CHELMSFORD CATHEDRAL - Key Persons


Adedamola Aboaba

Job Titles:
  • Chapter Trustee

Anne Hesketh

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Officer

Caroline Robinson - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Finance Officer

Charlotte Laurence

Job Titles:
  • Children and Families Worker

Claire Snewin

Job Titles:
  • Communications and Marketing Manager

Dawn Weddell

Job Titles:
  • Chapter Trustee

Elizabeth Anscombe

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Church Warden
I am Elizabeth, and very interested in welcoming children to the Cathedral and making that experience as positive and encouraging as possible.

Georgia Coote

Job Titles:
  • Communications and Marketing Assistant

Grace Acton Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Events Manager

Ivor Moody

Ivor Moody has been Vice Dean and Canon Pastor of Chelmsford Cathedral since 2010. He is also Chair of the Mid-Essex Inter Faith Forum and also Chair of Essex Mind and Spirit, a community voluntary organisation which seeks to promote positive relationships between faith and spirituality and mental health issues, and to challenge the stigma which often surrounds mental health. He has recently become Chaplain to the Essex County Council, and in 2017 had his first book published, called ‘Songs for the Soul'. Ivor has spent all his professional life in the Diocese of Chelmsford. He served curacies at St. Margaret's Leytonstone and St. Margaret's Leigh on Sea, before becoming vicar of St. John the Baptist Tilbury Docks. He then took up a post as University Chaplain at the Chelmsford Campus of the Anglia Ruskin University, before taking up his current post with Chelmsford Cathedral.

John Elliott

Job Titles:
  • Head Verger

Katie Miller

Job Titles:
  • Church Warden
I have been a member of the Cathedral congregation almost all my life and I am particularly involved in music here. I want to see the Cathedral and its congregation grow together into the future.

Lee Colnbrook

Job Titles:
  • Choir Welfare Assistant

Lorna Quinn

Job Titles:
  • Chapter Trustee Responsible for Safeguarding

Marion Palmer - COO

Job Titles:
  • COO
  • Dean

Peter Cross

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Church Warden

Samuel Bristow

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Music
Samuel is thoroughly excited to move to Chelmsford Cathedral after a year as organist at St Matthew's Church, Westminster, having held positions at St Paul's, Salisbury, Birmingham, and Coventry cathedrals. He graduated with First Class Honours in 2019 from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, studying with Daniel Moult and Henry Fairs. He actively works as a recitalist and has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 & 4, and Songs of Praise on BBC1.

Susan Hawkings

Job Titles:
  • Church Warden
I have been attending the Cathedral for over ten years. My main interest and responsibility is the Family and Children's work, particularly the work of Junior Church. I also want everyone who comes through our doors to feel welcome and valued.

Thomas Corns

Job Titles:
  • Interim Director of Music

Valerie Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Church Warden