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• 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 26th May 2016

  Roger Scruton, philosopher, public commentator and author, gives the 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic of The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated.

• 34th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 9th May 2019

  Sir James MacMillan argues that the search for the sacred did not end with modernity in music and that it has grown and become complex.

  Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

• The Coronation Church

• Sermon at a Sung Eucharist of Thanksgiving at St Margaret's Church

  Saturday, 31st October 2020

  Sermon at a Sung Eucharist of Thanksgiving at St Margaret's Church: There is a file full of letters on my desk. Some of them, probably, written by people now sitting here.

• 35th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 11th November 2021

  Loretta Minghella talks about Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart

• One People Oration 2019

  Monday, 21st October 2019

  There are many churches and cathedrals in the world, some of which are more beautiful, more ancient, more glorious than Westminster Abbey.

  One People Oration

• 17th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 2nd May 2002

  Delivered by The Reverend Mark Oakley, St Paul's Covent Garden at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 2nd May 2002 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• Why is church a special place?

• Why are there lots of candles in church?

• Why are there lots of crosses in church?

• St Margaret's Church

  St. Margaret’s is a 12th-century church next to Westminster Abbey. It’s sometimes called ‘the parish Church of the House of Commons’. Everyone’s welcome to visit.

• Sermon given at Evensong on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 2021

  Sunday, 22nd August 2021

  Sermon given at Evensong on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 2021: The future of humanity starts with a true conversion of mind and heart. Yesterday thousands of marchers rallied outside the Palace.

• Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Christmas Day 2018

  Tuesday, 25th December 2018

  The heart of the joy of Christmas gives almost universal pleasure.

• What happens during a church service?

• Which objects will you find in a church?

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2017

  Sunday, 25th June 2017

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2017: The vocation of the Church Imagine, if you will, Jerusalem.  Not the sprawl of modern Jerusalem of today; but a.

• Which signs and symbols will you find in a church?

• Sermon given at Evensong with the Installation of Dr David Michael Hoyle as Dean of the Collegiate Church of St Peter in Westminster

  Saturday, 16th November 2019

  A month ago, the Abbey celebrated – 750 years. Which makes the Abbey older than Amsterdam.

• Our mission and values

  We see ourselves as a living symbol of faith at the heart of the nation. Our main purpose is to be a working inclusive church.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2018

  Sunday, 29th July 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2018: Bread has been an object of human desire, a sacred object even, for thousands of years. A couple of weeks.