Boards and Committees

Suspended or Restricted Benefices

Suspension of Presentation

Following consultation, and with the consent of the Diocesan Mission & Pastoral Committee (DMPC), the Bishop may decide to suspend the patrons’ right of presentation to a benefice while possibilities for pastoral reorganisation are explored or new parsonages constructed. This is carried out within the terms of the Pastoral Measure 1983 and the Diocesan policy on suspensions. In these cases, a priest-in-charge, rather than an incumbent, is appointed to a benefice. Also, the patron’s right of presentation to a benefice may be restricted by the Bishop for up to one year if he requests the DMPC to consider the possibility of pastoral reorganisation involving that benefice.

Download a leaflet for parishes explaining suspension of presentation and the process involved

List of suspended or restricted benefices
at 1 December 2011

(Further details available from the Pastoral Department at Trinity House)

Benefices marked * were newly suspended or restricted during 2011

Angell Town, St John the Evangelist
Battersea, St Peter & St Paul
Bellingham, St Dunstan*
Benhilton, All Saints*
Brixton, St Matthew w St Jude
Brixton, St Paul w St Saviour
Brockham Green, Christ Church
Camberwell, St Philip & St Mark
Clapham, St James
Croydon, St Andrew
Deptford, St Nicholas & St Luke
Eltham, St John the Baptist
Eltham, St Saviour
Gipsy Hill, Christ Church*
Kenley, All Saints
Kennington Park, St Agnes*
Kingston Vale, St John the Baptist
Leigh, St Bartholomew
Lewisham, St Swithun
Lower Sydenham, St Michael & All Angels
Merton, St James
New Malden & Coombe, Christ Church & St John
Norbury & Thornton Heath, St Stephen
Norbury, St Philip
North Dulwich, St Faith*
Nunhead, St Antony w St Silas
Peckham, St John w St Andrew
Peckham, St Saviour (Copleston Centre)
Purley, St Barnabas
Purley, St Mark
Purley, St Swithun
Putney Team Ministry
Putney, St Margaret
Reigate, St Luke w Doversgreen, St Peter
Reigate, St Philip
Sanderstead Team Ministry*
South Lambeth, St Anne & All Saints
South Norwood, Holy Innocents
South Norwood, St Alban
South Norwood, St Mark
Southwark, St George the Martyr w St Alphege & St Jude
Streatham Hill, St Margaret*
Streatham, St Paul
Sydenham, All Saints
Thornton Heath, St Paul
Waterloo, St John & St Andrew

List of benefices where suspension or restriction was lifted or not renewed during 2011

Brixton Road, Christ Church
Catford, St Andrew
Clapham Park, All Saints
Coulsdon, St Andrew
Downham, St Barnabas
Lavender Hill, The Ascension & Battersea, St Philip & St Bartholomew
Petersham, St Peter
Southfields, St Barnabas
Southwark, St Saviour w All Hallows
Upper Tooting, Holy Trinity w St Augustine