Advice & Guidance Notes

The Diocese of Truro has over 300 churches and 86% are either Grade I, II* or II.
We have a responsibility to care for these buildings with the added challenge of ensuring they are accessible and practical for the communities they serve today.
It can seem like a daunting task.
We hope that these notes will help you understand the faculty process and the need for it.

The Diocese of Truro Advisory Committee and Cornwall Council welcome entries for the 2023 Nick Cahill Award.

A government consultation is currently open on the proposed Protect Duty. The duty is intended to be part of the response to the threat from terrorism, particularly after the Manchester Arena Attack. It has become clear that it is important that churches, and those who speak for churches, respond to the consultation.

This guidance relates to the installation of transmission equipment in, or more probably on, churches, most likely in relation to the use of mobile phones and for broadband access in areas where reception is currently poor. While these two technologies are distinct the process is similar.

This note offers congregations and installers advice about Historic England’s involvement with proposals to install telecommunications equipment.

Cleaning Guidance

Guidelines for the installation of photovoltaic cells that any parish seeking to install photovoltaic cells must meet.

The Diocese of Truro is committed to the Shrinking the Footprint targets for the Church, and PV panels are part of the means to achieve these targets.

Many churches are unaware that they, as the client, are partially responsible for ensuring health and safety on site during building works.

Conservation is about more than preserving listed buildings as museum pieces – it is about managing change in all our historic places, recognising what is significant about them, what in them has value, whether spiritual, historical, aesthetic, cultural or communal.

Guidance notes for PCCs when commissioning a new window for a church.

The Parochial Church Council is responsible for the care and maintenance of trees, and this includes the planting of new trees, in any churchyard or burial ground it is liable to maintain.

Guidance notes for the PCC when installing new noticeboards for churches.

The main purpose of window guards is to protect the windows against the effects of casual vandalism.

The Routine Care of Historic Furniture and Fixed Woodwork in Churches.

A bells project from first principles.

Guidance notes for new altar frontals,

Maintenance Advice