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, 13th July 2025 | ||||||||
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| Fourth Sunday after Trinity | ||||||||
| 10.30am | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | ||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Langlais Messe solennelle Preacher: The Right Reverend Graeme Knowles CVO Acting Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong with Valediction of Choristers | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Bairstow Jesu, the very thought of thee Preacher: The Reverend Dr Carolyn Hammond Dean and Fellow, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist with Valediction of Choristers | St Margaret's Church | ||||||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor Preacher: The Reverend Dr Sarah Archer Priest Vicar |
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| Monday, 14th July 2025 | ||||||||
| John Keble, priest, Tractarian, poet, 1866 | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by University College Chapel Choir, Durham | Shephard Responses |
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| Tuesday, 15th July 2025 | ||||||||
| St Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c 862 | ||||||||
| St Bonaventure, friar, bishop, teacher of the faith, 1274 | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by University College Chapel Choir, Durham | Leighton Responses |
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| Thursday, 17th July 2025 | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the English Chamber Choir | Smith Responses |
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| Friday, 18th July 2025 | ||||||||
| Elizabeth Feodorovna, founder of St Martha and Mary Convent, Moscow, martyr, 1918 | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by The Lacock Scholars | Leighton Responses |
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| 6.30pm | Sung Eucharist of Our Lady of Pew | High Altar | ||||||
| sung by The Lacock Scholars | Palestrina Missa Regina caeli Preacher: The Right Reverend Dr Martin Warner Bishop of Chichester |
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