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, 27th April 2025 | |||||
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| Second Sunday of Easter | |||||
| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields | Rheinberger Cantus missae Preacher The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival Sacrist |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong with Admission of Chief Honorary Steward | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields | Rose Responses Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon in Residence |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church | |||
| sung by St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Ireland Communion Service in C Preacher The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival Sacrist |
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| Monday, 28th April 2025 | |||||
| St George, patron of England, martyr, c 303 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey; attended by the Chargé d'Affaires for the Togolese Republic | Martin Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt |
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| Tuesday, 29th April 2025 | |||||
| St Mark the Evangelist | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the United Kingdom | Harris Holy is the true light |
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| Thursday, 1st May 2025 | |||||
| St Philip and St James, apostles | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Harris Holy is the true light |
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| Friday, 2nd May 2025 | |||||
| St Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, teacher of the faith, 373 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Wood Haec dies quem fecit Dominus |
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| Saturday, 3rd May 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Aurora lucis rutilat |
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