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Many different people and groups make up the community that is Bradford Cathedral. The Cathedral community includes its clergy and staff, members of the congregation, volunteers, and friends. When using the email addresses below please add bradfordcathedral.org after the @
Please note that the Cathedral Main Office number is 01274 777720
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Cathedral Staff
Acting Dean
The Revd Canon Paul Maybury
paul.maybury@
Mobile: 07496 968 234
Residentiary Canon - Canon for Mission and Pastoral Development (Safeguarding Officer)
The Revd Canon Mandy Coutts
mandy.coutts@
Acting Canon Precentor
The Revd Canon Philip Gray
philip.gray@
Mobile: 07538 230 287
Chief Operating Officer
Andy McCarthy
andy.mccarthy@
Tel: 01274 777726
EA to Chief Operating Officer & Director of Finance
Jasmin Brearton
jasmin.brearton@
Tel: 01274 777726
Director of Education and Visitors
Maggie Myers
maggie.myers@
Tel: 01274 777720
Heritage Education
Diane Hadwen
diane.hadwen@
Head Verger
David Worsley
david.worsley@
Tel: 01274 777724
Director of Music
Alex Berry
alex.berry@
Tel: 01274 777 725 / 07507 456 741
Assistant Director of Music / Sub-organist
Graham Thorpe
graham.thorpe@
01274 777 732
07507 455 979.
Choir Matron
Daniel Lappin
daniel.lappin@
07403 666091
Music Administrator
Janet Clark
janet.clark@
PA to the Dean
Sandra Heaton
sandra.heaton@
Tel: 01274 777736
Director of Finance
Simon Dennis
simon.dennis@
Secretary
Julie Bowyer
julie.bowyer@
Tel: 01274 777720
Communications, Marketing and Events
Philip Lickley
philip.lickley@
Tel: 01274 777734
Digital Content and Social Media Assistant
Katie Glover
katie.glover@
Tel: 01274 777720
Income Development Officer
Sharon Link
sharon.link@
Tel: 01274 777721
Vergers
- David Worsley - Head Verger
- John Paley - Assistant Verger
- Ian Price - Assistant Verger
- Dave Robinson Assistant Verger
- Joe Tarver Volunteer Verger
- Andrew Mooring Volunteer Verger
- Sam Fletcher Volunteer Verger
During the service itself, a verger's main duty is ceremonially to precede the religious participants as they move about the church; he or she does not typically take any speaking part in the service itself. It could be argued that a verger's main pride during a service lies in his or her inconspicuousness; vergers often play a very prominent role "behind the scenes" — helping to plan the logistical details of service and discreetly shepherding the clergy through it. (In some churches these latter duties are handled by a Master of Ceremonies, while the verger functions as a sort of marshal in the procession.)
At Bradford, in addition to the normal liturgical duties, our vergers also look after the sound desk and security at services and other Cathedral events.
Bradford Cathedral currently has a Head Verger, three assistant Vergers and a number of volunteer vergers. We are, however, always on the lookout for additional volunteer vergers who would be willing to share the load.
Volunteers
The Cathedral could not operate without its volunteers. Our Churchwardens do a wonderful job supporting the clergy. Other volunteers include:-
- Servers
- Lay Assistants
- Healing Team
- Sidesmen
- Refreshment teams
- Flower arrangers
- Education team and welcomers
- Artspace committee and volunteers
- Children’s work on a Sunday
- Choir parents
Canon Theologian
 Ben Quash is non-residentiary Canon Theologian of Bradford Cathedral, as well as Professor of Christianity and the Arts at King’s College London—a post he has occupied since 2007. Prior to that, he was a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College and then of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge.
He is fascinated by how the arts can renew people’s engagement with the Bible and Christian tradition, and is directing a major 7-year project to create an onlineVisual Commentary on Scripture. He runs an MA in Christianity and the Arts in association with the National Gallery, London, and broadcasts frequently on BBC radio.
He is a Trustee of Art and Christianity Enquiry, and also Canon Theologian of Coventry. His publications include Abiding: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2013 (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Found Theology: History, Imagination and the Holy Spirit (T&T Clark, 2014).
Ben loves Yorkshire, having grown up visiting grandparents here. As someone with a long track record of working in the area of interfaith relationships, he has a strong interest in Bradford’s diverse civic Life. The city has a huge amount to offer by its pioneering example, and Ben has been proud to be a speaker at the Bradford literature festival. He preaches at the cathedral from time to time, and gives talks to the congregation and to the clergy of the wider diocese at regular intervals. These have often related theology to the arts, encouraging both cathedral and diocese in forms of ministry that use the arts to help people explore the Christian faith and the world around them, whether they are regular churchgoers or not.
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