Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Ashburnham, St Peter - Regulations for Burials.

Date:

16 Mar 1886.

Body:

AT the Court at Windsor, the 8th day of March, 1886.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Right Honourable Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, 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 a 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.:—

ASHBURNHAM.— Forthwith and entirely in the Parish Church of Ashburnham, in the county of Sussex ; and also in the Churchyard after the third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, except as follows, viz. :—

(a.) In such vaults 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:

(b.) In such partly walled graves as are now existing in the churchyard, provided that the earth above them can be opened to the depth of five feet without exposing coffins or disturbing human remains, burials may be allowed of so many of the relations of those interred therein at the date of the Order as can be buried at or below that depth :

(c.) In such earthen graves now existing in the churchyard as can be opened to the depth of five feet without exposing coffins or disturbing human remains burials may be allowed of so many of the following relations of those interred therein at the date of the Order, viz.— widows and widowers as can be buried at or below that depth.

Now, therefore, Her Majesty in Council is pleased hereby to give notice of such representation, and to order that the same be taken into consideration by a Committee of the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on the twentieth day of April next :

And Her Majesty is further pleased to direct that this Order be forthwith published in the London Gazette ; and that copies thereof be affixed on the doors of the churches or chapels of, or on some conspicuous places within, the parishes affected by such representation, one month before the said twentieth day of April.

C. L. Peel

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Peter.

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