Faculties Made Easy - Hereford Diocese

Faculties M

Llangarron
28th Jun

Made Easy

n, St Deinst
ne 2014

Understanding th

• Faculty is the name given to consent
alteration to Church Buildings

• Church organisations responsible fo

• Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical
Rules 2013

he Faculty Process

t for carrying out works of repair or

or managing a robust planning system
Jurisdiction Measure 1991 Faculty

Starting th

• State
buildi

• State
want
will b

• Cont
for th

 Talk
 Talk

churc
• Cons

Herit
Geor
• Cons
there
buildi

he process

ement of Significance – what makes your
ing and its setting important / interesting
ement of Need – the 3 W’s: what do you
t to do; why do you want to do it; who
benefit
tact the Diocesan Advisory Committee
he Care of Churches (DAC)
to your church architect
to other churchwardens – visit other
ches to see completed works
sult other interested parties e.g. English
tage, SPAB, The Victorian Society, The
rgian Society, The Local Authority
sult your wider community especially if
e are proposals to alter the church
ing and / or its furnishings

BEST PRA

• Statement of Significance – are of va
required by the Faculty Rules. Time
dividends in the longer term. DACs,
strongly encourage the trend to com
applications.

• Statement of Need – must give a cle
what is proposed. Templates for bo

• Checklist of basic information about
proposed by Heritage Lottery Fund

• Site visits – either at officer level or
meetings to be enabling rather than

• Publish a “time-line” in the form of a
time that should be allowed for wor

• Diocesan Registries to introduce rea
to log on to web site for progress u

ACTICE

alue in wider circumstances than that
and thought spent on this will pay
, CBC, Amenity Societies, HLF
mplete this Statement in all

ear indication of why you want to do
oth Statements are readily available.
t the building – similar to that

for grant applications.
full DAC and consultees. The tone of
judgmental.
a flow chart setting out clearly the
rks under the Four Routes.
al-time tracking of petitions. PCCs able
update.

SUMMARY OF RE

• Establishment of national agreed list
• Establishment of a national agreed li

advice from the DAC and approval
go through the full Faculty procedur
• A more streamlined application pro
to the formal Petition with a more d
applications.
• A move to an online form with a pri
those who are unable to access a co
• Expanding the use of Statements of
Information Form which will be stor
base in each diocese.
• A much shorter and more streamlin

ECOMMENDATIONS

t of minor works
ist of routine works which will require
of the Archdeacon, but do not need to
re.
ocess from early advice stage through
disciplined time frame for routine

inted out paper version available for
omputer.
Significance accompanied by a Basic
red electronically to build up a date

ned Petition Form

Faculties m

Standard Infor

made Easy

rmation Sheet

Form 1A

A page 1

Finding Liste

ed Buildings

List Descript

tion; Morville

List Descript

tion, Morville

List Descripti

ion, Quatford

List Descripti

ion, Quatford

Scheduled Anci
Morville

ient Monument,
e Cross

Scheduled Anci
Morville

ient Monument,
e Cross

Conservat

tion Areas

Form 1A pa

age 1 cont’d

Parts of a chu
owner

Mamble (Worcs),
Coalbrookdale

urch in private
rship?

Bockleton
Lydbury North

Form 1A

A page 2

Commonwealt
Comm

th War Graves
mission

Commonwealt
Comm

th War Graves
mission

Sarn Brampton Abbotts

Listed Struc
Churchyard;

ctures in the
; Llangarron

Images of Engla

and; Llangarron

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Statements of S
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made Easy

Significance and
eed

Statements of Sig
Guidance f

Church Build
March

Church
Great Sm
London S

gnificance and Need
for Parishes

dings Council
h 2011
h House
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CHURCH BUILDINGS COUNCIL

STATEMENTS OF SIGNIFICANCE; GUIDANCE F

The Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2000 define a Statem
which summarises the historical development of the
make major contributions to the character of the chu

The purpose of the Statement of Significance is to h
potential that your church holds for worship and mis
advise you and assess your plans for change. A Sta
every parish, and should accompany a faculty applic
Statement of Need, for which guidance is also availa
http://www.churchcare.co.uk/legal.php.

This guidance includes a template to help you to wr
divided into two parts, as explained below. It should
and at least two photographs, normally one of the e
expandable boxes will guide you as to the sort of thi
In assessing significance you may wish to use the fo

• High – important at national to international lev
• Moderate-High – important at regional or some
• Moderate – usually of local value but of regiona

vernacular architecture)
• Low-Moderate – of local value
• Low – adds little or nothing to the value of a site

FOR PARISHES

ment of Significance as “a document
e church and identifies the important features that
urch.”

help you, the parish, explore the strengths and
ssion, and to help those in the Faculty system
atement of Significance should be prepared by
cation and balance the separately prepared
able on the Churchcare web site, found at:

rite your Statement of Significance, which should be
d include a ground plan and map of the local area
exterior, one of the interior. The notes in the
ings to include.
ollowing customary terminology.

vels
etimes higher
al significance for group or other value (e.g.

e or detracts from it