Churchyard Regulations – “non-standard cases”

The Report of the Ecclesiastical Judges Association Working Party into Churchyard Memorial Regulations (“the Report”), reviewed here and reproduced at the end of this post, included a consideration of how chancellors have dealt with petitions that do not comply with the criteria set by the diocesan Churchyard Regulations for the introduction of a memorial without a faculty. Twenty four examples of such cases were identified and are listed below in chronological order, to which links to our posts have been added. The Report observes; Continue reading