Updated 10/02/21: St Bride’s will be open for private prayer on Ash Wednesday and on the Sundays during Lent, although we regret that there will be no organised worship in church until 28th March and the church will be closed at all other times. Further Information →
St Bride's: Listen Online
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
Online Choral Evensong: First Sunday of Lent – Sunday 21 February, 2021
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Responses: William Byrd
Psalm: 119: 17-32
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Short Evening Service - William Byrd
Anthem: Ne irascaris Domine - William Byrd
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's
Organ Voluntary: Ebarm' dich mein, O Herre Gott BWV 721 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Online Choral Eucharist: First Sunday of Lent – Sunday 21 February, 2021
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Setting: Missa brevis - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Psalm: 25: 1-8
Sermon: The Revd Dr Jeff Lake, Associate Priest of St Bride's
Anthem: Cast me not away from thy presence - Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Organ Voluntary: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist BWV 671 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Online Choral Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes: Ash Wednesday – Wednesday 17 February, 2021
This service will be released here on Wednesday 17 February at 1:15PM and streamed as live on Facebook.
Setting: Mass for four voices - William Byrd
Anthems: i) Turn thy face from my sins - Thomas Attwood; Miserere mei - Gregorio Allegri
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude 'O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde groß' BWV 622 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Online Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music: Sunday Next before Lent – Sunday 14 February, 2021
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Responses: Thomas Ebdon
Psalm: 2
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Evening Service in B flat - Charles Villiers Stanford
Sermon in Music: i) O for a closer walk with God - Charles Villiers Stanford; ii) For lo, I raise up - Charles Villiers Stanford
Organ Voluntary: Rhapsody on a ground - Heathcote Statham
Online Choral Eucharist: Next before Lent – Sunday 14 February, 2021
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Setting: Communion Service in A - Charles Villiers Stanford
Canticle: Jubilate from Collegium Regale - Herbert Howells
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's
Anthem: Here, O my Lord - Percy Whitlock
Organ Voluntary: Marche Pontificale from Symphony No 1 - Charles-Marie Widor
Online Choral Evensong: Second before Lent – Sunday 07 February, 2021
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Responses: Orlando Gibbons
Psalm: 65
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Short Evening Service - Orlando Gibbons
Anthem: See, see the word is incarnate - Orlando Gibbons
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's
Organ Voluntary: Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor - Max Reger
Online Choral Eucharist: Second before Lent – Sunday 07 February, 2021
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
Setting: Missa brevis in C, K 220 'Sparrow Mass' - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Psalm: 104: 24-end
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's
Anthem: A Gaelic Blessing - John Rutter
Organ Voluntary: Paean - Kenneth Leighton
Bearing Witness – Tuesday 29 October, 2019
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
A Song for the Season of Creation – Sunday 26 May, 2019
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.
Truth To Power – Tuesday 20 November, 2018
This service is also available on our SoundCloud & Facebook pages.
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You can donate online to support St Bride's. Please Gift Aid if you are a UK tax payer.
• text 5STBRIDES, 10STBRIDES or 20STBRIDES to 70470 to donate £5, £10 or £20 respectively. (Donation via donr.)
• Make a one-off or monthly donation online via JustGiving.
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St Bride's is proud of its Sunday School which has just celebrated its 25th Anniversary
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The interior of St Bride's was completely destroyed in the war
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Weddings, blessings & renewal of vows are a regular part of St Bride's ministry
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Lighting of Advent candles after the Nativity play
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The Journalists' Altar commemorating those who strive to bring us the news
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"The Crucifixion" by Glyn Jones, part of the reredos donated by the American friends of St Bride's
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St Bridgit of Kildare was born in 453 AD
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An edible offertory from the annual Guild of Agricultural Journalists' Thanksgiving Service
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St Bride's has the privilege to host many memorial services
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The eagle lectern survived the Great Fire & the wartime destruction of the church
Photo Credit: Roxanna Maynard
