Guy Etchells
08-11-2004, 03:58 PM
Forum members may be interested in an Act of Parliament concerning Gretton Chapel, Winchcomb, Gloucestershire.
An Act for legalising Marriages solemnized in Gretton Chapel, in the Parish of Winchcomb, Gloucestershire. [26th May 1873]
Whereas in or about the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight the ancient consecrated chapel called Gretton Chapel, situate in the parish of Winchcomb, in the county of Gloucestershire, was disused, in consequence of its dilapidated condition, and a new chapel built on a different site within the same parish, but such new chapel was not licensed for the solemnization of marriages :
And whereas banns of matrimony have been published and the rite of marriage has been solemnized in such new chapel, and doubts have been entertained as to the validity thereof by reason of the said new chapel not having been licensed as aforesaid, and it is expedient that such doubts should be removed :
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, and 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 as follows :
None of the banns of matrimony or marriages heretofore published or solemnized in the said new chapel shall be invalid by reason of the same having been published or solemnized in a church or chapel not duly consecrated or licensed for marriages ; and the minister or ministers who solemnized the said marriages respectively shall not be liable to any ecclesiastical censure or to any proceedings or penalties whatsoever by reason thereof.
Cheers
Guy
An Act for legalising Marriages solemnized in Gretton Chapel, in the Parish of Winchcomb, Gloucestershire. [26th May 1873]
Whereas in or about the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight the ancient consecrated chapel called Gretton Chapel, situate in the parish of Winchcomb, in the county of Gloucestershire, was disused, in consequence of its dilapidated condition, and a new chapel built on a different site within the same parish, but such new chapel was not licensed for the solemnization of marriages :
And whereas banns of matrimony have been published and the rite of marriage has been solemnized in such new chapel, and doubts have been entertained as to the validity thereof by reason of the said new chapel not having been licensed as aforesaid, and it is expedient that such doubts should be removed :
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, and 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 as follows :
None of the banns of matrimony or marriages heretofore published or solemnized in the said new chapel shall be invalid by reason of the same having been published or solemnized in a church or chapel not duly consecrated or licensed for marriages ; and the minister or ministers who solemnized the said marriages respectively shall not be liable to any ecclesiastical censure or to any proceedings or penalties whatsoever by reason thereof.
Cheers
Guy