Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Fernhurst, St Margaret - Regulations for Burials.

Date:

10 Feb 1882.

Body:

AT the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 6th day of February, 1882.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Right Honourable Sir William Vernon Harcourt, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, after giving to the Incumbents and the Churchwardens of the parishes hereinafter mentioned ten days' previous notice of his intention to make such representation, has, under the provisions of an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled “An Act to amend the laws concerning the burial of the dead in England beyond the limits of the Metropolis,” and to amend the Act concerning “the burial of the dead in the Metropolis,” made representation" stating that, for the protection of the public health, no new burial-ground should be opened in the undermentioned parishes without the previous consent of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and that burials should be discontinued therein with the following modifications, viz.:—

FARNHURST. — Forthwith and entirely in the parish church of Farnhurst, in the county of Sussex; and also in the churchyard, except as follows, viz.:— In such vaults and wholly walled graves as are now existing in the churchyard burials may be allowed on condition that every coffin buried therein be separately enclosed by stonework or brickwork properly cemented.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Margaret.

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