10 FEBRUARY 1956, Page 16

THE ALTAR

SIR,—The recently reprinted The Altar Steps is the story of the life and spiritual growth of an Anglo:Catholic clergyman up to his ordina- tion and first curacy. But the first Lord Grimthorpe, when Chancellor of York, if on plans of churches submitted to him for his approval the word 'altar' appeared, always wrote across it in red ink : 'There is no altar in the Church of England.' Was he correct?— Yours faithfully,

HAROLD H. DANBY

34 Avenue Victoria, Scarborough