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Re All Saints, Foots Cray

Rochester Consistory Court: Gallagher Ch, 7 February 2013 Memorial – churchyard rules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2013

Ruth Arlow*
Affiliation:
Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich
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Abstract

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The petitioner sought a confirmatory faculty in relation to a memorial stone that she had had placed in the churchyard over the cremated remains of her brother. The parochial church council (PCC) and incumbent opposed the application. The stone did not comply with the PCC's churchyard rules, which had been approved by the previous chancellor. The chancellor accepted that the petitioner had not deliberately flouted the rules but found that she had been provided with a copy of those rules on two occasions and had also made no attempt to contact the incumbent to inquire whether the intended memorial was acceptable. She had laid the memorial stone without any reference to the incumbent. The petition was refused. [RA]