Curate is defrocked for calendar

The church hopes to raise £90,000 for the organ restoration fund

A curate from Suffolk and a number of his parishoners have defrocked themselves to raise money for charity.

Assistant curate John Buchanan, of Holy Trinity Church, Barsham, hopes to raise £90,000 for the organ restoration fund by posing nude for a calendar.

The church is following in the footsteps of the Women's Institute ladies who inspired the film Calendar Girls.

The calendar is launched this week and costs £5 each.

Assistant curate Buchanan said: "I recall that he (God) was wandering in the garden of Eden talking to two people who were starkers."