David Stancliffe is a former Bishop of Salisbury, Chair of the Church of England’s Liturgical Commission and well known as a musician and conductor. He is the author of The Lion Companion to Church Architecture (2008) and God’s Pattern: Shaping our worship, ministry and life (SPCK, 2003).

David Stancliffe is a practising musician, conducting singers and period instruments in music ranging from the Monteverdi Vespers to the Bach Passions. As Bishop of Salisbury, he chaired the Liturgical Commission in the Church of England as it produced Common Worship, and as Provost of Portsmouth he presided over the completion and re-ordering of the cathedral.

He has had a lifelong passion for Italy, for Romanesque art and architecture and his book The Lion Companion to Church Architecture (Lion, 2008) is illustrated by over 500 of his own photographs. For SPCK he wrote God’s Pattern (2003) and The Gospels in Art, Muic and Literature (2013-15).