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Extracts from July 2nd 1928

REMOVAL OF GRAVESTONES - APPLICATION FOR A FACULTY.

In the Norwich Diocesan Consistory Court on Saturday Mr. Alderman H.J. Waters applied for a faculty to remove the gravestones from the graves of his parents in the churchyard of Freethorpe, near Yarmouth, to the Primitive Methodist burial ground, in the same parish. Opposition was offered by the Church Council and by the incumbent of the parish.

The incumbent stated that the matter was causing a great deal of unrest in the village, and he asked the Chancellor not to allow the faculty to issue. The application was not to move the bodies, but only the gravestones. The graves were in a bad state, and he wanted to know what would be the position if the stones were taken away.

The CHANCELLOR (Mr. F.K. North) said he knew of no precedent, and would have liked to consult his brother Chancellors on the matter. It was perfectly clear that a body could be moved, but he never heard of moving a tombstone and leaving the body. He did not think that he had power to do so, but the matter must be adjourned till the next Court.

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