Comments for The Church of England in Kirkby

Comment on Funerals by Timothy Stratford

Timothy Stratford — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:46:12 +0000

Thank you for your observation Ignatius. We do publish the fees on the website. You can get them here, http://www.cofekirkby.co.uk/wiki/pages/w9Q933h/Parish.html. Sorry if is is not very obvious. We will endeavour to rectify that.

The full set of fees for the Church of England churches in Kirkby include the cost of bringing in staff such as an organist. If an organist isn’t required then this doesn’t need paying for. It also includes printing costs, but if orders of service aren’t required, they don’t need paying for either. None of our churches have full-time vergers so we need to pay somebody to come along and open/lock up the churches also – this isn’t a problem for Cathedrals. Clearly the clergy can’t lock a church up and join the cortege for a burial or cremation at the same time.

The £125 fee you mention is the same in the Roman Catholic Church or Church of England and is nationally agreed primarily as a contribution towards the pay of the clergy.

The Parochial Church Council discusses the fee list every year and always challenges the costs to keep them as low as possible. National guidelines change at the end of this year and there will be a more significant review for 2013.

Without any of the removable extras such as an organist the fees are £215 for a funeral service in church in 2012.

Some of our other fees, however, are very low compared to others. Check, for instance, the burial fees compared to those of a public cemetery (although we are now limited in what burials we are permitted to accept).

Comment on Funerals by Ignatius Campbell

Ignatius Campbell — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:04:27 +0000

A very well presented block of information however I feel you should include how expensive it is to have a Funeral at St Chads. As I know from personal experience that you are actually more expensive than any other Church in Kirkby. The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool only has set their fee at £125.00.

Do you offer something so unique that you feel the need to charge so much?

Comment on Contact us by Timothy Stratford

Timothy Stratford — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:07:02 +0000

Hello Jim.

I’m afraid Jim Garnett died very recently. We would be delighted nevertheless for one of the current clergy to conduct a blessing and renewal of marriage vows service for you. Please drop in to our regular bookings hour every. This is held every Tuesday evening between 6.30-7.30pm in Centre 63 (except Holy Week 3rd April). Best wishes, Tim Stratford.

Comment on Contact us by Sarah Scully

Sarah Scully — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:06:13 +0000

Hi,

I would like to have my son christened in St Martins Church, could you advise how I can go about making arrangements?

Kind Regards

Sarah

Comment on Contact us by Jim Durney

Jim Durney — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:54:03 +0000

Hi
i was married thirty years ago this june at st chads, the vicar who married myself and my wife was Jim Garnett from st Andrews church.
we would like a blessing in june to renew our vows and if possible would like Jim Garnett to perform this ceremony for us at St Chads.
if this is possible or not would you please reply to me with thie infomation we will need for our blessing and renewal of our vows.
Thank you for ypur time

Jim

Comment on Contact us by Timothy Stratford

Timothy Stratford — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:34:51 +0000

Hi Amanda. Yes that is fine. Questions of Faith discussions are always open to new-comers.

Comment on Contact us by Amanda Murphy

Amanda Murphy — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:56:23 +0000

Hi I will be attending the questions of faith tomorrow night and I have a friend who would like to attend would this be OK?
thanks
Amanda

Comment on Churchyard by Timothy Stratford

Timothy Stratford — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:05:08 +0000

I am afraid this is not held in the church records. It might be held at the school itself: http://kirkbyce.webplus.net/ email: kirkbyce.de@knowsley.gov.uk .

Comment on Churchyard by Michael Ryding

Michael Ryding — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:36:48 +0000

Hi Tim,

I’ve been trying to find the St Chads School Register from 1806 to 1845 (for my family history search) after it was referenced in ‘A Thousand Years of History’ – AG Plant – Chapter 3 pages 18-19.

Sadly, although the Liverpool archives have the log from 1865 onwards they have no record of the earlier logs. It’s a shot in the dark I’m afraid but do you have any ideas where they may be now? Or perhaps another contact to keep the game afoot

Thanks very much for your time, it’s very much appreciated

Michael

Comment on Full House for Christmas by LIZ

LIZ — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:00:14 +0000

A LOVELY EVENING. THE WHOLE EVENT WAS UPLIFTING, GETTING US INTO THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT SHOPPING AND DECORATING YOUR HOUSE. IT WAS A REMINDER THAT IT IS THE CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS. THANKS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED! OH YES AND A HAPPY CHRISTMAS.