All Saints Margaret Street

09/06/2026

You can listen to Rowan Williams' sermon from Sunday morning here:

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07/06/2026

It was an immense joy to hear Bishop Rowan Williams preach at the 11.00 am High Mass, and for the liturgy to be followed by two excellent lectures on the connections between All Saints' and Sergei Rachmaninoff this morning. We are so grateful to Professors Geoffrey Norris and Iain Quinn for speaking so eruditely and engagingly for us. You can watch Bishop Rowan's homily again here: https://www.youtube.com/live/gFh9YJGl1Fo?si=V7WFslaBAtezK9L-

07/06/2026

TODAY!

06/06/2026

Corpus Christi 2026

06/06/2026

This Sunday's preacher at the 11 00 am High Mass will be Archbishop Rowan Williams.

Join us as we celebrate and explore the intriguing links our parish has with the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.

11.00 am High Mass
Preacher: The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dr the Lord Williams of Oystermouth.
Music: Mass in Bb, Rachmaninoff; Cherubic Hymn, Glinka.

1.00 pm Two short lectures on Rachmaninoff's Liturgy of St John Chrysostom and his links with All Saints' given by Professor Iain Quinn and Professor Geoffrey Norris.

6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction
Music: Evensong and Benediction Canticles arranged by Eric Arnold, after Rachmaninoff; Bògòroditse Devo, Rachmaninoff.

05/06/2026

Some images from our celebration of Corpus Christi last night. Our procession took place indoors because of bad weather. We are so grateful to everyone who braved the tube strike to get to All Saints' and to Fr David Houlding for his splendid sermon. Blessed be God in the most holy Sacrament of the Altar!

05/06/2026

Join us this weekend, for a special Rachmaninoff Festival Sunday devoted to the musical connections our parish has with Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Sunday 7th June will include music at all the liturgies by Rachmaninoff, especially his Mass in Bb which was performed for the first time at All Saints’ in November 1915.

Our Director of Music at the time, Dr Walter Vale, had adapted movements from Rachmaninoff’s Liturgy of St John Chrysostom to the words of the Ordinary of the Mass from the Book of Common Prayer. The adaptation was sanctioned by Rachmaninoff, who attended a performance of the Mass at All Saints’ in 1924.

We are also exceptionally pleased that Bishop Rowan Williams will be coming to preach at the 11.00 am High Mass on 7th June.

After the High Mass there will then be two short lectures given by Professor Iain Quinn and Professor Geoffrey Norris about Rachmaninov’s involvement with All Saints’, and his Mass of St John Chrysostom.

Our Rachmaninoff Day will conclude with Evensong and Benediction with works from our parish’s repertoire inspired by the composer. In the 1970s, Vale’s successor as Director of Music, Eric Arnold, followed up on the Mass setting by creating a set of Evensong and Benediction canticles similarly adapting Rachmaninoff choral pieces and fitting English words to them. He used other movements not only from the Liturgy but also from the Vespers or All-Night Vigil with which in 1915 Rachmaninov followed up the Liturgy of 1910.

These pieces are distinct to the musical patrimony of All Saints’ and represent a particular contribution our parish has made to English reception and understanding of orthodox liturgical sensibility.

05/06/2026

02/06/2026

Join us for the feast of Corpus Christi on Thursday 4th June 2026 at 6.30 pm - High Mass, Procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction, all followed by a parish drinks party.

Music: Missa Aeterna Christi Munera, Palestrina; Ave Verum Corpus, Mozart; Tantum Ergo, Henschel.

Preacher: Fr David Houlding.

All Saints' is just off Oxford Street, at the heart of London's West End. We are a three minute walk form either Oxford Circus or Tottenham Court Road tube stations.