The Law Reports (Family Division)
[1996] Fam 44
[ARCHES COURT OF CANTERBURY]
In re
ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, TETTENHALL REGIS
1995 Oct. 26
Sir John Owen, Dean of the Arches, Judge Coningsby Q.C., Ch. and Seed Ch.
Ecclesiastical Law
— Faculty
— Extension to church
— Proposal to build meeting room on disused burial ground
— Extension likely to create extensive and wholesale disruption of 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 owners
— Whether works “for the purpose of enlarging a church”
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Burial Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 134), s. 3
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Disused Burial Grounds Act 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 72), s. 3