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, 22nd June 2025 | |||||
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| First Sunday after Trinity | |||||
| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist with Baptism and Confirmation | High Altar | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey and the St Margaret's Choristers | Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor Preacher: The Right Reverend Martin Seeley Honorary Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Ely |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | attr Farrant Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake Preacher: The Reverend David Stanton Canon in Residence |
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| Monday, 23rd June 2025 | |||||
| St Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, 679 | |||||
| 5.00pm | First Evensong of the Birth of St John the Baptist | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong O lux beata Trinitas |
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| Tuesday, 24th June 2025 | |||||
| The Birth of St John the Baptist | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Republic of Mozambique | Palestrina Fuit homo missus a Deo |
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| Thursday, 26th June 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Palestrina Exaltabo te Domine |
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| Friday, 27th June 2025 | |||||
| St Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, teacher of the faith, 444 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Republic of Rwanda | This service will be live-streamed. Palestrina Exaltabo te Domine |
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| Saturday, 28th June 2025 | |||||
| St Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon, teacher of the faith, c 202 | |||||
| 5.00pm | First Evensong of St Peter | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | Tallis Responses |
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