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St Bride's Church, The Journalists' Church, St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London (2026)

We are a thriving and inclusive parish church, renowned for our outstanding music and unique ministry to journalism. St Bride's, Fleet Street is a warm and welcoming Christian community, and one of the most famous and most fascinating historic churches in Central London. St Bride's is known worldwide as the Journalists' Church, offering a spiritual home to all who work in the media. However, our m

inistry extends to everyone who lives and works within our parish, and to the thousands of visitors who come to us every year. Our beautiful Wren church provides a place of peace and a spiritual haven in the heart of the city for all who come. With one of the best professional choirs in the country, we are also well known for the outstanding quality of our music and of the worship we offer. A place of Christian worship for 1500 years, we continue to proclaim the love of God here today. Whether journalist, tourist, City resident or worker, you will always be made very welcome.

08/09/2026

The Moon aligns with a series of planets this month and TODAY's recitalists – Duet Digitalis – mark this with a selection from Holst's famous "The Planets" suite arranged for piano four hands.

Plus movements from Dvořák's invocation of a "Bohemian Forest".

⏰ 1:15pm and free to attend!

https://www.stbrides.com/events/duet-digitalis-piano-four-hands/

07/09/2026

The line-up for our late-Summer Party on Tues 15th Sept is taking shape!

Here's some of what's in store:
🎶Three live music acts throughout the party
🍽️Four food stalls offering a range of flavours from across the globe
🍷🍹🍺Three bars run by local favourites: CORD by Le Cordon Bleu, Humble Grape and Square Mile Distillery
🛍️🎪Stalls from local businesses, service providers and our congregation

All welcome to come and help celebrate a landmark moment for one of Fleet Street’s most historic buildings.

04/09/2026

Herbert Howells's "Collegium Regale" – a collection of liturgical settings he wrote for King's College, Cambridge – is one of the glories of Anglican church music. On Sunday morning we will hear his mass setting, which was completed over a decade after he began the project.

University college choirs are responsible for commissioning a great many pieces of music. Such a process is a key part of a composer's livelihood. At Choral Evensong, St Bride's Choir will be singing a setting of the Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis written by Jonathan Dove for The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge – it's a St Bride's debut for the piece!

The organ voluntary for Choral Eucharist is by F***y Mendelssohn – the equally musically prodigious sister of Felix Mendelssohn. Unlike her brother she was not allowed by her father to pursue music as anything other than an ‘ornament’ to domestic life. Fortunately she still wrote quite extensively though little was published in her lifetime. She died tragically young in 1847 of the same condition that killed Felix some six months later and from which her parents had died.

31/08/2026

🎶 Lunchtime recitals resume at St Bride’s! 🎶

After a summer break, our much-loved series of free lunchtime recitals returns to St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, this September.

Join us on Tuesdays and Fridays at 1:15pm for 40 minutes of wonderful live music – the perfect opportunity to step away from the office, take a break from the bustle of the City and enjoy music in the beautiful surroundings of St Bride’s.

The new season opens on Tuesday 1 September with the welcome return of flautist Sally Quantrill and pianist Lydia Bosworth, performing music by C. P. E. Bach, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs and John McLeod.

Other highlights during the month include:

🎹 Friday 4 September – Matías Ortiz de Zárate, piano, with music by Beethoven and J. S. Bach
🎹 Tuesday 8 September – Duet Digitalis, piano four hands, performing Dvořák and Holst
🎻 Friday 11 September – Surrey Trio, clarinet, cello and piano, with Stravinsky and Beethoven
🎹 Tuesday 15 September – Jason Ma, cello, and Pan Xiao, piano, performing music by Beethoven
🎼 Friday 18 September – Michał Szymanowski, piano, plays music by Chopin
🎼 Tuesday 22 September – Flarra Duo, flute and harp, with music by Mozart, Nielsen, Bax and Hannah Runting
🎹 Friday 25 September – Ian Rutt, organ, in a programme ranging from Buxtehude to Finzi, Reger and Bingham
🎻 Tuesday 29 September – Emmanuel Bach, violin, Jenny Stern, piano, perform Beethoven and Korngold

No tickets required and admission is free, with a retiring collection at the end.

Find the full September programme and all forthcoming recitals at https://www.stbrides.com/worship-music/music/recitals/

📍 St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8AU
🕐 Tuesdays and Fridays at 1.15pm

28/08/2026

St Bride's Choir return to their stalls this Sunday and kick off the season with some choral masterpieces!

Works by two composers from the Pantheon of Renaissance polyphony at the 11am Eucharist: William Byrd's unsurpassed "Mass for four voices" provides the liturgical setting; and Palestrina's exquisite setting of "Sicut cervus (Like as the hart)" is the anthem.

One of Bruckner's finest motets "Christus factus est" features at Choral Evensong at 5:30pm – written for unaccompanied choir it is symphonic in scale and full of chromatic tension – and the canticles are Brewer in D, a stalwart of church services across the land.

All warmly welcome, as always!

16/08/2026

Join The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music.

We open this week with Sir Charles Villiers Stanford's uncomplicated but charming setting of the poem "How beauteous are their feet" by Dr Isaac Watts, the 18th century English hymnist and theologian.

The reading is from the Gospel of Matthew when Jesus speaks to the people of things that defile. Alison then reflects on this challenging passage by first looking back to its origins in Mark's Gospel.

We close with the hymn "Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round" by the American minister John Chadwick. It was written for the graduating class of the Divinity School in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1864.

Information about our weekly Sunday services in St Bride's of Choral Eucharist at 11am (www.stbrides.com/worship-music/wo…horal-eucharist/) and Choral Evensong at 5:30pm (www.stbrides.com/worship-music/wo…choral-evensong/) can be found on the website.

Find out what's happening at St Bride's at www.stbrides.com/whats-on

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SUPPORT ST BRIDE'S
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We are hugely grateful for people's generosity which we wholly rely on to continue our work, maintain our wonderful architectural heritage and support world-class music-making. People are often surprised to learn that St Bride's receives no external funding.

If you would like to make a donation, you can do so at www.justgiving.com/stbrideschurchfleetstreet

Address

St Bride's Church, Fleet Street
London
EC4Y8AU

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 3:30pm
Sunday	10am - 6:30pm

Telephone

+442074270133

Website

https://www.stbrides.com/

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