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, 25th January 2026 | |||||
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| Third Sunday of Epiphany | |||||
| Week of Prayer for Christian Unity | |||||
| 10.00am | Matins | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Clucas Responses |
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| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | MacMillan Mass of St Edward the Confessor 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 | Gallus Omnes de Saba venient Preacher: The Reverend David Stanton Canon in Residence |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church | |||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Byrd Mass for four voices Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon Theologian and Almoner |
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| Monday, 26th January 2026 | |||||
| The Conversion of St Paul | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Australia | plainsong Pressi malorum pondere |
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| Tuesday, 27th January 2026 | |||||
| The Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1945 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Republic of India | Gibbons Almighty and everlasting God |
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| Wednesday, 28th January 2026 | |||||
| St Thomas Aquinas, priest, philosopher, teacher of the faith, 1274 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Tallis In manus tuas Domine |
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| Thursday, 29th January 2026 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Gibbons Almighty and everlasting God |
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| Friday, 30th January 2026 | |||||
| Charles I, king, martyr, 1649 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Nauru | Gibbons Almighty and everlasting God |
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| Saturday, 31st January 2026 | |||||
| John Bosco, priest, founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; part of the Chorister Experience Day | Vaughan Williams The Call |
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