This is the problem - the land/house owner is forced to pay the Church of England an unlimited amount of money to repair the chancels of pre-1536 churches (of which there are 5,000) regardless if they are members of another denomination or religion or of no religion. Hence the need for reform.
Do you think it's likely that this provision might be extended to mosques - after all, it could look like discrimination if it isn't, although I'm not sure if there are any pre 1536 mosques in England (or the UK)? Why the 1536 cut-off point? Why, indeed, the legislation?
found out that the wee man won a shooting competition. never picked up a real gun in his life, took a shot bulls eye. entered a competition the organizers where holding over three days and won. cool. just bought him a 22 air riffle. yet another reason in my house to sleep with one eye open.
240 miles and a 14hr day. And it all starts again tomorrow at 0530...but thank god Blackpool meeting cancelled Weds so at least I can come home and just do a 300 mile driving day. Awesome
Returned home from Clacton after acquiring a rust free, yes rust free drivers side door for the bus. Happy days.
Speed Triple now on bike trader, work gone quiet and day off tomorrow to go to Hampton Court flower show. Will that cheer the wife up ? We'll have to wait and see
No, there is no risk of it being extended to mosques or churches of any other religion or denomination outside the Church of England, and it does not apply to churches built after 1536. It derives from the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII. Too complicated to explain here.
to complicated or long winded, sounds pretty straight forward to me. henry da 8th has come along as said "Oi enough of the monasteries already". dead easy.
During a debate about this topic in the Synod of the Church of England on 18 February 1982, one speaker said: "Indeed, when it comes to the historic liability for chancel repairs, tithe and tithe rent charge, we enter a field which in its technicality and complication is comparable only with the celebrated Schleswig Holstein question which occupied the chanceries of Western Europe in the middle of the 1860's as to which the Prime Minister of this country, Lord Palmerston, made the famous observation that there were only three men in England ever to have understood that question: the Prince Consort, who was dead, Mr Mellish, a Foreign Office clerk who had gone insane, and he himself — and he had forgotten it."
