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Truro Cathedral Choir raise £10,000 for the Children of Ukraine

Members of Truro Cathedral Choir have raised £10,244 for UNICEF’s Ukraine appeal in just eight weeks. After smashing their original £3,000 target within days of the launch, the choir, which includes 3 …
St Mary’s Aisle Appeal Underway

St Mary’s Aisle is a very special place in the cathedral – loved by generations as the last remaining part of old St Mary’s Church, it has a totally different feel from the grandeur of the newer part …
Happy Easter to you all!

Happy Easter to you all! One of the things that many people said they were more attuned to during the several lockdowns over the last two years was the sounds and sights of nature: bird song, trees …
Truro Cathedral awarded Emergency Resource Support

The government’s Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage has awarded Truro Cathedral £180,200 in Emergency Resource Support because of the financial strain of the coronavirus pandemic and the pivotal role …
Remember our Child

The first Remember Our Child service at Truro Cathedral took place in 1995. It returns this year after a two-year gap because of Covid. So this is the 25th such service, even though it is now 27 …
Choir records song for Ukrainian children

Truro Cathedral Choir has recorded a fundraising anthem for Ukrainian children, released on Mothering Sunday.

Ave Maria, by Ukrainian contemporary composer Valentin Silvestrov, was performed at the …
A proper farewell to Canon Lynda Barley

Yesterday, 20 March, we were highly delighted to welcome back to the cathedral Canon Lynda Barley and her husband Chris, two years after Lynda retired as Canon Pastor. Not surprisingly, Covid …
What’s in a name?

On Saturday 2 April, Three Spires Singers and Orchestra will join forces with Truro Cathedral Choir and two of the UK’s leading classical singers, Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Julien Van Mellaerts, to …
Blackbird

I have always had an ambivalent relationship with poetry. There are some poems I go back to again and again, like George Herbert’s Love III and R. S. Thomas’s Bright Field. But I don’t deny that I …