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Re Coultous, deceased

Bradford Consistory Court: Walford Ch, November 2011 Exhumation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2012

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

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The chancellor granted a faculty for the exhumation of the cremated remains of the deceased, which had been buried as long ago as 1977. Since the burial the church, hall and vicarage adjoining the burial ground had been demolished and the character of the area in which it stood had changed dramatically. The family had felt an increasing sense of alienation and anguish in relation to these changes. They were intending to bury the remains of the deceased's wife elsewhere and wished to bury the remains of the deceased in the same place. The chancellor found that circumstances existed that justified making an exception to the norm of permanence in Christian burial. [RA]