St Bride's Church, Fleet Street is a warm and welcoming Christian community, and one of the most famous and most fascinating historic churches in Central London.
Our services are enhanced by wonderful music performed by our professional St Bride's Choir which sings Choral Eucharist at 11am & Choral Evensong at 5.30pm every Sunday of the year. They also sing at our many memorials, weddings, thanksgiving & carol services.
St Bride's is known worldwide as the Journalists' Church, offering a spiritual home to all who work in the media. However, our ministry 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.
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.
If you would like to support us, please make a donation via https://www.justgiving.com/stbrideschurchfleetstreet
Reflection in words & music - Sunday 8th November 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.
Remembrance Sunday in the UK is a national day of reflection when we honour those who fought to defend our freedom and protect our way of life. We shall be holding a traditional Remembrance service at St Bride's which includes a two minute silence and the laying of poppy wreaths.
The mass setting for the service is Fauré's Requiem and the Gloria from the it opens our reflection. Fauré said of the work that it "is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest." And may all who died fighting for us in wars rest eternal in peace, and rise in glory.
Alison's reflection is based on her rediscovery of a book that she knew from her parents' shelves but had never read. One day it appeared on the book stall at St Bride's and she determined to read it. It was The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, which follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War.
We close with the hymn "Lord for the years" by the late Bishop Timothy Dudley Smith. He wrote hundreds of hymn texts but this is his most famous.
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
If you enjoy listening, please leave a comment below or subscribe to our channel. It is great to get your feedback.
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
1 Nov 2026
Reflection in words & music - Sunday 1st November 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.
Today we celebrate the feast of All Saints Day. Victoria's "Missa O quam gloriosum" was published in 1583 and is a parody mass based on his own motet of the same name which sets an antiphon for All Saints: "O how glorious is the kingdom in which all the saints rejoice with Christ." We hear the Gloria from the Mass which displays Victoria's usual combination of technical skill and expressive intensity which is why he is the undoubted master of Spanish Renaissance polyphony.
Alison's reflects on two related examples of desecration – the first, of the frescoes of Sumela monastery in Türkiye, and the second of the decapitated statues in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral – and asks why do saints attract such violence?
We close with an appropriate hymn: "For all the saints" with text by The Revd William Walsham How and sung to the rousing tune Sine Nomine by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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
If you enjoy listening, please leave a comment below or subscribe to our channel. It is great to get your feedback.
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
25 Oct 2026
Reflection in words & music – Sunday 25th October 2026
Join The Revd Dr Jeff Lake, Associate Priest of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music.
Today is Bible Sunday when we give thanks for the foundational texts of Christianity. 2026 marks the 500th anniversary of the publication of William Tyndale's New Testament in 1526 – the first translation of the New Testament into English. This was a pivotal moment in the drive to make the Bible accessible not just to educated clergy but even to the "boy that driveth the plough."
That accessibility has grown to the point where we can find a myriad of translations of the Bible on our phones. Jeff reflects on this and the need to rediscover the virtues of attentiveness and humility as we read it and search for meaning.
The opening anthem by William Byrd – Teach me, O Lord" – is a fine example of conforming to the demands of the early Protestant church for accessibility in choral music, that the text be "plainly understood, as if it were read without singing".
We close with the hymn "Thou whose almighty word" – a perfect text for Bible Sunday when we celebrate the word of God.
Information about our weekly Sunday services in St Bride's of Choral Eucharist at 11am (https://www.stbrides.com/worship-music/worship/regular-services/choral-eucharist/) and Choral Evensong at 5:30pm (https://www.stbrides.com/worship-music/worship/regular-services/choral-evensong/) can be found on the website.
Find out what's happening at St Bride's at https://www.stbrides.com/whats-on
If you enjoy listening, please leave a comment below or subscribe to our channel. It is great to get your feedback.
SUPPORT ST BRIDE'S
==================
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 https://www.justgiving.com/stbrideschurchfleetstreet
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