The London Burial Grounds: Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present DayHolmes, Isabella M.
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The London Burial Grounds: Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Holmes, Isabella M.
Cemeteries -- England -- London -- History
2. The Incumbent or Owner will, when the consent of the Local Authority
or London County Council has been obtained, be required to execute a
Deed transferring the Ground to the Local Authority, or the Council,
upon the terms and conditions that have been mutually arranged.
3. [Sidenote: Consecrated Grounds require a Faculty.] In the case of a
Consecrated Ground, a Faculty must be obtained from the Bishop of the
Diocese by the Local Authority, or the London County Council, as the
case may be, permitting such body to exercise powers of management over
it; and should it be needful to move tombstones, such Faculty must also
contain a license to do so, otherwise they cannot be moved (_vide_ para.
5).
4. The Consistory Court of the Diocese usually requires the following
preliminary steps to have been taken, before it will hear an application
for a Faculty:—
(_a_) The preparation of a plan and detailed statement of what it is
proposed to do to the ground, and of an estimate of the expense
involved.
(_b_) The submission of plan, statement, and estimate, to a meeting
of the Vestry of the Parish, and the passing of a resolution (which
should be carefully prepared) by the Vestry approving the plan,
statement, estimate, and application for a Faculty.
(_c_) The approval of plan, statement, and estimate, by the Local
Authority or the London County Council, as the case may be.
(_d_) The presentation of a petition for a Faculty to the Bishop or
his Consistory Court, by the Local Authority or the Council, as the
case may be, setting out the scheme, accompanied by the plan,
statement, and resolutions.
(_e_) This petition should in the ordinary course have the
concurrence of the Incumbent, and he may be, and it is usually
desirable that he should be, a party to it.
5. [Sidenote: Removal of Tombstones in consecrated and unconsecrated
grounds.] In the case of any disused churchyard, cemetery, or
burial-ground, whether consecrated or not, if tombstones are to be
moved, at least three months before any tombstone or monument is
moved the following steps have to be taken:—
(_a_) A statement shall be prepared sufficiently describing by the
name and date appearing thereon the tombstones and monuments
standing or being in the ground, and such other particulars as may
be necessary;
(_b_) Such statements shall be deposited with the clerk of the
County Council or Local Authority, and shall be open to inspection
by all persons;
(_c_) An advertisement of the intention to remove or change the
position of such tombstones and monuments shall be inserted three
times at least in some newspaper circulating in the neighbourhood of
the burial-ground, and such advertisement shall give notice of the
deposit of such statement, as is hereinbefore described, and of the
hours within which the same may be inspected;
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