Advisory Notes
last updated on: 16th Mar 2012
The DAC has produced a set of Advisory Notes and these can be downloaded from this page. They are all in pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format and require the FREE Acrobat Reader. If you need this please go to Adobe to download and install.
In addition, you may find useful information on the Churchcare website, which is the website of the Church Buildings Council (CBC) {formerly the Council for the Care of Churches (CCC)} or the website for English Heritage.
If you cannot find what you are looking for in the list below, please either email us or ring us on 024 7652 1312
- Access for people with disabilities (from English Heritage)
- Access Audit (A template)
- Archaeology (from the Churchcare website)
- Archaeology and Your Church
- Arson Malicious Damage Guidance Note (from Ecclesiastical Insurance Group)
- Art, Commissioning new Glass and works of
- Art, Commissioning new works of (CBC)
- Asbestos in church buildings
- Bats and the impact they might might have on proposed works
- Bats - Guidance from English Heritage
- Bats - Guidance from Natural England
- Bell and bellframes (Guidance from English Heritage)
- Bells and bell equipment
- Brasses and slabs, conservation of
- Candlelit services
- Carpets, DAC Advice on the laying of,
- Clocks
- Electrical wiring
- Fire Safety Order 2005
- Floodlighting (from the Churchcare website)
- Glass and Works of Art, Commissioning new
- Health & Safety guidance (from Ecclesiastical Insurance)
- Health & Safety Policy, A sample,
- Heating in churches (from the Churchcare website)
- Lightning and Surge Protection (English Heritage) - Update guidance
- Memorial plaques in churches
- Metal thefts (Guidance from from Ecclesiastical Insurance)
- Metal thefts (Guidance from English Heritage)
- Metal thefts (Guidance from the DAC)
- New Work in Historic Places of Worship
- Noticeboards
- Re-decorating the interior of the church (from the Churchcare website)
- Scheduled Monuments (Guidance from English Heritage)
- Scheduled Monument Consent Application Guidance (English Heritage)
- Scheduled Monument Consent Form (English Heritage)
- Scheduled Monuments -DCMS Policy guide
- Seating in churches
- Sewage systems (from the Churchcare website)
- Signage about no smoking signs etc
- Sound systems, Installing of, in churches
- Surge Protection for Churches (English Heritage)
- Textiles, Conservation of, (from the Church Buildings Council (CBC) {formerly the Council for the Care of Churches (CCC})
- Theft of Metals (i.e. roofs, rainwater goods etc)
- Valuables, Selling church
- Vertical Ladders Guidance
