The charges related to two boys aged under 14 at Ripon Cathedral Choir School in Yorkshire and at a second school in Hampshire. He was also convicted of downloading indecent images of children.

CGI image shows the proposed £8m annexe next to Ripon ... Cathedral has said it would look at potential "practical adjustments" to its plans to build an £8m annexe. The proposed new song school ...

The Ripon School of Carvers carved the misericords at Beverley Minster and Manchester Cathedral, but in 1547 before the work was completed, Edward VI dissolved Ripon’s college of canons.