Your church building and churchyard

The Church Buildings Office are here to support you in looking after your church building and churchyard.

We help to facilitate the process for obtaining permission for repairs and alterations to church buildings.

We are your first point of contact for any query about maintaining your buildings.

You can find further information on a variety of topics using the links below.

Making changes Minor repairs (List B permission) Maintenance Diocesan Advisory Committee
Celebrating our church heritage Churchyards Funding and grants The future of your church building

Contact us

Alice Risdon: Church Buildings Officer and Church Buildings Strategy Committee Secretary
Enquiries for parishes in the archdeaconries of Plymouth, Totnes and Barnstaple West
01392 294945 or Email Alice

Louise Brown: Church Buildings Officer
Enquiries for parishes in the archdeaconries of Exeter and Barnstaple East
01392 294902 or Email Louise

Imogen Smith: Church Buildings Support Officer Apprentice
01392 294962 or Email Imogen

Dr Nigel Pratt: Senior Church Buildings Adviser & DAC Secretary
01392 294944 or Email Nigel

Email the DAC

For enquiries regarding vicarages, school buildings and glebe land, please visit Property Services.

For any queries relating to the reservation of a grave space, exhumations, or the closure of a churchyard, please contact the Diocesan Registry, 0117 233 1700 or email Registry Clerk.

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