Christmas Day Church Services

ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL: 8 HC; 8.45 Morning Prayer; 11 Sung Eucharist, Treasurer; 3.15 Festal Evensong. WESTMINSTER ABBEY: 8 HC; 10.30 Sung Eucharist, Dean; 3 Evensong. SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL: 8.45 Morning Prayer; 9 Eucharist with Carols and 11 Choral Eucharist, Dean.

ALL HALLOWS BY THE TOWER: 11 Christmas Day Eucharist with Carols. ALL SAINTS, Margaret St: 11 Christmas Day High Mass, Preb Alan Moses. ALL SOULS, Langham Pl: 10.30 All-age Service.

GROSVENOR CHAPEL, South Audley St: 11 Sung Eucharist, Rev Dr Richard Fermer.

HTB Brompton Rd: 11 Informal Service, Rev Stephen Foster.

HOLY TRINITY, Sloane Square: 8.30 HC; 11 Sung Eucharist, Canon Nicholas Wheeler.

ST BRIDE’S, Fleet St: 11 Family Eucharist, Rector.

ST CLEMENT DANES, Strand: 11 Choral Eucharist with Carols, Rev David Osborn.

ST GEORGE’S, Windsor: 8.30 HC; 10.45 Sung Mattins for Christmas Day, Dean; 12 HC; 3.30 Evensong. ST GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS, WC2: 9 HC; 11 Sung Eucharist, Rector.

ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE, Garlick Hill: 10.30 Eucharist.

ST JAMES’S, Piccadilly: 11 Christmas Day Eucharist, Rev Lindsay Meader. ST JAMES’S, Sussex Gardens: 10.30 Procession and High Mass. ST MARGARET’S, Westminster: 11 Mattins, Rector. ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS: 10.30 Joint Eucharist, Rev Katherine Hedderly. ST MARYLEBONE, Marylebone Rd: 10 Choral Eucharist and Carols, Rev Edward Thornley.

ST PAUL’S, Covent Gdn: 11 Parish Sung Eucharist for Christmas Day, Rector. TEMPLE CHURCH, Fleet St: 8.30 HC (said); 11.15 Choral Mattins, The Master; 12.45 HC (said).

QUEEN’S CHAPEL, Savoy Hill: 11 Sung Eucharist, The Chaplain. CHAPEL ROYAL, Hampton Court Palace: 8.30 HC; 11 Choral Eucharist. CHAPEL ROYAL, St James’s Palace: 11.15 Choral HC, Canon Paul Wright. CHAPEL ROYAL of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London: 10 Mattins with Carols and Communion (said), Canon Roger Hall.

GUARDS CHAPEL, Wellington Barracks: 11 Choral HC, Countess of Wessex’s String Orchestra, Chaplain.

OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE CHAPEL, Greenwich: 11 Sung Eucharist, Chaplain. CROWN COURT (C-O-S), Covent Gdn: 11.15 Christmas Day Service with Communion, Rev Philip Majcher. ST COLUMBA’S (C-O-S), Pont St: 10 HC, Rev Angus Macleod; 11 Family Service, Rev Andrea Price. WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL: 10.30 Solemn Pontifical Mass; 3.30 Pontifical Second Vespers.

GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL, Moscow Rd: 9.30 Mattins - Divine Liturgy.

WESLEY’S CHAPEL, City Rd: 11.30 Christmas Morning Service, Rev Dr Jennifer Smith. WESTMINSTER METHODIST CENTRAL HALL: 10.30 Christmas Day All-age Service, Rev Tony Miles and Rev Dr Martyn Atkins.

ARMAGH: 10 HC; 11 Sung Eucharist, Archbishop. BIRMINGHAM: 8 Morning Prayer and HC; 11 Choral Eucharist (How, Gloria; Wikeley, The Burning Babe; Huxley, Sanctus; Darke, In the bleak midwinter; Wood, Ding! dong! Merrily on high), Bishop; 4 Evening Prayer. BLACKBURN: 8 HC; 9 Parish Communion, Canon Andrew Hindley; 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist, Bishop. BRADFORD: 8.30 HC; 10.15 Choral Eucharist (Mozart, Krönungsmesse; arr Wilberg, Ding! dong! merrily on high), Bishop.

BRISTOL: 10 Festival Eucharist, Bishop of Swindon. CANTERBURY: 8 HC; 9.30 Choral Mattins; 11 Sung Eucharist, Archbishop; 3.15 Evensong.

CARLISLE: 10.30 Sung Eucharist (Dupré, La Nativité; Guilmant, Offertoire sur deux Noëls; Stanford in Bb; Briggs, Sortie on ‘In dulci jubilo’), Dean; 3 Evening Prayer (said). CHELMSFORD: 8 HC; 9.00 Family Eucharist; 10.30, Choral Eucharist for Christmas Morning, Bishop. CHESTER: 8 HC with Carols; 10 Festival Eucharist, Bishop; 11.45 Sung Eucharist. CHICHESTER: 8 HC; 10 Mattins, Dean; 11 Sung Eucharist, Bishop; 5.30 Evening Prayer (said).

COVENTRY: 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist for Christmas Day (V Williams, This is the truth sent from above; Stanford, Communion Service in C and F; Howells, A spotless rose), Bishop.

DERBY: 8 HC; 9.15 Sung Eucharist; 10.45 Cathedral Eucharist (Beeby, Hodie, Christus natus est!; Mozart, Krönungsmesse; Leddington Wright, See amid the winter’s snow; arr Wood, Ding! dong! merrily on high), Bishop. DURHAM: 8 HC; 10 Mattins (Eden, Christmas Acclamations; Howells, Collegium regale; Handel, For unto us a child is born), Canon David Kennedy; 11.15 Sung Eucharist (Vierne, Messe solennelle; Pearsall, In dulci jubilo), Bishop; 3.30 Evensong (Dyson in D; Rutter, Dormi Jesu). ELY: 8.15 HC; 10.30 Sung Eucharist (Whitbourn, Missa Carolae), Dean; 4 Evensong (Sumsion in G, V Williams, The Christmas Hymn). GLASGOW, ST MUNGO’S (C-O-S): 11 Communion, Rev Keith Ross. GLOUCESTER: 8 HC; 10.15 Eucharist, Bishop; 4 Evening Prayer. GUILDFORD: 8 HC; 10 First Eucharist of Christmas, Rt Rev Andrew Watson; 4 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols. HEREFORD: 8 HC (with Hymns); 10 Cathedral Eucharist (Haydn, Missa Sancti Nicolai; Sheppard, Verbum caro), Dean; 11.30 Choral Mattins (Stanford, Te Deum and Jubilate in C; Vittoria, O magnum mysterium; Dubois, Fiat Lux), Bishop; 3.30 Choral Evensong and Procession to the Crib (Stanford in A; Tavener, The Lamb). INVERNESS: 8.15 Holy Eucharist; 10 Choral Eucharist (Holst, Personent hodie), Very Rev S. Murray. LICHFIELD: 7.40 Morning Prayer; 8 HC; 11 Choral Eucharist (Haydn, Missa Sancti Nicolai; Vierne, Final), Rt Rev Dr Michael Ipgrave; 3 Evening Prayer (with Hymns). LIVERPOOL METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL: 11 Solemn Mass (Schubert, Mass in G; Edwards, No small wonder; Laurisden, O magnum mysterium). LLANDAFF: 8 Holy Eucharist, Rev Edward Le Brun Powell; 9 Parish Eucharist, Canon Graham Holcombe; 11 Choral Eucharist (Kodály, Missa brevis; arr Wilberg, Ding! dong! merrily on high; Stopford, Lully, lulla, lullay), Bishop.

MANCHESTER: 9 Morning Prayer and HC; 10.30 Christmas Day Eucharist (Haydn, Missa Sancti Nicolai), Dean; 12 Evening Prayer. NEWCASTLE: 8 HC; 8.30 Morning Prayer; 10 Festal Eucharist (Mozart, Spätzenmesse), Rt Rev Mark Tanner. NORWICH: 7.30 Morning Prayer; 8 HC; 10.30 Sung Eucharist (Mozart, Missa brevis in F; arr Preston, I saw three ships; Darke, In the bleak midwinter), Dean; 3.30 Festal Evensong (arr Wood, Ding! dong! merrily on high; Stanford in A; Mathias, A babe is born). OXFORD: 8 HC; 9.45 Sung Mattins (Howells, Collegium regale), Bishop; 11.15 Choral Eucharist (Vittoria, Missa O quam gloriosum and O magnum mysterium), Dean; 6 Evening Prayer (said). PETERBOROUGH: 8 HC; 10 Mattins (Stanford, Morning Service in Bb; Rutter, What sweeter music); 11 Cathedral Eucharist (Mozart, Missa brevis in Bb; arr Higginbottom, Rocking carol); 3.30 Festal Evensong and Procession (Darke, In the bleak midwinter; Dyson in D; arr Maw, I saw three ships). PORTSMOUTH: 8 HC; 10.30 Eucharist with Valediction, Bishop.

RIPON: 8 Eucharist; 9.30 Morning Prayer; 10.30 Festal Eucharist (Schubert in G; Rutter, Love came down at Christmas), Bishop of Leeds; 12.30 Eucharist; 3.30 Evening Prayer. ROCHESTER: 8 HC; 10.30 Eucharist of Christmas Morning, Archdeacon. ST ALBAN: 8 Eucharist with Carols; 9.30 Parish Eucharist with Procession and Prayers at the Crib, Dean; 11.15 Mattins with Procession, Bishop; 12.30 Eucharist. ST ASAPH: 8 HC; 11 Choral Eucharist (arr Stainer, I saw three ships; Millington, Missa Alme Pater; Gardner, Tomorrow shall be my dancing day), Sally Harper; 3.30 Evening Prayer.

ST EDMUNDSBURY and IPSWICH: 8 Holy Eucharist; 8.45 Morning Prayer; 10 Festal Eucharist; 3.30 Evening Prayer. SALISBURY: 8 HC; 10.30 Eucharist, Bishop; 3 Festal Evensong. SHEFFIELD: 8 HC; 9.30 Morning Prayer; 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist (Haydn, Missa Sancti Joannis de Deo; Marshall, I saw three ships), Bishop; 12.15 Evening Prayer. SOUTHWELL: 8 HC with Carols; 9.30 Family Eucharist (Archer, Christchurch Mass; arr Parnell, Rejoice and be merry; Mulet, Carillon-sortie), Canon Nigel Coates; 11.15 Festal Mattins (arr Wood, Ding! dong! merrily on high; Britten, Te Deum and Jubilate in C; Warlock, Benedicamus Domino; Vierne, Carillon de Westminster), Bishop; 12.30 HC; 3.30 Evening Prayer with Carols. TRURO: 7.30 Morning Prayer; 8 HC; 10 Sung Eucharist, Dean; 12.15 Evening Prayer.

WAKEFIELD: 8 Morning Liturgy; 9.15 Eucharist (arr Willcocks, Masters in this Hall; Edmundson, Toccata on Vom Himmel hoch), Canon Leah Vaseysaunders; 11 Eucharist (Schubert in G; Britten in C), Canon John Lawson. WELLS: 8 HC; 9.30 Cathedral Eucharist, Precentor; 11.30 Mattins; 3 Evening Prayer.

WINCHESTER: 8 HC; 10 Mattins, Dean; 11.15 Sung Eucharist, Bishop; 3.30 Evensong and Procession to the Christmas Tree. WORCESTER: 7.30 Morning Prayer; 8 HC; 10.30 Sung Eucharist (Poulenc, Hodie Christus natus est and O magnum mysterium; Dove, Missa brevis; arr Willcocks, Infant holy, infant lowly; Marshall, I saw three ships), Bishop; 4 Evensong with Carols (arr Wood, Past Three O’clock; Dyson in D; Chilcott, The Shepherd’s Carol).

YORK: 8 HC; 10 Solemn Eucharist (Palestrina, Missa Hodie Christus natus est; Sweelinck, Hodie Christus natus est), Archbishop; 11.45 Mattins (Stanford in C; Poulenc, Hodie Christus natus est), Dean; 4 Solemn Evensong (Gibbons, Behold, I bring you glad tidings; Edmundson, Toccata on Von Himmel hoch).