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The annual music festival at St Stephen’s Gloucester Road ends this Sunday 12 June with the Festival Service at 11am. The setting is Langlais’ Messe Solonnelle and included is Durufle’s Tantum ergo. The festival leaflet has a bright painting of … Continue reading →

Thursday 2 June is Ascension Day in the Anglican calendar. There will be tower top singing at Southwark Cathedral at 7.30am and at St Michael’s Cornhill in the City after the 1.10pm Choral Eucharist. All Hallows-by-the-Tower has traditional beating the … Continue reading →

Fifty years after Peter Berenson conceived the idea of Amnesty International whilst sitting in St Martin-in-the-Fields there has been a celebration there. The Observer, which played a part, has a report. See page 123.

I am sorry to learn that the Temple Church has introduced an admission charge. The fee is £3. The only good news is that the admission remains free to those under 22 years of age and senior citizens. The Temple … Continue reading →

Lawyer Peter Dodge has discovered that Queen Anne gave Royal Assent to the famous Act for Building Fifty New Churches on 12 June 1711. This year is the tercentenary of the Act which maybe did not provide fifty churches but … Continue reading →

The funeral of Canon Reginald Fuller, a former rector of The Assumption Warwick Street who has died aged 102, takes place this morning at Westminster Cathedral. Fr Fuller was responsible for the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. He was … Continue reading →

The lovely church of St Patrick’s, Soho Square reopens on the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Tuesday 31 May. The church has been redecorated with a “new basement complex”. The Archbishop of Westminster is the Principal Celebrant at the … Continue reading →

Last night Christopher Smith became the tenth vicar of St Alban’s Holborn. The Induction and Institution ended almost a year long wait for a successor to Howard Levett who is now chaplain to St George’s in Venice. Fr Smith arrives … Continue reading →

This Sunday 8 May is the annual Punch & Judy Sunday at St Paul’s Covent Garden. The first recorded Punch & Judy show was outside the church on 9 May 1662. So next year is the 350th anniversary. There is … Continue reading →

A weekly Family Eucharist begins this Sunday morning 8 May at St Bartholomew the Less in Smithfield. The 10am service, which will be every Sunday until the end of July, is being started with children in mind so it will … Continue reading →