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

All services|Organ recitals
27th September - 3rd October 2026
Sunday, 27th September 2026
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
10.00am Matins Quire
sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir

Ayleward Responses
Mendelssohn Te Deum laudamus
Schütz Jubilate Deo
Muffat Toccata nona
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11.15am Sung Eucharist High Altar
sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir

Stanford Communion Service in C and F
Greene Thou visitest the earth
Franck Pièce héroïque

Preacher: The Reverend Robert Latham Precentor
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3.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir

plainsong Lucis Creator optime
Ayleward Responses
Burton Magnificat in E
Holst Nunc dimittis
Stanford O for a closer walk with God
Stanford Postlude in D minor

Preacher: The Reverend David Stanton Canon in Residence
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6.00pm Sung Eucharist St Margaret's Church
sung by the St Margaret's Choristers

Chaminade Messe pour deux voix égales
Vivaldi Laudamus te
Bach Prelude in C minor

Preacher: The Reverend Robert Latham Precentor
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Monday, 28th September 2026
5.00pm First Evensong of St Michael and All Angels Quire
sung by the Choristers of Westminster Abbey

Mendelssohn Lift thine eyes to the mountains
plainsong Responses
Malcolm Magnificat secundi toni
plainsong Nunc dimittis secundi toni
Fauré In paradisum deducant angeli
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Tuesday, 29th September 2026
ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
5.00pm Sung Eucharist High Altar
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

MacMillan Mass of St Edward the Confessor
Jackson O everlasting God
Langlais Fête

Preacher: The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival Sacrist
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Thursday, 1st October 2026
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, social reformer, 1885
Thérèse of Lisieux, religious, 1897
5.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

Ley A Prayer of King Henry VI
Smith Responses
Batten The Fourth Service
Weir Antiphon
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Friday, 2nd October 2026
5.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

Ley A Prayer of King Henry VI
Smith Responses
Weelkes The Short Service
Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord
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Saturday, 3rd October 2026
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, ecumenist, peacemaker, 1958
3.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

Ley A Prayer of King Henry VI
Smith Responses
Humfrey Evening Service in E minor
Byrd Sing joyfully unto God our strength
Bruhns Praeludium in G
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Everyone is welcome at these services, free of charge. Security checks are in place upon entry.