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Chancel check

ChancelCheck® is a screening report that instantly and categorically identifies whether or not a property is located within the boundaries of a tithe district (a sub-division of an historical parish), which has a continuing potential to charge for chancel repair liability.

Chancel repair liability is a real and continuing problem with a direct financial impact on the title held by a homebuyer. Current chancel repair searches are costly, often inconclusive and, where a liability is discovered, exacerbate the problem by dramatically increasing the cost of insurance.

ChancelCheck® is the only service which combines historical tithe district and parish boundary data, modern Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping techniques and information derived from the relevant Inland Revenue indices held by the national archive. ChancelCheck® accurately establishes whether or not a property is within an historical tithe district that still retains the potential to charge for the cost of repairs to the church chancel as recorded within the relevant Inland Revenue indices held by the national archive and in accordance with their guidance notes.

ChancelCheck® issues either a report stating that there is a potential liability within the tithe district within the parish the property is situated or a certificate confirming that there is no risk identified for that tithe district within the national archive records.

Currently conveyancers operate under a number of common misconceptions about which properties may be at potential risk of chancel repair liability, such as:

that a property must be in a rural location

that the liability is in respect of repair costs for the whole church (the chancel is normally less than 20% of the total footprint)

that the property has to be adjacent or close by a church.

The fact is that any property within a parish can be at risk. The liability runs with the land and is an overriding interest. As such it does not have to have been registered against the title of a property in order to be enforceable by the Church of England - the "conveyancing trap".

Costs and timescales

Turnaround:

24 to 48 hours

Cost:

£17.63 including VAT

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