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Hello Anne.
According to Dorothy M Owen, The Records of the Established Church in
England (BRA, 1970), pp22-3
'The general responsibility of the bishop for the preservation of the
buildings and lands belonging to individual benefices in his diocese was at
first exemplified in an occasional licence, entered in the general register,
to take down and re-use the stones of a deserted church or ruinous
parsonage, and to exchange glebe lands for others. {she gives 14th century
example from Lincoln] Before he granted such licences the bishop had clearly
been satisfied, by written or oral evidence, and probably by the certificate
of a local inquiry, about the circumstances requiring it, but no files were
accumulated, or at least retained, before the eighteenth century. Meanwhile,
from the late sixteenth century onwards, the records of these licences
multiplies, in the general registers, in the officials' licence registers,
or even in a separate register containing nothing else, and the eighteenth
century saw the deliberate accumulation and preservation of large supporting
files. This was particularly true of the licences covering church
buildings, churchyards and residence buildings, which are now known as
FACULTIES. This term was often applied at first only to formal allotments
of seats in parish churches, and records of such acts are sometimes found
among the archidiaconal records, especially those of visitation, but it came
to be applied more widely to such purely episcopal acts as the reservation
of vaults ("dormitories") or grave spaces, the alteration or demolition of
parts of the church buildings and residence houses, the erection of mausolea
and so on. Its subsequent development and the present state of the law are
admirably set out in a Church Assembly report, FEES AND FACULTIES, which
appeared in 1959'
Others may have more up to date suggestions.
Rosemary Hayes
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> I know this may well not be medieval, but does anyone know the date that
> faculties for works on churches were introduced?
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> Thanks
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> Anne
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