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  • Service for the New Parliament at St Margaret's Church

    Tuesday, 9th June 2015

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Primate of All England and Metropolitan, gave the Address at Service for a New Parliament at St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 9th June 2015.

    Service for the New Parliament St Margaret's Church

  • Jo Cox MP remembered at St Margaret’s Service

    Monday, 20th June 2016

    A Service of Prayer and Remembrance to Commemorate Jo Cox MP was held at St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, on Monday 20th June at 4.00pm.

    Jo Cox MP memorial service

  • The Reverend Jane Sinclair installed as Rector of St Margaret’s Church

    Monday, 5th September 2016

    The Reverend Jane Sinclair was installed as Rector of St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, during Sung Eucharist at 11.00am on Sunday 4th September 2016.

    Canon Jane Sinclair

  • 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

  • Concert: BACH - St John Passion

    Tuesday, 15th April 2025

    The Choir of Westminster Abbey is joined by The English Concert for this Holy Week performance of Bach’s moving Johannes-Passion (St John Passion), sung in German.

    Choir of Westminster Abbey event Music Holy Week and Easter Easter

  • 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.

    Pope Benedict XVI St Peter’s Basilica

  • John Hall installed as new Dean of Westminster

    Saturday, 2nd December 2006

    In a ceremony which drew on the historic origins of the post, he became responsible for day-to-day management and worship at Westminster Abbey, one of the best-known churches in the world.

    The Very Reverend Dr John Hall

  • St Margaret's welcomes Coptic Christians for New Year service.

    Wednesday, 11th September 2013

    St Margaret’s Church at Westminster Abbey welcomed Coptic Christians for the service of Raising Evening Incense for the Celebration of El Nayrouz, which marks the beginning of the Coptic New Year, on Tuesday 10th September 2013.

    Coptic New Year

  • The St Margaret's Choristers make history

    Thursday, 9th May 2024

    The St Margaret’s Choristers made history on Wednesday 8th May when they sang Evensong in Westminster Abbey for the first time.

  • St Margaret's Review Group appointed

    Friday, 6th February 2015

    The Dean and Chapter has announced the appointment of a St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey review group under the chairmanship of The Rt Hon The Baroness Butler-Sloss GBE.

  • St Margaret's Choristers to sing their first service

    Wednesday, 27th September 2023

    The St Margaret's Choristers, a new choir for girls aged 11 - 17, will sing its first service in St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey.

  • 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

  • Patrons lend their support to the St Margaret’s Choristers

    Friday, 1st March 2024

    Five patrons from across the worlds of public service and the arts have lent their support to the St Margaret’s Choristers – a new girls’ choir founded at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, last year.

  • A new girls' choir for St Margaret's Church

    Friday, 17th March 2023

    St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, is to launch a new choir for girls aged eleven to seventeen.

  • St Edward icon dedicated

    Monday, 21st October 2019

    A new icon of St Edward the Confessor has been dedicated and placed in the shrine, the place of his burial, in Westminster Abbey.

    Edward the Confessor Icons

  • 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.

  • The Birth of St John the Baptist

    St Peter flag

  • St John, apostle and evangelist

    St Peter flag

  • John, Charles & Samuel Wesley

    Priest/Minister

    On 30th March 1876 the Dean of Westminster, Arthur Stanley, unveiled a white marble memorial to Methodists John and Charles Wesley.

  • 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.

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