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Re St Mary the Virgin, Monkseaton

Newcastle Consistory Court: Hodson Ch, September 2010 Nave altar – absence of provision for kneeling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2011

Ruth Arlow
Affiliation:
Barrister, Deputy Chancellor of the Dioceses of Chichester and Norwich
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Abstract

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Case Notes
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2011

The parties opponent to a petition for the reordering of an unlisted church did not object to a nave altar in principle, but objected to the specific proposals because of the absence of rails and of provision for communicants to kneel to receive communion. The chancellor, having found that the proposals for the nave altar had the support of the parish as a whole, held that those objections were not of sufficient weight to justify the refusal of the grant of a faculty. A faculty was granted. [Alexander McGregor]