Church Building Act 1822
Ordnance and other Public Departments, and all Corporations, may give Messuages, Lands, &c. for Sites for Churches, &c.
IIForms of Grant or Conveyance.
IIICommissioners may obtain or receive Lands or Grounds required for enlarging or rebuilding any Church or Chapel whether contiguous to old Site or not.
IVFines for Renewals at the Time of Lands, &c taken shall be paid to the Person entitled to renew.
VCommissioners may lend Money for Purpose of Acts, at such Interest, not exceeding the legal Interest, or without Interest, as they shall deem fit. Loans to be charged on the Church Rates. Form of Charge upon Rates.
VIMoney may be raised by Annuities.
VIICommissioners, &c. to make Grants or Loans for procuring Land, &c. and apply the Powers of any local or other Acts for the Purposes thereof.
VIIICommissioners empowered to take Land for Parishes on paying the Value assessed.
IXApportioning of Quit or other reserved Rents.
XIn cases of Division of Parish, Vestrymen being resident in the District left to the original Parish Church, shall continue to act as Vestrymen of such District for Ecclesiastical Purposes. Vestrymen to Act only in the Division of their Residence. How Deficiency of Vestrymen is to be supplied.
XICommissioners may, in case of Division of Parishes, apportion Charitable Gifts and Debts.
XIICommissioners may direct that Fees for Marriages, and Burials, in case of Division into District Parishes, shall continue to belong to the Incumbent of original Church of the Parish.
XIIIIn Cases in which the Rectorial Tithes, &c. shall be surrendered by Impropriators, &c. for the Purpose of converting Vicarages into Rectories, the Commissioners shall direct the same to be done accordingly.
XIVSinecure Rector may release Part of Rectorial Glebe, &c. and retain the Remainder in Fee Simple, for the Purpose of converting any Vicarage into a Rectory by the Commissioners.
XVBodies Politic, &c. empowered to give up Rights of Patronage and Endowments, and Emoluments held by them in Trust, to enable the Commissioners to establish District Churches.
XVICommissioners may, with Consent of Ordinary, &c. convert District Chapelries into District Parishes, where suitable Residences, &c. can be obtained for Incumbent, and Fees compensated for.
XVIIWhere Marriages are allowed to be celebrated in District Chapelries, the Banns of Marriage shall be published in the Chapels of the Districts.
XVIIIAll Acts relating to publishing Banns of Marriage, and to Marriages, &c. to apply to Churches and Chapels of extra-pa-rochial Places and Districts.
XIXBishop to certify Churches and Chapels in which Banns and Marriage may be published and celebrated, and Certificate to be registered; but Banns and Marriages not tip be invalid for want of such Certificate, if had in Churches authorized by the Acts.
XXAll Chapels belonging to Parishes with or without Districts assigned, to be repaired by the Parishioners at large, in the same Manner as the Church of the Parish.
XXICommissioners may exonerate any new Subdivision of .Division of any Parish already divided, or which may hereafter be divided, from Repair of Church of such Division.
XXIICommissioners may apportion Glebe, Tithes, &c. or make permanent Charge thereon for Benefit of Persons serving any Chapel in the Parish.
XXIIICommissioners may, with Consent of Owners, transfer Pew Rights from existing Churches to new Churches, &c. of Divisions, for the Purpose of making Free Seats. No greater Right to be given on the Transfer of Pews.
XXIVRegulation as to letting of Pews.
XXVFor Avoidance of Pew Leases.
XXVIParishes may, with Consent of Commissioners, procure and buy additional Burial Grounds.
XXVIITo remove Doubts as to Allowance of Duties upon Materials for rebuilding or enlarging of Churches, &c.
XXVIIIGrants, Instruments, Contracts, or Bonds, not to be subject to Stamp Duty.
XXIXTitles to Sites not to be questioned after Fire Years.
XXXCommissioners may transfer the Endowments, &c. of existing Churches, &c. to those Churches built in lieu thereof, upon certain Conditions.
XXXIAppointment of Ecclesiastical Persons to serve new Churches or Chapels, built by Aid from Commissioners, in certain Cases to belong to the Diocesan.
XXXIICommissioners may, under any Special Circumstances to be recorded in their Proceedings, apply their Powers in Aid of Parishes for procuring Land, &c.
XXXIIIFor removing Doubts as to the Powers of the Commissioners in relation to certain Grants.
XXXIVCommissioners may re-convey Land given for purposes of the Acts, and not used, to the Grantors, or their Heirs or Successors.
XXXVThis Act not to affect the Powers of Acts relating to any particular Parish.
XXXVIPowers of Bishops, &c. not to be invalidated ;
XXXVIIBut may exercise Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.
XXXVIIIAct may be altered or repealed this Session.

Church Building Act 1822

1822 Chapter 72

An Act to amend and render more effectual Two Acts, passed in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Years of His late Majesty, for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes.

WHEREAS an [58 G. 3. c. 45.] Act passed in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes : And whereas another [59 G. 3. c. 134.] Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act, passed in the last Session of Parliament, for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes : And whereas it is expedient and necessary that some of the Provisions of the said recited Acts should be amended, and other Provisions thereof explained and enlarged, and that further and additional Provisions should be made, for rendering the said Two recited Acts more effectual;

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,