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Church Buildings Council: Collaboration in the Building of Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2010

Janet Gough
Janet Gough
Affiliation:
Secretary, Church Buildings Council Director, Cathedral and Church Buildings Division, Archbishops' Council
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Abstract

This article considers the Church Buildings Council (CBC) and its role within the faculty system, emphasising that the whole system, and the CBC in particular, works best through effective and meaningful collaboration. Pivotal to this collaboration are the 42 Diocesan Advisory Committees on the Care of Churches (DACs). Specifically, it is argued that greater clarity about the CBC, its expectations and what it aims to deliver will benefit all concerned in the great collective enterprise of maintaining sacred heritage buildings mindful of their continuing purpose to serve the mission of the Church.1

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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 345 - 354
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2010

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References

1 This article is a revised version of a presentation given as part of the series of Ecclesiastical Law Society London Lectures on 19 April 2010 in Lincoln's Inn.

2 Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2000, SI 2000/2047.

3 The Ecclesiastical Exemption (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas)(England) Order 2010, SI 2010/1176.

4 In 2009, the CBC's grant programme distributed £487,765 in grants to 145 parish churches for repairs to church fabric and historic furnishings.

5 Although this does not preclude informal consultation from parishes in appropriate cases, such as preliminary discussions about substantial reordering of Grade 1 or 2* churches or major extensions. Here, a round table meeting which includes the CBC, DAC and amenity societies might provide invaluable assistance to the parish, and obviate the need for sequential revisions of major projects as and when subsequent consultation takes place.

6 It would be enormously beneficial if DACs were to help draw up a definitive list of the most significant churches nationally.

7 For example, the Yarpole pews discussed above.

8 These documents need to be provided to the DAC when formal advice is sought on significant changes to a listed church (see Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2000, r 3(3)(a)) and as a matter of best practice should be drawn up when ever changes are contemplated to any sacred building.

9 See Re St Peter's, Draycott [2009] Fam 93, [2009] 3 WLR 248, (2009) 11 Ecc LJ 365.