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, 6th July 2025 | |||||
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| Third Sunday after Trinity | |||||
| 11.00am | Matins, attended in Civic State by The Lord Mayor of Westminster | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Bruckner Locus iste a Deo factus est Preacher: The Reverend David Stanton Sub-Dean and Canon Treasurer |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong with Presentation of a Surplice | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Rutter The Lord bless you and keep you Preacher: The Reverend Mark Birch MVO Canon in Residence |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church | |||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Howells Collegium Regale Preacher: The Reverend Ralph Godsall Priest Vicar |
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| Monday, 7th July 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choristers of Westminster Abbey; attended by the Honorary Consul for Solomon Islands | Fauré Pie Jesu Domine |
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| Tuesday, 8th July 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Republic of Malawi | Gibbons The Second Service |
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| Wednesday, 9th July 2025 | |||||
| The Burial of Lady Margaret Beaufort, 1509 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Duruflé Ubi caritas et amor |
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| Thursday, 10th July 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Bairstow Jesu, the very thought of thee |
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| Friday, 11th July 2025 | |||||
| St Benedict, Abbot of Montecassino, father of western monasticism, c 550 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Bairstow Jesu, the very thought of thee |
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| Saturday, 12th July 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Leighton Responses |
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