Churchyard Closures and Cemetery Shortages Report
The report traces 25 years of burial acts closing 2,481 burial places with 12,262 churchyards to close. 639 unconsecrated cemeteries exist for 13,000-14,000 parishes and 23 million population, Wales worse. It critiques government plans to require new second graveyards for dissenters and notes Lords veto and clergy opposition.
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Wales
England
Glamorgan
Home Secretary
House of Lords
The Burial Question Prompts Withdrawn Resolution
Mr Osborne Morgan plans a motion on burials but is forced to withdraw after opposition from Mr Russell Gurney and others. The Lower House of Convocation debated the issue with mixed views, reaffirming that only Church of England ministers may officiate in consecrated churchyards, amid clergy opposition and concerns of charity.
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Osborne Morgan
Russell Gurney
Morgan
Canon Hopkins
Dean Stanley
Lord Harrowby
House of Lords
Canon Gregory
Church of England
Convocation Endorses Clergy Protest Amid Church State Tensions
The convocation endorsed a protest by 13 000 clergymen which could unsettle relations between church and state. The action signals organized clerical backing for the dissenting stance on church state separation.
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Convocation
Hertford College Case Weighs Denominational Endowments
The Hertford College dispute advances to the Supreme Court of Appeal after judges ruled against the college. The case centers on whether endowments with denominational conditions can be accepted by a university affiliated college and whether such actions would contravene the University Tests Abolition Act of 1871. The outcome could redefine denominational influence in the universities and prompt broader implications for private endowments and national character.
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Hertford College
Justice Mellor
Justice Lush
Supreme Court of Appeal
Supreme Court
Keble College
Thomas Baring
Convocation Debates Burial Rights for Nonconformists
Lower House of Convocation met in Westminster School's Commons Hall led by Dean Bickersteth to discuss allowing Nonconformists to perform services in Church of England churchyards. The grave proposal argues it unjustly curtails Anglican burial rites and imposes clergy with unguarded access to nonconformist ministrations, risking broader church control and establishment principles.
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Westminster School
Dean Bickersteth
George Prevost
Gloucester
Colchester
Church of England
House of Lords
Uis
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