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, 24th October 2021 | ||
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| Last Sunday after Trinity | ||
| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | Quire |
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Palestrina Missa sine nomine a 6 Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon Theologian and Almoner |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Poulenc Ô mes très chers frères Preacher: The Venerable Adam Atkinson Archdeacon of Charing Cross, Diocese of London |
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| Tuesday, 26th October 2021 | ||
| St Cedd, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 | ||
| St Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, scholar, 899 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Lay Vicars; attended by HE The High Commissioner for St Vincent and the Grenadines | Mundy A new commandment give I unto you |
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| Thursday, 28th October 2021 | ||
| St Simon and St Jude, apostles | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Viadana Exsultate justi in Domino |
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| Friday, 29th October 2021 | ||
| James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, martyr, 1885 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choristers; attended by HE The High Commissioner for Antigua and Barbuda | plainsong Te lucis ante terminum |
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| Saturday, 30th October 2021 | ||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Weelkes All people clap your hands |
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