§ Mr. MOON (St. Pancras, N.)To ask the hon. Member for West Salford, as Church Estates Commissioner, what was the amount which came to the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners from the sale of Addington, and what was the amount applied in providing an Archiepiscopal Palace at Canterbury.
(Answered by Mr Lees Knowles.) As the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire was informed, in reply to a Question put by him on the 4th June last year,†.Addington Park was sold for £45,000.
†See (4) Debates, cviii., 1397.1080 With the addition of the amount (£2,371 7s.) paid over by the Archbishop in respect of dilapidations accrued before the sale the total proceeds coming into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners was £47,371 7s.which was reduced to £46,006 18s. 11d. by the discharge of a small mortgage created in respect of certain improvements at Addington. The cost of the site for the new Archiepiscopal Palace at Canterbury and the erection of the building has been £29,176 11s.1d.