There is a choir of 25 boy choristers and 12 lay clerks.
However in recession it is the lay clerks who lead out first, then followed by the choristers.
People now think that he worked there later as a lay clerk.
This was a lay committee, with a lay clerk.
The lay clerks are professional singers who provide the lower three voices: alto, tenor and bass.
A lay clerk is usually paid for the job.
Today there are a few female lay clerks, e.g. in Dublin.
Perhaps he resented the lay clerk being preferred before him.
The majority of lay clerks are male.
Climbing up the ranks, Stevens became a lay clerk in 1898 and a few years later, as a temporary choirmaster.