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, 31st August 2025 | |||||
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| Eleventh Sunday after Trinity | |||||
| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | |||
| sung by the Choir of St Barnabas, Dulwich | Stanford Communion Service in C Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon Theologian and Almoner |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of St Barnabas, Dulwich | Ayleward Responses Preacher: The Reverend Canon Dr Robert Mackley Vicar, St Mary the Less, Cambridge |
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| Monday, 1st September 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey; attended by a representative of the High Commissioner of Malaysia | plainsong Lucis Creator optime |
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| Tuesday, 2nd September 2025 | |||||
| Lucian Tapiedi and the martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey; attended by the Acting High Commissioner of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | plainsong Lucis Creator optime |
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| Thursday, 4th September 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Lucis Creator optime |
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| Friday, 5th September 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Kingdom of Eswatini | Desmond Almighty and everlasting God |
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| Saturday, 6th September 2025 | |||||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | Desmond Almighty and everlasting God |
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