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The Roman Influence on Wren’s City Churches

Christopher Wren, in designing his City churches after the Great Fire, used, where possible, the principles of classical architecture, not the Gothic style which had dominated church architecture in England prior to the Reformation. There were effectively no churches in England that could serve as an example for him.

Wren had visited Paris in 1665, where he had seen the domed churches of Lemercier’s Sorbonne and Mansart’s Val de Grace. The main source of classical church design, however, lay in Rome, where great architects like Bramante, Bernini and Borromini had been building domed churches in the classical style.

Many of these buildings were known to Wren through a book of engravings by Giovanni Falda, “Chiese di Roma”, the 1675 edition of which is known to have been in his possession. Wren also had copies of the works of Serlio (from the 16th century) and Vitruvius (1st century BC), the latter being the only contemporary written authority on the buildings of ancient Rome.

Wren’s biggest churches, such as St Bride Fleet Street, St Andrew Holborn and Christ Church Newgate Street, were built in the style of ancient Roman basilicas, with a three-aisled interior and barrel or groin-vaulted ceilings. The origins of his other church designs, particularly the steeples, are less obvious.

The interior of St Mary le Bow is of an unusual, three-bay design. There is, however, a strong resemblance to the Basilica of Constantine and Maxentius in the Roman Forum, and it seems likely that this was the model used by Wren for the famous church of the Bow Bells. St Mary le Bow is also the first example of a classical steeple in this country, or indeed anywhere, the classical churches in Rome and Paris having, in most cases, no real steeples. The Gothic spires common throughout England were not suitable models for Wren, so he invented a new form of steeple for his City churches, each quite individual and different from any other. These steeples were very innovative and even today have no real equal anywhere.

Several writers seem to believe that some of the later steeples designed by Wren’s office (St James Garlickhythe, St Michael Paternoster Royal, St Stephen Walbrook and St Vedast), were the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor, who learnt his trade as a young man in Wren’s employment. There is no direct evidence for this, however, and, in researching Wren’s influences in Rome, I found several examples of the work of Francesco Borromini which appear to be models for some of Wren’s later steeples. These designs would have been known to Wren in the 1670s from Falda’s “Chiese di Roma”, long before Hawksmoor arrived on the scene.

Looking at Borromini’s Sant’ Agnese in Agone, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant’ Ivo alla Sapienza, the twin classical columns on the corners of the towers/steeples of these churches are highly reminiscent of St James Garlickhythe, and the lanterns on the dome of Sant’ Agnese and on San Carlo have single columns on each corner of an octagon, much like the steeple of St Michael Paternoster Royal.

In addition, Borromini’s churches feature concave and convex curves on their fronts and their steeples, as well as an ingenious use of light and shade, all characteristics of many of Wren’s buildings, such as the steeple of St Vedast.

Rome also provides models for Wren’s work on St Paul’s Cathedral, the Greenwich Royal Hospital and several of his buildings at Oxford and Cambridge. It seems clear that Roman precedents allowed Wren’s genius to reach its full potential and that the Eternal City was an inspiration in the design of many of the City churches.

Tony Tucker ─ City Guide, Lecturer, and author of 'The Visitor's Guide to the City of London Churches'

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REGULAR SERVICES IN FEBRUARY 2013 Every Wednesday ─ continued The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow See also our website at www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower Every Monday 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow Every Thursday 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1200 Holy Communion St Clement Eastcheap 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1800 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr

1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe Every Tuesday 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1300 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion St Dunstan in the West 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr of the month St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth 1315 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street [NB Said matins with hymns on 21 February] 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 Meditation Group in the Crypt Chapel – All welcome St Mary le Bow 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury Every Friday 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Every Wednesday 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Holy Communion (CW Order II) St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Pause for Prayer - a reflective prayer service using a liturgy from 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn the Iona Community St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr 1215 Holy Communion (BCP - said) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Abchurch 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1245 Communion Service Wesley's Chapel 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Holy Communion (CW Order 1) St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1800 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1831 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet Site of the auspices of auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate Internet Church for London. To watch these services, which change 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street on a daily basis, log on to:www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Wednesday 6 February ─ continued SPECIAL SERVICES IN FEBRUARY 2013 1315 Recital: 'River City Saxes' St Dunstan in the West 1805 JustShare Lecture: 'What's the good of capitalism?' Wednesday 6 February Speaker: Peter Heslam of the Transforming Business Project 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate in the University of Cambridge St Mary le Bow 1900 Recital: Jonathan McGovern (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano) Thursday 7 February Songs by Mahler, Richard Strauss, Debussy & Fauré 1245 Sung Eucharist for Candlemas St Stephen Walbrook St Olave Hart Street 1310 Choral Eucharist for Candlemas St Margaret Pattens Thursday 7 February 1305 Organ Recital: Alan John Phillips St Mary at Hill Wednesday 13 February ─ Ash Wednesday 1305 Organ Recital St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass with imposition of ashes St Vedast alias Foster 1305 Recital: Hazel Correa (violin), Adam Johnson (piano) 1230 Eucharist for Ash Wednesday All Hallows by the Tower St Olave Hart Street 1230 Holy Communion Service for Ash Wednesday St Dunstan in the West 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1300 Sung Eucharist – Ceremony of Ashing St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity Series ─ 1305 Service for Ash Wednesday St Botolph Aldgate Hans-Georg Reinertz from Eupen, Belgium St Margaret Lothbury 1305 High Mass and Imposition of Ashes St Mary le Bow 1300 Holy Eucharist for Ash Wednesday with Imposition of Ashes Friday 8 February St Olave Hart Street 1230 Organ Recital: John Webber (St John, East Dulwich) 1310 Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Anne & St Agnes St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Choral Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Recital: "Les Elémens" ─ Belinda Paul (oboe/recorder), 1315 Choral Eucharist for Ash Wednesday with Imposition of Ashes Ann Allen (oboe/recorder), Anneke Scott (horn), Joe Walters (horn), St Bride Fleet Street Robert Percival (bassoon), Poppy Walshaw (cello), Luke Green 1730 Ashing Service followed by Meditation, Art Installation (harpsichord) Works by Handel, Telemann and Fasch and Stations of the Cross St Mary Aldermary St Anne & St Agnes 1305 Service for Ash Wednesday St Botolph Aldgate 1315 Recital: Luca Luciano (clarinet) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 Taizé Service with Prayer and Song St Bride Fleet Street 1810 Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Anne & St Agnes Saturday 9 February 1400 to 1700 Come and Sing Vivaldi's Gloria with St Dunstan's College. Thursday 14 February Rehearsal at 1400 and performance at 1700. Tickets £5 on the door. 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate More information at: www.stdunstans.org.uk/come-and-sing 1315 Choral Eucharist for Ash Thursday St Margaret Pattens St Sepulchre without Newgate 1930 Concert to be given by the Ad Libitum chamber choir directed by Wednesday 27 February Julian Collings with Colin Spinks (organ) Italian Masterworks by 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate Palestrina, Monteverdi & Pergolesi Tickets £10 from 01732 353 487 or: [email protected] or on the door St Mary le Bow Thursday 28 February 1310 Choral Eucharist for St David's Day St Margaret Pattens Monday 11 February 1300 Recital: The Cremona Piano Trio – John Paul Ekins (piano), Michal Cwizewicz (violin) and Liubov Ulbysheva (cello) CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN FEBRUARY 2013 St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Recital: For details: www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk Friday 1 February St Martin Ludgate 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Recital: "Strange Invention" – Eva Caballero (flauto traverse), 1310 Recital: Les Elémens ─ Belinda Paul (oboe), Ann Allen (oboe), John Crockatt (violin), Vladimir Waltham (violincello), Anneke Scott (horn), Joe Walters (horn), Robert Percival (bassoon), Johjn McKean (harpsichord) Works by Couperin & Telemann Martin Clark (bassoon) Works by Mozart & Haydn St Anne & St Agnes St Anne & St Agnes 1315 Recital: Mitra Alice Tham (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Tuesday 12 February 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Monday 4 February 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Recital: Anna le Hair (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Concert: The Handel Collection conducted by Edward Adams 1305 Recital: Lysianne Chen (piano) Works by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, The first in the Wisdom of Age series of concerts Debussy and Albeniz St Martin Ludgate This concert will be in memory of Raymond Salisbury-Jones 1310 Recital: Programme to be confirmed. Please check the website: St Stephen Walbrook www.stanneslutheranchurch.org.uk St Anne & St Agnes 1305 City of London Festival Free Winter Concert ─ Leslie Howard (piano) Works by Beethoven and Alkan Bishopsgate Institute Tuesday 5 February 1315 Recital: To be confirmed. For more information please refer to: 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch www.stbrides.com/ St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Organ Recital: Richard Moore (Organ Scholar at St Paul's Cathedral) St Lawrence Jewry Wednesday 13 February 1300 Recital: Recitalist to be advised St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Recital: Antonio Romero Cienfuegos (double bass), 1315 Recital: James Woodrow (guitar), Audrey Riley (cello) Gabriel López Rodriguez (piano) St Botolph Aldgate St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Recital: Aiki Mori (cello), Asa Mori (piano) 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church – admission £6 St Sepulchre without Newgate St Bride Fleet Street 1930 Bank Churches' Lent Course covering five sessions: 1900 Song Recital in the series 'Song in the City' ─ Lucy Hall (soprano), Session 1 – 'Peace and human flourishing' For more information Gavin Roberts (piano) Tickets £10 (£5 concessions) and booking link please refer to: http://lent2013.eventbrite.com St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall St Mary Aldermary Wednesday 6 February 1305 Recital: The Primavera Quartet play Whitlock St Botolph Aldgate Thursday 14 February 1305 Recital: Ensemble Tramontona ─ voice, harps, recorders, viols and 1300 Song Recital in the series 'Song in the City' to be given by percussion St Olave Hart Street 'Three's a Crowd' ─ Oboe Liaisons 1305 City of London Festival Free Winter Concert ─ to be given by St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Manus Noble classical guitar) – 'from J S Bach to Gary Ryan' 1300 Song Recital in the series 'Song in the City' to be given by St Vedast alias Foster 'Three's a Crowd' ─ Oboe Liaisons 1310 Recital: Edward McCullagh (violin), Elspeth Wyllie (piano) St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall St Sepulchre without Newgate

Friday 22 February ─ continued CONCERTS & EVENTS IN FEBRUARY 2013 ─ continued 1930 Concert: Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra "Britten Centenary Concert" Advance tickets £16/£12 from Thursday 14 February ─ continued www.wegottickets.com (Search 'NLSO') or 020 8348 1216 1305 Recital: Mercedes Maresca (flute), Richard Black (piano) Tickets on the door: £20/£17 St Sepulchre without Newgate St Mary at Hill Saturday 23 February 1305 Organ Recital St Mary le Bow 1930 "Voices for Sight" – Charity Concert raising money for RNIB and 1305 Recital for Valentine's Day by Classical Folk: Andrew Wickens (violin), Moorfields Eye Charity Elizabeth Capener (soprano) and Sylvia Golden (voice, flute), Peter Golden (guitar) St Olave Hart Matthew Pochin (tenor) will give an evening of arias and duets. Street Advance tickets: £9/£7 from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/elizabethcapener/ 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents Part 2 of Tickets on the door: £12/£10 St Sepulchre without Newgate "The Glorious Baroque" St Margaret Lothbury Monday 25 February 1900 Concert: "Motets and Anthems: the Golden Age" Works by Bach, Byrd 1300 Recital: The Martin Clarinet Trio; John Paul Ekins (piano), and Tallis given by the Illumination Chamber Choir Jonathan Parkin (clarinet), Dan Bull (cello) St Lawrence Jewry Tickets £7 or £6 online at: www.illuminationchamberchoir.com/ 1310 Recital by Martin Knizia & John Peacham – organ and harpsichord St Vedast alias Foster "Bach and Bach (?)" – works by Bach and those thought to be by him Friday 15 February St Anne & St Agnes 1210 Recital; Emma Alter (viola) Works by Bach, Britten & Biber 1305 Recital: Ruth Gibson (viola) - Works by Hindemith and Hosokawa St Anne & St Agnes St Martin Ludgate 1230 Organ Recital: Matthew Blaiden St Stephen Walbrook Tuesday 26 February Sunday 17 February 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1900 Concert: The London Gay Symphony Orchestra 1300 Organ Recital in the Sixth Form Series to be given by Hugo Marrow "Russian Favourites" – works by Shostakovich and Borodin (Pupil of Simon Williams at St Giles International Organ School) and Advance tickets £10/£8 from: www.wegottickets.com/event/187525 Laurence Carden (Student of Jane Watts at Highgate School) Tickets on the door: £12/£10 St Sepulchre without Newgate St Lawrence Jewry Monday 18 February 1300 Recital: Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano) (Guildhall School 1305 Recital: 'Why do I love?' Rhona McKail (soprano) accompanied by of Music & Drama) St Stephen Walbrook Yshani Perinpanayagam (piano) with songs across the ages - 1305 Cheapside Debate: 'Can we afford immigration?' traditional, classical and contemporary St Martin Ludgate Speakers: Professor David Metcalf (LSE) & David Goodhart (DEMOS) 1310 Recital: Chalotte Rowan (violin), Chalotte Stevenson (piano) All welcome St Mary le Bow Works by Brahms, Kreisler, Bach, Fauré and Massenet 1800 'Challenging Lifestyle' Course Part 2 ─ How to respond to difficult St Anne & St Agnes people For more details please refer to the entry at 19 February 1930 The Barts Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra welcome singers to St Olave Hart Street join in an 'Instant Brahms Requiem' Please bring a copy! Wednesday 27 February Tickets £5 at the door All proceeds will go to Barts Cancer Unit 1305 City of London Festival Free Winter Concert ─ City of London Sinfonia The Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital with Fiona Bonds (viola) Works by Purcell, Walton, Finzi, Tuesday 19 February John Woolrich and Britten St Andrew Holborn 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1305 Recital: Octet from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama - 1300 Organ Recital: James Luxton St Lawrence Jewry Octet in F major (D 803) by Schubert St Olave Hart Street 1300 Recital: Jane Gilbert (flute), Neil Wright (organ) 1310 Recital: Yuki Negishi (piano) St Sepulchre without Newgate St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital St Dunstan in the West 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church – admission £6 1805 City Talk: "Fairtrade and flawed research: Do we know who benefits?" St Bride Fleet Street Speaker: Chris Cramer, Professor of Development Studies, SOAS 1800 'Challenging Lifestyle' A course based on the book of that name by St Mary le Bow Nicky Gumbel. The course will be in six parts on consecutive Tuesdays 1930 Bank Churches' Lent Course: 'Being the People of Peace' Session 2 - continuing into March. Each part will be preceded by a light supper. 'Peace and outing our judgementalism to ourselves and others' Part 1 ─ How to view marriage and divorce St Olave Hart Street For more information and booking link please refer to: Wednesday 20 February http://lent2013.eventbrite.com St Mary Aldermary 1305 Recital: Emilie Capulet (piano) St Olave Hart Street Thursday 28 February 1305 City of London Festival Free Winter Concert : Guildhall Jazz Singers 1300 Song Recital in the series 'Song in the City' to be given by and Band directed by Scott Stroman St Sepulchre without Newgate 'Three's a Crowd' ─ The VoluptuousViola 1315 Recital: Harriet Kirk (mezzo-soprano) St Dunstan in the West St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall 1930 Bank Churches' Lent Course ─ 'Being the People of Peace' 1305 Recital: John Crockett (Baroque violin) St Mary at Hill This course will cover five sessions continuing into March 1305 Organ Recital St Mary le Bow Session 1 ─ 'Peace and human flourishing' 1305 Recital: 'Unaccompanied Bach' ─ Fenella Humphreys (violin) For more information and booking link please refer to: Third in a series of six recitals exploring Bach's Sonatas and Partitas http://lent2013.eventbrite.com St Mary Aldermary alongside other solo repertoire St Olave Hart Street Thursday 21 February 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1300 Song Recital in the series 'Song in the City' to be given by 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents Part 2 of 'Three's a Crowd' ─ A Clarinet Collaboration "Bach and Buxtehude" St Margaret Lothbury St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall 1900 The Word in Action: 'Contemplation: Arts and the Media' 1305 Recital: Eliza McCarthy (piano) St Mary at Hill A special evening to be held under the auspices of Bible Society. 1305 Organ Recital: Dr Christopher Maxim St Mary le Bow Fr Christopher Jamison OSB will talk on 'The Word in Action' ─ 1305 Recital; Oskemen Duo: Evgenia Startseva and examining the relationship between the media and the Christian Yuri Paterson-Olenich (piano duo) St Olave Hart Street Scriptures. There will also be a selection of the latest compositions from 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower the Psalms Project performed by their composer Steven Faux with 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity Series ─ chamber orchestra and singers. Drinks from 1900, performance at 1930. Jérôme Faucheur from Lille, France St Margaret Lothbury Tickets £10/£7.50 [Group discount available on 5 tickets (pay for 4)] from Bible Society on 01793 418 222 or: [email protected] Friday 22 February Tickets must be purchased in advance – places are limited so early 1230 Organ Recital: Charles Andrews (Assistant Director of Music at booking is advised St Bride Fleet Street All Saints, Margaret Street) St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Recital: Kinga Ujszaszi (violin), Henrik Persson (viola da gamba), The City East Churches – All Hallows by the Tower, St Botolph Aldgate & Pawel Siwczak (harpsichord & organ), Jadran Duncumb (theorbo) St Botolph Bishopsgate will be running an online course 'Christianity from the "The Sorrowful Mysteries" from Biber's Mystery Sonatas Beginning ─ The Bible' at www.cityeast.net from Ash Wednesday and St Anne & St Agnes thoughout Lent, with other modules 'What we believe', 'Church history and the Church of England' to come later in the year

______March 2013 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

ANNIVERSARIES AND COMMEMORATIONS

The City Churches, in common with churches all over the world celebrate many anniversaries. There are the key anniversaries, one of which will be marked with special services during the latter part of the month of March when we remember the Passion of Jesus Christ. Information regarding these important services can be found in the following pages of this edition of City Events and readers will find a diverse choice of City churches in which to participate in the distinctive traditional rituals and music associated with the life and death of Jesus. These very positive contributions ensure that this unique group of churches continues its mission as it has done for centuries.

Apart from the anniversaries with a specifically religious connotation certain of the City churches host a number of events which commemorate personages who played an important part in the life of the City of London in past times. There is the service to commemorate the life and work of John Stow of 'Survey of London' fame, held every three years in the church of St Andrew Undershaft when a quill pen is placed in the hand of Stow's effigy. The next such service will be held in April 2014. Then there is the Knollys Rose Ceremony at All Hallows by the Tower held annually in June when the Master of the Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames cuts a rose from a bush in the garden in Seething Lane and takes it as a symbol of the fine imposed on Lady Constance Knollys in 1381 to the Lord Mayor in Mansion House for erecting a footbridge between two of her properties in Seething Lane without permission. The ceremony will be held on Monday, 17th June.

There are doubtless numerous other anniversaries celebrated in churches in March but one in particular stands out as being of unique importance. At 11.30am on Monday 4th March at St Mary le Bow, a Commemorative Service will be held to honour the life and achievements of Admiral Arthur Phillip (1738–1814). Anyone with an interest in or connection with Australia and its history should know that he was the commander (with the rank then of Captain ) of the memorable First Fleet of eleven ships which set sail from Portsmouth on 13th May 1787 with the aim of establishing a British penal colony in New South Wales, Australia, because of the loss of the American colonies to which the convicts might have been deported. The land in New South Wales had been claimed and named as a British possession in 1770 by a certain Lieutenant James Cook. (On the nicety of the matter of rank he was not promoted to that of Captain until 1775). The eleven ships were crewed by men of the Royal Navy, the remaining complement being originally 1773 (50 did not survive the voyage although not one was lost through scurvy) convicts, male and female and their children, in addition to Royal Marines, whose task it was to guard the convicts, and other officers who were to administer the fledgling colony. The planned site at Botany Bay, the original landing-place of Captain Cook in 1770, proved to be unsuitable since the soil was poor and there was no reliable source of water. Several days later Phillip discovered a more appropriate place at Port Jackson, north of Botany Bay, where the marines and convicts were landed on 26th January 1788 – "the finest harbour ion the world", as he described it. Phillip named the new landing place Sydney Cove after Lord Sydney, the then Secretary of State for the Home Office who was the minister in charge of the whole undertaking back in England, at which point one might be forgiven for saying that the rest is history. Thus Admiral Phillip became the first Governor of the founding-state of Australia and the success of the voyage and the subsequent success of the colony owed much to his skill and leadership. He put into place a system for emancipating the convicts and he encouraged a friendly attitude towards the aborigines. Thus when he returned to England in 1792 the colony was thriving. At the service of commemoration for this remarkable man at St Mary le Bow on Monday, 4th March a wreath will also be laid at his bust in the south-west corner of the church a most appropriate commemorative act for "Admiral Arthur Phillip, Scholar, Seaman and Gentleman, the man who founded the great City of Sydney and the Island Continent of Australia" to quote his biography at the Admiralty.

Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Magnus the Martyr, Lower Thames Street, London EC3R 6DN, tel. 020 7626 1555 (answerphone) e-mail: [email protected]

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REGULAR SERVICES IN MARCH 2013 Every Wednesday ─ continued The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow See also our website at www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower Every Monday 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow Every Thursday 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1200 Holy Communion St Clement Eastcheap 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr

EMBER 2012 St Bride Fleet Street Monday 4 March 1830 Eucharist with Washing of Feet (English) 1245 Praise and Worship hosted by KPMG St Anne & St Agnes St Bride Fleet Street 1830 Sung Eucharist with washing of feet and watch for an hour Wednesday 6 March St Botolph Aldgate 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1830 for 1900 Passover Supper Please email 1800 Taizé Music and Meditation St Bride Fleet Street [email protected] if you wish to attend Thursday 7 March St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Mothering Sunday in the City ─ Choral Eucharist 1830 Liturgy of the Last Supper with foot washing and stripping St Margaret Pattens of the altars, followed by silent prayer and ending at 2045 1830 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate with Compline All Hallows by the Tower 2045 Compline All Hallows by the Tower Thursday 14 March 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate Friday 29 March ─ Good Friday 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower Wednesday 20 March 1030 Good Friday Morning Service St Helen Bishopsgate 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1100 Good Friday Liturgy (English) St Anne & St Agnes 1100 to 1200 Children's Activities St Botolph Aldgate Thursday 21 March 1200 Good Friday Liturgy with veneration of the Cross 1310 Holy Communion for Palm Sunday St Margaret Pattens All Hallows by the Tower 1200 Litany and Ante Communion St Bride Fleet Street Sunday 24 March ─ Palm Sunday 1400 Good Friday Liturgy (Latvian) St Anne & St Agnes 1050 Choral Eucharist (English) with Procession 1400 The Liturgy of Good Friday St Botolph Aldgate St Anne & St Agnes 1400 Choral Evensong St Bride Fleet Street 1100 Sung Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1445 Stations of the Cross. The Palm Sunday celebrations will Saturday 30 March begin in the gardens of St Dunstan in the East in Idol Lane 1900 Liturgy and Vigil (English) for the Resurrection of Our Lord at 1100 from where there will be a procession to St Anne & St Agnes All Hallows for the Eucharist followed by 'Stations of the Monday 31 March ─ Easter Day Cross' All Hallows by the Tower 0545 Kindling of New Fire and Choral Eucharist followed by egg rolling in Fleet Street and Breakfast Monday 25 March St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Mass, Preacher Br Martin SSF, Theme: 'Generosity' 1030 Easter Sunday Morning Service St Helen Bishopsgate St Andrew Holborn 1030 Sung Eucharist for Easter Day St Botolph Aldgate 1310 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1100 Festal Eucharist with blessing of new fire and renewal of

baptismal vows All Hallows by the Tower Tuesday 26 March 1100 Choral Eucharist (English) St Anne & St Agnes 1300 Easter Lunchtime Service, with lunch at 1330 1600 Easter Sunday Afternoon Service St Helen Bishopsgate St Helen Bishopsgate 1730 Choral Evensong and Sermon in Music 1305 The Passion of Our Lord to be sung to plainchant St Bride Fleet Street St Mary le Bow 1800 Easter Sunday Evening Service St Helen Bishopsgate 1310 Mass, Preacher Br Martin SSF, Theme: 'Two ways of

repentance' St Andrew Holborn

1310 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN MARCH 2013

Wednesday 27 March ─ Holy Wednesday Friday 1 March EMBER 2012 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Organ Recital: David Cook St Stephen Walbrook 1310 A Sequence of Readings and Music for Passiontide 1310 Recital: Sanja Hadzic & Antonietta Notariello (piano duet) St Botolph Bishopsgate Works by Beethoven, Balakirev, Casella and Godowsky 1800 Taizé Music and Meditation St Bride Fleet Street St Anne & St Agnes 1800 Taizé Prayer around the Cross All Hallows by the Tower Sunday 3 March 1900 Sung Mass, Preacher Br Martin SSF, 1930 Concert by the Barbican Chamber Orchestra Theme: 'Through the darkness' St Andrew Holborn Viv McLean (piano), conducted by Joel Sandelson, in a Beethoven programme: Overture - 'Egmont', Thursday 28 March ─ Maundy Thursday Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat, 'Emperor', 1305 High Mass with Foot Washing St Mary le Bow Symphony No 5 in C minor 1310 Organ Music for Passiontide All Hallows by the Tower Tickets £8/£5 students To reserve tickets please email: 1310 Mass, Preacher Br Martin SSF, Theme: 'The Servant King' [email protected] St Andrew Holborn or available on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate 1310 Choral Eucharist with Maundy Ceremonies St Botolph Bishopsgate

CONCERTS & EVENTS IN MARCH 2013 ─ continued Friday 8 March ─ continued 1900 until 0700 Saturday 9 March St Bride's Church Rough Monday 4 March Sleep in Aid of Street Child World Cup. For more 1130 Annual Admiral Arthur Phillip Commemoration information please see the 'box' display on the last page All welcome St Mary le Bow St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Recital: Ben Schoeman (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1930 A Concert for International Women's Day 2013 to be given 1305 Recital: Rachel de Cock (soprano), Johan de Cock (piano) by the London Oriana Choir. The programme will feature a Baroque arias and songs by Purcell, Handel, Arne & Haydn number of UK premieres which will highlight an impressive St Martin Ludgate line-up of works by exclusively female contemporary 1310 Recital by IL BACIO ─ Ann Allen (baroque oboe), composers. For more details please visit: Liam Byrne (viola da gamba), Anna Dennis (soprano), www.londonoriana.com/current-season/ Tom Foster (harpsichord) Works by Handel, Purcell, Finger St Andrew Holborn and Geminiani St Anne & St Agnes Saturday 9 March 1500 Concert given by the Bloomsbury Chamber Orchestra Tuesday 5 March Works by Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Saint Saëns and 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Mussorgsky arr. Ravel (Pictures at an Exhibition) 1300 Organ Recital: Richard Moore Organ Scholar at Tickets £15/£8.50 concessions For more information: St Michael Cornhill St Lawrence Jewry www.bloomsburychamberorchestra.org.uk 1305 City of London Festival Free Lunchtime Recital to be given St Sepulchre without Newgate by Judith Hall (flute) & Craig Ogden (guitar) Monday 11 March Works by Poulenc, Benoit, Schlosberg, Rodrigo, 1300 Recital: Mikhail Poll (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Phillip Houghton & Robert Beaser Bishopsgate Institute 1305 Recital: Lysianne Chen & Minnie Ho – "Four Hands" 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church – admission £6 piano duo St Martin Ludgate St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Recital: Olga Popova (violin), Katie De La Matter 1800 'Challenging Lifestyle' Continuation of a 6 part course (harpsichord) Sonatas by Vivaldi, Biber, Finger and based on the book of that name by Nicky Gumbel. Castello St Anne & St Agnes The course continues with the remaining four parts on consecutive Tuesdays. Each part will be preceded by a Tuesday 12 March light supper. Part 3 ─ How to handle conflict 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch St Olave Hart Street 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1900 Recital in the 'Song in the City' series: 1800 'Challenging Lifestyle' Course Part 4 ─ How to become Aivale Cole (soprano), Catherine Norton (piano) truly generous For more details please refer to the entry Tickets: £10/£5 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall at 5 March St Olave Hart Street 1930 Concert: to be given by Stile Antico on the theme 1900 Recital in the 'Song in the City' series: Marie Vassiliou 'Masters of Europe': Music for the Hapsburg Rulers (soprano), Nico de Villers (piano) Tickets £10/£5 Tickets £15/£10 available from: St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall [email protected] St Sepulchre without Newgate Wednesday 13 March 1305 City of London Festival Free Lunchtime Concert Wednesday 6 March to be given by Christine Tobin (vocalist), 1305 Recital: Isabel Martinez Garrido (classical guitar) Dave Whitford (double bass), Phil Robson (guitar) St Olave Hart Street 'A Thousand Kisses Deep' featuring works by 1315 Recital: Ruth Gibson (violin) St Dunstan in the West Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell & Rufus Wainwright 1330 Lenten Cantata music by Buxtehude St Mary le Bow St Anne & St Agnes 1930 Bank Churches' Lent Course is continued 1305 Recital: Tom Pigott-Smith (violin), Adam Johnson (piano) covering three sessions in March: St Olave Hart Street Session 3 – 'Peace and living the Sermon on the Mount' 1310 Recital: The Azuré Duo: Nao Maebayashi & Eamonn For more information contact [email protected] or Ramsay (piano duo) St Sepulchre without Newgate 020 7248 89902 For the booking link please refer to: 1315 Recital: Green Chorus St Dunstan in the West http://lent2013.eventbrite.com St Mary Aldermary 1330 Lenten Cantata music by Buxtehude St Mary le Bow 1830 JustShare Panel Discussion under the auspices of Thursday 7 March the City church of St Mary le Bow 1305 Recital: Iria Perestrelo (soprano), Carlos Gomez (tenor), 'Exploring the barriers to food justice'. Mie Ito (Baroque harpist) St Mary at Hill What can businesses, governments, NGOs and individuals 1305 Organ Recital: Timothy Wakerell St Mary le Bow do to help halve the proportion of people suffering from 1305 Concert to be given by the Guildhall Harpists and friends extreme hunger by 2015. This event will be held at the St Olave Hart Street church of St James Piccadilly 1930 Bank Churches' Lent Course is continued Friday 8 March covering three sessions in March: Session 4 – 1230 Organ Recital: Mark Brafield St Stephen Walbrook 'Peace and sustaining compassionate relationships' 1310 Recital: Vienna and the Viola For more information contact [email protected] or Emma Alter (viola), Yeu Meng Chan (piano) 020 7248 89902 For the booking link please refer to: Works by Beethoven and Schubert St Anne & St Agnes http://lent2013.eventbrite.com St Mary Aldermary

Tuesday 19 March ─ continued CONCERTS & EVENTS IN MARCH 2013 ─ continued 1800 'Challenging Lifestyle' Course Part 5 ─ How to pray like Jesus For more details please refer to the entry at 5 March Thursday 14 March St Olave Hart Street 1300 Recital in the 'Song in the City' series: Wednesday 20 March Sea Fever: The Love Boat 1310 Concert: The Valley Orchestra Guild (on tour from Iowa, St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall USA) Director – Phil Peters Works by Handel, Vaughan 1305 Recital: Alex Hughes (piano) St Mary at Hill Williams, Parry, Avison and O'Connor 1305 Organ Recital: Samuel Rathbone St Mary le Bow St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Isis Duo Lindsey Ellis (flute), 1315 Recital: Edward McCullagh (violin) Anne-Laure Lasseux (piano) St Olave Hart Street St Dunstan in the West 1330 Lenten Cantata music by Buxtehude St Mary le Bow Friday 15 March 1930 Bank Churches' Lent Course is continued 1230 Organ Recital: John Webster (Holy Cross, Cromer Street) covering three sessions in March: St Stephen Walbrook Session 5 – 'Peace and sustaining compassionate 1310 Recital: Christopher Bundham (guitar) Works by de Falla, relationships' ─ continued Torroba, Walker and Brouwer St Anne & St Agnes For more information contact [email protected] or Saturday 16 March 020 7248 89902 For the booking link please refer to: 2000 The Arioso Orchestra Inaugural Concert http://lent2013.eventbrite.com St Mary Aldermary Brahms – Symphony No 4, Debussy - Prélude à l’après- midi d’un faune, Bizet – L'Arlésienne Suite No1and Thursday 21 March Mozart - Overture to 'The Marriage of Figaro' 1300 Recital: 'Song in the City' series: Tickets: £10 or £7.50 for Over 60s and students. These Sea Fever: Rich and Strange St Botolph Bishopsgate charges include a booking fee. Tickets are available 1305 Recital: Ingrid Cusido (piano) St Mary at Hill from: www.brownpapertickets.com or from 1305 Organ Recital: Mark Brafield St Mary le Bow freephone box office: 0800 411 888 1305 Concert to be given by the Forest School Brass Ensemble St Sepulchre without Newgate St Olave Hart Street Sunday 17 March 1930 Concert: Orlando Chamber Choir: 1500 Recital: The Chelys Consort ─ the first in a series of 'The Lamenting Lowlands' Odes and elegies of the recitals in churches designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Franco-Flemish Renaissance Tickets: £14/£10 'All the King's Men – the music of the Courts of Charles I St Andrew Holborn and II' Works by Coprario, Locke, Purcell and Jenkins 1930 Concert: Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra Tickets £10(£8) More information at: Programme – Fauré's Requiem http://www.chelys.webeden.co.uk/ St Mary Woolnoth Advance tickets £16/£12 (under 16s) from www.wegottickets.com (Search 'NLSO') Monday 18 March On the door: £20/£17 (under 16s) 1300 Recital: Christopher Guild (piano) St Lawrence Jewry St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Elizabeth Pink (contralto), Tim Tozer (piano) Friday 22 March "Where Corals Lie" ─ oceans, rivers, lakes and streams 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance St Stephen Walbrook in song by Schubert, Berlioz, Quilter, Elgar, Brahms and 1310 Concert to be given by the Choir of Queen's College, Kurt Weill St Martin Ludgate Cambridge ─ director Silas Woolston 1310 Recital: Emily Curcio (soprano), Nadia Giliova (piano) 'Thou Mastering Me' Works by Byrd, Gesualdo, Songs by Debussy, Gershwin and others Moore, Gabrielli and O'Regan St Anne & St Agnes St Anne & St Agnes 1310 Recital: Yuki Negishi (piano) 1930 A Concert to be given by The Barts Academic Festival St Sepulchre without Newgate Choir and Orchestra. The programme will include 1930 Concert: City Chorus conducted by Paul Ayres Serenade No 1 by Brahms and Stabat Mater by Rossini Programme: Handel – Chandos Anthems; Tickets £5 at the door Haydn- Missa Brevis All proceeds will go to Barts Cancer Unit Tickets £10 from www.londoncitychorus or email The Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital [email protected] St Sepulchre without Newgate Tuesday 19 March Saturday 23 March 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1030 The Bach Choir conducted by David Hill 1300 Organ Recital: James Luxton Assistant Organist at Rehearsal for "Come and Sing" Brahms's Requiem Worcester Cathedral St Lawrence Jewry Performance at 1500; Tickets: £20 for singers; 1305 City of London Festival Free Lunchtime Concert £10 for audience; £5 for students (singing or audience) given by Joseph Tong & Waka Hasegawa (piano duo) available from 020 7127 9114 or Works by Poulenc, John McCabe, www.thebachchoir.org.uk/comeandsing/?order ending with Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' St Sepulchre without Newgate Bishopsgate Institute 1500 Performance of Brahms's Requiem 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church – admission £6 St Sepulchre without Newgate St Bride Fleet Street 1930 Concert by Sinfonia Tamesa Works by Nielsen and Shostakovich Tickets: £10/£8 St Andrew Holborn

CONCERTS & EVENTS IN MARCH 2013 ─ continued

Sunday 24 March The City East Churches – 1000 to 1830 Special Peal Attempt All Hallows by the Tower, St Botolph Aldgate & The Ancient Society of College Youths will attempt to ring St Botolph Bishopsgate 10,000 changes St Mary le Bow are running an online course 1830 A performance of the St John Passion by J S Bach, 'Christianity from the Beginning ─ The Bible' For more details please refer to the 'box' display below at www.cityeast.net throughout Lent, with other modules St Anne & St Agnes 'What we believe', 'Church history and the Church of England' Monday 25 March to come later in the year 1300 Recital: Sharon Barnea (piano) St Lawrence Jewry

1305 Recital: Nina Leo (piano) Works by Debussy, Schubert,

Gluck/Scambati and Bach/Busoni St Martin Ludgate

1305 Midday Office – music for voice and organ

St Mary le Bow 1310 Recital: Alison Crum & Mary Pells (viole da gamba), The St John Passion Martin Knizia (organ) Works by Finger, Schenck and by J S Bach Boismortier St Anne & St Agnes to be sung in German at the City Church of St Anne & St Agnes Tuesday 26 March Palm Sunday 24 March at 6.30pm 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1300 Organ Recital: Sixth Form Series 2013 No. 1 Emily Atkinson (soprano), Julian Forbes (Evangelist) Hugo Marrow - Pupil at St Giles International Organ School Cheyney Kent (Christus), David Soar (Pilatus) St Lawrence Jewry Eclectic Voices ─ Scott Stroman choir master 1305 The Passion of Our Lord to be sung to plainchant and the Sweelinck Ensemble ─ Martin Knizia director St Mary le Bow 1310 Organ Recital: Martin Knizia will play Lenten Organ Music Admission free ─ retiring collection Works by Bach, Buxtehude and Scheidemann St Anne & St Agnes 1800 'Challenging Lifestyle' Course Part 6 ─ How to handle money For more details please refer to 5 March St Olave Hart Street Wednesday 27 March St Bride's Church Rough Sleep 1305 City of London Festival Free Lunchtime Concert to be given by the City of London Sinfonia with In support of Street Child World Cup Stephen Stirling (horn) and Ronan Busfield (tenor) Works by Finzi, Holst, Elgar and Britten - his Serenade for Friday 8 March 2013 Tenor, horn and strings St Andrew Holborn 1305 Recital by the Stadler Ensemble St Olave Hart Street 1310 Recital: Emily Atkinson and Jenni Harper (sopranos), In 2014 street children from around the world will Martin Knizia (organ) will perform 'Leçons de ténèbres kick off the second Street Child World Cup in for the Liturgies of Holy Week' by François Couperin Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The aim is for street children St Anne & St Agnes to receive the protection and opportunities that all 1310 Recital: Margaret Dziekonski (violin), Carson Becke (piano) children are entitled to St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Catherine Lee (cello) St Dunstan in the West Join us for our Brazilian themed sleep-out raising 1330 Lenten Cantata music by Buxtehude St Mary le Bow vital funds for the Street Child World Cup 1830 The St John Passion by J S Bach in a liturgical context, reflecting the events of Passiontide, performed by the Music There will be entertainment, a breakfast voucher for Society Choir & Orchestra of Queen Mary College, London all sleepers and the chance to hear more about the St Mary le Bow Street Child World Cup. Thursday 28 March 1300 'Song in the City' Series Recital: The Rough Sleep will begin at 8.00pm on Friday 8 March Sea Fever: Salt Water Ballads and will last until 7.00am on Saturday 9 March St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall 1305 Recital: To be arranged St Olave Hart Street For more information contact: 1310 Organ Music for Passiontide All Hallows by the Tower

Friday 29 March ─ Good Friday [email protected] or call 020 7427 0133

1100 'Stabat Mater' by Pergolesi St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Stainer's 'Crucifixion' St Bride Fleet Street

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MEMORABILIA – A MISCELLANY

The leading article in the March edition of City Events featured an account of Admiral Arthur Phillip, the founder and first Governor of the Australian state of New South Wales in 1788, who, as a result became the first Governor of the fledgling colony of Australia. His life and achievements are commemorated each year in a special service held at the City church of St Mary le Bow and this event duly took place on Monday 4th March this year. A full account of the event can be read on the website of St Mary le Bow. Near the end of the service a wreath was placed at the memorial bust of Admiral Phillip in the south west corner of the church. Insufficient space in the March edition of City Events did not allow us to give additional detail regarding the memorial and its travels over the years. That omission is now rectified. The bust, by the sculptor C. L. Hartwell was originally erected in 1932 on the front of the City church of St Mildred Bread Street which stood on the east side of the short section of Bread Street between Cannon Street and Queen Victoria Street. The church was almost totally destroyed in the Blitz of 1941. However, the memorial to Admiral Phillip was salvaged from the ruins of the church and eventually was re- erected in St Mary le Bow in 1992. Prior to that event a smaller copy of the memorial was erected on the east wall of Gateway House in Cannon Street in 1968. Gateway House was demolished in 1999 and a new office building, 25 Cannon Street stands on the site. On the north side of the garden in front of the west side of that building, facing onto the western end of Watling Street, the smaller memorial to Admiral Phillip has been re-erected and a lengthy inscription on the front of it recounts its history. It also tells us that he was born in the Ward of Bread Street on 11th October 1738 which gives us the historical link between the original placing of the memorial at St Mildred Bread Street. There are two additional bronze plates on the east and west sides of the memorial depicting in relief, respectively, the discovery and fixing of the site of Sydney on Wednesday 23rd January 1788, and the founding of Australia at Sydney on Saturday, 26th January 1788. It must surely be rather unique for virtually the same memorial to have two locations not very far from each other. Admiral Phillip is commemorated elsewhere in this country, notably in the church of St Nicholas, Bathampton near Bath, where he died in 1814. During the service at St Mary le Bow we learned that he is to be commemorated next year with a plaque in Westminster Abbey thus recognizing in no uncertain manner the life and achievements of this remarkable but somewhat unsung man. To quote from the Dictionary of Australian Biography, “He was sent to found a convict settlement, he laid the foundations of a great dominion”

While active on-site research was being carried out on the Watling Street memorial several other memorabilia were observed. It is very easy, and equally pleasing, to be diverted in the City by the diverse number of plaques fixed to the walls of buildings in the City, let alone the statuary. The excellent plaques are mainly those put in place by the Corporation of the City of London, rectangularly shaped with white relief letters on a blue background. The thought occurs that therein might lie a rewarding research project. But to return to the diversion. On the east wall of 25 Cannon Street there is a plaque which tells us ‘SITE OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, FRIDAY STREET, DESTROYED IN THE GREAT FIRE 1666’. This information prompted your correspondent to seek a similar plaque marking the site of St Mildred Bread Street in the short southern section of Bread Street nearby. Sadly there appears to be no such plaque to be found anywhere in that vicinity. Perhaps this omission might be rectified at some time? Additional evidence for the site of that church in the form of parish boundary plates, which abound in the City (invariably fixed fairly high up on the walls of buildings), were sought but also to no avail. Time was pressing and so your correspondent had to head for Cannon Street Station but using a somewhat circuitous route via Pancras Lane, off Queen Street, a rich source of memorabilia. In that interesting little lane is to be found the quite striking garden on the site of the church of St Pancras – with plenty of artistic seats for lunching office workers. The ubiquitous rectangular blue plaque which is fixed to the low west wall of the garden tells us that the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Heading east down the lane, on the north side, there is to be found the dramatic inscription (this time actually carved into the face of the building) ‘BEFORE THE DREADFUL FIRE ANNO 1666 STOOD THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST BENNET SHEREHOG’. Finally there is another blue plaque fixed to the wall of a building just east of the St Pancras garden which informs us ‘The Institute of Taxation Founded on this site 1930’. Perhaps apologies are due for the inclusion of this rather sombre information but the title of this piece did, after all, include the words ‘a miscellany … ‘

Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Magnus the Martyr, Lower Thames Street, London EC3R 6DN, tel. 020 7626 1555 (answerphone) e-mail: [email protected]

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REGULAR SERVICES IN APRIL 2013 Every Wednesday - continued 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our website at 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn

Every Monday Every Thursday 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1200 Holy Communion St Clement Eastcheap 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth Every Tuesday 1300 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate [NB Not 4 April] 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens [NB For 11 and 25 April see 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Special Services] 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion St Dunstan in the West 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr of the month. Please see the church website: 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate [NB Not 2 April] 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate [NB Not 2 April] 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1305 Meditation Group in the Crypt Chapel – All welcome St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Every Friday 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Every Wednesday 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Holy Communion (CW Order II) St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Pause for Prayer - a reflective prayer service using a liturgy from 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn the Iona Community St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel Please apply at the vestry 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less St Mary le Bow 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Abchurch 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Communion Service Wesley's Chapel 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1315 Holy Communion (CW Order 1) St Lawrence Jewry 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1800 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate [NB Not 24 April] 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET auspices of auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet Site of the 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street Internet Church for London. To watch these services, which change continued on a daily basis, log on to: www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk

Saturday 6 April - continued SPECIAL SERVICES IN APRIL 2013 1930 Spring Fayre – A Music Celebration of Springtime (with cakes) Thursday 4 April given by London Gay Symphonic Winds Tickets £8 in advance from 1830 Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate www.lgsw.org.uk, £10 on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate

Monday 8 April Sunday 7 April 1305 High Mass for the Feast of the Annunciation (transferred) 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate St Mary le Bow Wednesday 10 April Monday 8 April 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Recital: Ashley Fripp (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 11 April 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Bunney (St Giles in the Fields) Works by 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Bach, Mathias, Chadwyke-Healey, Bott, Howells and Vierne 1305 Easter Carol Service St Margaret Pattens St Michael Cornhill Sunday 14 April 1305 Recital: Catherine Chetwynd (mezzo-soprano), Carol Wells (piano) 1115 Easter Carol Service Temple Church Songs and arias across the ages St Martin Ludgate 1310 Recital: Spring Voices I A selection of young singers Tuesday 16 April accompanied by Simon Leppar St Anne & St Agnes 1830 Pontifical High Mass for St Magnus’ Day Celebrant and preacher the 1800 Annual Boyle Lecture: The Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS Rt Revd Jonathan Baker, Bishop of Fulham Followed by refreshments Science and Religion in Dialogue All welcome – seating limited St Magnus the Martyr St Mary le Bow Wednesday 17 April Tuesday 9 April 1830 Solemn Evensong and Licensing of the Rt Revd Jonathan Baker as 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate Guild Vicar St Dunstan in the West 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Saturday 20 April 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1800 Official Virgin London Marathon Thanksgiving Service To give thanks 1300 Recital: Soloists of the Handel Collection play Richard Strauss’s for everything achieved through the Marathon and for the gift of sport Metamorphosen (original version) St Stephen Walbrook All Hallows by the Tower 1315 Recital: Watson Trio St Bride Fleet Street Tuesday 23 April 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Choral Eucharist for St George, Martyr, Patron Saint of England, 1800 The Little Baroque Company presents Bach’s Coffee Cantata – a with English choral music Followed by refreshments short comic work depicting the rise of coffee houses in the 18th century St Botolph Bishopsgate and the addiction to coffee even then! Tickets £15 - including coffee, Thursday 25 April cake and an hour’s music – tel 01460 54660 St Andrew Holborn 1145 Court of Common Council Service St Lawrence Jewry 2000 Coffee Cantata – repeat performance – see under 1800 above 1310 St George’s Day service and Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens St Andrew Holborn

Monday 29 April Wednesday 10 April 1245 Praise and Worship, hosted by KPMG St Bride Fleet Street 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1305 Recital: Mayah Kadish (violin) St Botolph Aldgate Tuesday 30 April 1305 Recital: Ensemble Musae ─ Jill Kemp (recorder), 1800 Annual Memorial Evensong of the Friends of the Musicians’ Chapel Fenella Humphreys (violin), Anna Menzies (cello), St Sepulchre without Newgate Alexis White (piano) St Olave Hart Street

1310 Recital: Jessica Summers (soprano), Jelena Makarova (piano) CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN APRIL 2013 St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Uberto Orlando (flute) St Dunstan in the West Tuesday 2 April 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Thursday 11 April 1300 Recital: Luba Tunnicliffe (flute), Tom Blach (piano) Works by 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate Brahms and Hindemith St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Recital: Mark Gibbs (viola) St Mary at Hill 1315 Recital: Daniel Murray (guitar), Luca Luciano (clarinet) 1305 Recital: Julian Collings (organ), Rebecca Hewes (cello) St Bride Fleet Street St Mary le Bow 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: Diana Galvydyte (violin), Christopher Guild (piano) Wednesday 3 April St Olave Hart Street 1305 Recital:Joana Ly (violin) St Botolph Aldgate 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Recital: Timothy Peake (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend - Melody and Harmony 1310 Recital: Hannah Woolmer (violin), Daniel Roberts (piano) St Margaret Lothbury St Sepulchre without Newgate 1800 Concert: Albion Baroque – Handel: Roman Connections Thursday 4 April Tickets £11-£14 from www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/59837 1305 Recital: Hannah Woolmer (violin) St Mary at Hill St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: George Harliono (piano) St Olave Hart Street Friday 12 April 1310 Organ Recital: Peter Dutton (Christ’s Hospital School) 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Organ Recital: Paul Rosoman (St Luke’s Anglican Church, 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend - The Glorious Baroque (4) Wellington, New Zealand) St Stephen Walbrook St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Organ Recital: Stuart Whatton Works by Bach and Buxtehude Friday 5 April St Anne & St Agnes 1315 Recital: Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano) St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Organ Recital: Geoffrey Tuson St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital: Andrew Wilson (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 13 April 1315 Recital: Forssaäng Swedish Girls Choir Contemporary church music, Advanced Choral Conducting Course organized by the Association of British Swedish traditional church music and traditional folk songs Choral Conductors St Dunstan in the West See www.abcd.org.uk/training/abcd-courses/Advanced for details Saturday 6 April St Sepulchre without Newgate 1930 Concert: Luzmira Zerpa and 'Family Atlantica' Venezualan calypso meets West African highlights and more Tickets £10 in advance, Sunday 14 April £12 on the door See www.stethelburgas.org for details and Advanced Choral Conducting Course – see under 13 April above advance tickets St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate St Sepulchre without Newgate 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate

Monday 22 April CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN APRIL 2013 - continued 1300 Recital: Emmanuel Vass (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Monday 15 April 1300 Organ Recital: Richard Moore First recital in the 'A to Z of Organ 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate Music' series – Composers A & B (excluding Bach) 1300 Recital: Matthieu Esnult (piano) St Lawrence Jewry St Michael Cornhill 1300 Organ Recital: Annual Oundle Recital by James Orford (award 1305 Recital: Harriet Kirk (mezzo-soprano) St Martin Ludgate winner at the 2012 Oundle Summer School for Young Organists) 1310 Recital: Programme tba Visit www.stanneslutheranchurch.org.uk for further information St Anne & St Agnes Works by Bach, Bridge and Dupré St Michael Cornhill 1305 Recital: Fenella Humphreys (violin) Works by Kreisler, Geminiani, Tuesday 23 April Ysaÿe and Bach St Martin Ludgate 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1310 Recital: Spring Voices II A selection of young singers accompanied 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry by Simon Leppar St Anne & St Agnes 1300 Recital: Quintessence Wind Quintet Works by Nielsen, 1830 Debate: Do businesses care about health? Presented by Zemlinksky and Ibert St Stephen Walbrook St Mary le Bow and C3 Collaborating for Health For further details see 1315 Recital: tbc For further information see www.stbrides.com or www.stmarylebow.co.uk To attend RSVP to [email protected] tel 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street or 020 7637 4330 St Mary le Bow 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 St Bride Fleet Street

1830 Concert in the 'Song in the City' series - Dreams and Hallucinations Tuesday 16 April Dan Norman (tenor), Sholto Kynoch (piano) Tickets £10, 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch concessions £5 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall 1300 Organ Recital: Robert Gower St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Recital: Tom Robson (tenor) Britten’s Canticles (1) Wedsday 24 April St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Recital: Olivia Sheepers (violin) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Cheapside Debate: Can technology save the planet? with 1305 Recital: Michael McHale (piano) St Olave Hart Street Dr Bernie Bulkin (Dept of Energy & Climate Change) and 1310 Recital: The Wolfe Ensemble St Sepulchre without Newgate Dr Mayer Hillman (Policy Studies Institute, University of Westminster) 1315 Recital: Alexia Maknovskaya (mezzo-soprano) All welcome St Mary le Bow St Dunstan in the West 1315 Recital: Matthew Drinkwater (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 25 April 1305 Recital: Catherine Lee (cello), Lysianne Chen (piano) Wednesday 17 April St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Belle Chen (piano) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Recital: Mignonette Aarons (piano) St Mary le Bow 1305 Recital: tbc For further information tel 020 7488 4318 or see 1305 Recital: Alice Cartledge (recorder), Rachel Neiger (piano) www.sanctuaryinthecity.net/concerts/ St Olave Hart Street St Olave Hart Street 1310 Recital: Yuka Matsumoto (violin), Kentaro Nagai (piano) 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower St Sepulchre without Newgate 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series: Marcus Torén (Sweden) 1315 Recital: Lysianne Chen (piano) St Dunstan in the West St Margaret Lothbury 1805 JustShare Debate: Africa’s prospects for economic growth with Friday 26 April Richard Dowden (Director, Royal African Society) and Rob Wilson 1230 Organ Recital: Mark Williams (Jesus College Cambridge) (founder, READ International and author) All welcome St Stephen Walbrook Refreshments afterwards St Mary le Bow 1310 Recital: Asako Ogawa (harpsichord) Works by Bach and Couperin Thursday 18 April St Anne & St Agnes 1305 Recital: Harriet Kirk (mezzo-soprano), Jorge Navarro Colorado (tenor) 1310 Recital: Jelena Makarova (piano) St Sepulchre without Newgate St Mary at Hill 1315 Organ Recital: Stephen Disley (Southwark Cathedral) 1305 Recital: Margaret Morrell (soprano) St Mary le Bow St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: Cosima Piano Quintet - Evaline Puzaite (piano), Katerina 1930 Western Sahara - Film Screening & Concert Film about war poetess Nazarova (violin), Algirdas Galdikas (violin), Jenny Lewisohn (viola), Al Khadra, followed by music from singer Aziz Brahim Tickets £10 Angélique Lihou (cello) St Olave Hart Street in advance, £12 on the door For details and advance tickets see www.stethelburgas.org St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate 1310 Organ Recital:Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend - Bach and Buxtehude (4) Saturday 27 April St Margaret Lothbury 1930 Inaugural Concert of London Euphonia Orchestra, playing music by 1930 Concert: London Lawyers’ Symphony Orchestra Works by Berlioz, Mozart Time tbc - For further details see www.st-sepulchre.org.uk Chabrier & Saint-Saëns Tickets £12 on the door St Lawrence Jewry or tel 020 7236 1145 St Sepulchre without Newgate

Friday 19 April Sunday 28 April 1230 Organ Recital: Richard Moore (Organ Scholar, St Paul’s Cathedral) 1900 Concert: London Gay Symphony Orchestra Works by Elgar, St Stephen Walbrook Mahler and Glazunov Tickets £10 (concessions £8) from 1310 Recital: Emma Alter (viola) St Anne & St Agnes www.wegotickets.com/event/187527 St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Annabel Lawson (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Monday 29 April 1900 Concert: The Giltspur Singers Sacred music and English madrigals 1300 Recital: Kanae Furomoto (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Admission £10 St Mary le Bow 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert All-Bach St Michael Cornhill 1930 Concert: The Esterhazy Singers Entente Chorale - French sacred 1305 Recital: Nicole Crespo O’Donoghue (violin), Chad Vindin (piano) choral music Works by Charpentier, Franck, Gounod, Poulenc and Works by Schnittke, Prokofiev and Sarasate St Martin Ludgate Duruflé Tickets £12.50 in advance, £15 on the door, students and 1310 Recital: Programme tba See www.stanneslutheranchurch.org.uk children half price – tel .07958 688 422 St Andrew Holborn for further information St Anne & St Agnes 1930 Concert: Nila Band Senegalese rhythms with a touch of reggae and salsa Tickets £10 in advance, £12 on the door For details and Tuesday 30 April advance tickets see www.stethelburgas.org 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch St Ethelburga’Centre Bishopsgate 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Recital: award-winning Chamber Choir of the University of Newcastle, Saturday 20 April New South Wales, directed by Philip Matthias St Katharine Cree 1930 Inaugural Concert of London City Orchestra Works by Rossini, 1315 Recital: Annabel Price (mezzo-soprano), Charlotte Brennand (piano) Beethoven and Mozart Tickets £8 in advance (concessions £6) St Bride Fleet Street from www.londoncityorchestra.com/product/tickets/ - £10 on the door 1830 Concert in the 'Song in the City' series – From Wanderers and Knights St Sepulchre without Newgate Martin Hässler (baritone), Marek Ruszczynski (piano) Tickets £10, concessions £5 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall

______May 2013 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk It will be a well-known fact that there are four ecumenical feasts celebrated by the Christian Church. These are the Passion, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost. The first two were fully and properly celebrated in churches throughout the land and, of course, in the City churches, in March. In this edition of City Events for May will be found listings for the third and fourth of the feasts listed above, namely the Feast of the Ascension and Pentecost. The Feast of the Ascension or Ascension Day marks the end of the Easter season and is customarily celebrated on a Thursday 40 days after Easter. Thus, this year Ascension Day will be on Thursday, 9th May. We are told in the New Testament that Jesus Christ met several times with his disciples during the 40 days after his resurrection to instruct them on how to carry out his teachings. It is believed that on the 40th day he took them to the Mount of Olives and there his disciples watched as he ascended to heaven.

In the listings below will be found the customary concise information concerning services being held in certain of the City churches to mark this important event in the liturgical calendar. Apart from the actual services held on Ascension Day there are a number of traditions observed in churches around the world, such as "the blessing of the first fruits" in which grapes and beans are blessed. The Paschal candle, lit at Easter, will be extinguished and triumphal processions may be held with torches and banners displayed outside the churches to commemorate the entry of Christ into heaven. Some churches carry out a special ceremony on, or near Ascension Day and that is the "beating of the bounds". Members of the particular church parish walk round the parish boundary marking boundary stones (for example by writing on them in chalk) and, curiously, hitting them with sticks. The ceremony had a particular use at one time in that knowledge of the parish boundaries was important bearing in mind the duties that the particular church might have towards their own parishioners. An example of such a duty would be the care of children born out of wedlock in the parish. Before the days of social services the responsibility of such care fell upon the parish and clearly the parish authorities would not want to be held responsible for more such unfortunate children than was necessary. The ceremony of beating the bounds will be observed by at least two of the City churches and these are listed in the following pages. St Bride Fleet Street will beat their bounds on Tuesday 7th May while All Hallows by the Tower will beat theirs on Ascension Day itself, Thursday 9th May. The actual beating will be carried out by pupils of St Dunstan's College. The College has a strong connection with All Hallows by the Tower in that one of the churches absorbed into the parish after World War 2 was that of St Dunstan in the East which was severely damaged in the Blitz of 1941. All that remains of the church now is the tower built by Wren after the Great Fire of 1666 and the north and south walls of the 19th century rebuilding of the post-Great Fire church. The particular connection of the College with St Dunstan in the East is marked by a very distinctive large circular commemorative plaque fixed to the inside of the north wall of the remains of the church. The plaque can be seen when one stands in the beautiful garden laid out within the shell of the church. The plaque was unveiled in 1983 and it commemorates the founding in 1466 of a 'school attached to the church of St Dunstan in the East', the said school being one of the five recognized grammar schools in the City of London. The inscription on the plaque continues by commemorating the re-founding of the College in 1888 on its present site in Catford, South East London.

At 3.00pm on Ascension Day at All Hallows by the Tower a procession will form consisting of the clergy and officials of that church, the Headmistress of the College and some of her colleagues, and, most importantly, a select group of pupils from the College armed with bamboo canes ready to beat the bounds of the parish. They will make their way round the parish boundary which is marked at various spots by plaques fixed to the walls of nearby buildings. At certain of these points prayers will be said and a verse of a hymn will be sung and then the pupils will energetically beat the paving stones at these spots. One of the most important places where this will be done is near the west door of the tower of St Dunstan in the East in Idol Lane. At this point the ceremony will be particularly poignant for it is believed that the College was founded in 1466, as described earlier, in a building (long since disappeared!) in Idol Lane. After further "beatings" the procession will return to All Hallows by the Tower where at 5.30pm Festal Evensong will take place with the College Choir providing the choral foundation of the service.

Finally, Pentecost, the second of the two ecumenical feasts to be celebrated in May, will be marked by services on Sunday, 19th May. Pentecost, (or Whit Sunday) which is held fifty days after Easter, commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Twelve Apostles and other followers of Jesus as described in Chapter 2 of the Acts of the Apostles. For this reason Pentecost is sometimes described by some Christians as the "Birthday of the Church".

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Every Wednesday - continued REGULAR SERVICES IN MAY 2013 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our website at 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn

Every Monday Every Thursday 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1200 Holy Communion St Clement Eastcheap 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth Every Tuesday 1300 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1230 Holy Communion St Dunstan in the West of the month. Please see the church website: 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Meditation Group in the Crypt Chapel – All welcome St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Every Friday 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow Every Wednesday 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Pause for Prayer - a reflective prayer service using a liturgy from 0830 Holy Communion (CW Order II) St Lawrence Jewry the Iona Community St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel Please apply at the vestry 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster St Mary le Bow 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Abchurch 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1245 Communion Service Wesley's Chapel 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1315 Holy Communion (CW Order 1) St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1800 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the auspices of auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet Site of the 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill Internet Church for London. To watch these services, which change on a daily basis, log on to: www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street continued

SPECIAL SERVICES IN MAY 2013 Thursday 23 May

1310 Common Worship Communion St Margaret Pattens

Wednesday 1 May — St Philip & St James Sunday 26 May 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1030 Festal Mattins for Trinity Sunday. This is the Patronal Festival for the former City Church of Holy Trinity the Less, Thursday 2 May a parish incorporated with St James Garlickhythe many 1310 Choral Mattins ─ English Saints and Martyrs years ago and the first anniversary of the Royal Jubilee St Margaret Pattens Bells. This service will be followed by Potluck Picnic Lunch. 1830 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate Bring some food and drink to share. St James Garlickhythe Saturday 4 May to Tuesday 7 May Romanian Orthodox Easter Services St Dunstan in the West Tuesday 28 May 1745 Sung Evening Prayer to celebrate Lanfranc Day. Our church is believed to have been founded by Thursday 9 May ─ Ascension Day Archbishop Lanfranc. St Mary le Bow 1305 Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day St Margaret Pattens 1305 High Mass for Ascension Day Thursday 30 May ─ Corpus Christi Preacher: The Revd Deborah Frazer, St Mary, Bow 1305 Festal Choral Eucharist (BCP) St Margaret Pattens Music includes the Coronation Mass by Mozart 1305 High Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi St Mary le Bow St Mary le Bow

1310 Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day St Botolph Bishopsgate CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN MAY 2013

1730 Festal Evensong following the Ceremony of Beating the Bounds (See Events) All Hallows by the Tower 1745 Choral Evensong for Ascension Day with the City churches Wednesday 1 May St Dunstan in the West and St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: Mie Ito (baroque harp) St Botolph Aldgate A special welcome for members of the Edmund Plowden 1305 Recital: Jill Kemp (recorder) St Olave Hart Street Trust followed by drinks in the Round or the Master’s 1310 Recital: PerKelt — a Celtic-Medieval Speed Folk ensemble Garden (Suggested donation for drinks £5) St Sepulchre without Newgate Temple Church 1315 Recital: Donna Macfadyen (soprano) 1800 Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day St Bride Fleet Street St Dunstan in the West 1830 Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day St Anne & St Agnes 1930 Concert given by the Constanza Chorus The programme will consist of the Fauré Requiem and Duruflé Motets Tickets £15 Sunday 12 May Booking at: www.constanzachorus.co.uk 1800 Evening Guest Service: What if …… God cared about your St Sepulchre without Newgate suffering? St Helen Bishopsgate

Thursday 16 May Thursday 2 May 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Recital: Russell Woo (piano) St Mary at Hill 1310 Common Worship Communion for Pentecost 1305 Recital: Johan de Cock (piano) St Mary le Bow St Margaret Pattens 1305 Recital: Julian Jacobson (piano), Mariko Brown (piano) St Olave Hart Street Saturday 18 May 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling 1130 Patronal Festival ─ Pontifical High Mass All Hallows by the Tower Celebrant and preacher – The Guild Vicar 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents Part 5 in the St Dunstan in the West series "'The Glorious Baroque" St Margaret Lothbury

Sunday 19 May ─ Pentecost 1100 Choral Eucharist for the Day of Pentecost Friday 3 May St Anne & St Agnes 1230 Organ Recital: Georgina Sheriff (Royal College of Music) 1300 'Circle the City' Pre-walk Service St Stephen Walbrook All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Recital: Sergei Podobedov (piano) 1300 'Circle the City' Pre-walk Service St Mary le Bow Chopin: Etudes, Nocturnes and Waltzes St Anne & St Agnes 1600 Afternoon Guest Service: What if …. God isn’t hiding? 1315 Recital: tbc For further information see www.stbrides.com St Helen Bishopsgate or telephone 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street

Wednesday 22 May 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate

Monday 13 May CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN MAY 2013 ─ continued 1100 Opening of '20 years at St Mary le Bow Church' ─ an exhibition of paintings by Paul Brown. For more details Tuesday 7 May please refer to the 'box' display below on the last page. 1300 Recital: Young Pyo Lee (violin) St Stephen Walbrook St Mary le Bow 1315 Recital: tbc For further information see www.stbrides.com 1300 Organ Recital in the A to Z of Organ Music series or telelephone 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street Jonathan Rennert – letters G to H St Michael Cornhill 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 1310 Concert by the Sweelinck Ensemble: St Bride Fleet Street Emily Atkinson and Jenni Harper (sopranos), 1800 Beating of the Bounds of the Parish St Bride Fleet Street Benjamin Sansom and Philip Yeeles (violins) 1800 A One Hour Recital — Opera Arias & Duets by Mozart, Peter McCarthy (violone), Martin Knizia (organ) Bizet, Handel and Monteverdi Works by Schütz, Monteverdi and Bruhns Eve Strasburger (soprano), Karah Hible (mezzo soprano) St Anne & St Agnes Free with retiring collection 1315 Recital: Eleanor Janes (soprano), Carol Simmonds (piano) St Sepulchre without Newgate Works by Poulenc, Brahms, Schubert and Copland St Martin Ludgate

Wednesday 8 May Tuesday 14 May 1305 Recital: Rachael Chesney and colleagues (woodwind trio) 1300 Concert given the Handel Collection directed by Edward St Botolph Aldgate Adams Handel Organ Concertos Opus 7 Nos 3 & 4 1305 Recital: Lisa Cassidy (soprano), William Fergusson (piano) with Mark Williams (organ) and “Phaedra” by Britten, St Olave Hart Street with Carris Jones (mezzo soprano) 1310 Recital: Maria Oguren (violin) from St Petersburg, with piano St Stephen Walbrook accompaniment St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Lesley Cox (soprano), Curtis Dabek (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 Thursday 9 May St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Song Recital in the ‘Song in the City’ series 1915 for 1930 Guest Event with dinner What if …..God can’t love Women in Song 1: Mother and Child you without his son’s death? St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall More details at: [email protected] 1305 Organ Recital: Paul Rosoman (Wellington, New Zealand) St Helen Bishopsgate St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Hamish Dustagheer (piano) St Olave Hart Street Wednesday 15 May 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series: Bo Ingelberg 1305 Recital: Adelia Myslov (solo violin) St Botolph Aldgate from Vastervik (Sweden) St Margaret Lothbury 1305 Fenella Humphreys (violin) continues her unaccompanied 1515 Ceremony of Beating the Bounds of the parish by pupils of Bach series – Recital 3 St Olave Hart Street St Dunstan's College. 1310 Recital: Juwon Ogungbe (baritone) The procession will set off from the church at 1445. with Wai Yin Lee (piano) The ceremony will be followed by Festal Evensong at 1730 Theme — ‘From the streets to the saloons’ All Hallows by the Tower St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Legal Harmony Choir St Dunstan in the West 1805 City Talk: 'Professional Philanthropy' with Will Crouch, Friday 10 May President of '80,000 Hours' the Oxford-based careers 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance (St Stephen Walbrook) advice service for people who want to use their careers St Stephen Walbrook to have a positive impact in the world St Mary le Bow 1310 Recital by the Trio Lavolta: 1900 for 1930 Guest Event – Wine Tasting Evening with a short Joyce Fraser (violin), Felix Buser (violincello), talk on the Christian Faith Sally Mays (piano) More details at: [email protected] Works by Panufnik and Beethoven St Anne & St Agnes St Helen Bishopsgate 1315 Recital: Mitra Alice Tham (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1930 Concert: The Cellar Singers — Spring Concert in aid of the 1930 Concert given by the City Chamber Choir Alzheimers Society. A programme of cappella music from Tickets £10 & £15 Lotti to Cyndi Lauper Tickets £5 available on the door For details see: http://www.citychamber.org.uk St Sepulchre without Newgate St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 16 May 1300 Song Recital in the ‘Song in the City’ series Sunday 12 May Women in Song 1: Wives Advanced Choral Conducting Course organized by the St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Association of British Choral Conductors 1305 Recital: Patrick Rutland (viola) St Mary at Hill See www.abcd.org.uk for details 1305 Organ Recital St Mary le Bow St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Harry Cameron-Penny (clarinet), Jonathan Musgrave (piano) St Olave Hart Street

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN MAY 2013 ─ continued Tuesday 21 May 1300 Concert given the Handel Collection Thursday 16 May ─ continued directed by Edward Adams 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower Symphony No 14 by Shostakovitch with 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays Mendelssohn Shuna Scott Sendall (soprano), Ross McInroy (bass) and Brahms St Margaret Lothbury St Stephen Walbrook 1915 for 1930 Guest Event with dinner What if …..God has given 1315 Recital: Benjamin Williamson (counter tenor) with proof of life after death? piano accompaniment St Bride Fleet Street More details at: [email protected] 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 St Helen Bishopsgate St Bride Fleet Street 1930 Recital and Talk by Vinyl Closet, a gay music group – sponsored by the 3F Group (LGCM London Fellowship) St Botolph Aldgate Wednesday 22 May 1930 Concert to be given by “The French Collection” 1305 Recital: Olivia Scheepers and colleagues (string trio) Works by Ravel, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns Tickets: £17/£14 St Botolph Aldgate Available on the door or at: www.wegottickets.com/ 1305 Recital: Joana Gil (soprano) with piano accompaniment St Sepulchre without Newgate St Olave Hart Street 1310 Recital: Makiko Sada (piano) Friday 17 May Works by Schumann ─ Allegro in B minor and 1230 Organ Recital: Jonathan Bunney (St Giles in the Fields) Chopin ─ Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor St Stephen Walbrook St Sepulchre without Newgate 1310 Recital: Jenny Thomas (flute), Martin Knizia (harpsichord) 1315 Recital: Ayda Aktan-Aslantepe (piano) "Father, Son and Godfather" St Dunstan in the West Works by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach and Telemann St Anne & St Agnes 1310 Recital: Ed Bonner (tenor) with Ryoko Izutsu (piano) sings Thursday 23 May ‘Dichterliebe’, ‘The Poet’s Love’ by Robert Schumann 1300 Song Recital in the ‘Song in the City’ series St Sepulchre without Newgate Women in Song 1: From longing to fulfilment 1315 Recital: tbc For further information see www.stbrides.com St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall or telephone 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Organ Recital: James Johnstone St Mary at Hill 1305 Organ Recital St Mary le Bow Saturday 18 May 1305 Recital: Siret Lust (double bass) with piano accompaniment 1445 to 1800 Whitehall Orchestra Workshop on Verdi’s Requiem St Olave Hart Street Tickets: £15 for players, £20 for singers 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Players tickets from: All Hallows by the Tower [email protected] 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series: Singers' tickets from: Earline Moulder from Drury University USA www.whitehallchoir.org.uk/comeandsing2013.htm St Margaret Lothbury St Sepulchre without Newgate 1830 'Wee Sing in the City' An opportunity to sing your favourite songs from the world church and from the Iona Community Sunday 19 May All Hallows by the Tower

1630 London Mandolin Festival — ‘Fun with Flutes’ Tickets: £10, £8 concessions, £5 students, Under 5s FREE Friday 24 May from: 1230 Organ Recital: Stephen Disley (Southwark Cathedral) www.londonmandolinfestival.org.uk/TicketsAndVenue.aspx St Stephen Walbrook St Sepulchre without Newgate 1310 Concert: The Guildhall Medieval Ensemble directed by William Lyons perform 'A Medieval Miscellany' Works from the 12th to the 15th Century Monday 20 May for voices, harps, flutes, recorders, sackbuts, vielle and 1300 Organ Recital in the A to Z of Organ Music series gittern St Anne & St Agnes Paul Griffiths – letters E to F St Michael Cornhill 1310 Recital by the Suzuki Violin Ensemble from München, 1310 Recital: The New Camerata Ensemble ─ Germany directed by Hannelore Dörrie David Richmond (violin), Gruffydd Owen (viola), St Sepulchre without Newgate Sheena McKenzie (violincello), Andrew Vickers (double 1315 Recital: Helen Neeves (soprano), bass), Anna Lightbown (piano) play Schubert, Samantha Carrasco (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Quintet for Piano & Strings in A major D.667 ─ 'Trout' 1500 Closing of the exhibition of paintings by Paul Brown St Anne & St Agnes '20 years at St Mary le Bow Church' 1315 Recital: Francesco Scelzo (guitar), Catherine Lee (cello) St Mary le Bow Works by Schubert (arranged), Zenamon and Piazzolla St Martin Ludgate

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN MAY 2013 ─ continued St Mary le Bow Tuesday 28 May 1300 Song Recital in the ‘Song in the City’ series 13 to 24 May 2013 When Smoking was Allowed An exhibition of paintings by Paul Brown Jenevieve Moore (soprano), Justin Snyder (piano) '20 Years at St Mary le Bow Church' Tickets £10 (£5 concessions) St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Opening times: 11.00am ─ 3.00pm Monday to Friday 1300 Recital: Kristina Rokasevits (piano) from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama St Stephen Walbrook The exhibition will reflect Paul Brown's long association 1315 Recital: tbc For further information see www.stbrides.com with St Mary le Bow and his regular exhibitions there or telelephone 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 For more information please refer to Paul Brown's website:

St Bride Fleet Street www.sanguine-fine-art.co.uk/home.htm

Wednesday 29 May 1305 Recital: Thomas Abela (solo guitar) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Recital: Guildhall School Harps St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: This will be the first of two recitals in which 'Circle the City' Martin Knizia will play Bach's Clavierübung Part III. The A charity walk to be held under the auspices of Christian Aid on programme includes all works from Prelude in E flat major to 'Wir glauben all' St Anne & St Agnes Sunday 19 May 2013 1310 Recital: The Albany Piano Trio — Gemma Sharples (violin), Verity Evanson (cello), Pippa Harrison (piano) Join hundreds of walkers for this family-friendly sponsored walk St Sepulchre without Newgate around the historic churches of the City of London 1315 Recital: Trio and quartet St Dunstan in the West Arrive and register from 1245 at one of the two starting points St Mary le Bow or All Hallows by the Tower

Thursday 30 May At both churches there will be a short pre-walk service at 1.00pm to send you on your way. The walk starts at 1.15pm 1305 Recital: The Heidelburg Duo

Isla Mundell-Perkins (violin), Tom Motz (piano) For more information and to register online please email: St Mary at Hill [email protected] 1305 Recital: Chihiro Ono (violin), Evgenia Startseva (piano) or call the London team on 020 7523 2321 St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents "Bach and Buxtehude" St Margaret Lothbury St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace

Friday 31 May The centre is moving into a significant new phase with the 1230 Organ Recital: Matthew O'Malley (St Alfege, Greenwich) asppointment of additional members of the team at the St Stephen Walbrook Centre and the development of a very solid range of 1310 Organ Recital: This will be the second of two recitals in programmes for 2013 and 2014. which Martin Knizia will play Bach's Clavierübung Part III. The programme includes all works from 'Wir glauben all' These include the Centre's reconciliation work with the (manualiter) to Duetti and Fugue in E flat major ('St Anne') Sudanese diaspora, a new programme called St Anne & St Agnes 'Reclaiming the Sacred' 1315 Organ Recital: Edward McCall St Bride Fleet Street and a multi-faith exploration of conflict 1930 'KCLSO Summer Concert 2013' within faith communities Concert by the Kings College London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Lo, with leader Eun-Joo Yoon Details of forthcoming events and courses at the Centre The programme will be: can be found on the website: Weber – Overture ‘Der Freischütz, Dvořák – ‘Symphony from the New World’ and www.stethelburgas.org/ Szymanowski’s violin concerto with soloist Olivia Jarvis Tickets: £10 for adults, £5 concessions and students Available at: www.kclso.org and on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate

Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Magnus the Martyr, Lower Thames Street, London EC3R 6DN, tel. 020 7626 1555 (answerphone) e-mail: [email protected]

Why not visit our websites www.cityevents.org.uk for all the latest information, or www.london-city-churches.org.uk for downloadable maps and links to all the churches in the city?

Every Monday Every Thursday 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1200 Holy Communion St Clement Eastcheap 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth Every Tuesday 1300 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1230 Holy Communion St Dunstan in the West of the month. Please see the church website: 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Meditation Group in the Crypt Chapel – All welcome St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Every Friday 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow Every Wednesday 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Pause for Prayer - a reflective prayer service using a liturgy from 0830 Holy Communion (CW Order II) St Lawrence Jewry the Iona Community St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel Please apply at the vestry 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster St Mary le Bow 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Abchurch 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1245 Communion Service Wesley's Chapel 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1315 Holy Communion (CW Order 1) St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1800 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the auspices of auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet Site of the 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill Internet Church for London. To watch these services, which change on a daily basis, log on to: www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street continued

SPECIAL SERVICES IN MAY 2013 Thursday 23 May

1310 Common Worship Communion St Margaret Pattens

1310 Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day St Botolph Bishopsgate CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN MAY 2013

Wednesday 22 May 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate

St Bride Fleet Street www.sanguine-fine-art.co.uk/home.htm

Thursday 30 May At both churches there will be a short pre-walk service at 1.00pm to send you on your way. The walk starts at 1.15pm 1305 Recital: The Heidelburg Duo

______June 2013 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

Moved and moving …….

Two important moves involving City Churches are taking place. The first move involves the Friends of the City Churches and by association this publication. We have vacated our premises at St Magnus the Martyr and are moving to the City Church of St Mary Abchurch. The new address of the Friends can be found at the foot of this page. The other important contact items, telephone and email, remain the same. It would be appropriate to put on record the appreciation of the Friends for the help we have had from everyone at St Magnus the Martyr for the past eight years since we moved from rather cramped quarters at St Margaret Pattens. This support has always been very much appreciated and our stay in the lower regions of St Magnus has been a very happy one. We look forward to our new association with another historic Wren church, this time at ground level, and one in which we watch.

The other important move involves the Lutheran Church of St Anne and St Agnes. From Saturday 1st June 2013 the activities of the Lutheran Church will take place in the City Church of St Mary at Hill. The Lutheran Church will be sharing the building with the current Anglican Church there so that all services and musical events associated with each Church will take place at St Mary at Hill. Full details of the services and musical events to be held under the auspices of each Church will be published in a bi‐ monthly brochure distributed to all the City churches. In City Events they will all be listed under the name St Mary at Hill. Essentially the current regular weekly Anglican Communion service held there on Wednesdays at 1.00pm will continue. With the move of the Lutheran Church there will be additional services on Sundays, commencing on Sunday, 2nd June with Lutheran Choral Eucharist at 11.00pm. Full details of all the services can be found on www.stmary‐at‐hill.org. The Sunday services will also be listed on the website of City Events. Services held on weekdays and services for special occasions, will continue to be listed in City Events itself.

All concerts and recitals will also be listed in the brochure and the website referred to above and they will also be listed in City Events, the venue always to be St Mary at Hill. The pattern will be a recital at 1.05pm on Thursdays and a recital or concert at 1.05pm on Fridays. Occasionally there will be additional recitals or concerts, for example on Friday, 14th June when Bach’s “Welltempered Clavier Book I” will be played in two concerts at 1.05pm and 3.00pm. The St Annes’s Music Society (‘SAMS’) events will also be listed in City Events under ‘St Mary at Hill’.

Thus there is to be a new and exciting era for the City Church of St Mary at Hill and the Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill and City Events extends fraternal good wishes for a successful future to everyone associated with the two named Churches within the one historic building.

Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA tel. 020 7626 1555 (answerphone) e-mail: [email protected]

Why not visit our websites www.cityevents.org.uk for all the latest information, or www.london-city-churches.org.uk for downloadable maps and links to all the churches in the city?

Every Wednesday - continued REGULAR SERVICES IN JUNE 2013 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow to change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower website at www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn Every Monday 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr Every Thursday 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook Every Tuesday 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1300 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens (Not 20th June – see 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Special Servies On 6th June begins at 1305) 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion St Dunstan in the West 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr of the month. Please see the church website: 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1300 Contemplative Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 Meditation Group in the Crypt Chapel – All welcome St Mary le Bow 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Every Friday 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow Every Wednesday 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Pause for Prayer - a reflective prayer service using a liturgy from 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate the Iona Community St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 0830 Holy Communion (CW Order II) St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel Please apply at vestry 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row St Mary le Bow 1215 Holy Communion St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Abchurch 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1245 Communion Service Wesley's Chapel 1315 Holy Communion (CW Order 1) St Lawrence Jewry 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Margaret Lothbury 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1800 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet Site of the 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at Internet Church for London. To watch these services, which change 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the on a daily basis, log on to: www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk auspices of auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate / continued

SPECIAL SERVICES IN JUNE 2013 Monday 3 June - continued 1800-1930 Book Launch: Islam and English Law, edited by the

Revd Robin Griffith-Jones (Cambridge University Press), Wednesday 5 June based on the series of public lectures and discussions 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate launched by Archbishop Rowan Williams’ lecture in 2008

Including a panel discussion on the book and its themes Thursday 6 June with Rowan Williams (now Lord Willams of Oystermouth), 1305 Choral Eucharist with the St Margaret Pattens Choir, Professor Maleiha Malik (King’s College London) and directed by Rupert Perkins St Margaret Pattens others, followed by refreshments If you wish to come 1830 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate please let Catherine de Satgé know on 020 7353 8559 or

[email protected] Temple Church Sunday 9 June

1115 Choral Mattins, followed by drinks reception in the Round in Tuesday 4 June the church or in the Master’s Garden (Suggested donation 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch for drinks £5) To book please contact Catherine de Satgé 1300 Organ Recital in the John Hill/HSBC series: Peter Stevens on 020 7353 8559 or [email protected] performs works by Vivaldi, Buxtehude, Fricker, Franck, Temple Church Tailleferre and Widor St Lawrence Jewry Monday 10 June 1300 Recital: Sofia Obregon (soprano), Alexia Pingaud (mezzo- 1310 Holy Communion St Botolph Aldersgate soprano) and Marta Lopez (piano) St Stephen Walbrook

1315 Recital: Quartetto Tau St Bride Fleet Street Wednesday 12 June 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 1305 Sung Eucharist Music includes Fauré’s Messe Basse St Bride Fleet Street with the choir of Buckenham Hall Preparatory School 1830 Song Recital in the Song in the City series: The House of St Mary le Bow Life and Love Dawn Padula (mezzo-soprano) and 1745 Choral Evensong: In celebration of the Inns’ Amity and In Soo-Jeung Joo (piano) Tickets £10 (concessions £5) Honour of Magna Carta Speaker: The Rt Hon Lord Judge St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall of Draycote Temple Church Wednesday 5 June

1305 Recital: Janvier Garcia Aranda (violin) St Botolph Aldgate Thursday 13 June 1310 Recital: An Ting Chang (piano) Including works by Chopin 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate and Schubert St Sepulchre Newgate 1300 Holy Communion, including a commemoration of those who 1315 Recital: Mie Ito (baroque harp) St Dunstan in the West died in the sinking of the troopship HMS Lancastria in 1940 1805 JustShare Lecture on Social and Political Thought: St Katharine Cree The art of shared spaces: where is the social value? Wednesday 19 June Professor Ben Quash (Professor of Christianity and the Arts, 1310 Choral Patronal Festival Service Preacher: the Bishop of King’s College London) All welcome Refreshments Wakefield (the Rt Revd Stephen Platten) afterwards St Mary le Bow St Botolph Bishopsgate 1830-2030 Taster session (in partnership with The Retreat Thursday 20 June Association) for those considering training as a 1310 Midday prayers with hymns St Margaret Pattens spiritual director For tickets (£15) and details visit

http://centreforspirituality.eventbrite.co.uk/ Monday 24 June - The Birth of St John the Baptist London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King and Martyr 1745 Choral Evensong followed by drinks in the Round in the

church or in the Master’s Garden (Suggested donation for Thursday 6 June drinks £5) Temple Church 1300 Song Recital in the Song in the City series: Britten & Poulenc:

Childish Pursuits St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Sunday 30 June 1305 Organ Recital: James Johnstone (Guildhall School of Music 1830 Bach Vespers (Lutheran Church) with Bach Cantata and Drama) St Mary at Hill BWV 93 “Wer nur den Lieben Gott lässt walten” and 1305 Organ Recital: Alan Wilson with Suzanne Wilson (soprano) Harpshichord Concerto in F minor (Sweelinck Ensemble, St Mary le Bow directed by Martin Knizia) St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Kamilla Dunstan (mezzo-soprano) and Justin

Snyder (piano) St Olave Hart Street CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JUNE 2013 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Recital in the Commuter Coffee & Cake Concerts series: Thomas Abela (classical guitar) Free tea, coffee and home Monday 3 June baking – you are invited to bring your own lunch 1300 Recital: Tessa Uys (piano) performs works by Beethoven St Andrew by the Wardrobe and Schubert St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity series: 1300 Organ Recital in the A-Z of Organ Music series: Diego Cannizzaro (Palermo) St Margaret Lothbury Jonathan Rennert – letters G and H St Michael Cornhill 1930 Concert: Ad Libitum Chamber Choir Visions of Eternity – 1305 Recital: Rebecca Knight (cello) and Annabelle Lawson works by Rheinberger, Brahms, Taverner, Wood, Stainer (piano) Works by Janáček, Roslavets and Poulenc and Whiteacre Tickets £10 from [email protected] St Martin Ludgate or 01732 353487 or on the door St Mary le Bow

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JUNE 2013 - continued Wednesday 12 June - continued 1830-2030 Exploring Spiritual Direction A taster session (n Friday 7 June partnership with The Retreat Association) for those wishing 1230 Organ Recital: Paul Dewhurst (Pontefract Parish Church) to find out more about spiritual direction/ accompaniment St Stephen Walbrook Visit http://centreforspirituality.eventbrite.co.uk/ for details 1315 Recital: Catherine Leonard (piano) St Bride Fleet Street and tickets (£15) 1930 Traditional Italian music and dance from Salento, the “heel” London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King and Martyr of Italy, performed by the Amaraterra pizzica ensemble Tickets £10 in advance, £12 on the door For advance Thursday 13 June tickets and details visit www.stethelburgas.org 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate 1300 Song Recital in the Song in the City series: Britten & Saturday 8 June Poulenc: Travelling & Abroad 1000 to 1700 Letting go of the Past A workshop (in collaboration St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall with The Forgiveness Project) using narrative-based 1305 Recital: Nina Leo (piano) St Mary at Hill techniques to explore self-forgiveness and to transform 1305 Organ Recital: Nicholas King (St John, Boxmoor) personal stories of mistakes and failure. Standard fee £35 St Mary le Bow For details and to register visit www.stethelburgas.org 1305 Recital: Litsa Tunnah (violin) and Jean Beers (piano) St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate St Olave Hart Street 1930 Concert: the Renatus Orchestra Including Beethoven and 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling new compositions by Edward Zanders and Simon Speare All Hallows by the Tower In aid of Macmillan Cancer Support Tickets £12 on the door 1310 Recital in the Commuter Coffee & Cake Concerts series: St Sepulchre without Newgate Sam Rapley Jazz Quartet Free tea, coffee and home Sunday 9 June baking – you are invited to bring your own lunch 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents the sixth recital Monday 10 June in the series "'The Glorious Baroque" 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate St Margaret Lothbury 1300 Recital: Tessa Uys (piano) performs works by Mozart and 1930 Concert: Cries of London The Orlando Chamber Choir Schubert St Lawrence Jewry performs songs from London‘s streets, churches and taverns 1300 Organ Recital in the A-Z of Organ Music series: by Purcell, Ravenscroft, Weelkes and other composers of Roger Sayer (Rochester Cathedral) – letters I, J and K their time Tickets £14 (concessions £10), to include picnic/ St Michael Cornhill buffet, from www.stmarylebow.co.uk or 07971 174508 1305 Recital: Sara Gourlay (mezzo-soprano) and Richard Shaw St Mary le Bow (piano) Including songs and arias by Saint-Saëns, Handel, Friday 14 June Fauré and Brahms, and Britten folk song arrangements 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate St Martin Ludgate 1230 Organ Recital: Daniel Clark (Marienkirche, Berlin) Tuesday 11 June St Stephen Walbrook 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1305 and 1500 Recitals: Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) plays the 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch whole of Bach’s Welltempered Clavier Part I in two recitals, 1300 Organ Recital: Tim Byram-Wigfield (St George’s Chapel, the first at 1305 and the second at 1500 St Mary at Hill Windsor) St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Recital: Shinko Hanaoka (cello) with Yuki Negishi (piano) 1300 Recital: The Handel Collection, directed by Edward Adams St Sepulchre Newgate Including Mozart’s Bassoon concerto with Andrew Watson 1315 Recital: David Dean (piano) St Bride Fleet Street (bassoon) and Handel’s Dettingen Anthem “The King shall 1500 Recital: Daniel-Ben Pianaar concludes his performance of rejoice” with the Rodolfus Choir St Stephen Walbroook Bach’s Welltempered Clavier Part I (See recital at 1305 1315 Recital: Adam Brown (guitar) St Bride Fleet Street above) St Mary at Hill 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 1830-2030 An evening of Art, Poetry and Haut-Chocolat with St Bride Fleet Street Emma Stace Darling, whose work flows from a centre of Wednesday 12 June faith and spirituality Tickets £10 including red wine and 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate haut-chocolat For tickets and further information visit 1305 Recital: Bruno Francisco Ferrari-Melo (piano) http://centreforspirituality.eventbrite.co.uk/ St Botolph Aldgate London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King and Martyr 1305 Recital: Sara Burns (soprano) and Tarek Al-Shubbak (piano) 1930 Concert by the Karama band, led by Moroccan oud player St Olave Hart Street Soufian Saihi, blending Gnawa, North African and Arabic 1310 Recital: ”From Spain…” by Javier Vazquez Grela (piano) music Tickets £10 in advance, £12 on the door For Including music by Mompou St Sepulchre Newgate advance tickets and details visit www stetheburgas.org 1315 Organ Recital: Tak Chow St Dunstan in the West St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate 1500-1800 Faith-based conflict resilience Explores the 1930 Concert: “Summertime” by the Vasari Singers Chamber experience of conflict between different faith communities Choir A mix of old and new, sacred and secular Visit and developing faith-based tools and approaches to improve www.vasarisingers.org/summertime-concert/ for details our conflict resilience Aimed at faith leaders but open to all and tickets (£10) St Sepulchre without Newgate Visit www.stethelburgas.org for details and to register an interest St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JUNE 2013 - continued Thursday 20 June - continued 1930 Talk by Ron Eagle about “Weather Shelter”: the work of Saturday 15 June Camden churches in setting up overnight shelter for 1000-1700 Workshop: Lassus – Masses, Motets and a Chanson homeless people Sponsored by the 3F Group For singers and instrumentalists - organised by Thames Refreshments from 1900 St Botolph Aldgate Valley Early Music Forum Tickets £12 (members), £14 (non-members) Visit ww.tvemf.org/events/allies2013.pdf for Friday 21 June details & application form St Sepulchre without Newgate 1230 Organ Recital: Stuart Whatton St Stephen Walbrook 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1305 Recital: Ivana Ćetović (violin) and James Adutt (piano) Works by Bach, Schubert and Brahms St Mary at Hill Sunday 16 June 1305 Recital: Jenna Sherry (violin) with piano accompaniment 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate St Olave Hart Street 1315 Recital: Nina Leo (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Monday 17 June 1930 Concert by Senegalese singer and kora player Kadialy 1045 The Knollys Rose Ceremony All welcome to watch the Kouyate and his band, performing original music inspired by cutting of the rose, and then to follow the procession from the West African griot repertoire Tickets £10 in advance, the church to the Mansion House with the Worshipful £12 on the door For advance tickets and details visit Company of Watermen and Lightermen for payment of the www.stethelburgas.org rose “rent” to the Lord Mayor (The Mansion House St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate presentation ceremony is restricted to invited guests only) 1930 Concert: the Johannes Ensemble performs works by All Hallows by the Tower Brahms, Weber and Wagner Tickets £8 (concessions £5) 1300 Recital: Tessa Uys (piano) performs works by Mozart and available on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate Janáček St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Organ Recital in the A-Z of Organ Music series: Saturday 22 June Richard Moore (Organ Scholar, St Paul’s Cathedral) – 1900 Concert: Music for Voices, Brass and Organ by the letters L and M St Michael Cornhill London Orpheus Choir, Chameleon Brass and Christopher 1305 Recital: Charlotte Richardson (soprano) and Yau Cheng Harris (organ), conducted by Richard Jenkinson Including (piano) Songs by Liszt, Schumann and Strauss works by Haydn, Monteverdi, Schubert, Gabrieli, Parry, St Martin Ludgate Purcell and Rutter Tickets £15 (under 16s £5) Tuesday 18 June from www.wegottickets.com/event/221889 or on the door 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis performs music by Franck 1930 Concert: the Amati Orchestra performs works by St Lawrence Jewry Mahler and Mendelssohn Tickets (£8.50 - concessions £6) 1300 Recital: Matthew Pochin (tenor) and Ben Lewis Smith from www.brownpapertickets.com/ (piano) perform songs by Britten St Stephen Walbrook St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Mitra Alice Tham (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Monday 24 June 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 1200-1230 Bell-ringing to mark the opening of the St Bride Fleet Street City of London Festival Free event St Mary le Bow Wednesday 19 June 1300 Recital: Tessa Uys (piano) performs works by Beethoven 1305 Recital: Abigail Hyde-Smith (cello) and Louisa Lam (piano) and Schubert St Lawrence Jewry Works by Schumann and Franck St Botolph Aldgate 1300 Organ Recital in the A-Z of Organ Music series: 1305 Recital: Fenella Humphreys (violin) plays the fourth in a Gregory Drott – letters N, O and P St Michael Cornhill series of recitals exploring J S Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas 1305 Recital: “Alles jauchzet, Alles lacht” The Concentus VII for solo violin and other solo works St Olave Hart Street ensemble - Emily Atkinson (soprano), Belinda Paul (oboe), 1310 Recital: Susana Gilardoni (soprano) with Clive Pollard (piano) Poppy Walshaw (cello) and Martin Knizia (harpsichord) - St Sepulchre Newgate perform arias and sonatas by Handel and Bach 1315 Recital: Ferio Saxophone Quartet St Dunstan in the West St Mary at Hill 1830 Music for a Summer’s Evening For details e-mail 1305 Recital: The Darwin Piano Trio - Helen Twomey (violin), [email protected] St Helen Bishopsgate Daniel Burrowes (cello) and Eleanor Tagart (piano)) - perform Beethoven’s “Archduke” Piano Trio, Op 97 Thursday 20 June St Martin Ludgate 1300 Song Recital in the Song in the City series: Britten & Poulenc: 1315 City of London Festival Event Organ Recital by James Reflections St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Vivian Works by Mendelssohn, Handel and Karg-Elert 1305 Recital: Francesco Scelzo (guitar) and Catherine Lee (cello) Free admission Temple Church St Mary at Hill 1800 City of London Festival Event Concert by Clare Hammond 1305 Recital: Miho Hakamata (violin) St Mary le Bow (piano) including works by Bach, Sibelius and Harty and 1305 Recital: Matthew Drinkwater (piano) St Olave Hart Street the world première of Robert Saxton’s Piano Cycle 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower Hortus Musicae Tickets £10 (see box on final page for 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity series: contact information) St Mary le Bow Massimo Nosetti (Turin) St Margaret Lothbury

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JUNE 2013 - continued Friday 28 June 1230 Organ Recital: Hannah Parry-Ridout (St Mary, Putney) Tuesday 25 June St Stephen Walbrook 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1305 City of London Festival Event Recital by Richard Uttley 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis performs works by Tunder, (piano) Works by Lindberg, Adès and Berio and the UK Bach, Kerll, D’Aquin, Messiaen, Mendelssohn and Gigout première of Lulu Fantasy, Marvin Wolfthal’s paraphrase of St Lawrence Jewry Berg’s opera Lulu Free admission St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Recital: the American Tapestry Choir, with Joseph Martin 1305 Recital: Anete Graudina (violin) and Florian Mitrea (piano) (piano) and Sue Martin (vocalist), present “A Journey of Works by Strauss and Tchaikovsky St Mary at Hill Faith” of hymns and sacred music St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Recital: Azure Duo (Nao Maebayashi and Eamonn Ramsay: 1305 City of London Festival Event Recital by the Stenhjem and four hands piano duo) St Sepulchre Newgate Silk Street Quartets, performing works by Britten and 1315 Organ Recital: Mervyn Hogg St Bride Fleet Street Shostakovitch Free admission St Botolph Bishopsgate 1800 City of London Festival Event Jazz Concert by the Rob Brockway Trio, including Rob Brockway’s own Wednesday 26 June compositions and improvisations Tickets £10 (see box 1305 City of London Festival Event Recital by the Guildhall below) St Sepulchre without Newgate Singers, director Gordon Stewart, performing “off stage” 1830-2030 Meet the Author: an evening with Veronica Zundel, vocal works by Wagner and Verdi in their bicentenary years, author of Everything I Know About God, I've Learned From alongside works by Mozart, Beethoven, Gounoud, Strauss, Being A Parent For tickets (£15 including refreshments) Massenet and others Free admission St Andrew Holborn visit http://centreforspirituality.eventbrite.co.uk 1305 Recital: Thao le Thanh (piano) St Botolph Aldgate London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King and Martyr 1305 Recital: Aubert Trio - Ross Newton (clarinet), Kalina Dimitrova (cello), Warwick Hewson (piano) St Olave Hart Street Saturday 29 June 1310 Recital: Mee Hyun Oh (violin) St Sepulchre Newgate 1930 Concert: the English National Opera Community Choir and 1315 Recital: Duo Stellae (violin & piano) St Dunstan in the West the Longmont Chorale from the USA perform works from 1845 Concert: The Holst Singers, directed by Stephen Layton Haydn and Copland to Lady Gaga! Free admission – Including Fauré’s Requiem For details and tickets (£20, retiring collection St Andrew Holborn £15, £10) contact Alex Madgwick on 020 74 27 5641 or visit 1930 Concert: the Melange Collective perform music blending www.templemusic.org Temple Church popular North African rai and chaabi songs, Gnawa music 1900 Concert: EC4 Music, conducted by Tim Crosley, with Claire from the Moroccan desert and exotic Middle Eastern and Seaton (soprano), Sam Evans (bass) Nili Newman (harp) and Turkish melodies Tickets £10 in advance, £12 on the door Rivka Gottlieb (harp), perform works by Schubert and Mozart For advance tickets and details visit www.stethelburgas.org and George Lloyd’s A Litany (Concert repeated 27 June) St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate In aid of the St Bride’s Inspire Appeal For tickets (£15, £10) 19.30 Concert: the Arioso Orchestra performs works by Dvořák, visit www.ec4rmusic.co.uk St Bride Fleet Street Rossini, Smetana and Brahms Tickets available in advance 1930 Concert: Three Traditions The Joyful Company of Singers from www.brownpapertickets.com (£8.50 - concessions £6) performs Romantic period choral music from the Catholic, or on the door (£10) St Sepulchre without Newgate Orthodox & Lutheran traditions Details at www.jcos.co.uk Tickets from www,wegottickets.com and on the door Sunday 30 June (£17 – concessions £14) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1900 Concert: the London Gay Symphony Orchestra performs works by Villa-Lobos, Shostakovich and Berlioz Thursday 27 June Advance tickets from www.wegottickets.com/event/187530 1300 Song Recital in the Song in the City series: Women in Song 2 (£10 – concessions £8) Tickets on the door £12 - – Nadia Boulanger St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall concessions £10 St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: River City Saxes (saxophone quartet) St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Stephanie Legg (saxophone) St Olave Hart Street

1305 City of London Festival Event Recital by the Trio Isimsiz and Jenavieve Moore (soprano), Frazer Scott (baritone), CITY OF LONDON FESTIVAL Rick Zwart (baritone) and Matthew Sandy (tenor) Works by Beethoven and Shostakovich Free admission 23rd June – 26th July 2013

St Sepulchre without Newgate 1310 Organ Recital: Michael Bell (St Nicholas, Chislehurst) Including concerts and events in the City Churches, All Hallows by the Tower some of them (particularly those at lunch time) 1310 Summer Concert by the Hill House Choral Scholars with free admission

St Margaret Lothbury 1800 City of London Festival Event Concert by the BBC Singers For concise details please see individual daily listings

with Stephen Disley (organ), conducted by David Hill Works by Ramsey, Ireland, Jannequin, Neil Cox and Kodály For full listings, information on all the events, ticket prices Tickets £10 (see box at end of page) St Giles Cripplegate and booking please visit www.colf.org 1900 Concert: EC4 Music Repeat performance of the concert on June 26 – see entry above St Bride Fleet Street

______July & August 2013 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

Resurgemus

The Friends of the City Churches have moved their offices from St Magnus the Martyr to St Mary Abchurch, one of the most original of the surviving Wren churches. The church is first mentioned in the 12th century, but the present building of 1681-86 is the work of Wren, his mason being Christopher Kempster, who came from Burford in Oxfordshire. It survived unscathed, apart from a few Victorian alterations, until the 20th century. During the Second World War, St Mary Abchurch was damaged by bombs on several occasions which fell on nearby buildings but, fortunately, there was no direct hit on the church and the building was restored in the 1950s by Godfrey Allen.

The exterior of St Mary Abchurch today gives little idea of the treasures that lie within. The steeple is interesting, but not one of Wren’s greatest, and the walls are of simple red brick. The interior of the church, however, is a veritable treasure-trove of 17th century craftsmanship. Although very small, (just 63ft by 61 ft in dimensions), Wren creates a sense of space by floating a dome across the nave, a dome that was elegantly painted in 1708 by a parishioner, William Snow.

The church is most famous for its woodcarvings, which are among the finest in any City church. The reredos is the work of the great Grinling Gibbons, one of only two authenticated pieces of his work in a City church. The pulpit and tester, built by William Grey, also feature some superb woodcarving and the turned balusters on the pulpit steps are very elegant.

Most of the other woodcarvings are by William Emmett. These include the Royal Arms of James II, the lion and unicorn on the front pews, the superb doorcases on the north and south doors and the font cover, which features carvings of the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The font itself is by William Kempster. There are also two surviving poor boxes, complete with original gilt lettering (“Remember the Poor”) and a Beadle’s seat. On the front pews are two sword-rests, bearing the coats of arms of two early 19th century Lord Mayors. One of the finest monuments in the church is to the south of the altar and is a memorial to Sir Patience Ward, (1629-1696) Lord Mayor of London in 1681. In the tower is a belfry with a single bell and above this is the little square dome, which gives a fine view across the City.

Beneath the church, accessible via steps in the south aisle, is a small, rib-vaulted crypt and, down a steep ladder below the baptistery, is a boiler-house where one can see a magnificent marble slab bearing the words “The Entrance to the Vault belonging to Mr Westbrooke’s Family”. Below this legend is the single word “Resurgemus” – we will rise again.

The Friends of the City Churches have left St Magnus the Martyr – we have risen again in St Mary Abchurch!

Tony Tucker, author of 'The Visitors Guide to the City of London Churches'

St Mary Abchurch is still very much a functioning City Church. Holy Communion (BCP) is celebrated each Wednesday at 12.30pm and an organ recital is given each Tuesday, also at 12.30pm. A warm welcome awaits all visitors on those two days as well as other weekdays, through the presence of volunteer watchers from the Friends of the City Churches.

Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA tel. 020 7626 1555 (answerphone) e-mail: [email protected]

Why not visit our websites www.cityevents.org.uk for all the latest information, or www.london-city-churches.org.uk for downloadable maps and links to all the churches in the city?

Every Wednesday - continued REGULAR SERVICES IN JULY & AUGUST 2013 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow to change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower website at www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn Every Monday 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr Every Thursday 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook Every Tuesday 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1300 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1230 Holy Communion St Dunstan in the West of the month. Please see the church website: 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 Contemplative Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1305 Meditation Group in the Crypt Chapel – All welcome St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Every Friday 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower Every Wednesday 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1230 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Pause for Prayer - a reflective prayer service using a liturgy from 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street the Iona Community St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr 0830 Holy Communion (CW Order II) St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel Please apply at the vestry 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn St Mary le Bow 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1215 Holy Communion St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Abchurch 1315 Holy Communion (CW Order 1) St Lawrence Jewry 1245 Communion Service Wesley's Chapel 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Margaret Lothbury 1800 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet Site of the 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre Internet Church for London. To watch these services, which change 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at on a daily basis, log on to: www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate / continued

SPECIAL SERVICES IN JULY 2013 SPECIAL SERVICES IN AUGUST 2013

Tuesday 6 August – The Transfiguration of Our Lord Monday 1 July 1305 Eucharist with organ music St Mary le Bow 1800 The Annual Service of Rededication ─ to be attended by the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress. Wednesday 7 August Refreshments will be served in the church after the service 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 8 August Wednesday 3 July ─ St Thomas the Apostle 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1300 Anglican Holy Communion for the Feast of St Thomas 1310 Holy Communion – Commemoration of Preachers, Martyrs St Mary at Hill and Mothers St Margaret Pattens 1310 Choral Eucharist for the Feast of St Thomas St Botolph Bishopsgate Wednesday 14 August Thursday 4 July 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1245 Organ Mass to commemorate the Visitation Dvořák in D The Choir of St Stephen Walbrook, Thursday 15 August – The Blessed Virgin Mary Joseph Sentance (organ) St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Lunchtime Prayers with hymns St Margaret Pattens 1300 American Independence Day Service St Margaret Pattens 1805 Eucharist St Mary le Bow 1830 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate Thursday 29 August Sunday 7 July 1310 Holy Communion – Commemoration of John Bunyan 1115 City of London Festival Choral Mattins St Margaret Pattens Benjamin Britten's Te Deum and Jubilate in C and 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion St Martin Ludgate 'Greater love hath no man' by John Ireland will be sung Temple Church Wednesday 10 July 1800 Holy Eucharist We continue the ancient tradition of Christian CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JULY 2013 worship with monthly services of Holy Communion using a beautiful liturgy from the Iona Community St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate Monday 1 July 1300 Organ Recital: Richard Moore will play letters Q to R Wednesday 17 July ─ St Swithun in the A to Z of Organ Music St Michael Cornhill 1300 Anglican Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Chiu-ling Chiu (cello), Irina Lyakhovskaya (piano) coupled with Jesse Tse (soprano) & Yau Cheng (piano) Wednesday 24 July Works by Brahms, Mozart, Wolf and William Bolcom 1300 Anglican Eucharist to commemorate St James the Apostle St Martin Ludgate with arias from Bach's Schemelli Gesangbuch forming 1315 Organ Recital: A City Of London Festival Event part of St Anne's Bach Festival St Mary at Hill Stephen Cleobury (Director of Music, King's College, Cambridge) The programme will be: Thursday 25 July ─ St James the Apostle Bach - Fantasia in C minor; Reubke – Sonata on Psalm 94 1310 Festal Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens Admission Free Temple Church 1900 Wren Talk by Ken Shuttleworth Tickets £15 from Sunday 28 July www.stbrides.com/shop/tickets/wren-talk-2013,html 1030 Patronal Festival Holy Communion: All proceeds will go to the Inspire! Appeal Preacher: The Very Reverend Dr David Ison, St Bride Fleet Street Dean of St Paul's Cathedral The Service will be followed by Parish Lunch. Please contact Tuesday 2 July the Church Wardens to purchase tickets for the meal. 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Church contacts: [email protected] 1300 Recital: St Paul's Quartet Works by Mozart and or 020 7329 3632 St James Garlickhythe Mendelssohn St Stephen Walbrook 1115 Baptism, Confirmation and Choral Communion 1305 Recital: A City Of London Festival Event The last Service of the Legal Year Guildhall School Oboe Quartet & Hieronymus Quartet President and Preacher: The Bishop of London Works by Britten and Schubert (Death and the Maiden) followed by a family barbecue in the Church Court Admission Free Temple Church Temple Church 1315 ‘Cast in Bronze’ Handbell Choir - Free admission 1830 Bach Festival Mass on the day of Bach's death St Bride Fleet Street Under the auspices of the Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1930 Onyx Brass& BBC Singers Concert presented by JAM there will be a performance of Cantata BWV 168 A City of London Festival Event For full information 'Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort' by the Sweelinck Ensemble regarding the programme and the performers please see the directed by Martin Knizia St Mary at Hill 'box' display below Tickets £15, £10. from www.jamconcert.org/season Student ticket on the door £5 Wednesday 31 July ─ Lammas Tide St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Anglican Holy Communion St Mary at Hill

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JULY 2013 ─ continued Saturday 6 July 1800 'Gala for Wallee' A special evening with a dozen of our favourite musicians to celebrate Wallee's amazing Wednesday 3 July achievement with 'Listen to the World' 1300 Concert: A City of London Festival Event For more details please visit: www.stethelburgas.org/events The Guildhall Singers ─ Students from the Guildhall School of St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate Music & Drama perform 'Songs for Voice, Harp and Guitar' 1930 English Baroque Choir Concert Music for Double Choir – by Benjamin Britten Admission Free St Stephen Walbrook including the Frank Martin Mass Tickets £10 on the door 1305 Recital: Katherine Waller (violin), Mark Austin (piano) or from: www.wegottickets.com/event/221446 Sonata in D minor by Franck St Botolph Aldgate St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Katarzyna Ziminska (violin), Emily Hester (viola), Alice Purton (cello), Abigail Sin (piano) St Olave Hart Street Sunday 7 July 1310 Recital: Alison D’Souza (viola) with Sian Maddock (piano) ABCD Advanced Conducting Course Works by Brahms & Bowen St Sepulchre without Newgate Observer places available at £45 (£35 for members). 1315 Recital by the ‘Cast in Bronze’ Youth Handbell Choir from the For more information please go to: www.abcd.org.uk Friendship United Methodist Church, Cincinnatti, USA on their St Sepulchre without Newgate UK Summer Tour. Free admission – retiring collection Monday 8 July St Dunstan in the West 1300 Recital: Elena Vorotko (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1830 Julienne McLean - Book Launch and Exhibition 1300 Organ Recital: Norman Harper will play letter S in the St Paul's Press reprint of 'Towards Mystical Union' A to Z of Organ Music St Michael Cornhill and exhibition of Julienne McLean's glass icons. 1315 Recital: Belen Isabel Barnaus Mendez (soprano), The exhibition will open at 1700. Adam O'Shea (tenor), Dionysios Kyropoulos (bass), Join us for an engaging evening of ideas and insights. James Bramley (theorbo, baroque guitar), Light refreshments will be served. Entry is free or by donation. Mie Ito (baroque harp) perform 'Lamenta della Ninfa' ─ For more information please go to: www.spiritualitycentre.org Monteverdi madrigals St Martin Ludgate London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King and Martyr 1315 Organ Recital: A City Of London Festival Event Greg Morris (Temple Church) Works by Alain, Messiaen and Thursday 4 July Duruflé Admission Free Temple Church 1300 Recital in the ‘Song in the City’ series: 1500 'Bridging Extreme Differences' To mark the anniversary Women in Song 2: Royal Women of the 2005 London bombings, an important event exploring St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall the need for dialogue in confronting extremism 1305 Recital: A City Of London Festival Event For more details please visit: www.stethelburgas.org/events Walid El-Yafi (piano) will perform works by Verdi/Liszt, St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate Liszt, and Beethoven's 'Appassionata' sonata 1800 Recital: A City of London Festival Event Admission Free St Mary at Hill Louis Schwizgebel (piano) Works by Couperin, Ravel and 1305 Recital: Adam Brown (guitar) St Olave Hart Street Heinz Holliger Tickets: £10 For more information and 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower booking please visit www.colf.org St Mary le Bow 1310 Organ Recital: Martin Kasparek from St Imier, Switzerland 1930 A Concert to celebrate the Jubilee of the Queen’s Coronation St Margaret Lothbury will be given by the Bart’s Academic Festival Choir and 1800 Concert: A City of London Festival Event Orchestra, Leader: Margaret Banwell Conductor: John Lumley The Benyounes Quartet will play works by Britten, Schubert Symphony No 38 (Prague) – Mozart and Ian Wilson Tickets £10 For more information: Coronation Anthem – ‘The King Shall Rejoice’ – Handel [email protected] or 020 7583 7394 Mass in C (Coronation) – Mozart St Andrew Holborn Tickets: £10 Concessions £5 Proceeds to Barts Cancer Unit 1830 Christopher Chapman – author of 'Seeing in the Dark: The Great Hall of St Bartholomew’s Hospital Perspectives on Suffering from the Christian Spiritual Tradition' will be discussing his important book with Derek Collins, Tuesday 9 July Editorial Consultant at the Centre. 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Join us for an engaging evening of ideas and insights. 1300 Organ Recital: Richard Brasier (Cologne), Nicholas Danby Light refreshments will be served. Entry is free or by donation. Scholar 2011-2013 St Lawrence Jewry For more information please go to: www.spiritualitycentre.org 1300 Recital: 'Baroque and Bouzouki' London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King and Martyr Chris Christodoulou (bouzouki), Caroline Tyler (piano) Works by Vivaldi, Albinoni and Blavet St Stephen Walbrook Friday 5 July 1305 Recital: A City of London Festival Event 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance St Stephen Walbrook Evgeni Genchev (piano) Works by Scriabin & Wagner/Liszt 1305 Recital: Daniela Braun (viola d'amore) Admission Free St Andrew by the Wardrobe Sonatas from the 17th and 18th centuries St Mary at Hill 1315 Recital: Oboe Quartet Michael Rogalski St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: A City of London Festival Event 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6, including parts not The Guildhall Singers, directed by Sarah Loveys normally open to the public St Bride Fleet Street in a programme of contemporary vocal music including new 1800 Recital: A City of London Festival Event work by Guildhall School of Music composers 'War of the Romantics' Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), Admission Free St Olave Hart Street William Vann (piano) Works by Robert Schumann, 1315 Recital: Nina Leo (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Clara Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner 1930 City Chorus Summer Concert Tickets: £10 available from Tickets: £10 For more information and booking www.londoncitychorus/#/tickets-membership/4549111229 please visit www.colf.org St Andrew by the Wardrobe St Sepulchre without Newgate

Thursday 11 July ─ continued CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JULY 2013 ─ continued 1930 JAM presents a Concert in aid of the Inspire! Appeal The Mousai Singers, Stephen Disley (organ), Katarzyna Ziminska (violin), Emily Hester (viola), Tuesday 9 July ─ continued Alice Purton (cello), Alexander Rider (harp) conducted by 1830 Recital in the ‘Song in the City’ series: Daniel Cook will perform ‘Requiem’ by Gabriel Fauré, The Land without Music? together with works by Bax, Neil Cox, Leighton, Mathias and Ben McAteer (baritone), Gavin Roberts (piano) Danny Saleeb Tickets: £15, £5 students - on the door from: Tickets: £10 (Concessions £5) www.jamconcert.org/season Under 18s free St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall St Bride Fleet Street 1845 Concert: 'Transports of Delight' featuring The Templars 1930 City Chamber Choir 25th Anniversary Concert directed by Tom Williams presenting a musical and light- Tickets: £15 (£10 Concessions) available on the door hearted voyage around transport and places from Manhattan or through: [email protected] to Scarborough, in the company of Flanders and Swann, St Sepulchre without Newgate Thomas Weelkes, Lennon and McCartney and many more. 1930 Concert: London Concord Singers Conductor: Malcolm Cottle Tickets: £20, £15, £10 For further information and to book The programme includes Aaron Copland's 'In the Beginning' please contact Alex Madgwick, 020 7427 5641 or and works by Byrd, Poulenc, Bernard Hughes, and motets by www.templemusic.org Temple Church Lassus and Victoria Gabrieli Tickets £12 (under 25s £5, other concessions £10) Tickets available on the door; in advance from Islington Music, Wednesday 10 July telephone: 020 7354 3195. Online booking via the website: 1305 Recital: Catherine Lee (cello solo) St Botolph Aldgate www.londonconcordsingers.org.uk St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Recital: A City of London Festival Event 'Quartet for the End of Time' by Olivier Messiaen Friday 12 July Yolanda Bruno (violin), Claire-Lise Demettre (cello), 1230 Organ Recital: Christopher Harris St Stephen Walbrook Christopher Potts (clarinet), James Kreiling (piano) 1305 Recital: Mary Pells (viola da gamba) accompanied by Admission Free St Lawrence Jewry Martin Knizia (harpsichord) Sonatas by Schenck, Kühnel 1305 Recital: 'Baroque & Bouzouki' and others St Mary at Hill Chris Christodoulou (bouzouki), Caroline Tyler (piano) 1310 Recital: Nicola Meecham (piano) The programme will include St Olave Hart Street works by Robert Schumann, Medtner and Prokofiev 1310 Recital: Manny Vass (piano) – “From Bach to Bond” St Sepulchre without Newgate St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Michael Solomon-Williams (tenor) 1315 Concert by the PerKelt Celtic-Medieval Speed Folk Ensemble St Bride Fleet Street Free admission – retiring collection St Dunstan in the West 1930 'Kuri – Japan' Katso and Miho are two very talented 1800 Concert: A City of London Festival Event multi-instrumentalists with traditional sounds from Japan Max Baillie (viola), Leafcutter John (electronics) infused with music from different cultures they passed Electronics and the natural world intertwine in this special through on their travels. For more details please visit: City of London Festival première in a concert not quite like any www.stethelburgas.org/events other ….. Tickets £10 For more information and booking St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate please visit www.colf.org St Lawrence Jewry 1930 Londinium Concert: “Beyond the Horizon” 1830 Making time for peace: The St Ethelburga's Community The programme includes works by Weelkes, Brahms, Gathering An invitation to all of our Centre users to come Musgrave, Toch, Martland, Whitacre and Richard Rodney together. A time for reflection, sharing, nourishing Bennett Tickets will be available on the door (from 1830,) £15 relationships, eating together, sharing news and strengthening (Concessions £10) or £12 in advance from our community of peacemakers. This month the theme is our www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events/upcoming-events.html relationship with time. St Sepulchre without Newgate For more details please visit: www.stethelburgas.org/events Saturday 13 July St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate 1930 London Welsh Chorale Concert 1930 Recital: A City of London Festival Event Brahms – Requiem and Schubert – Deutsche Messe 'The Return of the Flight of the Earls' Tickets: £15 from: [email protected] Quercus Piano Trio: Ben McAteer (baritone), St Sepulchre without Newgate Hugo O’Neill (speaker) Tickets: £15 Monday 15 July For more information and booking please visit www.colf.org 1300 Recital: Holly Cullen (piano) St Lawrence Jewry St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall 1300 Organ Recital: Alessandro Bianchi will play letter T in the A to Z of Organ Music St Michael Cornhill Thursday 11 July 1305 Recital: Sarah Gabriel (soprano), Yshani Perinpanayagam 1305 Recital: Matthew Drinkwater (piano) For programme details (piano) Works by Mendelssohn, Webern, Korngold and Weill please visit: www.stmary-at-hill.org St Mary at Hill The theme is "Forbidden Song" ─ composers outlawed 1305 Recital: Sophie Kochanowska (soprano), by the Nazi regime St Martin Ludgate Dagma Zeromska (mezzo soprano) Songs by Mozart, 1305 Concert: The Estonian Radio Children's Choir Beethoven, Brahms and Wolf St Mary le Bow Conductor - Kaie Tanner, Organ - Petra Soltész 1305 Recital: Olga Stezhko (piano) St Olave Hart Street St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: Clive Tuck All Hallows by the Tower 1530 Redeeming the Past Leading South African peace-maker 1310 Organ Recital: Alessandro Bianchi from Como, Italy Michael Lapsley in conversation with Rowan Williams St Margaret Lothbury For more details please visit: www.stethelburga's.org/events St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate

Thursday 18 July ─ continued CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JULY 2013 ─ continued 1930 'Musical Harmony' ─ The vocal a capella trio Voice perform works from their new album including 'Hildegard of Bingen' and commissions by composers Stevie Wishart & Marcus Davidson Tuesday 16 July For more details please visit: www.stethelburga's.org/events 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate 1300 Organ Recital: Konstantin Volovstnov (Russia) St Lawrence Jewry Friday 19 July 1310 The City Singers Summer Recital: 1230 Organ Recital: Edmund Aldhouse (Ripon Cathedral) ‘The King Shall Rejoice’ – Coronation Anthem by Handel St Stephen Walbrook ‘Gloria’ by Vivaldi – Countertenor soloist – James Bowman 1305 The 18th St Anne's Bach Festival at St Mary at Hill Directed by John Ewington OBE, Recital: The Sweelinck Ensemble Organist Christopher Moore St Katharine Cree Bach's Organ Trio Sonatas arranged for various instruments 1315 Recital: Rika Zaysau (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Part 1 of two recitals 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6, including parts not Free Admission – retiring collection St Mary at Hill normally open to the public St Bride Fleet Street 1315 Recital: Jelena Makarova (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1930 Regents Opera present: ‘Carmen’ by Bizet 1930 Concert by the CMS Chorale: The programme will feature a Tickets: £36.50, £22.50, £16.00 from 020 7724 2696 medley of items ranging from opera arias to songs from the or: www.ticketssource.co.uk/regentsopera shows. Admission by donation – All welcome St Sepulchre without Newgate All Hallows by the Tower

Wednesday 17 July Monday 22 July 1305 Recital: Mark Gibbs (viola solo) St Botolph Aldgate 1300 Recital: Catherine Cheung (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Recital: Fenella Humphreys (violin) continues her Bach Series 1300 Organ Recital: Adrian Bawtree will play letters U to V of recitals. This recital will be the fourth in that series. in the A to Z of Organ Music St Michael Cornhill St Olave Hart Street 1305 The 18th St Anne's Bach Festival at St Mary at Hill 1310 Recital: Gisela Meyer (piano) Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ Recital: The Sweelinck Ensemble arranged by George Gershwin for piano solo Bach's Organ Trio Sonatas arranged for various instruments St Sepulchre without Newgate Part 2 of two recitals Free Admission – retiring collection 1315 Piano and Voice Recital by Olivier Fouqueray and Florence St Mary at Hill Free admission – retiring collection St Dunstan in the West 1315 Recital: Althea Talbot-Howard (oboe & cor anglais) and 1900 Britten at Bride’s Concert ─ in aid of the Inspire! Appeal Gabriella dall'Olio play "Music for a Summer's Day" by Tickets £15 More information and booking from: Benjamin Britten, William Alwyn, Derek Bell www.stbrides.com/news/ St Bride Fleet Street and Chevalier de St George St Martin Ludgate 1900 The Lascelles Memorial Concert held in memory of

Major-General Anthony Lascelles (1912-2000), a great Tuesday 23 July supporter of the musical life of St Olave's. 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Charlotte Denny (soprano), Loo Tze Tan (piano) 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry The programme will include works by Mozart, Sibelius, 1305 The 18th St Anne's Bach Festival at St Mary at Hill Rachmaninov and Poulenc The concert is unticketed but Recital: Lecosaldi Ensemble Director: Peter Lea-Cox donations are invited St Olave Hart Street 'Hausmusik ─ at home with Bach' Thursday 18 July Free Admission – retiring collection St Mary at Hill 1305 The 18th St Anne's Bach Festival at St Mary at Hill 1315 Concert by the Ottawa Cathedral Choir St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Anne-Isabel Meyer (cello), Peter Crose (piano) 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6, including parts not Sonatas by Bach and Brahms normally open to the public St Bride Fleet Street Free Admission – retiring collection St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Zoe Lethbridge (soprano) St Mary le Bow Wednesday 24 July 1305 Recital: Blaze Ensemble will play chamber works by 1310 Recital: Ayda Aktan-Aslantepe (piano) from Turkey Beethoven and Gordon Jacob, with Chris Hopkins (piano) Works by Ulvi Cernal Erkin, Ali Darma and Granados St Olave Hart Street St Sepulchre without Newgate 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Recital: To be arranged St Olave Hart Street 1700 The St Bride's 10th Anniversary Summer Party 1315 Lute and Song Recital 'IT'S A SWING THING' at the Press House Wine Bar, Free admission – retiring collection St Dunstan in the West 1 St Bride's Passage BBQ, Theme Drinks, Live band & DJ This event supports the Inspire! Appeal Thursday 25 July More information at: www.stbrides.com St Bride Fleet Street 1305 The 18th St Anne's Bach Festival at St Mary at Hill 1830 Lloyds Choir Summer Concert: Organ Recital: Robert Smith Lotti – Crucifixus in 8 parts; Durante – Magnificat; Bach – Prelude & Fugue in E flat major Vivaldi – Gloria; Madrigals by Monteverdi Free Admission – retiring collection St Mary at Hill Tickets £10 (concessions £7) including refreshments 1305 Recital: Beorg Duo from Deirdre Earp at [email protected] Anna Tam (cello) and Jonathan Musgrave (piano) or 07766 654 657 or at the door on the night Works by Mendelssohn and Chopin St Mary le Bow St Katharine Cree 1305 Recital: David Hughes (baritone), Clare Jones (piano) 1800 Concert by the Freshfields Choir St Olave Hart Street Free admission – retiring collection St Dunstan in the West 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JULY 2013 ─ continued

St Bride Fleet Street

Friday 26 July

1230 Organ Recital: Anthony Gritten (Royal Academy of Music) JAM – The John Armitage Memorial Concert

St Stephen Walbrook 1305 The 18th St Anne's Bach Festival at St Mary at Hill Tuesday 2nd July 2013 at 7.30pm Capella Vitalis Berlin Corelli 300th Anniversary Concert Albert Schlicker & Ulrike Wildenhof (violins) The concert will feature the first performance of Jochen Schneider (bassoon), Martin Knizia (harpsichord) 'The Farthest Shore' by Paul Mealor, together with Free Admission – retiring collection St Mary at Hill 'Rejoice in the Lamb' by Benjamin Britten 1315 Organ Recital: Lawrence Caldecote St Bride Fleet Street 'Cantos Sagrados' by James MacMillan

Onyx Brass BBC Singers

St David's Cathedral Choir Saturday 27 July Cumnor House School Choir 1030 ‘Londinium: The Roman City’ As part of the Festival of St Leonard's Church junior choristers Archaeology, All Hallows is pleased to offer this guided walk David Cook – organ, Claire Seaton – soprano around the Roman city of Londinium. Giles Underwood – bass The walk costs £7 per person and lasts about 2½ hours. Conductor – Nicholas Cleobury No need to book, just come to All Hallows on the day. All Hallows by the Tower A City of London Festival Event 1930 London Euphonia Orchestra Works by Rossini and Bizet For information and tickets please contact: info@londoneuphonia,com St Sepulchre without Newgate

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN AUGUST 2013

Monday 29 July 1300 Recital: Primavera Shima (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 1 August 1300 Organ Recital: Richard Moore will play letters W, X, Y & Z 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Sarah-Jane Lewis (soprano) and in the A to Z of Organ Music St Michael Cornhill Gavin Roberts (organ) Includes Strauss’s Four Last Songs 1305 Recital: Johan de Cock (piano) ─ "A Feast of Chopin" (Free recital, followed by ticket-only reception for the Friends of St Martin Ludgate St Lawrence Jewry - contact [email protected] for details) St Lawrence Jewry Tuesday 30 July 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Friday 2 August 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Organ Recital: Jonathan Hope (Organ Scholar, Winchester 1315 Recital: TBC St Bride Fleet Street Cathedral) St Stephen Walbrook 1500 90 minute tour of the church for £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Julia Kogan (soprano), Daniel Turner (tenor) and Marc Verter (piano) Schubert Lieder and Wednesday 31 July Britten’s Les Illuminations St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Recital: Sayaka Nakajima (violin) with Mutian Xu (piano) 1930 Concert: Adriano Adewale and the Umpatacum band play A programme of violin and piano solos and piano/violin duo contemporary and traditional music inspired by Afro-Brazilian with Japanese Folk Tunes St Sepulchre without Newgate traditions Tickets £10 in advance from www.stethelburgas.org; 1315 Recital: £12 on the door St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate Free admission – retiring collection St Dunstan in the West Monday 5 August 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Tessa Uys (piano) Includes

Britten’s Holiday Diary suite St Lawrence Jewry

CITY OF LONDON FESTIVAL Tuesday 6 August 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Sunday 23rd June – Friday 26th July 2013 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Neil Jenkins (tenor) and Timothy Nail (piano) present a programme of words and song Including concerts and events in the City Churches, depicting Haydn’s visits to London St Lawrence Jewry some of them (particularly those at lunch time) 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church, including parts not with free admission normally open to the public Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street For concise details please see individual daily listings Wednesday 7 August 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Sholto Kynock (piano), Kaija For full listings, information on all the events, Lukas (violin) and Brian O’Kane (cello) Includes Schubert’s ticket prices and booking please visit www.colf.org Piano Trio in E flat St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Recital: Dhayoung Yoon (piano) t Sepulchre without Newgate

Thursday 22 August CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN AUGUST 2013 ─ continued 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Aurum Nactum – Thursday 8 August Diccon Cooper (double bass), Callum Armstong (recorders) 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Sarah Baillie (soprano) and and Richard Jones (piano) Includes works by Handel, Chad Vindin (piano) Britten’s A Charm of Lullabies and works Purcell & Britten St Lawrence Jewry by Schubert, Debussy and Walton St Lawrence Jewry Friday 23 August 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate Friday 9 August 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance St Stephen Walbrook 1230 Organ Recital: Thomas Allery (Magdalen College, Oxford) 1300 August Music Festival Recital: the Silk Street String Quartet St Stephen Walbrook Includes Britten’s String Quartet in F major 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Orfea - Mea Wade, oboe and St Lawrence Jewry Olivia Jageurs, harp - playing Britten’s Six Metamorphoses Saturday 24 August after Ovid for solo oboe and Suite for Harp, and arrangements 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate of Schubert songs St Lawrence Jewry Sunday 25 August Monday 12 August 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Alasdair Macaskill (piano) Works by Beethoven and Chopin and Stevenson’s Peter Monday 26 August Grimes Fantasy St Lawrence Jewry 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate

Tuesday 13 August Tuesday 27 August 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Victor Stenjhem (violin) and 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Hannah Watson (piano) plays Walid El-Yafi (piano) Includes Britten’s Suite for Violin and Schubert’s “Fantasy” Sonata in G major and music by Bartók Piano St Lawrence Jewry St Lawrence Jewry 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church, including parts not 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church, including parts not normally open to the public Admission £6 normally open to the public Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street St Bride Fleet Street Wednesday 14 August Wednesday 28 August 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Helen Brackenbury (mezzo- 1300 August Music Festival Recital: George Barton and Craig Apps soprano) and Sachika Taniyama (piano) perform Schubert (percussion) Includes Britten’s Timpani Piece for Jimmy Lieder and a Homage to Shakespeare in words and music St Lawrence Jewry St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 29 August Thursday 15 August 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Njabulo Madlala (baritone) and 1300 August Music Festival Recital: the Alma Mater vocal ensemble William Vann (piano) Schubert Lieder, songs by Britten and perform Schubert’s Coronach and Psalm 23 and works by music from South Africa St Lawrence Jewry Schumann, Mendelssohn & Michael Head St Lawrence Jewry Friday 16 August Friday 30 August 1230 Organ Recital: Emma Gibbins (St George, Belfast)) 1230 Organ Recital: Gary Desmond (Bath Abbey) St Stephen Walbrook St Stephen Walbrook 1300 August Music Festival Recital: the Orsino Quartet perform 1300 August Music Festival Recital: the EKA Quartet and Peteris Britten’s Phantasy Quartet and Mozart’s Oboe Quartet Sokolovskis (cello) perform Schubert’s String Quintet in C in F major St Lawrence Jewry St Lawrence Jewry

Sunday 18 August 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate

Monday 19 August THE ST LAWRENCE JEWRY 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Kangmin Justin Kim (countertenor) and AUGUST MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013

Sachika Taniyama (piano) The programme will include Britten’s whimsical 'Tit for Tat' St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 1st ─ Friday 30th August Tuesday 20 August Free Recitals from 1.00pm to 1.45pm each weekday

1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate in August (other than August Bank Holiday) 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch featuring a variety of instrumentalists and singers 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Edward Liddall (piano) Haydn’s Sonata in A and Schubert’s Four Impromptus D935 SPECIAL THEMES FOR 2013 St Lawrence Jewry Celebrating Schubert 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church, including parts not and normally open to the public Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street Celebrating Benjamin Brittten in his centenary year Wednesday 21 August 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate For concise details please see individual daily listings 1300 August Music Festival Recital: Holly Marie Bingham (soprano), Eduard Mas Bacardit (tenor) and Gavin Roberts (piano) perform a Britten song cycle and Schubert Lieder St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Recital: Rowan McGirr (violin) St Dunstan in the West

______September 2013 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

St Mary at Hill

In the June edition of City Events there was a description of the move that was taking place of the Lutheran Church of St Anne and St Agnes to the City church of St Mary at Hill. It can be reported that the move was very successful and the activities of the Lutheran Church are now well established at St Mary at Hill. Thus it has been thought appropriate to offer some words concerning this most delightful of the City churches. First, it occupies such a perfect site, hidden away up the hill among some of the ancient lanes and alleyways of the City. The first challenge for many visitors is actually to find it! There is also the fascination of a church that is arguably somewhat plain outside, but which offers such beauty within. From Lovat Lane, all one sees is the tower, perhaps not one of Wren’s greatest creations because he was able to re‐use much of the existing medieval structure, but, in any case, re‐built by George Gwilt in the 1780s.

Approached from the other side, via St Mary at Hill (the road), we find one of the few examples of Wren lavishing time and effort on the exterior of an east end, something he only rarely did (for example at St Lawrence Jewry or St Peter Cornhill, where the building was highly visible in a prominent location). Then we enter the church through a hidden churchyard, with church walls which contain substantial fabric from the pre‐Fire building.

Once inside the church, the full extent of Wren’s genius is apparent. This is one of his small, centrally‐planned churches – a Greek cross in a square, with four short, barrel‐vaulted arms meeting in a the centre at a shallow, coffered saucer dome. This plan (echoed at St Anne and St Agnes and St Martin Ludgate, but without the dome) is known in Byzantine architecture as “quincunx”, or “five‐pointed” (the name originating from a Roman coin which featured such a pattern).

St Mary at Hill was one of only four Wren churches to escape completely unscathed from the Second World War, but, alas, it was badly damaged by a fire in 1988. Since that time, the woodwork, including reredos, pulpit and pews, has been kept in storage and its intended restoration into the church is still the subject of debate. In the meantime, there is still some fine woodcarving to admire in the west gallery, screen and organ case, the work of a great Victorian woodcarver named William Gibbs Rogers, who also carved the pew‐ends in St Michael Cornhill.

The organ is one of the finest in the City. Originally built by Father Smith (it is thought), it has been rebuilt several times, most notably by William Hill in 1848 (at a cost of £600) and, most recently in 2002, by Noel Mander, who retained the Hill organ case, which was built in original 17th century style.

Whilst the absence of the furnishings is to be regretted, this does create a liberating sense of spaciousness, which is enhanced by the amount of light thrown on to the interior through the very large plain glass windows and which enables the visitor to walk around the classical columns and under the dome and to admire Wren’s unrivalled sense of proportion. The website of the church: www.stmary‐at‐hill.org/ is well worth a visit, and, needless to say, so is the church itself.

Tony Tucker, author of 'The Visitors Guide to the City of London Churches'

Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA tel. 020 7626 1555 (answerphone) e-mail: [email protected]

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Every Wednesday - continued REGULAR SERVICES IN SEPTEMBER 2013 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow to change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower website at www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn Every Monday 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr Every Thursday 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook Every Tuesday 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1300 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens (Not 19 September – see 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Special Serivces On 5 September begins at 1305) 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion St Dunstan in the West 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr of the month. Please see the church website: 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1300 Contemplative Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 Meditation Group in the Crypt Chapel – All welcome St Mary le Bow 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Every Friday 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow Every Wednesday 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Pause for Prayer - a reflective prayer service using a liturgy from 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate the Iona Community St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 0830 Holy Communion (CW Order II) St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel Please apply at the vestry 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row St Mary le Bow 1215 Holy Communion St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Abchurch 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1245 Communion Service Wesley's Chapel 1315 Holy Communion (CW Order 1) St Lawrence Jewry 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Margaret Lothbury 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1800 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet Site of the 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at Internet Church for London. To watch these services, which change 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the on a daily basis, log on to: www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate / continued

SPECIAL SERVICES IN SEPTEMBER 2013 Friday 6 September - continued 1310 Recital: Alice Bishop (soprano), Ryoko Izitsu (piano) “Morning, Noon and Night” St Sepulchre without Newgate Tuesday 3 September 1315 Recital: Stella Di Virgilio (violin) St Bride Fleet Street 1830 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate Monday 9 September Wednesday 4 September 1300 Recital: Maria Razumovskaya (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1300 Organ Recital: Angelo Castaldo (Naples) St Michael Cornhill Thursday 5 September 1305 Recital: Julia Weatherley (soprano), Panaretos Kyriatzidis (piano) 1305 Choral Eucharist St Margaret Pattens St Martin Ludgate 1830 Spiritual Practices in World Faiths (2) Sikhism Led by Param Singh See Tuesday 10 September 2 September London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King & Martyr 1830 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate Thursday 12 September Tuesday 10 September 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1310 Holy Communion, commemorating St John Chrysostom 1300 Organ Recital: Angelo Castaldo (Naples) St Lawrence Jewry St Margaret Pattens 1315 Recital: Albert Lin (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Sunday 15 September 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street

1030 Family Service St Sepulchre without Newgate Wednesday 11 September 1100 High Mass celebrating the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1305 Recital: Cassandra Mathews (classical guitar) St Botolph Aldgate St Magnus the Martyr 1305 Recital: Trio Sol (Christiane Eidsten Dahl (violin), David Horwich (horn), Tuesday 17 September Chad Vindin (piano)) St Olave Hart Street 1830 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate 1310 Recital: Guray Basol (piano) Including works by Scarlatti, Liszt and Wednesday 18 September Rachmaninov St Sepulchre without Newgate 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1315 Recital: Donna Macfadyen (soprano) St Dunstan in the West 1830 Public dialogue: Re-imagining the sacred (1) Defining the Sacred with Thursday 19 September Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg and Paul Kingsnorth Fee £10 The first of a 1310 Lunchtime Prayers with Hymns St Margaret Pattens series of seven debates running until March 2013 An action learning Sunday 22 September group who wish to explore the subject in greater depth will also meet in 1030 Family Service St Sepulchre without Newgate between the debates – total cost £195 For booking and further details Tuesday 24 September go to www.stethelburgas.org St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate 1830 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate 1830 Van Mildert Lecture Two presentatons on the life of Bishop William Van Mildert, former rector of St Mary le Bow, by Elizabeth Varley (author of his Thursday 26 September biography) and the Rt Revd Robert Paterson (Bishop of Sodor & Man) 1830 Michaelmas Choral Evensong St Margaret Pattens followed by reception. Admission £5 For booking and further information Sunday 29 September – St Michael and All Angels visit www.dur.ac.uk/vanmildert.trust/events/bishopvanmildert 1100 High Mass for St Michael’s Day St Magnus the Martyr St Mary le Bow 1500 Welsh Harvest Festival Service St Benet Paul’s Wharf Thursday 12 September 1500 Costermongers’ Harvest Festival Service (following parade of Pearly Kings 1305 Recital: Matthew Drinkwater (piano) St Mary at Hill and Queens from Guildhall from 1300) All Welcome St Mary le Bow 1305 Recital: Felicity Vincent (cello), playing Bach solo cello suites Nos 1 & 6 St Olave Hart Street Monday 30 September 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1045 Lord Mayor’s Election Day Service St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity Series: Angelo Castlado (Naples) St Margaret Lothbury CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER 2013 1900 “Adrift” exhibition (see bottom of final page) Meet the artist - Hew Locke

will talk about his inspiration for the artwork Monday 2 September Admission free – all welcome All Hallows by the Tower 1300 Recital: Gamal Khamis (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1930 Concert: Regents Opera perform Verdi’s La Traviata Tickets £32, £20, 1300 Organ Recital: David Aprahamian Liddle (St Barnabas Pimlico), including £15 See www.regentsopera.com for booking & further details world première of his Mnemonic Suite Op 21 St Michael Cornhill St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Alexandra Roupakia (piano) St Martin Ludgate Friday 13 September 1830-2030 Spiritual Practices in World Faiths (1) Christianity Led by Derek 1230 Organ Recital: Tom James St Stephen Walbrook Collins First of a series of Monday evening talks/discussions/workshops 1305 Recital (St Anne’s Music Society) For up to date information see in September/ October Free event but donation requested For further www.stmary-at-hill.org St Mary at Hill 1315 Recital: Jessie Tse (soprano) St Bride Fleet Street details & booking for one or more sessions visit www.spiritualitycentre.org London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King & Martyr Saturday 14 September Tuesday 3 September 1000-1700 “Ride & Stride” sponsored walk and cycle ride between participating 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch London places of worship Proceeds go to chosen churches & Heritage of London Trust Further details from www.heritageoflondon.com 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Recital: Veronica Henderson (cello) St Bride Fleet Street Monday 16 September 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Recital: Mikhail Shilyaev (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Wednesday 4 September 1300 Organ Recital: début recital by Jemima Stephenson as the church’s 1305 Recital: Francis Gallagher (viola) St Botolph Aldgate 2013 -14 Sir George Thalben-Ball Memorial Organ Scholar and 1305 Recital: Nika Shirocorad (piano) St Olave Hart Street Assistant Director of Music St Michael Cornhill 1310 Recital: Yukiko Shinohara (piano) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Susana Gilardoni (soprano) St Martin Ludgate 1830 Spiritual Practices in World Faiths (3) Buddhism - Led by Lauri Bower See Thursday 5 September 2 September London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King & Martyr 1305 Recital: Gerard Cousins (classical guitar) St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Kirsty Michele Anderson (soprano), Josh von Bohlen (violin), Tuesday 17 September Charles Economou (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents the sixth recital in the series 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry “The Glorious Baroque” St Margaret Lothbury 1300 Recital: D’Cruz Piano Trio St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital: Stephanie Legg (saxophone) St Bride Fleet Street Friday 6 September 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Organ Recital: Geoffrey Tuson (Garrison Church, Aldershot) St Stephen Walbrook Wednesday 18 September 1305 Recital (St Anne’s Music Society) For up to date information see 1305 Recital: Oliver Cave (violin) St Botolph Aldgate www.stmary-at-hill.org St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Consort Audite Nova (recorder quartet) St Olave Hart Street continued…….

Wednesday 18 September - continued Thursday 26 September - continued 1310 Recital: Shinko Hanaoka (cello), Yuki Negishi (piano) 1310 Albert Schweitzer Memorial Organ Recital by Jonathan Melling St Sepulchre without Newgate Commemorating the centenary of the foundation of Dr Schweitzer’s 1315 Recital: John Crockatt (violin) St Dunstan in the West leper hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, and celebrating his recordings

Thursday 19 September of the music of J S Bach on the All Hallows organ in the 1930s 1305 Organ Recital in the Celebrity Organ Recital Series for the Harvest in the All Hallows by the Tower Sea Festival: Robert Smith and Martin Knizia St Mary at Hill 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity Series: Marc Baumann (Strasbourg) St Margaret Lothbury 1305 Recital: Fenella Humphreys (violin) Last of 6 recitals exploring Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas and other solo repertoire St Olave Hart Street Friday 27 September 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 0930 Macmillan Coffee Morning (wth recital at 1315 – see below) 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays works by César Franck, Guilmant, St Bride Fleet Street Dubois and Salomé St Margaret Lothbury 1230 Organ Recital: Nicholas King (St John Boxmoor) St Stephen Walbrook 1830 An Evening with Kevin Scully – priest, playwright, writer, broadcaster, actor 1305 Recital (St Anne’s Music Society) For up to date information see Free event For further details & booking see www.spiritualitycentre.org www.stmary-at-hill.org St Mary at Hill London Centre for Spirituality (St Edmund King & Martyr) 1315 Recital: Claire Seaton (soprano), Robert Hunter (piano) 1830 Harvest of the Sea Festival Reception, with the launch of a photography St Bride Fleet Street exhibition by Laura Lean (see box below) and poetry by Stella Davis 1930 “Tongues of Fire” – the life of Richard Francis Burton - explorer, writer & For further information call 020 7626 4184 St Mary at Hill Arabist - related in the style of the Arabian Nights by Giles Abbott, with

Friday 20 September songs by Kurdish Iraqi singer Newroz Admission £12 Suitable for 0845-1200 Workshop: Improve your Faith Community’s Conflict Resilience adults and children aged 14+ For further details and booking go to www.stethelburgas.org St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate Fee £10 For details and booking go to www.stethelburgas.org St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate Saturday 28 September 1100-1600 Workshop: The Theology of Welcome Speaker Pádraig Ó Tuama 1100-1600 Workshop: Seeing the Good in Unfamiliar Spiritualities (Belfast) Cost £30 For details & booking go to www.spiritualitycentre.org Speaker Gethin Abraham-Williams Cost £30 London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King & Martyr For further details and booking go to www.spiritualitycentre.org 1230 Organ Recital: Richard Hobson (Grosvenor Chapel) St Stephen Walbrook London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King & Martyr

1305 Recital (St Anne’s Music Society) For up to date information see Monday 30 September www.stmary-at-hill.org St Mary at Hill 1300 Recital: Matthew McCombie (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Recital: Marie Vassilio (soprano), Nico de Villiers (piano) 1300 Organ Recital: Emanuele Cardi (Battipaglia, Italy), playing works by St Bride Fleet Street Pietro Alessandro Yon (1866-1943) St Michael Cornhill Saturday 21 September – London Open House Weekend (see box below) 1305 Recital: Honey Rouhani & Grace Carter (sopranos) St Martin Ludgate 1000-1200 & 1400 -1600 Demonstrations of bellringing and belfry tours 1305 Recital (St Anne’s Music Society) (tbc) NB please check at St Botolph Aldgate www.stmary-at-hill.org St Mary at Hill 1030-1600 “Church Crawl” of 4 churches led by the London Gallery Quire, with 1830 Spiritual Practices in World Faiths (5) Wicca – Led by Magnus Randall participants singing from “Your Voices Raise” at each church: See 2 September 1030 St Mary Woolnoth London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King & Martyr 1145 St Margaret Lothbury 1415 St Vedast alias Foster 1530 St Mary le Bow Exhibitions in City Churches Cost of “Your Voices Raise” book £8 on the day, £10 in advance including p&p For further information and to book, visit www.lgq.org.uk ALL HALLOWS BY THE TOWER 1100-1600 A Celebration of Spiritual Direction, led by Mark Godson and Julie “Adrift” exhibition (Part of the Thames Festival) Dunstan Free event Go to www.spiritualitycentre.org for details and Daily from 24 August to 29 September booking London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King & Martyr The artwork, by Hew Locke, consists of a 12 ft richly decorated boat, 1100 & 1200 Guided Tours St Mary le Bow calling to mind those who have lost their lives on the river and at sea Sunday 22 September – London Open House Weekend (see box below) 12 September at 1900 – Meet the artist and hear about his inspiration 1100, 1230, 1400 & 1530 Guided Tours St Mary le Bow

Monday 23 September ST LAWRENCE JEWRY 1300 Recital: Gisela Meyer (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Summer Mosaics Exhibition to 22 September

1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert St Michael Cornhill Includes mosaics on religious themes, and also works by Southbank 1305 Recital: John Crockatt (violin) St Martin Ludgate Mosaics, an artistic community project including young offenders 1830 Spiritual Practices in World Faiths (4) Hinduism - Led by Madhoosoodan See 2 September London Centre for Spirituality - St Edmund King & Martyr ST MARY AT HILL 1830 Talk: A Fresh Start by RicoTice (co-author of Christianity Explored) Exhibition of photography by Laura Lean

Includes dinner To book a place e-mail [email protected] from 19 September St Helen Bishopsgate Tuesday 24 September Photographs of the Stepping Stones street orphanage 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch in Malaysia and its children. To be launched at the 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis plays works by Mendelssohn and English St Mary at Hill Harvest of the Sea Reception on 19 September at 1830 composers from Byrd to Howells St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Recital: Alan Dorn (piano) St Stephen Walbrook Admission Free 1315 Recital: Gil Jetley (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street

Wednesday 25 September 1305 Recital: Primavera Saxophone Quartet St Botolph Aldgate London Open House Weekend – 1305 Recital: Joseph Fleetwood (piano) St Olave Hart Street Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 September 1310 Recital (tbc) NB please check at: www.st-sepulchre.org St Sepulchre without Newgate In addition to the individual listings above, a number of the City Churches, Thursday 26 September including some not normally open to visitors at these times, will be open 1305 Organ Recital in the Celebrity Organ Recital Series for the Harvest in the on one or both of the above dates in some cases with guided tours Sea Festival: Philip Scriven (Cranleigh School) St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Margaret Morrell (soprano), Gillian Spragg (piano) For further details see www.londonopenhouse.org St Mary le Bow

1305 Recital See www.sanctuaryinthecity.net/concerts for up to date details St Olave Hart Street

______October 2013 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

A Transport of Delight Miscellany

Apologies are due on account of the use of the above title, part of which has been used on this front page on a previous occasion. The title is particularly apt on this occasion since, quite literally, you will be taken on what might be called a spotter’s journey, courtesy of Tfl, from a point in the eastern area of the City to a point furthest west. Our journey will be made on the top deck of a number 15 bus, starting at the bus stop on the south side of Tower Hill by the Tower of London. From the vantage point on the top deck of a bus so much more can be seen that relates to City churches. After leaving the bus stop our bus will fork right through its dedicated rising barrier into Great Tower Street. Shortly, on the left, will be seen a narrow street – St Dunstan’s Hill which leads to the remains of the Wren church of St Dunstan in the East with its delightful garden, well worth a future visit. Then on the right will be seen another Wren church, St Margaret Pattens, almost unaltered since it was completed in 1687. It is best then to look quickly to the left down Lovat Lane where you will catch a glimpse of the tower and west front of Wren’s St Mary at Hill. By now we are in Eastcheap and farther along on the south side(our left) near the bus stop just before Fish Street Hill look out for the plaque set in the wall above the shop front indicating the site of St Leonard Eastcheap destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666. The City abounds with these commemorative plaques. Perhaps more might be written about them on another occasion. Down Fish Street Hill can be seen the clock and tower of Wren’s St Magnus the Martyr.

Our bus will now move on into Cannon Street and very soon on the left is Martin Lane down which can be seen a church-like tower, built on the site of the church of St Martin Orgar in 1853. The church features in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons. Shortly on the right will be seen Abchurch Lane up which is the Wren church of St Mary Abchurch, in which is housed the office of the Friends of the City Churches. By now part of the south side and the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral should be visible ahead, but more of that later. The very next lane on the right is that of St Swithin leading to a delightful little garden on the site of Wren’s St Swithin London Stone. The church, dedicated to the harbinger of a possible period of extended rainfall, was destroyed in the Blitz of 1941. After this comes the gentle incline past Cannon Street Station on the left, down to the level of Walbrook under which flows the River Walbrook. Up this street a glimpse can be caught of Wren’s St Stephen Walbrook where Samaritans was founded in 1953. Because of the extensive rebuilding on the west side of Walbrook you will be treated to a good view of the tower of St Mary Aldermary, Wren’s architectural excursion into Gothic. By now St Paul’s Cathedral is the dominant view, overshadowing a tower outside the east end of the Cathedral, the only remaining feature of Wren’s St Augustine Watling Street (blitzed in 1941) cleverly incorporated into the Cathedral Choir School built in the 1960s. Now we have a striking view of Wren’s masterpiece, the Cathedral itself. In this short account, which, it will be remembered is a miscellany, only one feature will be highlighted and that is the excellent view one has out of the right-hand windows of the top deck of our bus of the carving over the South Portico depicting a phoenix with the single word RESURGAM carved under it, both features definitively appropriate to the magnificent structure housing them, finally completed in 1710 after 35 years in construction, to replace the old St Paul's destroyed by the Great Fire in 1666.

As we travel along the curve of St Paul’s Churchyard leading into Ludgate Hill we see the statue of Queen Anne standing before the west front of the Cathedral, frequently mis-identified as that of Queen Victoria. Now we commence the incline down Ludgate Hill to Ludgate Circus passing on the right the distinctive structure of Wren’s St Martin without Ludgate, squeezed between commercial buildings. Look ahead and to the left and one can see the noteworthy spire of St Bride Fleet Street, another Wren masterpiece. The distinctive wedding-cake structure is currently shrouded in scaffolding as it undergoes comprehensive repair and restoration. We now commence the gentle ascent of Fleet Street. Start looking at the building numbers on the right - the north side. Number 143 is the aim. Look above the shop frontage and sandwiched between the pairs of windows you will see an excellent-looking statue of Mary Queen of Scots. You are asked to note this because further up Fleet Street on the north side, beyond Fetter Lane is the church of St Dunstan in the West. This church was completed in 1833, thus making it the youngest of the City churches in relation to its construction. On the south face is the statue of Queen Elizabeth the First, carved in 1586 during her reign. These two statues remind us of the sad historical connection between the two Queens ending in the execution of Mary in 1587.

At this point we must end our journey as our number 15 bus passes Temple Bar with the isolated tall pedestal in the centre of the road, surmounted by a dragon facing east, marking the boundary of the City of London. We hope this miscellany has whetted appetites for a much closer examination of the route from the Tower to Temple Bar, perhaps this time on foot.

Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA tel. 020 7626 1555 (answerphone) e-mail: [email protected]

Why not visit our websites www.cityevents.org.uk for all the latest information, or www.london-city-churches.org.uk for downloadable maps and links to all the churches in the city?

Every Wednesday - continued REGULAR SERVICES IN OCTOBER 2013 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow to change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower website at www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn Every Monday 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr Every Thursday 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook Every Tuesday 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1300 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens (Not 19 September – see 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Special Serivces On 5 September begins at 1305) 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion St Dunstan in the West 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr of the month. Please see the church website: 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1300 Contemplative Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 Meditation Group in the Crypt Chapel – All welcome St Mary le Bow 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Every Friday 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow Every Wednesday 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Pause for Prayer - a reflective prayer service using a liturgy from 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate the Iona Community St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 0830 Holy Communion (CW Order II) St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel Please apply at the vestry 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row St Mary le Bow 1215 Holy Communion St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Abchurch 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1245 Communion Service Wesley's Chapel 1315 Holy Communion (CW Order 1) St Lawrence Jewry 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Margaret Lothbury 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1800 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet Site of the 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at Internet Church for London. To watch these services, which change 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the on a daily basis, log on to: www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate / continued

SPECIAL SERVICES IN OCTOBER 2013 CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN OCTOBER 2013

Wednesday 2 October Tuesday 1 October 1300 Celebrating the Feast of St Michael and All Angels 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Anglican Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1300 Organ Recital: Tom Bell (Organist and Choirmaster, 1300 Business Harvest Festival with the choir of St Stephen's ─ St Michael, Chester Square, London) Works by Williamson, Te Deum in F by Ireland, 'The Heavens are telling' by Haydn Alain, Matthew Sergeant (five visions from the Book of Enoch) The service will be followed by a reception and J S Bach St Lawrence Jewry St Stephen Walbrook 1300 Recital: Maria Zachariadou (cello), Richard Birchall (cello) 1900 City Harvest at St Andrew Holborn Sung Eucharist Works by Boccherini, Britten and two premières of works by Preacher: The Rt Revd Bishop Stephen Oliver Richard Birchall and Bushra El-Turk respectively "The Garden in the City" St Andrew Holborn St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital: Sussex Camerata St Bride Fleet Street 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 3 October 1300 City Harvest at St Andrew Holborn Wednesday 2 October Choral Eucharist ─ Service of Healing 1305 Recital: The Satler Quartet performs Mozart ─ Preacher: The Revd Hugh Valentine St Andrew Holborn 'Prussian Quartet' K575 St Botolph Aldgate 1300 ‘Souper Harvest Service’ – A Harvest for the Homeless 1305 Lloyd's Choir Autumn Concert will include Monteverdi After the service you are invited to share in some soup to raise madrigals and works by Rachmaninov , Lotti and Gabrieli money for the ‘Broadway’ project which helps the homeless in Admission Free St Katharine Cree the City. St Margaret Pattens 1305 Recital: For further information please visit:

www.sanctuaryinthecity.net St Olave Hart Street Friday 4 October 1310 City Harvest at St Andrew Holborn 1230 City Harvest at St Andrew Holborn Organ Recital: Gergely Kaposi Works by Bernard Bach, Requiem Mass for the Departed St Andrew Holborn Handel, Telemann, Franck, Paul Ayres, Liszt and Widor Admission Free St Andrew Holborn 1310 Recital: Sergei Podobedov (piano) St Sepulchre Newgate Tuesday 8 October 1900 Recital by 'Endymion' Chamber Ensemble 1800 "Harvest in the City" ─ a time of celebration and Works by Strauss, Barber and Wagner thanksgiving for the commodities brought to this country Tickets £25, £20, £15 from: www.templemusic.org through the often invisible fruits of the work of the City or the box office on 020 7427 5641 Temple Church business environment. The Revd Fiona Stewart-Darling will speak on the theme "Called to Work". There will be music by the choir of Thursday 3 October St Dunstan's College. All welcome. All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Organ Recital: James Norrey (Assistant Director of Music at Norwich Cathedral) St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Catherine Leonard (piano) St Mary le Bow Wednesday 9 October 1305 Recital: Felicity Smith (mezzo-soprano), Claire Harris (piano) 1300 Anglican Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street Commemorating Thomas Traherne (1636? – 1674), poet, 1310 Organ Recital: Gordon Phillips Memorial Recital clergyman, and theologian St Mary at Hill to be given by Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1310 City Harvest at St Andrew Holborn Recital: "An Anthology of Flowers" to be given by Thursday 10 October Charlotte de Rothschild (soprano) 1200 Maritime Foundation Memorial Book Service ─ Admission Free St Andrew Holborn The annual service of remembrance for those lost at sea and for 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series – whom there is no known grave. All Hallows by the Tower Emanuelle Cardi (Battipaglia, Salerno, Italy) St Margaret Lothbury Sunday 13 October Friday 4 October 1100 Fish Harvest Festival Service St Mary at Hill 1100 to 1600 A series of sessions bookable individually, on the 1315 Harvest Sunday Celebration ─ Choral Eucharist theme “Support in Spiritual Direction – Developing Direction” St Bride Fleet Street 1. Anne Colman on ‘Abiding and Abounding’ – exploring the formation of ordinands through the lens of spiritual direction Wednesday 16 October The fee for each session is £40. For more information and 1300 Fish Harvest Festival Eucharist Anglican Holy Communion booking please visit: St Mary at Hill London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr 1230 Organ Recital: Toril Briese (Royal College of Music) Sunday 20 October St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Trafalgar Day Choral Eucharist St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: SYRINX I 'A Hollow Reed' Ann Allen & Belinda Paul (shawms, dulcians & baroque oboes) Sally Hilman (dulcian & bassoon), Martin Knizia (organ & Sunday 27 October ─ Reformation Sunday harpsichord) Works by Landini, de Selma, Frescobaldi, 1100 Lutheran Choral Eucharist St Mary at Hill Boismortier and Vivaldi St Mary at Hill

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN OCTOBER 2013 - continued Wednesday 9 October 1305 Organ Recital: Andrew Wilson St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Music in Offices winner's recital Friday 4 October ─ continued Che Frye (piano), Phil Cambridge (trombone) 1310 City Harvest at St Andrew Holborn St Olave Hart Street Friday Forum ─ Free public lecture: "Human Cities" 1310 Recital: Deborah Aloba (mezzo-soprano), to be given by Dae Wha Kang St Andrew Holborn Juwon Ogungbe (baritone), Ryoko Izitsu (piano) 1315 Recital: Luca Luciano (clarinet) St Bride Fleet Street 'Magnificent voices sing from Mozart to Gershwin' 1930 ‘In search of the Paramatma’ – a performance of Punjabi and St Sepulchre Newgate Bengali spiritual music and dance. Tickets £12 1805 JustShare City Talk with Michaela Alfred-Kamara: For more details and registration contact 020 7496 1616 'Slavery still on London's doorstep: What can the City do?' St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate St Mary le Bow 1830 for 1900 QuizAid A fundraising evening for Christian Aid "Put your brain to the Test" Minimum donation £5 per person Saturday 5 October Bring you own drink, nibbles provided Please contact Claire 1000 ‘Beyond Honest to God’ A day conference to examine trends on: [email protected] to register your interest in Christian thinking and practice which have emerged in the St Bride Fleet Street 50 years since the publication of John Robinson’s ground- 1830 ‘Re-imagining the Sacred: Food’ Faith traditions have often breaking book Fee £25, concessions £15 For more linked food with ritual, celebration and community. How is this information and booking please contact 020 7496 1610 relationship between food and the sacred experienced today? St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate For details and registration please contact 020 7496 1610 St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate

Monday 7 October Thursday 10 October 1305 Recital: Jim Wills (baritone) and Celia Vince (piano) 1305 Organ Recital: Masato Suzuki (Bach Collegium Japan) "English Song" ─ Works by Ireland, Finzi, Britten, Warlock, St Mary at Hill Gurney, Butterworth, Quilter & Somervell St Martin Ludgate 1305 Recital: Chris Christodoulou (bouzouki) St Mary le Bow 1800 to 2000 The first session in a series of ten on the theme 1305 Recital: For further information please visit: ‘Exploring Life: Spirituality 101 — www.sanctuaryinthecity.net St Olave Hart Street find yourself: find your direction: find your place' 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays This will be a series of group sessions led by Annette Kaye and Toccatas and Variations (1) St Margaret Lothbury Julian Maddock meeting on Mondays over ten weeks. For more details and booking contact 020 7621 1391 or http://centreforspirituality.eventbrite.co.uk Friday 11 October or email: [email protected] 1145 ‘City Forum’ A conversation exploring the possibility of setting London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr up a forum for dialogue within the City. 1830 to 2030 Spiritual Practices in World Faiths (6) Judaism For details and registration please contact 07989 545 958 Facilitator Rabbi Janet Burden Sixth of a series of Monday St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate evening talks/discussions/workshops. 1230 Organ Recital: David Phillips St Stephen Walbrook Free event but a donation is requested 1305 Recital: Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) will play ─ For further details & booking please contact 020 7621 1391 Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Book II or go to: www.eventbrite.co.uk/org/3655596295 Preludes and Fugues Nos 1-12 St Mary at Hill or email: [email protected] 1315 Recital: Cathy Bell (mezzo-soprano) St Bride Fleet Street London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr

Saturday 12 October Tuesday 8 October 1100 to 1600 One-day Workshop: Debbie Thrower will speak on 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 'Spirituality and Ageing' . Cost £30 1300 Organ Recital: Charles Andrews (Associate Director of Music, For further details & booking please contact 020 7621 1391 All Saints Margaret Street, London) Works by Franck, Dupré, or go to: http://spiritualityandageing.eventbrite.co.uk/ Heiller and J S Bach St Lawrence Jewry or email: [email protected] 1300 Recital: Greg Tassell (tenor), Chris Bundhan (guitar) will London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr perform the song cycle 'Songs from the Chinese' 1300 ‘Entering Divine Life’ A Retreat on the Naming of God. for high voice and guitar (opus 58) by Benjamin Britten The Retreat will be led by Claire Henderson Davis St Stephen Walbrook For details and registration please contact 020 7496 1610 1315 Recital: David Braid (guitar), Sergio Podobedov (piano) St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate St Bride Fleet Street 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1900 Silent Film: 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' with David Briggs (organ) Sunday 13 October Watch John Barrymore starring in the renowned silent film of 1300 The Ethelburga Walk A 9-mile walk from Barking to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic about a Victorian scientist Bishopsgate – a great day out for a great cause who turns himself into a murderous abomination. More details and registration from 020 7496 1610 Tickets £25, £15, £10 from: www.templemusic.org St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate or the box office on 020 7427 5641 Temple Church

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN OCTOBER 2013 - continued Thursday 17 October 1305 Organ Recital: Michael Bawtree (Concert Organist Glasgow) St Mary at Hill Monday 14 October 1305 Organ Recital: Timothy Roberts St Mary le Bow 1000 ‘Conflict coaching’ A certificated three day course in conflict 1305 Recital: Daniel Beskow St Olave Hart Street coaching for anyone dealing with workplace or personal 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower conflict. More details and registration: 07989 545 958 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate Toccatas and Variations (2) St Margaret Lothbury 1305 Recital: Laura Monaghan (soprano) & David Jones (baritone) 2000 ‘Singing with a difference’ The St Ethelburga’s Choir sing St Martin Ludgate songs from around the world. A free event with donations. 1305 Recital: SYRINX II 'La Chasse' For more details and registration — 020 7496 1610 Ann Allen & Belinda Paul (baroque oboe), St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate Sally Holman (baroque bassoon), Friday 18 October Anneke Scott & N. N. (baroque horns) 1230 Organ Recital: Oliver Macfarlane St Stephen Walbrook A glimpse into a lost tradition of 18th century wind music 1305 Recital: Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) will play ─ with suites, overtures and dances by Telemann and Handel Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Book II for oboes and horns St Mary at Hill Preludes and Fugues Nos 13-24 St Mary at Hill 1400 to 1645 Exploring Christian Spirituality An introduction to the 1305 Organ Recital: Timothy Roberts St Mary le Bow great traditions of Christian spirituality. It is intended to be 1315 Recital: David Dean (piano) St Bride Fleet Street experiential rather than academic to complement personal 1900 ‘Melting the ice of the heart’ An elder from Greenland shares joueneys in spiritual development. The course lasts for 19 indigenous spiritual wisdom and ritual. weeks and is led by John-Francis Friendship and Antonia Lynn Fee £9; students/unemployed £6 Cost £300 More details and registration from: 07989 545 958 For more details and booking please contact 020 7621 1391 St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate or go to: http://explchristianspir2013-14.eventbrite.co.uk/ or email: [email protected] Saturday 19 October London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr 1000 ‘Exploring collective story’ An experiential workshop on how 1800 to 2000 The second session in a series of ten on the theme collective stories shape our lives and identities with ‘Exploring Life: Spirituality 101’. For more details please refer Debbie Warrener. Fee £50, concessions £30 to the entry for Monday 7 October. More details and registration from 07989 545 958 London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate 1100 to 1600 One-day Workshop: 'Musiking the Mystery' June Boyce-Tillman will speak on Music and Spirituality and their connection in various cultures both sacred and secular Tuesday 15 October with the particular history of European Christianity. 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Fee £30 For further details & booking please visit 1300 Organ Recital: Greg Morris (Associate Organist, Temple www.spiritualitycentre.org Church, London) Works by de Grigny, Vierne, Franck London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr and J S Bach St Lawrence Jewry 1100 to 1645 Come and Sing with John Rutter 1300 Recital: To be arranged St Stephen Walbrook A warm welcome is extended to acclaimed composer and 1315 Recital: John Crockatt (violin) St Bride Fleet Street director John Rutter for another of his ever-popular 'Come and 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street Sing' days. The choir rehearses throughout the day, firstly in 1900 Recital by the Sacconi String Quartet Works by Purcell, the glorious acoustic of Middle Temple Hall and then, later in Britten, Puccini and Verdi Tickets £20, £15, £10 from: the afternoon, in the atmospheric Temple Church. www.templemusic.org or the box office on 020 7427 5641 All abilities accepted for this fun Saturday of music-making. Temple Church Tickets £25 including sandwich lunch from www.templemusic.org or the box office on 020 7427 5641 Temple Church

Wednesday 16 October Monday 21 October 1305 Recital; Eliza McCarthy (piano) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Recital: Lysianne Chen & Minni Ho (four hands piano duo) 1305 Recital: James Kirby (piano) St Olave Hart Street Works by Schubert and Poulenc with Jazz numbers 1310 Recital: Crispin Lewis (baritone), Raymond Lewis (piano) St Martin Ludgate A selection from Schubert's 'Winterreise' 1400 to 1645 Exploring Christian Spirituality The second session of St Sepulchre Newgate this course. Please refer to the entry on Monday 14 October 1900 RNLI Chamber Concert: City Chamber Ensemble for the outline of the course and contact details Jill Kemp (recorder), Michael Gammie (conductor) London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr For programme information please visit: 1800 to 2000 The third session in a series of ten on the theme www.sanctuaryinthecity.net ‘Exploring Life: Spirituality 101’. For more details please refer This will be a fund-raising concert of popular classics. to the entry for Monday 7 October. The series will continue on Champagne reception. Mondays in November and December. Tickets £30 from Hannah Ashton at the RNLI (N.B. There is no meeting on Monday 28 October) on: 0300 300 9903 St Olave Hart Street London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN OCTOBER 2013 - continued Saturday 26 October 1100 ‘Re-Invigorating Music in Christian Worship’ Tuesday 22 October A come-and-sing workshop exploring music from other faith 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch traditions, led by Rosie Parker Fee £15 1300 Organ Recital: Tom Winpenny (Assistant Master of the Music, More details and registration from 020 7496 1610 St Alban's Cathedral) Works by Buxtehude, Frescobaldi, St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate Saint-Saëns, Bingham, Jongen and J S Bach St Lawrence Jewry Monday 28 October 1300 Recital: Matthew Pochin (tenor), Benedict Lewis Smith (piano) 1305 Recital: Elizabeth Pink (contralto) and David O'Shea (piano) A recital of English Song featuring works by Finzi, Parry, Elgar "Dreams and Memories" ─ Songs by Quilter, Chaminade, and Quilter St Stephen Walbrook Wagner and Schumann St Martin Ludgate 1315 Recital: Patrizia Salvini (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: Anete Graudina (violin), Florian Mitrea (piano) 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street Beethoven: Sonata No 3 in E flat major, Romanze in G major St Mary at Hill 1400 to 1645 Exploring Christian Spirituality The third of ten Wednesday 23 October sessions of this course. Please refer to the entry on Monday 1305 Recital: Richard Lea (baritone) St Botolph Aldgate 14 October for the outline of the course and contact details. 1305 Recital: Dina Duisen (piano) St Olave Hart Street The course continues in November, December, January, 1310 Recital: Mee Hyun Oh (violin), Lydia Kwon (cello) February and March Works by Bach, Beethoven and Halvosen London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr St Sepulchre Newgate 1805 JustShare Panel Discussion: Tuesday 29 October National Ethical Investment Week: Eiris and ShareAction: 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 'Principles & Profits: Investing to protect people, the planet 1300 A concert to be given by students from the Guildhall School and your savings' St Mary le Bow of Music and Drama St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital: Anna Basaldua (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 24 October 1305 Organ Recital: Scott Farrell (Director of Musicat Rochester Wednesday 30 October Cathedral) St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Melicus Duo ─ Marie Vassiliou (soprano), 1305 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Mary le Bow Nico de Villiers (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1305 Recital: Catherine Lee (cello), Nadav Hertzka (piano) 1310 Recital: Ayako Yamazaki (violin) with Katya Lazareva (viola) St Olave Hart Street Classical strings from Japan and Belarus 1310 Organ Recital: Matthew Blaiden All Hallows by the Tower St Sepulchre Newgate 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series ─ Per Thunarf (from Stockholm, Sweden) Thursday 31 October St Margaret Lothbury 1305 Organ Recital: Marcus Wibberley (Director of Music at 1830 'Wee Sing in the City' An opportunity to sing your heart out Hexham Abbeyl) St Mary at Hill with songs from the world church and the Iona Community 1305 Organ Recital: Alan Wilson St Mary le Bow All welcome, refreshments from 1800 1305 Recital: Richard Allum (piano), Paul Bentley (tenor), All Hallows by the Tower Paul du Plessis-Smith (counter tenor) St Olave Hart Street 1930 Concert: The Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers presents the Cantate Choir in a concert of sacred music.

The programme includes Sacrae Cantiones by Gesualdo, Pari Intervallo by Pärt and Prayers for Mankind by Levine Tickets £15 in advance or on the door. For advance bookings St Bride Fleet Street

please email: [email protected] St Margaret Pattens SAVE THE DATE

Tuesday 5th November at 7.00pm Friday 25 October 1230 Organ Recital: Patrick Hopper St Stephen Walbrook The Annual Olsen Lecture 1305 Recital: Sara Cluderay (soprano), Mayda Narvey (cello), This year we are delighted to welcome as our lecturer Selah Perez Villar (piano) Works by Barber, Copland, Margaret Hodge, Labour Member of Parliament for Barking Bernstein, Nadia and Lili Boulanger St Mary at Hill and Chair of the Public Accounts Committee 1310 Recital: Stephanie Legg (saxophone) with Julia Hart (violin) An entertaining programme including light music Tickets £15 at the door, £10 in advance, NUS £8 St Sepulchre Newgate 1315 Organ Recital: James Paget St Bride Fleet Street To book and for further details please email: [email protected]

______November 2013 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

All Hallows by the Tower

The theme of our front page last month was the interesting miscellany of mostly visual references to City churches to be seen from the top deck on, and just off, the route of the Tfl number 15 bus as it wends its way westward from the bus stop by the Tower of London through the City to Temple Bar. Unfortunately your traveller was so engrossed in ascending the stairs of the bus as it moved off towards Great Tower Street that he failed to see a most distinguished City church on the left just after the bus stop referred to above, namely the church of All Hallows by the Tower. This unfortunate omission was pointed out to us and we are truly sorry for it and to make amends our front page will be devoted entirely to that church. We are indebted to Tony Tucker, the author of The Visitor's Guide to the City of London Churches for much of the following account..

All Hallows by the Tower is also known as All Hallows Barking, a reference to the nuns of Barking Abbey, who founded the church in 675 AD. It has claims to being the oldest church in the City and was still a medieval building until the bombing of the Second World War, which reduced its interior to rubble. The walls of the old church survived, along with the 17th century tower, famous as the vantage point from which Samuel Pepys and Admiral Penn (father of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, who was baptised in the church and educated in the old schoolroom) watched as the Great Fire destroyed the majority of the City in September 1666. Lord Mottistone rebuilt the church after World War II with a concrete ceiling and limestone piers in the interior and an elaborate steeple of green Zambian copper. The church was rededicated in 1957. The bombing exposed a Saxon arch in the south-west corner of the church, the only standing Saxon fabric in any London church, as well as an extensive undercroft, in which can be seen Roman tessellated pavements, several remains of Saxon crosses, a fine collection of the church’s silver and an interesting model of Roman Londinium. The undercroft also houses several small chapels, the main one featuring an altar made from stones brought from the Templars’ church in the Crusader Castle at Athlit, below Mount Carmel. Two other tiny medieval chapels are dedicated to St Francis and St Clare. In the undercroft can also be seen the Marriage Register recording the marriage in All Hallows in 1797 of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the USA. The location of the church by the Tower of London meant that it cared for numerous beheaded bodies brought for temporary burial following their executions on Tower Hill, including those of Thomas More, Bishop John Fisher and Archbishop Laud.

All Hallows houses many exceptional historic treasures, including the Tate panel, a rare late-15th century Flemish painted altar-piece in the Lady Chapel in the north-east corner of the church. In this chapel the Toc H lamp of maintenance is perpetually lit and there is a monument nearby bearing the effigy of the former Rector for 40 years, the Reverend Philip Thomas Byard Clayton (known as 'Tubby' Clayton), who founded the Toc H movement to keep alive the spirit of Christian fellowship he had experienced in Flanders in the First World War. In the baptistery, surrounded by Keith New’s post-war stained glass windows, is one of the finest examples of the work of Grinling Gibbons, greatest of the 17th century woodcarvers. His font cover consists of over 100 pieces depicting cherubs supporting flowers, leaves, fir-cones and wheat-ears, topped by a dove. There is more fine woodcarving to admire in the pulpit, which comes from Wren’s St Swithin London Stone, a church destroyed in the Blitz during World War II. Above it, the modern tester represents three sea- shells, symbols of St James of Compostela. There are 16th century wooden figures of St James, St Roche and St Anthony of Egypt in the nave and north aisle. In the south-east corner of the church is the Mariners’ Chapel, which celebrates the church’s connections with the Port of London Authority and many shipping companies. The cross above the altar is made from the wood of the Cutty Sark and the ivory figure of Christ is said to have come from the captain’s cabin on the flagship of the Spanish Armada. Other notable features are the three elaborate sword-rests and a total of 17 memorial brasses, the finest collection in any of the City churches.

The organ has an interesting history dating from the first by Anthony Duddyngton in 1521. Over the years there have been a number of rebuilds and the Harrison and Harrison organ of 1928 is noteworthy for having been played by Albert Schweitzer in 1934 and 1935 when he made several recordings of Bach's music. The current organ was installed by Harrison and Harrison in 1957, the previous instrument having been destroyed in the Blitz of 1940. It is in constant use for services and for the recitals which take place on most Thursdays at lunchtime.

The City church of All Hallows by the Tower bears testimony to 2000 years of City history, from Roman and Saxon remains, through medieval and Wren-period furnishings to reminders of many events of the 20th century and that testimony is continued through its very active ministry today.

Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA tel. 020 7626 1555 (answerphone) e-mail: [email protected]

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Every Wednesday - continued REGULAR SERVICES IN NOVEMBER 2013 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate to change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill website at www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow Every Monday 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe Every Thursday 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Every Tuesday 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1300 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 1230 Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street of the month. Please see the church website: 1300 Contemplative Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk St Martin within Ludgate 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1300-1400 (any time) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 Meditation Group in the Crypt Chapel – All welcome St Mary le Bow 1800 Eucharist followed by Book Group beginning a discussion 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields of a new book by Andrew Davison "Whu Sacraments? 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Refreshments will be provided St Dunstan in the West 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn This service will be held in November only 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow Every Friday Every Wednesday 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 0730 Eucharist followed by breakfast in the Vestry St Dunstan in the West 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr This service will be held in November only 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Holy Communion (CW Order II) St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 Pause for Prayer - a reflective prayer service using a liturgy from 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row the Iona Community St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1215 Holy Communion St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel Please apply at the vestry 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less St Mary le Bow 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Abchurch 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Communion Service Wesley's Chapel 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1315 Holy Communion (CW Order 1) St Lawrence Jewry 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1800 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre /continued

SPECIAL SERVICES IN NOVEMBER 2013 CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN NOVEMBER 2013

Friday 1 November Saturday 2 November ─ All Souls' Day 1230 Organ Recital: Liam Cartwright St Stephen Walbrook 1100 Sung Requiem Mass for All Souls' Day 1315 Recital: Miguel Clavijo (guitar) St Bride Fleet Street Celebrant – the Right Reverend Jonathan Baker The music will be Fauré's setting of the Requiem Saturday 2 November Those wishing to attend this service are asked to inform the 1700 'The Glories of English and European Renaissance Polyphony' administrator at: [email protected] A Concert of Renaissance Music to be given by the or on 020 7405 1929 St Dunstan in the West University of St Andrews Renaissance Group (1970s) Works by Byrd, Tallis, Weelkes, Taverner, Clemens, de Wert, Sunday 3 November Palestrina and Victoria 1030 Contemporary Worship Service Admission free St Lawrence Jewry St Sepulchre without Newgate 1930 Concert to be given the Holst Singers conducted by 1600 All Souls Service St Giles Cripplegate Stephen Layton The programme will include Requiem by Herbert Howells and works by Tavener, Rachmaninov, Pärt, Tuesday 5 November Lauridsen, Kalinnikov, Gretchaninoff, Poulenc and Percy 1300 to 1400 (anytime) Contemporary Worship Service Grainger Tickets £15, concessions £10 available from: St Sepulchre without Newgate www.brownpapertickets.com/event/479760 1745 Sung Evening Prayer for All Saints' Tide St Mary le Bow St Sepulchre without Newgate 1840 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate Monday 4 November 1305 Recital: Julian Hellaby (piano) Works by Bach, Ravel, Thursday 7 November Ramskill (first performance), Liszt and Liapunov 1310 Choral Requiem of All Souls Day St Botolph Bishopsgate St Martin Ludgate 1310 Service to mark Remembrance Day St Margaret Pattens Tuesday 5 November

1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Sunday 10 November ─ Remembrance Sunday 1300 Recital: Jane Gilbert (flute) and Neil Wright (organ) 1050 Service for Remembrance Sunday The Service will include St Stephen Walbrook movements of Fauré's setting of the Requiem performed by the 1315 Recital: Zoe Freedman (soprano) St Bride Fleet Street choir and orchestra of St Bride's using the composer's original 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street orchestration St Bride Fleet Street 1830 for 1900 The Annual Olsen Lecture to be given by 1055 Choral Mattins for Remembrance Sunday Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Public Accounts Committee The Last Post will be sounded and the Silence kept at 1100 For full details, including a special offer, please see the 'box' The Guest Speaker will be: display at the end of the listings on the last page Field Marshal The Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank GCB LVO OBE Guests arriving at 6:30pm can join us for a drink before the The Temple Church lecture, courtesy of Kaizo St Bride Fleet Street 1120 Service for Remembrance Sunday St Sepulchre without Newgate Wednesday 6 November 1045 to 1500 Barts Christmas Fair Monday 11 November ─ Armistice Day The Fair will be opened by the Lady Mayoress 1100 The Last Post and Reveille in Church Court Stalls will be selling stocking fillers, home-made crafts, The Temple Church jewellery, books, Christmas cards and home-made cakes. Tuesday 12 November Entry to the Fair is free. All proceeds go to the charities that 1300 to 1400 (anytime) Contemporary Worship Service support St Bartholomew’s Hospital. These include Barts Guild St Sepulchre without Newgate and the Macmillan Cancer Information Centre and 1840 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate the Hospital Radio Barts Great Hall Sunday 17 November 1305 Recital: Ben Clark (tenor) ─ accompanied by 1030 Contemporary Worship Service Edward Picton-Turbervill (organ) The programme will include St Sepulchre without Newgate Britten’s ‘Winter Words’ St Botolph Aldgate Tuesday 19 November 1310 Recital: Jung Yoon Cho (violin), Emeline Archambault (piano) 1300 to 1400 (anytime) Contemporary Worship Service The programme will include Sonata for violin and piano No 1 St Sepulchre without Newgate in G major by Brahms St Sepulchre without Newgate 1840 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate 1830 'A Night to Remember' Words and Music for Remembrance A special event in aid of the Parachute Regiment Afghanistan Thursday 21 November Trust for Wounded Paratroopers 1305 Patronal Festival St Katharine Cree For further information and tickets at £15 please go to www.glenart.co.uk or call 07980 631 110 Sunday 24 November St Dunstan in the West 1030 Contemporary Worship Service Thursday 7 November St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 Song Recital in the 'Song in the City' Series Tuesday 26 November 'Verdi and Wagner – Spirits of an Age' 1300 to 1400 (anytime) Contemporary Worship Service Wagner and Verdi as both like-minded and opposing forces of St Sepulchre without Newgate the Romantic era St Botolph Bishopsgate Hall 1840 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Hannah Woolmer (violin), Daniel Roberts (piano) St Mary at Hill Thursday 28 November 1305 Organ Recital: Susan Heath-Downey St Mary le Bow 1310 Holy Communion to mark St Andrew's Day 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower St Margaret Pattens 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series – 1399-1330 Monthly Prayer and Reflection St Giles Cripplegate Michael Funke from Bayreuth, Germany St Margaret Lothbury

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN NOVEMBER 2013 ─ continued Tuesday 12 November 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1315 Recital: Chris Christodoulou (bouzouki) accompanied by Thursday 7 November ─ continued Anne Marshal (piano) will play transcriptions of works by 1315 Cosy Coffee Concert: Juecheng Chen (counter tenor), Vivaldi and Blavet St Bride Fleet Street Ching Man Ho (harp) — French songs by Voice and Harp 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street (Poem of Paul Verlaine) Composers – Fauré, Debussy and Hahn St Andrew by the Wardrobe Wednesday 13 November 1315 Recital: Angus and Alexandra McPhee (baritone & soprano) 1305 Recital: Lysianne Chen (piano) St Botolph Aldgate 'Le Papillon et la Fleur' Songs and arias by Bach, Schumann, 1310 Recital: Wake Hasagawa (piano) The programme will include Bellini, Fauré and Britten St Dunstan in the West 'Forest Scenes' Opus 66 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1900 Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' performed by Opera Project St Sepulchre without Newgate The opera will be sung in English with a chamber orchestra. Thursday 14 November Tickets £50 in aid of St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Song Recital in the 'Song in the City' Series Ticket enquiries: [email protected] 'Verdi and Wagner ─ National Revolutionaries' or; [email protected] The role of national identity in the world of these two operatic St Lawrence Jewry giants St Botolph Bishopsgate Hall 1900 Recital: Raphael Wallfisch (cello), John York (piano) 1300 Gresham Lecture ─ Christopher Hogwood's Works by Verdi/Buxton Orr, Britten, Wagner/Liszt and Bridge 'Music in Context Series' ─ Haydn's Symphony No 104 Tickets: £20, £15, £10 from www.templemusic.org commonly known as the 'London' Symphony illustrated with or 020 7427 5641 The Temple Church live musical extracts of the piece. Music will be performed by the Baroque Ensemble from the Royal Academy of Music Friday 8 November Admission is free and the event will be run on a "first come, 1100 to 1600 A series of sessions bookable individually, on the first served" basis. Please feel free to arrive a little early to theme “Support in Spiritual Direction – Developing Direction” ensure that you can get a seat. Doors will be opened half an 2. Stephen Cherry on ‘Real Forgiveness: Stories, Myths and hour before the start of the event. Struggles’ – God's forgiveness and human forgiveness – St Sepulchre without Newgate enigmatic and open-ended. 1305 Organ Recital: Richard Moore St Mary le Bow The fee for each session is £40. For more information and 1305 Recital: Charles Macdougall (tenor) accompanied by booking please visit: Robert Smith (organ & piano) St Mary at Hill London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays J S Bach 1230 Organ Recital: Domenico Gioffre (Royal College of Music) St Margaret Lothbury St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Cosy Coffee Concert: Rosanna Young (piano) and 1305 Recital by the Sweelinck Ensemble – Almut Schlicker and Dominic Walsh (tenor) Works by Finzi and fellow English song Phillip Yeeles (violins), Martin Knizia (organ and harpsichord) composers, to include ‘A Young Man’s Exhortation’ by Finzi Works by Schmelzer and Bertoli St Mary at Hill St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1315 Recital: Marie de Bry & Je I Bung (violas) St Bride Fleet Street 1315 Recital: Ann Hooley (violin), Lizzi Turnbull (viola) St Dunstan in the West Saturday 9 November 1930 Concert: Requiem Aeternam 0930 to 1300 The Ancient Society of College Youths will mark the 50th to be given by Ad Libitum Chamber Choir anniversary of the first peal on these bells directed by Julian Collings with Colin Spinks Organist This will be a Peal Attempt St Mary le Bow The programme will include John Rutter's Requiem, 1000 to 1500 The Lord Mayor's Show Nunc Dimittis by Arvo Pärt, and works by John Tavener, Coffee and tea will be available at St Bride Fleet Street William Byrd and Maurice Green 1930 'Flamenco Fiesta' with Ramon Ruiz and Anita La Maltesa Tickets £10 available on the door or from [email protected] Tickets £12 For more information and booking please contact or 01732 353 487 St Mary le Bow [email protected] or 07814 665 483 1930 Recital: 'Temple Song 2013' to be given by St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate Roderick Williams (baritone), Julius Drake (piano) Programme: Brahms – 'Die Schöne Magelone' Sunday 10 November Tickets: £45, £35, £25, £15, £10, £5 1030 onwards The Ancient Society of College Youths will attempt from www.templemusic.org or 020 7427 5641 to ring 10,000 changes St Mary le Bow The Temple Church 1430 Brent Interfaith Pilgrimage Join us for a walk and sharing of 2000 Benjamin Britten's 'Curlew River' First performance of three faith, tradition and personal reflections. Start at the For more information and how to book please go to: London Interfaith Centre, St Anne and St Andrew, www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=14410 126 Salusbury Road, NW6 6PB Further details from: Alternatively use the box office: 020 7638 8891 [email protected] or 07725 954 005 The performances will take place at St Giles Cripplegate

Monday 11 November Friday 15 November 1305 Recital: Eleanor Janes and Zoe Freedman (sopranos) with 1100, 1230, 1400 & 1430 Curlew River Echo Claire Simmonds and Guilio Potenza (piano accompanists) Curlew River Echo is a reverberation of the performance: Songs and arias by Brahms, Schubert, Britten, Argento, an audio-visual installation playing in the atmospheric Bellini, Richard Strauss and Poulenc St Martin Ludgate environment of this ancient church, inviting people to 1930 Concert: 'Ceremony and Devotion – Music for the Tudors' experience an echo of the opera in a mysterious, evanescent to be given by The Sixteen - conductor Harry Christopher and thought-provoking way. The installation will loop Works by Byrd, Tallis, Sheppard continuously through the day, starting at the times given Tickets: £40, £30, £20 from www.templemusic.org above and finishing at approximately 1645. or 020 7427 5641 The Temple Church For more details please visit:: barbican.org.uk/britten Free to the public. St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Organ Recital: Jonathan Hope St Stephen Walbrook Wednesday 20 November ─ continued CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN NOVEMBER 2013 ─ continued 1800 Cheapside Debate in Prisons Week in association with the Sheriff's & Recorder's Fund Friday 15 November ─ continued 'Justice For All? Are the Government's current reforms of 1305 Recital: Dinah Pounds (flute), Adam Pounds (guitar), Law and Order right and workable?' Works for flute and guitar St Mary at Hill Speakers: Jonathan Aitken (former Conservative Cabinet 1315 Recital: Caroline Wharton (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Minister) and Andy Slaughter (Shadow Minister for Justice) 2000 Benjamin Britten's 'Curlew River' Chair: His Honour Judge Peter Rook QC Second performance of three Please see the entry under At this important debate audience participation and questions Thursday above for more details St Giles Cripplegate are always welcome. The debate will be followed by a wine reception. Entry is free, but any donation would be most welcome. Saturday 16 November St Mary le Bow 1000 The Corrymeela GB Conference 2013 1900 Britten's St Nicholas Cantata 'Confronting Terror and Violence' ─ Stories of Conscience, The Aurora Orchestra with Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Conviction and Courage from Northern Ireland Tickets: £20, £15, £10 from www.templemusic.org Conference fee £25, concessions £15 Further details from: or 020 7427 5641 The Temple Church [email protected] or 020 7496 1616 St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate Thursday 21 November 1100, 1230, 1400 & 1430 Curlew River Echo 1000 to 1800 Exhibition of Christian Art – 'Inspire' For details please refer to the entry above at 15 November St Stephen Walbrook St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Song Recital in the 'Song in the City' Series 1930 Concert: The London Euphonia Orchestra A Britten Birthday Concert On the eve of Benjamin Britten's Conductor: Dario Peluso 100th Birthday, some of his greatest songs The programme will include works by Fauré and Khachaturian St Botolph Bishopsgate Hall Tickets: £10 Concessions £8 More information and tickets are 1305 Recital: Masachi Nishiyama (piano) St Mary at Hill available from: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/244223 1305 Recital: Jelena Makarova (piano) St Mary le Bow Doors will open at 1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays J S Bach 2000 Britten's 'Curlew River' Third and final performance of three St Margaret Lothbury Please see the entry under Thursday above for more details 1315 Cosy Coffee Concert: Thomas Abela (classical guitar) St Giles Cripplegate St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1900 for 1930 Meeting of 3F The Revd Dwayne Morgan of the Metropolitan Community Church will be talking about his work Monday 18 November St Botolph Aldgate 1000 Opening of 'Inspire' – an exhibition of Contemporary Christian 1900 Concert: Handel's 'Messiah' Art. The exhibition will be open from 1000 to 1800 each As in previous performances, all the soloists are drawn from weekday until Friday 29 November St Stephen Walbrook within the twelve-voice choir of the church. The orchestral 1305 Recital: "Baroque & Bouzouki" Chris Christodoulou accompaniment is provided by the Saraband Consort playing (bouzouki) and Anne Marshal (piano) will play transcriptions original instruments of works by Vivaldi, Albinoni and Blavet St Martin Ludgate Tickets £25 on the door £20 in advance Students £15 Free for Under 16+ To book go to: www.stbrides.com and follow the link to Tuesday 19 November 'Handel's Messiah' or telephone 020 7427 0133 1000 to 1800 Exhibition of Christian Art – 'Inspire' St Bride Fleet Street St Stephen Walbrook 1900 'Cathars and the New Humanism' Meet the Cathars – 1200 Recital to be given by the Ligeti Quartet representatives of the New Cathar movement in Spain talk The programme will feature the World Premiere of 'Quartet' about the revival of the tradition crushed by the Inquisition by Matthew Butt St Stephen Walbrook For more information contact: [email protected] 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch or 07814 665 483 St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate 1315 Recital: Mignonette Aarons (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street Friday 22 November 1830 'Re-imagining the Sacred: Economics' Money is often seen 1000 to 1800 Exhibition of Christian Art – 'Inspire' as the antithesis of what is sacred, and Western capitalism is St Stephen Walbrook often associated with greed. How might an understanding of the 1130 Recital: Salvatore Vaccarella (piano) St Bride Fleet Street sacred change the way we relate to this fundamental aspect of 1230 Organ Recital: Peter Wright (Southwark Cathedral) life? With Charles Eisenstein (author of Sacred Economics) St Stephen Walbrook and Mark Boyle (the 'Moneyless Man') 1305 Recital: For details please contact: Event fee £12, concessions £6 (please bring ID) [email protected] St Mary at Hill For more information and booking please contact: [email protected] or 07968 440 684 Saturday 23 November St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate 1930 Concert given by the Tcha Limberger Trio The legendary Roma violinist comes to St Ethelburga's from Wednesday 20 November Hungary Tickets £12 For more information and booking 1000 to 1800 Christian Art Exhibition – 'Inspire' St Stephen Walbrook contact [email protected] or 020 7496 1616 1305 Recital: Francina Moll Salord (violin), Nathan Tucker (piano) St Ethelburga's Centre Bishopsgate St Botolph Aldgate 1930 Concert: The English Baroque Choir 1310 Recital: Mee Hyun Oh (violin), Sooyin Kim (piano) 'Britten Connected' ─ Music by Britten and his contemporaries St Sepulchre without Newgate and those whose music influenced his own Tickets: Please visit: www.ebc.org.uk/ St Sepulchre without Newgate

Saturday 30 November CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN NOVEMBER 2013 ─ continued 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1930 Concert: The Medici Choir Monday 25 November The programme will include Fauré's 'Requiem' 1000 to 1800 Exhibition of Christian Art – 'Inspire' and works by Gabrielli, Purcell and Bruckner St Stephen Walbrook Tickets: £12, concessions £10 available on the door 1305 Recital: Nicole Crespo O'Donoghue (violin) accompanied by St Sepulchre without Newgate Jocelyn Freeman (piano) Works by Beethoven, Arvo Pärt 1930 Concert: St Charlemagne and the Play of Antichrist and Falla St Martin Ludgate The cantors, choir and instrumentalists of the 1305 Recital: William Summers (flute) Works for flute, pedal harp Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge and violincello St Mary at Hill with Bristol University Schola Cantorum Tickets £12 in advance or on the door Tuesday 26 November For tickets in advance please send a cheque to – 1000 to 1800 Exhibition of Christian Art – 'Inspire' 'Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge', 124 Cambridge Road, St Stephen Walbrook Cambridge CB23 7AR The Temple Church 1130 Recital: Eloisa Fleur Thom (piano) St Bride Fleet Street

1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1300 Concert given by students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama St Stephen Walbrook St Bride Fleet Street

1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1930 SAVE Lecture ─ to be given by Matthew Rice on Tuesday 5th November at 6.30 for 7.00pm 'Magic, Beauty and Mystery: Exploring the glories of the great pottery churches' There will be drinks afterwards The Annual Olsen Lecture For further details and how to purchase tickets please see the 'box' display at the foot of this page St Mary Abchurch We welcome as our lecturer Margaret Hodge MP Wednesday 27 November Chair of the Public Accounts Committee 1000 to 1800 Exhibition of Christian Art – 'Inspire' St Stephen Walbrook Tickets £15 at the door, £10 in advance, NUS £8 1305 Recital: Nicholas Mogg (baritone), Harry Ogg (piano) St Botolph Aldgate To book please go to www.stbrides.com 1310 Recital: Rosie Middleton (soprano), Ada Kan (piano) or telephone 020 7427 0133 The programme will include works by Bizet and Mompou St Sepulchre without Newgate There will be a special offer for the first ten

Thursday 28 November readers of this display to email: [email protected] 1000 to 1800 Exhibition of Christian Art – 'Inspire' St Stephen Walbrook

1305 Recital: INVERSION ─ the acclaimed Flute and Organ Duo Ruth Stockdale and Robert Smith St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: David Harvey (guitar) St Mary le Bow 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series – St Mary Abchurch Dick Klomp from Amsterdam, The Netherlands St Margaret Lothbury Tuesday 26th November at 7.30pm 1315 Cosy Coffee Concert: Musicians from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance 'Magic, Beauty and Mystery: St Andrew by the Wardrobe Exploring the glories of the great pottery 1800 for 1900 A Gateway to Advent — Space, silence, music and churches' words. Here is a chance to step out of the routines of your life or a moment; to breathe deeply before the onrush of the A SAVE Lecture following weeks. The church will be open from 1800 for mulled wine and non-alcoholic spiced drinks. Please bring seasonal to be given by Matthew Rice nibbles to share and a cushion to sit on. The evening will be led by Simon Parke — writer, priest, painter, author and architectural enthusiast therapist and Angela Reith — musician, music therapist Author of Rice's Church Primer, London Centre for Spirituality ─ St Edmund King & Martyr Rice's Architectural Primer, 1930 Concert: The Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra Building Norfolk, Lost City of Stoke 'Britons Discovered' ─ Britten, Delius, Milford and Alwyn Tickets: £20 concessions £15 available from: All money raised will go towards funding for www.wegottickets.com ─ search 'NLSO' SAVE Britain's Heritage or telephone: 020 8348 1216 St Sepulchre without Newgate Tickets £15 by sending a cheque to Friday 29 November SAVE Britain's Heritage 1000 to 1800 Exhibition of Christian Art – 'Inspire' 70 Cowcross Street St Stephen Walbrook London EC1M 6EJ 1230 Organ Recital: Julian Bewig (Germany) St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Recital: Anete Graudina (violin), Martin Knizia (organ) or via paypal from www.savebritainsheritage.org Works by Rheinberger, Vitali and Svendsen St Mary at Hill 1315 Organ Recital: Graham Davies St Bride Fleet Street The lecture lasts one hour and will be followed by drinks

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The Ways of Christmas

There are two ways of looking at Christmas, one with the eyes of faith, the other with total scepticism. One sees God, the other sees a joke. One way brings us to our knees; the other reduces us to laughter.

There are two ways of looking at Christmas, God’s way or man’s way. God’s way begins in a manger through the eyes of a baby, looking up. The way of man is to look down and laugh. You cannot have it both ways.

Joseph and Mary end a journey in a city, David’s City, Bethlehem. They were insignificant, they had not made plans for accommodation and unexpectedly Mary’s time for birth arrives.

But here the insignificance ends. For the privacy of the Holy Family is shattered, first by shepherds, then by mumblings from the sky, then by weird foreigners carrying terrifying gifts. And as if that is not enough they are warned that if they stay where they are the lunatic local king will kill the child. The facts of the first Christmas are terrifying; they depend upon the unmentionables ─ sex, politics and religion. A one parent family, an escape into a foreign country: the murder of young children and the disbelief of a nation.

There are two ways of looking at Christmas, the Holy Family's way or Herod’s way. The shepherds' way or the inn keeper's way. The Wise Men’s way or the soldiers of the massacre of the innocent’s way. You can’t have it both ways.

The shepherds in the fields with sheep were suddenly shattered by noise, they were filled with fear, but they listened, “All right lads, there is something more important than sheep. Get up, look for a new baby lying in a manger”. They said “Yes.” Joseph had to believe in his wife and listen to her story and he said “Yes”. And the strange Astrologer Kings follow a star and risk laughter in seeking a child. When they find the child and his mother they offer their gifts, signs of the mystery of God! They leave when they feel danger. But they said “Yes.”

The Churches in the City of London are each in their own way a “Yes” to God; by their witness they attest to the fact of the incarnation - the birth of Jesus Christ and by their very existence at the heart of our commercial city they speak of God’s love. Within a short distance from each working community there is a City church, its presence marks out a territory for God. By entering into the mystery which each building stands for the City community are able to find their own “Yes” to God possible. May the variety of events and services offered in this ‘City Events’ through the City churches become a part of your “Yes” to God this Christmastime.

The Venerable Peter Delaney Archdeacon Emeritus of London Rector of St Stephen Walbrook

Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA tel. 020 7626 1555 (answerphone) e-mail: [email protected]

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REGULAR SERVICES IN DECEMBER 2013 & JANUARY 2014 Every Wednesday – continued

The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre to change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at website at www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate Every Monday 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street Every Thursday 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate [N.B. Not 26 December] Every Tuesday 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn [N.B. up to and including 17 December, re-starting 7 January 2014] 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1300 Contemplative Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate of the month. Please see the church website: 1300-1400 (any time) St Sepulchre without Newgate www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk St Martin within Ludgate 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1305 Meditation Group in the Crypt Chapel – All welcome St Mary le Bow 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1310 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury Every Friday 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr Every Wednesday 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0820 Morning Prayer St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Holy Communion (CW Order II) St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Mass St Andrew Holborn 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 Pause for Prayer - a reflective prayer service using a liturgy from 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row the Iona Community St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1215 Holy Communion St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel Please apply at the vestry 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less St Mary le Bow 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Abchurch 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Communion Service Wesley's Chapel 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1315 Holy Communion (CW Order 1) St Lawrence Jewry 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1800 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate [N.B. 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SPECIAL SERVICES IN DECEMBER 2013 Tuesday 17 December 1300 Christmas Carol Service A traditional celebration of Christmas with themed carols and readings – followed by mince pies and Sunday 1 December mulled wine St Andrew Holborn 1600 Christingle Service St Giles Cripplegate 1300 City Lunchtime Carol Service 1830 Advent Carols St Bride Fleet Street Mince pies and refreshments afterwards St Helen Bishopsgate 1800 Billingsgate Ward Carol Service Carol Service All Welcome Monday 2 December St Mary at Hill 1200 The Bank Churches’ Advent Carol Service St Vedast alias Foster 1300 Bible Study, Prayer and Praise with Bishop Michael Marshall and Wednesday 18 December the Revd Soon-Han Choi St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Solemn Sung Eucharist of the Advent St Botolph Bishopsgate 1900 Ringers' Carol Service St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Carol Service All welcome, followed by mince pies and mulled wine St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Parish Carol Service with wine afterwards St Dunstan in the West Wednesday 4 December 1800 Parish Carol Service – All Welcome St Mary at Hill 1310 Choral Advent Carol Service St Botolph Bishopsgate 1800 Carols by Candlelight St Stephen Walbrook 1330 Advent Cantata St Mary le Bow 1830 Festival of Lessons and Carols in English and Dutch Meet (new) friends over a complimentary glass of wine afterwards Thursday 5 December All very welcome The Dutch Church 1305 Readings and Carols for Advent St Margaret Pattens 1900 Evening Carols St Benet Paul’s Wharf

Sunday 8 December Thursday 19 December 1800 Advent Carol Service St Dunstan in the West 1245 Lunchtime Carol Service . Mulled wine and mince pies afterwards 1800 Carol Service, primarily for University students (under & post- grad) St Margaret Pattens Mince pies and refreshments will be served after the service 1300 City Lunchtime Carol Service St Helen Bishopsgate Mince pies and refreshments afterwards St Helen Bishopsgate 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers with Advent Cantata BWV 132 1305 Carol Service — Carols for all, followed by mulled wine and St Mary at Hill mince pies St Martin Ludgate 1305 The Parish Christmas Carol Service – All welcome St Mary le Bow Monday 9 December 1310 Parish Carol Service with the Choir and Band of Coopers' Company 1300 Bible Study, Prayer and Praise with Bishop Michael Marshall and and Coborn School followed by refreshments the Revd Soon-Han Choi St Stephen Walbrook St Botolph Bishopsgate 1830 Feast of the Immaculate Conception (transferred) 1330 Bite-size Carols A half-hour celebration of carols and short readings Solemn Vespers Wine will be served following the Vespers St Andrew Holborn St Magnus the Martyr 1800 Traditional Carols by candlelight All Hallows by the Tower Tuesday 10 December 1300 Christmas Carol Service – The Britain-Australia Society Friday 20 December St Mary le Bow 1200 Fleet Street Carols I 1830 Parish Carol Service with Castle Baynard Ward Club All are welcome to join us for this celebration of Christmas Mulled wine & mince pies afterwards St Andrew by the Wardrobe Early arrival is advised St Bride Fleet Street 1700 Fleet Street Carols II Wednesday 11 December All are welcome to join us for this second session of our 1310 Solemn Sung Eucharist of the Advent St Botolph Bishopsgate celebration of Christmas Early arrival is advised 1900 Carols by Candlelight in aid of Anthony Nolan St Bride Fleet Street The singing will be led by the choir of Eton College This will be a ticketed event and for tickets please go to: Sunday 22 December www.anthonynolan.org/christmascarols St Botolph Bishopsgate 1600 Festival of Lessons and Carols All Hallows by the Tower 1600 All Age Carol Service Mince pies and refreshments afterwards Thursday 12 December St Helen Bishopsgate 1830 Midweek Evening Carol Service St Helen Bishopsgate 1830 Nine Lessons and Carols St Bride Fleet Street

Sunday 15 December Monday 23 December 1030 All Age Carol Service Mince pies and refreshments afterwards 1730 Lord Mayor’s Carol Service St Helen Bishopsgate Wine and mince pies afterwards St Lawrence Jewry 1030 Parish Carol & Toy Service with local Ward Clubs St James Garlickhythe Tuesday 24 December ─ Christmas Eve 1430 Mandarin-speaking Carol Service 1100 Family Christmas Eucharist and Blessing of the Crib Mince pies and refreshments afterwards St Helen Bishopsgate St Botolph Bishopsgate 1500 Afternoon Carols St Benet Paul’s Wharf 1600 Christmas Eve Crib Service St Giles Cripplegate 1500 Crib Service St Bride Fleet Street 1600 Lutheran Nine Lessons and Carols St Mary at Hill 1600 Afternoon Carol Service Mince pies and refreshments afterwards 1800 High Mass St Magnus the Martyr St Helen Bishopsgate 2100 Sung Eucharist St Giles Cripplegate 1800 Evening Carol Service Mince pies and refreshments afterwards 2330 Midnight Mass by Candlelight with Music and Carol Singing St Helen Bishopsgate from 2300 All Hallows by the Tower 1830 Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten St Bride Fleet Street 2330 Midnight Mass St Botolph Aldgate 2330 Midnight Mass St Bride Fleet Street Monday 16 December 2330 Midnight Communion St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols St Michael Cornhill 2330 The Midnight Mass of Christmas and the Blessing of the Crib 1800 Service de Noël en Français All Hallows by the Tower with music – Messe de Minuit by Charpentier St Stephen Walbrook

Tuesday 3 December ─ continued SPECIAL SERVICES IN DECEMBER 2013 ─ continued 1830 Four Girls, Four Harps An evening of Christmas Carols as you've never heard them before performed by the world's leading harp quartet For tickets go to: templemusic.org or 020 7427 5641 Wednesday 25 December ─ Christmas Day Temple Church 1000 Family Parish Service St Giles Cripplegate Wednesday 4 December 1030 Christmas Day Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Recital: Sarah Smith (clarinet), Luke Tucker (bassoon) perform 1030 All Age Christmas Day Service Mince pies and refreshments works by Beethoven and Poulenc St Botolph Aldgate will be served afterwards St Helen Bishopsgate 1305 Recital: Laura Piras (flute), Julia Kuhn (violin), Clifton Harrison (viola), 1030 Choral Holy Communion St James Garlickhythe Jonathan Rees (cello) St Olave Hart Street 1100 Christmas Day Eucharist with Carols All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Recital: Melanie Young (flute), Michiko Shimanaki (piano) 1100 Family Eucharist St Bride Fleet Street The programme will include 'Carmen Fantasy' by Borne 1100 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr St Sepulchre without Newgate 1100 Lutheran Choral Eucharist in English St Mary at Hill 1805 JustShare Lecture The Revd Chris Beales introduces his new book 1100 Christmas Day Service with music by Mozart — Credo-Messe K257 'Practising Jesus' All welcome ─ refreshments afterwards and Bach — Ehre sei Gott St Michael Cornhill St Mary le Bow 1830 The Cure Parkinson's Trust ─ 'A Celebration of Christmas' Join us for a wonderful evening of Christmas music featuring soloists from the Royal College of Music and the Parkinson's Choir CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN DECEMBER 2013 'Sing Joy for Bloomsbury'. The programme for the evening has been created by British conductor Jeremy Silver and highly acclaimed soprano Sally Silver. Tickets £10 ─ includes a glass of wine and Monday 2 December mince pies. For tickets please go to: 1300 Recital: Amit Yahav (piano) Works by J S Bach and Chopin www.cureparkinsons.org.uk/Eventsd/a-celebration-of-christmas St Lawrence Jewry St Botolph Aldgate 1300 Organ Recital: Tak Man Chow Works by Reger, Muffat, Buxtehude 1830 Re-imagining the Sacred: Education ─ How can an understanding of and Vierne (three movements from Symphonie No 1 including 'Final') the sacred be included in how we educate our young people? St Michael Cornhill For more details and registration please contact: 1305 Organ Recital: Andrew Salyer performs works by English 17th & 18th [email protected] or 07968 440 684 century composers on the renowned Renatus Harris organ St Ethelburga's Centre St Botolph Aldgate 1930 "Rejoice and be Merry" A Festive Offering from 1305 Recital: Alexandra Reid will play Partita No 2 in D minor (BWV 1004) The Joyful Company of Singers Tickets £14/£10 available from for solo violin by J S Bach St Martin Ludgate http://www.wegottickets.com/event/243989 1310 Recital: Rachel Grimes (violin), Sabrina Curpanen (piano) Works by St Sepulchre without Newgate Beethoven and César Franck St Sepulchre without Newgate Thursday 5 December 1900 'Nocturne' ─ The Romantic Life of Frederic Chopin. A programme of 1300 The 3rd session of our Advent-Tide Study Course words and music scripted and adapted from letters by Lucy Parham Tea, coffee, and Bibles available — do bring you own sandwiches who will perform some of Chopin's works on the piano St Botolph Bishopsgate The narrators will be Juliet Stephenson and Samuel West 1305 Recital: 'Christmas Seasonal Music to Warm the Soul ' For further information and tickets please go to: Charles Macdougall (tenor), Robert Smith (organ/piano) templemusic.org or phone the box office on: 020 7427 5641 St Mary at Hill Temple Church 1305 Recital: Susana Gilardoni (soprano), Nick Fletcher(piano) St Mary le Bow Tuesday 3 December 1305 Recital: Boris Bizjak (flute), Yoko Misumi (piano) 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch St Olave Hart Street 1300 Organ Recital: Ann-Caroline Prénat (Switzerland) Works by 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower J S Bach, César Franck, Alain & Guilmant St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity Series 1300 Recital: Auden Breen (trombone), Alison Proctor (piano) Anne-Caroline Prénat (Lutry, Switzerland) St Margaret Lothbury St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Cosy Coffee Concert: Gennie Joy (bass clarinet) Works by 1800 & 2000 Constanza Chorus Concert ─ Handel's 'Messiah' – Part 1 Alain Craens, Paul Harvey, Helmut Lachenmann and Hindemith and Christmas Favourites Tickets £10 for the 1800 performance; No admission fee but donations welcome. Bring your lunch and Tickets £12 at the 2000 performance – include post-concert wine & help yourself to free coffee and tea St Andrew by the Wardrobe nibbles For more information and tickets please go to: 1830 AMREF (African Medical & Research Foundation) http://www.constanzachorus.co.uk/ and follow the link "Krismasi Njema!" A Christmas Celebration combining some St Sepulchre without Newgate favourite European Carols and some traditional African Christmas 1830 Coram Carol Concert Music, mince pies and mulled wine songs with Christmas readings to reflect on, featuring the Tickets £15 for adults – Free for children 16 and under London African Gospel Choir ─ all to support the work of AMREF Join this festive celebration of the wonderful work of Coram for Tickets: £25 for adults; £7 for children. The ticket includes a glass vulnerable children, young people and families of wine and nibbles afterwards. For tickets call Katharine on: To book visit: coramchristmascelebration2013.eventbrite.co.uk/ 020 7269 5520 or email: [email protected] St Andrew Holborn . St Dunstan in the West 1830 St Mungo's ─ one of Britain's largest charities supporting 1830 'Singing Works' Christmas Concert Free admission people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. St Sepulchre without Newgate Join us for our annual Carol Concert. There are also a limited 1845 Adfam Carol Concert. Adfam's mission is to improve the quality of number of tickets for our drinks reception in the crypt afterwards. life for families affected by drug use and alcohol use. The Carol To attend the concert only the suggested donation is £30. Concert is always a wonderful evening featuring carols and festive To attend both the concert and the reception the suggested donation readings. This year's readers include TV presenter Michael Buerk, is £60. For more information and tickets please email actress Gina McKee and Adfam's patron broadcaster Eddie Mair. [email protected] or call 020 8762 5567 Tickets are £15 or £30. Please email [email protected] for St Bride Fleet Street further information. St Bride Fleet Street

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1830 Come and Sing Britten St Nicholas Concert As a tribute to the memory of Benjamin Britten singers are invited to attend a workshop Thursday 5 December ─ continued of the chorus sections of his 'St Nicholas' cantata in the morning. They will then be joined by members of the St Bride's Choir and 1900 Afasic Christmas Carol Concert to celebrate the 45th Anniversary of orchestral players for a full afternoon rehearsal and performance. the work of Afasic in helping and supporting parents, children and Tickets £25 Workshop (includes hire of scores), young people with speech, language and communication needs £10 for the Concert only For more information please go to: (SLCN). This will be a concert for the whole family with wine and www.stbrides.com/news/2013/12/come-sing-britten-st-nicholas.html mince pies on arrival with carols and music from the Brighton Youth or call the office on 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street Orchestra and Brighton Chamber Choir accompanied by the Signing Choir from St Mary's School, Bexhill. Doors open at 1800. Tickets: £15, concessions £7.50 For tickets please contact Monday 9 December Nicola Page on 020 7490 9410 or at: [email protected] 1300 Conflict Resilience Tools for Religious Communities For more information please visit: www.afasic.org.uk A deeper practical workshop exploring tools and resources that can St Andrew Holborn be used to tackle difficult issues in a faith community setting 1900 Recital in the 'Song in the City' series – 'A Christmas Schubertiade' For more information and registration please contact: St Botolph Bishopsgate [email protected] or 07973 446 846 St Ethelburga's Centre 1300 Recital: Carolyn Wharton (piano) Works by Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin St Lawrence Jewry Friday 6 December 1300 Organ Recital: Jemima Stephenson (Sir George Thalben-Ball Organ 1230 Organ Recital: Georgina Sherriff (Royal College of Music) Scholar) anticipates Christmas with a complete performance of St Stephen Walbrook Messiaen's masterpiece La Nativité. The nine movements will be 1305 Recital: ‘A yellow hair’d laddie in Paris’ The Windsor Box & Fir Co introduced from the pulpit by the composer's texts – spoken in French Jenny Thomas & Eva Caballero (flutes), Katharine May (harpsichord), and English St Michael Cornhill Mary Pells (viola da gamba) Works by Telemann, Hotteterre, 1305 Recital: Sarah Gabriel (soprano), Yshani Perinpanayagam (piano) de Fesch and Couperin St Mary at Hill Works by Richard Strauss and Ravel. The recital will include 1830 Recital: Reinis Zariņš (piano) The programme will include works by "Seasonal Greetings" ─ a selection of seasonal songs and carols Bach-Busoni, Bach-Reger, Messiaen, Georgs Pelēcis, Busoni and St Martin Ludgate the Tchaikovsky-Plenev 'Nutcracker' Suite. 1930 A Concert of sacred and secular music will be performed by the choir Tickets £10, concessions £5 all on the door St Mary le Bow of St Magnus the Martyr to launch their newly recorded CD 1845 (Doors 1815) Liz Earle MBE hosts the 'Live Twice' Christmas Concert Admission is free. The concert will be followed by a reception. 'Live Twice' offers opportunity, practical skills training and personal You will be most welcome to come for all or part of the evening. support to disadvantaged people regardless of race or religion, St Magnus the Martyr putting the compassionate principles of 'love your neighbour' into everyday practice. Adrian Bawtree, Programme Director at Tuesday 10 December 'Sing For Your Life', presents a lively, interactive carol repertoire 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch with leading brass and organ performances to enjoy. 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis plays Advent and Christmas Music Tickets: £12 for Adults; tickets for children under 16 also available Works by Reger, J S Bach, Louis-Claude Daquin and Marcel Dupré Ticket includes complimentary refreshments at the reception St Lawrence Jewry afterwards For tickets please go to: 1300 Recital: Sian Phillips (violin) St Stephen Walbrook http://livetwice.org/product-category/christmas/ St Andrew Holborn 1930 City Chorus Christmas Concert ─ 'Rejoice and Sing' Wednesday 11 December Carols and music by Bach, Berlioz and Britten 1305 Recital: Kesan Pundarika (viola) performs Bowen's Viola Sonata No 1 Tickets £10 on the door or in advance from: St Botolph Aldgate http://www.londoncitychorus.com 1305 Recital: Caroline MacPhie (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) St Sepulchre without Newgate St Olave Hart Street 1310 Recital: Emiko Miura (piano) St Sepulchre without Newgate

Saturday 7 December 1100-1600 'Myers-Briggs for Those Working in Spiritual Guidance' Thursday 12 December A one-day workshop led by Sue Wilson 1300 The 4th and final session of our Advent-Tide Study Course This is a ticketed event. For more information please go to: Tea, coffee, and Bibles available — do bring you own sandwiches http://centreforspirituality.event.co.uk/ St Botolph Bishopsgate London Centre for Spirituality at St Edmund King and Martyr 1300 Gresham Lecture given by Professor Christopher Hogwood CBE 'Music in Context: In the Teaching Studio' with Florian Mitrea (piano) Free admission St Sepulchre without Newgate Sunday 8 December 1305 Recital: Mie Ito (baroque harp) St Mary at Hill 1500 London Gay Symphonic Winds Christmas Concert 1305 Recital: Olivia Jageurs (harp), Mea Wade (oboe), Alex Knox (actor) Tickets £8 in advance, £10 on the door, children free St Olave Hart Street Tickets from: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/246331 1310 Handel’s ‘Messiah’ Christmas Music with soloists and the Choral St Sepulchre without Newgate Scholars of Hill House Chelsea and the Lothbury Strings 1830 Christmas Concert: City of London Chamber Choir Director: Richard Townend St Margaret Lothbury Conductor Christopher Field 'Carols for the 21st Century' 1315 Cosy Coffee Concert: Lin Lin (flute), Gen Li (piano) will give a St Bartholomew the Less 20th Century programme to include works by Jindřich Field, Richard Rodney Bennett and Philippe Gaubert continued ……. No admission fee but donations welcome. Bring your lunch and help yourself to free coffee and tea St Andrew by the Wardrobe

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1930 A Christmas Concert to be given by the Barts Festival Choir and Thursday 12 December ─ continued Orchestra ─ Conductor John Lumley 1830 The London Phoenix Orchestra Christmas Concert The programme will include Mozart's Bassoon Concerto, Levon Parikian – Conductor; Fenella Humphreys – Guest Leader Schubert's 3rd Symphony, 'The Spirit of England' by Elgar, and solo violin. A fun-filled musical trip around Europe Five Spirituals from 'A Child of Our Time' by Tippett Programme to include works by Verdi, Dvořák, Saint-Saëns, and there will be Christmas Carols for the audience to sing Balakirev, Humperdinck, Kodály and Vaughan Williams Tickets: £10; Concessions £5 at the door Tickets information and booking at: www.phoenixorchestra.org All proceeds will go to the Barts Cancer Unit St Andrew Holborn The Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital 1830 Lloyds Choir Christmas Concert ─ a programme of new items and original favourites, with Meridian Brass Tuesday 17 December Complimentary refreshments Tickets £10, concessions £7 at the door 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch or from: www.lloydschoir.com St Katharine Cree 1300 Carols for Choir and Audience 1845 Old Ben Carol Concert in aid of NewstrAid ─ An evening of Carols A Christmas miscellany of words and music, led by the Vicar, and seasonal readings with the St Bride's choir Canon David Parrott, with the choir of St Lawrence Jewry and This will be a ticketed event and for more information please go to: organist Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry http://www.newstraid.org.uk/ and follow the links 1310 The City Singers Christmas Music for choir and congregation St Bride Fleet Street followed by a Festive Buffet Lunch St Katharine Cree 1900 A Festival of Carols at Christmas – in aid of the Eve Appeal 1830 Carols by Candlelight — In aid of Operation Smile given by the Choir of St Botolph Bishopsgate The choirs for this event will be the IDMC Gospel Choir and This will be a ticketed event and for more information please go to: the Overtones This will be a ticketed event and for tickets www.eveappeal.org.uk/get-involved/events/festival-of-carols/ please go to: www.operationsmile.org.uk/carols St Botolph Bishopsgate St Botolph Bishopsgate 1900 Handel’s “Messiah” Part 1 including the Hallelujah Chorus and 1900 Mildmay 25th Anniversary Concert A Festive Evening of Carols, the Amen Chorus. Director: Robert Smith Tickets £15 Readings and Hymns to mark 25 years of HIV services and care. St Mary at Hill The occasion promises to be a wonderful festive evening – hosted by Canon Roger Royle from BBC Radio 2 'Pause for Thought' with Friday 13 December special guests – Martine McCutcheon, Richard Wilson, Robert Powell 1230 Organ Recital: Jonathan Bunney (St Giles in the Fields) and Jasmyn Banks from 'Eastenders' St Stephen Walbrook There will be performances by the renowned Choir 'Diversity' and 1300 London Ripieno Singers Christmas Concert soprano Sally Harrison. Tickets are for a suggested donation of £10 St Sepulchre without Newgate and proceeds will go towards the UK Mildmay's Hospital Appeal. 1305 Recital: The Lauriston Trio - Caroline Tait (violin), Anthea Fry (piano), Tickets from 020 7613 6311 Babette Lichtenstein (cello) Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor Op 15 Go to www.mildmay.org to find out more about Mildmay's work St Mary at Hill St Botolph Aldgate 1700 A Pupils' Concert featuring violin and piano solo performances 1930 The Temple Winter Festival: The Tallis Scholars will perform Free admission with retiring collection St Margaret Pattens works by Lassus, Hassler, Schütz, Pärt, and Praetorius 1930 Londinium Concert ─ 'Magnificat!' Music by Chilcott, Praetorius, For tickets go to : templemusic.org or 020 7427 5641 Pärt, Rachmaninov, Swayne, Tavener, Britten and Eccard Temple Church Tickets £12 in advance, £10 concessions, £15 on the door Tickets at: http://londinium-voices.org.uk/ and follow the links Wednesday 18 December St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Blaze Ensemble (Wind Quintet) The programme will include an arrangement of 'Peter and the Wolf' by Prokovief Saturday 14 December St Olave Hart Street 1930 Recital: Mohammed Antar ─ Master Ney player from Egypt 1310 Recital: Margaret Dizekonski (violin) and An-Ting Chang (piano) For more information please contact: present 'A Musical Present for Christmas' The programme will [email protected] or 020 7496 1616 include Violin Sonata No 1 in G major, Op 78 by Brahms St Ethelburga's Centre St Sepulchre without Newgate 1930 London Welsh Chorale will perform Handel's "Messiah" 1900 EC4 Concert Christmas music in aid of 'Save the Rhino' Tickets £15 in advance from: [email protected] Tickets from: [email protected] or on the door or on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate St Sepulchre without Newgate 1930 The Temple Winter Festival: James Gilchrist (tenor), Sunday 15 December Anna Tilbrook (piano) will perform Schubert's 'Winterreise' 1900 London Gay Symphony Orchestra – Britten Centenary Celebration For tickets please go to : templemusic.org or 020 7427 5641 Tickets: £12, £10 concessions all on the door Temple Church St Sepulchre without Newgate Thursday 19 December Monday 16 December 1310 Festive Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling & Daniel Cook 1300 Recital: Yoon-Seok Shin (piano) Works by Federico Mompou, All Hallows by the Tower Clementi and Beethoven (7 Variations on ‘God Save the King’) 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays music for Christmas St Lawrence Jewry St Margaret Lothbury 1305 Lunchtime Carols St Botolph Aldgate 1830 City Chamber Choir Christmas Concert 1830 Carols by Candlelight St Giles Cripplegate Tickets £12, Concessions £9 For more information please go to: 1930 Opening Event in the Temple Winter Festival: www.citychamberchoir.org St Lawrence Jewry Mark Simpson (clarinet) with the Heath Quartet 1900 Mediaeval Baebes UK Christmas Carol Tour Works by Arensky, Stravinsky, Suk and Mozart Tickets £20 from: www.mediaevalbaebes.com/ For tickets go to : templemusic.org or 020 7427 5641 St Sepulchre without Newgate Temple Church

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CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN DECEMBER 2013 ─ continued Wednesday 22 January 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate

Thursday 19 December ─ continued Monday 27 January 1130 Annual Admiral Arthur Phillip Commemoration St Mary le Bow 1930 The trumpets shall sound! Esterhazy Singers Christmas Concert with CityBrass ─ Thursday 30 January A magical concert of carols accompanied by traditional sounds of 1305 Choral Eucharist and Service in Memory of Charles, King & Martyr Christmas with readings by Margaret Jowett. The audience will be with the St Margaret Pattens Choir St Margaret Pattens invited to join in the singing of traditional carols 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion St Martin Ludgate Tickets: £12.50 in advance, £15 on the door, students and children £7.50. Book by calling: 07958 688 422 or email [email protected] More information at: www.esterhazysingers.com St Andrew Holborn CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JANUARY 2014 1930 Music for Advent and Christmas ─ The London Concord Singers Works by Britten, Poulenc, J S Bach, de Wert, de Morales, Hassler and Soderini For more information on the programme please go to: www.londonconcordsingers.org.uk Saturday 4 January Tickets price £12 (under 25s £5, other concessions £10) 2000 Concert: The Asyla Ensemble, directed by Oliver Till Works by Ives Tickets include a glass of wine. Tickets are available in advance from and Tchaikovsky Tickets £10/£5 (under 16s free) For further details Islington Music ─ Telephone 020 7354 3195 see www.st-sepulchre.org.uk/concerts.html or tel 020 7236 1145 St Botolph Bishopsgate St Sepulchre without Newgate 1930 The Temple Winter Festival: The Temple Church Choir and the Temple Players directed by Roger Sayer, organist Greg Morris Monday 6 January Works by Bach, Weelkes, Gibbons, Byrd and Vivaldi 1300 Organ Recital: Anthony Gritten (Royal Academy of Music) For tickets go to : templemusic.org or 020 7427 5641 celebrates the Epiphany St Michael Cornhill Temple Church

Friday 20 December Tuesday 7 January 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance (St Stephen Walbrook) 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch St Stephen Walbrook 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Organ Recital: ‘A German Christmas’ – Music for Advent and 1315 Recital: Susie Self (guitar) St Bride Fleet Street Christmas by Bach, Buxtehude, Bruhns and Reger, 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street played by Martin Knizia. The recital will be followed by Glühwein and Lebkuchen. All welcome. St Mary at Hill 1930 The Temple Winter Festival: Handel's "Messiah" Wednesday 8 January performed by the BBC Singers with St James's Baroque 1305 Recital: tba For latest information please go to Conductor David Hill http://sanctuaryinthecity.net/concerts St Olave Hart Street For tickets go to : templemusic.org or 020 7427 5641 1315 Recital: David Richard (piano) St Dunstan in the West Temple Church Thursday 9 January 1305 Recital: Jenna Sherry (violin) St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower SPECIAL SERVICES IN JANUARY 2014 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents “The Glorious Baroque” (1) St Margaret Lothbury

Friday 10 January Monday 6 January – The Epiphany 1230 Organ Recital: David Moore (Assistant Organist, Hampstead Parish 1200 Plow Monday Service St Lawrence Jewry Church) St Stephen Walbrook 1305 High Mass on the Feast of the Epiphany with music for choir & organ 1305 Recital: Yat-Soon Yeo (harpsichord) Works by Couperin, St Mary le Bow Froberger and Purcell St Mary at Hill Wednesday 8 January 1315 Recital: Hannah Woolmer (violin), Daniel Roberts (piano) 1310 Festal Choral Eucharist of the Epiphany St Botolph Bishopsgate St Bride Fleet Street 1900 Sung Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany St Andrew Holborn Monday 13 January Thursday 9 January 1300 Recital: Rika Zayasu (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert Including works by Bach, Franck and Hollins St Michael Cornhill Sunday 12 January 1305 Organ Recital: Matthew Dunn Works by Bach and Buxtehude 1100 High Mass followed by the Blessing of the River Thames from St Botolph Aldgate London Bridge St Magnus the Martyr 1305 Recital: tba - for latest information please go to www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk St Martin Ludgate Tuesday 14 January 1830 Evening Service with the Bishop of London, Tuesday 14 January The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Richard Chartres 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 Organ Recital: Richard Townend (St Margaret Lothbury) St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 16 January 1315 Recital: Laura Piras (harpsichord) St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Epiphany Choral Eucharist with the St Margaret Pattens Choir 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street St Margaret Pattens

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JANUARY 2014 ─ continued Thursday 23 January 1305 Recital: Agiaia Tarantino (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Daniel Chappuis Wednesday 15 January (Vevey, Switzerland) St Margaret Lothbury 1300 Gresham Lecture: Professor Christopher Hogwood’s 1315 Cosy Coffee Concert: Henry Ngan (tenor) and Jessie Tse (soprano) “Music in Context” series – “In Advertising – Ravel and Saint Saëns”, St Andrew by the Wardrobe illustrated by live performances by a Royal Academy of Music 1900 Alpha Course Session 2 of 11 For further information see: ensemble Free admission on a "first come, first served" basis – www.stsepulchres.org St Sepulchre without Newgate doors open 1230. For further information see: www.gresham.ac.uk St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Michael Poll (classical guitar) St Botolph Aldgate Friday 24 January 1305 Recital: Ross Knight (tuba), Rebecca Taylor (piano) 1230 Organ Recital: Michael Nicholas (St Mary le Tower, Ipswich) St Olave Hart Street St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Organ Recital: Charles Barland (Professor of Music, 1305 Recital: William Summers (flute) Baroque Sonatas St Mary at Hill University of Dubuque, Iowa, USA) St Dunstan in the West 1315 Recital: Maite Aguirre (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1315 Organ Recital: for further details see: www.templemusic.org

Temple Church 1805 JustShare Lecture: Eve Poole of Ashridge Business School All welcome - followed by refreshments (NB This lecture may take Monday 27 January place on 29th January - for latest information see 1300 Recital: Samson Tsoy (piano) St Lawrence Jewry www.justshare.org.uk) St Mary Le Bow 1300 Organ Recital: Jemima Stephenson Includes works by Bach, Saint-Saëns, Mendelssohn and Locklair St Michael Cornhill Thursday 16 January 1305 Recital: Florence Petit (cello) with Lysianne Chen (piano) 1305 Recital: Chihiro Ono (violin) St Olave Hart Street St Martin Ludgate 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Recital: tbc For latest information see www.musicathill.org.uk 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents “The Glorious Baroque” (2) St Mary at Hill St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Cosy Coffee Concert: The Northgate Saxophone Quartet Tuesday 28 January Works by Torke, Clerisse, Piazzolla, Singelée and Wiberny 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1900 Alpha Course Start of 11 week Alpha Course For further information 1315 Recital: Emily Kyte (mezzo soprano) St Bride Fleet Street see: www.stsepulchres.org St Sepulchre without Newgate 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street

Friday 17 January 1230 Organ Recital: John Belcher (Godalming Parish Church) St Stephen Walbrook Wednesday 29 January 1305 Recital: tbc For latest information see www.musicathill.org.uk 1305 Recital: Oak Woodwind Trio St Botolph Aldgate St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Rebecca Omordia (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1315 Recital: Rachael Chesney (clarinet) St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Recital: Kae Tanimura (violin) with Philip Howard (piano St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Arisu Nakao (piano) St Dunstan in the West Monday 20 January 1315 Organ Recital: for further details see www.templemusic.org 1300 Recital: Michael Broadway (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Temple Church 1300 Organ Recital: Paul Ayres plays his own transcriptions for organ 1805 JustShare Lecture – possible date for lecture by Eve Poole of of popular music of the past 50 years St Michael Cornhill Ashridge Business School Please see entry under 15th January 1305 Recital: tba - for latest information please go to St Mary le Bow www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk St Martin Ludgate

Tuesday 21 January Thursday 30 January 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1305 Recital: tba For latest information please go to 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry http://sanctuaryinthecity.net/concerts St Olave Hart Street 1315 Recital: Verity Thirkettle Duo St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1500 90 minute guided tour Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays J S Bach St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Cosy Coffee Concert: Students from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire Wednesday 22 January St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1305 Recital: tbc – for latest information see www.stbotolphs.org.uk 1900 Alpha Course Session 3 of 11 For further information see: St Botolph Aldgate www.stsepulchres.org St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Grace Mo (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1310 Recital: PerKelt ensemble – period folk and traditional music St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Donna MacFadyen (soprano) St Dunstan in the West Friday 31 January 1315 Organ Recital: for further details see www.templemusic.org 1230 Organ Recital: Charles Andrews (All Saints, Margaret Street ) Temple Church St Stephen Walbrook 1800 The Boyle Lecture: The Revd Dr Alister McGrath 1305 Recital: tbc For latest information see www.musicathill.org.uk “New Atheism – new apologetics: the use of science in recent St Mary at Hill Christian apologetic writings” All welcome, but seating limited – 1315 Organ Recital: Will Mason (Organ Scholar, Royal Holloway College, free on a "first come, first served" basis - doors open 1730. University of London) St Bride Fleet Street For further information: www.gresham.ac.uk St Mary le Bow