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, 21st September 2025 | |||||
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| Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity | |||||
| 3.00pm | Evensong with Installation of a Minor Canon | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Batten O praise the Lord, all ye heathen Preacher: The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle KCVO MBE Dean of Westminster |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church | |||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Chaminade Messe pour deux voix égales Preacher: The Reverend Dr Sarah Archer Priest Vicar |
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| Monday, 22nd September 2025 | |||||
| St Matthew, apostle and evangelist | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of Belize | anonymous Os justi meditabitur sapientiam |
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| Tuesday, 23rd September 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Lucis Creator optime |
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| Wednesday, 24th September 2025 | |||||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; broadcast live by BBC Radio 3; congregation to be seated by 2.45 pm | Rutter Come, my joy |
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| Friday, 26th September 2025 | |||||
| Wilson Carlile, founder of the Church Army, 1942 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Batten O praise the Lord, all ye heathen |
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| Saturday, 27th September 2025 | |||||
| Vincent de Paul, founder of the Congregation of the Mission, 1660 | |||||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | anonymous Os justi meditabitur sapientiam |
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