Faculty for extension refused on aesthetic grounds
THE size and appearance of a two-storey extension to a church
would damage the church both aesthetically and architecturally, and
any necessity for the extension was insufficient to justify that,
Chancellor Mark Blackett-Ord ruled in the Consistory Court of
Leicester diocese. He refused to grant a faculty for building works
to All Saints', Cossington, a Grade II* church said to be of
12th-century origin.
The petition, brought by the Rector and churchwardens, sought
permission for ...
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