figures on the pulpit is said to be the image of a former Mayor of Melbourne's daughter who died in infancy. The floor is entirely paved with encaustic tile imported from the English firm of Maw & Co., featuring both patterned layouts and patterns within the tiles, while the dado is created with patterned glazed tiles. In Persian tile on the rear wall of the narthex is a replica of an 8-pointed star found in two churches of the Anglican Diocese of Iran, the church of St Simon the Zealot in Shiraz and St Luke's Church in Isfahan. There are two baptismal fonts. The round font of Harcourt granite was installed when the cathedral was first built. In 1912 the immersion font was built in memory of Field Flowers Goe, third Bishop of Melbourne. Deans The dean of St Paul's Cathedral, who is responsible for its day-to-day running, is formally styled the "Dean of Melbourne": Hussey Burgh Macartney, 1852–1894 (Dean of St James's Cathedral) George Oakley Vance, 1894–1910 Reginald Stephen, 1910–1914 (later Bishop of Newcastle, 1919) Charles John Godby, 1914–1919 John Stephen Hart, 1919–1927 (later Bishop of Wangaratta, 1927) George Ellis Aickin, 1927–1932 Frederick Waldegrave Head MC, 1934–1941 (concurrently archbishop) Henry Thomas Langley, 1942–1947 Alfred Roscoe Wilson, 1947–1953 Stuart Barton Babbage, 1953–1962 Tom William Thomas, 1962–1984 James Alexander Grant, 1985–1999 (formerly a coadjutor bishop) David John Leyburn Richardson OBE, 1999–2008 Mark Gregory Burton, 2008–2012 (formerly an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Perth) Andreas Loewe, 2012–present Precentors George Sutton, 1891–1899 Alfred Wheeler, 1899–1908 Henry Kelly, 1909–1922 Richard Sherwood, 1922–1936 Herbert Oliver Hole, 1936–1942 Henry Hugh Girvan, 1954–1957 Godfrey William Augustus Kirchner, 1957–1961 Henry Hugh Girvan, 1961–1964 David Arthur Sankey, 1964–1975 Andrew Reginald St John, 1975–1978 Albert Bayne Macpherson, 1978–1993 Kenneth Ian Crawford, 1993–1997 Noel Raymond Whale, 1997–2000 Anne Wentzel, 2001–2008 Rachel Margaret McDougall, 2008–2011 Margaret Ruth Redpath AO, 2012–2013 (acting) Heather Jane Patacca, 2013–present Music Music plays an integral part of worship at St Paul's, and the repertoire of Anglican church music can be heard during services. Music at the cathedral is the responsibility of the director of music and the music foundation, established in 1993, provides funding for the musical life of the cathedral. Director of Music The Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral, until the appointment of Philip Nicholls in 2013, was also the organist. Ernest Wood, 1888–1914 A. E. Floyd, 1914–1947 C. C. Campbell Ross, 1947–1951