 Lindley served as an organ tutor at the Royal School of Church Music and later as Assistant Master of Music at St Albans Cathedral to the legendary Peter Hurford and Director of Music at St Albans School.From 1975/6 he became Leeds City Organist and Organist & Master of the Music at Leeds Minster, and directed the Choir of Leeds Parish Church.From 1977, he has served a Music Director of Saint Peter's Singers of Leeds, a post he still holds.