The Law Reports (Family Division)
[1995] Fam 179
[LICHFIELD CONSISTORY COURT]
In re
ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, TETTENHALL REGIS
1995 April 28
Judge Shand Ch.
Ecclesiastical Law
— Faculty
— Extension to church
— Proposal to build meeting room on disused burial ground
— Extension likely to create substantial disturbance to human remains
— Whether faculty to be granted
Ecclesiastical Law
— Faculty
— Burial ground
— Burial ground closed and further burials forbidden
— Disinterment of human remains in course of building works
— Whether to be reinterred elsewhere in burial ground
— Resiting of gravestones without consent of owner
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Burial Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 134), s. 3