The Privy Council has decided that burials shall cease at a Macclesfield church.

The Holy Trinity Church in Hurdsfield is running out of room for more graves.

And The Privy Council, a body of advisors to King Charles III, have intervened.

Burials shall stop at the Grade II-listed church with immediate effect.

The exceptions to this new rule are as follows:

"a) in any vault or walled grave in the churchyard, burial may be allowed but every coffin in such vault or grave must be separately enclosed by stonework or brick work properly cemented."

"b) in any existing earthen grave in the churchyard, the burial may be allowed of the body of any member of the family of the person or persons previously buried in that grave, but no part of the coffin containing the body shall be less than one metre below the level of the surface of the ground adjoining the grave."

"c) in any grave space in which no interment has previously taken place, the burial may be allowed of any person for whom, or any member of the family for which that grave space has been reserved and appropriated, with the exclusive right of burial there, but no part of the coffin containing the body shall be less than one metre below the level of the surface of the ground adjoining the grave."

The church was built one year after Queen Victoria came to the throne, in 1838.

(Source)

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