In re St Michael and All Angels, Tettenhall Regis

Subject Matter

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 the church” — Burial Act 1853, s 3 — Disused Burial Grounds Act 1884, s 3

[1995] Fam 179; [1995] 3 WLR 299; [1996] 1 All ER 231, Const Ct

[1996] Fam 44; [1996] 2 WLR 385; [1996] 1 All ER 231, Arches Ct

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

[1995] Fam 179; [1995] 3 WLR 299; [1996] 1 All ER 231, Const Ct

[1996] Fam 44; [1996] 2 WLR 385; [1996] 1 All ER 231, Arches Ct

Appellate History