Killiney Chapel Act, 1828

KILLINEY CHAPEL ACT 1828

C A P. LII.

An Act for erecting a Chapel of Ease at Killiney in the Parish of Monkstown in the County and Diocese of Dublin, and for providing for the due Celebration of Divine Service therein. [15th July 1828.]

Authorizing the Conveyance of Land of erecting a Chapel of Ease in Killiney.

Whereas the Parish of Monkstown in the County and Diocese of Dublin has of late Years become very populous, and a considerable Number of Inhabitants reside at Killiney in the said Parish, at a Distance of Two Miles and upwards from the Parish Church, which is not sufficiently large to accommodate the increasing Population of said Parish; and the Parishioners dwelling in the Neighbourhood of Killiney aforesaid are very much in need of a particular Place of Worship nearer their Homes, to which they may resort for the Service of God, at Morning and Evening Prayers, and for the Administration of the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper: And Whereas it will much tend to the Advancement of Religion in the said Neighbourhood if the Want of a proper Place of Worship should be supplied, and a Chapel of Ease be erected for that Purpose upon a convenient Scite: And Whereas the Cure of Souls in the Parish of Monkstown is in the Perpetual Curate thereof; and the said Curacy is appropriated to the Deanery of the Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, commonly called Christchurch, in the City of Dublin, and the Patronage and Nomination thereof belong to the Dean of the said Cathedral: And Whereas the Reverend Charles Lindsay is the present Ecclesiastical Incumbent or Perpetual Curate of the said Parish: And Whereas many Inhabitants of the said Parish have expressed an earnest Desire that said Chapel of Ease should be forthwith erected, and that it is in Contemplation to promote said Design by creating proper and sufficient Funds for the Purpose: And Whereas the Most Reverend Father in God William Lord Archbishop of Dublin and Ordinary of the said Diocese, the Dean of Christchurch aforesaid, to whose Patronage and Nomination the said Benefice of Monkstown belongs, the said Charles Lindsay the present Curate or Ecclesiastical Incumbent thereof, and the Parishioners of the same, have respectively testified their Consent to the erecting of the said Chapel of Ease, and to the Endowment of a Chaplain in manner hereinafter provided: And Whereas the said Parish of Monkstown does not come within the Provisions and Operation of the several Statutes in force in that Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Ireland, for the promoting and regulating the building of Chapels of Ease in the Cases therein provided, and it is necessary to have special Provision for the same; and it is also necessary, for the Purposes aforesaid, that a Piece of Land should be set apart and appropriated in the Vicinity of Killiney, as a Scite for the said intended Chapel, and that there should be an Endowed Chaplain of the said Chapel; Be it therefore enacted, by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for any Proprietor of any Ground within the said Parish of Monkstown, or any Part thereof within the ancient Parish of Killiney, now forming a Part of the said Parish of Monkstown, notwithstanding any such Proprietor may be seised only for an Estate for Life or in Tail therein, to grant and convey to the Perpetual Curate or Minister of the said Parish of Monkstown, and his Successors, a sufficient Quantity of Ground, not exceeding One Acre English Statute Measure, for the Purpose of building, erecting, and making a Chapel of Ease, with all Buildings necessary thereto, in like Manner and as fully and effectually as Persons are authorized to grant or set out Ground for such or the like Purposes by any Law now in being, such Grant and Conveyance to be in Trust for the Inhabitants of the said Parish for ever; and that the said Perpetual Curate or Minister of the said Parish be and is hereby enabled to take such Grant and Conveyance, the Statute of Mortmain or any other Law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that if at any Time after the making of the said Grant and Conveyance of the said Ground, and before the building of the said Chapel, it shall be found necessary or convenient to change such Scite of the said intended Chapel, it shall be lawful for the said Perpetual Curate or Minister of the said Parish, with the Consent of the Ordinary of the Diocese, the Dean of Christchurch, and the Proprietor who shall or may have granted any Ground for the Scite for the said Chapel, to exchange such Ground so granted as a Scite for the same for any Ground of equal or greater Quantity in the Vicinity of Killiney aforesaid; which said Ground so given in exchange shall be conveyed to the said Incumbent for the Purposes aforesaid, and shall be and is hereby vested in the said Incumbent and his Successors, in like Manner as the Ground originally granted would have been had it remained for the Purposes aforesaid.