YORK Minster’s Grand Organ will be played in a service on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, following the completion of a £2 million, once-in-a-century refurbishment. A prayer will be said for the organ during a live-streamed Eucharist service at 11am, before it is played at services throughout Lent and is then dedicated by the Archbishop of York at Evensong on Easter Day, Sunday April 4. A programme of events to celebrate the organ’s return will be announced later this year. The instrument was last played during worship in October 2018 before work began to remove it, including nearly all of its 5,000 plus pipes, and take it to organ specialists in Durham for cleaning, repair and replacement.