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There are two relatively straightforward issues here, if one ignores the obfuscation of religion:
1 Whether the law has been broken and, if it has,
2 Whether the "goodness" of the cause if sufficient justification for it being broken.

Since the building has achieved a planning consent (and presumably all the appropriate conservation area/list building consents appropriate to the environs of a major Grade I list building [always assuming it went through the local authority rather than a diocesan faculty]) one has to conclude that the listed building issues have been resolved to the satisfaction of English Heritage, and it's purely the strictly legal matters that are in question...