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, 2nd November 2025 | |||||
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| Fourth Sunday before Advent | |||||
| 10.00am | Matins | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Byrd Responses |
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| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Byrd Mass for five voices Preacher: The Reverend Robert Latham Precentor |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Farrant Hide not thou thy face from us, O Lord Preacher: The Reverend Mark Birch MVO Canon in Residence |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church | |||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor Preacher: The Reverend Robert Latham Precentor |
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| Monday, 3rd November 2025 | |||||
| Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (All Souls' Day) | |||||
| 5.00pm | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Duruflé Requiem Preacher: The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival Sacrist |
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| Tuesday, 4th November 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Dominica | plainsong Te lucis ante terminum |
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| Wednesday, 5th November 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Thalben-Ball I would find thee |
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| Thursday, 6th November 2025 | |||||
| William Temple, Canon of Westminster, 1919–21, Archbishop of Canterbury, teacher of the faith, 1944 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Farrant Hide not thou thy face from us, O Lord |
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| Friday, 7th November 2025 | |||||
| St Willibrord of York, bishop, Apostle of Frisia, 739 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Farrant Hide not thou thy face from us, O Lord |
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| Saturday, 8th November 2025 | |||||
| The Saints and Martyrs of England | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Farrant Hide not thou thy face from us, O Lord |
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