Buildings and maintenance

This section opens up the often daunting subject of procedures and legal requirements with regards to the maintenance and development of buildings. Before you embark upon reading through the lot, we recommend you use this resource for reference only - it's not the sort of stuff you'd want filling your head.

Where possible we have linked to information held at Church Care where a vast wealth of information is regularly updated and kept in good legal fettle. Information held on our website (particularly that regarding church buildings) covers standing queries and the less time-sensitive items. If you have any queries regarding buildings and maintenance not covered in this section, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Parish churches and grounds

Health & Safety:
- Fire safety
- Gravestones, Tombs & Memorials Safety

Legal Faculty information:
- Applications for Faculties
- Bristol Minor Matters List 2005
- Care of Churches Current Legislation
- Monuments in closed churchyards
- Temporary Reordering
- Temporary Reordering; Licence Application Form

General:
- Aerials
- Appointment of Architects & Surveyors
- Archaeology & Churches
- Burial of Cremated Remains
- Chancel Repair Liability
- Chancel Repair Liability - How to research
- Chancellor's guidance on exhumation
- Church Bells and the Law
- Church Noticeboards & Signs
- Church Textiles
- Churchyard Regulations
- Church Clocks
- Conservation Management Plan
- Environmental concerns
- Memorial application form
- Memorial Plaques Guidelines
- Reordering Your Church
- Smoking Regulations
- Statements of Significance & Need
- Trees in Churchyards

If what you're looking for isn't here, try Church Care or get in touch

Other Diocesan land and property (vicarages etc)

Please contact the Property Office in the first instance:

Sally Moody
Church House
23 Great George Street
Bristol
BS1 5QZ

Tel: 0117 906 0100
Fax: 0117 925 0460
Email:

Contacts

The Archdeacon of Malmesbury, The Venerable Alan Hawker
Church Paddock, Church Lane
Kington Langley, CHIPPENHAM, Wilts, SN15 5NR
Tel: 01249 750085
Email:

The Archdeacon of Bristol, The Venerable Tim McClure
10 Great Brockeridge, Westbury on Trym
BRISTOL BS9 3TY
Tel: 0117 9621433
Email:

The Diocesan Registry
14 Market Place
WELLS, Somerset, BA5 2RE
Tel: 01749 674747
Email:

The DAC Office
Church House, 23 Great George Street
BRISTOL BS1 5QZ
Tel: 0117 9060100
Email:

Property Office
Church House, 23 Great George Street
BRISTOL BS1 5QZ
Tel: 0117 9060100
Email:

Buildings and DAC Notices:

The DAC administrative operations in Bristol have now moved to Bath and Wells offices. Please contact Jane Holmes on

Buildings and maintenance

Parish churches and grounds

Other Diocesan land and property (vicarages etc)

Contacts

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Buildings and DAC Notices: