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• St Margaret's Chorister Experience Day

  Sunday, 23rd March 2025

  Find out what it’s like to be a member of the St Margaret’s Choristers of Westminster Abbey – ideal for girls currently in Year 6.

  Music St Margaret's Church

• The Reverend Jane Sinclair appointed Rector of St Margaret's Church

  Thursday, 21st January 2016

  It is announced that the Reverend Jane Sinclair, Canon of Westminster, is to take on the responsibility of the Rector of St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, in succession to the Venerable Andrew Tremlett, with effect from 1st September 2016, following his installation as Dean of Durham in the summer.

  Canon Jane Sinclair

• St Margaret's Chorister Experience Day

  Sunday, 27th April 2025

  Find out what it’s like to be a member of the St Margaret’s Choristers of Westminster Abbey – ideal for girls currently in Year 6.

• Westminster Abbey welcomes cathedral deans

  Monday, 8th April 2013

  Every year during the week after Low Sunday the deans of the English cathedrals gather at one of the cathedrals for a residential conference.

  Deans' Conference

• Westminster Abbey welcomes St Woolos Choir

  Friday, 30th April 2004

  Westminster Abbey welcomes visiting choirs to sing the daily services when the Abbey choir is on holiday.

  St Woolos Choir

• Abbey loans rare 1588 first edition Welsh Bible to St Davids Cathedral

  Monday, 16th June 2025

  A rare 1588 Welsh Bible from Westminster Abbey’s Library collection – the first complete translation of the Bible into the Welsh language – has been loaned to St Davids Cathedral, where it will go on public display for the first time this week.

• St George's Day

  Saturday, 23rd April 2005

  Representations of St George and his dragon can be seen in Westminster Abbey on Henry VIIs tomb and grille, in the Lady Chapel statue series, in stained glass windows to the YMCA and Sir Benjamin Baker in the nave, and in the window in St Benedicts chapel.

  St George

• MPs and peers remember Lord Lawson at St Margaret’s Church

  Tuesday, 17th October 2023

  A Service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of The Right Honourable The Lord Lawson of Blaby was held at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, on Tuesday 17th October 2023.

• Abbey receives support from the Cathedral Music Trust

  Wednesday, 15th June 2022

  The Cathedral Music Trust has made a generous donation to Westminster Abbey, funding its Assistant Organist post for a year.

• The Holy See invites Westminster Abbey choir to sing at St Peter’s in Rome

  Monday, 5th March 2012

  Westminster Abbey’s world-famous choir has been invited by the Holy See – through the Maestro of the Cappella Musicale Pontificia “Sistina” – to sing at St Peter’s in Rome.

  The Choir of Westminster Abbey St Peter’s Basilica

• Westminster Abbey Choir to sing at St Peter's in Rome

  Monday, 25th June 2012

  Westminster Abbey’s world-famous choir arrives in Italy this week (Tuesday 26th June) for a tour of Rome and Montecassino which will include singing for Pope Benedict XVI, with the Cappella Musicale Pontificia ‘Sistina’, the Sistine Chapel Choir, at the Papal Mass marking the Solemnity of St Peter and St Paul (Friday 29th June) in St Peter’s Basilica.

  Choir of Westminster Abbey Pope Benedict XVI

• Conservation at St Margaret's

  Sunday, 24th April 2005

  Working during their holidays, two students from the Coutaulds Institute, have cleaned the altar screen in St Margaret's.

  conservation

• Choir School Headmaster to retire

  Friday, 9th November 2018

  Jonathan Milton, Headmaster of the Abbey Choir School, has announced that he will retire at the end of the current academic year in June.

  Jonathan Milton Westminster Abbey Choir School

• Historical Day for St Margaret's Church and The Abbey

  Wednesday, 9th April 2003

  On Wednesday 9th April, St Peter's flag will be flown from St Margaret's tower to mark the 480th anniversary of its consecration of 9 April 1523.

• Anthony & William Horneck

  Priest/Minister, Soldier and Engineer

  Dr Anthony Horneck, clergyman, is buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, together with his wife, daughter Elizabeth and son William.

• A podcast for the Feast of the Translation of St Edward

  Tuesday, 13th October 2020

  Simrin Rahman, a student at Harris Westminster Sixth Form, reads from St Matthew’s gospel for a special edition of Abbeycast released today for the Feast of the Translation of St Edward.

  St Edward the Confessor Edwardtide Abbeycast

• St Margaret's Church marks end of an era

  Monday, 2nd November 2020

  A Sung Eucharist of Thanksgiving was held in St Margaret’s Church at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 31st October 2020.

• St Margaret's organist wins Queen's Award

  Monday, 23rd November 2020

  Thomas Trotter, the organist at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, has been awarded this year’s Queen’s Medal for Music.

• St Margaret’s to open again for worship and visitors

  Thursday, 27th August 2020

  St Margaret’s Church will welcome back worshippers and visitors this autumn after being closed for over six months due to coronavirus and following building work.

  Worship

• The Speaker and Dean of Westminster view St Margaret’s restoration work

  Tuesday, 29th September 2020

  The Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, and the Dean of Westminster viewed restoration work at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster.

  restoration