The Weekly Law Reports
[2014] 3 WLR 47
Coventry Consistory Court
In re
St Chad’s Churchyard, Bishop’s Tachbrook
2014 Jan 9
Eyre Ch
Ecclesiastical law— Faculty— Churchyard— Proposed use of part of consecrated churchyard for church centre with mixed community and church use— Burials no longer taking place in part of churchyard assigned for building— Whether “burial ground” closed for burials— Whether secular use to be permitted— Whether building permissible in open churchyard where reducing space available for burials— Whether faculty to be granted— Considerations justifying grant of faculty—
Disused Burial Grounds Act 1884 (47 & 48 Vict c 72) (as amended by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c 50), s 1(2), Sch 2, para 17), ss 2, 3