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 May 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Day of Pentecost (Whit Sunday) | ||
| 10.30am | Sung Eucharist | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by The King's Scholars of Westminster School | Palestrina Missa Dum complerentur Preacher: The Reverend Canon Aidan Platten Precentor, Norwich Cathedral |
|
| View Order of Service | ||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Tallis O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit Preacher: The Right Reverend Anthony Ball Canon in Residence |
|
| View Order of Service | ||
| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church |
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Darke in F Preacher: The Reverend Mark Birch MVO Precentor |
|
| View Order of Service | ||
| Monday, 20th May 2024 | ||
| St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, founder of Westminster Abbey, 988 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choristers | Hurford Litany to the Holy Spirit |
|
| View Order of Service | ||
| Tuesday, 21st May 2024 | ||
| Charter Day, 1560 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Tallis O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit |
|
| View Order of Service | ||
| Thursday, 23rd May 2024 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Tallis O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit |
|
| View Order of Service | ||
| Saturday, 25th May 2024 | ||
| The Venerable Bede, monk at Jarrow, scholar, historian, 735 | ||
| 5.00pm | First Evensong of Trinity Sunday | Quire |
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Lassus Tibi laus |
|
| View Order of Service | ||
