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'Peterborough has two buildings
of cathedral-like proportions:

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'one, a shopping centre,
built to the glory of consumerism.

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'It's very doubtful, though, whether
all this glass and concrete and steel

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'will outlive
the city's other great structure...

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'that masterpiece
of Norman craftsmanship

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'which has already stood for 750 years.

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'Peterborough Cathedral is one of
the least-known cathedrals in England.

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'Surprising, really,

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'because it was one of the most
important of the Benedictine abbeys,

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'a medieval marvel. '

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White horses, white horses

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Who'll ride the white horses?

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Who'll ride the white horses?

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Welcome to the cathedral.

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I hope you'll have a very nice visit
and you'll find it interesting.

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We do get so many visitors.

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They come in the cathedral,

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they don't expect there to be a service on

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because they want to look
round the building.

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Reminding me of the day
when I had a dear, old soul.

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He says to me,

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"Well, don't you think it's a bit of a pity
that you've got a service on

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"just when we want to walk round?"

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I said, "Well, give and take 800 years,

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"there's been a service on here
every day. "

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And I said,

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"Don't you think it's a bit of a pity
that your coach driver

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"just decided to come here at this time,

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"when there is a service on?"

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"Aye," he said. "Maybe you're right.

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"Oh, we'll come back. We'll go
and have a cup of tea and come back. "

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Glory be to Father

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And to the Son

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And to the Holy Ghost

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As it was in the beginning

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Is now and ever shall be

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World without end

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Amen

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'In the dawn of English history,

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'Peterborough seemed destined
never to have a cathedral.

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'This was the third attempt
by abbots and monks

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'to establish a religious and political
stronghold in this corner of fenland. '

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'Fire destroyed
the monks' first two attempts.

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'First, it was the invading Vikings
who murdered the abbot and his monks.

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'That was in 870.

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'Then, 100 years later,
Hereward the Wake set his torches to it.

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'And an accidental fire
burned the rest down 50 years later.

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'A chronicler of the day, Hugh Candidus,

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'reported that the flames raged
for over a week.

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'Almost before the embers were out,
building began again.

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'Generations of stonemasons and
carpenters took a century to complete it.

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'Inside, the crowning glory,

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'a painted ceiling
for the 230-foot-long nave.

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'Only three other examples

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'of such magnificent medieval art
exist in the world.

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'Being of monastic origins, it's
surprising, that it's still around today.

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'When Henry Vlll was busy
dissolving all the monasteries,

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'somehow Peterborough
was left off his shopping list.

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'It could have had something to do
with the fact that his first wife,

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'Catherine of Aragon, was buried here.

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'Though some historians
don't believe King Henry

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'was that sentimental about his wives.

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'More likely, it's thought,
the abbot had friends at court

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'and it was they who persuaded the king

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'to make Peterborough's
monastic church

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'into one of his
new generation of cathedrals. '

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'While Henry Vlll was generous
towards Peterborough,

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'Cromwell certainly wasn't.

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'His parliamentary soldiers
ransacked the place.

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'Everything in sight was smashed -

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'the altar, the organ,
candlesticks and paintings.

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'Just one precious book was saved,

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'the 12th-century chronicle and register
of the old abbey.

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'A minor canon managed to bribe
one of Cromwell's soldiers

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'with ten shillings to let him keep it.

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'He kidded him it was a Latin bible.

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'Fortunately,
they missed a few pieces of silver plate

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'out in the churches of the diocese.

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'They are now in the cathedral treasury. '

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Many of these items
are extremely valuable.

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In fact, probably too valuable
to be in regular use nowadays.

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And a lot of them have in recent years

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been kept in bank vaults,
which kept them secure

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but also meant that they were invisible.

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Here is the very oldest piece
that we have,

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which comes from Preston in Rutland.

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It's the only piece
of pre-Reformation plate in the treasury.

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It dates from somewhere
between 1460 and 1500.

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It will be produced by a local craftsman

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and it has on it the hand of God,
the manna stave,

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which was a fairly common symbol
on pre-Reformation plate.

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Well, most of the medieval plate

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was either melted down
to be used as bullion,

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or there's one very famous incident
really connected with this abbey.

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When Richard I, the Lionheart
as you recall, was being held prisoner,

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a king's ransom was needed
in order to rescue him.

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It was actually an abbot of Peterborough

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who suggested that the church plate
right across the land

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should be sold
in order to raise the money.

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That was done in 1193.

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And, obviously, for reasons like that,

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many items of medieval plate
are no longer available.

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'It's this sense of history and continuity
that fascinates the present bishop.

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'Parts of his palace,
next door to the cathedral,

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'go back 700 years.

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'This is where the last abbot
and very first bishop lived. '

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Of course, this place means a lot to me,

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because where I lived before, you see,
I was a bishop in London before,

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and we lived just by the British Museum,

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and about 100 yards from Oxford Street.

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And there was three perpetual lines
of traffic outside our door.

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Day and night. All hours.

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Well, you got used to it
and we really enjoyed it, you know.

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I could indulge my speciality
in wine bars, you know.

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Now we've moved here.
What I value is all this marvellous space.

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What the history has done
is give us all the old buildings

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but it's given us also
a lot of space which is ours.

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'They reckon there were abbots here

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'in the year 640, 650.

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'We're not sure
where they lived originally,

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'but from about 900, 1,000 years ago,

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'they lived actually on this site.

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'So, I live on the same site

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'as people have been doing the job
for 1,000 years.

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'We have a couple of ghosts,

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'but they're both positive, nice ghosts.
One in the garden, one in the house,

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'I don't see ghosts
but the records are there.

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'And to live here with...

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'Well, we counted 29 variety of birds
in the garden in our first year here.

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'And the kestrel
who feeds on our sparrows,

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'I'll get him one of these days.

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'And last year,
the RSPB put in cameras there.

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'And the birds actually got
quite used to them very quickly.

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'There are some wonderful shots in the
cathedral of them feeding their young. '

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'It was the eighth year
they'd nested in a water drain

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'high up in the southwest tower.

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'By mid May, the fledgling kestrels
were three weeks old

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'and giving their young wings
a shower in the rain,

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'a rare sight.

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'Within a few more days,
they could make their first flight.

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'Next to stir, after the kestrels
on this particular day,

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'was the head verger,
Bob Bolton, an ex-coal miner.

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'After 17 years down the pit,

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'he decided to seek a fuller spiritual life
in the Church. '

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'The average day begins at 6:45.

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'And you open the Norman gates
in the precincts,

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'giving the public access
to the precincts.

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'It's like opening up the gates
to an oasis.

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'And as a head verger,
I'm in charge of 200 keys.

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'It takes 19 keys to open the cathedral

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'to get to the public in the morning. '

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'Of the three clergy on duty
for this 7:30 matins was the archdeacon,

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'one of the two resident canons
and the dean. '

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Come, let us sing unto the Lord.

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Let us heartily rejoice
in the strength of Thy salvation.

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We believe that Thou should come
to be our judge.

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'I've been dean for seven years now.

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'I came in march '81
from Notting Hill in west London.

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'It was a very surprising development
for me.

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'The appointment of dean is a
curious thing. It's a crown appointment. '

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So all that happened was

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that I had a little envelope dropped
through my letter box which said,

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"I have in mind a change of work for you.

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"I will either come to Notting Hill
or you can come to the office. "

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Well, since the office was number 10
Downing Street, I couldn't resist going.

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So I went to see the prime minister's
appointment secretary. And he said,

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"I was just wondering what you think
about going to Peterborough as dean?"

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So I was fairly shattered by that and er...

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I came to see Peterborough Cathedral

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and had no hesitation
that this was something I'd like to do.

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'It's marvellous.
The stillness of that building

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'does do something for me every day.

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'And I think that's one
of the great privileges of being here.

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'I know it's cold in the winter
but actually one can live through that.

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'I mean, it's not that desperate. '

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Our Lord Jesus Christ,
who suffered death upon the cross,

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who made there by His one oblation
of Himself once offered

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a full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice
for the oblation and satisfaction...

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'It is amazing that some people
do have this idea

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'that the clergy only work on Sundays.

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'And yet, I find Sunday
probably the most relaxing day.

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'Because on Sundays, it's very, very rare
that we have meetings.

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'And meetings of an administrative
nature

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'occupy a good deal of a dean's time,

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'because you can't afford
to be inefficient

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'about running
a place of this importance. '

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There's one or two things
I want to bring you up to date on

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- that have been taking place.
- Fine.

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The first one refers to the development

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- along causeway 37 to 39.
- Oh, yes.

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Is that affecting
the head verger's house?

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Yeah.

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We've now reached agreement, I think,

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with our own architects and the
developers' architects about the wall.

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'I suppose
because it's a small community,

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'some very trivial things can be built up.

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'We really can make mountains out of
molehills very easily in a place like this.

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'I think we spent weeks seeing whether
we could get any consensus

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'about the kind of chair
we would have in the cathedral.

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'I think the consensus
took about three years to get

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'on the kind of chair
that would be suitable.

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'Terribly important to try and keep the
perspective right. It's not easy always. '

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'In the town hall,
the dean finds the secular world

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'far less patient
with cathedral consensus. '

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I got the usual complaint
that the cathedral was far too cold.

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I mean, November,
sitting there for an hour and a bit.

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Now, your predecessor told me

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that it takes four days
of the central heating going full blast

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to raise the temperature
by about 10 degrees.

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But I wonder if we could try this year?

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I'll have a good effort, Peter,
I'll certainly try and do that.

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And it's in the appeal, anyway,
a new heating system,

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so in a brave new world,
we'll have a new setup.

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'Replacing the Victorian
Gurney heating machine

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'is just one of a long list
of repairs and replacements

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'at present concentrating the mind and
prayers of the cathedral's management.

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'For such a great age,

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'the old cathedral's main structure
is in amazingly good shape,

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'thanks mainly to past restoration.

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'But wind and weather and air pollution
have taken their toll.

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'Plaster is falling from the vaulting,

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'and emergency repairs
are needed in the cloisters.

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'Mosaic floors are breaking up

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'and stone statues
are fast corroding out of existence.

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'At the last count,
60 windows needed help.

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'There's a never-ending
conservation campaign.

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'The present one
spearheaded by the Duke of Gloucester,

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'who fortunately
has a good head for heights. '

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- Is this stair 750 years old?
- Yes, it is. Yes, it is.

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We've only a few more stairs to go now,
before we get to the top.

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It's a wonderful view, isn't it?
Just as well you put these railings in.

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Yes, there weren't rails
when I was appointed

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but we thought it was so dangerous
that we ought to have some.

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I understand that
when Cromwell sacked it,

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left it more or less wrecked,
that children used to come and play,

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and inevitably one or two
would topple over the edge.

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Yes, it is very dangerous.

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And now we can see some repairs
which we're actually doing.

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And it shows the state of the glass.
This is a very typical window, indeed.

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You see,
the wind howls through the gap.

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- Is it safe to go up?
- I will hold the ladder.

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Now you can see
how the panes have buckled.

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The glass itself has broken.

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And the joints admit cold air
and are rotten.

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What has the lead done?
Has it sort of flowed down?

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It's so old that it's lost its essence,
as it were,

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and become very brittle and crystalline.

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You ought to take the whole thing away.

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The whole thing is being taken away
to the glazier's workshops

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and will be releaded, the glass cleaned,

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and then put back with new bars
to support it.

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And now we come
to the remaining medieval glass,

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which has all been set
in the apse windows.

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As you know, Cromwell did
a great deal of damage in this building,

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which is curious
because he was a local resident almost.

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So these were just sort of fragments

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swept up and left
in a pile on the floor?

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Yes. Or probably left in other windows
in the tracery and brought together.

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All the windows
have been put together in a collage?

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In the apse windows, yes.

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And you get a bit of this and a bit of that
and very little complete.

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- It does show the wonderful colours.
- Beautiful colour, yes. It's magnificent.

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'For Bob Bolton,
cathedral life must go on.

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'His problems are stage-managing

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'the cathedral's heavy schedule
of services and ceremonies,

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'concerts and confirmations. '

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Testing, testing.
One, two, three, four, five.

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Testing over.

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'From time to time,

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'men have said,

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"'When I retire,
I'm gonna have a job just like you. "

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'When they see the verger dressed up
with the silver rod,

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'that appeals to some men.

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'But what they don't understand
is what lies behind that verger. '

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'Dealing with
the suffering of people

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'who make their way into the cathedral
from the cities outside

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'is all part of a verger's day.

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'But drug addicts and drunks
don't all suffer in silent prayer.

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'This one was blaming his condition
on Jesus.

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'Bob remembers others. '

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'The other day,
we had an alcoholic at the high altar

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'and he was pouring his heart out...

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'to God.

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'And then he broke down and cried.

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'So I let him cry.

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'And then when I thought he cried long
enough, I put my hand on his head...

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'and I asked him his name.

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'His name, his christian name was Jim. '

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And I said to Jim,

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"Jim, stand up...
and look at me, man to man. "

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Which he did do.

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And then I said to him,

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"Would you like a cup of coffee
and something to eat?"

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He said, "I would love that. "

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This man,

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I know must have had
a decent upbringing,

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because...

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the next day
he came back to the cathedral

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and started to play the piano.

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So he must have had some training.

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And er...

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So I said,
"I'd like to know your life's history, Jim. "

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But he never spoke, he just kept quiet,

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and went on his way.

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- It just goes on like that.
- That's quite hard to play.

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Try that link into the...

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Go from there and let's see
what that change of key is like.

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I dread to think
how many Magnificats I've directed

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during the course of my career
in cathedrals.

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But the hardest thing to do is to,

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if you like,
motivate the members of the choir

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to always see what you're doing
as something new and fresh.

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I think people find it hard to believe
that you can spend your time

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organising music in the cathedral
and music around the diocese,

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and wonder what on earth
you do the majority of the day.

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'When Catherine was born
and I registered her birth,

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'and I told the registrar what my job was,

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'he then followed that by saying,
"Well, what's your proper job?"'

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Glory be to the Father

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Glory be to the Father!

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And to the Son

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And to the Holy Ghost

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As it was in the beginning

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Is now

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And ever shall be

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World without end

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World without end

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World without end

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World without end

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Amen

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I'm a great one for bad taste hymns.

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I've got no taste at all.

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I like them the louder, the better,
where they all sway.

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And I like them dancing. I got the dean
swaying, you must ask him about it.

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But I think it's very important
to use the cathedral for the occasion.

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'We have all our ordinations
in the cathedral,

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'which is the mother church
of the diocese.

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'And all the young men,
and young women now of course,

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'who are entering into ministry
come here, really to begin it.

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'It's a very emotive moment for them

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'because a lot of them
have been thinking about this for years.

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'And so it sums up a lot of their hopes
because this is the key.

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'Whatever you believe about it,
once you put this collar on,

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'you are in a different relationship
with people. '

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Send down the holy spirit,

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upon your servant Richard

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for the official work of a deacon

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in your church.

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'And even a dean needs time to relax,

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'to switch the cloth for a pair of shorts. '

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00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:49,071
'I do try to get on the rowing course
once a week.

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'When I came here,
providentially there was a rowing club.

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'We used to row on the river here,
the River Nene.

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00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,794
'The rowing club's been moved, actually,

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'from close proximity to the river
to a place called Thorpe Wood,

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'where there's actually
a man-made course.

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'And it's on that course that I do it
most of the time.

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'I enjoy that greatly,

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'and I mean I even was able to do
a sponsored scull

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'for 10,000 metres a few weeks ago.

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'And that helped raise a bit
for the appeal.

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'So, it's great. That's great relaxation.
I enjoy that inordinately. '

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Very glad to welcome you
to the cathedral

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on your Sunday school pilgrimage.

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We're glad to see so many of you
with your wonderful banners.

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Hello there.

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00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,917
You're all right. You haven't dropped it.

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'All the children you see have come from
parishes all over the diocese.

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'And some parishes are quite small,
so their Sunday school is quite small.

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00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:53,873
'It's a marvellous thing
for them all to be together.

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00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:59,080
'But it's getting them
being part of what the cathedral's about,

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'a slightly larger vision
than your own home parish. '

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00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,753
Would this cathedral be here now?

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00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,876
Would we be up here on this pilgrimage?

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00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,753
No.

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I would like you to look up
and you'll see on the wall

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a painting of Robert Scarlett.

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00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:22,436
Robert Scarlett was better known
in his day as Old Scarlett

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because he always wore a red tunic.

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Robert Scarlett buried both the queens.

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And when his own turn came
to be buried,

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Robert Scarlett, or Old Scarlett,

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is buried just under that table.

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Somebody's kindly put a table
right on top of his gravestone.

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00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,072
But he doesn't know anything about that.

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00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,034
One of the great things
about being a bishop

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is that you know
where you're going to be buried.

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And here in the cathedral is my great
predecessor Bishop Magee behind me,

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and the wonderful
Bishop Mandell Creighton in front.

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00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:02,912
And I've chosen to be buried here.

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00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,788
my ashes right in the middle
of the south choir aisle,

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00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,839
on the grounds that they didn't walk over
me much when I was here,

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00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,309
but they're very welcome when I've gone.