Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Horsham, St Mary the Virgin - Regulations for Burials.

Date:

5 May 1882.

Body:

AT the Court at Windsor, the 3rd day of May, 1882.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by 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," it is enacted that, in case it appears to Her Majesty in Council, upon the representation of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State that; for the protection of the public health, the opening of any new burial-ground in any city or town, or within any other limits, save with the previous approval of one of such -Secretaries of State, should be prohibited, or that burials in any city or town, or within any other limits, or in any burial-ground or places of burial, should be wholly discontinued, or should be discontinued subject to any exception or qualification, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order that no new burial-ground shall be opened in any city or town, or within such limits, without such previous approval, or (as the case may require) that, after a time mentioned in the Order, burials in such city or town, or within such limits, or in such burial-grounds or places of burial, shall be discontinued wholly, or subject to any exceptions or qualifications mentioned in such Order, and so from time to time as circumstances may require ; provided always, that notice of such representation, and of the time when it shall please Her Majesty to order that the same be taken into consideration by the Privy Council, shall be published in the London Gazette, and shall be affixed on the doors of the churches or chapels of, or on some other conspicuous places within, the parishes affected by such representation, one month before such representation is so considered: provided also, that no such representation shall be made in relation to the burial-ground of any parish until ten days' previous notice of the intention to make such representation shall have been given to the Incumbent and Vestry Clerk or Churchwardens of such parish:

And whereas by another Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled

“An Act further to amend the laws concerning the burial of the dead in England," it is, amongst other things, enacted that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, from time to time to postpone the time appointed by any Order in Council for the discontinuance of burials, or otherwise to vary any Order in Council made under any of the Acts recited in the said Act, or under the said Act (whether the time thereby appointed for the discontinuance of burials thereunder, or other operation of such Order, shall or shall not have arrived), as to Her Majesty, with such advice as aforesaid, may seem fit:

And whereas the Right Honourable Sir William Vernon Harcourt, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, after giving to the Incumbents and Churchwardens of the parishes hereinafter mentioned ten days' previous notice of his intention to make such representation, has made a representation stating that he is of opinion that the Orders of Her Majesty in Council affecting burials in the said parishes should be varied in the following manner:

HORSHAM.— The Order in Council of the twelfth December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, by the omission of the words, "except in now existing vaults and brick graves which can be opened without disturbing soil that has been already buried in, in which each coffin shall be embedded in a layer of powdered charcoal four inches thick, and be separately entombed in brick or stonework properly cemented ; and except, also, in the south-west portion thereof, as marked by boundary stones, in graves which can be opened without digging up buried, remains, no coffin to be buried within a foot of any other coffin, or less than four feet beneath the surface," and by the substitution of the words, "except in now existing vaults and wholly walled graves which can be opened without disturbing soil that has been already buried in, in which each coffin shall be embedded in a layer of powdered charcoal four inches thick, and be separately entombed in stonework or brickwork properly cemented."

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Mary the Virgin.

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