The petitioners sought a faculty permitting the removal of seven pews from the north aisle of this Grade I listed church and their replacement with blue upholstered chairs which were already owned by the church. A small number of the same chairs were already used in the north aisle. The Victorian Society did not consider the replacement of the pews to be unduly harmful, but objected to the choice of replacement chairs, in particular to the upholstery and jarringly pale timber frames. The pews, which were introduced to the church in 1970, were not of any intrinsic merit. The Diocesan Advisory Committee, Historic England and the Church Buildings Council all acknowledged that some harm would be caused to the historic interior but took the pragmatic view that, given the limited scope of the proposals, it was reasonable for the parish to use the chairs which they had already owned for some time, thus saving an expenditure of £10,000. The chancellor grated the faculty, finding that the proposals would cause moderate harm to the significance of the church, but that that harm was outweighed by the need for flexibility and the common-sense justification of the cost saving. [RA]