Is it likely that Churches keep details of Faculty Applications that are turned down? I'm thinking of applications made in the late 1970s / early 1980s for a stained glass window.

On 27/11/15 01:16, cecilia wrote: > Is it likely that Churches keep details of Faculty Applications that > are turned down? I'm thinking of applications made in the late > 1970s / early 1980s for a stained glass window. The church may or may not. PCCs are not as good at keeping records as you might hope. But the diocese will probably have records, depending on exactly what happened. There's a possibility that it was informally rejected before the faculty application was properly submitted. The usual first step in a faculty application is an informal chat with the Diocesan Registrar or a member of a Diocesan Advisory Committee (DAC), and sometimes it becomes clear that the application has no hope of success. In such a case, there may be no record. But otherwise the application would normally be considered by the DAC, and minutes of their meeting may well exist. If there were major objections and the PCC were willing to fight it, it may have gone to Consistory Court, in which case records will certainly exist. Even if not, it will have been considered by the Registrar, and records of that may exist. Finally the Chancellor of the Diocese grants or rejects the faculty, and a record should certainly exist. Records this recent may not have been deposited in the Diocesan Record Office yet, but that should be your first port of call. If they cannot help, or if they know the records are not there, contact the Diocesan Registry. There will normally be a Registry Secretary or a Clerk to the Registrar, and that would be appropriate person to contact. Faculty applications are a major part of their work, and they should know what records exist and where they can be found. Consistory Court proceedings are open to the public as a matter of course, but I don't believe there's any obligation to make DAC minutes or the Registrar's advice public, so there's a possibility that the records you seek do exist but are still closed. Richard