Choral services
Sung prayer has been offered in Westminster Abbey nearly every day for over a thousand years. Today, services are sung daily during term time by the world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey, and by visiting choirs when the Abbey Choir is in recess.
The music sung ranges from Gregorian chant dating from the first millennium to contemporary music and encompasses the remarkable richness and variety of the Anglican choral tradition.
This week's choral services
| Sunday, 18th May 2025 | |||||
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| Fifth Sunday of Easter | |||||
| 300th anniversary of the Letters Patent creating the Order of the Bath | |||||
| 10.00am | Matins | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Ayleward Responses |
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| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by The King's Scholars of Westminster School | Schubert Mass in G Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon Theologian and Almoner |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Ayleward Responses Preacher: The Reverend Canon Margaret Cave Director of Episcopal Ministry for the Archbishops of Canterbury and York |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church | |||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers | Langlais Gloria (Missa in simplicitate) Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon Theologian and Almoner |
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| Monday, 19th May 2025 | |||||
| St Dunstan, founder of Westminster Abbey, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choristers of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Te lucis ante terminum |
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| Tuesday, 20th May 2025 | |||||
| Alcuin of York, deacon, Abbot of Tours, 804 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Byrd Terra tremuit et quievit |
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| Thursday, 22nd May 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Byrd Terra tremuit et quievit |
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| Saturday, 24th May 2025 | |||||
| John and Charles Wesley, evangelists, hymn-writers, 1791 and 1788 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Ad coenam Agni providi |
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