A safeguarding issue was reÂvealed on Monday to be at the centre of the row that blew up last week over bell-ringing in York Minster.
To furious protests by the naÂÂtion’s bell-ringers, the entire band of ringers at York Minster had been summarily sacked on Tuesday of last week, for reasons that at first were unclear.
At the time, the Dean, the Very Revd Vivienne Faull, and the ChapÂter alluded only to “health and safety”, and the need to bring the ringers under the control of the Chapter, in line with its other volunteer teams.