The petitioner sought a faculty for the erection of a memorial stone in the churchyard in memory of his partner. The incumbent and PCC, supported by the Archdeacon, objected on the basis that the stone did not comply with the current Churchyard Regulations, was not in keeping with other memorials and would open the floodgates to further unwelcome applications. The Diocesan Advisory Committee supported the petition, stating that the memorial was ‘imaginative and of artistic merit’. In granting the faculty, the chancellor recognised that the floodgates argument was ‘of some weight, but only some’. He noted that the churchyard already had a diversity of headstones and observed that ‘We are all human, all different, and all have different tastes’. He saw no reason why the deceased's unconventional and artistic lifestyle should not be reflected in her memorial. [RA]
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