The petitioners sought a faculty to authorise the disposal of some of the pews in this unlisted church. An earlier scheme to dispose of all of the pews and the organ had raised significant opposition; the application to remove the organ had been withdrawn and that concerning the pews modified. A letter of objection was received from the Twentieth Century Society and letters accepting the compromise proposed were received from those who had objected to the previous proposal. The faculty for removal was granted despite the fact that a corresponding faculty application for chairs to replace the pews had not yet been received. Removal was subject to a condition that the pews be stored in the church's skittle alley rather than, as had been suggested in a parish notice, taken home by those who wanted them, with liberty to apply for their disposal if the re-ordering proved successful. In granting the faculty the chancellor also commented obiter on concerns expressed by the previous objectors about the control over finances, fabric and worship by a small lay leadership team who held unminuted meetings and about the failure to change churchwardens for twenty years. He reminded those concerned of the provisions of the Church Representation Rules and of section 3 of the Churchwardens Measure 2001. [Catherine Shelley]