Advice & Guidance Notes

The resources here are designed to help you in the care of your church.

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Practical Path to Net Zero 2030Download
Selling land or buildings guidance for PCCsDownload
CCTV GuidanceVisit
Volunteering Role Description

Would you like to be involved in a new Historic England and Cornwall Heritage Trust grant funded initiative? If so, Paul Holden, Chair of Truro DAC and lead for this exciting new project would like to hear from you.

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Church maintenance made easy with MaintenanceBookerDownload
Installation of broadband and mobile phone infrastructure

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.

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Telecommunications guidance

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

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Church Windows

Cleaning Guidance

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Bats and Churches – Advice from Bat Conservation Trust

Many medieval churches are used by bats. This resource provides advice about how you can share your place of worship with bats.

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Faculties – further information

A faculty is a permission granted by the Chancellor of the Diocese or the Archdeacon of the Archdeaconry concerned in the Consistory Court of the Diocese.

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Solar PV Panels criteria and checklist

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

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Solar PV Guidance

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.

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Health and Safety on your building site: Construction Regulations 2015

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

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Fire Safety Risk Assessment guidelines

This guidance gives advice on how to avoid fires and how to ensure people’s safety
if a fire does start.

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DAC Guide: What and why conservation? by Nick Cahill

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.

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Commissioning a New Church Window

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

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Guidance on Trees in Churchyards

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.

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Installing New Noticeboards

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

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Protection of Church Windows

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

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Care of Church Furniture

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

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Bells Advice

A bells project from first principles.

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Guidance Notes for New Altar Frontals

Guidance notes for new altar frontals,

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Bells In Your Care

Maintenance Advice

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