The petitioner sought a faculty for the removal of the church's Conacher pipe organ and its replacement with an electronic organ. The DAC and CBC objected to the proposal on the basis that the existing organ was ‘a fine organ and a good example of Conacher's work’, that inadequate efforts had been made to obtain funding for the refurbishment of the existing organ and that the proposed organ was excessive for the needs of the building. The petitioner and PCC rejected the chancellor's suggestion that further efforts were made to obtain funding for the refurbishment of the existing organ from named bodies, raising concerns about the ongoing maintenance cost of the existing organ and indicating that funds had already been raised for the purchase of the electronic organ. The PCC suggested that the existing organ could be preserved in storage pending a future decision about its future. The petition was refused on the basis that efforts to retain the existing organ had not been exhausted; and the fact that funds had already been raised for a replacement was not a good reason to grant the petition. [RA]
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