P85/2/11/9

Faculty regarding footpaths, alterations to churchyard and church

n.d. [c.1881]

From: 1881 To: 1881

to abandon three existing paths as public paths, one from Holly Walk to the west tower, a second from the point in Church Street marked A to the west tower, and a third from St.Ann's Lane to the south porch, and in lieu of them to construct a new public road ten feet wide (from A to D, thence to C, and northward from C to B in Church Street) to be occasionally used as a carriage drive for marriages and other attendances at church; then to enclose the churchyard with a substantial iron fence, with gateways to be opened in the day time and closed at night; to open two small gateways on the south side of the churchyard on condition that Mr. John Cumberland and other persons interested in having them contributed £50 to the Restoration Fund and to the Churchyard Paths and Fencing Fund; to lay out shrubberies or Flower beds and to effect such alterations as are shown on the plan; to lay tombstones flat on the graves but in no case to break into any graves or disturb remains; Also to erect an Alabaster Reredos to replace the temporary one over the communion table, and also to erect a marble pulpit to replace the wooden one; To replace all the damaged memorial stones in the churchyard and any human remains which might be disturbed re-intered. Work to be carried out to plans and specifications prepared "by a competent surveyor" [not named], the estimated costs being churchyard (£300-£400), pulpit and reredos (£500-£550), 7 December 1881, with citation dated 16 November 1881, and extract made by Diocesan Registrar,

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churchyard, St. Mary Luton, footpaths, church fabric, Luton Holly Walk, Luton Church Street, Luton St.Ann's Road, town & local roads