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
15th - 21st September 2024
Sunday, 15th September 2024
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
3.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

Loosemore O Lord, increase my faith
Clucas Responses
Howells Collegium Regale
Parry There is an old belief
Howells Saraband in modo elegiaco

Preacher: The Reverend Tricia Hillas Canon Steward
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6.00pm Sung Eucharist St Margaret's Church
sung by the St Margaret's Choristers

Rheinberger Missa puerorum
Rheinberger Verbum supernum
Brahms Prelude in G minor

Preacher: The Reverend Rosemary Morton Priest Vicar
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Monday, 16th September 2024
St Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle of the Picts, c 432
Edward Bouverie Pusey, priest, Tractarian, 1882
5.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choristers; attended by the Acting High Commissioner for Papua New Guinea

plainsong Te lucis ante termminum
plainsong Responses
Frances-Hoad The Merton Service for Upper Voices
Boyle Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
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Tuesday, 17th September 2024
St Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, visionary, 1179
5.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

Howells I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills
Ayleward Responses
Marenzio Magnificat octavi toni
plainsong Nunc dimittis octavi toni
Gibbons Glorious and powerful God
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Thursday, 19th September 2024
St Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690
5.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by HE The High Commissioner for St Kitts and Nevis

Howells I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills
Ayleward Responses
Dyson in F
Brahms Geistliches Lied
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Friday, 20th September 2024
John Coleridge Patteson, first Bishop of Melanesia, and his companions, martyrs, 1871
5.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

Howells I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills
Ayleward Responses
Byrd Third Service
Byrd Sing joyfully unto God our strength
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Saturday, 21st September 2024
St Matthew, apostle and evangelist
3.00pm Evensong Quire
sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

Howells I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills
Ayleward Responses
Howells Dallas Service
Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing
Howells Rhapsody in C sharp minor
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Everyone is welcome at these services, free of charge. Security checks are in place upon entry.