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  • Virtual tours

    Take a virtual tour inside Westminster Abbey. View treasures including the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, the High Altar and the Coronation Chair in detail.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Lent 2019

    Sunday, 10th February 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Lent 2019: Seeing the light The Feast of Candlemas, which the Church observed nine days ago, celebrates one of the most symbolically “full” moments.

  • Sermon at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2016

    Saturday, 24th December 2016

    Sermon at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2016: Light in the darkness Picture, if you will, a fertile windswept landscape of low hills and large horizons.  The land is farmed - arable.

  • Light and colour in Christian art

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple 2023

    Thursday, 2nd February 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple 2023: A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. Candlemas is a radiant.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor 2018

    Saturday, 13th October 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor 2018: Nobody lights a lamp in order to hide it. They put it on.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2023

    Sunday, 9th April 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Easte Day 2023: Every broken fragment can now know healing in the light of Easter. The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has a new.

  • Parry: I was glad & other choral works

    Joining forces with Onyx Brass, the Choir of Westminster Abbey present a programme of Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry’s lesser-known early works alongside firm favourites.

  • Music from the reign of King James I

    A selection of works from the first quarter of the seventeenth century, when musicians produced a rich variety of music for the court of King James I.

  • 5th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 31st May 1990

    Delivered by The Very Reverend Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral San Francisco at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 31st May 1990 and subsequently at Lincoln Minster and Keble College, Oxford.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2023

    Sunday, 1st January 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2023: A reflection on a much-overlooked part of the Christmas story from the Gospel of Matthew, and encourages us to.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2024

    Sunday, 17th March 2024

    And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 11th June 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2023: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ A former Canon of.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Lent 2019

    Sunday, 24th March 2019

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Lent 2019: Where will I end up? Before the city of Venice arose from its salty lagoon, raised on sunken piles.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2024

    Sunday, 12th May 2024

    They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

  • Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots lecture

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

    Sunday, 24th June 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity 2018: ‘When in distress to him I called, he to my rescue came.’ If we ever wanted to make a complaint.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity

    Sunday, 9th October 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity: 'I have called you friends.' A year ago a major US study, reported that ‘the role of friends is experiencing a pronounced decline,.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 2024

    Sunday, 29th September 2024

    Stumbling can be spiritual.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Lent 2024

    Sunday, 4th February 2024

    In the first few lines of John’s gospel, I hope anyone would find ideas that are gripping and enticing.

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