The petitioners sought a faculty for adding an inscription on a sanctuary floor tile marking the interment of the lay parish clerk. In informal advice the chancellor had indicated that in principle it was unlikely that the cremated remains of a lay person should be interred and marked within the sanctuary of a Grade I listed church. No exceptional circumstances were relied upon beyond the deceased's role as parish clerk and a server and that he had given a great amount of time and energy to the parish. On a visit to the church the chancellor observed that there were two memorial inscriptions to previous rectors in the floor of the sanctuary, and a number of other memorials to prominent people in the nave, including a comparable memorial to a previous parish clerk at the west end of the church. A faculty was granted for the erection of a memorial at the west end of the nave opposite the comparable memorial. [RA]
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