chancel repair search

Your Conveyancing Solicitor will carry out these searches to protect you during the purchase process - You don't want to find any skeletons in the closet!

Some experts estimate that over one quarter of parish churches may be entitled to recover chancel repairs from home owners who own all or part of property ( land ) that may have at some time in the past been owned by parish.The Law Commission in 1983 identified over 5,000 chancels for which a...

Chancel liability relates to an archaic law dating back to Henry VIII allow the church to demand home owners pay for repairs of their local church if their home is built on land that at some distant time belonged to the church. It dates back to when Churches or more specifically their Chancel's...

Conveyancing searches explained

My conveyancing solicitor has advised I need a Chancel Search - What is Chancel Liability?