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Coronations, royal weddings, kings, queens, statesmen and soldiers; poets, heroes and villains – history happens here and it’s all waiting to be discovered.
Today's services
| Sunday, 16th August 2026 | ||
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| Eleventh Sunday after Trinity | ||
| 8.00am | Holy Communion | Nave |
| The Book of Common Prayer; said | ||
| 10.00am | Morning Prayer | Quire |
| said with hymns | ||
| View Order of Service | ||
| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | High Altar |
| sung by the Choirs of Trinity Church, Princeton, USA | Howells Collegium Regale Preacher: The Reverend Robert Latham Precentor |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choirs of Trinity Church, Princeton, USA | Sanders Responses Preacher: The Reverend David Stanton Canon in Residence |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| 5.00pm | Organ Recital | Nave |
| given by Mélodie Michel | Liszt Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme BACH S260 |
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| 6.00pm | Holy Communion | St Margaret's Church |
| said with hymns | Preacher: The Reverend Robert Latham Precentor |
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| View Order of Service | ||
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About the Abbey
An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey has become a treasure house of artefacts. This is also the coronation church where some of the most significant people in Britain's history are buried or commemorated.
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