WINCHESTER Cathedral’s Girl Choir has celebrated its 25th anniversary with a special service.

The service featured performances of two new works by the award-winning composer, Kerensa Briggs, and Simon Lole, a previous Director of Music at both Salisbury and Sheffield Cathedrals.

%image('18094569', type="article-full", alt="The Dean of Winchester, the Very Rev Catherine Ogle and Bruce Parker, the Chairman of the Cathedral Friends which funds the girl choristers, cut the anniversary cake with Dr Andy Lumsden. Director of Music, and Claudia Grinnell, sub-organist and choir conductor, alongside.")

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Former choristers and cathedral colleagues all joined the present Girls’ Choir to take part in the service.

David Hill, the cathedral’s Director of Music when the choir was formed, was also among the large congregation at the service which was followed by a reception in the north transept.

During the reception, the Dean of Winchester, the Very Rev Catherine Ogle and Bruce Parker, the chair of the Cathedral Friends which funds the girl choristers, cut a special anniversary cake.