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, 26th July 2026 | |||||
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| Eighth Sunday after Trinity | |||||
| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | |||
| sung by the Happenstance Singers | Howells Collegium Regale Preacher: The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival Sacrist |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Happenstance Singers | Rose Responses Preacher: The Reverend David Stanton Canon in Residence |
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| Monday, 27th July 2026 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of All Saints' Cathedral, Nairobi, Kenya | Smith Responses |
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| Thursday, 30th July 2026 | |||||
| Anti-slavery campaigners and reformers, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Laurenscantorij, Netherlands | Smith Responses |
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| Friday, 31st July 2026 | |||||
| Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Laurenscantorij, Netherlands | Ayleward Responses |
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| Saturday, 1st August 2026 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Laurenscantorij, Netherlands | Radcliffe Responses Andriessen Magnificat Holst Nunc dimittis Sweelinck Jubilate Deo Sweelinck Est-ce Mars |
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