Mrs B sought a faculty for the introduction of a memorial into the churchyard over the grave of a family member. The memorial fell outside the incumbent's delegated discretion under the diocesan churchyard regulations in a number of respects. The memorial was to be in the shape of a gypsy caravan, with silvered engraving on both sides of the stone showing the detailing of the caravan and a silvered inscription to the memory of the deceased on the left door of the caravan. The Diocesan Advisory Committee did not recommend the proposal on the grounds of the material, large size and unusual imagery of the memorial. Further information was provided confirming that the deceased was one of the last remaining Romany gypsies who had lived his whole life in a traditional horse-drawn gypsy caravan. After visiting the churchyard the deputy chancellor concluded that neither the material nor the silvering of the engraving would be out of place in this particular churchyard, given the existence of other examples. He was nevertheless concerned about the unusual shape of the proposed memorial. He noted that the truly exceptional life of the deceased did not guarantee that he could be commemorated by an unusual memorial. Nevertheless, in this case the proposed design was not unpleasant and was of a carefully thought-out design that would fit within the category of memorial referred to in Re St Mary, Kingswinford [2001] 1 WLR 927 as ‘a specially designed memorial which may be non-standard, but which is a fine work of art in its own right’. Regarding the detail of the memorial, the deputy chancellor considered that, although some engraving on the rear of the memorial was acceptable, the addition of an image of a horse-drawn waggon would detract from the aesthetics of the memorial. A faculty was granted for the memorial as proposed save for that part of the engraving. [RA]