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Re Long Bennington Parish Church

Lincoln Consistory Court: Bishop Ch, January 2009 Reservation of gravespace – family grave

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2009

Ruth Arlow  and
Will Adam
Ruth Arlow
Affiliation:
Barrister, Deputy Chancellor of the Dioceses of Chichester and Norwich
Will Adam
Affiliation:
Rector of Girton, Ely Diocesan Ecumenical Officer
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 2009 , pp. 361
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2009

The petitioners were parishioners and respectively the partner of 25 years and daughter of the deceased. They sought a faculty for the reservation of gravespaces in order that they might be buried respectively with and alongside his remains. His three children by his former wife and his sister objected on the basis that it would be uncomfortable for them talking to him in his grave in the knowledge that the petitioners were also buried there. The chancellor noted the Christian belief that although mortal remains stay in the grave, the immortal soul of the person who has died is not there, but lives on in Christ. The faculty was granted. [RA]