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Christ Churchyard

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Location	:	Quinton, Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, England
Coordinate	:	52.4619800, -2.0095500
Description	:	In February 1889, the CHURCHYARD was closed to interments by an order in Council. To that date, and from the year of its consecration, 1840, 1415 persons had been buried there. In due course the Churchyard was “put in proper condition” and it was decreed that all future costs for its maintenance be met by the Overseers of the Parish. A few months after the closure the Rector and Wardens conveyed, Alexander Macomb Chance, for the sum of £158, one acre of glebe land - to be used as a NEW BURIAL GROUND. Mr. Chance divided the land and conveyed the... Read More	In February 1889, the CHURCHYARD was closed to interments by an order in Council. To that date, and from the year of its consecration, 1840, 1415 persons had been buried there. In due course the Churchyard was “put in proper condition” and it was decreed that all future costs for its maintenance be met by the Overseers of the Parish. A few months after the closure the Rector and Wardens conveyed, Alexander Macomb Chance, for the sum of £158, one acre of glebe land - to be used as a NEW BURIAL GROUND. Mr. Chance divided the land and conveyed the western half to Mr. Arthur Albright in consideration of £83; he, in turn, gave over this area to certain non-conformist trustees on the firm proviso that it should remain unconsecrated "for the burial of all persons for whom therein application shall be made". The eastern half of the land was consecrated by the Bishop of Worcester on 30 August 1890, one-sixth of this half-acre being appropriated by Mr. Chance as a private burial ground, and the whole to be exclusive to parishioners of any religious persuasion. The unconsecrated ground, totalling 476 grave spaces, could be used for non-parishioners on payment of a fee, and by 1903 a few church people (i.e. C. of E.) from outside the Parish had been buried there - fully in accord with the conditions set out in the gift of the land. However, at this time the non-conformist trustees revoked their agreement with Mr. Albright and refused to allow any further interments of members of the Church of England. “ We protest against this Resolution as being an infringement of the rights of churchmen who have the legal right to be interred in any portion of the Parish Burial Ground”- wrote the Rector, but it was all to no avail as the trustees remained adamant. A final appeal was made to the Home Office a year later; their response was that the interpretation of Trust Deeds was not for them to decide. The Rector was prepared to sell more glebe land to extend the ground but, with the Bishop, was of the opinion that this additional provision was really the duty of the civil authority and not the Church. There the matter rested. Quinton Cemetery was opened in the 1920's, and in 1936 the Chance family gave up part of the burial ground reserved for them, and this allowed for a further 15-20 graves. The Burial ground has a central path, and the Church, or consecrated side is the eastern half, on the left of the path; the Chapel side is the western half, on the right. The Church side was administered by the Rector and Church Council, as is usual; the Chapel side was administered by a body of Free Churchmen, known as the Trustees, who employed a firm of solicitors to act as their clerk and keep them on the right lines.

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Latitude: 52.4619800
Longitude: -2.0095500

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