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, 1st November 2026 | |||||
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| Fourth Sunday before Advent | |||||
| ALL SAINTS’ DAY | |||||
| 10.00am | Matins | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Tomkins Responses |
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| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Victoria Missa O quam gloriosum Preacher: The Reverend Tessa Bosworth Succentor |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Harris Holy is the true light Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon in Residence |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church | |||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Haydn Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo Preacher: The Reverend Tessa Bosworth Succentor |
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| Monday, 2nd November 2026 | |||||
| Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (All Souls' Day) | |||||
| 5.00pm | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Fauré Requiem in D minor Preacher: The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle KCVO MBE Dean of Westminster |
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| Tuesday, 3rd November 2026 | |||||
| Richard Hooker, priest, Anglican apologist, teacher of the faith, 1600 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey; attended by the Deputy High Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Dominica | plainsong Vir celse forma fulgida |
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| Thursday, 5th November 2026 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Te lucis ante terminum |
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| Friday, 6th November 2026 | |||||
| William Temple, Canon of Westminster, 1919–21, Archbishop of Canterbury, teacher of the faith, 1944 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Batten O praise the Lord, all ye heathen |
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| Saturday, 7th November 2026 | |||||
| St Willibrord of York, bishop, Apostle of Frisia, 739 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Batten O praise the Lord, all ye heathen |
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