The Glastonbury Chair donated by Dr. Borden & Muriel Bird. This chair was made by Borden's late cousin, Donald Johnson Bird. He built it out of white pine instead of oak as it had to be light to cross the Atlantic by air and also had to fit in a suitcase in it's broken down state.
Donald saw one of these chairs in a Cathedral and was told that it was for the visiting Bishop to sit with "piously folded hands over his paunch, nodding off to sleep, while the Vicar delivered his homily. Donald sketched the chair in his notebook and made it in his basement in Truro. Later he gave the chair to the Bird's who kept it in their Liverpool home. The chair now sits in the Minister's Study and is used at most meetings.
