said Cathedral and
Metropolitical Church should be authorized to raise, in the Manner
herein-after mentioned, a considerable Sum of Money for the Purpose
of discharging the said Debts already incurred as aforesaid and still
remaining unpaid, and enabling the said Dean and Chapter to proceed
with the Restoration and Repairs of the said Cathedral Church : And
whereas the said Dean and Chapter are seised of an Estate situate at
Bishop Burton in the said County of York as Part of their common
Estate: And whereas the said Estate at Bishop Burton aforesaid hath
for a long Time past been accustomably leased by the said Dean and
Chapter for the Time being to a Lessee or Lessees for Three Lives,
at and under the yearly Rent of Thirty-seven Pounds, and the existing
Lease thereof hath from Time to Time been renewed on the dropping
Lease of the of each Life upon Payment of an adequate Fine: And whereas
Bishop Bur- by an Indenture bearing Date the Twelfth Dayof^nVOne thou-
ton Estate by g^nd eight hundred and thirty-six, and made between the said Dean and
Chanter of the First Part, Richard Watt of Bishop Burton aforesaid,
the Dean and
Chapter to
K. Watt, William Mills
Mills
A*iv?*iftfrh Third Part, the said Dean and Chapter,, for the Considerations therein
pn ' mentioned, did, for themselves and their Successors, demise, grant,.
Watt
all that their Parsonage and Rectory of Bishop Burton aforesaid,
appropriated to the.Common of the said Church of York, with all
fanner of Glebe Lands, Tithes, Money Payments and Lands in
lieu of Tithes, Commodities and Hereditaments, with all and singular
their Appurtenances whatsoever, of, in, or to the same Parsonage and
Rectory and other the Premises belonging or in anywise appertaining,
(Jurisdiction, Spiritual and Temporal, Woods and Underwoods, Wards,
Marriages, Reliefs, Fines, Heriots, the Advowson and Gift of the
Vicarage of Bishop Burton aforesaid, and the Portion of the Vicar to the
said Dean and Chapter always excepted and reserved,) to have and to
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