precentor
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The Reverend Canon Jeremy Davies served as canon precentor at Salisbury Cathedral for 25 years and has taken services at Winchester Cathedral.
From BBC
To the west is the round choir, a wooden desk for singers and precentors.
From Project Gutenberg
When he had nothing special to do, he sat indifferently in his chair, with the face of a precentor after the sermon has begun.
From Project Gutenberg
On the Restoration, he was appointed precentor of St. David’s, and rector of Llanbedr, in Pembrokeshire, and subsequently dean of Worcester.
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Below the main pulpit a second desk or sub-pulpit is built, where the precentor used to stand....
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