St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

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

  1. Reflection in words & music – Sunday 8th February 2026

    1 DAY AGO

    Reflection in words & music – Sunday 8th February 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. Our opening anthem – Everything holds together – is a song for the season of creation which was commissioned for St Bride's Choir by the Church of England's Environment Working Group. It is a setting composed by Ian Stephens of a poem by Malcolm Guite and is a timely reminder of our duty of stewardship to protect and enhance the environment in which we live. Alison reflects this week on how St Bride's observes a candle-lit hour of silence at the end of each working day which we call a Space for Silence – offering the gift of stillness and quiet calm in the heart of one of the busiest cities on Earth. We close with the hymn "For the beauty of the Earth" written by Folliott Pierpoint who was inspired to write the poem by the glorious view from a hilltop outside his home city of Bath in 1863. 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

    18 min
  2. Reflection in words & music – Sunday 1st February 2026

    1 FEB

    Reflection in words & music – Sunday 1st February 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. St Bride's Choir begins this week's reflection with Henry Purcell's setting of the Nunc Dimittis – those words of the aged Simeon when Christ was presented for the first time in the temple: "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation..." They are sung or said at every Evensong service and we particularly hold them in mind on this, the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. St Bride's Choir sings Choral Evensong in church each Sunday at 5:30pm. Alison begins her reflection with a brief biography of Brigid of Kildare, our matron saint whose feast day also falls today. Like many early Celtic saints it can be difficult to disentangle fact from folklore, made more so in Bride's case as she shares her name with a Celtic pagan goddess. We close with the hymn "O praise ye the Lord!" sung to the rousing tune by Sir Charles Hubert Parry. The hymn is the closing section of his anthem "Hear my words, O ye people." 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

    14 min
  3. Reflection in words & music – Sunday 25th January 2026

    25 JAN

    Reflection in words & music – Sunday 25th January 2026

    Join The Revd Steve Morris, Associate Priest of St Bride's, and St Bride's Choir for this week's reflection in words and music. "How lovely are the messengers that preach us the gospel of peace" are the opening words of the anthem which begins our reflection this week. They are from Felix Mendelssohn's great oratorio "St Paul" which premiered in Düsseldorf in 1836. Mendelssohn played this gentle and beautiful movement to Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace in 1842. Today we celebrate the Conversion of Paul and our reading from Acts describes this and Paul's first sermon in Damascus which Steve then reflects on. We close with the hymn "We have a gospel to proclaim." A new episode of this online act of worship is released every Sunday morning. 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 ================== 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. If you would like to make a donation, you can do so at www.justgiving.com/stbrideschurchfleetstreet

    20 min
  4. Reflection in words & music – Sunday 18th January 2026

    18 JAN

    Reflection in words & music – Sunday 18th January 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. The Epiphany anthem "Omnes de Saba venient" by Orlandus Lassus opens our reflection this week. Lassus was one of the masters of sixteenth century Renaissance polyphony. Born in modern-day Belgium little is definitively known of his early life although the story persists that he was kidnapped three times because of the beauty of his singing voice. His compositions most certainly match that reputed beauty. Our reading from the Gospel of St John includes the famous words of John the Baptist "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the signs of the world!" Alison then recalls a walking retreat to Winchester Cathedral during Holy Week when she was a theological student. We close with the famous hymn "Thou, whose almighty word." 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

    17 min
  5. Reflection in words & music – Sunday 11th January 2026

    11 JAN

    Reflection in words & music – Sunday 11th January 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. This week's reflection opens with an anthem by the former King's Singer, Grayston Ives, which sets the poem "Listen sweet dove unto my song" by the 17th century priest and metaphysical poet, George Herbert. The beautiful first verse reads: "Listen sweet dove unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing and flie away with thee." Today we mark the Baptism of Christ and the reading is St Matthew's account of that event. Alison then reflects on the importance of baptism today as both a rite of passage and a moment of discovering one's true identity. We close, appropriately enough, with the hymn "When Jesus came to Jordan". 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

    16 min
  6. Reflection in words & music – Sunday 4th January 2026

    4 JAN

    Reflection in words & music – Sunday 4th January 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. The first reflection of the new year opens with Jonathan Dove's evocative setting of the poem The Three Kings by Dorothy L Sayers which begins and ends in melancholic mood and imaginatively depicts kings of very different ages and the varied gifts they bear. Sayers was best-known as a crime novelist and was considered among the four "Queens of Crime" of the first half of the twentieth century alongside Agatha Christie. On this Epiphany Sunday, Jeff begins his reflection with the poem BC-AD by the twentieth century British poem, Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, which considers the witnesses of the nativity who "Walked haphazard by starlight straight/ Into the kingdom of heaven." We close with the familiar Epiphany hymn "As with gladness men of old" written by William Chatterton Dix who wrote it, and many others, while recovering from a near fatal illness. 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

    20 min
  7. Reflection in words & music – Sunday 21st December 2025

    21/12/2025

    Reflection in words & music – Sunday 21st December 2025

    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. A fifteenth century carol text "There is no rose" from the Trinity Carol Roll opens this week's reflection on the fourth Sunday of Advent. The setting is by composer Robin Hodson. Many with a particular interest in Brigid our matron saint and her Celtic Christian connections have an openness to pagan traditions which worries some. Jeff reflects on examples of those who navigate this well, remaining grounded in the gospels, and his own related personal experience of a work in Tate Modern by Máret Ánne Sara, a Sámi-Norwegian artist. We round off this week with the Advent hymn "O come, O come, Emmanuel!" 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

    20 min
  8. Reflection in words & music – Sunday 14th December 2025

    13/12/2025

    Reflection in words & music – Sunday 14th December 2025

    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. Our reflection opens with a another setting of the "Benedicite, omnia opera" – the great song of praise and blessing for all of creation that we traditionally sing in Advent. This week's is by the prominent English cathedral musician, Herbert Sumsion, who spent most of his career as Organist at Gloucester Cathedral. The gospel reading again centres on John the Baptist – the prophet who knew his role was to prepare the world for the appearance of the Messiah. However, Alison reflects on the uncertainty John felt as to whether Jesus, who he had heard of in his prison cell, was that Messiah. We close with the hymn "The Advent of our King" by the French hymnist Charles Coffin. 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

    18 min
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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

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    St Bride's Church, Fleet Street
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
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