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, 10th November 2024 | |||||||||||
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| Third Sunday before Advent | |||||||||||
| 3.00pm | Evensong with Admission of Choristers | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Rachmaninoff To thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul Preacher: The Reverend Jonathan Beswick Rector, London Docks with Wapping St John, Diocese of London |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church | |||||||||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Fauré Requiem Preacher: The Right Reverend Anthony Ball Canon Steward and Archdeacon of Westminster |
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| Monday, 11th November 2024 | |||||||||||
| St Martin, Bishop of Tours, 397 | |||||||||||
| The Burial of the Unknown Warrior, 1920 | |||||||||||
| Armistice Day, 1918 | |||||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Lay Vicars | plainsong Te lucis ante terminum |
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| Tuesday, 12th November 2024 | |||||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Radcliffe God be in my head |
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| Wednesday, 13th November 2024 | |||||||||||
| Charles Simeon, priest, evangelical divine, 1836 | |||||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Rheinberger Abendlied |
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| Thursday, 14th November 2024 | |||||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Radcliffe God be in my head |
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| Friday, 15th November 2024 | |||||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Radcliffe God be in my head |
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| Saturday, 16th November 2024 | |||||||||||
| St Margaret, Queen of Scotland, philanthropist, reformer of the Church, 1093 | |||||||||||
| Obit of Henry III | |||||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | This service will be live-streamed Radcliffe God be in my head |
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