The  eight consistory court judgments circulated in October include:

• Procedural
• Reordering, extensions and other building works/
• Church Treasures/ Sale of Paintings/ Loans/ Memorials
• Telecommunications
• Churchyards and burials
• Fonts

This review also includes: CDM Decisions and Safeguarding; Reports from the Independent Reviewer; Privy Council Business; Other legal issues; CFCE Determinations; and Links to other posts relating to ecclesiastical law.

Procedural

Re Calderstones Cemetery [2025] ECC Bla 3 A private company sought a faculty to carry out works on consecrated land within the former Calderstones Cemetery, Whalley, ancillary to the construction of a crematorium, approved under existing planning permission, on adjoining, deconsecrated land. The proposed works included restoring two chapels and a lychgate, upgrading access roads, and providing car parking, landscaping, and utilities. Continue reading →