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, 25th July 2021 | ||
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| Eighth Sunday after Trinity | ||
| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | Quire |
| sung by the Elysian Singers | Berkeley Missa brevis Preacher: The Reverend Mark Birch Minor Canon and Precentor |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Elysian Singers | Ayleward Responses Preacher: The Reverend David Stanton Canon in Residence |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| Friday, 30th July 2021 | ||
| William Wilberforce, social reformer, Olaudah Equiano and Thomas Clarkson, anti-slavery campaigners, 1833, 1797, and 1846 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by Hesperos | Smith Responses |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| Saturday, 31st July 2021 | ||
| Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Rodolfus Choir | Ayleward Responses |
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| View Order of Service | ||
