A DICKENS CELEBRATION Charles Dickens was a shrewd manager of his own public image and would be pleased that his birthday - February 7 1812 - is early enough to start the bicentennial ball rolling, well ahead of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and the 2012 Olympic Games. There will be many celebrations of the man and his work during 2012.

Dickens certainly knew the ancient churches of ; the Friends of the City Churches might only wish that he had loved them just a little better. His friend Anthony Trollope (1815-82) wrote perceptively of churchmen and their families in the imagined cathedral city of Barchester, and also anatomized London society, though he never united those themes in a single great work. Had Dickens only taken a comparable interest in the London clergy, the City churches might be replete with thinly-veiled references that could now be quoted with pride. In the event, Dickens was rather more engaged by the law than the church.

Dickens’ references to City churches are fleeting – young David Copperfield watches “the giants of St. Dunstan's strike upon the bells” as its famous clock strikes twelve, views of the tower of St. Saviour’s (now ) and the spire of St. Magnus set up Nancy’s covert meeting with Mr. Brownlow and Rose Maylie in Oliver Twist, and St. Paul’s dome and churchyard neatly locate various scenes in the novels and sketches. Some just skirt the City – the ‘Bloomsbury christening’ in Sketches by Boz is set in the Hawksmoor church just south of the British Museum, while St. George the Martyr, hard by the Marshalsea debtors’ prison, is the site of Little Dorrit’s christening and wedding. Dickens knew the Marshalsea only too well, his own father having been confined there, and by choice and circumstance lived in and around Bloomsbury for many years.

But his experience of the City also illustrates the great shift in population that had such critical consequences for its churches. As a very young man, he haunted Lombard Street for some four years in thrall to Maria Beadnell, pretty and frivolous, who rejected him but lived on in memory as a model for David Copperfield’s beloved but undeniably dizzy starter wife, Dora. Maria’s father was a banker, and the family, not unusually even in the 1830s, lived next to the shop. Poignantly, both the bank and the house were demolished in 1836, the very year in which Dickens married another; a restaurant now occupies the site, 1 Lombard Street, with the cornerstone of the erstwhile Smith, Payne & Smiths Bank just inside its doors.

By 1859, when Dickens launched the weekly journal All the Year Round, bankers and clerks were decamping to the suburbs, thanks to new-fangled omnibuses and trains, and the residential population of the City was plummeting. Dickens himself realised a childhood dream with the purchase of Gads Hill Place in Kent, but kept a pied-a-terre above his office in Wellington Street, Covent Garden. Clearly, he often spent weekends in town, for he then embarked on a year of Sunday visits to City churches, recorded in The Uncommercial Traveller of 1860 (with expanded editions until 1869, the year before his death). Even here, few churches are named although many are described – all as decaying monuments of another age, where scant congregations “wink, sneeze, and cough” under “a strong kind of invisible snuff … made of the decay of matting, wood, cloth, stone, iron, earth, and … the decay of dead citizens in the vaults below”. Today, with the clearance of the City’s vaults and burial grounds, even the dead citizens now lie in suburban cemeteries – but many of their churches are thriving once again, with weekday services for City workers, and a rich mix of denominations on Sundays. It would be a fitting commemoration of the Dickens bicentenary to visit them all in 2012, starting with those where Friends of the City Churches volunteers will gladly help uncommercial travellers to find their way. Signe Hoffos, The Friends of the City Churches 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?

REGULAR SERVICES IN JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2012 The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to change during major festivals and holidays. You are advised to 1250 ‘Celebrate’ – ‘Informal Worship & Teaching’ telephone churches to check the details. See also our website at www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow Every Monday 1305 RC Mass St Mary 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street Question Time at 1340 at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Street under the auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1100 Morning Prayer (CW) St Martin within Ludgate 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1730 Evening Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1300 Prayer Meeting St Margaret Pattens 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 Healing Service St Mary le Bow 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Every Thursday 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1730 Evening Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1800 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower Every Tuesday 0830 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 12-00 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1200 Eucharist St Clement [N.B. Not on 5th January] 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 0830 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 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 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 1300 Sung Eucharist St Katharine Cree 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1300 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1230 Holy Communion (Said) St Olave Hart Street 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Bible Talk , preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 1310 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1730 Evening Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1730 Evening Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow Every Wednesday 1800 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower Every Friday 0830 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0730 Morning prayers St Margaret Pattens 0830 Holy Communion (BCP) St Lawrence Jewry 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 0830 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1245 Communion Service Wesley's Chapel 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry

Every Frday (continued) CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JANUARY 2012 0845 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Monday 2 January 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr Wednesday 4 January 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel St Mary le Bow 1305 Recital: Diana Galvydyte (violin), Christopher Guild (piano) 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow St Olave Hart Street 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1315 A Concert for the New Year. Haru & Hana Ushigsa 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr (violin/viola duo) Kyoko Sugimura (panio) 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill St Dunstan in the West 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 5 January 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1305 Recital by 'Mediva' – 'Gabriel's Message: festive music from 1800 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr medieval England' for voice and played on period 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr instruments - shawms, clavicimbalum, organetto, fiddle, harp and recorders. St Olave Hart Street

SPECIAL SERVICES IN JANUARY 2012 Friday 6 January Wednesday 4 January 1230 Organ Recital: David Moore 1310 Festal Choral Eucharist of the Epiphany 1315 Recital: Ann Allen (mediva) St Bride Fleet Street St Botolph Bishopsgate Thursday 6 January (Feast of the Epiphany) Saturday 7 January 1305 High Mass St Mary le Bow 1400 'Almost All New Music' – please see the 'box' display at the end of the January listings All Hallows by the Tower Tuesday 10 January 1830 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate Monday 9 January 1300 Organ Recital: Morley Whitehead (Edinburgh) Thursday 12 January St Michael Cornhill 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Tuesday 10 January 1315 Recital: Chaturika Rajapatse (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Monday 23 January 1500 Guided Tour of the Church - only £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1245 Praise and Worship hosted by KMP St Bride Fleet Street 1830 Service for the City Churches to mark the Week of prayer Wednesday 11 January for Christian Unity. Bishop Angaelos (Coptic Church). 1300 Recital: St Sepulchre without Newgate St Dunstan in the West 1305 Recital: Heribert Koch (piano) St Olave Hart Street Tuesday 31 January 1315 Recital: Ayako Tanimoto (mezzo soprano) Kentaro Nagai 1800 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate (piano). Music by Ravel, Blloch. St Dunstan in the West

SPECIAL SERVICES IN FEBRUARY 2012 Thursday 12 January Tuesday 7 February 1305 Song Recital in the 'Song in the City' Series 1800 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Recital: Gisela Meyer (piano) St Mary at Hill Wednesday 22 February (Ash Wednesday) 1305 Recital: 'Absolute': Julia White (oboe), 1200 Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes. Georgina Whitehead (guitar) St Olave Hart Street St Clement Eastcheap 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Said Eucharist (BCP) with Imposition of Ashes. 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays New Year Gala St Dunstan in the West Recital St Margaret Lothbury 1230 Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes All Hallows by the Tower Friday 13 January 1245 Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Stephen Walbrook 1230 Organ Recital: John Belcher St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital: Matthew Rickard (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 Taizé Service with Imposition of Ashes All Hallows by the Tower Saturday 14 January Tuesday 28 February 1400 'Almost All New Music' – please see the 'box' display at the 1800 Choral Evensong to mark the launch of 'Sing Evensong'; end of the January listings All Hallows by the Tower the latest publication by Shorter House St Sepulchre without Newgate

Monday 16 January 1300 Recital: Maciej Raginia (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Recital: 'Songs of Seduction' performed by Sky Ingram 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert St Michael Cornhill (soprano), Maite Aguirre (piano). St Olave Hart Street 1815 for 1845 Seven Olympians lecture series with Graham 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower Fawcett. Seven poets in history as national heroes. The 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "Bach and 2: event commences with supper at 1815. Buxtehude" St Margaret Lothbury Tickets on the door £15 St Olave Hart Street Friday 27 January Tuesday 17 January 1230 Organ Recital: Dr Michael Nicholas St Stephen Walbrook 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Recital: Malcolm Riley (organ) and Strings 1315 Recital: Adam Brown (guitar) St Bride Fleet Street St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 28 January Wednesday 18 January 1400 'Almost All New Music' – please see the 'box' display at the 1300 Recital: St Sepulchre without Newgate end of the January listings All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Recital: Yoon Chung (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1315 Recital: Tsze Yenn Yong (violin) with Kyoko Sugimura Monday 30 January Includes music by Wieniawski and Sxchumann. 1300 Recital: Kanako Wakatsuki (piano) St Lawrence Jewry St Dunstan in the West 1300 Organ Recital: Christopher Saward (Church of The Thursday 19 January Annunciation, Marble Arch) St Michael Cornhill 1305 Song Recital in the 'Song in the City' Series St Botolph Bishopsgate Tuesday 31 January 1305 Recital: Matthew Drinkwater (piano) St Mary at Hill 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Recital: Joanna Arnold (mezzo-soprano), 1315 Recital: Rosie Whiting (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Melanie Jones (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1805 THE BOYLE LECTURE Christ and evolution: a drama of 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower wisdom. Prof.Celia Deane-Drummond (Responder 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays Prof.Fount LeRon Shults). Seating limited. St Mary le Bow "Bach and 1: His Family" St Margaret Lothbury

Friday 20 January 1230 Organ Recital: Mark Brafield St Stephen Walbrook PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1315 Recital: Valtie Nunn (violin), Manuel Lopez Jorge (piano) Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the St Bride Fleet Street Internet site of the Internet Church for London. To watch Saturday 21 January these services, which change on a daily basis, log on to: 1400 'Almost All New Music' – please see the 'box' display at the www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk end of the January listings All Hallows by the Tower

Monday 23 January 1300 Recital: Maria Nemtsova (piano) St Lawrence Jewry All Hallows by the Tower 1300 Organ Recital: Timothy Wakerell (St Paul's Cathedral) 'Almost All New Music' St Michael Cornhill

Tuesday 24 January New Music and Musical Arrangements 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry of Old Favourites 1315 Recital: Lesley Cox (soprano) St Bride Fleet Street Saturdays 7, 14, 21 & 28 January, 2012 1500 Guided Tour of the Church - only £6 St Bride Fleet Street at 2.00pm

Colleen Muriel (flute) Wednesday 25 January Keith Long – baritone – bass 1300 Recital: St Sepulchre without Newgate Eric Stevens, Ben Pinnow 1305 Recital: Rebecca van den Berg (soprano), and Manuel Villet - piano Marek Ruszczynski (piano) St Olave Hart Street

1305 Recital Mizuki Shindo (piano) St Mary le Bow This little concert series aims to raise funds 1315 Recital: Sayaka Kurata (violin) Akiko Murakami (piano) for the Friends of Julius and Dora Childrens includes music by Falla, Bloch, Lavry, Elgar and Centre in Maseno, Kenya Chaminade. St Dunstan in the West

Entrance by donation (suggested donation Thursday 26 January £5) 1305 Song Recital in the 'Song in the City' Series For details of each concert please visit St Botolph Bishopsgate www.elflauto.ca 1305 Organ Recital: Huw Morgan St Mary at Hill

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN FEBRUARY 2012 Tuesday 14 February Wednesday 1 February 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Recital: Hannah Morrow (cello), Mikako Sugamura (piano) 1315 Recital: Denise Alonzo (soprano), Seho Lee (piano) St Olave Hart Street St Bride Fleet Street 1315 Recital: Alexandros Koustas (violin) Orania Gassiou (piano) Wednesday 15 February St Dunstan in the West 1305 Recital Beata Wetli (piano) St Olave Hart Street Thursday 2 February 1305 Recital: Russell Woo (piano) St Mary at Hill Thursday 16 February 1305 Recital: 'Poeticall Musicke' – the birth of the Italian 1305 Recital: Guy Pearson (piano), Rachel Major (soprano), Baroque. For voice and period instruments Sara Burns (soprano), James Savage-Hanford (tenor) St Olave Hart Street St Mary at Hill Thursday 2 February (continued) 1305 Recital Paula Martinez (violin) Marco Fatichenti (piano) 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "Bach and 3: 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Pachelbel" St Margaret Lothbury All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity Series: Friday 3 February Martin Kasparek from St Imier, Switzerland 1230 Organ Recital: Charles Andrews (St John's, Hyde Park) St Margaret Lothbury St Stephen Walbrook 1930 Concert: Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra 1315 Recital: Green Chorus – Japanese Women's Choir Tickets on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 4 February Friday 17 February 1930 Concert: 'Commotio' conducted by Matthew Berry 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance (St Stephen Walbrook) Tickets on the door. St Sepulchre without Newgate St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital: Ingrid Cusido (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Monday 6 February 1300 Recital: Elena Vorotko (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Monday 20 February 1300 Organ Recital: Gregory Drott St Michael Cornhill 1300 Recital: Andrejs Osokins (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert St Michael Cornhill Tuesday 7 February 1315 Recital: Verity Thirkettle (violin) St Bride Fleet Street Tuesday 21 February 1500 Guided Tour of the Church - only £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Recital: St Bride Fleet Street Wednesday 8 February 1500 Guided Tour of the Church - only £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital; Gaëlle Arquez (mezzo-soprano), James Baillieu (piano) St Olave Hart Street Thursday 23 February 1805 Lecture: Two Christian churches? Renewing confidence 1305 Recital: Adam Johnson (piano) St Mary at Hill in the future. The Revd Dr Jeremy Morris. (Dean of Kings 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower College, Cambridge) St Mary le Bow 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "Bach and 5: Couperin" St Margaret Lothbury Thursday 9 February 1305 “The Wool Merchant and the Harp” Leah Stuttard (harp) Friday 24 February St Olave Hart Street 1230 Organ Recital: Thomas Allery (Royal College of Music) 1305 Recital: Anna Ter Haar (flute), Lydia Aoki (piano) St Stephen Walbrook St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital Alisa Legroux (panio) Milena Simovic (violin) 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower Alisa Liubarskaya (cello) St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "Bach and 4 Muffat" St Margaret Lothbury Monday 27 February Friday 10 February 1300 Recital: Evgenia Startseva (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Organ Recital: John Webber (St John's, East Dulwich) 1300 Organ Recital: St Michael Cornhill St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital: Emma Peaurt (soprano), Andrew Dunlop (piano) Tuesday 28 February St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Sixth Form Series of Organ Recitals commences Monday 13 February St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Recital: Maria Razumovskaya (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Wednesday 29 February 1300 Organ Recital: Philip Berg (Queen's Chapel of the Savoy) 1305 Recital Evgenia Startseva (piano) St Olave Hart Street St Michael Cornhill 1805 Lecture Fairtrade and Christian attitudes to the Market. Paul Chandler, CEO of Fairtrade. St Mary le Bow

For all the saints who from their labours rest

March is the month when the Anglican Calendar celebrates the festivals of a medley of saintly men [and one woman] from around the United Kingdom and abroad. A tour of this country calls in at Wales [David, 1st March, monk and Bishop of the 6th century founding a monastery at Menevia, now St Davids, and patron saint of Wales since at least 1200]; Lichfield [Chad, 2nd, born in Northumbria and moving from Lindisfarne to York as Bishop where he stepped down to allow Theodore to assume the see but then became Bishop of Mercia before settling in Dr Johnston’s home city, dying in 672]; Lincoln [8th, Bishop Edward King born 1829 who led the Anglo-Catholic revival and was tried for departing from the directives of the Book of Common Prayer although the then permitted lighted candles on the altar providing they were “for illumination” - whether of the building or the soul he didn’t say.] His feast day is shared with Felix, Apostle to the East Angles, a Burgundian who died in 647 and gave his name to Felixstowe in Suffolk, a monastic cell of Rochester. and Poet Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy also shares the same day, on which he died in 1929. Also known as “Woodbine Willie” after the brand of cigarettes that he shared with the troops in the First World War in which he was awarded the Military Cross, he subsequently was Rector of St Mary Woolnoth in the City developing the Industrial Christian Mission. Ireland is next with Patrick’s festival on 17th: born somewhere in Roman Britain he was carried off into slavery by pagan raiders from Ireland, escaped to Gaul, trained as a priest and in due course returned to Ireland and converted it to Christianity, he died on this day in 460. Up to Lindisfarne for Cuthbert its Bishop on 20th, a man born in 640 in the Scottish lowlands and professed as a monk at Melrose Abbey. Then to Canterbury on 21st to celebrate Thomas Cranmer who was so important in the Reformation of England and who died at the stake in Oxford in 1556 on this day, having recanted and repented of his recantation several times; ironically the architect of the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 and 1552 which Bishop Edward King found so constraining. Then to Thurgarten in Nottinghamshire. 24th where Walter Hilton, mystic, joined the community of Augustinian canons in 1386. Back down south to Clewer, near Windsor for the festival of Harriet Monsell on the 26th, a clergy widow who founded the Community of St John the Baptist which undertook a range of social work and subsequently ran orphanages, hospitals and schools throughout England, India and America. Finally back home again to the City for on 31st we celebrate the life of John Donne, great-great nephew of Sir Thomas More, who died on this day in 1631. Born a Roman Catholic, he led a somewhat risqué life until he converted to . Highly regarded for his sermons and love poetry mainly addressed to his wife, he was a very popular Dean of St Paul’s and his meditations live on: any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

March is truly a month in which we should give thanks for those who have gone before.

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?

REGULAR SERVICES IN MARCH 2012 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 major festivals and holidays. You are advised to telephone 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr churches to check the details. See also our website at www.cityevents.co.uk 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn which includes weekend services.

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 St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt 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 1100 Morning Prayer (CW) St Martin within Ludgate 1200 Mass St Clement Eastcheap 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1300 Prayer Meeting St Margaret Pattens 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1305 Healing Service St Mary le Bow 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1300 Sung Eucharist St Katharine Cree 1800 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 1300 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary Every Tuesday 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0730 Morning Prayer in the Crypt St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Bible Talk , preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster of the month St Margaret Pattens 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1230 Holy Communion (Said) St Olave Hart Street 1800 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West [ 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 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Every Friday 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0730 Morning prayers St Margaret Pattens 1310 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt 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 0845 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0830 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Low Mass (usually with Benediction) St Magnus the Martyr 0830 Holy Communion (BCP) St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Confessions in the Sacrament Chapel St Mary le Bow 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1205 Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 Holy Communion 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 ‘Celebrate’ – ‘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 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Question Time at 1340 at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street Internet site of the Internet Church for London. To watch under the auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate these services, which change on a daily basis, log on to: 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr

SPECIAL SERVICES IN MARCH 2012 Tuesday 6 March ─ continued 1500 90 minute Guided Tour of the church for only £6 All welcome St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 1 March Wednesday 7 March 1310 St David's Day Choral Eucharist with the St Margaret Pattens Choir 1300 Concert: Vassar College USA Choral Ensembles. The programme The service includes music by the Welsh composer, William Mathias - will include a variety of works by British, American, Canadian and 'Yr Arglwydd yw fy mugail' (The Lord is my Shepherd) French composers. Free entry St Andrew Holborn St Margaret Pattens 1305 Recital: Lawson Trio Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat, D898 1830 Evensong A service to mark the launch of 'Sing Evensong: St Olave Hart Street A Complete Book of Music for Evensong', published by Shorter House 1315 Recital: Mansoon Bow (violin), Sam Liu (piano) St Sepulchre without Newgate Works by Handel and Schumann St Dunstan in the West Saturday 3 March 1315 Recital: Neil Cooney (piano) Works by Chopin and Liszt 1830 Service at the culmination of the "Sing Evensong" workshop St Martin Ludgate Please refer to Concerts and Events for this date for more details 1330 Lenten Cantata following the Eucharist St Mary le Bow St Sepulchre without Newgate 1800 to 1900 The Bank Churches' Lent Course inspired by film Monday 5 March to reflect on the penitential season. More information at: 1245 Praise and Worship by KPMG St Bride Fleet Street www.bankchurches.com St Mary Woolnoth Tuesday 13 March Thursday 8 March 1130 Bridewell Patronal Festival St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Lent Study Course: 'Handing on the Torch ─ sacred words for Wednesday 14 March a secular world' All welcome St Botolph Bishopsgate 1800 Meditative Prayer with music from Taizé St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Organ Recital: David Phillips St Mary at Hill Sunday 18 March ─ Mothering Sunday 1305 Recital: Donna Leonard (soprano) St Mary le Bow 1100 Choral Eucharist Full sung service for Mothering Sunday 1305 'Music in Offices' prizewinner's recital: David Clasen (tenor), St Bride Fleet Street Tessa Marchington (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1100 Mothering Communion and Baptism St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: "Bach and 7: Frescobaldi" played by Thursday 22 March Richard Townend St Margaret Lothbury 1300 to 1330 Prayer Session St Giles Cripplegate 1930 Concert by the English Chamber Choir including a performance of 1830 Evensong ─ "The Music of S. S. Wesley" with address by Dr P Horton 'The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom' by Ivan Moody, with two St Sepulchre without Newgate motets by Tchaikovsky Free admission. Wine will be served Monday 26 March before the concert and refreshments afterwards (donation) 1130 Annual Service to commemorate Admiral Arthur Phillip. Admiral Philip St Andrew by the Wardrobe was baptised at All Hallows' Bread Street, now part of this parish, and Friday 9 March led the First Fleet to Sydney in 1788. St Mary le Bow 1230 Organ Recital: Hannah Parry-Ridout St Stephen Walbrook 1805 High Mass for Lady Day St Mary le Bow 1305 Concert by the vocal quartet 'ffourtissimo'. Free admission with 1900 Solemn Mass to celebrate the Annunciation of the Lord a retiring collection for ffourtissimo. Coffee/tea available. St Alban the Martyr Holborn St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Recital: Trio Lavolta Piano Trios by Haydn and Parry CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN MARCH 2012 St Anne & St Agnes Saturday 10 March Thursday 1 March 1030 Workshop ─ Come and sing Mendelssohn's '' with the 1300 Lent Study Course: 'Handing on the Torch ─ sacred words for a Bach Choir and David Hill Tickets £20 for singers, secular world' All are welcome to attend St Botolph Bishopsgate £10 for audience, £5 for students available from: 1305 Song Recital ('Song in the City' series) A European Storybook: www.thebachchoir.org.uk/comeandsing/ or 020 7127 9114 Russian Fairy Tales St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Olga Stezhko (piano) St Mary at Hill 1800 Performance of 'Elijah' St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Dante Lorenzo Dellani (piano) St Mary le Bow Sunday 11 March 1305 Recital: James Johnstone (harpsichord) Bach: English Suites 1800 Concert by 'Laudibus' ─ National Youth Choir of Great Britain St Olave Hart Street "Hope, Faith, Life, Love" Tickets £15/£12/£10 from: 0191 334 8110 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower or [email protected] St Sepulchre without Newgate 1310 Organ Recital: "Bach and 6: Bruhns & Krebs" played by Monday 12 March Richard Townend St Margaret Lothbury 1300 Recital: Rika Zayusu (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Friday 2 March 1300 Organ Recital: Gregory Drott St Michael Cornhill 1230 Organ Recital: Richard Cook St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Recital: Sweelinck Ensemble Works by Boismortier, Telemann 1310 Lunchtime concert For details please check the website: and Marais St Anne & St Agnes www.stanneslutheranchurch St Anne & St Agnes Tuesday 13 March Saturday 3 March 1300 Organ Recital in the Sixth Form Organ Series: 1430 Come and sing "Sing Evensong" workshop with Jeremy Jackman Nathan Lamb from All Saints' church, Northampton & Dorothy Tang followed by a service at 1830 (See above) Workshop tickets £15 from: from James Allen's School, Dulwich Works by Bach, Brahms, www.shorterhouse.com/shop/eventsandtickets/index.html Mendelssohn, Whitlock & Duruflé St Lawrence Jewry or 07786 440265 St Sepulchre without Newgate 1500 90 minute Guided Tour of the church for only £6 All welcome Sunday 4 March St Bride Fleet Street 1930 Aeolian Orchestra Concert More information from: Wednesday 14 March [email protected] or leave a message on 020 7236 1145 1305 Recital by the Forest School Brass Ensemble St Olave Hart Street St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Organ Recital: Tak Man Chow Works by Bach, Hindemith and Monday 5 March Verne St Dunstan in the West 1300 Recital: Michael Broadway (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Recital: Quartz Trio: Katharine Williamson (soprano), 1300 Organ Recital: Tom Bell St Michael Cornhill Jeanie Larkin (mezzo-soprano), Matthildur Gísladóttir (piano) 1310 Lunchtime concert For details please check the website: Arias and Duets from Operas and Songs St Martin Ludgate www.stanneslutheranchurch St Anne & St Agnes 1800 to 1900 The Bank Churches' Lent Course inspired by film 1845 with supper at 1815 Seven Olympians lecture series to reflect on the penitential season. More information at: Seven poets in history as national heroes ─ Byron with Graham Fawcett www.bankchurches.com St Mary Woolnoth Tickets on the door £15 St Katharine Cree Thursday 15 March Tuesday 6 March 1300 Lent Study Course: 'Handing on the Torch ─ sacred words for 1300 Organ Recital in the Sixth Form Organ Series: a secular world' All welcome St Botolph Bishopsgate Alexander Bliss and Christian Haigh from Tonbridge School 1305 Song Recital ('Song in the City' series) Works by Buxtehude, Böhm, Alain & Duruflé St Lawrence Jewry Inspiration of the Muses: Athene, Song and the Visual Arts St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN MARCH 2012 - continued Sunday 25 March 1100 to 1530 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate

Monday 26 March Thursday 15 March ─ continued 1300 Recital: Susan Clark (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Recital: Masachi Nishiyama (piano) St Mary at Hill 1300 Organ Recital: Adrian Bawtree St Michael Cornhill 1305 Recital: Flos Harmonicus ─ Catherine Groom (recorders, voice and 1310 Recital: 'Spiritato!' Baroque violins, viola & cello, natural trumpet, medieval harp), Adrian Horsewood (baritone) St Olave Hart Street harpsichord, organ. Works by Marini, Bononcini, Torelli and Biber 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "Bach and 8: Böhm" St Anne & St Agnes St Margaret Lothbury Tuesday 27 March Friday 16 March 1300 Organ Recital in the Sixth Form Organ Series: Graham Thorpe and 1230 Organ Recital: Jonathan Hope (Southwark Cathedral) Eleanor Komas of Chetham's School, Manchester Works by Bach, St Stephen Walbrook Buxtehude, Brahms, Vierne, Mendelssohn St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Recital: Martin Knizia (harpsichord) The North German School: Works by Wednesday 28 March Scheidemann, Reinken, Sweelinck & Scheidt St Anne & St Agnes 1300 Recital: Part of the Wigmore Hall International String Competition Saturday 17 March Free admission - retiring collection St Sepulchre without Newgate 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1305 Recital: Sachika Taniyama & Gunel Mirzayeva (piano duo) 1400 Concerts for the Children of West Kenya: Colleen Muriel (flute), Stravinsky: 'The Rite of Spring' St Olave Hart Street Manuel Villet (piano) Works by Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin 1315 Recital: Mari Kobayashi (violin), Pablo Garcia Berlanga (piano) Works Admission free – all donations will be given to support the work of the by Stravinsky, Schumann, Tchaikovsky St Dunstan in the West Friends of Julius and Dora Children's Centre in Maseno, Kenya 1315 Recital: Grace Yeo (piano) Works by Chopin, Liszt & Schubert All Hallows by the Tower St Martin Ludgate Sunday 18 March 1330 Lenten Cantata following the Eucharist St Mary le Bow 1100 to 1530 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1800 to 1900 The Bank Churches' Lent Course inspired by film to reflect on Monday 19 March the penitential season. More information at: www.bankchurches.com 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate St Mary Woolnoth 1300 Recital: Victor Sugeng (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 29 March 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert St Michael Cornhill 1300 Lent Study Course: 'Handing on the Torch ─ sacred words for a 1310 Lunchtime concert For details please check the website: secular world' All welcome St Botolph Bishopsgate www.stanneslutheranchurch St Anne & St Agnes 1305 Song Recital ('Song in the City' series) Tuesday 20 March Inspiration of the Muses: Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall 1300 Organ Recital in the Sixth Form Organ Series: Richard Gowers and 1305 Recital: Sergei Podobedov (piano) St Mary at Hill Tom Etheridge, Music Scholars Works by Bach, 1305 Recital: Zoe Lethbridge (flute), Julian Collings (organ) St Mary le Bow Tippett, Duruflé, Franck & Gowers St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Recital: Bing Bing Li (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1500 90 minute Guided Tour of the church for only £6 All welcome 1310 Organ Recital: Stephen Binnington All Hallows by the Tower St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents another of his Wednesday 21 March "Vintage Collection" of unexpected masterpieces from four centuries 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate of organ music St Margaret Lothbury 1305 Recital: Guildhall Harpists and friends St Olave Hart Street 1930 Concert: Joyful Company of Singers: "I was glad: English choral music" 1315 Recital: Mee Hyun Oh (violin), Soojin Kim (piano) Tickets £15 / £12 More information at www.jcos.co.uk Works by Vitalil, Beethoven, Kabalevsky, Rachmaninoff & Wieniawski St Sepulchre without Newgate St Dunstan in the West Friday 30 March 1315 Recital: Graham Fitch (piano) Bach: Goldberg Variations 1230 Organ Recital: Simon Hogan (St Paul's) St Stephen Walbrook St Martin Ludgate 1310 Recital: Lawson Trio ─ 'Grand Tour at St Anne's Concert 4 Germany 1330 Lenten Cantata following the Eucharist St Mary le Bow St Anne & St Agnes 1800 to 1900 The Bank Churches' Lent Course inspired by film Concert by the City Chorus Works by Vivaldi and Johann David Heinichen to reflect on the penitential season. More information at: No time has been supplied More information at: www.londoncitychorus www.bankchurches.com St Mary Woolnoth St Sepulchre without Newgate Thursday 22 March Saturday 31 March 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1930 Concert: London Spring Sinfonia: Schumann Piano Concerto, 1300 Lent Study Course: 'Handing on the Torch ─ sacred words for a Beethoven Pastoral Symphony. Conductor: Frederic Moerth secular world' All welcome St Botolph Bishopsgate Tickets £10 / £5 on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Song Recital ('Song in the City' series) Inspiration of the Muses:

Terpsichore, Song and Dance St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall

1305 Recital: Margaret Morrell (soprano) & piano and violin St Mary le Bow

1305 Recital: Adam Johnson (piano) St Mary at Hill

1305 Recital: Guildhall Vocal Ensemble – from the Guildhall School of Music & St Bride Fleet Street

Drama directed by Susan Waters Marcos de Portugal: 'Missa Grande'

celebrating the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth JAM St Olave Hart Street John Armitage Memorial Trust 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series ─ Luciano Zecca from Leoco, Italy St Margaret Lothbury Thursday 22 March at 7.30pm 1900 The First Annual Milton Lecture ─ 'Milton and Freedom' preceded by a pre-concert talk by Julian Phillips given by Professor Quentin Skinner of Queen Mary College London. Body of Water (World Première) Professor Quentin will be discussing among other things Milton's political by Julian Phillips work when he was Oliver Cromwell's 'secretary for foreign tongues' All Things Wear Silence Philip Cashian promoting freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Paul Mealor Tickets £6 (concessions £5) on the door to include a glass of wine after Tallis's Light Rory Boyle the lecture. St Giles Cripplegate 1930 JAM concert Please see the 'box' display below St Bride Fleet Street Agustin Prunell-Friend (tenor) Friday 23 March The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College Cambridge 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate Onyx Brass Daniel Cook (organ) 1230 Organ Recital: Geoff Tuson St Stephen Walbrook Conductor ─ Nicholas Cleobury 1310 Recital: Antonietta Notariello & Sanja Lagumdzija Hadzic (piano duet) Works by Brahms, Busoni and Sravinsky St Anne & St Agnes Tickets £5 ─ £15 Children free Saturday 24 March Box Office 0800 988 7984 or www.jamconcert.org 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate

WELCOME TO OUR VISITORS

Who visits a City church? You might be surprised if, like some first-time visitors, you hesitate at the door, or walk past an open church several times before venturing in. Heaven knows, open doors are rare enough in the City these days, much less beautiful buildings that anyone is welcome to enter, now that the private sector curiously spends big money on architecture, and then a bit more on guards to discourage passersby from approaching, much less photographing, the handsome exteriors. City churches positively welcome visitors and encourage photography, and ask only for a modicum of respect within the sacred space.

So, wherever the church door is open, feel free to enter. Rest assured, it’s unlikely that you will be jumped upon by an evangelist and exhorted to pray – although, should you happen upon a concert or a midweek service, you are welcome to slip into an empty seat. More likely, the casual visitor will get a fleeting greeting from a busy verger or volunteer intent on some bit of housekeeping, or see no one at all if everyone is busy behind the scenes. You should get a warm welcome if the Friends of the City Churches’ own volunteer Church Watchers are on hand, but even they tend to err on the side of discretion until it’s clear that the visitor wishes to engage.

Certainly, many people drop into an open church to pray, some stepping in briskly as though to a meeting that’s bound to go well, some already in a state of contrition, a few almost apologetically, as though they might be imposing. Those churches that offer candles usually have a few lit, more often than not by young women renewing a personal spiritual contract by a small act of devotion. The odd, slightly unsettling, supplicant (usually male, and not so young) will hurry in, head down, making no eye contact, seek a sheltered corner, undertake some intense private dialogue with the Almighty, and depart again hastily, leaving the bemused Watchers to wonder if another City institution is on the brink of collapse.

But people come to the churches for many other reasons, too. It’s a disappointing day for the Watchers at St. Stephen Walbrook, on the busy route between Cannon Street and Bank, if they do not receive at least 100 visitors between 11:00 and 15:00, the usual volunteers’ stint. This usually includes a few guided walks, some led from the Information Centre by official City Guides (www.visitthecity.co.uk), some from Friends of museums or other culture clubs, many largely populated by pensioners, a few from colleges that cater for foreign students on the modern academic Grand Tour. The students may bring sketch books, in which they are not alone – artists, amateur and professional, regularly also visit, some with easels and attitudes, some so affable they get a cup of tea from the Watchers. Often enough there are family historians in search of the very font where their ancestor was christened, or erstwhile City workers revisiting old haunts before meeting up for a reunion lunch. Occasionally, there are treats for the Watchers, like the woman dowsing the route of the lost river Walbrook, now flowing far beneath the City streets, or one of the early Samaritans, whose work began with one telephone in the crpyt beneath the church. Rarely, there is a diligent researcher fact-checking information gleaned from secondary sources; this is unfortunately not a practice indulged in by everyone who compiles a cheap guide to the churches themselves, so seekers are advised to stick to Tony Tucker’s impeccable Visitor's Guide to the City of London Churches or undertake their own research in the London Metropolitan Archives where most church records from the City are now to be found. (http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Records_and_archives/).

The Friends of the City Churches help to keep some fifteen churches open at least one day a week; the current list is always on the home page of our Web site (www.london-city-churches.org.uk). Whatever your reason to visit, you’re welcome – do drop in. Signe Hoffos, The Friends of the City Churches

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?

REGULAR SERVICES IN APRIL 2012 Every Wednesday continued 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 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 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 St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 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 1100 Morning Prayer (CW) St Martin within Ludgate 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 (from 16 April) 1200 Mass St Clement Eastcheap 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1300 Prayer Meeting St Margaret Pattens 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1305 Healing Service St Mary le Bow 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1300 Sung Holy Communiont St Katharine Cree 1800 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 1300 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary Every Tuesday 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0730 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0745 Eucharist in the crypt followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate (Not 5 or 12 April) 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn of the month St Martin within Ludgate 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1315 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate (Not 10 April) 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate (Not 10 April) 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate Every Friday 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0730 Morning prayers St Margaret Pattens 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Holy Communion in the crypt St Bride Fleet Street Every Wednesday 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0845 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster (from 20 April) 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0830 Holy Communion in the crypt St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Said 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 St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster (from 18 April) 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 ‘Celebrate’ – ‘Informal Worship & Teaching’ St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Holy Communion (CW Order 1) St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill (Not 11 April) 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 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet at 1340 at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate site of the Internet Church for London. To watch these services, 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill which change on a daily basis, log on to: 1315 Holy Communion in the crypt St Bride Fleet Street www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk

SPECIAL SERVICES IN APRIL 2012 Friday 6 April – Good Friday 0800 Prayers on the Passion of the Lord St Bartholomew the Less Sunday 1 April – Palm Sunday 1030 Good Friday Service St Helen Bishopsgate 1000 Palm Sunday service, including procession, with donkeys, and the 1030-1130 Good Friday children’s activities St Botolph without Aldgate blessing of palms. Those who wish may then accompany the donkeys to 1100 Good Friday Liturgy (Lutheran) St Anne and St Agnes be received at St Paul’s Cathedal St Giles Cripplegate 1100 Good Friday: 1100 Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater; 1200 Litany & Ante-ommunion; 1045 Blessing of Palms, Procession and Solemn Mass St Alban the Martyr 1300 Stainer’s Crucifixion; 1400 Choral Evensong St Bride Fleet Street 1050 Palm Procession and Choral Eucharist (Lutheran) St Anne & St Agnes 1100 Good Friday Liturgy St Magnus the Martyr 1100 Blessing of Palms (at St Bartholomew the Less) followed at 1115 by the 1115 Choral Mattins Temple Church Palm Procession from the Charterhouse to St Bartholomew the Great and 1130 Mattins St Dunstan in the West at 1130 by Solemn Eucharist St Bartholomew the Great 1130 Good Friday Service St Olave Hart Street 1100 Procession and High Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1200 Good Friday Liturgy with Veneration of the Cross All Hallows by the Tower 1100 Procession of Palms and Sung Eucharist St Vedast alias Foster 1200 Stations of the Cross St Alban the Martyr 1245 Passiontide Quiet Afternoon St Bartholomew the Great 1200 Solemn Liturgy of the Passion St Bartholomew the Great 1830 “Into the Hands of Sinners” - A Processional Sequence on the Passion 1200 Three Hours’ Devotions; with the Liturgy of Good Friday at 1400 St Barthlomew the Great St Botolph without Aldgate Monday 2 April - Monday in Holy Week 1200 Service of the Three Hours St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1200 Three Hours’ Devotions: Morning Prayer & address; Litany, Ante- 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great communion & address; Evening Prayer & address St James Garlickhythe 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 1200 Liturgy of the Cross St Vedast alias Foster 1230 Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1315 Celebration of the Lord’s Passion St Alban the Martyr 1305 Midday Office St Mary le Bow 1400 Stations of the Cross St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Holy Communion St Botolph without Bishopsgate 1500 Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday St Dunstan in the West 1800-2000 Prayer and reflection – “Walking the labyrinth in prayer”, followed at 1700 Evening Prayer St Dunstan in the West 2030 by Compline St Giles Cripplegate 1900 Tenebrae St Bartholomew the Great 1830 Low Mass with address and hymns St Alban the Martyr Saturday 7 April – Holy Saturday Tuesday 3 April - Tuesday in Holy Week 1800 Easter Vigil with the, Lighting of the Pascal Candle, Baptism and the First 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great Eucharist of Easter St Stephen Walbrook 1230 Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1830 Liturgy and Vigil (Lutheran) St Anne and St Agnes 1300 Easter Service (followed by refreshments) St Helen Bishospgate 1900 Paschal Vigil St Magnus the Martyr 1305 Sung Passion St Mary le Bow 2000 Solemn Easter Vigil Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Holy Communion St Botolph without Bishopsgate 2000 Easter Vigil and Holy Communion Temple Church 1800-2000 Prayer and reflection – “Walking the labyrinth in prayer”, followed at 2100 Easter Vigil and Lighting of the New Fire St Bartholomew the Great 2030 by Compline St Giles Cripplegate 2100 Easter Vigil St Botolph without Aldgate 1830 Low Mass with address and hymns St Alban the Martyr Sunday 8 April – Easter Day 1900 Tenebrae with St Michael’s Chorale St Sepulchre without Newgate 0545 Dawn Service: Kindling of the New Fire followed by Eucharist, Egg-rolling in Wednesday 4 April - Wednesday in Holy Week Fleet Street and Breakfast St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 0800 Holy Communion St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1000 Family Sung Eucharist (and Easter Egg Hunt) St Giles Crippelegate 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 1030 Easter Morning Service wth Holy Communion St Helen Bishopsgate 1230 Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1030 Festival Holy Communion St James Garlickhythe 1300 Easter Carol Service St Martin within Ludgate 1100 Festal Eucharist with the blessing of the New Fire and renewal of 1305 Eucharist with Organ Music for Holy Week St Mary le Bow baptismal vows All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Our Lady at the Cross: a Sequence of Readings and Music for 1100 Procession and Solemn Mass St Alban the Martyr Passiontide St Botolph Bishopsgate 1100 Solemn Eucharist (and Easter Egg Hunt) St Bartholomew the Great 1800 Taizé Prayer around the Cross All Hallows by the Tower 1100 Choral Eucharist (and Easter Egg Hunt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 Meditative prayer with music from Taizé St Bride Fleet Street 1100 Procession and High Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1830 Low Mass with address and hymns St Alban the Martyr 1100 Easter Day Service St Olave Hart Street 1900 Sung Mass of the Passion of Our Lord with Veneration of the Relic of the 1100 Festal Sung Eucharist St Vedast alias Foster True Cross St Andrew Holborn 1115 Choral Communion Temple Church 1900 Tenebrae St Dunstan in the West 1830 Vespers (Lutheran) with performance by the Sweelinck Ensemble of Bach’s 2030 Compline St Giles Cripplegate Cantata BWV 4 – Christ lag in Todesbanden St Anne and St Agnes 1830 Solemn Easter Vespers and Procession St Bartholomew the Great Thursday 5 April – Maundy Thursday 1200 Mass for Maundy Thursday St Clement Eastcheap Monday 16 April 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 1830 Pontifical High Mass for St Magnus’ Day, with specially composed music 1245 Sung Eucharist for Maundy Thursday St Stephen Walbrook St Magnus the Martyr 1300 Music and Readings for Passiontide St Margaret Pattens Thursday 19 April 1305 High Mass St Mary le Bow 1200 City of London Common Council Service St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Eucharist (Lutheran) St Anne and St Agnes 1245 Easter Carol Service St Margaret Pattens 1310 Choral Eucharist & Maundy Ceremonies St Botolph without Bishopsgate 1800 Holy Eucharist using a liturgy from the Iona Community 1315 Choral Eucharist St Bride Fleet Street St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1315 Choral Communion Temple Church Saturday 21 April 1800 Sung Eucharist with foot-washing, followed by the Watch at the Altar of 1800 Official “Virgin” London Marathon Thanksgiving Service To give thanks for all Repose St Botolph without Aldgate that has been achieved through the Marathon and for the gift of sport 1800 Maundy Thursday Service St Olave Hart Street All Hallows by the Tower 1830 Holy Communion, Foot Washing and Stripping of the Altar, with the Sunday 22 April St Andrew by the Wardrobe Girls’ Choir St Andrew by the Wardrobe 115 Easter Carol Service: Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs 1830 Eucharist (Lutheran) with washing of feet St Anne and St Agnes Temple Church 1830 Maundy Thursday Ceremonies and High Mass, followed by Procession Monday 23 April to the Altar of Repose and Watch until 2100 St Magnus the Martyr 1215 Festal Mass: St George, Martyr, Patron of England St Vedast alias Foster 1900 Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Washing of the Feet, Procession and Tuesday 24 April Stripping of the Altars St Alban the Martyr 1800 Friends of the Musicians’ Chapel service St Sepulchre without Newgate 1900 Sung Eucharist (Mass of the Lord’s Supper) and Watch until 2100 St Vedast alias Foster Wednesday 25 April 1930 Liturgy of the Last Supper, foot-washing and stripping of the altars, then 1215 Festal Mass: St Mark the Evangelist St Vedast Alias Foster silent prayer and Compline at 2145 All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Choral Eucharist for the Feast of St Mark the Evangelist with Venetian Choral 1930 Solemn Eucharist followed by an Hour’s Watch in the Lady Chapel Music St Botolph Bishopsgate St Bartholomew the Great continued Wednesday 25 April continued Monday 16 April continued 1800 Evensong commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the rededication of the 1310 Recital: Guildhall School of Music & Drama Classical Wind players Works church Preacher – The Rt Revd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London by Méhul and Mozart St Anne and St Agnes Those who wish to attend RSVP to 0207 606 3998 St Vedast alias Foster Tuesday 17 April Thursday 26 April 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1230 Service (30 min) to mark the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic 1245 Concert in the Genius of Youth series The Handel Collection Orchestra and to commemorate all who died in the disaster, in particular Charles Works by Handel, Mendelssohn and Vanhal St Stephen Walbrook Melville Hays, a North American railway exectuive whose death is marked 1300 Organ Recital: Julian Thomas (Tonbridge School) Works by Andriessen, by a memorial tablet in the church St Edmund King & Martyr Jongen, Stanley, Bach and Duruflé St Lawrence Jewry 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 St Bride Fleet Street CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN APRIL 2012 Wednesday 18 April 1305 Recital: Salieri Quartet Malcolm Arnold Quartet No 2 St Olave Hart Street Sunday 1 April 1315 Recital: Nao Maebayashi and Eamonn Ramsay - Four hands, one piano 1100 Rehearsal for “Come and Sing Handel’s Messiah” with the Northern Lights Works by Mozart, Ravel, Bowen and Piazzolla St Dunstan in the West Symphony Orchestra Concert at 1800 Tickets for singers £20 – e-mail 1315 Recital: Alexandra Reid (violin) St Martin within Ludgate [email protected] Tickets for audience £15 from 1900 JustShare Christian Social and Political Thought Lecture: “A Dickens of a www.wegotickets.com/event/152554 St Sepulchre without Newgate time: lessons in social transformation from a national treasure” – The Rt Monday 2 April Revd Adrian Newman (Bishop of Stepney) All Hallows by the Tower 1300 Recital: Miyuki Kato (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 19 April 1300 Organ Recital: Gregory Drott St Michael Cornhill 1305 Recital: Joanna Bywater (soprano), Matthew Rickard (piano) St Mary at Hill 1315 Music for Holy Week: Nathan Vale (tenor), Greg Morris (piano) – Vaughan 1305 Recital: “Il Bacio” baroque vocal ensemble St Olave Hart Street Wiliams’ Four Hymns Temple Church 1305 Recital: Davis Clarinet Quartet St Mary le Bow 1845 with supper at 1815 Seven Olympians supper lecture series - poets through 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower history and as national heroes Lecture on Pushkin by Graham Fawcett, 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays “Music from Handel’s London” with Simon Watterton playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op 90 St Margaret Lothbury Admission £15 on the door (including supper) St Olave Hart Street Friday 20 April 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance St Stephen Walbrook Tuesday 3 April 1310 Recital: Eleftheria Kotzia (guitar) Works by Theodorakis, Boudonis, Tadic, 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Bodorová and Fampas St Anne and St Agnes 1300 Organ Recital: Music for Passiontide Catherine Ennis plays works by 1930 Concert: “Brazil, Meu Amor” Guillermo Rozenthuler (singer and guitar) and Bach, Brahms and Demessieux St Lawrence Jewry his band performing Brazilian songs For admission charges and further 1315 Music for Holy Week: Greg Morris (organ) Temple Church information see under 13 April St Ethelbuga Bishopsgate 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 21 April Wednesday 4 April 1400 Concerts for the Children of West Kenya: Gareth Hanson and Colleen Muriel 1305 Recital: Paul Cibis (piano) St Olave Hart Street (flutes) Works by Telemann and Bach and a new arrangement of the Huron 1315 Music for Holy Week: Tim Travers-Brown (counter-tenor), Greg Morris Carol Admission free – all donations to the work of the Friends of Julius and (organ) Songs by Purcell, Humfrey, Church and Playford Temple Church Dora Children's Centre in Maseno, Kenya All Hallows by the Tower 1800-2000 Drop in workshop on the 14th century labyrinth fresco at Altari, near Rome, with an icon of Christ at its centre St Giles Cripplegate Monday 23 April 1800 The Bank Churches' Lent Course, inspired by film to reflect on the 1300 Recital: Maiko Mori (piano) St Lawrence Jewry penitential season See www.bankchurches.com St Mary Woolnoth 1300 Organ Recital: Kevin Bowyer St Michael Cornhill Thursday 5 April 1310 Recital: James Woodrow (guitar) St Anne and St Agnes 1215 Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ St Edmund King & Martyr Tuesday 24 April 1305 Recital: “Royal Interiors” baroque ensemble St Olave Hart Street 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Music for Passiontide 1300 Organ Recital: Tyrone Whiting (Trinity College of Music) Works by Langlais, All Hallows by the Tower Bach, Mendelssohn, César Franck and Petr Eben St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Organ Recital: Tim Roe St George’s German Lutheran Church, Alie Street 1300 Concert: Guildhall School of Music & Drama St Stephen Walbrook 1800 Concert: North Cobb High School String Orchestra from Georgia, USA Wednesday 25 April performing music from classical to pop St Andrew Holborn 1300 Recital: Sacred a cappella music through the ages Kopernikus-Gymnasium Friday 6 April Chamber Choir,Wasseralfingen,Germany St Sepulchre without Newgate 1130 Distribution of the Butterworth Charity St Bartholomew the Great 1305 Recital: Queen’s Gate Consort (soprano & strings) St Olave Hart Street 1930 Concert by youth choirs: Counterpoints Concert Choir from Indiana, USA, 1315 Recital: Sundance Trio from Brigham Young University,Utah play works and the Armidale Singers and “Australia Chordiaity” from Australia Further from the 15th-20th century classical repertoire St Dunstan in the West information at www.st-sepulchre.org.uk St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: “Trio Madame” – Flore Philis (soprano), Clemmie Franks (mezzo soprano), Felicity Sim (piano) St Martin within Ludgate Tuesday 10 April 1800 Recital: Sacred a cappella music through the ages Kopernikus-Gymnasium 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Chamber Choir, Wasseralfingen,Germany St Stephen Walbrook Wednesday 11 April 1805 JustShare Debate: “Business vs NGO : Who does development best?” 1305 Recital: Milena Simovic (violin), Alisa Legroux (piano) St Olave Hart Street Speakers - David Smith (British African Business Alliance) and Anne 1315 Recital: Evgeny Genchev (piano) St Dunstan in the West Lindsay (CAFOD) St Mary le Bow 1315 Recital: Julia Weatherley (soprano) and Erika Jones (mezzo soprano) Thursday 26 April Mozart Arias and German Lieder St Martin within Ludgate 1305 Recital: Qiaojing Dai (piano) St Mary at Hill 1805 JustShare Debate: “Ecocide” – speaker Diana Marquand St Mary le Bow 1305 Recital: I-An Tai (cello) St Mary le Bow Thursday 12 April 1305 Recital: Nadav Hertzka (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1305 Recital: Rosemary Clifford (soprano) St Mary at Hill 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Recital: Christina Barrie (piano) with soprano and clarinet St Mary le Bow 1310 Organ Recital – International Celebrity Series- Gerard Habraken (Eindhoven) 1305 Recital: Adam Brown (guitar) St Olave Hart Street St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Organ Recital - International Celebrity series - Per Thunarf (Stockholm) Friday 27 April St Margaret Lothbury 1230 Organ Recital: Stephen Binnington St Stephen Walbrook Friday 13 April 1310 Recital: Emily Curcio (soprano), Nadia Giliova (piano) Songs and Arias 1230 Organ Recital: Jonathan Bunney (St Giles in the Fields) St Stephen Walbrook by Mozart St Anne and St Agnes 1930 Concert: Julaba Kunda - an encounter beween traditional sounds of Gambia 1930 Concert: Plastikes Karekles and Friends with Manolis Pappos (bouzouki) and Scotland Admission £10 in advance, £12 on the door Further play contrasting Greek music For admission charges and further information at http://stethelburgas.org St Ethelburga Bishopsgate information see under 13 April St Ethelburga Bishopsgate

Monday 16 April Monday 30 April 1300 Recital: Mikhail Shilyaev (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Recital: Balder Neergard (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Organ Recital: William Saunders St Michael Cornhill 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert St Michael Cornhill 1310 Recital: Sweelinck Ensemble Telemann’s Paris Quartets St Anne & St Agnes

______May 2012 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Some thoughts for Ascensiontide

“Jesus scolded them because they were too stubborn to believe those who had seen him alive” [Mark 16. 14]

Mark's gospel doesn’t beat about the bush he tells it where it's at. And ‘where it’s at’ is a bunch of disbelieving friends who simply cannot believe because it's all too good to be true! In the security of eating together Jesus appears and is annoyed with his friends because they refuse to accept the good news. Recently as I was leaving Tesco’s the man at the till seeing my dog collar said, “Pastor, we’ve had it, the world is at an end", and as usual he quoted to me out of context words from the prophetic Book of Revelation. I replied back the words of Jesus from the ascension gospel, the promise to us of a new life and reminded him that we are anything but finished, we are just at the beginning. He had to re-scan the items for a new cash total! Religious pessimism is rampant.

At Ascensiontide the church celebrates the final statement of hope the ascension of Jesus Christ to his father, the full stop of the Resurrection. The ascension demands faith, it demands trust, it demands belief in Jesus Christ as God’s Son. Tall orders for a sceptical world. But then the Christian faith demands that you walk tall. Today Christians seem to be obsessed with the minutia of religion; rules and regulations, which version of a text you use and how can I pry into your personal life.

At his ascension Jesus demands from his followers on the outskirts of Jerusalem, “Tell the good news throughout the world, preach the gospel to all” Nothing less than a belief in good news is asked of those who see the church as their home. Tell the good news widely. The good news is that Jesus Christ lived, died and rose again; not as a piece of religious propaganda but a fact of history which changed our world. Nothing less will do! If this fact does not change your life, affect the way you live, no amount of affirming doctrines or beautiful words will convince anybody that Jesus Christ makes a difference.

It is this truth about how much God loves each one of us that makes the Christian faith different from all the rest. God loved us so much that he became flesh and won us back in a cruel death and a fantastic new life shared in Jesus Christ. It is this truth which changed our world, it is telling this good news by the way you live which will either convince others that God matters or that he is irrelevant. We are people for whom life is changed, new life is possible new attitudes, love should prevail not hatred, charity not judgement, celebrating diversity not condemning difference. New things will happen, blind will see, deaf hear, dumb speak. In other words, we will all change. Jesus returns to his father and says to his friends, “Get on with it, now it’s up to you. I give you the power to make a difference, to change lives, to start again, all things will be made new.

My Tesco friend saw the end, I see the beginning, Jesus says its now all up to you. So get on with it and believe.

We all have our chance to celebrate the ascension of Jesus on Ascension Day, Thursday 17 May and there are many opportunities to do this in the City Churches on that day. Just turn this page. The Venerable Peter Delaney MBE Archdeacon Emeritus

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 MAY 2012 Every Wednesday continued 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 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 St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt 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 1100 Morning Prayer (CW) St Martin within Ludgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1200 Holy Communion St Clement Eastcheap 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1300 Prayer Meeting St Margaret Pattens 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1305 Healing Service St Mary le Bow 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1305 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 1800 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate Every Tuesday 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0730 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0745 Eucharist in the crypt followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry of the month St Martin within Ludgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1315 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens (Sung Eucharist at 1310 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster on the first Thursday of the month) 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth 1805 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1830 Evening Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate Every Friday 1305 Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0730 Morning prayers St Margaret Pattens 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Holy Communion in the crypt St Bride Fleet Street Every Wednesday 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0845 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Said 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 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 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 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time of the Internet Church for London. To watch these services, at 1340 at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the which change on a daily basis, log on to: auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill 1315 Holy Communion in the crypt St Bride Fleet Street

Wednesday 2 May continued SPECIAL SERVICES IN MAY 2012 1315 Recital: Midori Komachi (violin), Maya Soltan (piano) Works by Beethoven, Delius and Wieniawski St Dunstan in the West Tuesday 1 May - St Philip & St James, Apostles 1315 Recital: Lysianne Chen (piano) St Martin within Ludgate 1215 Festal Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1805 JustShare Lecture: “Keeping Faith in Development” The Revd Rachel Carnegie (Archbishop of Canterbury’s Secretary Wednesday 2 May for International Development) St Mary le Bow 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph without Bishopsgate 1900 Holborn May devotion - Sung Mass with Procession and Benediction Thursday 3 May St Andrew Holborn 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate Thursday 3 May 1305 Recital: Leah Meredith (violin), Reiko Kimura (piano) St Mary at Hill 1830 Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Organ Recital: Christopher South (Chingford and Walthamstow) St Mary le Bow Thursday 10 May 1305 Recital: Julian Jacobson, Mariko Brown (piano duo) St Olave Hart Street 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph without Bishopsgate 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1800 Eucharist, using a liturgy from the Iona Community 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend celebrates the 450th Anniversary of the St Ethelburga Bishopsgate birth of Sweelinck - “The Father of Organ Music” St Margaret Lothbury Monday 14 May 1215 Festal Mass for St Matthias the Apostle St Vedast alias Foster Friday 4 May 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate Tuesday 15 May 1230 Organ Recital: John Webster (Holy Cross, Cromer Street) 1800 Beating the Bounds St Bride Fleet Street St Stephen Walbrook Wednesday 16 May 1310 Recital: Russell Poyner (guitar) Works by Dowland, Bach, Brahms and 1900 Procession and Sung Mass - Eve of the Ascension St Andew Holborn Mendelssohn St Anne & St Agnest Thursday 17 May – Ascension Day 1315 Recital: the Belen Barnaus Mendez Choir, Anna Cardona Esteva (piano) 1215 Festal Mass St Vedast alias Foster St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Eucharist St Dunstan in the West Tuesday 8 May 1245 Sung Mass St Stephen Walbrook 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1300 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn 1300 Organ Recital: John Hill HSBC Young Artists Series – 1305 High Mass St Mary le Bow Maciej Wierzcholowski Works by Bach, Buxtehude, Mendelssohn 1300 Eucharist, followed by ascent to the summit of the tower for the annual and Dupré St Lawrence Jewry Blessing of the City St Michael Cornhill 1300 Recital: Sándor Balatoni St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Eucharist (Lutheran) St Anne & St Agnes 1315 Recital: Flic and Flore St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph without Bishopsgate Wednesday 9 May 1315 Choral Eucharist St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Recital: David Elwin (piano) St Sepulchre without Newgate At All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Recital: Rupert Enticknap (Countertenor) St Botolph without Aldgate 1515 Beating the Bounds Ceremony carried out by pupils of St Dunstan’s 1305 Recital: Beethoven Violin Sonata Series (2) - Leah Meredith (violin), College Reiko Kimura (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1730 Festal Evensong with the choir of St Dunstan’s College 1315 Recital: Kanako Wakatsuki (piano) plays Schumann’s Kreisleriana 1745 Choral Evensong, celebrating the 350th Anniversary of the Book of Common St Dunstan in the West Prayer (with St Dunstan in the West & St Bride Fleet Street) Temple Church 1315 Recital: Samuel Pantcheff (baritone), Michael Waldron (piano) 1800 Eucharist St Botolph without Aldgate St Martin within Ludgate 1830 Service for Ascension Day with the St Andrew by the Wardrobe Girls’ Choir Thursday 10 May and the English Chamber Choir St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1305 Recital: Olga Paliy (piano) St Mary at Hill 1830 Eucharist (Lutheran) St Anne & St Agnes 1305 Organ Recital: Mark Brafield (Dorking) St Mary le Bow Saturday 19 May 1305 Recital: Stephanie Legg (saxophone), Stephan Solomonidis (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1130 Sung Eucharist for St Dunstan’s Day St Dunstan in the West Sunday 20 May 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1300 Opening Services for “Circle the City” – see below under Concerts and 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series – Lionel Rogg (Geneva) Events All Hallows by the Tower and St Mary le Bow playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations St Margaret Lothbury 1830 Concert: Bach’s Cantatas for Ascension Day – Monteverdi Choir and Monday 21 May English Baroque Soloists, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner 1245 Praise and Worship (hosted by KPMG) St Bride Fleet Street Details at www.monteverdi.co.uk; tickets at £35, £25 and £15 from Tuesday 29 May the website or 020 7730 4500 St Giles Cripplegate 1830 Choral Evensong – a celebration of Sidney Nicholson 2030 Second performance of the Concert of Bach’s Cantatas for Ascension Day St Sepulchre without Newgate See above under 1830 St Giles Cripplegate

Wednesday 30 May 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph without Bishopsgate Friday 11 May 1900 Sung Mass in celebration of Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee 1230 Organ Recital: Edmund Aldhouse (Ripon Cathedral) St Stephen Walbrook Choir provided by “Coro “ St Andrew Holborn 1310 Recital: “Spring Voices” Ellie Laugharne (soprano) St Anne & St Agnes 1315 Recital: Rachel Chapman (soprano) St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 31 May 1915 Concert: Haarlem Voices choir (Haarlem, Netherlands) Part of the 1215 Festal Mass - Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary St Vedast alias Foster Sangerstevne International Choral Festival St Margaret Pattens 1745 Choral Evensong in celebration of the Inns’ Amity Temple Church 1930 Concert: “Jaljala” A multicultural collaboration between musicians from the Middle East, North Africa and Europe Admission £10 in advance - CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN MAY 2012 £12 on the door For further information see www.stethelburgas.org St Ethelburga Bishopsgate Tuesday 1 May Saturday 12 May 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 0930 Join in singing in Brahms’ with the Whitehall Choir and Orchestra: 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch workshop and rehearsal, followed by the performance at 1630 Singer’s fee 1300 Organ Recital: John Hill HSBC Young Artists Series – £20 – see www.whitehallchoir.org.uk for details and registration Admission free for audience for performance only St Sepulchre without Newgate. Tom Winpenny (St Albans Cathedral) Works by Bach, Byrd, Judith Bingham, Jongen and Reger St Lawrence Jewry Monday 14 May 1300 Recital: D’Cruz Piano Trio St Stephen Walbrook 1300 Recital: Clélia Iruzun (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Recital: Anakay Koshka (violin) St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Annual Harold Darke Memorial Organ Recital: Charles Andrews – 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street top organ prizewinner, Royal College of Music Works by Bach, Darke, Wednesday 2 May Buxtehude and Dupré St Michael Cornhill 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Recital: Ruth Gibson (viola), Thomas Carroll (cello), Robin Green (piano) 1300 Recital: Ed Bonner sings Schumann’s Dichterliebe Works by Brahms and Ligeti St Anne and St Agnes St Sepulchre without Newgate 1845 with supper at 1815 Seven Olympians supper lecture series - poets through 1305 Recital: Rossini Momento Musicale St Botolph without Aldgate history and as national heroes Lecture by Graham Fawcett on Baudelaire, 1305 Recital: Beethoven Violin Sonata Series (1) - Leah Meredith (violin), with Yuki Negishi playing Beethoven Piano Sonata Op 27 No 2 Reiko Kimura (piano) St Olave Hart Street Admission £15 (including supper) St Olave Hart Street Tuesday 15 May Wednesday 23 May 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1300 Recital (latest details from 020 7236 1145) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 Organ Recital: John Hill HSBC Young Artists Series – Frédéric Champion 1305 Recital: Abby Hayward (cello) St Botolph without Aldgate (France) The Art of Transcription, including transcriptions by Bach of 1305 Recital: Guildhall Harpists and Friends St Olave Hart Street Vivaldi and by Frédéric Champion of works by Saint-Saëns, Liszt and César 1315 Recital: Juwon Ogungbe (baritone), Thomas Kell (piano) Songs by Franck St Lawrence Jewry Ignatius Sancho, Ayo Bankole, Juwon Ogungbe and Gershwin, 1245 Recital: The Genius of Youth series - The Handel Collection Orchestra with and a Paul Robeson trilogy St Dunstan in the West Denise Leigh (soprano), David Allsopp (alto), Joseph Sentance (organ) 1315 Recital: The Aster Ensemble (wind quintet) Works by Boddecker, Bach, Works by Handel, Mendelssohn and Arne St Stephen Walbrook Granados and Barber St Martin within Ludgate 1315 Recital: Chinatsu Izumikawa (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1805 JustShare (under the auspices of St Mary le Bow): Joint Event with 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street St Paul’s Institute For latest details see www.stmarylebow.co.uk

1815 Recital: Valtie Nunn (violin), Manuel López Jorge (piano) Works by Thursday 24 May Janáček, Fazil Say and Ravel St Dunstan in the West 1305 Recital: Tara Clifford (piano) St Mary at Hill 1900 Evangelistic talk, with questions to the speaker, over dinner and dessert 1305 Organ Recital: Timothy Wakerell (St Paul’s Cathedral) St Mary le Bow All welcome Please contact the Church Office (020 7283 2231) or e-mail 1305 Recital: Emeline Archambault (piano) St Olave Hart Street [email protected] for more details or to sign up to attend 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower St Helen Bishopsgate 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series – Birger Marmvik Wednesday 16 May (Oskarshamn, Sweden) St Margaret Lothbury 1300 Recital (latest details from 020 7236 1145) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Maria Slawek (violin), Grzegorz Mania (piano) Works by Britten, 1305 Recital: Flute, Viola and Guitar Trio St Botolph without Aldgate Debussy, Lutoslawski and Bartók St Dunstan in the West 1305 Recital: James Brawn (piano) Includes Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata 1600 onwards “Strictly Maypole” fundraising event (for church projects) St Olave Hart Street on the Tower Hill terrace (next to the church) See Maypole Dancing 1315 Recital: Haru Ushigusa (violin), Kumi Matsuo (piano) Works by Schubert, in action, with a chance to join in (for a fee!) Also light refreshments Ravel and Franz Waxman St Dunstan in the West and tours of the church All Hallows by the Tower 1315 Recital: PikaPika Piano Trio (Helen Twomey (violin), Daniel Burrows (cello), Eleanor Tagart (piano)) play Beethoven St Martin wthin Ludgate Friday 25 May 1900 Evangelistic talk and questions over dinner and dessert - all welcome 1230 Organ Recital: James Scott (Bath Abbey) St Stephen Walbrook See under 15 May St Helen Bishopsgate 1310 Recital: Maria Slawek (violin), Grzegorz Mania (piano) Works by Brahms, Britten and Lutoslawski St Anne & St Agnes Thursday 17 May 1315 Organ Recital: James Gough St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: Leah Meredith (violin), Reiko Kimura (piano) St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: James Kirby (piano) plays Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata Saturday 26 May St Olave Hart Street 1000 – 1630 Workshop (British Association of Choral Directors) For details 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower contact [email protected] St Sepulchre without Newgate 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays Organ Music of the Baroque 1400 Concerts for the Children of West Kenya: Julian Callow (piano), St Margaret Lothbury Colleen Muriel (flute), Alison Wheeler (mezzo soprano), with Colleen Muriel’s 1830 Poetry Recital: “City Poems” - B H Fraser, Grey Gowrie & own compositions and arrangements, including a new arrangement of Lavinia Greenlaw Music by Jason Orringe Admission £5 on the door; Gounod’s Ave Maria Admission free - donations to the Friends of the refreshments served For further details see www.bhfraser.com Julius and Dora Children's Centre, Maseno, Kenya All Hallows by the Tower In aid of the St Magnus Music Fund St Magnus the Martyr Monday 28 May 1900 Evangelistic talk and questions over dinner and dessert - all welcome 1300 Recital: Tessa Uys (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Organ Recital: Timothy Byram-Wigfield (St George’s Chapel, Windsor) See under 15 May St Helen Bishopsgate Friday 18 May plays a Royal Diamond Jubilee programme of works by Harris, Handel, 1230 Organ Recital: Stephen Disley (Southwark Cathedral) Liszt, Parry, Hollins and Walton St Michael Cornhill St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Recital: The Sweelinck Ensemble continues its exploration of 1310 Recital in a series pesented by Simon Lepper (piano) and award-winning Telemann’s Paris Quartets St Anne & St Agnes young singers St Anne & St Agnes Tuesday 29 May 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1315 Recital: Patrick Avery (guitar) St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 19 May 1300 Organ Recital: John Hill HSBC Young Artists Series – Paul Gossot (France) 1930 Concert: “Avalonia” A multicultural Irish/Arabic project led by multi- Improvisations (including an improvisation on the hymn 'Veni Sancte Spritus' instrumentalist and composer Jacquelyn Hynes Admission £7 in advance, with alternatim plainchant sung by Colin Campbell) and works by £10 on the door – for further information see www.stethelburgas.org Bach and Handel St Lawrence Jewry St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1315 Recital: Masachi Nishiyama (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Sunday 20 May 1500 90 minute guided tour of church Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1245 onwards “Circle the City” sponsored walk for Christian Aid Now in its 15th year Wednesday 30 May A friendly walk for all ages (with two distance options) around the City 1300 Recital: Maria Razumovskaya (piano) St Sepulchre without Newgate Churches, with guided tours, exhibitions, music and children’s activities. 1305 Recital: Emily Hester (viola) St Botolph without Aldgate 1245 Registration starts at All Hallows by the Tower and St Mary le Bow 1305 Recital: Emilie Capulet (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1300 Pre-walk services at both churches 1315 Recital: Paula Martinez (violin), Neus Guiu Ritort (piano) Including works 1315 Walk begins by Beethoven, de Falla and Monasterio St Dunstan in the West Visit www.christianaid.org.uk/walks or e-mail [email protected] or 1315 Recital: Jonathan Bloxham (cello) St Martin within Ludgate telephone 020 7523 2321 to register an interest & for free information pack. 1930 Opera Gala – An Evening of well-known and much loved operatic arias All Hallows by the Tower and St Mary le Bow sung by upcoming UK singers Admission by (suggested) donation £15 1630 London Mandolin Orchestra Festival Concert: “Nice & Easy”, celebrating Tickets from parish administrator (020 7638 1997) St Giles Cripplegate the range and beauty of music for mandolin orchestra For details visit 1930 Concert: Constanza Chorus performs Verdi’s Requiem For details & tickets (£15) visit www.constanzachorus.org.uk St Sepulchre without Newgate www.londonmandolinfestival.org.uk Tickets (£10 - concessions £8, £5) from the web site or on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate Thursday 31 May Monday 21 May 1305 Recital: I-An Tai (cello), Yukiko Shinohara (piano) St Mary at Hill 1300 Recital: Caterina Grewe (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Organ Recital: Alex Eadon (Oundle School) St Mary le Bow 1300 Organ Recital: Gregory Drott plays Italian Music by de Bergamo, Scarlatti, 1305 Recital: Piano students of Professor Mikhail Kazakevich, Trinity Laban Frescobaldi, Bossi, and Ravenello St Michael Cornhill Conservatoire of Music and Dance St Olave Hart Street 1310 Recital: Ruth Gibson (viola), Thomas Carroll (cello), Robin Green (piano) 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower St Anne and St Agnes 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents another Vintage Collection of Tuesday 22 May unexpected masterpieces St Margaret Lothbury 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1800 Lawrence Lecture 2012: “Selfless Gain” by Margaret Heffernan 1300 Organ Recital: John Hill HSBC Young Artists Series - Yuka Ishimaru For further details see www.stlawrencejewry.org.uk St Lawrence Jewry Works by Bach, Yui Kakinuma and Mozart St Lawrence Jewry 1930 Concert: “The Honour of a Jubilee” – A Tribute to Her Majesty the Queen 1300 Recital: Guildhall School of Music St Stephen Walbrook St Bride’s Choir sings Purcell’s Te Deum in D (first performed at St Bride’s), 1315 Recital: Kenneth O’Neill (piano) St Bride Fleeet Street music with a royal theme by Tallis, Byrd, Vaughan Williams, Bax 1930 Concert: Stile Antico sing The Rose in Flower - Masterpieces from the and Ireland, and Coronation Anthems by Handel and Parry Tickets £18 - Tudor Era Tickets (£15) from 020 7766 1100 or www.stileantico.co.uk £12 in advance from church office (020 7427 0133) or www. stbrides.com (£10 concessions available on the door) St Sepulchre without Newgate St Bride Fleet Street

______June 2012 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

A Joyous Ring of Celebration

There have been many June editions of this publication but none so far that have fallen in the year of a Royal Diamond Jubilee and indeed there has been no Royal Diamond Jubilee for 115 years. In terms of the history of the City churches, of course, that timeframe is nothing of note‐ it has been 346 years since the Great Fire which altered the City beyond recognition, 946 since the Normans arrived and 1408 since St Paul’s Cathedral was founded by Mellitus, who in turn was the 17th named Bishop of London. There is plenty of history in this Square Mile. Two City churches have marked this auspicious event of 60 years since HM The Queen acceded to the throne on the death of her father King George VI. At St James Garlickhythe and St Dunstan in the West, new rings of bells were cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

Those at St Dunstan in the West are already in the church and have been dedicated and hung ready to peal for the first time on 5 June as HM Queen passes by towards St Paul’s, whilst those for St James Garlickhythe will be erected in their own tower on a boat on the , and will ring out at the head of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on Sunday 3 June. Later they will be hung in the tower of the church on Garlick Hill. And whilst the flotilla edges its way up the River Thames on Sunday 3 June, a quarter peal will be attempted by members of the Ancient Society of College Youths. The bells of grounded City churches will sound out too‐ St Magnus the Martyr beside London Bridge, St Mary le Bow in , St Paul’s Cathedral, All Hallows by the Tower and Temple Church and other churches too will join in along the Thames beyond the City.

There are now 10 bells in St Dunstan in the West‐ replacing a ring of 8 in the rebuilt church of 1829. All but one were removed in 1969. Here the bells are named for saints connected with the Church, parish or London; George, Richard, Alban, Peter, Edward, Mary, Mellitus, Paul, Thomas and of course Dunstan, himself patron of bell founders. “I am called the bell of Dunstan: I sing for the health and peace of Elizabeth”. And for those who like puzzles, the Latin inscription “campana dvnstani appellor; pro pace et salvtate elizabethae cano” contains a significant number in Roman numerals. Meanwhile, at St James Garlcikhythe, the 8 new bells will replace three dating from 1682 to 1700. They will be named for the members of the Royal Family: Elizabeth, Philip, Charles, Anne, Andrew, Edward, William and Henry. Generous donors have provided both towers’ bells and we are grateful to them all for providing those of us who visit, live or work in the City the opportunity to hear the very English art of change‐ringing.

Long Live the Queen!

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 JUNE 2012 Every Wednesday continued 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to 1315 Holy Communion in the crypt St Bride Fleet Street change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our website at 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 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 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 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 1100 Morning Prayer (CW) St Martin within Ludgate 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1300 Prayer Meeting St Margaret Pattens 1200 Holy Communion St Clement Eastcheap 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Healing Service St Mary le Bow 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 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1800 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth Every Tuesday 1305 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0730 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0745 Eucharist in the crypt 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 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate (not June 28) 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster of the month St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens (Sung Eucharist at 1310 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West on the first Thursday of the month) 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate 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 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Every Friday 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0730 Morning prayers St Margaret Pattens 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow Every Wednesday 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 St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0845 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 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) 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 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet Site of the 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the Internet Church for London. To watch these services, which change auspices of auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate on a daily basis, log on to:www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk

SPECIAL SERVICES IN JUNE 2012 Saturday 2 June Sunday 3 June 1930 Concert: Baluji Shrivastav and the Inner Vision Orchestra of blind and 1030 Festival Holy Communion (BCP) for HM the Queen’s Diamond partially sighted musicians from around the world. Songs from Iran, Jubilee, with the St James’s Choir, followed by parish lunch Afghanistan, India and Nigeria, and Gospel and Blues music to Indian Contact [email protected] to enquire about Ragas and Western Classical compositions, celebrating the power tickets for lunch St James Garlickhythe of music to transform lives Further information from 1100 Festival Choral Eucharist in honor of the Diamond Jubilee, followed www.stethelburgas.org Admission £15 (concessions £10) at 1230 by barbecue and parish picnic in the rectory garden and party St Ethelburga Bishopsgate for children in the churchyard St Bride Fleet Street Sunday 3 June 1115 “God Save the Queen!”- a service of music and readings to celebrate 1200 The Big Lunch to celebrate HM the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee the Diamond Jubilee, with activities for the children Temple Church Further information from the parish office (020 7638 1997) St Giles Cripplegate Wednesday 6 June 1200 The Big Picnic – church walk to the Thames, following the 1100 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate Communion Service, to watch the Jubilee Pageant Further 1900 Sung Mass for the Eve of Corpus Christi with Procession and information from the church administrator (020 7488 4318) Benediction Celebrant and Preacher the Rt Revd Christopher St Olave Hart Street Chessun, Bishop of Southwark St Andrew Holborn 1230 The Big Lunch to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee (held jointly with Thursday 7 June – The Feast of Corpus Christi St Botolph Aldgate) Follows the 1100 Eucharist After lunch, walk to 1215 Festal Mass St Vedast alias Foster the Thames to watch the Jubilee Pageant Inform the church office 1300 Sung Mass with Benediction St Andrew Holborn ([email protected]) that you are coming and what food you are bringing to share All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Choral Eucharist with the St Margaret Pattens Choir St Margaret Pattens Tuesday 5 June 1800 Holy Communion using a liturgy from the Iona Community 0930-1530 The Big Jubilee Lunch Bring your own lunch or buy it when you St Ethelburga Bishopsgate come. Live Music and Big Screen to watch the St Paul’s Cathedral 1830 High Mass, Procession and Benediction Music by Rheinberger, service. Suggested donation for admission £10 Telephone church Elgar and Vierne Followed by refreshments St Magnus the Martyr office (020 7427 0133) to reserve a place St Bride Fleet Street 1830 Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate Wednesday 6 June Monday 11 June – St Barnabas the Apostle 1305 Recital: Rowan Pierce (soprano) St Botolph without Aldgate 1215 Festal Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 Recital: “Making Waves” female vocal ensemble from Ukraine, Tuesday 12 June led by Victoria Vitrenko St Olave Hart Street 1130 Thanksgiving Service – The Worshipful Company of Stationers’ 1310 Recital: Phillip Dyson (piano) playing music by Debussy, Chopin, “Bubble Service” St Bride Fleet Street Gershwin, Scott Joplin and Fats Waller In aid of the Buigiri School for the Blind, Tanzania St Anne & St Agnes Wednesday 13 June 1315 Recital: Lance Nomura (bass), Manon Ablett (piano) 1310 Choral Patronal Festival Service celebrating the Feast Day of St Dunstan in the West St Botolph and also the Diamond Jubilee Preacher The Most Revd 1315 Recital: Claire Eadington (mezzo soprano) and Kirsty Ligertwood Alan Harper, Archbishop of Armagh & Primate of All Ireland (piano) Includes works by Brahms, Poulenc and Britten Followed by refreshments St Botolph Bishopsgate St Martin within Ludgate Thursday 14 June Thursday 7 June 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Recital: “Song in the City” Series The Olympics in Song: 1300 Lancastria Association Service St Katharine Cree Asia – Tales of the Orient (In the Church Hall)

Wednesday 20 June St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Recital: Leah Meredith (violin) and Reiko Kimura (piano) St Mary at Hill Thursday 21 June 1305 Recital: Chloë Treharne (mezzo soprano), Gavin Roberts (piano) 1300 Holy Communion for Celebrate the City St Margaret Pattens St Olave Hart Street Sunday 24 June 1310 Organ Recital: David Cook (London) Works by Sousa, Holllins, 1830 Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate J S Bach and Vierne All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend with Simon Sturgeon-Clegg Wednesday 27 June (trumpet) The Queen’s Jubilee - ceremonial music for organ and 1745 Choral Evensong for St Peter’s Day, followed by drinks in the trumpet St Margaret Lothbury Master’s Garden Suggested donation for drinks £5 Temple Church Friday 8 June Thursday 28 June 1230 Organ Recital: Matthew O’Malley (St Alfege, Greenwich) 1800 Service to open the Gateway Centre – Preacher the Rt Revd Richard St Stephen Walbrook Chartres, Bishop of London St Martin within Ludgate 1310 Recital: Anete Graudina (violin) and Florian Mitrea (piano) Friday 29 June – St Peter& St Paul, Apostles playing works by Schumann St Anne & St Agnes 1215 Festal Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1315 Recital: Veronica Henderson (cello) St Bride Fleet Street

Monday 11 June 1300 Recital: Tessa Uys (piano) Works by Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann St Lawrence Jewry CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JUNE 2012 1300 Organ Recital: Tim Ravalde (Chichester Cathedral) Works by Buxtehude and Vierne St Michael Cornhill Friday 1 June 1310 Recital: James Woodrow (guitar) playing works by Bach, Ravel, 1230 Organ Recital: Daniel Clark (Berlin Cathedral) Milhaud, Ibert, Sauguet and Gaultier St Anne & St Agnes St Stephen Walbrook 1845 with supper at 1815 Seven Olympians supper lecture series – 1310 Recital: Lawson Trio - Annabelle Lawson (piano), Fenella Humphreys poets through history and as national heroes Lecture by (violin) and Rebecca Knight (cello) Grand Tour series Graham Fawcett on Emily Dickinson, with Yuki Negishi playing Concert 4 – America St Anne & St Agnes Beethoven Piano Sonata Op 54 Admission £15 (including supper) 1315 Recital: Mignonette Aarons (piano) St Bride Fleet Street St Olave Hart Street

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JUNE 2012 - continued Tuesday 19 June 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Tuesday 12 June 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Works by J S Bach, Duruflé and 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Franck St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Music to celebrate the Queen’s 1300 Recital: Richard Lea (baritone) and Charlotte Way (piano) Diamond Jubilee by Clarke, Walton, Arne, Purcell, Elgar, Handel Works by Brahms and Beethoven St Margaret Pattens and Best St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Recital: ”Genius of Youth” series The Handel Collection, David 1300 Recital: Anna de la Vega (flute),Clare Hammond (piano) Aprahamian Liddle (organ) and Shuna Scott Sendall (soprano) St Stephen Walbrook Works by Handel, Mendelssohn, Arne and Britten 1305 Recital: The City Singers “Music for Majesty” – a programme of St Stephen Walbrook choral pieces from the Coronation Service St Katharine Cree 1930 Opera: Regents Opera perform Mozart’s Magic Flute 1315 Recital: Louise Salmond Smith (recorders), David Butler (keyboard) Tickets £15, £21, £35 from www.ticketsource.co.uk/regentsopera or 020 7724 2696 St Sepulchre without Newgate St Bride Fleet Street 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church, including parts not normally Wednesday 20 June open to the public Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Recital: Michael Downey St Sepulchre without Newgate 1900 Concert: Irish Heritage Summer Recital, by Máire Flavin (mezzo 1305 Recital: Simon Ballard (viola) and Joanne Houghton (oboe) soprano) and Simon Lepper (piano) Including works by St Botolph without Aldgate Schumann, Bizet and Philip Martin and popular opera arias Tickets 1305 Recital: Chihiro Ono (violin) St Olave Hart Street £15 (students £5) in advance from Kathy 0’Regan (020 7226 4578 1310 Recital: Anne-Isabel Meyer (cello) Bach Cello Suites Concert I or e-mail [email protected]) or on the door St Anne & St Agnes St Bride Fleet Street 1315 Recital: Kenny O’Neill (piano) St Dunstan in the West Wednesday 13 June 1315 Recital: Rose Hsien (violin) and Abigail Sin (piano) Works by 1300 Recital: Details -020 7236 1145 St Sepulchre without Newgate Mozart, Beethoven and Debussy St Martin within Ludgate 1305 Recital: “Royal Interiors” Baroque Ensemble 1805 JustShare City Talk: Mark Lynas talks about his book on climate St Botolph without Aldgate change “The God Species: How the Planet can survive the age of 1305 Recital: Leah Tagami Meredith (violin) and Reiko Kimura (piano) humans” For further information see www.justshare.org.uk Beethoven Violin Sonata Series 3 St Olave Hart Street St Mary le Bow 1315 Recital: Guray Basol (piano) St Dunstan in the West 1900 Concert: EC4 Music Choir and Orchestra, conducted by 1315 Recital: Amici Violin Duo (Elizabeth Cooney and Helena Wood) Tim Crosley, with Olga Stezko (piano); music by Beethoven Works by Mozart, Schnittke, Prokofiev and Paganini and Vivaldi In aid of the St Bride’s Church Inspire Appeal St Martin within Ludgate Admission £15 and £10 (including a complimentary drink) Thursday 14 June Tickets e-mail: [email protected] St Bride Fleet Street 1045 The Knollys Rose Ceremony: Gather in Seething Lane Gardens for 1930 Opera: Regents Opera perform Mozart’s 'Magic Flute' Tickets £15, the cutting of the rose, then watch the procession to Mansion House £21, £35 Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/regentsopera for payment of the rose “rent” to the Lord Mayor (Mansion House or 020 7724 2696 St Sepulchre without Newgate presentation ceremony restricted to invited guests only) All Hallows by the Tower Thursday 21 June 1305 Recital: “Song in the City” series The Olympics in Song: Africa – 1305 Recital: “Song in the City” series The Olympics in Song: On Safari (In the Church Hall) St Botolph Bishopsgate Australasia – Antipodean Song (In the Church Hall) 1305 Organ Recital: Enrico Viccardi (Como Conservatoire, Italy) St Botolph Bishopsgate St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Jenavieve Moore (soprano), Ana Luisa Monteiro (piano) 1305 Organ Recital: Richard Hall (Organ Scholar, King’s College London) St Mary at Hill with Robert Landen (trumpet) St Mary le Bow 1305 Organ Recital: Richard Pinel (St George’s Chapel, Windsor) 1305 Recital: Erwin Weerstra (piano) St Olave Hart Street Works by J S Bach, Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn, Schumann, 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Cook (All Saints, West Bromwich) Works S S Wesley and Shearing St Mary le Bow by J S Bach, Whitlock and Dupré All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Recital: Leah Tagami Meredith (violin), Reiko Kimura (piano) 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Daniel Chappuis Beethoven Violin Sonata Series 4 St Olave Hart Street (Vevey, Switzerland) St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Organ Recital: Michael Bell (St Michael’s Church, Chislehurst) Friday 15 June Works by Mozart, J S Bach, Mendelssohn, Coleridge-Taylor and 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate Whitlock All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays music by Mendelssohn 1305 Recital: David Clasen (tenor) Tessa Marchington (piano) and his friend Samuel Wesley St Margaret Lothbury Music in Offices prizewinner’s recital St Olave Hart Street 1400 to 1600 Celebrate the City Event: Free guided tours of the church 1310 Recital: The Sweelinck Ensemble concludes its exploration of All Hallows by the Tower Telemann’s Paris Quartets St Anne & St Agnes 1830 Wee Sing in the City: Join in singing your heart out with songs from 1315 Recital: River City Saxes St Bride Fleet Street the world church and from the Iona Community All Welcome 1315 Recital: Riyad Nicolas (piano) St Dunstan in the West All Hallows by the Tower 1900 Concert: EC4 Music Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Tim Saturday 16 June Crosley, with Olga Stezko (piano), performing music by Beethoven 1100 to 1600 Summer Fete & Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate and Vivaldi In aid of the St Bride’s Church Inspire Appeal Sunday 17 June Admission £15 and £10 (including a complimentary drink) 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate Tickets: e-mail [email protected] St Bride Fleet Street Monday 18 June 1930 Opera: Regents Opera perform Mozart’s 'Magic Flute' 1100 to 1600 Nearly New Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate Tickets £15, £21, £35 from www.ticketsource.co.uk/regentsopera 1300 Recital: Tessa Uys (piano) Works by Beethoven, Mozart and or 020 7724 2696 St Sepulchre without Newgate Schubert St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Organ Recital: Michael Eckerle (Franziskuskirche, Pforzheim, Friday 22 June Germany) St Michael Cornhill 1230 Organ Recital: Anthony Gritten (Royal Academy of Music) 1310 Recital: Kinga Ujszaszi (baroque violin), Henrik Persson (viola da St Stephen Walbrook gamba), Jamie Akers (theorbo) and Pawel Siwczak (organ & 1310 Organ Recital: Martin Knizia plays works by The South harpsichord) play Biber’s Mystery Sonatas St Anne & St Agnes German Masters, including Pachelbel, Muffat and Erlebach 1830 Concert: Psallite Women’s choir Tickets £6- £8 on the door St Anne & St Agnes St Dunstan in the West continued ………………….

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JUNE 2012 - continued Sunday 24 June ─ continued 1500 Celebrate the City Event: Free 60-90 minute guided tour of the church, including parts not normally open to the public Friday 22 June ─ continued 1400 to 1600 Celebrate the City Event: Free guided tours of the church St Bride Fleet Street All Hallows by the Tower 1500 Celebrate the City Event Free talk by Tony Tucker on “This is Wren: the Classical, the Baroque and the City of London Churches” 1500 Celebrate the City Event: Free 60-90 minute guided tour of the church, including parts not normally open to the public To book e-mail [email protected] or telephone 020 7332 1868/1870 Guildhall Library St Bride Fleet Street 1600 Celebrate the City Concert: St Cyprian’s Singers “The English 1730 Celebrate the City Event: Launch of Exhibition “Bonuses, Benefits and Bailouts: the Morality of the King James Bible” (see box on final choral tradition” Works by Finzi, Howells, Wood, Bainton and page ) Admission free – all welcome All Hallows by the Tower Stanford Tickets £4 on the door (to include wine afterwards) 1800 Celebrate the City Event: Concert by The Pinnacle Ensemble Choral St Mary le Bow music celebrating 450 years of British composers – including works Monday 25 June 1200 City of London Festival Event: Traditional bell-ringing to mark by Weelkes, Purcell, Harris, Stanford and Holst amongst others who the start of the Festival Free event St Mary le Bow have left an indelible mark on London’s musical life 1300 Recital: Tessa Uys (piano) playing works by Beethoven Tickets £10 (£8 concessions) St Martin within Ludgate St Lawrence Jewry 1900 Concert: Esterhazy Singers Tickets (£10, £5)- for tickets and further 1300 Organ Recital: David Aprahamian Liddle (St Barnabas, Pimlico) information visit www.esterhazysingers.com St Sepulchre without Newgate St Michael Cornhill 1900 Concert London Youth Gospel Choir For further information 1310 Recital: Eva Caballero (flute), John Crockatt (violin), Nathaniel telephone 020 7623 6630 and see www.lygc.org.uk Mander (harpsichord) and Vladimir Waltham (cello) Works by J S Bach and Telemann St Anne & St Agnes St Margaret Pattens Saturday 23 June Tuesday 26 June 1030 Celebrate the City Event: Tower Hill Church Crawl 2 hours’ walking 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch tour of five city churches – St Olave Hart Street, St Katharine Cree, 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Works by Tunder, J S Bach, St Margaret Pattens, St Mary at Hill and St Clement Eastcheap Messiaen, Mendelssohn and Reger St Lawrence Jewry Led by the Revd Oliver Ross Hear the history - sing a hymn - pray 1300 Recital: Students of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama for a loved one Tickets £10 including coffee and croissant (first playing J S Bach’s Brandenberg Concertos Nos 2 & 4 come, first served!) Meet at St Olave Hart Street St Stephen Walbrook 1100 and 1300 Celebrate the City Event Free guided tour of the church 1305 City of London Festival Event: “Tomorrow’s Artists Today” led by the Rector St Mary le Bow Recital by Thomas Besnard (piano) playing Debussy 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400 & 1500 Celebrate the City Event: “Please Visit the Free admission St Bride Fleet Street Churchyard” A 15 minute sound and movement installation by Lizzi 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church, including parts not normally Kew Ross & Without Warning Company, reflecting the passage of open to the public Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street time and the passing of us all Admission free 1815 Talk and discussion: Dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress in Japan St Vedast alias Foster after the 2011 Earthquake Main speaker Dr Yuriko Suzuki 1200 to 1700 Celebrate the City Events In the Church Hall, 1200 -1400 St Dunstan in the West and 1500 to 1700 - Open Rehearsal by students of the Guildhall Wednesday 27 June School of Music & Drama, under the direction of Gavin Roberts, of 1305 Recital: Simon Gfeller (tenor) St Botolph without Aldgate the Olympics in Song recital series. In the church, 1400 to1600 ─ 1305 City of London Festival Event “Tomorrow’s Artists Today” Recital the church choir and organist showcasing choral favourites by singers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama performing Admission free St Botolph Bishopsgate “A Bouquet of Comic Flower Songs” Free admission 1400 Concerts for the Children of West Kenya: one of a series of Temple Church monthly concerts by Colleen Muriel and friends Admission free – 1305 Recital: Stadler Ensemble – Marc Naylor (basset clarinet), donations to the Friends of the Julius and Dora Children’s Centre, Karen Newby (piano) St Olave Hart Street Maseno, Kenya All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Recital: Anne-Isabel Meyer (cello) Bach Cello Suites Concert 2 1400 Celebrate the City Event: Traditional Bell-ringing Free Event St Anne & St Agnes St Mary le Bow 1315 Recital: Elizabeth Pink (contralto) and Tim Tozer (piano) 1400 to 1600 Celebrate the City Event: Free guided tours of the church “Feast of Songs for a Summer’s Day” St Martin within Ludgate All Hallows by the Tower 1800 City of London Festival Event: BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists 1500 Celebrate the City Event: Free musical guided tour of the church, Recital by Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) and José Gallardo (Piano) – with readings and music performed by members of the choir to give a “A Postcard from the Balkans” Tickets £10 unreserved (see box new insight into the church’s history St Bride Fleet Street on final page for contact information) St Vedast alias Foster 1830 following reception at 1700 Gala Choral Concert by the Choirs of St 1830 Concert: Richard Arundel (baritone) and Julian Barber (piano) Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury and St Martin in the Fields in support of Song cycles by Vaughan Williams and Schumann In aid of Arcubus the St Chad’s Restoration Appeal Tickets for reception £30; Tickets £10 on the door or in advance from the church office suggested minimum donation for the concert £10 (020 7248 5139) St Mary le Bow St Sepulchre without Newgate 1930 City of London Festival Concert: BBC Singers, St James’ Baroque 1930 Concert: “Celebrating our Queens” by the Diversity Choir, and Iain Farrington (organ) conducted by David Hill perform including works by Handel, Purcell, Parry, Britten, William Mathias “Music from the Cities of the Hanseatic League” Admission Free and Paul Mealor Tickets £10 in advance (£6 concessions) from St Giles Cripplegate www.wegotickets.com/event/162971 - £15 (concessions £10) 1930 Concert : Brass concert in memory of Malcolm Smith on the door St Andrew Holborn Tickets £5 on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate

Sunday 24 June Thursday 28 June 1030 Celebrate the City Event Free talk by Tony Tucker on “The 1305 Recital: “Song in the City” series The Olympics in Song: The Splendour of the City Churches” To book tel 020 7332 1868/1870 Americas, North & South (In the Church Hall) or e-mail [email protected] Guildhall Library St Botolph Bishopsgate 1300 Celebrate the City Event Free guided tour of the church led by the 1305 City of London Festival Event: “Tomorrow’s Artists Today” Rector St Mary le Bow Recital by Richard Uttley (piano) playing works by Bach, 1400-1600 Celebrate the City Event: Free guided tours of the church Debussy, Takemitsu and Tristran Murail Free admission All Hallows by the Tower St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Recital: Anna Ter Haar (flute), Lydia Aoki (piano) St Mary at Hill 1305 Recital: Sator Duo (violin and guitar) St Mary le Bow

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JUNE 2012 - continued EXHIBITIONS IN THE CITY CHURCHES Thursday 28 June ─ continued 1305 Recital: Concentus VII Ensemble “Actéon – from hunter to hunted” – All Hallows by the Tower cantatas, songs and instrumental music by Purcell, Philidor and “Bonuses. Benefits and Bailouts: Boismortier St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Including works by J S Bach, The Morality of the King James Bible” Rheinberger, Guilmant, Jackson and Whitlock All Hallows by the Tower An exhibition tracing the origins and development of the Bible in 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series David Löfgren the English language and its use in worship, (Norrköping, Sweden) St Margaret Lothbury to tie in with the 350th Anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer 1800 City of London Festival Event: BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Including rare manuscripts and first editions of Bibles and Prayer Books Recital by Clara Mouriz (mezzo soprano) and Joseph Middleton loaned by the Museum of the Book in LImehouse (piano) – “A Postcard from Spain” Tickets £10 – see box below for 22 June – 22 September 2012 contact information St Lawrence Jewry Mon-Fri 0900-1730; Sat 1000-1700; Sun 1300-1700 Friday 29 June All welcome – admission free – donations invited

1230 Organ Recital: Andrew Wyatt (Organ Scholar, Canterbury Cathedral) St Stephen Walbrook Three Exhibitions at St Lawrence Jewry 1305 City of London Festival Event: Tomorrow’s Artists Today Recital: Students of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama play quartets All free - Monday to Friday 0800-1800 by Beethoven and Debussy Free admission St Mary at Hill and Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 June 2012 1310 Recital: Natalie Klouda Quartet For latest information see www.stanneslutheranchurch.org.uk St Anne & St Agnes The Livery Companies 1315 Organ Recital: Laurence Caldecote (St Nicolas, Nuneaton) Part of the Guildhall Art Gallery exhibition St Bride Fleet Street Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker - 850 years of London Livery Company Treasures 1800 City of London Festival Event: BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists This display focuses especially on the religious background Recital by Kathryn Rudge (mezzo soprano) and James Baillieu (piano) performing songs on the theme of flowers from the Baroque of the Livery 22 June – 21 September 2012 period to modern works Tickets £10 (see box below for contact information) St Bartholomew the Great Worshipful Company of Founders Exhibition of Medals 1930 Concert: Camille Maalawy and her musicians perform “Daughters of Bronze art medals created by GCSE Students at the Arabia”, drawing on research and performance of Arabic and City of London Academy, Southwark

Sephardic songs Further information from www.stethelburgas.org inspired by 850 years of the Livery Companies and Tickets £10 in advance, £12 on the door the Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker exhibition St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 22 June -13 July 2012 Saturday 30 June 1400, 1500 and 1600 City of London Festival Event: “Where the Mosaics Art Exhibition Wildflowers are” Three promenade performances of music and 22 June - 21 Sept 2012 poetry in celebration of wildflowers Tickets £15 (including glass of wine) Each beginning at St Mary at Hill, going on to St Olave Hart Street and concluding at St Stephen Walbrook 1400 onwards “Come & Sing” Fauré Requiem with St Dunstan’s College Choir, directed by Matthew Wood Workshop at 1400 – performance CITY OF LONDON FESTIVAL

at 1700 Tickets for participants £5 from St Martin-in-the-Fields 24 June – 27 July 2012

Box Office (020 7766 1100) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1930 Concert: Sufi African Vibrations From a project from South Africa Including concerts in City Churches, some of them a concert promoting world music of African, Javanese and Arabic (particularly those at lunch time) with free admission melodies Admission £10 Further information from www.stethelburgas.org St Ethelburga Bishopsgate For concise details please see individual daily listings For full listings, information on all events, ticket prices and booking please visit www.colf.org.

CELEBRATE THE CITY Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 June 2012

The special programme of events for these Save the date for this year's JAM concert! “four days in the Square Mile”

will include a number of events in the City Churches, As part of the City of London Festival the many of them with free admission John Armitage Memorial concert will be broadcast live on For concise details see individual daily listings Radio 3 on Wednesday 4 July at 7.30pm

In addition, many of the City Churches are open from St Bride Fleet Street featuring the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to the public for part or all of the four days For advance information please visit www.jamconcert.org

For full listings of all events, ticket prices where applicable and times of opening of churches

please visit www.visitthecity.co.uk/culture2012

______July & August 2012 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

Transports of delight

The sexagenary celebrations may have peaked, but there is still plenty of pageantry yet to be seen in and around the City of London churches this summer. The City’s ancient avenues have seen a fair few processions over the centuries — coronations, royal weddings and jubilees amongst them — but the Square Mile also enjoys a good many annual events to keep civic spirits up betweentimes.

One of the most entertaining starts this year around 10:30 on the morning of Wednesday, July 11, when the Worshipful Company of Carmen gather in Guildhall Yard for a round of Cart Marking (www.thecarmen.co.uk). This is the traditional equivalent of licensing cars, albeit to a simpler scheme than modern alphanumeric codes: as with the hallmarking of silver, a single letter suffices to designate each year. In the many centuries when the City defined London, all the carts authorised to circulate regularly within its walls were clearly marked once a year with the current cipher. Now that the regulation of vehicular traffic is altogether more complex — and out of the hands of the Company — a representative selection of picturesque vehicles are marked instead, in a ceremony that comfortably concludes with a private reception and lunch for the Livery. Since most of the transports that now participate in this ritual are themselves valued relics of a bygone age, the mark is now usually burnt with a branding iron into a board on the back of the vehicle. Any given year is likely to feature vintage cars and hackney cabs, working carts and drays, horse-drawn hearses and vans. A true connoisseur might round off the day with a visit to St. Stephen Walbrook, to see an early fire engine on a memorial of 1803 commemorating George Griffin Stonestreet, managing director of the Phoenix Assurance Company.

St. Stephen Walbrook also features a handsome manifestation of the Royal Arms — specifically, those of Charles II dating to 1677-78, and the more unusual for being unpainted. (A painter’s bill for a walloping £5 survives from 1679, for the figures of Moses and Aaron on the reredos, and the ‘King’s Armes’; presumably it was paid, as the altar screen survives to this day, and the present state of the Arms represents a later æsthetic choice rather an unresolved dispute with the artisan.) The City churches are rich in such royal symbolism, from matched sets of golden lions and silver unicorns (typically mounted at the front of the first row of pews or benches) to the emphatic branding of the Royal Arms on post-Fire and post-War churches. St. Benet Welsh Church, for example, also features the Arms of Charles II, in this instance splendidly painted, while those in St. Bride’s Fleet Street date from its restoration after the dreadful fire-bombing of 29 December 1940. As an aid to understanding and appreciating these complex images, to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, the Churches Conservation Trust has launched an online guide ‘Revealing Royal Arms’, in the wake of last year’s fascinating ‘Discovering Wallpaintings’ (www.visitchurches.org.uk/RoyalArms). Searching for specific features often leads the eye to details that might otherwise be overlooked — what better way to sustain the Diamond Jubilee than a search for the Royal Arms in City Churches?

Signe Hoffos, The Friends of the City Churches

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?

REGULAR SERVICES IN JULY & AUGUST 2012 Every Wednesday continued 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to 1315 Holy Communion in the crypt St Bride Fleet Street change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our website at 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 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 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 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 1100 Morning Prayer (CW) St Martin within Ludgate 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1300 Prayer Meeting St Margaret Pattens 1200 Holy Communion St Clement Eastcheap 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Healing Service St Mary le Bow 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 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Sung Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1800 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn [N.B. Not in August] 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth Every Tuesday 1305 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 0730 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0745 Eucharist in the crypt 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 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster of the month St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens (Sung Eucharist at 1310 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West [N.B. Not in August] on the first Thursday of the month) 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street [N.B. Not in August] 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate 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 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Every Friday 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0730 Morning prayers St Margaret Pattens 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer in the crypt St Mary le Bow Every Wednesday 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 St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 0845 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn [N.B. Not in August] 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 [N.B. Not in August] 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 [N.B. Not in August] 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 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet Site of the 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the Internet Church for London. To watch these services, which change auspices of auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate on a daily basis, log on to:www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk

SPECIAL SERVICES IN JULY 2012 SPECIAL SERVICES IN AUGUST 2012

Tuesday 3 July Wednesday 1 August 1215 Festal Mass, Thomas the Apostle St Vedast alias Foster 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate Thursday 5 July Thursday 9 August 1830 Choral Evensong with a Jazz influence 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate St Sepulchre without Newgate Saturday 7 July Wednesday 15 August ─ The Blessed Virgin Mary 0930 Vigil for the victims and bereaved families 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate of the 7/7 bombings in London St Ethelburga's Centre Thursday 30 August Sunday 8 July 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion St Martin Ludgate 1115 Choral Mattins: in memory of Dr John Birch A service in which tribute will be paid to Master John Birch, Organist of the Temple Church 1982-1997, who died earlier CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JULY 2012 this year Temple Church 1500 Patronal Festival – the Feast of St Benedict Evensong St Benet Paul's Wharf Sunday 1 July 1900 London Gay Symphony Orchestra perform Bernstein and Monday 9 July Copland Tickets: £10/£8 available at: 1245 Praise and Worship hosted by KPMG St Bride Fleet Street www.wegottickets.com/event/170213 St Sepulchre without Newgate Wednesday 18 July Monday 2 July 1800 The St Lawrence Jewry Annual Service 1300 Organ Recital: David Newsholme (Canterbury Cathedral) Works by J S Bach, Meck, Vivaldi, Taglietti and Torelli Sunday 22 July St Michael Cornhill 1030 Patronal Festival – the Feast of St James the Apostle 1310 Recital: Alison Crum & Roy Marks (viole da gamba) Holy Communion (BCP) followed by Parish Lunch. Martin Knizia (harpsichord) Works by German masters Celebrant: The Priest-in-Charge of the 17th century St Anne & St Agnes Preacher: The Archdeacon of London For lunch tickets 1845 with supper at 1815 Seven Olympians supper lecture series – please contact [email protected] poets through history and as national heroes Lecture by St James Garlickhythe Graham Fawcett on Neruda, with Yuki Negishi playing 1115 Baptism, Confirmation and Choral Communion Beethoven Piano Sonata Op 79 Admission £15 on the door This will be the last service of the legal year (including supper) St Olave Hart Street President and Preacher: The Bishop of London 1900 St Paul's Cathedral School ─ School Concert For further The service will be followed by a family barbecue for the information please visit: www.spcslondon.com whole congregation. To book for the barbecue please St Sepulchre without Newgate contact Catherine de Satgé on 020 7353 8559 or: [email protected] Temple Church Tuesday 3 July 1830 Bach Festival Vespers with Lutheran Mass in A major and 1230 Organ Recital St Mary Abchurch Cantata 'Was willst du dich betrüben?' by J S Bach performed 1300 Organ Recital: David Newsholme (Canterbury Cathedral) by the Sweelinck Ensemble St Anne & St Agnes St Michael Cornhill 1305 City of London Festival Event: Recital: Minjung Baek (piano) Tuesday 24 July Works by Debussy, Chopin, Scriabin & UnSuk Chin 1730 Sung Evensong St Giles Cripplegate Admission free St Andrew Holborn

Wednesday 25 July 1315 Recital: Ian Tindale (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Festal Mass, James the Apostle St Vedast alias Foster 1800 City of London Festival Event: 'A Postcard from Vienna' 1310 Choral Eucharist for St James the Great Piano Recital to be given by BBC New Generation Artist St Botolph Bishopsgate Igor Levit who will play two piano sonatas by Beethoven 1730 Sung Evensong St Giles Cripplegate including the 'Hammerklavier' sonata 1800 Service for the Feast Day of St James the Greater, Tickets £10 unreserved St Andrew Holborn the Apostle St Katharine Cree 1930 Concert by the Cornell University Glee Club on the first leg of their UK tour Free admission – retiring collection Thursday 26 July St Dunstan in the West 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) for the Feast of St Ann Open air service in St Ann Blackfriars Churchyard Wednesday 4 July For details: [email protected] 1305 Recital: Abigail Sin (piano) St Botolph Aldgate 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion St Martin Ludgate 1305 Recital: Meghan Cassidy (viola), Annabel Thwaite (piano) St Olave Hart Street Friday 27 July 1305 City of London Festival Event: 'Tomorrow's Artists Today' 1730 Sung Evensong St Giles Cripplegate Recital by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Works by Debussy & Caplet St Sepulchre without Newgate Sunday 29 July 1310 Recital: Anne-Isabel Meyer (violoncello) 1600 Service for the Feast Day of St Olav, King and Martyr with Concert 3 of a series: Suites 2 & 6 for violincello - J S Bach tea party in the churchyard afterwards St Olave Hart Street St Anne & St Agnes

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JULY 2012 ─ continued Saturday 7 July 1845 for 1930 Concert by Keith Waithe and the Macusi Players Wednesday 4 July ─ continued blending rhythms from the Caribbean, South America & Asia 1315 Recital: Eleanor Janes (soprano), Anna McLachan (mezzo Admission £8 in advance, £10 on the door soprano), James Fraser-Andrews (piano), Miranda Harris St Ethelburga's Centre (piano) Arias, Duets and Songs by Brahms, Dvořák, 1930 Concert: English Baroque Choir ─ "Entente Cordiale" Fauré, Gounod, Gurney, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Mozart Mass in G by Vaughan Williams and Schumann St Martin Ludgate Tickets available on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Organ Recital: Jonathan Hope (Organ Scholar at Southwark 2000 Concert: Christian Forshaw and The Sanctuary Ensemble Cathedral) Temple Church St Giles Cripplegate 1845 'JAM' Concert – Pre-concert talk with Judith Bingham 1730 'JAM' Concert – The Hythe with the Orchestra of the Age Monday 9 July of Enlightenment For more details please see the 'box' 1300 Recital: Kanae Furomoto (piano) St Lawrence Jewry display below St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Organ Recital: Ian le Grice (Temple Church) 1805 JustShare Debate/Lecture St Michael Cornhill The Right Revd Richard Cheetham, and 1305 Recital: Concert given by Chœur de Garçons de Mulhouse co-chair with Imam Dr Musharraf Hussain of the Christian St Mary le Bow Muslim Forum will discuss the themes of honest engagement 1310 Recital: Lawson Trio Annabelle Lawson (piano), and constructive dialogue in Christian-Muslim relations Fenella Humphreys (violin), Rebecca Knight (violincello) St Mary le Bow 'Grand Tour' series ─ America Works by Copland, Thursday 5 July Muhly and Schoenberg St Anne & St Agnes 1305 Song Recital in the series 'Song in the City' ─ 1800 City of London Festival Event: 'A Postcard from Leipzig' The Olympics in Song: Europe, A Tour of Olympic Cities Piano Recital to be given by BBC New Generation Artist Works by Samara, Walton, Sheridan, Weill, Coward, Argento, Christian Ihle Hadland featuring works by Chopin, Grieg, Shostakovich and Schubert given by performers from the Mendelssohn, Schumann and Kjerulf Guildhall School of Music Tickets £10 unreserved St Andrew Holborn St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall 1305 Recital: Matthew Drinkwater (piano) St Mary at Hill Tuesday 10 July 1305 Recital: Lysianne Chen (piano) St Mary le Bow 1230 Organ Recital St Mary Abchurch 1305 Recital: Katrina Sheppeard (soprano), Robert Gurvits (piano) 1300 Organ Recital: Ed Kemp-Luck Works by Buxtehude, St Olave Hart Street Tournemire, Peter Hurford, Siegfried Karg-Elert and Weitz 1305 City of London Festival Event: 'Tomorrow's Artists Today' St Lawrence Jewry Singers of the Guildhall School & Drama will perform 1305 City of London Festival Event: 'Tomorrow's Artists Today' 'A Garland of Romantic Flower Songs' Lieder by Schubert, Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Schumann & Richard Strauss, melodies of Fauré & Debussy Works by Debussy St Anne & St Agnes and songs by Purcell, Quilter, Butterworth & Britten 1315 Recital: Glen Sheldon (violin) St Bride Fleet Street St Vedast alias Foster 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church - explore its two thousand 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower year history Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity Series ─ 1830 Concert by Japonica Voices Jérôme Faucheur (Lille, France) St Margaret Lothbury Free admission – retiring collection St Dunstan in the West 1930 for 1945 'An Evening of Opera' in support of The George Oliver Foundation which works to improve the Wednesday 11 July lives of disadvantaged children Tickets £10 from: 1305 Recital: Minjung Baek (piano) St Botolph Aldgate [email protected] St Margaret Pattens 1305 City of London Festival Event: 'Tomorrow's Artists Today' The Flowers of Opera ─ a concert to be given by singers Friday 6 July from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama performing arias 1230 Organ Recital: Tim Harper (Birmingham Cathedral) and duets from works by Handel, Britten, Delibes, Strauss, St Stephen Walbrook Gounod, Puccini, Cilea & Bernstein St Margaret Pattens 1305 City of London Festival Event: 'Tomorrow's Artists Today' 1305 Recital: Alexandra Weaver (soprano), Elizabeth Mucha (piano) Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama 'The cultural world of Alma Mahler' St Olave Hart Street Works by Ravel and Debussy – Sonata for flute, viola & harp 1315 Recital: Kara Florish (soprano), Sarah Denbee (mezzo St Andrew by the Wardrobe soprano), Lach Stankov (piano) Arias, Duets and Songs by 1310 Recital: Bureau Trio – Richard Bureau (violin), Britten, Charpentier, Gounod, Gurney, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Elizabeth Angel (violincello), Alan Brown (piano) Purcell, Rossini, Strauss, Gilbert & Sullivan Brahms C major Piano Trio, Op 87 St Anne & St Agnes St Martin Ludgate 1315 Recital: Ismena Trio St Bride Fleet Street 1315 Recital: Catherine Martin (violin), Oliver Webber (violin), 1315 Recital: Ayaka Tanimoto (mezzo-soprano), Kumi Matsuo (piano) Greg Morris (piano) Temple Church Free admission – retiring collection St Dunstan in the West 1800 City of London Festival Event: Recital: Jennifer Johnston (soprano) 1900 City Chorus ─ A Concert of music inspired by sport and Alisdair Hogart (piano) ─ "A Postcard from Home (and the games Tickets £10 available at: Distant Past)" Part of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation www.londoncitychorus.com/#/tickets-membership/4549111229 Artists Series – recorded for broadcast on Radio 3. Includes St Sepulchre without Newgate the world première of "Beowulf" by Cheryl Frances Hoad, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society. Also works by Vaughan Williams and Peter Warlock Tickets £10 unreserved St Lawrence Jewry

Wednesday 11 July ─ continued Tuesday 17 July ─ continued

1900 Lascelles Memorial Concert ─ in memory of Major-General 1310 Bach Festival Recital: Mayda Narvey (violincello), Anthony Lascelles (1912-2000), a great supporter of the Naomi Edemariam (piano) ─ Sonatas No 1 in G major and musical life of St Olave's: City Chamber Ensemble No 2 for viola da gamba and harpsichord, Prelude from Conductoe – Michael Gammie, Siân Philipps (violin) Suite No 6 in D major for solo cello and Cantata for cello Programme includes Vaughan William's The Lark Ascending and piano by Mayda Narvey St Anne & St Agnes and works by Grieg & Holst Suggested donations: £10 1315 Recital St Bride Fleet Street St Olave Hart Street 1815 Concert by Freshfields Choir, followed by wine 1930 Recital: 'Romantic Quintets for a Summer's Evening' Free admission – retiring collection St Dunstan in the West played by the Endymion String Quartet and clarinet Wednesday 18 July Works by Mozart, Brahms & Schubert Tickets £25, £20, £15 1305 Recital: Piano Quartet with Abigail Sin (piano) To book go to: www.templemusic.org or 020 7427 5641 St Botolph Aldgate Temple Church 1305 Organ Recital: Petra Soltész St Olave Hart Street Thursday 12 July 1310 Benefit Concert in support of the Buigiri School for the Blind 1305 Organ Recital: Robert Smith St Mary at Hill in Tanzania given by Phillip Dyson (piano) Works by Chopin, 1305 Recital: Eleftheria Kotzia (guitar) St Mary le Bow Liszt, Debussy, Gershwin, Berlin, Gould and Mayerl 1305 City of London Festival Event: 'Tomorrow's Artists Today' St Anne & St Agnes Quartet from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama 1315 Recital: Patrick Wastnage (violin), Liz Dunn (piano) with Letty Stott (horn) playing works by Korngold and "Accessible 20th century and contemporary British music James MacMillan St Michael Cornhill for violin and piano" St Martin Ludgate 1305 Recital: Audrey Riley (cello), James Woodrow (guitar) 1805 JustShare Christian Social and Political Thought Lecture St Olave Hart Street 'Prosperity Lost? A Christian Perspective on financial crises 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower and responsible capitalism' to be given by Dr David McNair 1310 Organ Recital: "Orgelbüchlein" by J S Bach who leads Save the Children's work on economic policy and Richard Townend and the Lothbury Singers will perform the advocacy and was formerly senior economic justice adviser organ preludes with the chorales sung as Bach intended at Christian Aid St Mary le Bow St Margaret Lothbury 1845 Diamond Jubilee Concert given by the Temple Church Choir Friday 13 July Wonderful music by Purcell, Stanley and Handel 1230 Organ Recital: Emma Gibbins (St George's Church, Belfast) Please bring a picnic and join us after the concert in the St Stephen Walbrook beautiful Inner Temple Gardens Tickets £16, £12, £8 1305 City of London Festival Event: 'Tomorrow's Artists Today' Recital by Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama: To book go to: www.templemusic.org or 020 7427 5641 Katarzyna Zimińska (viola), Alice Purton (cello), Abigail Sin (piano), Temple Church Nazan Fikret, Gina Walker (soprano), Peter Foggitt (piano) 1900 Recital: Badke Quartet: Lana Trotovšek (violin), Walton ─ Piano Quartet; A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table Emma Parker (violin), Jon Thorne (viola), St Olave Hart Street Jonathan Byers (cello) Quartets by Haydn, Britten and 1310 Recital: Nathaniel Mander (harpsichord); Works by Debussy St Olave Hart Street Sweelinck, Handel, Dandrieu, Balbastre, Scarlatti and 1930 Joyful Company of Singers ─ A Concert to celebrate the J S Bach St Anne & St Agnes Queen's Diamond Jubilee Tickets £20/£17 1315 Recital: Sabrina Blebel (piano) St Bride Fleet Street More information and tickets at: www.jcos.co.uk/ St Sepulchre without Newgate Saturday 14 July 1845 for 1930 Renowned Iraqi oud player, Ehsan Eman will be Thursday 19 July giving a solo performance, playing traditional pieces and 1305 Recital: DueAna – Piano 4 Hands Ana Luisa Monteiro, his own compositions and improvisations and Ana Margarida Silva St Mary at Hill Admission £15 St Ethelburga's Centre 1305 Recital: Catherine Leonard (piano) St Mary le Bow 1930 Concert: London Welsh Chorale St Giles Cripplegate 1305 Recital: Duo à Cord'Air Nathalie Lourties (flute), Susan Edward (cello) St Olave Hart Street Monday 16 July 1310 Organ Marathon ─ to celebrate Richard Townend's 40 years 1300 Recital: Anna Le Hair (piano) St Lawrence Jewry of lunch hour recitals at St Margaret Lothbury 1300 Organ Recital: Simon Bell (Winchester Cathedral) For more details please see the 'box' display below St Michael Cornhill Friday 20 July 1310 Recital: Trio Lavolta ─ Joyce Fraser (violin), 1030 ' – The Roman City' A walk around the Roman Felix Buser (violincello), Sally Mays (piano) city of Londinium as part of the Festival of Archaeology. Works by Haydn and Fauré St Anne & St Agnes The walk costs £7 per person, lasts about 2½ hours –

no need to book, just come to the church on the day Tuesday 17 July All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Organ Recital St Mary Abchurch 1230 Organ Recital: David Phillips St Stephen Walbrook 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Works by Franck, Gigout, 1315 Recital: St Bride Fleet Street Mulet, Boëllmann and Widor St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Recital: Mandkhtuya Dorj (piano) St Dunstan in the West 1300 Concert: given by The Handel Collection & the Rodolfus Choir 1930 Concert by the CMS Chorale – featuring a medley of items Works by Telemann, Handel and Gordon Carr – the ranging from opera arias to songs from the shows. World Première Performance of his Oboe Concerto with Admission by donation – all welcome soloist Rhuti Carr. Retiring collection St Stephen Walbrook All Hallows by the Tower

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JULY 2012 ─ continued Thursday 26 July ─ continued 1730 to 2130 Summer Party in St Bride's Churchyard Saturday 21 July Come and celebrate the beginning of the Olympics with the 1000 to 1200 Olympiad Walk for Peace best of British music, food and fashion Free admission Meet at Jewin Welsh Church, Fann Street to walk to More information from: [email protected] St Giles Cripplegate, St Joseph Bunhill Row and St Bride Fleet Street Wesley's Chapel More details from 020 7638 1997` 1900 "Hope" Charity Concert to help those affected by the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Includes classical music Monday 23 July and traditional Japanese songs. Further details, information 1300 Recital: Harry Fox (piano) St Lawrence Jewry about tickets contact Emiko Iguchi on 020 7354 1048 1300 Organ Recital: Gregory Drott St Michael Cornhill St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Organ Recital: Young Bach and The North German Masters Friday 27 July Works by Bach, Bruhns and Buxtehude performed by 0800 to 2015 All the Bells and All the Psalms ─ all Day! Martin Knizia St Anne & St Agnes A day of fund-raising activities to celebrate the first day 1900 Fleet Street Olympic Festival Concert ─ of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Five 'Canticles' by For full details please go to: www.allthebells.com Tickets £10 All proceeds go to the Inspire Appeal The programme includes an organ recital at 1315 for the restoration of the spire of this historic church Funds raised go to the Inspire Appeal St Bride Fleet Street For further information please contact [email protected] 1230 Organ Recital: Gary Desmond (Bath Abbey) St Bride Fleet Street St Stephen Walbrook Tuesday 24 July 1310 Recital: 'Musicalische Frülingsfrüchte' performed by 1230 Organ Recital St Mary Abchurch capella vitalis berlin ─ Almut Schlicker & Ulrike Wildenhof 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Hope St Lawrence Jewry (baroque violins), Jochen Schneider (baroque bassoon), 1310 Recital: Lecosaldi Ensemble ─ Music from St Thomas' Leipzig Martin Knizia (organ & harpsichord) 17th century works St Anne & St Agnes from Germany and Italy by Becker, Castello, Frescobaldi 1310 Recital of Music - The Church's Year, Epiphany to All Saints' and Rosenmüller St Anne & St Agnes The City Singers, Director John Ewington OBE, 1315 Organ Recital: Gail Archer St Bride Fleet Street Organist Christopher Moore St Katharine Cree 1315 Recital St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 28 July 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church - explore its two thousand 1200 Concerts for the Children of West Kenya by Ben Pinnow year history Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street (piano), Eric Stevens (piano) and Colleen Muriel (flute). Admission free – all donations will be given to support the Wednesday 25 July work of the Friends of Julius and Dora Children's Centre in 1305 Recital: String Quartet with Clarice Rarity St Botolph Aldgate Maseno, Kenya All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Recital: Jenna Sherry (violin), Prach Boondiskulchok (piano) 1930 Gala Concerto Evening to commemorate the day upon St Olave Hart Street which Bach died, given by the Sweelinck Ensemble directed 1310 Recital: : 'Motets and Cantata I' ─ Emily Atkinson (soprano), by Martin Knizia featuring Harpsichord Concerto in A major Sweelinck Ensemble directed by Martin Knizia BWV 1055, Concerto for violin in A minor BWV 1041 Works by J S Bach St Anne & St Agnes and Concerto for two violins and bassoon by Telemann 1315 Recital: Althea Talbot-Howard (oboe & cor anglais), Tickets £12 (£10 for SAMS members) St Anne & St Agnes Dominic Saunders (piano) Works by Schumann, Liszt,

York Bowen and John Marvin St Martin Ludgate Monday 30 July 1805 JustShare event with St Paul's Institute - 'The City: Is it socially 1300 Recital: Georgia Tessarolo (piano) St Lawrence Jewry useful? Raquel Hughes (The CityUK), Tony Greenham (nef) 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis (St Lawrence Jewry) and Anne Klem (IFS) explore the role of the City in securing will play an Olympian programme to end the season economic development and prosperity More information St Michael Cornhill from: www.justshare.org.uk St Mary le Bow Tuesday 31 July 1930 Fleet Street Olympic Festival Concert: Claire Seaton (soprano) 1230 Organ Recital St Mary Abchurch and Friends Works by Mozart, Puccini, Britten & Verdi 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis will play 'Lollipops' ─ Tickets £12 in advance, £15 on the door a programme of requests St Lawrence Jewry To book go to: www.stbrides.com/inspire 1315 Recital: Luca Luciano (clarinet) St Bride Fleet Street All proceeds go to the Inspire Appeal St Bride Fleet Street

Thursday 26 July 1305 Recital: Mark Gibbs (viola), Alison Rhind (piano) St Mary at Hill The City of London Festival

1305 Recital: Dante Lorenzo Dilanni (piano) St Mary le Bow Concerts will be given in City Churches 1305 Recital: Johnny Herford (baritone), James Cheung (piano) from Monday 1 July to Friday 27 July 'Schwanengesang' by Schubert St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower Some concerts have free admission 1310 Recital: 'Motets and Cantata II' ─ David Soar (bass), Sweelinck Ensemble directed by Martin Knizia For concise details please see individual daily listings Works by J S Bach and Bruhns St Anne & St Agnes For information & tickets: www.colf.org 1310 Organ Recital: "J S Bach Memorial Recital" to be given by Richard Townend to commemorate the death of Bach on 28 July 1750 St Margaret Lothbury

EXHIBITIONS IN THE CITY CHURCHES St Bride Fleet Street All Hallows by the Tower JAM “Bonuses. Benefits and Bailouts:

The Morality of the King James Bible”

The John Armitage Memorial Concert 2012 An exhibition tracing the origins and development of the Bible in the English language and its use in worship, Wednesday 4 July at 7.30pm to tie in with the 350th Anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer Including rare manuscripts and first editions of Bibles and Prayer Books Preceded by a talk given by Judith Bingham at 6.45pm loaned by the Museum of the Book in LImehouse until Saturday 22 September 2012 Concert Programme: Mon-Fri 0900-1730; Sat 1000-1700; Sun 1300-1700 Stabat Mater Pergolesi All welcome – admission free – donations invited

Jacob's Ladder Judith Bingham The Hythe (World Première) Judith Bingham Three Exhibitions at St Lawrence Jewry Organ Concerto in D Handel The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 'Butcher, Baker, Mosaics Maker' -

Daniel Cook (organ) 850 years of London Livery Company Treasures

Claire Seaton (soprano) Andrew Radley (countertenor) All free - Monday to Friday 0800-1700 until Friday 21 September

Conductor - Nicholas Cleobury The Livery Companies

Part of the Guildhall Art Gallery exhibition The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 This display focuses especially on the religious background as part of the City of London Festival of the Livery

Worshipful Company of Founders Exhibition of Medals Tickets: £20 £12 £5 Children free Bronze art medals created by GCSE Students at the Box Office 0800 988 7984 City of London Academy, Southwark

inspired by 850 years of the Livery Companies www.jamconcert.org Mosaics Art Exhibition Alongside the Livery Exhibition there will be an exhibition of mosaics (religious and otherwise) by mosaics artist Susan Parrott and others

Organ Marathon at St Margaret Lothbury

Thursday 19 July The St Lawrence Jewry Summer Music Festival Part One at 1.10pm ─ 'The Glory of the Baroque' To be played on the 1801 George Pike England organ 1st – 31st August

Betty Maissonat from Lyon France plays French Baroque Free recitals each weekday from 1300 to 1345 Istvan Ella from Budapest Hungary plays J S Bach Massimo Nosetti from Turin Italy plays Italian Baroque (other than the Summer Bank Holiday) Hans-Georg Reinertz from Eupen Belgium Featuring a variety of instrumentalists and singers plays German Baroque For concise details see individual listings Richard Townend plays English Baroque

Followed by a reception in the Church garden Full details at www.stlawrencejewry.org

Then you are invited to join the participants on a Number 11 double-decker bus to

Founders' Hall, Radnor Walk Chelsea for CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN AUGUST 2012

Part Two at 4.30pm ─ 'The Romantic Organ' Wednesday 1 August To played on the 1880 Henry Jones organ 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Ruth Gibson (viola) and

Followed by a traditional English Afternoon Tea Robin Green (piano) St Lawrence Jewry for which participants should apply on a form obtainable at the Thursday 2 August City Church of St Margaret Lothbury 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Alice Bishop (soprano) and Simon Marlow (piano) St Lawrence Jewry

Friday 3 August 1230 Organ Recital: Alex Jones (Birmingham Conservatoire) St Stephen Walbrook

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN AUGUST 2012 ─ continued Wednesday 22 August 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by the Benyounes Quartet 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by the Tesoro Antico consort - and Mikhail Shilyaev (piano) St Lawrence Jewry William Brown (tenor sackbut), Olga Popova (violin) and Thursday 23 August Katalin Ertsey (theorbo) St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by the Reissinger Piano Trio –

David Hackbridge Johnson (violin), Yeu–Meng Chan (viola) Monday 6 August and Wei Tsen Lin (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Jane Faulkner (violin) and Gary Peacock (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Friday 24 August 1230 Organ Recital: Charles Wooler (St John, Newcastle) Tuesday 7 August St Stephen Walbrook 1230 Organ Recital St Mary Abchurch 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Alison Moncrieff-Kelly 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Katie Macrae (soprano) (cello) and Esther Cavett (piano) St Lawrence Jewry and Simon Lane (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1930 Concert: Bakk Lamp Fall band - Senegalese Sufi fusion 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church, including parts not rhythms, mixing the ancient Gnawa desert traditions with wild normally open to the public Admission £6 contemporary sounds Admission £10 in advance, £12 on the St Bride Fleet Street door Further details, incudng information about tickets, from Wednesday 8 August www.stethelburgas.org St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by the Morphosen Ensemble and Lucy Legg (soprano) St Lawrence Jewry Saturday 25 August 1400 Concerts for the Children of West Kenya: music for solo flute Thursday 9 August composed or arranged and performed by Colleen Muriel 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by the Serenade Duo - Admission free – all donations will go to support the Friends Michelle LaPorte (flute) and Gerry Saulter (guitar) of the Julius and Dora Children’s Centre, Maseno, Kenya St Lawrence Jewry All Hallows by the Tower Friday 10 August Tuesday 28 August 1230 Organ Recital: Susan Dingle St Stephen Walbrook 1230 Organ Recital St Mary Abchurch 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Carl Herring (guitar) 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Ivan Andrews (cello) St Lawrence Jewry and Eric Stevens (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Monday 13 August 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Georgina Knowzer Wednesday 29 August (mezzo soprano) and Fabricio Mattos (guitar) 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Olive Murray (soprano) St Lawrence Jewry and Christopher Foreman (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Tuesday 14 August 1230 Organ Recital St Mary Abchurch Thursday 30 August 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Jane Gilbert (flute) and 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Charlotte Pugh (recorder) Neil Wright (organ/piano) St Lawrence Jewry and Charles Wiffen (piano) St Lawrence Jewry

Wednesday 15 August Friday 31 August 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Litsa Tunnah (violin) and 1230 Organ Recital: Richard Hobson (Grosvenor Chapel) Peter Liminov (piano) St Lawrence Jewry St Stephen Walbrook 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital For more information Thursday 16 August go to: www.stlawrencejewry.org St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by the South London Saxophone Quartet (Noelle Sasportas, Bob Lowdell, Dave Eastham and Adrian Crawford) St Lawrence Jewry Olympic Bell-Ringing Attempts on Friday 17 August 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance St Stephen Walbrook Saturday 5 August ─ The Women's Marathon 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Midsummer Opera and Saturday 12 August ─ The Men's Marathon John Upperton (tenor) St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Recital: Coro Euridice choir from Bologna To mark the above Olympic Games Events ringers at the St Sepulchre wihtout Newgate churches listed below will be attempting Full Peals Monday 20 August involving over 5000 changes lasting nearly four hours 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by the Brookfield Music Room depending on the number of bells and how heavy they are Players ─ Tessa Uys (piano), Hazel Cropper (oboe), Helen Pierce (clarinet), Stephen Nichols (horn) and Andrew Watson All peals will begin at 10.30am (bassoon) St Lawrence Jewry on each of the Marathon days

Tuesday 21 August St Magnus the Martyr ─ 12 bells 1230 Organ Recital St Mary Abchurch St Mary le Bow ─ 12 bells 1300 Summer Music Festival: Recital by Bobby Wellins (saxophone) St Paul's Cathedral ─ 12 bells and Kate Williams (piano) St Lawrence Jewry St Vedast alias Foster ─ 6 bells 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church, including parts not St Katharine Cree ─ 6 bells normally open to the public Admission £6 St Lawrence Jewry ─ 8 bells St Bride Fleet Street

______September 2012 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

NEWS FROM THE FRIENDS OF THE CITY CHURCHES

Although many of the issues facing churches and chapels throughout the United Kingdom are to do with money, it is easy to think that money alone would solve all the problems we have with our glorious legacy of places of worship. Not only is this not true but it sends out a message to those who are not practising Christians that we worship our buildings in terms of money rather than people, and more than we worship the Almighty. In the City with its history as the financial base for the rest of the country, this message is as important to communicate as anywhere. The fact that we have so many churches within the City boundaries means that all those who work or visit here are sooner or later going to enter one or more and be inspired by the works of those who have helped to build and decorate them over the years- whether it be a magnificent tower funded by Coal Tax money [St Mary Aldermary] or an altar carved by Henry Moore commissioned by Lord Palumbo [St Stephen Walbrook] and perhaps too by music, talks or services in one of the many varieties offered each day. For the City churches are bases for the mission of the Church and the buildings can never be divorced from that function.

But all these churches have to be kept going by people. People like you? Some are obviously paid [although not even all the clergy are stipendiary!] but none commands a salary anywhere near those of most City workers. The vast majority are volunteers. And volunteers are the real need in churches [and other organisations, too] at the present time. A City church, be it one with a parish or one of those designated Guild Churches, each has to have a church council, with treasurer, secretary, churchwardens who are legally responsible for the maintenance of the fabric, a church electoral roll officer who maintains the roll for those voting at the annual meetings, and several other members who have no formal portfolio. Each church will also need an independent examiner for the accounts. People are needed to read lessons, lead intercessions, prepare tea and refreshments, put out and replace service books, design and print out notices, empty offering boxes [legally!], stock up cards and books if a bookstall is offered, clean and tidy, polish brass, wash altar linens. There is a need for suitable people to help with grant applications, seeking vat refunds on building works, reclaiming gift aid on donations- the list is endless. In themselves, each of these myriad tasks may be quite small - when loaded onto a handful of individuals, the burden is much greater.

The Friends of the City Churches provides volunteers to keep 15 (yes fifteen!) churches open for at least one day each week helping to provide a friendly welcome and information for visitors. Volunteers for Church Watchers are always wanted from the Friends and many find they acquire fascinating knowledge of the church in which they sit. Some Friends take photographs of the buildings for postcards; help write church guides, research aspects of the church’s history, greet visitors and rejoice in their own stories and experience they bring to the church. Our time is probably our most precious resource- are we using it wisely? If you would like to know more, please contact our office, or if there is a church near you – do drop by and see if there is anything you can do in the time you have to spare from your other activities. If the time is not yet right, do remember the work the Friends undertake and consider joining us as a Friend too. You will enjoy yourself, receive a quarterly newsletter, and help us support the work of those who look after our City churches. And this copy of City Events has been delivered by a volunteer Friend! For details, and membership (only £15 a year) you are invited to contact:

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?

REGULAR SERVICES IN SEPTEMBER 2012 Every Wednesday continued 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our website at 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 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 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 1100 Morning Prayer (CW) St Martin within Ludgate 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1300 Prayer Meeting St Margaret Pattens 1200 Holy Communion St Clement Eastcheap 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1800 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 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 1305 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 (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Said 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 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion on the last Thursday 1230 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great of the month St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 1315 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens (Sung Eucharist at 1310 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr on the first Thursday of the month) 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 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 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 Every Friday 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0730 Morning prayers St Margaret Pattens 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 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 Every Wednesday 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 Lawrence Jewry 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 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 Said 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 St Mary le Bow 1215 Holy Communion (BCP - said) 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

SPECIAL SERVICES IN SEPTEMBER 2012 Thursday 6 September 1305 Recital by 'La Belle Alliance' - Tessa Petersen (violin), Tuesday 4 September John Van Buskirk (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1305 Lunchtime meditation group. This is a new regular venture and will last 30 minutes. All are welcome. St Mary le Bow Friday 7 September 1310 Recital: Anete Graudina (violin), Florian Mitrea (piano) Wednesday 5 September Sonata in A minor by César Franck St Anne & St Agnes 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1315 Recital: Michael Broadway (pianola) St Bride Fleet Street

Tuesday 11 September Sunday 9 September 1305 Lunchtime meditation group in the Crypt Chapel. 1030 Bells peal attempt to mark the Paralympics' Marathon This is a new regular venture and will last 30 minutes. St Mary le Bow All are welcome. St Mary le Bow Monday 10 September 1800 – n.b. time to be confirmed Harvest Festival under the 1300 Recital: Mitra Alice Tham (piano) St Lawrence Jewry auspices of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers 1305 Recital: Bethia Hourrigan (mezzo-soprano), Chi-Ling Lok St Mary le Bow (piano) will perform "Classical and Contemporary" ─ solo piano pieces and songs St Martin Ludgate Thursday 13 September 1310 Recital: For details please refer to: 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate www.stanneslutheranchurch.org.uk St Anne & St Agnes

Friday 14 September Tuesday 11 September 1215 Festal Mass – Holy Cross St Vedast alias Foster 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Cheapside Debate 'Shale – panacea or distraction?' Tuesday 18 September the speakers will include Andy Atkina (Executive Director, 1305 Lunchtime meditation group. This is a new regular venture Friends of the Earth) St Mary le Bow and will last 30 minutes. All are welcome. St Mary le Bow 1315 Recital: For details please refer to: www.stbrides.com St Bride Fleet Street Wednesday 19 September 1900 Concert to be given by the Lyra Vocal Quartet from 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate St Petersburg. The varied programme will consist of Russian music from traditional folk songs to sacred Friday 21 September choral music and arias 1215 Festal Mass – Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist Tickets £7 (concessions £5) on the door St Vedast alias Foster St Dunstan in the West Sunday 23 September 1830 Bach Vespers with Cantata No 8 by J S Bach – Wednesday 12 September "Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben" 1305 Recital: Dina Duisen (piano) will perform works by Haydn, sung by the Sweelinck Ensemble Chopin, Brahms and Thomas Adès St Olave Hart Street directed by Martin Knizia St Anne & St Agnes 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity Series – Angelo Castlado from Naples St Margaret Lothbury Monday 24 September 1315 Recital: Piano Quintet No 2 in A major, Opus 81 by Dvořák performed by Alexia Mankovskaya and 'Opera at Home' Tuesday 25 September Free admission – retiring collection 1305 Lunchtime meditation group. This is a new regular venture St Dunstan in the West and will last 30 minutes. All are welcome. St Mary le Bow 1805 In the series of JustShare Lectures on Christian Social and Political Thought - Professor Molly Scott Cato Thursday 27 September (Green economist and academic) St Mary le Bow 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion St Martin Ludgate Thursday 13 September 1305 Recital: Kirsty Michele Anderson (soprano), Josh von Bohlen CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER 2012 (violin), Charles Economou (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower Monday 3 September 1300 Recital: Nauful Malumi (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Friday 14 September 1310 Concert: Mediva! A programme of renaissance music 1310 Recital; Sergei Podobedov (piano) will play Schubert songs St Anne & St Agnes transcribed by Franz Liszt St Anne & St Agnes Tuesday 4 September 1315 Recital: For details please refer to: www.stbrides.com 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert St Lawrence Jewry St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Musical Tuesday Recital by Mark Gibbs (violin) Monday 17 September All Hallows by the Tower 1300 Recital: Sergei Podobedov (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church - explore its two thousand 1305 Recital: Ivo Stamkov (violin), Vania Vatralkova-Stankov year history Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street (soprano), Lachezar Stankov (piano) will be performing "American and Bulgarian" music St Martin Ludgate Wednesday 5 September 1305 Recital: Rebeca Omordia (piano) will perform works by

Beethoven, Chopin and Ireland St Olave Hart Street

CONCERTS & EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER 2012 - continued Wednesday 26 September ─ continued 1930 Concert – 'An Opera Gala Evening ' Monday 17 September ─ continued Charlotte Stephenson, Stuart Haycock, Abigail Iveson, 1310 Concert: Sweelinck 450th Birthday Celebration featuring Martha Bredin and others will perform a wide variety of works by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) popular operatic highlights. Favourite arias by Mozart, and his pupils to be played by Martin Knizia on the Puccini, Verdi, Strauss and many more …. harpsichord and the organ St Anne & St Agnes Entry by ticket Donations requested, £15 suggested, Gift Aided when possible. For further information Tuesday 18 September please contact Valerie Davies on 07830 237 839 or 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry Charlotte Stephenson on 07966 621 229 1315 Recital: For details please refer to: www.stbrides.com St Giles Cripplegate St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 27 September 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church - explore its two thousand 1305 Concert: Susana Gilardoni (soprano) St Mary le Bow year history Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: Pamela Adams (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower Wednesday 19 September 1305 Recital: Yuka Ishizuka (violin), Ellena Hale (piano) Friday 28 September St Olave Hart Street 0930-1130 Macmillan Coffee Morning St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays César Franck, 1310 Recital: Mary Pells (viola da gamba), Rachel Latham (flute), Guilmant, Dubois and Salomé St Margaret Lothbury Martin Knizia (harpsichord) will perform sonatas by Bach, 1315 Concert for Voice and Piano St Dunstan in the West Handel and others St Anne & St Agnes 1315 Recital: For details please refer to: www.stbrides.com Thursday 20 September St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: The Armatis Ensemble Sunday 30 September Amy Turner (oboe), Sarah Smith (clarinet), Finlay Bain (horn), 1500 At St Mary le Bow ─ Luke Tucker (bassoon), Jonathan Musgrave (piano) The Costermongers' Harvest Festival Service St Olave Hart Street The Festival in the church will be preceded by a parade from 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower Guildhall Yard. Amidst dancing and marching bands,

Friday 21 September donkey-and-carts collect harvest produce and the parade to 1310 Recital: The Lauriston Trio – Caroline Tait (violin), Babette St Mary le Bow is joined by dignitaries After the service the Lichtenstein (cello), Anthea Fry (piano) - will play the Piano produce is donated to the Whitechapel Mission for the Trio no 2 in C major, Opus 87 by Brahms and the Homeless. The distinctive, pearl button-swathed "Pearlies" 'Phantaisie' Trio No 1 in A minor by John Ireland taking part in the Festival date back 150 years. There are still who died 50 years ago in 1962 St Anne & St Agnes around 40 active families, fundraising for a variety of charities. 1315 Recital: For details please refer to: www.stbrides.com

St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 22 September 1400 A Concert for the Children of West Kenyato be given by St Mary le Bow

Colleen Muriel (flute) and Gareth Hanson (piano) Monday 24 September to Friday 5 October Admission free, donations to the Friends of Julius and Dora Children's Centre in Kenya All Hallows by the Tower '20 years' OpenHouseLondon ─ Guided tours of the church at 1100, 1230, 1400 and 1530 All welcome St Mary le Bow An exhibition of paintings by Paul Brown

Sunday 23 September OpenHouseLondon ─ Guided tours of the church at 1100, 1230, 1400 and 1530 All welcome St Mary le Bow

Monday 24 September 1300 Recital: John Paul Ekins (piano) St Lawrence Jewry St Mary Woolnoth

1305 Recital: Laura Jones (flute), Thomas Jones (violin) play An exhibition "Duos for Flute & Violin" St Martin Ludgate 1310 Recital: Songs by Mozart, Schubert and others; Emily Curcio, The Life of John Newton (1725-1807) (soprano), Nadia Giliova (piano) St Anne & St Agnes Author of the popular hymn Amazing Grace Tuesday 25 September 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry With only two years formal education, John Newton holds the world record for the song most recorded 1315 Recital: For details please refer to: www.stbrides.com St Bride Fleet Street by different artists Wednesday 26 September Weekdays in September 7.30am to 5.00pm 1305 Recital: Melanie Jones (cello) St Olave Hart Street 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity Series – Also Saturday 22 and Sunday 23

Marc Baumann from Strasbourg St Margaret Lothbury 10.00am – 4.00pm 1805 In the series of JustShare Lectures on Christian Social and during OpenHouseLondon Political Thought ─ Paul Szkiler (Chairman, Truestone Asset Management) St Mary le Bow

______October 2012 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

Archæology plays a smaller part in the history of the City churches than some visitors might imagine, but archæological evidence is informing our appreciation of how London has grown over the centuries, and provided some insights into the deep past of its present churches.

Informed no doubt by the enduring popularity of Time Team and its remarkably productive three-day digs, and the growth of initiatives such as the Council for British Archæology’s numerous outreach events (new.archæologyuk.org), many people assume that a site as relatively ancient and compact as London’s historic ‘Square Mile’ would long since have been thoroughly excavated and recorded. This misses one key point, that frustrates the archæology of historic buildings everywhere: it’s jolly difficult to dig a good hole under a standing building. Moreover, although archæology is now an accredited profession that draws on many complementary disciplines, modern standards only emerged over the past century from a pursuit that once owed more to treasure-hunting than science (although, in that era, erudite clergymen played a significant part in the rise of the responsible antiquary, custodians of many finds and much built heritage in centuries past). So far from the City’s having been systematically surveyed, it is only within the last few decades that there has been any obligation for developers to allow archæological access to building sites, and the seminal document for local planning authorities, Planning Policy Guidance 16: Archæology and Planning (PPG 16), was published as recently as 1990. Although wartime bombing reduced much of the City to a barren waste, there was little will and few resources to exploit this unparalleled opportunity, and post-war building drove basements and foundations through potential sites with little regard for what lay beneath.

The discovery of a Mithræum on the bank of the lost river Walbrook in 1954 sparked the most famous rescue dig in Britain, and brought so many visitors to the site for a glimpse of the endangered building that Prof. Grimes and his team were granted an unprecedented extension to salvage its remains. The Temple of Mithras was somewhat haphazardly reconstructed on the site of Bucklersbury House, which is now again a building site, but will be altogether better presented and housed within the new development there. This will face the commanding Wren church of St. Stephen Walbrook, itself representing the triumph of the religion that eclipsed the cult of the exotic eastern gods Mithras and Serapis. It would be fascinating to know how many ancient City churches actually stand on the remains of Roman temples, not least as two blitzed buildings, St. Bride Fleet Street and All Hallows by the Tower, now display substantial Roman remains as a slight compensation for massive wartime damage.

An astonishing amount of what we now know about Roman and even medieval London has thus only been revealed within the past few years. The Museum of London’s fascinating fold-out map of Londinium represents this graphically. The first edition of 1981 is most interesting for mapping the formative topography of the City, with its two hills and three valleys, having little to report by way of finds; even the amphitheatre deep below the present Guildhall was then unknown. The new edition, published last year, is considerably richer for 30 years’ worth of proper excavations. It includes some temples, but there will always be the lingering suspicion that many of the most important are still sacred sites, now covered by handsome churches.

City churchyards and burial grounds have proved more accommodating, not least as sanitary reform has positively demanded their excavation. City churches will feature prominently at the Museum of London this November in the annual local history conference of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society (LAMAS), ‘A Capital Way to Go: Death in London Through the Ages’ and in this winter’s lecture programme, which includes ‘Shaky Foundations: The Legendary Origins of Some London Churches’ in October, and ‘The Medieval Church and Cloisters of Austin Friars in March’ (www.lamas.org.uk). Furthermore, the City of London Archaeological Society (COLAS) meets monthly at St. Olave Parish Hall (www.colas.org.uk). Precisely because they have been standing for centuries, much of the early history of the City churches has yet to be uncovered. In the meantime, you can make your own observations in one church or another, every day of the week, all over the City. Signe Hoffos, The Friends of the City Churches

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?

REGULAR SERVICES IN OCTOBER 2012 Every Wednesday continued 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. You are 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our website at 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 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 Every Thursday 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 Giles Cripplegate 0830 Holy Communion St Bartholomew the Great 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1300 Prayer Meeting St Margaret Pattens 1200 Holy Communion St Clement Eastcheap 1305 Holy Communion (1662) St Mary Aldermary 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1800 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 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 1305 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree (Not 18 October – see 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow Special Services) 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 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 St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1315 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens (Sung Eucharist at 1310 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth on the first Thursday of the month) 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Helen Bishopsgate 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 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 Every Friday 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0730 Morning prayers St Margaret Pattens 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1730 Evening Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 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 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at Prayer Services are broadcast daily on demand on the Internet Site of the 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the Internet Church for London. To watch these services, which change auspices of auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate on a daily basis, log on to:www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill SPECIAL SERVICES IN OCTOBER 2012 Wednesday 3 October - continued 1930 Concert: London Schools Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Peter Ash Monday 1 October Including works by Mozart and Strauss For further details 1045 Lord Mayor’s Election Day service St Lawrence Jewry please telephone 020 7236 1145 St Sepulchre without Newgate

Tuesday 2 October Thursday 4 October 1800 Challenging Lifestyle, a series in October-November based on the book 1300 Recital in the Song in the City series Heavenly Bodies ─ by Nicky Gumbel - Includes supper St Olave Hart Street “Here comes the Sun” (In the Church Hall) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1300-1800 Open Piano Competition, London 2012 – Semi-finals For further Wednesday 3 October details see www.openpianocompetition.com St Olave Hart Street 1300 Business Harvest Festival Service St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Organ Recital in the Celebrity Recital series ─ 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate Peter Wright (Southwark Cathedral) St Mary at Hill 1900 Solemn Mass for the Feast of the Dedication of the Church 1305 Recital: Margaret Morrell (soprano) St Mary le Bow (City Harvest event) Celebrant and Preacher the Rt Revd Geoffrey Rowell, 1310 Organ Recital: Angela Kraft-Cross (San Franciso) Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe St Andrew Holborn All Hallows by the Tower Thursday 4 October 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity series: 1300 Sung Mass for the Feast of St Francis of Assisi with the Ministry of Healing Catherine Ennis (St Lawrence Jewry) St Margaret Lothbury (City Harvest event) St Andrew Holborn 1800-2130 Charity Quiz Night in aid of the regeneration of the garden around 1830 Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate the church Bar opens 1800, dinner at 1830, quiz starts 1930 For tickets ( £18 including meal) e-mail [email protected] Friday 5 October or. telephone 020 7583 3498 St Andrew Holborn 1230 Said Requiem Mass (City Harvest event) St Andrew Holborn 1830 Wee sing in the City: Join in singing your heart out with songs from the Sunday 7 October world church and from the Iona Community All welcome 1115 First Choral Service of the Legal Year Preacher Nicholas Harwick, Refreshments from 1800 All Hallows by the Tower HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England & Wales Temple Church 1900 Concert of Handel’s Most Celebratory Music for the Centenary of the Tuesday 9 October Guild of St Bartholomew’s Hospital The Barts Chamber Choir and Trafalgar 1800 Challenging Lifestyle (see 2 October) St Olave Hart Street Sinfonia, directed by Ivor Setterfield, with Alexander Robin-Baker (baritone) Tickets - £100 including reception at 1800 - £30, £20 or £15 for concert only Thursday 11 October Tickets available at www.bartsguild.org and Guild Shops at the Hospital 1200 Maritime Foundation Memorial Book Service: the annual service of All proceeds to the Guild & Barts charities City Temple, Holborn Viaduct remembrance of those lost at sea and for whom there is no known grave All Hallows by the Tower Friday 5 October 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1000-1500 Open Piano Competition, London 2012 – Semi-finals For further 1800 Holy Eucharist for St Ethelburga’s Day, using a liturgy from the Iona details see www.openpianocompetition.com St Olave Hart Street Community St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1230 Organ Recital: Georgina Sherriff (Royal College of Music) St Stephen Walbrook Sunday 14 October 1310 Recital in the October Song series St Andrew Holborn 1100 Fish Harvest Festival Service St Mary at Hill 1310 Recital: Café Mozart ensemble performing instrumental trios and duets Tuesday 16 October by Mozart, Haydn, Bornhardt and others St Anne & St Agnes 1800 Challenging Lifestyle (see 2 October) St Olave Hart Street 1315 Recital: for details please see www.stbrides.com St Bride Fleet Street

Wednesday 17 October Monday 8 October 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1300 Recital: Amit Yahav (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1745 Choral Evensong for St Luke’s Day Temple Church 1300 Poetry Reading of her own work by poet Stella Davis St Mary at Hill 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert Works by Howells, Hollins, Tallis, Thursday 18 October - St Luke the Evangelist Vaughan Williams and Gibbons St Michael Cornhill 1215 Festal Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 Recital: Lawson Trio Works by Bridge, Suk and Shostakovich 1300 Annual Lion Sermon service St Katharine Cree St Martin within Ludgate Sunday 28 October 1310 Organ Recital: Martin Knizia Bach & Buxtehude – Famous Organ Works 1830 Bach Vespers: Sweelinck Ensemble, directed by Martin Knizia, performing St Anne & St Agnes Bach’s Cantata BWV 80 - Ein feste Burg is unser Gott St Anne & St Agnes Tuesday 9 October Wednesday 31 October 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1310 Choral Eucharist for the Eve of All Saints St Botolph Bishopsgate 1300 Organ Recital (presented by the Eric Thompson Trust): Freddie James (Organ shcolar, St John’s College, Cambridge) Works by Buxtehude, CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN OCTOBER 2012 Gibbons, Franck, Bach and Reger St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Recital Further details from 020 7626 9000 St Stephen Walbrook Monday 1 October 1315 Recital: for details please see www.stbrides.com St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Recital: Sharon Barnea (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Wednesday 10 October 1300 Organ Recital: Greg Morris (Temple Church) Works by Bach, Messiaen, 1305 Recital: John Crockatt (baroque violin) St Botolph without Aldgate Buxtehude, Whitlock and Leighton St Michael Cornhill 1305 Recital: Edward Hughes (tenor) and Ian Tindale (piano) Schubert’s 1305 Recital: Eliza McCarthy (piano) St Martin within Ludgate Die schöne Müllerin St Olave Hart Street 1310 Recital by Royal Academy of Music Michael Head Prize Winner 1315 Recital: Russian programme by Opera at Home St Dunstan in the West Justin Kim (counter-tenor) Songs by Strauss, Gurney, Rimsky-Korsakov 1805 JustShare Lectures on Christian Social & Political Thought: and Tchaikovsky St Anne & St Agnes How to Change the City by James Featherby (Chairman, Tuesday 2 October Ethical Investment Panel) St Mary le Bow 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1900 RNLI City Chamber Concert – City Chamber Ensemble, conducted by 1300 Organ Recital (presented by the Eric Thompson Trust): Peter Holder Malcolm Gammie, with Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Sophia Grech (Organ Scholar, Westminster Abbey) Works by Clérambault, Bach (soprano) and Jill Kemp (recorder) A fund-raising concert of popular and Liszt St Lawrence Jewry classics Tickets £30 (including champagne reception) from Hannah Ashton 1300 Recital: Varietas Trio (flute, oboe and piano) St Stephen Walbrook at the RNLI on 0300 300 9903 St Olave Hart Street 1315 Recital: for details please see www.stbrides.com St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 11 October 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Recital in the Song in the City series Heavenly Bodies -- Wednesday 3 October “Fly me to the moon” (In the Church Hall) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Recital: Patrick Rutland (viola) St Botolph without Aldgate 1305 Organ Recital in the Celebrity Recital series: David Pipe (York Minster) 1305 Recital: Sergei Podobedov (piano) St Olave Hart Street St Mary at Hill 1310 Recital in the October Song series St Andrew Holborn 1305 Organ Recital: Richard Hobson (Grosvenor Chapel) St Mary le Bow 1830 Concert for the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators’ Charitable Trust 1305 Recital: Felicity Vincent (cello), Richard Black (piano) St Olave Hart Street featuring songs from Ruth Holton (soprano) and Nicholas Mitchell 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity Series – (counter-tenor), organ music played by Michael Gifkins, and new piano Hartmut Leuschner-Rostoski (Bayreuth, Germany) St Margaret Lothbury music composed & played by Alla Sirenko For address for obtaining tickets 1900 Organ Recital: Simon Johnson (St Paul’s Cathedral) (£35 including reception) see www.stmarylebow.co.uk St Mary le Bow St Botolph without Aldgate CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN OCTOBER 2012 - continued Monday 22 October 1300 Recital: Melissa Jacobson (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Friday 12 October 1300 Organ Recital: Richard Moore (St Paul’s Cathedral & St Michael Cornhill) 1230 Organ Recital: Anthony Burns-Cox St Stephen Walbrook performing works by Bach and Elgar St Michael Cornhill 1310 Recital: October Song series Letitia Perry (soprano) St Andrew Holborn 1305 Recital: Paula Martinez (violin), Vatche Zambazian (piano) Works by Haydn, 1310 Recital: Kamilla Arku (piano) Works by Bach, Fauré, Barber and Ravel Liszt, Chopin, Moszkowski and Mendelssohn St Martin within Ludgate 1310 Recital: Marylebone Trio Works by Bach and Mozart St Anne & St Agnes St Anne & St Agnes 1315 Recital: for details please see www.stbrides.com St Bride Fleet Street Tuesday 23 October 1930 Concert: Imposturas by guitarist Jorge Bravo, with other musicians and 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch flamenco artists, blending flamenco, gypsy, jazz and South American styles 1300 Organ Recital (presented by the Eric Thompson Trust) Daniel Hyde Doors open 1845 Tickets £10 in advance from www.stethelburgas.org or (Magdalen College, Oxford) Works by Lübeck, Sweelinck, Bach. £12 on the door St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Schumann, Alain, Widor and Walton St Lawrence Jewry 1930 Concert: A Choral Garland by the Joyful Company of Singers, performing 1300 Recital: Susana Gilardoni (soprano) including music by Argentine and British music by contemporary composers Tickets £20 (concessions £17) Brazilian composers St Stephen Walbrook For details and tickets see www.jcos.co.uk. St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Cheapside Debate: Affording Trident Speakers: John Woodcock MP and Sunday 14 October Quentin Letts (Daily Mail) St Mary le Bow 1900 Concert: London Gay Symphony Orchestra Works by Delius, Strauss & 1310 Recital: Music from Epiphany to All Saints’ Tide The City Singers, Beethoven Further details and tickets (£10 – concessions £8) from directed by John Ewington, organist Christopher Moore St Katharine Cree www.wegottickets.com/event/183847 St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Olga Stezhko (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1930 Concert: London Concert Choir performing Rachmaninov’s Liturgy of St Monday 15 October John Chrysostom Tickets £20, £15 or £10 from the LCC Box Office – 1300 Recital: Roman Rudnytsky (piano) St Lawrence Jewry tel (0844) 5042 522 - or on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 Organ Recital: James Lloyd Thomas (University of Sussex) Works by Sweelinck, Buxtehude, Hindemith, Dupré and Töpfer St Michael Cornhill Wednesday 24 October 1305 Recital: Julia Weatherley (soprano), Rebecca Cohen (piano),Cyrill Ibrahim 1305 Recital: Alex Hughes (piano) St Botolph without Aldgate (piano) – songs and solo piano works by Fauré, Strauss, Wolf, Mozart, 1305 Recital: Siân Phillipps (violin) St Olave Hart Street Haydn, Handel, Beethoven and Schumann St Martin within Ludgate 1315 Recital: River City Saxes saxophone ensemble St Dunstan in the West 1310 Recital: The Sweelinck Ensemble performs music from 18th Century France 1800 Lecture: “Oranges, coal and fish: the hidden history of Billingsgate” and Scottish melodies and variations St Anne & St Agnes Dr Cathy Rees of the Museum of London St Mary at Hill 1805 JustShare Lectures on Christian Social & Political Thought:: Prosperity lost? Tuesday 16 October A Christian perspective on financial crises and responsible capitalism 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Dr David McNair (Save the Children UK) Refreshments afterwards 1300 Organ Recital (presented by the Eric Thompson Trust): Alexander Mason All welcome, St Mary le Bow (Director of Chapel Music, Shrewsbury School) Works by Elgar, Buxtehude, 1900 Annual Tom Olsen Lecture Peter Hitchens and Brian Paddick Reger, Alain, Langlais and Franck St Lawrence Jewry Further details and tickets (£10) will be available on www.stbrides.com, 1300 Organ Recital: David Aprahamian Liddle (St Barnabas, Pimlico) including or telephone 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street his own compositions St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital: Sussex Camerata String Quartet St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 25 October 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: Maria Razumovskaya (piano) St Mary at Hill 1305 Organ Recital St Mary le Bow Wednesday 17 October 1305 Recital: Yuka Ishizuka (violin), Sanaz Sotoudeh (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1305 Organ Recital: Cliff Barton St Botolph without Aldgate 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by theTower 1305 Recital: Anna Gorbachyova (soprano), Anna Hashimoto (clarinet), 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents “A Composers’ Alphabet: E-J” Jocelyn Freeman (piano) – “Songs of Day and Night” St Olave Hart Street St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Recital: John Crockatt (violin) Works by Tartini, Telemann and Bach 1315 Recital: Michael Downey (baritone) St Dunstan in the West St Dunstan in the West Thursday 18 October Friday 26 October 1300 Recital in the Song in the City series Heavenly Bodies - “Star of Wonder” 1230 Organ Recital: Oliver Macfarlane St Stephen Walbrook (In the Church Hall) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Recital: Mercedes Maresca (flute), Richard Black (piano) Works by Bach, 1305 Organ Recital in the Celebrity Recital series: Stephen Disley (Southwark Messiaen, Clarke and Jolivet St Anne & St Agnes Cathedral) St Mary at Hill 1315 Organ Recital: Ian Tindale St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Organ Recital St Mary le Bow 1930 Concert: Towards the Dawn by the Londinium Choir For further details telephone 020 7236 1145 St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Jung Yoon Cho (violin),Sanaz Sotoudeh (piano) St Olave Hart Street Saturday 27 October 1310 Organ Recital: Anthony Gritten (Royal Academy of Music) 1400 Concert: Music for the Children of West Kenya: Sasha Leinster (soprano), All Hallows by the Tower Manuel Villet (piano) and Colleen Muriel (flute) Admission free – 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents A Composers’ Alphabet: A-D Donations to the work of the Friends of the Julius & Dora Children’s Centre St Margaret Lothbury in Maseno, Kenya All Hallows by the Tower 1900 Concert: Orlando Jopling’s Cello Pilgrimage, performing Bach Suites for 1930 Concert: The Vasari Singers Launch concert for the CD of Requiem by solo cello Tickets £25 or £20 (restricted view),including a pre-concert glass Gabriel Jackson Admission free – simply reserve a place by e-mailing of wine, will be available from www.stbrides.com, or tel 020 7427 0133 [email protected] St Sepulchre without Newgate In aid of the St Bride Inspire restoration appeal St Bride Fleet Street Monday 29 October Friday 19 October 1300 Recital: Abel Martel (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1230 Organ Recital: Geoffrey Tuson St Stephen Walbrook 1300 Annual Harold Darke Memorial Organ Recital - Simon Hogan (Southwell 1310 Recital: October Song series Charlotte Richardson (soprano) Minster) Works by Bach, Franck, Byrd, Darke & Pott St Michael Cornhill St Andrew Holborn 1305 Recital: Julian Hellaby (piano) Works by Beethoven, Chaminade and Falla 1310 Recital: David Richmond (violin), Anna Lightbown (piano) Works by Ireland, St Martin within Ludgate Delius and Grieg St Anne & St Agnes 1310 Recital: Plaegen Trio performs music by Mendelssoh St Anne & St Agnes 1315 Recital: for details please see www.stbrides.com St Bride Fleet Street 1930 Concert: Ancient Strings & Fabulous Things Doudou Cissoko & colleagues Tuesday 30 October A genre-crossing collaboration on African ancestral stringed instruments 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch and percussion, instruments originating in mediaeval times and electronic 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Works by Handel, Bach, Dupré, Liszt & instruments Tickets £10 in advance from www.stethelburgas.org or £12 on Gigout St Lawrence Jewry the door Doors open 1845 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1300 Recital: Guildhall School of Music & Drama St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital: for details please see www.stbrides.com St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 20 October 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church Admission £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1930 Concert : Lasset uns frohlocken!: The Nonsuch Singers, conducted by Libby Burgess, with organist Richard Pearce Music by Bruckner, Brahms, Reger, Wednesday 31 October Schubert, Mendelssohn, Rheinberger Tickets £15, concessions £12 from 1305 Recital: Marta Menees (piano) St Botolph without Aldgate www.nonsuchsingers.com/concerts.html or on the door Under 16s free 1305 Recital: Chihiro Ono (violin) St Olave Hart Street St Giles Cripplegate 1315 Recital: Hiroko Yamamoto, Pei-Chao Liao (piano) St Dunstan in the West

______November 2012 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

'Poured forth her song in perfect calm ………'

December may be a busy month in the City churches nowadays with the plethora of carol services beginning to mimic the rural ’ feelings about harvest festivals during September, but in the mediaeval church November was a key month; starting with All Saints on 1st November (sometimes known as All Hallows, hence the modern junketing on Halloween (Hallowe’en / All Hallows Eve 31st October). The Parish Clerks’ Company itself recognises this feast as important with one of its formal meetings of the Court and its brethren at this time.

All Hallows Berkyngchurch or by the Tower as it is popularly known (mediaeval with Saxon remains and restored post-war), and All Hallows (George Dance the Younger 1765-7) also reflect this in their dedications. Then on 2nd November the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed on All Soul’s Day. Churches would be the focus of those remembering past lives of both the ‘great and the good’ as well as family members and fellow parishioners who had died during the year.

On the 11th, the Church celebrates Martin, Bishop of Tours, died this day 397, remembered as the one whilst still a Roman soldier, who gave his cloak away to a beggar. St Martin within Ludgate was rebuilt by Wren 1677-86 with the substantial involvement of Robert Hooke and stands deliberately in front of its cathedral neighbour up the hill.

Later in the month on the 20th we recall Edmund King of the East Angles (martyred in 870) in the church of St Edmund King and Martyr on Lombard Street (the work of Wren’s Office 1670-4, on a 12th century site then known as St Edmund Grasschurch after the local market that gave its name to Gracechurch Street).

And finally on 23rd November is the patronal festival of St Clement Eastcheap, named for the Bishop of Rome martyred in about 100 by being thrown into the sea with an anchor round his neck (the place-name reflecting the church’s situation before the building of King William Street). This is another Wren church (1683-7) with additions by Sir Ninian Comper in the 1930s. The City of Westminster has both its more famous St Martin in the Fields as well as St Clement Dane but it is almost certain that the oranges and lemons nursery rhyme relates to the City of London church, as Spanish oranges were for many years off-loaded and sold near London Bridge.

There is another November link too with St Sepulchre without Newgate, a mediaeval church restored after the Great Fire and the largest of the City churches. It was originally dedicated to St Edmund and then named after the Holy Sepulchre during the Crusades. It houses the bells of Old Bailey and also memorials to the composer John Ireland and other musicians including Sir Henry wood and Dame Nellie Melba in its Musicians’ Chapel, with a window depicting St Cecilia, martyred at Rome in 230 on 22 November. It is appropriate that Benjamin Britten was born on this day 99 years ago and whose Hymn to St Cecelia was set to Auden’s poem –

In a garden shady this holy lady / With reverent cadence and subtle psalm / Like a black swan as death came on / Poured forth her song in perfect calm.

The churches of All Hallows London Wall (Fridays), St Martin Ludgate (Mondays) and St Sepulchre (Wednesdays) are all Watched by Friends of the City Churches 11am to 3pm. For further details, and membership (only £15 a year) go to our websites. The addresses are given below.

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?

REGULAR SERVICES IN NOVEMBER 2012 Every Wednesday continued 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 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. You are 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our website at 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower www.cityevents.co.uk which includes weekend services. 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr Every Monday 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn

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 (BCP) 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 (BCP) 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 1200 Holy Communion St Clement Eastcheap 1300 Prayer Meeting St Margaret Pattens 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 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 RC Mass St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 1245 Lunchtime Service Wesley’s Chapel 1800 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 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 1305 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree (Not 22 November - 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow see Special Services) 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1305 Mass St Mary Aldermary 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 Said Eucharist St Botolph Aldgate 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by 1200 to 1500 Listening Service St Andrew Holborn Question Time at 1340 St Helen Bishopsgate 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 St Martin within Ludgate 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1315 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens (For 8 and 29 November 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth see Special Services) 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate 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 Every Friday 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0645 to 0845 'Prayer for the City' St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0730 Morning prayers St Margaret Pattens 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow 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 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre PRAYER SERVICES ON THE INTERNET 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 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 on a daily basis, log on to:www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street

Thursday 1 November - continued SPECIAL SERVICES IN NOVEMBER 2012 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend “A Composers’ Alphabet: K-N” St Margaret Lothbury Thursday 1 November – All Saints Day Friday 2 November 1200 Festal Eucharist St Clement Eastcheap 0815- 0900 “God in the City?” – a series of informal discussions on the basics of 1215 Festal Mass St Vedast alias Foster Christianity over coffee and croissants on Friday mornings in November 1245 Sung Eucharist, followed by refreshments St Stephen Walbrook 'Let us know if you can come on [email protected] or 1305 High Mass St Mary le Bow 020 7623 6630 - we don’t want to run out of croissants!' St Margaret Pattens 1745 Choral Evensong Temple Church 1230 Organ Recital: Stuart Whatton (Esher Parish Church) St Stephen Walbrook 1830 Requiem Mass – Friends of the Musicians’ Chapel with St Sepulchre’s Choir 1310 Recital: Jorge Jiminez (violin) Baroque violin sonatas St Anne & St Agnes St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Peter Morgan (piano) St Bride Fleet Street Friday 2 November - All Souls Day 1930 Concert: Megaphones for the Unheard “Voice” A cappella vocal trio sing new 1230 Sung Requiem Mass: Fauré’s Requiem St Andrew Holborn commissions to celebrate women in music Further information and tickets 1230 Low Mass of Requiem St Magnus the Martyr (£12) from www.stethelburgas.org St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1305 Sung Requiem Mass St Mary le Bow 1310 Choral Requiem St Botolph Bishopsgate Saturday 3 November 1800 High Mass of Requiem St Magnus the Martyr 1930 Concert: PAKAW Greek popular all-female group Fundraising event for KLIMAKA, a charity helping the Athens homeless Tickets £10 in advance Sunday 4 November from www.stethelburgas.org , £12 on the door St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1115 Choral Mattins followed by a demonstration of the organ Temple Church 1600 Service of prayers, music and readings for All Souls, with an Act of Sunday 4 November Commemoration of the Departed St Giles Cripplegate 11.15 onwards Day in support of the Organ Appeal See www.templechurch.com 1115 Choral Mattins and demonstration of the organ and pipes Tuesday 6 November 1230 Bring-your-own picnic lunch 1800 Let there be Light - Service of thanksgiving celebrating the completion of 1315 Build an Organ – for children and the young in heart of all ages the church relighting project All welcome All Hallows by the Tower For more details and to book in, contact Catherine de Satge at 1800 Challenging Lifestyle: a series based on the book by Nicky Gumbel 020 7353 8559 or [email protected] Temple Church Includes supper St Olave Hart Street

Wednesday 7 November Monday 5 November 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1300 Recital: Renée Reznek (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1330 Cantata: Meditating on the Kingdom Season with Bach’s music 1300 Organ Recital: Ben Sheen Including the UK première of his arrangment of St Mary le Bow Brahms’ Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel St Michael Cornhill 1305 Recital: Jim Wills (baritone), Celia Vince (piano) St Martin Ludgate Thursday 8 November 1310 Recital: Sinfoniae Concertate The Sweelinck Ensemble St Anne & St Agnes 1200 Corynthians Remembrance Service St Olave Hart Street 1830 Talk: “Only Jesus makes sense of suffering” with Q&A afterwards, and 1315 Choral Remembrance Service St Margaret Pattens canapés and drinks St Helen Bishospgate

Friday 9 November Tuesday 6 November 1300 Remembrance lunchtime service St Helen Bishopsgate 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1800 Lord Mayor’s Choral Evensong St Mary le Bow 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Remembrancetide music St Lawrence Jewry Sunday 11 November – Remembrance Sunday services 1315 Recital: The Lawson Trio (piano trio) St Bride Fleet Street 1030 Remembrance Sunday Morning Service St Helen Bishopsgate 1815 Concert: Freshfields Choir Free admission St Dunstan in the West 1030 Remembrance Service and Holy Communion St James Garlickhythe 1830 Concert: A European Tour of 18th Century Woodwind Concertos – 1050 Choral Eucharist St Bride Fleet Street A Gala Candlelit Concert with Champagne Reception 1050 Choral Mattins Temple Church Further information from 07776 484 938 St Stephen Walbrook 1055 Requiem Mass St Michael Cornhill 1930 Concert: “A Garland for the Queen” The City Chamber Choir conducted by 1055 Sung Eucharist St Vedast alias Foster Stephen Jones, with Peter Holder (organ) and Alys Torrance (reader). Choral music with royal connections, organ solos and readings - for details see Tuesday 13 November www.citychamber.org.uk Tickets £15, concessions £10 St Lawrence Jewry 1800 Challenging Lifestyle - see 6 November St Olave Hart Street Wednesday 7 November Wednesday 14 November 1305 Recital: Mark Gibbs (viola), Christopher Atkinson (piano) St Botolph Aldgate 1330: Cantata: See 7 November St Mary le Bow 1305 Recital: The Musicall Compass, director Crispin Lewis St Olave Hart Street Monday 19 November 1315 Recital: Katarina Davies (cello) S t Dunstan in the West 1245 Praise and Worship, hosted by KMPG St Bride Fleet Street 1800 Debate: “Will Mutuals form and flourish in a modern Britain?” Speakers Wednesday 21 November Dame Pauline Green (President, International Co-operative Alliance), Shaun 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate Tarbuck, Paul Koronka Refreshments afterwards To register, e-mail 1330 Cantata: See 7 November St Mary le Bow [email protected] St Mary le Bow 1830 Quizaid Quiz Night - stretch your brains and have fun while raising funds for Thursday 22 November Christan Aid Bring your own drink - nibbles provided Minimum donation £5 1300 St Katharine’s Day service with guest speaker St Katharine Cree For more information contact Claire at [email protected] or 020 7427 0133 1830 St Cecilia Choral Evensong with the St Margaret Pattens Choir, St Bride Fleet Street directed by Rupert Perkins St Margaret Pattens 1830 Concert: “A Night to Remember” – music and readings in aid of the Parachute Sunday 25 November – Christ the King Regiment AfghanistanTrust Go to www.justgiving.com/Remembrance12 and 1100 High Mass followed by lunch St Magnus the Martyr give at least £12.50 to be added to the guest list St Dunstan in the West 1500 Solemn Vespers, Procession and Benediction St Magnus the Martyr Thursday 8 Novenber 1830 Bach Vespers: Sweelinck Ensemble, director Martin Knizia - Bach’s 1300 Recital in the “Song in the City” series for Debussy’s 150th Anniversary – Cantata BWV 140 – “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” St Anne & St Agnes Debussy’s Women (In the Church Hall) St Botolph Bishopsgate Tuesday 27 November 1305 Recital: Gobetti Piano Trio St Mary at Hill 1800 Challenging Lifestyle - see 6 November St Olave Hart Street 1305 Organ Recital: Stephen Binnington (Director, Farrington Music School) Wednesday 28 November St Mary le Bow 1900 Solemn Votive Mass for St Andrew St Andrew Holborn 1310 Organ recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend “A Composers’ Alphabet: M – Z” Thursday 29 November St Margaret Lothbury 1315 St Andrews’s Day Service and Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens 1830 Debate: “Ethics in Marketing” The Worshipful Company of Marketors’ First 1830 Choral Holy Communion for St Andrew’s Day St Andrew by the Wardrobe “Question Time” style debate Panel to include Ian Wright, Ruth Mortimer, Friday 30 November – St Andrew, Apostle Philip Herbert, Andrew Marsden & Sir Paul Judge, chaired by Ray Snoddy 1215 Festal Mass St Vedast alias Foster For tickets (£15) and further details e-mail [email protected] St Bride Fleet Street CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN NOVEMBER 2012 1900 Organ Recital: Matthew Dunn St Botolph Aldgate 1900 Concert: French Choral Classics Ad Libitum Chamber Choir, director Julian Thursday 1 November Collings, with Colin Spinks (organ), Rebecca Hewes (cello) Tickets £10 from 1305 Recital: Abigail Sail (piano) St Mary at Hill 01732 353487 or [email protected] or on the door St Mary le Bow 1305 Recital: Vladimir Waltham (cello), Kamilla Isinbayeva (piano) St Olave Hart Street Thursday 22 November CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN NOVEMBER 2012 - continued 1030–1600 Used books sale in aid of church funds St Dunstan in the West 1300 Recital in the “Song in the City” series for Debussy’s 150th Anniversary – Friday 9 November Debussy and Beyond: Friends, disciples and influences 0815-0900 “God in the City?” – informal discussions on the basics of Christianity (In the Church Hall) St Botolph without Bishopsgate over coffee and croissants See 2 November St Margaret Pattens 1305 Recital: see www.stmary-at-hill.org St Mary at Hill 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Organ Recital: Hilary Davan Wetton (St George the Martyr, Southwark) 1310 Recital : Lucy Waterhouse (violin), Hugh Webb (harp) St Anne & St Agnes St Mary le Bow 1315 Recital: Robert Hunter (piano) St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: Daniel Roberts (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1930 Concert by the Gypsy Stars & Romany Johnny Band - Polish Romany Music 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend “Bach at Weimar - The music of Bach’s and Dance Troupe Tickets £10 in advance from www.stethelburgas.org, golden years” St Margaret Lothbury £12 on the door St Ethelburga Bishopsgate 1900 Concert: Handel’s Messiah St Bride’s Choir and the Saraband Consort,

Saturday 10 November conductor Robert Jones Tickets £20, or £15 in advance from 020 7427 0133 or www.stbrides.com St Bride Fleet Street 1000-1500 Open day for the Lord Mayor’s Show - Refreshments available St Bride Fleet Street Friday 23 November Monday 12 November 0815-0900 “God in the City?” - informal discussions on the basics of Christianity 1300 Recital: Yoon Seok Shin (piano) St Lawrence Jewry over coffee and croissants See 2 November St Margaret Pattens 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Hope (Winchester Cathedral) St Michael Cornhill 1230 Organ Recital: Anthony Gritten (Royal Academy of Music) 1305 Recital: Christopher Atkinson (piano) St Martin Ludgate St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Recital: Catherine White (harp) St Anne & St Anges 1310 Recital: Ensemble Caravaggio harpshichord trio

Tuesday 13 November Works by CPE Bach and Haydn St Anne & St Agnes 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1315 Recital: Sally Quantrill (flute), Lydia Clatworthy (piano St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1930 Concert: Rhythms of Brazil Brazilian music from singer Mishka Adams and 1300 Recital: “The Lighter Side of Song” Alyson Denza (soprano), supporting group Tickets £10 in advance from www.stethelburgas.org, £12 on the door St Ethelburga Bishopsgate John Milne (bass) St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital: Fenella Humphreys (violin) St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 24 November 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 St Bride Fleet Street 1400 Concert: Music for the Children of West Kenya An afternoon of music Wednesday 14 November with the CCD Trio (Kenneth Long (baritone), Eric Stevens (piano) and 1305 Recital: Duo Tibiis (flautists Jessica Lee & Lana Kuscer) St Botolph Aldgate Colleen Muriel (flute) with Lucy Downer (clarinet) Admission free – 1305 Recital: Daniel Watts (flute), Adam Johnson (piano) St Olave Hart Street donations to the Friends of Julius and Dora’s Children’s Centre, 1315 Recital: cello & guitar music St Dunstan in the West a children’s charity in Maseno, West Kenya All Hallows by the Tower 1900 JustShare Lecture on Christian Social and Political Thought: “A Dickens of a 1930 Concert: Medici Choir and Brandenburg Sinfonia, conductor John Baird time: lessons in social transformation from a national treature” by the Rt Revd Works by Vivaldi and Karl Jenkins Tickets £12, students £10, available on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate Adrian Newman, Bishop of Stepney All welcome All Hallows by the Tower 1930 Concert: Music for Remembrance Royal Choral Society, conductor Richard Monday 26 November Cooke, organist Richard Pearce; Duruflé Requiem and English choral music 1100– 1600 Nearly new book fair St Giles Cripplegate Tickets £12 from 020 7376 3719 or [email protected] 1300 Recital: Kristin Sofroniou (piano) St Lawrence Jewry St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Organ Recital: Dan Smith (Organ Scholar, Sidney Sussex College, Thursday 15 November Cambridge) St Michael Cornhill 1300 Recital in the “Song in the City” series for Debussy’s 150th Anniversary – 1305 Recital: PikaPika Piano Trio St Martin Ludgate Debussy’s World (In the Church Hall) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Recital: Alison Moncrieff Kelly (cello), Esther Cavett (piano) St Mary at Hill Tuesday 27 November 1305 Organ Recital: Neil Chippington (Headmaster, St Paul’s Cathedral Choir 1100–1600 Nearly new book fair St Giles Cripplegate School) St Mary le Bow 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1305 Recital: Alexandros Koustas (viola), Nina Leo (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend “Bach at Arnstadt - The music of Bach’s 1300 Recital: Rhuti Carr (oboe) and Andrew Watson (bassoon) early years” St Margaret Lothbury with Yashani Perin–panaya-gam (piano) St Stephen Walbrook 1930 Concert:: “A Short While for Dreaming” A cappella choral music by the 1315 Recital: Woolmer Group St Bride Fleet Street Blossom Street Choir, conductor Hilary Campbell Tickets £10/ £7.50 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church for £6 St Bride Fleet Street Advance tickets & further information from www.blossomstreetsingers.com 1900 Song in the City Concert: “To sleep, Perchance to Dream” – songs of Tickets also on the door St Sepulchre without Newgate Sleeping and Dreaming Amy J Payne (mezzo-soprano), Louisa Lam (piano) Tickets £10, concessions £5 (In the Church Hall) St Botolph Bishopsgate Friday 16 November 0815-0900 “God in the City?” Informal discussions on the basics of Christianity Wednesday 28 November over coffee and croissants See 2 November St Margaret Pattens 1100–1600 Nearly new book fair St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Organ Recital: Peter Wright (Southwark Cathedral) St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Recital: Eliza McCarthy (piano) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Recital: “Voice” - A cappella vocal trio Programme including the medieval 1305 Recital: Sara Burns (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Dowle (piano) chant of Hildegard and newly commissioned music St Olave Hart Street St Olave Hart Street 1310 Recital: Elin Harries (soprano), Nathaniel Mander (piano) St Anne & St Agnes 1315 Recital: Piano trio St Dunstan in the West 1315 Recital: Nicole Crespo O’Donoghue (violin) St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 29 November Saturday 17 November 1300 Advent-tide Study Course: “The word of God – with us and in us” 1000-1700 Workshop for voices and instruments on Purcell’s King Arthur, directed Introducing the Scripture and God’s guidance in our lives Tea, coffee and by Ralph Allwood Tickets £14 Further information and booking form at Bibles available – do bring your own sandwiches Continues in December www.tvemf.org/events St Sepulchre without Newgate In the Church Hall St Botolph Bishopsgate Monday 19 November 1305 Recital: Anna Ter Haar (flute) St Mary at Hill 1300 Recital: Alice Pinto (piano) St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Recital: Theo Le Thanh (piano) St Mary le Bow 1300 Organ Recital: Richard Townend (St Margaret Lothbury) St Michael Cornhill 1305 Recital: Fenella Humphreys (violin) St Olave Hart Street 1305 Recital: Mercedes Maresca (flute), Richard Black (piano) St Martin Ludgate 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend “Bach at Leipzig - The music of 1310 Recital: Reed Rage Bassoon Quartet St Anne & St Agnes Bach’s maturity” St Margaret Lothbury 1930 Concert: The Whitehall Orchestra, conducted by Michael Nebe Including Tuesday 20 November Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto - soloist Ross Knight Tickets £9, 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch concessions £6 For further information and advance bookings contact 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry [email protected] St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 Recital: Jane Gilbert (flute), Neil Wright (organ) St Stephen Walbrook 1315 Recital: River City Saxes saxophone ensemble St Bride Fleet Street Friday 30 November 1100–1600 Nearly new book fair St Giles Cripplegate Wednesday 21 November 1230 Organ Recital: Julian Bewig (Emsdetten, Germany) St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Recital: Sujin Park (violin) St Botolph Aldgate 1310 Recital: Nadia Giliova (piano) St Anne & St Agnes 1305 Recital: Susanne von Laun (piano) St Olave Hart Street 1315 Organ Recital: Philip Berg (Master of the Music, The Queen’s Chapel of 1805 Cheapside Debate in Prisons Week: “Drugs, criminality and prison” Speakers: the Savoy) St Bride Fleet Street Roger Howard (Director, UK Drug Policy Commission), David Raynes, Joshua Rozenberg Refreshments afterwards All welcome St Mary le Bow

______December 2012 Published by the FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London www.cityevents.co.uk

The Aroma of Christmas

“Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat.” Christmas is loaded with romance and at worst saccharine. But there is more than the chocolate box; think of the aroma of Christmas. We think of the smell of the cooking goose or turkey. The allure of Brussels Sprouts frying in pancetta and garlic. The smell of mulled wine, the aroma of the Christmas tree warmed by the heat of the house. The citrus smell of peeling tangerines and the bright crackle of the fire. There are so many aromas to Christmas. A house full of people. The smell of mulching leaves in the winter weather. The smoke laden mists of early evening. The clean crispness of the winter morning. The sweet smell of cigars and roasting chestnuts, melting butter on crumpets and damp dogs. The extraordinary cascade of aroma which means the term is over and you’re at Christmas.

This is so different from 2000 years ago when the baby, born in the back stable, was subject to worship and thoughts of murder. The smells of that Christmas were so very different then. The musty donkey on which Mary bumped down to Bethlehem. The stable smells of animals’ excreta, warm hay, wet wood and thatch. The peculiar aroma of anxiety and fear that is so palpable. The stench of vomit and too much cheap wine from the Inn? Then the smell of “bathroom cleaning”, of nappies in soak and then the smell of the baby. The primal unmistakable aroma of a newborn. Ask any father or mother; it is the most wonderful aroma in all the world - full of hope and fresh life.

If we asked anyone this Christmas whether they expect the smells of success or the anxious aroma of anxiety in the year to come, I think sadly we would hear many concerns for the latter.

Yet 2000 years ago Christmas came when God was born, in an occupied land and a troubled world, as a small child destined to be crucified. The King of Kings came to us in the innocence of swaddling clothes. 2000 years ago there was much joy too. Songs of the angels. The vibrant curiosity of the shepherds. The excited awe of the wise men. Mary pondering all these things in her heart. And Joseph – Joseph the rugged and unsung hero of Christmas – standing bemused and overwhelmed at the responsibility of caring for this holy child. That child of Isaiah’s promise; “for unto us a child is born and unto us a Son is given."

So I would encourage you, this year, to embrace Christmas. Not just the aromas of the celebration with our families and friends, the joy of City church and table, but also to embrace the Child born to be King – He brings the aroma of life, purpose, courage and a love that takes us beyond all sorrow trouble or death. If you wish the full sense of Christmas to be yours open your heart learn from Scrooge; welcome the Spirit of Christmas – Christ Himself . “For what shall I give him poor as I am …what can I give Him - give my heart.” Christina Rossetti

Lord Jesus, born to be King, Forgive my follies and failures, Enter my heart and take the life I offer That I may know You and The aroma of Christmas, all my days. Amen Oliver Ross Area Dean of the City of London

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REGULAR SERVICES IN DECEMBER 2012 & JANUARY 2013 Every Wednesday ─ continued 1310 Bible Talk, preceded by lunch at 1300, followed by Question Time at The services below are the normal pattern for City Churches. They are subject to 1340, at The Cuban Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street under the change during and immediately after major festivals and during holidays. auspices of auspices of St Helen Bishopsgate As you will see some churches have indicated when they are closed after the 1310 Holy Communion (1662 said) St Michael Cornhill Christmas period. Regarding other churches you are advised to telephone churches to check the details. See also our website at www.cityevents.co.uk which includes 1315 Holy Communion in the Crypt St Bride Fleet Street weekend services. 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1730 Evening Prayer St Edmund King and Martyr Every Monday 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow [NB Not 2 January] 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1830 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow 1900 Sung Mass St Andrew Holborn [NB Not 31 December] 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) 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 (BCP) 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 [NB Not 31 December] 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Prayer Meeting St Margaret Pattens 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 [NB Not 27 December] 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster [NB Not 27 December] 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow [NB Not 31 December] 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 [NB Not 1 January] 1250 Informal Worship & Teaching St Mary Woolnoth 0745 Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1305 Sung Holy Communion St Katharine Cree [NB Not 3 January] [NB Not 1 January] 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 (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Said 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 1315 Holy Communion (BCP) St Martin within Ludgate 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster [NB Not 27 December] 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 St Martin within Ludgate [NB Not 27 December] 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1315 Holy Communion St Margaret Pattens 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Mary Woolnoth [NB Said with hymns on 24 January] 1230 Said Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street [NB Not 1 January] 1315 Holy Communion Temple Church 1300 Bible Talk, with lunch at 1330 St Botolph Aldersgate 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 [NB Not 1 January] 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 Said Mass St Andrew Holborn 0730 Morning prayers St Margaret Pattens 1310 Holy Communion (BCP) St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Eucharist St Mary Woolnoth 1745 Evening Prayer in the church St Mary le Bow [NB Not 1 January] 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer in the Crypt Chapel St Mary le Bow Every Wednesday [NB Not 21 & 28 December] 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 [NB Not 2 January] 0830 Morning Prayer St Lawrence Jewry 0820 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster [NB Not 28 December] 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 Said 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 St Mary le Bow 1215 Holy Communion (BCP - said) St Andrew by the Wardrobe [NB Not 21 & 28 December] 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster [NB Not 26 December] 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow [NB Not 21 & 28 December] 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 [NB Not 26 December & 2 January] 1345 Benediction St Magnus the Martyr 1305 Eucharist in the church St Mary le Bow [NB Not 1 January] 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 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate [NB Not 26 December ] 1310 Pause for Reflection St Ethelburga’s Centre

SPECIAL SERVICES IN DECEMBER 2012 Wednesday 12 December ─ continued 1310 A Sequence of Music and Readings for Advent Sunday 2 December A rare opportunity to hear Finzi's wonderful cantata 1600 Christingle Service. A short service for children with stories Dies natalis for solo voice and accompaniment, which sets and singing, and candles shining in the darkness mystical texts by the seventeenth-century poet Thomas St Giles Cripplegate Trahethe. The cantata movements will be interspersed with 1830 Advent Carols St Bride Fleet Street appropriate readings St Botolph Bishopsgate 1800 Parish Carol Service St Mary at Hill Monday 3 December 1800 Christmas Carol Service followed by drinks in the Round 1800 Advent Carol Service followed by drinks in the Round Temple Church Temple Church 1815 Goldman Sachs Carols St Bride Fleet Street 1900 Ringers' Advent Carol Service. Come and join bell-ringers 1900 Evening Carols St Benet Paul's Wharf from the City Churches for a candlelit service of traditional readings and music St Giles Cripplegate Thursday 13 December Tuesday 4 December 1300 City Lunchtime Carol Service Mulled wine, mince pies, 1300 Office of Fair Trading Carols St Bride Fleet Street satsumas and stollen will be served after the service St Helen Bishopsgate Wednesday 5 December 1800 Thomson Reuters Carols St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Choral Advent Carol Service St Botolph Bishopsgate 1800 Carol Service for the Worshipful Company of Company Secretaries and Administrators, and for the Worshipful Thursday 6 December Company of Educators St Mary at Hill 1230 Telegraph Carols St Bride Fleet Street 1800 The Pattenmakers and Basketmakers Festival of Nine 1300 Carol Service, for those specifically in the Insurance Sector Lessons and Carols St Margaret Pattens Drinks and canapés will be served after the service 1830 Midweek evening Carol Service Mulled wine and mince pies St Helen Bishopsgate will be served after the service St Helen Bishopsgate 1300 Music and readings for Advent. Come and join us as we 1900 A Festival of Carols at Christmas in aid of The Eve Appeal prepare for Christmas St Margaret Pattens For tickets please contact 020 7299 4430 or: www.eveappeal.org.uk St Botolph Bishopsgate Friday 7 December 1615 BAT Carols St Bride Fleet Street Friday 14 December Saturday 8 December 1230 Freshfields Carols St Bride Fleet Street 1230 High Mass to celebrate The Feast of the Immaculate 1315 Lunchtime Carols sung by the Temple Singers Conception. Music: St Nicholas Mass by Haydn Temple Church St Magnus the Martyr Sunday 9 December Sunday 16 December 1730 Advent Carol Service St Dunstan in the West 1030 All age Carol Service St Helen Bishopsgate 1800 Carol Service, primarily for university students (under-graduate 1030 Parish Carol Service with Queenhithe, Vintry & and post-graduate) Mince pies and refreshments will be Ward Clubs. For this service people are invited to donate served after the service St Helen Bishopsgate a gift-wrapped toy for distribution to a child who otherwise would not receive a present St James Garlickhythe Monday 10 December 1115 The Temple Church Christmas Carol Service followed by 1245 KPMG Carols St Bride Fleet Street Christmas Lunch in both Inns. Bookings for the Carol Service 1315-1345 Christmas Carol Sing-along – an informal half hour of through Catherine de Satgé at [email protected] carol singing Temple Church or 020 7353 8559. Priority will be given to members of the 1830 Communications Industry Carols St Bride Fleet Street Inns until Friday 7 December. Bookings for the lunch should 1830 Carol Service for the Worshipful Company of Farriers be made through the Treasury Office Temple Church St Mary at Hill 1430 Mandarin-speaking Carol Service St Peter Cornhill 1900 Welsh Learners' Carol Service St Benet Paul's Wharf 1500 Afternoon Carols St Benet Paul's Wharf 1500 Crib Service St Bride Fleet Street Tuesday 11 December 1500 Children's Nativity Play Temple Church 1800 Printers' Carols St Bride Fleet Street 1600 Afternoon Carol Service St Helen Bishopsgate 1800 Carol Service for the Worshipful Company of Water 1800 Festival of Lessons and Carols All Hallows by the Tower Conservators, the Worshipful Company of Fuellers and 1800 Christmas Carol Service followed by drinks in the Round Billingsgate Ward Club St Mary at Hill Temple Church 1830 Readings from the Scriptures telling the story of the Nativity 1800 Evening Carol Service St Helen Bishopsgate with Carols, with the English Chamber Choir and the 1830 A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten St Andrew's Girls' Choir ─ held in conjunction with the St Bride Fleet Street Castle Baynard Ward Club, and concluding with mince pies and mulled wine St Andrew by the Wardrobe Monday 17 December 1300 Crowe Clark Whitehill Carols St Bride Fleet Street Wednesday 12 December 1300 Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols 1300 City of London Staff Carol Service. The Lord Mayor will You are advised to arrive early St Michael Cornhill be attending this service St Lawrence Jewry 1800 Service de Noël en Français All Hallows by the Tower

SPECIAL SERVICES IN DECEMBER 2012 ─ continued Monday 24 December ─ continued

2345 Midnight Eucharist St Vedast alias Foster Monday 17 December ─ continued 1830 Carols by Candlelight ─ A service for those who live and Tuesday 25 December ─ Christmas Day work in the area with readings and favourite carols for the 1000 Family Parish Eucharist St Giles Cripplegate congregation. Singers who can read music are very 1030 All age Christmas Day service. Mince pies and refreshments welcome to join the professional quartet. Please contact will be served after the service St Helen Bishopsgate Anne Marsden Thomas for details on 07785 533 799 or: 1100 Christmas Day Eucharist with Carols [email protected] St Giles Cripplegate All Hallows by the Tower 1100 Family Eucharist St Bride Fleet Street Tuesday 18 December 1100 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1200 Unilever Carols St Bride Fleet Street 1100 Christmas Day Communion St Olave Hart Street 1300 City Lunchtime Carol Service. Mince pies will be served 1115 Choral Mattins followed by a said service of Holy Communion after the service St Helen Bishopsgate Temple Church

Wednesday 19 December Sunday 30 December 1200 Fleet Street Carols 1 St Bride Fleet Street 1100 Holy Family Sunday - High Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1305 Carol Service – with mulled wine and mince pies

St Martin Ludgate 1310 Solemn Sung Eucharist of the Advent CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN DECEMBER 2012 St Botolph Bishopsgate 1315 Christmas Carol Service St Dunstan in the West 1700 Fleet Street Carols 2 St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 1 December 1730 The Lord Mayor's Carol Service St Lawrence Jewry 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate 1800 Carols and Readings for Christmas by candlelight with the 1930 Concert: Amati Orchestra performing Symphony No 5 by Choir of St Stephen Walbrook and Organist Joseph Sentance Tchaikovsky, Les Preludes by Liszt, Tragic Overture by St Stephen Walbrook Brahms Tickets £8.50 (£6 students) available from: Thursday 20 December www.brownpapertickets.com/events/267069 1230 Deloitte Carols St Bride Fleet Street St Sepulchre without Newgate 1245 Carol Service. Come and sing some carols and then join us

for mulled wine and a mince pie St Margaret Pattens Sunday 2 December 1305 The Parish Christmas Carol Service with music for choir From 1100 Advent Party Day ─ Face painting, tree decorating, and organ St Mary le Bow children's art and crafts, good quality toys and clothes for sale, 1310 Parish Carol Service with the Choir and Band of Coopers' live music and carols followed by our Christingle Service ─ Company and Coborn School followed by refreshments Also please see entry for this date under Special Services St Botolph Bishopsgate St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Carol Service All welcome, followed by mince pies and 1100-1600 Book Fair St Giles Cripplegate mulled wine St Margaret Lothbury

1800 Traditional Carols by Candlelight All Hallows by the Tower Monday 3 December 1800 Hogan Lovells Carols St Bride Fleet Street 1100-1600 Book Fair (Final day) St Giles Cripplegate 1830 Parish Carol Service St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 Recital: Famia Choi Castro (piano) St Lawrence Jewry

1300 Organ Recital: Peter Holder (Organ Scholar, Westminster Sunday 23 December Abbey) Works by Hollins, Howells, Whitlock & Elgar 1030 Morning Carol Service St Helen Bishopsgate St Michael Cornhill 1430 Mandarin-speaking Carol Service St Peter Cornhill 1305 Recital: "Duets and Solos with a Festive Feel" performed by 1600 Afternoon all-age Carol Service St Helen Bishopsgate Karah Florish (soprano), Sarah Denbee (mezzo- soprano) 1830 Nine Lessons and Carols St Bride Fleet Street and Suzy Ruffles (piano) St Martin Ludgate Monday 24 December 1310 Recital: Mayda Narvey (cello), Naomi Edemariam (piano) 1100 Family Christmas Eucharist and Blessing of the Crib French and Russian music St Anne & St Agnes

St Botolph Bishopsgate 1500 Carol Service (Latvian) St Anne & St Agnes Tuesday 4 December 1600 Crib Service ─ An informal service with storytelling and 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Christmas songs especially for families and younger children 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Recital: Siân Phillips playing her Stradivarius violin, 1800 High Mass of the Nativity St Magnus the Martyr with Terry Saunders (piano) St Stephen Walbrook 1830 Carol Service (English) St Anne & St Agnes 1900 Song Recital in the series 'Song in the City' 2100 Sung Eucharist St Giles Cripplegate Romain Dayez (baritone), Gavin Roberts (piano) 2300 Music and Carol Singing All Hallows by the Tower Tickets £10 (concessions £5) St Botolph Bishopsgate Hall 2300 Midnight Mass St Olave Hart Street 2315 Midnight Choral Communion Service sung by the Temple Singers Temple Church Wednesday 5 December 2330 Midnight Mass by Candlelight All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Recital: David Hughes (baritone) St Botolph Aldgate 2330 Midnight Mass St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Recital: Olivia Jageurs (harp), Mea Wade (oboe) 2330 Midnight Mass St Stephen Walbrook St Olave Hart Street

CONCERTS & EVENTS IN DECEMBER 2012 ─ continued Sunday 9 December ─ continued 1830 Concert: 'Come and Sing Advent' ─ Wednesday 5 December ─ continued preceded by a Workshop from 1400 to 1700 1310 Recital: Mee Hyun Oh (violin), Soo Yin Kim (piano) This is a chance to sing with the famous choir of St Bride's Works by Schubert, Franck and Wieniawski For full details please refer to the 'box' display below Free admission with retiring collection St Bride Fleet Street In association with the Anglo-Japanese Society of Wessex 1900 Concert to be given by the London Gay Symphony Orchestra St Sepulchre without Newgate The programme will include Slavonic Dances by Dvořák, 1900 JustShare Lecture on Christian Social and Political Thought Snow Maiden Suite by Rimsky-Korsakov, Nutcracker Suite Yama Wida (Afghan Action) 'East meets West' ─ by Tchaikovsky Tickets £10 available from: Understanding different models of reconciliation. www.wegottickets.com/event/187523 Chair: Andrew White ('Vicar of Baghdad') St Sepulchre without Newgate All welcome St Mary le Bow Monday 10 December 1300 Recital: Konstantin Lapshin (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 6 December 1300 Organ Recital: Richard Moore Works by Peeters, 1300 Advent-tide Study Course: 'The Word of God – with us Tournemire and Messiaen St Michael Cornhill and in us' ─ an introduction to Scripture and God's guidance 1305 Recital: Johan de Cock (piano) performing original Christmas in our lives. Tea, coffee and Bibles available ─ do bring your piano works and transcriptions by Bach, Mendelssohn, Liszt, sandwiches St Botolph Bishopsgate Hall Tchaikovsky and Bartók St Martin Ludgate 1305 Recital: Stephen de Vere White (piano) St Mary at Hill 1310 Recital: Anet Graudina (violin), Florian Mitrea (piano) 1305 Recital: Fred Thomas Trio St Mary le Bow Works by Beethoven, Brahms and Rubinstein 1305 Recital: Gunel Mirzayeva (piano), Sachika Taniyama (piano) St Anne & St Agnes St Olave Hart Street Tuesday 11 December 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "Baroque Organ Music 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis with Edmund Higham and for Advent" St Margaret Lothbury Gareth Hoddinot (trumpets) St Lawrence Jewry 1930 Concert: EXAUDI: 'Juice of the Pomegranate' 1300 Recital: The Arbory Quartet St Stephen Walbrook This leading contemporary music ensemble will perform a 1800 & 2000 Concert by the Constanza Chorus ravishing programme of music set to texts from the biblical The programme will include Vespers by Mozart Song of Songs Tickets £20, £15, £10 More information from: www.constanzachorus.co.uk/ For further information and to book please visit: St Sepulchre without Newgate www.templemusic.org or call 020 7427 5641 Temple Church 1930 Candlelit Concert given by the Vasari Singers ─ 2000 "O Sapienta" Choral concert of music from the Spanish The Michael Varah Memorial Fund candlelit concert renaissance school for Advent and Passiontide For tickets and further information please contact Tickets £10/£8 Reservations : [email protected] [email protected] St Stephen Walbrook Further details at: www.stbotolphs.org.uk/choirs-and-concerts St Botolph Aldgate Wednesday 12 December 1305 Recital: Duo Corde ─ baroque violin and cello duo: Friday 7 December Anne Marie Christensen (violin), Amelie Addison (cello) 1230 Organ Recital: Christopher Harris St Stephen Walbrook St Botolph Aldgate 1310 Recital: Elin Harrier (soprano) St Anne & St Agnes 1305 Recital: Susana Gilardoni (soprano) with piano 1930 Concert given by the City Chorus. The programme includes accompaniment St Olave Hart Street the Christmas Cantata "The New-Born King" by Gordon Jacob 1315 Recital: Alexia Mankovskaya (mezzo-soprano) Tickets available from: www.londoncitychorus.com "Cabaret Songs of Classical Composers" St Sepulchre without Newgate St Dunstan in the West 1900 Christmas Concert in aid of Coram ─ given by 'EC4 Music' Saturday 8 December More information from: www.ec4music.co.uk/ 1500 Charity Concert given by London Gay Symphonic Winds St Sepulchre without Newgate "Christmas Cracker" ─ An afternoon of Music, stories Thursday 13 December and surprises Tickets £8 available from: 1300 Advent-tide Study Course For details please refer to www.wegottickets.com/event/191671 Thursday 6 December St Botolph Bishopsgate Hall St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 Recital: Katarzyna Ziminska violin), Emily Hester (viola), 1930 The Octandre Ensemble Concert 'Medieval Modernists' Alice Purton (cello), Abigail Sail (piano) St Mary at Hill Works by Holst, Birtwistle, Mason and Stravinsky 1305 Recital: The Hanson Duo ─ Harriet Murray (violin), Tickets £10, Students £8 from: Alice Murray (cello) St Olave Hart Street www.octandre.com/Concerts St Lawrence Jewry 1310 Handel's "Messiah" Christmas Music performed by soloists, with the Choral Scholars of Hill House Chelsea and the Sunday 9 December Lothbury Strings directed by Richard Townend 1830 Concert: City of London Chamber Choir – conductor St Margaret Lothbury Christopher Field will perform Music for Advent and Christmas 1900 Concert to be given by The Music Makers of London including Britten's Ceremony of Carols and Poulenc's 'A Contemporary Christmas'. The first half of this concert Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël features world première performances of finalists in the St Bartholomew the Less Hazel Renshaw Composition Prize, adjudicated by Judith Weir and Patrick Russil. Tickets £5 from www.wegottickets.com/event/180882 St Sepulchre without Newgate

CONCERTS & EVENTS IN DECEMBER 2012 ─ continued

St Bride Fleet Street Friday 14 December 1230 Organ Recital: Jonathan Bunney (St Giles in the Fields) Sunday 9 December at 6.30pm St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Christmas Music given by the City Singers, directed by Concert ─ 'Come and Sing Advent' John Ewington St Katharine Cree 1310 Organ Recital: John Peacham plays music for Advent A chance to sing with the famous choir of St Bride's. Works by Bach, Pachelbel, Prætorius and others From 2.00pm until 5.00pm there will be a workshop St Anne & St Agnes during which works by Bach ('Sleepers Awake'), 1930 'A Very Holstie Chrstmas' A concert to be given by Handel (chorus 'And the Glory of the Lord' from 'Messiah'), The Holst Singers Tickets £10 including refreshments Rutter ('Of a rose') and Britten ('Hymn to the Virgin') More information from: www.holstsingers.com/ will be rehearsed St Sepulchre without Newgate Tickets for the workshop are £12 which include drinks – 2000 'A Gospel Christmas' with the London Youth Gospel Choir Bring your own picnic Tickets £7 (concessions £5) on the door St Margaret Pattens To book for the Workshop and for further information please contact [email protected] Monday 17 December 1300 Recital: Hubert Marshall (piano) St Lawrence Jewry Admission to the concert is free with retiring collection 1310 Recital: Dinah Pounds (flute), Adam Pounds (guitar) No booking is required to attend the concert only Sonatas by Bach andHandel St Anne & St Agnes All proceeds are in aid of the Inspire Appeal 1845 Concert: A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten to save the famous spire of St Bride's given by The Temple Church Choir directed by James Vivian

The evening will include Christmas readings from surprise guest readers. Tickets £16, £12, £8 for further information and to book please vist: www.templemusic.org SPECIAL SERVICES IN JANUARY 2013 or call 020 7427 5641 Temple Church 1930 Christmas Concert: The Barts Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra under the auspices of St Bartholomew the Less. Monday 7 January The programme will include Messa di Gloria by Puccini, 1200 Plow Monday service St Lawrence Jewry and Christmas Carols. Tickets £10 at the door (concessions available) Wednesday 9 January All proceeds will go to Barts Cancer Unit 1310 Festal Choral Eucharist of the Epiphany The Great Hall, St Bartholomew Hospital St Botolph Bishopsgate Thursday 10 January 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Tuesday 18 December 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Friday 11 January 1300 Organ Concert with Catherine Ennis and the Choir of 1200 City New Year Service Preacher the Rt Revd Michael St Lawrence Jewry with Readings and Carols for Christmas Colclough St Michael Cornhill St Lawrence Jewry 1800 Advent Concert by 'Canticum' Tickets £12 from: Sunday 13 January www.canticum.org.uk/ St Lawrence Jewry 1100 High Mass and Blessing of the Thames St Magnus the Martyr Thursday 17 January Wednesday 19 December 1310 HMS Illustrious Association Annual Remembrance Service 1305 Recital: Eloisa-Fleur Thom (violin), Max Ruisi (piano) All welcome St James Garlickhythe St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Recital: "Medieval and Renaissance Songs with a Wednesday 23 January Christmas Flavour" performed by Rie Kosaka (voice and 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate medieval harp) St Olave Hart Street 1900 Sung Mass for Christian Unity St Andrew Holborn

Thursday 24 January Thursday 20 December 1315 Said Matins with hymns St Margaret Pattens 1310 Festive Organ Recital by Jonathan Melling & David Cook All Hallows by the Tower Sunday 27 January 1830 Bach Vespers St Anne & St Agnes Friday 21 December 1230 Organ Recital: Joseph Sentance St Stephen Walbrook Thursday 31 January 1900 A Concert to be given by Mediæval Bæbes 1315 Healing Service with Holy Communion Tickets £17 available at www.medievalbaebes.com/ St Martin within Ludgate St Sepulchre without Newgate

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JANUARY 2013 Tuesday 15 January 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch Thursday 3 January 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry 1930 Organ Recital: Kurt Ison (Sydney) 1300 Recital: tbc – please check with www.ststephenwalbrook.net St Botolph without Aldgate or 020 7626 9000 St Stephen Walbrook Friday 4 January 1315 Recital: James Woodrow (guitar) St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Recital: A Dance to the Music of Time (Mediaeval 12th-15th Century dance music), performed on period instruments by Wednesday 16 January the Mediva ensemble St Anne & St Agnes 1305 Recital: Joo Yeon Sir (violin) St Botolph without Aldgate 1305 Recital in the City of London Festival Free Winter Concerts Sunday 6 January series For further information see www.colf.org 1000 – 1700 Byrd without Barlines - a worshop day for choral St Lawrence Jewry singers directed by Jeremy Jackham Admission charge £12 1305 Recital: see http://sanctuaryinthecity.net/concerts/ for members of Thames Valley Early Music Forum, £14 for for further details St Olave Hart Street others - please book not later than 20 December 2012 1310 Recital: Marie Vassiliou (sporano), Nico de Villiers (piano) Application form and further details at www.tvemf.org Songs by Britten, Bolcom, Hageman and Charles St Sepulchre without Newgate St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: David Hughes (baritone), Clare Jones (piano) Monday 7 January St Dunstan in the West 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert Works by Franck and Clérambault St Michael Cornhill Thursday 17 January 1310 Recital: Mary Pells (viola da gamba), Martin Knizia 1305 Recital: Madelaine Jones (piano) St Mary at Hill (harpsichord) St Anne & St Agnes 1305 Recital: see http://sanctuaryinthecity.net/concerts/ for further details St Olave Hart Street Tuesday 8 January 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents: 1300 Organ Recital: Christopher Barton (St Woolos Cathedral, 'An Organ Kaleidoscope' St Margaret Lothbury Newport) St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Recital: tbc – please check with www.ststephenwalbrook.net Friday 18 January or 020 7626 9000 St Stephen Walbrook 1230 Organ Recital: John Belcher (SS Peter & Paul, Godalming) 1315 Recital: tbc – please check with www.stbrides.com or St Stephen Walbrook 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Recital: Viennese music by Mozart, Beethoven and their 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church - admission £6 contemporaries, performed by the DeNote Winds ensemble St Bride Fleet Street St Anne & St Agnes Wednesday 9 January 1315 Recital: Litsa Tunnah (violin) : tbc – please check with 1305 Recital: see http://sanctuaryinthecity.net/concerts/ www.stbrides.com or 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street for further details St Olave Hart Street 1310 Recital: Nadav Hertza (piano), including music by Tchaikovsky Saturday 19 January St Sepulchre without Newgate 1930 Concert: Malambo explore the depth of Peruvian culture Thursday 10 January Tickets £10 in advance, £12 on the door Advance tickets and 1305 Organ Recital: Robert Smith St Mary at Hill further information from www.stethelburgas.org 1305 Recital: Jenna Sherry (violin) St Olave Hart Street St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents Monday 21 January The Glorious Baroque (1) St Margaret Lothbury 1300 Organ Recital: Richard Moore St Michael Cornhill 1305 Recital: Ruth Gibson (viola), Anna de la Vega (flute), Friday 11 January Martino Panniza (harp) Works by Debussy, Bax 1230 Organ Recital: David Moore (Hampstead Parish Church) and Laurence Osborn St Martin within Ludgate St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Recital: tbc – please check with 020 7606 4986 or 1310 Recital: Harry Cameron-Penny (clarinet), Jonathan Musgrave www.stanneslutheranchurch.org.uk St Anne & St Agnes (piano) St Anne & St Agnes 1315 Recital: tbc – please check with www.stbrides.com or Tuesday 22 January 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry Monday 14 January 1300 Recital: tbc – please check with www.ststephenwalbrook.net 1300 Organ Recital: John Eady (St Magnus the Martyr) or 020 7626 9000 St Stephen Walbrook Works by Bach, Buxtehude, Messiaen, Vierne and Reimann 1315 Recital: Adam Brown (guitar) St Bride Fleet Street St Michael Cornhill 1500 90 minute guided tour of the church – admission £6 1305 Recital: English and American Song, performed by St Bride Fleet Street Teresa Pells (soprano) and Clare Simmonds (piano) 1900 Song Recital in the Song in the City series: Lucy Roberts St Martin within Ludgate (soprano) and Gavin Roberts (piano) perform 1310 Recital: Please check with 020 7606 4986 or Shakespeare in Song Tickets £10 (concessions £5) www.stanneslutheranchurch.org.uk St Anne & St Agnes (In the Church Hall) St Botolph Bishopsgate

CONCERTS AND EVENTS IN JANUARY 2013 - continued Wednesday 30 January ─ continued

1930 Concert: Francis Poulenc – A Tribute The Joyful Company of Wednesday 23 January Singers, conductor Peter Broadbent, with Elliott Devivo 1305 Recital: Anna Lusty (viola) St Botolph without Aldgate (clarinet), Martha Lloyd (flute), Lucy Hall (soprano) and Gavin 1305 Recital: Guildhall School Cantata Ensemble,directed by James Roberts (piano and organ) Choral, vocal and instrumental Johnstone St Mary le Bow works by Poulenc to mark the 50th anniversary of his death 1305 Recital: Eloisa-Fleur Thom (violin), Mark Austin (piano) Further details at www.jcos.co.uk Tickets £17 (concessions St Olave Hart Street £14) on the door, or telephone 08444 771000 (booking fee 1310 Recital: Emiko Miura (piano) St Sepulchre without Newgate applies) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: David Dean (piano) St Dunstan in the West

1805 JustShare Lecture on Christian Social & Political Thought:

Zimbabwe’s Prospects: Politics, Foreign Investment and the Thursday 31 January role of the Church by Bishop Julius Makoni (Anglican Bishop 1305 Recital: Sarah Maxwell (french horn), Tadasuke Iijima (violin), of Manicaland, Zimbabwe – formerly an economist with the Nico de Villiers (piano) St Mary at Hill World Bank in Washington and an investment adviser with 1305 Recital: David Hughes (baritone), Clare Jones (piano) HSBC in London) All welcome St Mary le Bow St Mary le Bow

1305 Recital: Jo Towler’s W5 Wind Quintet St Olave Hart Street Thursday 24 January 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Recital: Elena Kiseleva (piano) St Mary at Hill 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents Bach and 1305 Recital: Niklas Duckworth (piano) St Olave Hart Street Buxtehude (1) St Margaret Lothbury 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower 1900-2200 Scottish Ceilidh ─ please see box below 1310 Organ Recital in the International Celebrity series: Lionel Rogg St Bride Fleet Street (Geneva) St Margaret Lothbury

Friday 25 January

1230 Organ Recital: Dr Michael Nicholas (St Mary le Tower, Ipswich)

St Stephen Walbrook

1310 Recital: Hammig String Quartet St Anne & St Agnes

1315 Organ Recital: tbc – please check with www.stbrides.com

or 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street

1900 Poetry and Music: Fathieh Saudi with a journey through the A SCOTTISH CEILIDH IN THE HEART childhoods of Moses, Jesus and Mohammed Further details,

including on admission, from www.stethelburgas.org or OF LONDON!

020 7496 1610 St Ethelburga’s Centre Bishopsgate

Monday 28 January St Bride, Fleet Street

1300 Recital: John Paul Ekins (piano) St Lawrence Jewry

1300 Organ Recital: Andrew Scott (St Michael and All Angels, West Thursday 31st January 7.00-10.00pm Croydon) St Michael Cornhill

1305 Recital: see www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk for further With live music, a caller and dancers from the details St Martin within Ludgate Royal Scottish Country Dance Society 1310 Recital: Isabel Maria Martinez (guitar) St Anne & St Agnes

Join in the fun of Scottish country dancing – discover Tuesday 29 January the delights of the Eightsome Reel, the Gay Gordons 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw St Mary Abchurch and the Dashing White Sergeant! 1300 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis St Lawrence Jewry

1300 Recital: tbc – please check with www.ststephenwalbrook.net For dancers of all levels of experience or none – or 020 7626 9000 St Stephen Walbrook all the moves explained and time 1315 Recital: tbc – please check with www.stbrides.com or to learn and dance them 0207 427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street

Tickets £20, including a glass of wine on arrival, Wednesday 30 January from the church office 1305 Recital: Phoebe Stamford-Kamps (bassoon)

St Botolph without Aldgate Contact Gloria Lizcano on 020 7427 0133 or 1305 Recital: The Bach Project - Fenella Humphreys (violin) [email protected] for tickets or further information. St Olave Hart Street 1310 Recital: An-Ting Chang and Li-Chi Chiang (piano duo) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 Recital: Music by Mendelssohn and Franck St Dunstan in the West