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• Transfiguration and Music

  Sunday, 11th February 2018

  Sermon given by The Venerable David Stanton, Canon Treasurer and Archdeacon of Westminster.

• Music for Remembrance

  To mark 100 years since the start of the Great War this recording explores remembrance, with Britten Sinfonia and soloists Christine Rice and Roderick Williams.

• Finzi, Bax & Ireland: Choral Music

  A disc exploring the work of three twentieth-century composers whose work was crucial to the Anglican choral tradition.

• Address given by the Prime Minister on the fifth anniversary of the attacks on Westminster Bridge and in New Palace Yard

  Tuesday, 22nd March 2022

  Address given by the Prime Minister on the fifth anniversary of the attacks on Westminster Bridge and in New Palace Yard: 'Death is swallowed up in victory.' I want to begin by.

• 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.

• 3rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Wednesday, 1st June 1988

  Delivered by Dame Janet Baker at King's College London on Wednesday 1st May 1988.

• 7th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 7th May 1992

  Delivered by John Fenton at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th May 1992 and at Lincoln Theological College and Keble College, Oxford.

• Music

  Uncover the role and significance of traditional and commissioned music within coronations throughout history.

• Music

  The Abbey resounds to choral and organ music every day. Music is at the heart of the Abbey’s life and work.

• O praise the Lord: Restoration music from Westminster Abbey

  The Choir of Westminster Abbey under director James O’Donnell delves into the Abbey’s vaults for this fascinating programme of music from the Restoration era.

• 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

• Sermon at Evensong with Installation of Headmaster and Admission of Choristers

  Sunday, 8th September 2019

  Sermon at Evensong with Installation of Headmaster and Admission of Choristers: Generations to come will look back at the music of our rich and creative times. It has been a pleasure this.

• Sermon given at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity 2022

  Sunday, 10th July 2022

  Sermon given at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity 2022: "Music and poetry have in all ages been counted divine..." In 1688, the publisher and playwright Henry Playford had a bit.

• Worship & music

  We’ve been a place of worship since the tenth century. We hold services every day, and music is an important feature of many of them.

• Music at St Margaret's

  Find out more about the choir and musical tradition at St. Margaret's Church

• In Power

  It is neither superheroes nor automata but human beings who pace the corridors of Westminster and Whitehall, often feeling anything but powerful.

• 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.

• Prime Minister visits Abbey on eve of VE Day

  Thursday, 7th May 2020

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson was welcomed to the Abbey tonight by the Dean of Westminster on the eve of the 75th anniversary of VE Day.

  VE Day Prime Minister Boris Johnson COVID-19

• Prime Minister of Canada visits Abbey

  Wednesday, 12th June 2013

  The Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, laid a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 12th June 2013.

  State Visit

• Prime Minister of Japan visits Abbey

  Thursday, 1st May 2014

  The Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Shinzo Abe, visited Westminster Abbey and laid a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior on Thursday 1st May 2014.