In re St Chad’s Churchyard, Bishop’s Tachbrook

Subject Matter

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 (as amended by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993, s 1(2), Sch 2, para 17), ss 2, 3

[2014] Fam 118; [2014] 3 WLR 47