Diocesan Advisory Committee (DAC) for the Care of Churches
This Committee has two distinct roles. Its statutory role is to offer formal advice to the Chancellor of the Diocese who decides whether to grant or decline a faculty. Its other role is to offer advice and assistance to parishes and other applicants as they explore options and prepare proposals to maintain or enhance their churches and churchyards.
Early consultation with the DAC is always advisable. Normally contact is best established through the Secretary whose e-mail address is Churches@durham.anglican.org If you do not have e-mail hard copy can be sent to:
Care of Churches Secretary
Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle
BISHOP AUCKLAND DL14 7QJ
Tel: 01388 660001
Email: Churches@durham.anglican.org
Click here for DAC Meeting dates 2011
Click here for DAC Meeting dates 2012
When making an approach, use may be made of the Application Certificate and notes (click here to download a PDF copy) but this is optional.
From time to time the DAC, with the sanction of the Chancellor, published guidance notes (click the links below to download the relevant PDF document). Currently there are:
Creating a Garden of Remembrance
Digital Projection in Churches
Lighting and Wiring: Some Common Questions
Sound Amplification in Churches
Smoke-free England: Signage Guidance for Churches, Places of Worship & Church/Parish Halls
How to deal with theft of metal from your Church
Organs: Advice from the Organ Adviser
Prevention of Arson and Malicious Guidance notes
The provision of photovoltaic solar panels on churches is a relatively new idea about which thought is still developing. For current guidance please follow the link below:
Solar Panels
There are also excellent web sites to which reference should be made including:
www.churchcare.co.uk
www.spabfim.org.uk
www.churchplansonline.org
www.conservationregister.com
www.ecclesiastical.com
www.cofe.anglican.org
www.inspirednortheast.org.uk
The Inspired North East Project is also available to help you prepare a project for submission to the DAC or to help with early DAC discussions, click here.
Click here for copies of the Archaeological Assessments (text and photographs) for all of the older churches in the Diocese.
As more Quinquennial Reports become available these too will be added
For help with the funding of work to a church please see the Church Buildings Committee page.
See also Boards, Councils & Committees
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