Church in Wales Parochial Fees 2023

The Church in Wales Parochial Fees from 1 January 2023 are now available on the church’s website, the Marriage Fees 2023 and the Funeral and Burial Fees 2023.  The latter have been set by the Representative Body since 2015, and the funeral and burial fees by the Representative Body (with some burial fees agreed in consultation with the Welsh Government as required by legislation). Extracts of these fees are reproduced below.

In addition, the Church has published its Churchyard Regulations 2023, which are applicable throughout the Church in Wales, unlike the diocese-specific Regulations within the Church of England – a possible unintended consequence of the “Welsh Church Acts“.

The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022 was granted Royal Assent on 28 April 2022, and in August the Ministry of Justice announced that it would be brought into effect on Monday 27 February 2023. From 26 February 2023, 16- and 17-year-olds will no longer be able to marry or enter a civil partnership in England and Wales under any circumstances, including with parental or judicial consent. At the time of writing, the commencement date had not been confirmed by Statutory Instrument.

Links to further information are included at the end of this post.


Marriage and Related Fees

Description Ministry Fee, (payable to the officiating minister) Church Fee (payable to the PCC) Total Fee
Marriage Service (including fee for Publication of Banns) £215 £290 £505
Service of Blessing (following a Civil Marriage or Civil Partnership) £190 £260 £450
Where Banns are called outside the parish where the marriage service will take place
Publication of Banns (to include certificate of Banns) £45 £45

Funerals

Ministry Fee

  • Ministry Fee, (payable to the officiating minister), £94
  • Committal, for a committal following a separate funeral service elsewhere, at which a different minister has officiated, (payable to the officiating minister), £24

Church Fee

  • (payable to the PCC),  £118

Burial Fee in Church in Wales Burial Ground

  • Body, (payable to the PCC for the Churchyard Maintenance Fund), £528.
  • Cremated remains, (payable to the PCC for the Churchyard Maintenance Fund), £176.

Monuments in Churchyards

Memorial Fee, (payable to the PCC for the Churchyard Maintenance Fund).

  • Plain wooden cross, £26.
  • Grave headstone, £200.
  • Cremated remains tablet, £106.
  •  Additional Inscription, £47.

Baptisms

  • FAQs:  “There are no fees for Baptism. However, families often want to make a gift as a token of their thanksgiving and appreciation”.

Searches in church registers

  • Search of Burial Registers, (payable to the PCC), £24 per hour (or part thereof)

Further information

 Updated, 20 January 2023 at 11:17.

Cite this article as: David Pocklington, "Church in Wales Parochial Fees 2023" in Law & Religion UK, 30 December 2022, https://lawandreligionuk.com/2022/12/30/church-in-wales-parochial-fees-2023/

 

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  2. Could you please confirm what the Verging Fee and the Organist Fees are for 2023 please?
    I understand that they were £50 and £97 respectively for 2022.

    • An internet search has revealed no information for “extras” in the Church in Wales. If they follow the pattern of the Church of England, these will be set locally by each church. Perhaps our readers in Wales could clarify?

  3. The verger fee for a funeral up until 31/03/2023 was £35,00 and £50.00 for a wedding. On 01/04/2003 fees for the church, vicar and organist were all increased. The lowest fee i,e verger remained unchanged. Why or who decides that in this recession that the lowest paid do not need an increase is unclear.

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