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, 20th September 2026 | |||||
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| Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity | |||||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Clucas Keep me as the apple of an eye 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 and Consort | Mozart Missa brevis in D Preacher: The Reverend Tessa Bosworth Succentor |
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| Monday, 21st September 2026 | |||||
| St Matthew, apostle and evangelist | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of Belize | plainsong Exultet caelum laudibus |
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| Tuesday, 22nd September 2026 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Republic of Malta | plainsong Deus tuorum militum |
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| Thursday, 24th September 2026 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | attr Farrant Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake |
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| Friday, 25th September 2026 | |||||
| Lancelot Andrewes, Dean of Westminster, 1601–05, Bishop of Winchester, spiritual writer, 1626 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by a representative of the High Commissioner of the Republic of Botswana | attr Farrant Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake |
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| Saturday, 26th September 2026 | |||||
| Wilson Carlile, founder of the Church Army, 1942 | |||||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Lucis Creator optime |
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