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, 9th August 2026 | ||||||||
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| Tenth Sunday after Trinity | ||||||||
| International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples | ||||||||
| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | ||||||
| sung by Cantemus Chamber Choir | Palestrina Missa brevis Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon Theologian and Almoner |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by Cantemus Chamber Choir | Radcliffe Responses Preacher: The Venerable Jennifer Adams-Massmann Canon in Residence |
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| Monday, 10th August 2026 | ||||||||
| St Lawrence, deacon at Rome, martyr, 258 | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Choirs of Trinity Church, Princeton, USA | Sanders Responses |
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| Tuesday, 11th August 2026 | ||||||||
| St Clare of Assisi, founder of the Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 | ||||||||
| John Henry Newman, priest, Tractarian, 1890 | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Choirs of Trinity Church, Princeton, USA | Sanders Responses |
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| Thursday, 13th August 2026 | ||||||||
| Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down and Connor, teacher of the faith, 1667 | ||||||||
| Octavia Hill, social reformer, 1912 | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Choirs of Trinity Church, Princeton, USA | Sanders Responses |
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| Friday, 14th August 2026 | ||||||||
| Maximilian Kolbe, friar, martyr, 1941 | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | First Evensong of the Blessed Virgin Mary | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Choirs of Trinity Church, Princeton, USA | Sanders Responses |
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| Saturday, 15th August 2026 | ||||||||
| THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | ||||||
| sung by the Choirs of Trinity Church, Princeton, USA | Hassler Missa secunda Preacher: The Reverend Tessa Bosworth Succentor |
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