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

All services|Organ recitals
28th September - 4th October 2025
Sunday, 28th September 2025
Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
10.00am Matins Quire
sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir

Smith Responses
Byrd Te Deum (The Great Service)
Tomkins Jubilate (The Second Service)
Bach Fugue in F
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11.15am Sung Eucharist High Altar
sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir

Howells Collegium Regale
Mendelssohn For he shall give his angels charge over thee
Howells Rhapsody II

Preacher: The Reverend Tessa Bosworth Succentor
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3.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir

attr Farrant Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
Smith Responses
Wood Evening Service in D
Parry At the round earth's imagined corners
Widor Allegro (Symphonie VI)

Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey 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
Tallis O nata lux de lumine
Tallis If ye love me
Handel Introduction and Allegro (Organ Concerto Op 4 no 2)

Preacher: The Reverend Tessa Bosworth Succentor
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Monday, 29th September 2025
ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
5.00pm Sung Eucharist High Altar
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

Langlais Messe solennelle
Jackson O everlasting God
Langlais Fête

Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon Theologian and Almoner
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Tuesday, 30th September 2025
St Jerome, translator of the Scriptures, teacher of the faith, 420
5.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choristers of Westminster Abbey; attended by a representative of the High Commissioner of the Republic of Botswana

plainsong Te lucis ante terminum
plainsong Responses
Watson Evening Service in F
Haydn Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domine
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Wednesday, 1st October 2025
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, social reformer, 1885
Thérèse of Lisieux, religious, 1897
5.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort

Tallis If ye love me, keep my commandments
Smith Responses
Purcell Evening Service in G minor
Purcell O sing unto the Lord a new song
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Thursday, 2nd October 2025
5.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus

Bairstow I sat down under his shadow
Smith Responses
Humfrey Evening Service in E minor
Wesley Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
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Friday, 3rd October 2025
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, ecumenist, peacemaker, 1958
5.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

Bairstow I sat down under his shadow
Smith Responses
Palestrina Magnificat quarti toni
Wood Nunc dimittis in B flat
Briggs O God, forasmuch as without thee
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Saturday, 4th October 2025
St Francis of Assisi, friar, deacon, founder of the Friars Minor, 1226
3.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; part of the Chorister Experience Day

Vaughan Williams The Call
Smith Responses
Howells Collegium Regale
Farrington Rejoice
Dubois Toccata
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Everyone is welcome at these services, free of charge. Security checks are in place upon entry.