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The announcement that the lovely hidden Church of the Assumption in Warwick Street W1 is to become an Ordinariate church has placed it in the spotlight. The church looks like a row of houses and has always had a discreet … Continue reading →

All Hallows on Tower Hill has new opening times: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm; Saturday 10am-4pm; Sunday 10am-1pm. But note that on Wednesdays the church does remain open until 6pm when the Taizé service begins. Longer opening hours will be announced for the summer.  

St Mary-le-Bow is closed until Wednesday 2 January, the ninth day of Christmas, but some City churches are staying open. St Bartholomew-the-Great has a Christmas vigil Mass as early as 12.30pm on Christmas Eve which is handy for those who … Continue reading →

I was at St Anne & St Anges Church in the City last night for the monthly Bach Vespers. It was  a wonderful and rare occasion. We ought to remember to experience it and the high standard of music whilst … Continue reading →

The Jesuits will hand over the running and administration of the Sacred Heart Church in Wimbledon to the Archdiocese of Southwark in a year’s time. The announcement was made last Sunday to a stunned congregation. The Society of Jesus Provincial … Continue reading →

Tonight Fr Ian Brothwood is being instituted as Vicar of  St Michael and All Angels with St James in Croydon. Fr Ian’s predecessor and several church members left to join the Ordinariate so this is  a new start for the … Continue reading →

The congregation at All Souls Langham Place, which looks so splendid in all the aerial shots of New Broadcasting House, is praying for the BBC. There is the first in a series of Pray4BBC sessions at 6.30pm on Thursday. The prayer evening … Continue reading →

Valerie Eliot, widow of poet TS Eliot, died on Friday. The funeral, sadly private, will be at St Stephen’s Gloucester Road where her husband was churchwarden for a quarter of  a century from 1934.

The Queen visited the Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy today to see the new stained glass window which depicts one of her corgis. The Mail has the best pictures.

The Queen is visiting the Queen’s Chapel of the  Savoy this Thursday, All Saints Day, for the dedication of the Diamond Jubilee window and chapel extension. Charles Moore has an interesting article about the chapel today in the Telegraph.