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  • Christopher Tye: Missa Euge bone & Western Wynde Mass

    A well-judged selection of sacred music by sixteenth-century English composer Christopher Tye, including his masterpiece the Missa Euge bone.

  • Sermon Given at Matins on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2016

    Sunday, 4th September 2016

    Sermon given by The Reverend Professor Vernon White, Canon in Residence.

  • Chapter House

    The "incomparable" 13th century Chapter House in the East Cloister was a daily meeting place for the monks and contains many mural paintings.

    Architecture

  • 32nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 11th May 2017

    Salley Vickers addresses the crucial role of the arts in giving shape and form to abiding intangible realities, suggesting the vital importance of nurturing the imagination through the arts in an increasingly secular society.

  • Sermon Given at The Chapel Royal St James's Palace on Good Friday 2016

    Friday, 25th March 2016

    Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Reflection: Palm Sunday

    Monday, 1st January 0001

    Read or listen to the reflection for Palm Sunday

  • Sermon at the Evening Service on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2019

    Sunday, 21st July 2019

    Sermon at the Evening Service on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2019: Exactly who was Mary Magdalene? Exactly who was Mary Magdalene: a supermodel of saintliness, a poster girl for repentant sinners.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2020

    Sunday, 9th August 2020

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2020: Anyone who has ever helped a child learn to walk will know just how important eye contact can be..

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2021

    Sunday, 2nd May 2021

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2021: Jesus said, Abide in me… I am the Vine, you are the branches. Jesus said, Abide in me… I am.

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

    Sunday, 14th August 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2022: Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? “Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom.

  • Sermon given at the Solemn Liturgy on Good Friday 2023

    Friday, 7th April 2023

    Sermon given at the Solemn Liturgy on Good Friday 2023: We must see man and God. There is a story, from nineteenth-century France, about a young officer who made a bet. The.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 27th August 2023

    Sermon preached at Evensong on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 2023: 'Let your gentleness be known to everyone.' Words from this afternoon’s Psalm, 139: If I climb up into heaven, thou.

  • Sermon given at a Sung Eucharist on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 1st October 2023

    Sermon given at a Sung Eucharist on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 2023: Looking for just one thing. We had a lot of bishops here on Friday. The Archbishop of Canterbury was.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Advent 2023

    Sunday, 10th December 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Advent 2023: John Baptist’s voice came from the edge, not from the centre of power. Many of you, I expect, will.

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

    Sunday, 27th October 2024

    Seing things with fresh eyes: discernment.

  • Sermon at Matins on Good Friday 2018

    Friday, 30th March 2018

    Sermon at Matins on Good Friday 2018: Why should the tortured death of one man on a cross 2000 years ago on a scrubby hill in the Middle East matter to us.

  • Architecture

    The present Abbey building dates mainly from the reign of Henry III. In 1245 he pulled down the eastern part of the 11th century Abbey.

  • Royal Wedding Address

    Friday, 29th April 2011

    Address given by The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Richard Chartres, KCVO Bishop of London.

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