Gifts for Churches Act 1811
1811 c. 115
An Act for amending the Act Forty-third George Third, to promote the building, repairing, or otherwise providing the churches and Chapels, and of Houses for the Residence of Ministers, and the providing of Church Yards and Glebes.
[26th June 1811]
Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c.14)
Act repealed (N.I.) by the Act 14 & 15 Vict. c. 71
Preamble repealed by Charities Act 1960 (c. 58), Sch. 7 Pt. II

1 His Majesty may vest lands in any person for building or repairing any church or chapel, or any house for the residence of a minister;
The King’s most excellent Majesty, his heirs and successors, shall have full power, license, and authority by deed or writing under the great seal, or under the seal of his duchy and county palatine of Lancaster, to give and grant and vest in any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, and their heirs and successors respectively, all such his, her, or their estate, interest, or property in any lands or tenements within the survey of the High Court or of the duchy of Lancaster, for or towards the erecting, rebuilding, repairing, purchasing, or providing any church or chapel where the liturgy and rites of the said united church are or shall be used or observed, or any mansion house for the residence of any minister of the said united church officiating or to officiate in any such church or chapel, or of any outbuildings, offices, church yard or glebe for the same respectively, and to be for those purposes applied in and by such deed as aforesaid expressed, the consent and approbation of the ordinary being first obtained; . . . notwithstanding . . . the Crown Lands Act 1702 or any other Act or Acts, or other impediment or disability whatsoever:
Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to enable his Majesty, his heirs and successors, to grant more than five acres in any one grant for any of the purposes aforesaid, . . .
Words substituted by virtue of Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c. 49) s. 224(1)
Words repealed by Charities Act 1960 (c. 58), Sch. 7 Pt. II
1702 c. 1.
No grant to exceed five acres

2 Any person having the fee simple of any manor may grant five acres of the waste for ecclesiastical purposes.
And it shall be lawful for any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, seized of or entitled to the entire and absolute fee simple of any manor, by deed under the hand and seal or hands and seals of any such person or persons, and under the seal or seals of any such body or bodies politic or corporate, and inrolled in the High Court , to grant to the rector, vicar, or other minister of any parish church and his successors, or to the curate or minister of any chapel and his successors, any parcel or parcels of land not exceeding in the whole the quantity of five statute acres, parcel of the waste of such manor, and lying within the parish where such church or chapel shall be or shall be intended to be erected, or within any extra parochial district wherein any such chapel shall be or shall be intended to be erected, for the purpose of erecting thereon or enlarging any such church or chapel, or for a church yard or burying ground, or enlarging a church yard or burying ground for such parish or extra parochial place, or for a glebe for the rector, vicar, curate, or other minister of any such church or chapel, to erect a mansion house or other buildings thereon, or make other conveniences for the residence of such rector, vicar, curate, or other minister, freed and absolutely discharged of and from all rights of common thereon, and any . . . , statute law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding:
Provided always, that no grant whatsoever shall be made of any land whatsoever for any of the purposes authorised by this Act, unless the church or chapel for the benefit whereof or of the minister whereof such grant shall be made, shall be a parochial church or chapel for the service of the united church of England and Ireland, duly authorised by law, or a church or chapel duly consecrated for the service of such church, or erected or to be erected for such purpose by and with the license and consent of the ordinary of the diocese wherein the same shall be.
S. 2 repealed (E.W.) (1.10.2007 for E., 1.4.2012 for W.) by Commons Act 2006 (c. 26), ss. 48(2)(a), 56, Sch. 6 Pt. 3 (with s. 60); S.I. 2007/2584, art. 2(c)(d)(ii); S.I. 2012/739, art. 2(g)(h)
S. 2 restricted by Commons Act 1899(c. 30), s. 22, Sch. 1
Words substituted by virtue of Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c. 49) s. 224(1)
Words repealed by Charities Act 1960 (c. 58), Sch. 7 Pt. II
Grants restricted to parochial churches or chapels.