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Sistine Chapel Choir sings at Westminster Abbey
Wednesday, 3rd June 2015
The Sistine Chapel Choir visited Westminster Abbey on Saturday 30th May and Sunday 31st May to sing Evensong and perform a recital of sacred choral music.
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Sistine Chapel Choir joins Abbey Choir for Evensong tonight
Friday, 25th May 2018
The Cappella Musicale Pontificia ‘Sistina’ (Sistine Chapel Choir) joins the Choir of Westminster Abbey in singing Evensong today at 5.00 pm.
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Requiem Mass Marks Start of Lady Chapel Festival
Friday, 22nd April 2016
The Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, celebrated Requiem Mass in the Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey, on Thursday 21st April 2016, the Anniversary of the Death of King Henry VII.
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Holy Communion
Service in which the Holy Scriptures are read, prayers offered, and bread and wine consecrated and received as the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
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Lady Chapel
The 16th-century historian John Leland called the Henry VII Lady Chapel ‘the wonder of the world’ and it continues to inspire wonder amongst visitors today.
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Sermon at a Meditation for Holy Week 2021
Monday, 29th March 2021
Sermon at a Meditation for Holy Week 2021: The beginning of the Church is often ascribed to Pentecost and the sending of the Holy Spirit.
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Holy Communion (BCP) on Easter Day
Sunday, 31st March 2024
A quiet, said service, in traditional language, according to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, lasting around 40 minutes.
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Celebrate Holy Week and Easter with us
Monday, 29th March 2021
Celebrate Holy Week and Easter with Westminster Abbey
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An Abbey welcome to Holy Week and Easter
Friday, 23rd March 2018
Westminster Abbey and St Margaret’s Church welcome worshippers and visitors to our annual celebration of Holy Week, the most solemn week of the Church’s year, culminating in the most joyful festival, Easter Day.
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Holy place
In a chapel at the heart of Westminster Abbey is the Shrine of Edward the Confessor, king and saint.
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The Royal Air Force Chapel
Westminster Abbey is a treasure house of paintings, stained glass, textiles and artefacts – and is also where some significant people are buried or remembered.
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Two Knights Grand Cross installed in Bath Chapel
Tuesday, 11th July 2023
Two Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath were installed in the Abbey's Lady Chapel on 10 July 2023.
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Four Knights Grand Cross installed in Bath chapel
Tuesday, 20th July 2021
Four Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath were installed in the Abbey’s Lady Chapel on Monday 19th July..
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RAF Chapel
At the eastern end of the Lady Chapel is the Royal Air Force chapel dedicated to the men who died in the Battle of Britain in 1940.
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Journeying through Holy Week
A reflection for Holy Week by the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster
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Reflection: Holy Saturday
Monday, 1st January 0001
Read or listen to the reflection for Holy Saturday
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Concert for Holy Week: Bach - St Matthew Passion
Tuesday, 26th March 2024
The Choir of Westminster Abbey is joined by leading period-instrument orchestra St. James' Baroque for this Holy Week performance of Bach’s powerful Matthäus-Passion (St Matthew Passion), sung in German.
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L is for Lady Chapel
Discover over 1,000 years of faith and history with our brand-new A to Z of Westminster Abbey. Perfect for primary-aged children, and their accompanying adults, these independent and team activities are designed to spark creativity, ignite imaginations and keep young brains ticking, with little or no materials required. Letter-by-letter, uncover the many places, themes and beliefs that can be found within this national place of worship. What are you waiting for?
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Florence Nightingale & Nurses' chapel
Doctor
The Nurses' Memorial Chapel, in the upper Islip chantry chapel, was re-dedicated to Florence Nightingale, on the centenary of her death.
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Holy Monday
At various times of the year, we fly the flags of Commonwealth nations, St Peter, the National Saints, the RAF, and the Royal Standard.