Additional Matters Orders | The Church of England

The Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2015 (as amended) provides in Schedule 1 certain matters which may be undertaken without a Faculty.

List A contains works that may be undertaken without a faculty subject to any specified conditions.

List B contains works that may, subject to any specified conditions, be undertaken without a faculty if the archdeacon has been consulted and has given notice in writing that the matter may be undertaken without a faculty.

Under section 78 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018 and Rule 3.4 of the Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2015 (as amended), the Chancellor of each Diocese, after seeking the advice of the Diocesan Advisory Committee and the archdeacon of every archdeaconry in which a parish may be affected by the order, may make an Additional Matters Order in respect of temporary changes to the layout of the church building or the installation of equipment.

These Additional Matters Orders may be undertaken without a faculty, and generally need approval by the archdeacon, much in the same way as the List B applications are determined. In some dioceses, these Additional Matters Orders are requested through the Diocesan Registry and approved by the Chancellor.

Additional Matters Orders will not be granted if any of the works requested fall under the matters listed in section 77(7) of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018, namely:

works which involve alteration to or the extension of a listed building to such an extent as would be likely to affect its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest;
works which are likely to affect the archaeological importance of a building or any archaeological remains within a building or its curtilage;
works for all or part of which scheduled monument consent is required under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979;
works which involve the extension, demolition or partial demolition of a building or the erection of a new building;
a matter which gives rise to a question of law or doctrine, ritual or ceremonial or which would if undertaken, affect a person’s legal rights;
the exhumation or other disturbance of human remains;
the reservation of a grave space;
the sale or other disposal of an article of architectural, archaeological, artistic or historic interest;
the sale of a book remaining in or belonging to a parochial library;
the introduction of an aumbry or another receptacle used for the reservation of the sacrament of Holy Communion;
the introduction of a monument, or the carrying out of work to a monument erected in or on, or on the curtilage of, a church or other consecrated building or on consecrated ground.

In such cases, a Faculty application will be required.

These Additional Matters Orders must be shared on each diocesan website and each diocesan registrar must register every additional matters order (or order that varies or revokes an additional matters order) in the diocesan registry.

To provide a national context of these Additional Matters Orders, a generalisation of each Diocesan Orders are provided below. For further details on these additional matters, please refer to the diocesan websites.

Matter	Diocese
Defibrillators	Lichfield, Norwich, Truro
Security funded by grants	Blackburn
Commonwealth war graves signage	Chelmsford, Guildford, Gloucester, Lichfield, London, Oxford Southwark, St Albans, Winchester
Noticeboards	Exeter, Norwich, Bristol
Frontals	Bristol, Coventry, Exeter, Guildford, Leicester, Lichfield, Norwich, Gloucester
Christmas lights	Exeter, Lichfield
Easter to Ascension lights	Exeter
Clarification of routine maintenance	Oxford
Repainting of clock faces	Lichfield, Exeter, Guildford, Gloucester
Repair or conservation of damaged historic glass	Lichfield, Bristol, Exeter, Gloucester, Guildford
Marking of car park spaces and signage for disabled parking	Lichfield
'There but not there' installations	Bath & Wells
Royal British Legion silent soldier silhouette	St Albans, Bristol
Filming	Chelmsford, St Albans
Preliminary investigative works (in roof spaces and below ground)	Bristol, Exeter, Guildford, St Albans
Similar minor matters to those on Lists A and B	Chichester
Bike Racks	Bristol
Installation of router and cable in the churchyard	Winchester, Norwich, Derby
Installation of a telephone line through the churchyard	Lincoln
Temporary electrical installations	Leicester
Internet access	Coventry, Lichfield, Exeter
Covid-19 measures	Ely, Lincoln
Hand sanitisers (A unlisted, B listed)	St Albans
Vegetable patches	Bristol
Gale breaker screens in towers	Bristol, Gloucester
Archaeological test pits	Bristol, Chelmsford
Disposal of elements of redundant heating systems	Bristol, Gloucester
Felling a tree	Bristol, Gloucester
Installation of handrails	Bristol, Guildford
Introduction of small functional items in churchyards	Bristol, Gloucester
The maintenance, repair and like-for-like replacement of the whole or any part of a Churchyard Structure	Bristol
Introduction or replacement of roof insulation and/or cavity wall insulation	Bristol
Streaming cameras	Bath & Wells, Coventry
Hand sanitiser unit	Chelmsford, Oxford
Removal of sound and loop equipment	Chelmsford
Wifi router, including shallow cable	Bath & Wells, Bristol, Carlisle, Newcastle, Winchester
Replacement of wall-mounted gas/electric heaters and replacement under pew heating	Leicester
Equipment and connection for live streaming	Bristol, Chelmsford, Exeter, Oxford, Sheffield, St. Albans
Vaccination Centres	Derby, Lichfield, Bath & Wells
Centenary Tree Plaques	Coventry
Replacement of CCTV system	Leicester
Information boards in churchyards	Bristol
The introduction of external 13 Amp. weatherproof sockets	Bristol
Internet connectivity	Exeter, Leicester
Introduction of raised beds	Exeter
Minor works to allow accessibility to the building for social distancing and one-way systems	Exeter
Security equipment, including CCTV and lighting	Leicester
The introduction of a temporary heating system	Bristol, Salisbury
The use of an area for the cultivation of flowers and/or shrubs in church grounds	Bristol
Like-for-like repairs to post-1837 windows	Ely
The removal of telecommunication equipment	Bristol
The introduction of picnic benches to areas exterior to the church	Bristol
The transfer of books from parish libraries to Norwich Cathedral	Norwich
The installation of a standard plaque to commemorate those whose lives were lost during the Covid-19 pandemic	Norwich
Trials relating to heating and lighting solutions for a period of up to 18 months	Gloucester
Conservation cleaning and minor conservation repairs to internal and external church memorials of historical interest	Gloucester, Guldford (Churchyard memorials only)
Repair and cleaning of churchyard memorials and grave markers	Gloucester
Cleaning of graffiti	Gloucester
Carrying out specialist sampling	Gloucester
Minor modifications to rainwater disposal systems	Gloucester, Guldford
Replacement of a wrought iron clapper with a spheroidal graphite iron clapper	Gloucester
The installation of emergency lighting and safety equipment in the main body of the church	Gloucester
Introduction of wall-mounted card payment systems, which require fixing to fabric	Winchester
Giving permission for the use of a church hall by a third party License required - subject to a maximum of 48 hours per user per month	Winchester
Giving permission for the use of a church by a third party License required - subject to the Minister (or area dean) being satisfied that the use authorised would not contravene Canons F15 and F16. Maximum of 48 hours per user per month. The total allowable across a month is 120 hours.	Winchester
The introduction of a ladder fixing to aid safe gutter and valley clearance and maintenance.	Salisbury
Holding events in closed churchyards (no anti-social or unseemly behaviour in the churchyard or its immediate environment allowed)	Bristol
Specified works to unlisted churches Introduction, adaptation and removal of storage facilities (both internal and external). Introduction, adaption and removal of works to make a building accessible (both internal and external). Introduction of a kitchen. Introduction and adaption of a WC. Introduction, adaptation or removal of curtains and blinds. Introduction, adaption or removal of lighting schemes. Introduction of a new heating system (non-fossil fuel). New flooring. Upgrade of electrical. infrastructure, including moving to 3-phase supply, and re-wiring of electrical circuits. Installation of solar thermal and battery storage. Installation of heating controls, timers, smart thermostatic radiator valves or other energy-efficiency equipment. Replacement or upgrade of hot water tanks. Installation of insulated or uninsulated suspended ceilings, including any ducting necessary for HVAC systems.	Bristol
Introduction of water butt	Guildford