Updated 11/01/21: In accordance with received advice and the need to keep everyone safe and well, we regret that acts of worship are temporarily suspended in church but all remain available online. The church is also temporarily closed (currently until February). Please check regularly as this may change at short notice. Further Information →
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: Thomas Tomkins
Psalm: 96
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Fourth Evening Service - Adrian Batten
Anthem: Omnes de Saba venient - Orlande de Lassus
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's
Organ Voluntary: Prélude sur l'introit de l'Épiphanie - Maurice Duruflé
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Setting: Missa Osculetur me - Orlande de Lassus
Canticle: Jubilate in C - John Ireland
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's
Anthem: The Lamb - John Tavener
Organ Voluntary: Allegro maestoso, Sonata No 2 - Felix Mendelssohn
Download Order of Service (pdf)
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Responses: Philip Radcliffe
Psalm: 46
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Evening Service in D - Ernest Moeran
Sermon in Music: i) Epiphany - Judith Bingham; ii) The Three Kings - Jonathan Dove
Organ Voluntary: Les mages from La Nativité du Seigneur - Olivier Messiaen
This service will be released here on Sunday 10 January at 11:00AM and streamed as live on Facebook.
Setting: Missa Osculetur me - Orlande de Lassus
Canticle: Jubilate in B flat - Charles Villiers Stanford
Sermon: The Revd Dr Jeff Lake, Associate Priest
Anthem: Omnes de Saba venient - Jacob Handl
Organ Voluntary: A Fantasy - Thomas Tomkins
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Responses: John Reading
Psalm: 98
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Evening Service in F minor - Pelham Humfrey
Anthem: Lo, star-led chiefs - William Crotch
Sermon: The Revd Dr Jeff Lake, Assoicate Priest of St Bride's
Organ Voluntary: Marche des Rois Mages - Théodore Dubois
Setting: Communion service in A flat - Basil Harwood
Psalm: 72: 1-8
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Peter Babington, Priest in Charge of St Mary le Strand
Anthem: From the rising of the sun - Frederick Ouseley
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude 'Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern' BWV 739 - J S Bach
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Responses: Orlando Gibbons
Psalm: 128
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Fauxbourdon service - Orlando Gibbons
Sermon in Music: i) Bethlehem Down - Peter Warlock; ii) There is no rose of such virtue - George Oldroyd
Organ Voluntary: Choral Prelude 'Es ist ein Ros entsprungen' - Johannes Brahms
Download: Order of Service Booklet (pdf)
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Setting: Communion service in F - Herbert Sumsion
Psalm: 148
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's
Anthem: Rocking - trad. arr. David Hill
Organ Voluntary: In dir ist Freude BWV 615 - J S Bach
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Following their successful Plastic-less Lent campaign in 2018, St Bride's Choir was approached to help produce a song for the Season of Creation which was premiered at St Bride's on Rogation Sunday, 26th May.
Malcolm Guite's words have been set to music by Ian Stephens in a number of arrangements suitable for choirs and singing groups of all ranges and sizes. Scores are freely available to download along with a recording by St Bride's Choir, and rehearsing/learning audio files.