In 1904 Keighley Road was built over part of the churchyard of this Grade II* listed church. Many of the headstones removed from that area were laid as paving within the remaining churchyard. That paving had become slippery and hazardous when wet, resulting in a number of injuries. In 2015 the incumbent and churchwardens petitioned for a faculty for the landscaping of the churchyard and the introduction of new, safer pathways. The only contentious issue was what would be done with the memorial headstones from the current paving. The number of headstones to be relocated was conservatively estimated at around 160. Residents living close to the local municipal cemetery objected to the proposal to place a significant number of the headstones there. The chancellor held that the displaced memorial tablets had long ceased to be associated with any grave and therefore such rights of ownership as the heir-at-law might once have had were extinguished, or at least significantly curtailed. Nevertheless, their value as grave markers and objects of historic interest meant that their deployment must be seemly and appropriate. In granting the faculty the chancellor authorised the temporary safe storage of the memorial tablets and imposed a condition that the petitioners provide a report on proposals for the permanent re-siting of the memorials within nine months. The chancellor encouraged the positioning of memorials within the churchyard and indicated that he would look favourably on an application to dispose of a certain number of them, particularly those which were damaged, illegible and of lesser intrinsic worth. [RA]