Years ago when fruit arrived seasonally parishioners gathered at their church hall eager to enjoy the advertised strawberry tea.  Unfortunately the strawberry season had arrived too late and on the noticeboard the word “strawberries” had been crossed out and “prunes” written across it. The throng that gathered for the LTS lecture at Bishop Grosseteste College might have felt sympathy for those parishioners when they learned that the expected lecturer had taken ill at the last minute and that the Chancellor ...Read more →

‘By the end of the piece, you feel that you have undergone the full spectrum of human emotion: there is rage and violence, love, tenderness and deep sorrow.’ On 17 March, the Cathedral choir is performing the St John Passion and Chapter Clerk, Phil Hamlyn Williams, asked Charles Harrison, our Deputy Director of Music who is conducting the performance, to tell him more about this work described by many as one of the supreme achievements in classical music. He began ...Read more →

The Chapter House of Lincoln Cathedral, with its extraordinary soaring gothic lines, where the Canons meet, where Edward I held the English Parliament, where the De Vinci Code and the Young Victoria were filmed: this was the setting for our first debate around the subject of the Common Good. Dr Mark Hocknull, the Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, reminded the audience of forty that this was the traditional role of cathedrals, as centres for debate and discussion. The full text of ...Read more →

St Hugh’s Choir in Lincoln Cathedral was filled on Saturday evening with those who came through the snow to support both our new Subdean and our new lay member of Chapter. Rev’d Canon John Patrick is well known throughout the Diocese as Chairman of the House of Clergy and, now formerly, Rural Dean of Lafford and Vicar of Sleaford. Air Vice-Marshall Paul Robinson was at one time Commander of the RAF College at Cranwell and brings a long and deep ...Read more →

There will be restricted access to the Cathedral on Wednesday 7 December for the St Mary’s School Carol Concert. The Nave will be closed to visitors from 13.30. Access to the East End of the building will remain open to visitors.