[livius]

I don’t know if it’s allowed, but theoretically it’s not even forbidden. Of course, the bishop could make the priest’s life very unpleasant if he doesn’t like the practice, though...

We have a side chapel next to the main altar and visible from it (the wall is semi-open on that side) where the Tabernacle is located. It’s not as hidden as in some churches, but it’s still not exactly the focal point.

Sadly, we don’t even have a crucifix behind the altar (in the place where the tabernacle was and should be). We have one of those awful “Resurrection Jesus” figures, larger than life and very spectral looking, especially since it’s lighted from underneath. He looks like the King of the Dead from Lord of the Rings.

[AnAmericanMother]

I wish we had a proper corpus.

We have a "Christ the High Priest" suspended from the ceiling of the sanctuary.

Could be worse (it doesn't look objectionable in context):

I think the style is too modern, and I would prefer one of the old-fashioned linden-wood carved crucifixes myself. But that's really just my personal preference. Overall the church is traditional and reverent.

If we went back to ad orientem celebration, it would be relatively easy (although you'd need a LARGE lift) to move the altar back against the roodscreen and install a traditional tabernacle in the center. Which might allow enough room to have a proper chancel choir . . . I wish they'd designed it with a chancel, but then I'm a former Piskie and that's what I'm used to. Technically speaking it was never a monastic foundation so it's not SUPPOSED to have a chancel . . . but so many of the great English churches do. Of course, you have to behave yourself when you're up there in front of God and everybody, the choir loft in the back allows one to shuffle music, fish out cough drops, and ask your neighbor WHICH anthem is for the offertory? And parishioners who sneaked into the choir loft after the Gospel NEVER complain . . . . :-D