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  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 2024

    Sunday, 22nd September 2024

    British holy sites series: III Little Gidding

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Baptism of Christ 2025

    Sunday, 12th January 2025

    In the font we learn that water is thicker than blood.

  • Transfiguration and Music

    Sunday, 11th February 2018

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

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Lent 2018

    Sunday, 18th February 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Lent 2018: We are no lone disciples, we are part of a wider team of the Christian community, and Jesus Christ is.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Epiphany 2018

    Sunday, 21st January 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Epiphany 2018: Are we willing to get involved and share in the abundance, so be part of the ordinary becoming extraordinary? Today.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2018

    Sunday, 6th May 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2018: Love is our meaning; the central word of our faith and the truth for which we live and die. Love.

  • Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2018

    Sunday, 1st April 2018

    Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2018: God raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead and because of that, nothing in this world can ever be the last word for us..

  • 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 Second Sunday of Christmas 2017

    Sunday, 1st January 2017

    Sermon given by The Right Reverend Jonathan, Goodall Bishop of Ebbsfleet.

  • 10th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 4th May 1995

    Delivered by The Most Revd Richard Holloway D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 4th May 1995 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford and Lincoln Theological College.

  • 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.

  • 2nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 21st May 1987

    Delivered by The Rt Revd Simeon Nkoane CR, Assistant Bishop of Johannesburg at King's College London.

  • One People Oration 2002

    Monday, 17th June 2002

    Speaker: Lord Carey of Clifton (then Archbishop of Canterbury)

  • 22nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 10th May 2007

    Delivered by The Reverend Dr Richard A. Burridge, Dean of King's College London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 10th May 2007 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • Annual Judges Service held at Abbey

    The annual Judges Service took place at Westminster Abbey on Monday 3rd October 2016.

  • Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell Remembered

    Princess Alexandra attended a Westminster Abbey service to commemorate the life of Florence Nightingale and to mark the centenary of the funeral of Edith Cavell.

  • St Margaret’s holds Parliament service to mark Centenary

    A service for Parliament to mark the centenary of the end of World War I was held at St Margaret's Church on 6th November 2018.

  • Sandbags and sirens

    The Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie explores the crucial role the church played in supporting a nation in conflict.

  • The Wedding of William and Kate

    Relive the wedding day of Prince William and Kate Middleton, from the moment the guests arrive to the moment the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

  • Henry Francis Lyte

    Composer, Musician and Priest/Minister

    In the south choir aisle is a memorial to hymn writer Henry Francis Lyte. The alabaster tablet was unveiled on 16th November 1947.

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