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, 16th March 2025 | |||||
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| Second Sunday of Lent | |||||
| 10.00am | Matins | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Responses |
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| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | Byrd Mass for three voices Preacher: The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival Sacrist |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Audi benigne Conditor 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 | Fauré Messe basse Preacher: The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival Sacrist |
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| Monday, 17th March 2025 | |||||
| St Patrick, Patron of Ireland, bishop, missionary, c 5th century | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choristers of Westminster Abbey | Vaughan Williams The Call |
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| Tuesday, 18th March 2025 | |||||
| St Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, teacher of the faith, 386 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Ferguson It was in that train |
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| Thursday, 20th March 2025 | |||||
| St Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, missionary, 687 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Ferguson It was in that train |
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| Friday, 21st March 2025 | |||||
| Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Reformation martyr, 1556 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the Chargé d'Affaires for the High Commissioner for Namibia | Hakim Prayer for Faith, Hope, and Charity |
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| Saturday, 22nd March 2025 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Ferguson It was in that train |
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