Congratulations to our girl probationers who were admitted as choristers on Sunday, 23 March 2025.
Carlisle Cathedral Choir dates back at least as far as the new foundation of the Cathedral in 1541. The Cathedral Statutes of 1545 provided for six choristers, ‘boys of tender age, and with sonorous voices and apt at chanting’.
Today, the choir comprises up to sixteen boy choristers, the same number of girl choristers, six regular lay clerks with additional choral scholars and deputy lay clerks. Until 1935 the choristers were educated at the Cathedral’s own choir school; today the children are recruited from local day schools, and each set of choristers attends the Cathedral on alternate Sundays and on two week nights in rotation.
If you would like to sponsor a chorister, so that we can keep the tradition of child choristerships alive and bring the gift of music to the lives of talented young people, please click here or pick up a leaflet in the Cathedral.
We hope the new girl choristers enjoy their musical futures here and thank them for their commitment to Carlisle Cathedral.
