Choral services
Sung prayer has been offered in Westminster Abbey nearly every day for over a thousand years. Today, services are sung daily during term time by the world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey, and by visiting choirs when the Abbey Choir is in recess.
The music sung ranges from Gregorian chant dating from the first millennium to contemporary music and encompasses the remarkable richness and variety of the Anglican choral tradition.
This week's choral services
| Sunday, 19th September 2021 | ||
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| Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity | ||
| 3.00pm | Evensong with installation of Sacrist and admission of Choristers | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Pitoni Cantate Domino Preacher: The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle Dean of Westminster |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| Monday, 20th September 2021 | ||
| John Coleridge Patteson, first Bishop of Melanesia, and his companions, martyrs, 1871 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Lay Vicars | plainsong Lucis Creator optime |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| Tuesday, 21st September 2021 | ||
| St Matthew, apostle and evangelist | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Batten O praise the Lord |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| Thursday, 23rd September 2021 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong with installation of Deputy Receiver General | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Batten O praise the Lord |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| Friday, 24th September 2021 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choristers | plainsong Responses |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| Saturday, 25th September 2021 | ||
| Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, spiritual writer, Dean of Westminster, 1601–05, 1626 | ||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Batten O praise the Lord |
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| View Order of Service | ||
