Updated 06/04/21: We are delighted that St Bride’s doors are now open five days a week for those wishing to worship, pray and visit. Our two Sunday choral serices have also resumed. Further Information & Opening Times →
The Choir of St Bride's, Fleet Street is proud to be the first adult professional choir, and also the first London church choir to offer webcasting of services.
This is very fitting for a church with such strong media links, and I hope it will bring the distinctive and exciting sound of the St Bride's choir to a wider audience.
Choral services have now resumed in church following the long period of Covid-19 restrictions. However, we are continuing to release two services online each Sunday at the same time as our church services. These are for those who cannot make it to church in person and feature the same readings, prayers and sermon which would be heard in church, together with wonderful music from our extensive archive of live recordings of St Bride's Choir.
In addition to being available on this website you can find these services on our SoundCloud page. You can subscribe to The St Bride's Church podcast on Spotify, TuneIn or your favourite podcast provider.
Robert Jones, Director of Music
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Responses: Orlando Gibbons
Psalm: 143
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Faux-bourdon service - Orlando Gibbons
Sermon in Music: i) Maria Magdalene - Francisco Guerrero; ii) Surrexit pastor bonus - Jean L'Héritier
Organ Voluntary: A fancy - William Byrd
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Setting: Missa aeterna Christi munera - Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina
Psalm: 133
Sermon: The Revd Dr Jeff Lake, Associate Priest of St Bride's
Anthem: Surgens Jesus - Peter Philips
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on a melody by Melchior Vulpius - Healey Wilan
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Setting: Messe solennelle - Jean Langlais
Canticle: Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana - Pietro Mascagni
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce
Anthem: Haec dies - John Sheppard
Organ Voluntary: Mors et resurrectio - Jean Langlais
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Responses: Bernard Rose
Psalm: 66: 1-11
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Evening Service in A - Charles Villiers Stanford
Anthem: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem - Charles Villiers Stanford
Sermon: The Revd Dr Jeff Lake, Associate Priest of St Bride's
Organ Voluntary: Paraphrase on 'Judas Maccabeus' - Alexandre Guilmant
This service will be released here on Sunday 04 April at 6:00AM and streamed as live on Facebook.
Setting: Communion Service in F - Harold Darke
Anthem: This joyful Eastertide - arr. Philip Ledger
Organ Voluntary: Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 625 - Johann Sebastian Bach
This service will be released here on Friday 02 April at 2:00PM .
Join us for the final hour of our Good Friday Three Hours' Devotion, 2nd April 2021 at 2pm.
This service will be released here on Friday 02 April at 1:00PM .
Join us for the second hour of our Good Friday Three Hours' Devotion, 2nd April 2021 at 1pm.
This service will be released here on Friday 02 April at 12:00PM .
Join us for our Good Friday Three Hours' Devotion, 2nd April 2021 beginning at 12 noon.
This service will be released here on Thursday 01 April at 6:00PM and streamed as live on Facebook.
Setting: Missa vinum bonum - Orlande de Lassus
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's
Anthem: Tantum ergo - Déodat de Séverac
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Responses: William Smith
Psalm: 69: 1-20
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Evening Service in G - John Blow
Sermon in Music: i) Hosanna to the Son of David - Thomas Weelkes; ii) Hosanna to the Son of David - Orlando Gibbons; iii) Ride on, ride on in majesty - Grayston Ives
Organ Voluntary: Processional - Grayston Ives