About the Author

Robert Gage is Vice-Principal of The Society of the Faith, and chairs the Publications Committee. Before ordination, he studied music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1997 he became Canon Precentor at Wakefield Cathedral, and was later Canon for Education at St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne. Keenly interested in architecture, Canon Gage served for nine years as trustee of The Churches Conservation Trust. He is now retired and lives in Whitley Bay.