Monday January 20, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuesday January 21, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Wednesday January 22, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Talk
Talk: The story of the Temple Church from the Knights Templar to the present day
11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Free as part of the entrance fee.

Concert
Lunchtime Organ Recital: Samuel Ali
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

For more information on the lunchtime Organ Recital Series Click here.

This recital will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Service
Choral Evensong followed by talk given by Sir Christopher Ghika KCVO CBE A military life from Northern Ireland to the Coronation'
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Sung by the Temple Church Choir

Organ: Master Tallis’s testament (Howells)
Introit: Omnes de Saba (Handl)
Responses: (Tomkins) 
Psalm 98 
Canticles: Second service (Gibbons)
Anthem: Let justice and judgement – Alleluia (Handel)
Organ: Wir Christenleut BWV 612

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Thursday January 23, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Talk
Talk: The story of the Temple Church from the Knights Templar to the present day
11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Free as part of the entrance fee.

Service
Holy Communion
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

View the order of service.

Friday January 24, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday January 25, 2025
Church Closed for sightseeing
all –day
Sunday January 26, 2025
Church Closed for sightseeing
all –day
Church Closed for sightseeing
12:00 am – 12:00 am
Service
Holy Communion
8:30 am – 9:00 am

Please enter the Temple via Tudor Street.

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

View the order of service.

Service
Choral Communion
11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Sung by the Temple Church Choir

Organ: Prelude in F minor BWV534 (Bach)
Introit: Almighty and everlasting God (Gibbons) 
Setting: Missa Sancti Joannis de Deo (Haydn) 
Psalm 19 vv 1-6
Anthem: Lord, I trust thee (Handel)
Organ: Fugue in F minor BWV524 (Bach)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Monday January 27, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuesday January 28, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Wednesday January 29, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Talk
Talk: The story of the Temple Church from the Knights Templar to the present day
11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Free as part of the entrance fee.

Concert
Lunchtime Organ Recital: Daniel Baker
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

For more information on the lunchtime Organ Recital Series Click here.

This recital will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Service
Choral Evensong for Candlemas
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Sung by the Temple Singers

Organ: Nunc dimittis (Charles Wood)
Introit: O nata lux (Tallis)
Responses: (Byrd )
Psalm 24
Magnificat octavi toni (Victoria)
Nunc dimittis (Bax) 
Anthem: When to the Temple Mary went (Eccard)
Organ: Der Tag, der ist so Freudenreich BWV605 (Bach)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Thursday January 30, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Service
Holy Communion
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

View the order of service.

 

Concert
Temple Music Foundation Conert: Stile Antico
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

The Prince of Music

Palestrina in the Eternal City

 

2025 marks half a millennium since the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance. His career was inextricably entwined with the Papacy and the great churches of Rome.

Renowned vocal ensemble Stile Antico present a programme exploring music Palestrina would have sung at the Sistine Chapel, the changes in his style demanded by the Counter-Reformation, his tragic personal life, and his influence on his successors.  The sumptuous repertoire includes several of Palestrina’s most beloved and timeless motets, gems by other composers active in Rome, and the UK premiere of a new work by Cheryl Frances-Hoad written especially for this programme.

The concert also celebrates the release of Stile Antico’s latest album on the Decca Classics label: The Golden Renaissance: Palestrina.

Programme:

Palestrina: Sicut cervus

The Papal Chapel
Josquin: Salve Regina
Arcadelt: Pater noster
Palestrina: Tu es Petrus

The Counter-Reformation
Palestrina: Nigra sum sed Formosa
Victoria: Trahe me post te
Palestrina: Credo from Missa Papae Marcelli

Interval

Palestrina: Super flumina Babylonis

A time of turmoil
Palestrina: Peccantem me quotidie
Palestrina: Gioia m'abond'al cor
Palestrina: Surge propera amica mea

In praise of music
Palestrina: Cantantibus organis
Palestrina: Exultate Deo
Lassus: Musica Dei donum

Palestrina's rich legacy
Anerio: Christus factus est
Allegri: Christus Resurgens
Frances-Hoad: UK premiere of a new work

Palestrina: Laudate Dominum a 12

Click here for more information and booking.

Friday January 31, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday February 1, 2025
Church Closed for sightseeing
all –day
Sunday February 2, 2025
Church Closed for sightseeing
all –day
Church Closed for sightseeing
12:00 am – 12:00 am
Service
Holy Communion
8:30 am – 9:00 am

Please enter the Temple via Tudor Street

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

View the order of service.

Service
Choral Mattins
11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Sung by the Temple Singers

Introit Varley Roberts The Path of the Just 
Responses: (Byrd) 
Psalm 48 
Te Deum: (Boyce in A) 
Jubilate: Plainsong 
Anthem: We shall walk through the valley (Undine Smith Moore)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Monday February 3, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuesday February 4, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Wednesday February 5, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Talk
Talk: The story of the Temple Church from the Knights Templar to the present day
11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Free as part of the entrance fee.

Concert
Lunchtime Organ Recital: Charles Andrews
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

For more information on the lunchtime Organ Recital Series Click here.

This recital will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Service
Choral Evensong Sung by the Temple Youth Choir
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Introit Derri Lewis Locus Iste
Responses: (Rose) 
Psalm 148 
Canticles: Gloucester Service (Howells)
Anthem: Evening Hymn (Balfour Gardner) 

 

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Thursday February 6, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Talk
Talk: The story of the Temple Church from the Knights Templar to the present day
11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Free as part of the entrance fee.

Service
Holy Communion
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

View the order of service.

Friday February 7, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday February 8, 2025
Church Closed for sightseeing
all –day
Sunday February 9, 2025
Church Closed for sightseeing
all –day
Church Closed for sightseeing
12:00 am – 12:00 am
Service
Holy Communion
8:30 am – 9:00 am

Please enter the Temple via Tudor Street.

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

View the order of service.

Service
Choral Communion
11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Sung by the Temple Church Choir

 

Introit: Teach me thy love to know (Allery)
Setting Orgelsolo Messe (Mozart)
Psalm 118 (14-21) 
Anthem: View me Lord (Lloyd)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Monday February 10, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuesday February 11, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Service
Magna Carta Choral Evensong
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Special service to celebrate the 800th Anniversary (to the day!) of the Sealing of the final Iteration of Magna Carta.

Guest speaker: David Carpenter, Professor of Medieval History, Kings College, London

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Wednesday February 12, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Talk
Talk: The story of the Temple Church from the Knights Templar to the present day
11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Free as part of the entrance fee.

Concert
Lunchtime Organ Recital: Sebastian Johansson
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

For more information on the lunchtime Organ Recital Series Click here.

This recital will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Service
Choral Evensong for Valentines Day
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Thanksgiving for all the Weddings celebrated and blessed at the Temple Church. 

Sung by the Temple Singers

Introit: If ye love me (Tallis)
Responses: (Rose) 
Psalm: I was Glad (Parry)
Canticles: (Wood in F)
Anthem: Zadok the Priest (Handel)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Thursday February 13, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Service
Holy Communion
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

View the order of service.

Friday February 14, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday February 15, 2025
Church Closed for sightseeing
all –day
Sunday February 16, 2025
Church Closed for sightseeing
all –day
Church Closed for sightseeing
12:00 am – 12:00 am
Service
Holy Communion
8:30 am – 9:00 am

Please enter the Temple via Tudor Street.

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

View the order of service.

Service
Choral Mattins
11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Sung by the Temple Church Choir

 

Introit: This is my commandment  (Thalben Ball)
Responses: (Tomkins) 
Psalm 7 
Te Deum: (Sumsion in G) 
Jubilate (Plainsong) 
Anthem: Teach me O Lord (Byrd)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Monday February 17, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuesday February 18, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Wednesday February 19, 2025
Church open for sightseeing
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Concert
Lunchtime Organ Recital: Julian Thomas
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

For more information on the lunchtime Organ Recital Series Click here.

Service
Choral Evensong
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Sung by the Temple Singers

 

Introit: O God, my strength and fortitude (Scotland, anon, 16th century) 
Responses: (Radcliffe) 
Psalm 33 1-12 
Canticles: (Purcell in B Flat)
Anthem: Thomas Hyde As Truly as God our Father (Thomas Hyde)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.