Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Hellingly, St Peter & St Paul - Regulations for Burials.

Date:

28 Nov 1893.

Body:

AT the Court at Windsor, the 23rd day of November, 1893

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Right Honourable Herbert Henry Asquith, 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 approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal1 Secretaries of State, and that burials should be discontinued therein with the following modifications, viz. :—

HELLINGLY — Forthwith and entirely in the parish church of Hellingly, in the county of Sussex; and also in the churchyard after the thirty-first October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, except as follows:— (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 and 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 relations of those interred therein at the date of the Order as can be buried at or below that depth.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Peter & St Paul.

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