The petitioners sought a faculty for the conversion of the altar table in the lady chapel to serve also as a chest of drawers suitable for the temporary storage of heritage vestments. Oak panels would be applied, giving the effect of panelled furniture, which would obscure the view of the drawers on the rare occasions when the altar was stripped. Alternative storage locations in the church had been found to be unsuitable for the safe storage of the vestments. Longer-term suitable storage was planned as part of a wider scheme due for completion in 2024. The Diocesan Advisory Committee did not recommend the works as not treating the altar with appropriate respect. The chancellor rejected the argument that the altar at Wells Cathedral (which contains storage for altar frontals) was a precedent, as that building was not subject to the jurisdiction of the consistory court. He disagreed with the decision in Re St Michael and All Angels, Uffington (Lincoln Consistory Court, 16 July 2014) that an altar table could also be used as a storage unit. He found that the proposed changes amounted to the interchangeable use of the altar, which would be in breach of the requirement of Canon F 2 as to the keeping of the altar ‘as becomes the table of the Lord … in a sufficient and seemly manner’. He further found that there was no need for the conversion given the substantial size of the church. The faculty was refused. [RA]