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Dunholme Old School Community Centre

School Sites Act

The Deeds drawn up by Mr William Tonge of Branston to donate a plot of land for the education of the poorer classes of the village of Dunholme

8th April 1862

I Charles Tonge Esquire of Branston in the County of Lincoln  under the authority of an Act passed in the Fifth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria entitled An Act to afford further Facilities for the conveyance and endowment of Sites for Schools and the Act of the Eighth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty explaining the same Do hereby freely / and voluntarily and without valuable consideration / grant and convey unto the Right Reverand Father in God John Bishop of Lincoln, The Venerable William Brocklehurst Archdeacon of the Archdeaconry of Stow in the said County of Lincoln and the Reverend James Michaelmas Barrett Vicar of Dunholme in the said County of Lincoln and their successors.  Will that piece of land situate at Dunholme in the said County of Lincoln containing One rood  and fourteen perches as now or late in the occupation of the said Charles Tonge and bounded by other of the said Charles Tonge on the south, by the Highway on the north, by lands of George Dawson on the east and by lands of William Ross on the west / which said premises intended to be hereby conveyed are delineated in the map drawn in the margin hereof and therein colored pink / Together with all casements appurtenances and hereditaments corporeal and incorporeal belonging thereto or connected therewith And all my estate rights tithe and interest in or to the said premises. To hold the same unto and to the use of the said Bishop, Archdeacon and Vicar and their successors for the purpose of the said Act and upon trust to permit the said premises and all buildings thereon erected or to be erected to be forever hereafter appropriated and used as and for a School for the education of Children and Adults or Children only of the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer class in the Parish of Dunholme aforesaid and as a Residence for the teacher or teachers of the said School and for no other purpose. Which said School shall always be in National Society for promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church and shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection of the inspector or inspectors for the time being appointed or to be appointed in the conformity with the Order in Council bearing date the forth day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty. And subject in the provisions hereinbefore mentioned it is hereby declared that the said School and the funds and endowments thereof shall at all times be under the management of and subject to such rules and regulations as the said Bishop Archdeacon and Vicar and their successors together with the said Charles Tonge or the majority of them shall from time to time direct – or appoint – And after the death of the said Charles Tonge then under the management of and subject to such rules and regulations as the said Bishop Archdeacon and Vicar and their successors or the majority of them shall from time to time direct or appoint. In Witness (whereof) the said parties to these present have hereunto set their hands and seals the eight – day of April – in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two. 

Signed sealed and delivered by the within named Charles Tonge in the presence of -----------

Signed sealed and delivered by the within named John Lord Bishop of Lincoln in the presence of William Uofs  Palace Lincoln -Secretary to his Lordship

Taken and acknowledged by the said Charles Tonge one of the parties to this Deed this eighth – day of April – one thousand eight hundred and sixty two. At Branston in the County of Lincoln.  Before me  Richard Larkins A Commissioner to administer oaths in Chancery in England

Signed sealed and delivered by the within named William Brockhurse Stnehouse in the presence of –Edward Briggs Inn Keeper White Hart Ferry

Charles Tonge Esq               

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The Lord Bishop of Lincoln and others

Grant

Of a Site for School purposes

 

Enrolled in Her Majesty’s High Court of Chancery the twenty fifth day of July in the year of our Lord 1862 (being first duly stamped) according to the terms of the statutes made for that purpose.

 

The Dunholme Old School Community Centre is a voluntary non-profit making organisation whose aims are to maintain and improve the facilities of the old school for the benifit of the local community