BURIAL ACT 1853

Notice is hereby given that representations have been made to Her Majesty in Council by the Secretary of State for Justice that burials should be discontinued in the remainder of St Michael’s Churchyard, Madeley, Borough of Telford and Wrekin, and that Her Majesty in Council was pleased on 9th April 2008 to order that such representations be taken into account by a Committee of the Privy Council on 21st May 2008

The exceptions are that:-

a) 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 at a depth less than one metre below the level of the surface of the ground adjoining the grave; and

b) in any grave space in which no interment has previously taken place, the burial may be allowed of any person for whom, or of any member of a 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.