John Birch was organist and master of the choristers at Chichester Cathedral, where he served from 1958-80, then at The Temple Church, London, until 1997, following in the footsteps of George Thalben-Ball, Walford Davies and EJ Hopkins. He was only the fourth organist there since 1841.

A temporary cathedral built partly of cardboard is to replace the 131-year-old Christchurch landmark left beyond repair by an earthquake in February 2011.

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An Olympic training site has become the target of an Occupy London protest.

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PC David Rathband's twin said it was "time to take my brother home" at the end of a moving cathedral service for the officer who died after he was shot and blinded by a gunman.

A group of Anglican clerics have called on St Paul's Cathedral to fully explain why praying Christians were dragged by police from the steps of the famous landmark during the eviction of the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp.

A new dean of St Paul's Cathedral has been appointed nearly five months after his predecessor resigned in the wake of the row over anti-capitalist protesters camped outside the landmark church.

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The demise of the Occupy camp outside St Paul's Cathedral was long overdue. That is not to say it should never have been there at all. The protest that the police dismantled late on Monday night was loud, scruffy and angry. And embedded in its sometimes incoherent messages was a core feeling of dissatisfaction which spoke to many struggling to make sense of the most severe financial crisis since the 1930s. A world in which the richest few grow ever richer, while everyone else feels the squeeze cannot possibly be justified, and Occupy can take credit for providing a focus for a much wider concern.

I hear from someone in a position to know that Lambeth Palace is not pleased with the unusual “Sunday Service” delivered by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, in a column in The Sun on Sunday.

The tents have been cleared – but what now for the protesters, or for St Paul's Cathedral?