The diocese said it was investigating how Robert Coles was able to carry on working at St Luke's, Stone Cross, in East Sussex, after he retired in 1997.

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In the courtyard, the stone St Patrick's cross replicates the worn original in the Rock of Cashel's 15th-century Hall of the Vicars Choral, which was built to house the cathedral's male choristers.

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The gold ring has an amethyst stone bearing a burning bush and St Andrew's cross with the motto "Nec Tamen Consumebatur".

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