Evensong

Where

The Quire. Entry is via the Great West Door.

Evensong times

27th September - 3rd October 2026

Sunday, 27th September 2026
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
3.00pm	Evensong	Quire
	sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir	plainsong Lucis Creator optime Ayleward Responses Burton Magnificat in E Holst Nunc dimittis Stanford O for a closer walk with God Stanford Postlude in D minor Preacher: The Reverend David Stanton Canon in Residence
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Monday, 28th September 2026
5.00pm	First Evensong of St Michael and All Angels	Quire
	sung by the Choristers of Westminster Abbey	Mendelssohn Lift thine eyes to the mountains plainsong Responses Malcolm Magnificat secundi toni plainsong Nunc dimittis secundi toni Fauré In paradisum deducant angeli
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Thursday, 1st October 2026
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, social reformer, 1885
Thérèse of Lisieux, religious, 1897
5.00pm	Evensong	Quire
	sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey	Ley A Prayer of King Henry VI Smith Responses Batten The Fourth Service Weir Antiphon
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Friday, 2nd October 2026
5.00pm	Evensong	Quire
	sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey	Ley A Prayer of King Henry VI Smith Responses Weelkes The Short Service Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord
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Saturday, 3rd October 2026
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, ecumenist, peacemaker, 1958
3.00pm	Evensong	Quire
	sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey	Ley A Prayer of King Henry VI Smith Responses Humfrey Evening Service in E minor Byrd Sing joyfully unto God our strength Bruhns Praeludium in G
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