The petitioners sought a faculty to hang an ebony and ivory cross above the pulpit. Seventeen of the twenty-two PCC members present had voted in favour of the proposal and four against. The DAC supported the petition. One of the PCC members who had voted against the proposal objected to the grant of a faculty on doctrinal and aesthetic grounds. No other objections had been raised. The chancellor did not consider it appropriate for him to seek to resolve sensitive and difficult doctrinal issues, nor to apply his own subjective aesthetic judgment. Having regard to the support of the DAC and the majority of the PCC, the chancellor held that the will of the majority should prevail and granted the faculty. [RA]
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