A faculty was sought to re-order the chancel and choir of this Grade II listed Victorian church. In their notification of advice the Diocesan Advisory Committee (DAC) recommended the works for approval ‘subject to agreement from consultations and recommendations of Historic England and the Victorian Society’. The chancellor observed that making its recommendation apparently conditional upon the views of others meant that the opposition of the Victorian Society changed the DAC's recommendation into a non-recommendation. It would be better in the future were the DAC to express its own collective view of particular works or proposals and to leave other consultee bodies to comment separately. The faculty was granted. [Catherine Shelley]