{"id":1527,"date":"2025-08-04T20:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:47:53","slug":"dr-anthony-crossland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/dr-anthony-crossland\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Anthony Crossland"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-block_f8bcf25c3fc56edd8360384099f0671a class=\"post-page-banner align\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/iStock-1445230546-1.jpg\n   )\">\n  <div class=\"container content-container text-center d-flex align-items-center flex-column justify-content-center\">\n    <h1 class=\"text-white\">\n      Dr Anthony Crossland\n    <\/h1>\n    <h2 class=\"h3 text-white\"><time class=\"dt-published\" datetime=\"2025-08-04T19:24:30+00:00\">\n      4 August 2025\n    <\/time><\/h2>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death has been announced of Tony Crossland DMus FRCO ARCM who was Wells Cathedral Assistant Organist and Master of the Choristers (1961 to 1970) and Organist and Master of the Choristers (1970 to 1996).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He died peacefully on Sunday August 3rd, 2025, after a brief illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our thoughts are with his wife Barbara, daughters Caroline and Vicky, and son Nick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tony was also Organs advisor Bath and Wells Diocesan Advisory Committee (1972 to 1976) and Founder and Conductor of The Wells Somerset Sinfonietta (1985 to 1996).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1931 &#8211; 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grand-organ-appeal","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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