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Registrar Lee Coley T: 020 7796 1007 E: registry@stoneking.co.uk |
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Registry Assistant Frances Reynolds T: 020 7796 1007 E: registry@stoneking.co.uk
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What is the Registry?
The Registry is the Diocese’s legal team, advising Bishop Martyn and the team at St Martin’s House on all kinds of matters. We keep records relating to churches, patrons and clergy. We advise on licences and other paperwork required for clergy and lay appointments. We are also here to help and support clergy and PCC office holders. The types of things we deal with include
- faculty applications via the online faculty system
- amendments to faculties
- memorials
- gravespace reservations
- exhumations
- consecration of new churchyards
- closed churchyards
- parish churchyard regulations
- PCC governance
- clergy discipline
- wedding banns
- marriage licences
- temporary licences to hold services in alternative buildings whilst works are carried out
- ecumenical sharing agreements
- land ownership and use
Do pick up the phone or email us with your queries!
Registry Guidance notes
We've written some guidance notes on the topics that we regularly get asked about. Click on the links below to download copies.
- Banns and marriage licences
- Proposed changes to marriage registration
- CRR changes
- Gravespace reservations
- How to close a churchyard
- Local authority responsibility for maintenance of close churchyards
- Memorial petitions
- Public notices and certificates of publication
- Registry Guidance Note - changes to marriage law following Brexit
Please go to the DAC pages for an explanation of the faculty process and application forms for memorials and gravespace reservations.
Registry updates
We produce updates for clergy and office holders upon changes in the law and practice. Click on the links below to download copies.