Churchyard Regulations – an important development – Law and Religion UK

The Diocese of Oxford weekly newsletter of 30 November 2016 included an announcement that the Chancellor of the Diocese had made new Churchyard Regulations governing the installation of new memorials, works to existing memorials, and other matters in churchyards; these will come into force on 1 January 2017. With more churches than any other diocese in the Church of England, and coming shortly after standardized Regulations of the Leeds diocese which came into force at the start of this year, these new Regulations represent a significant development towards regularizing the management of churchyards in the Church of England.

David Pocklington, "Churchyard Regulations – an important development" in Law & Religion UK, 14 December 2016,

John Clark