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Our lift is currently out of action and awaiting repair. We're working hard to get it back up and running as soon as possible, but at the moment, access to the Crypt and accessible toilet is only possible via steps. Visitors who need an accessible toilet can use the facilities located in nearby Paternoster Square. 

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Director of Music and the Choir
Information sheet
Cathedral

Our service schedule

Our regularly updated service schedule details the services for the coming period, with a list of music for each service. Please note that our service schedule is the only place to find up-to-date information about the music that will be performed at each services. However, all other information about our services is contained in our What's On calendar, including changes and cancellations.
Members of the Vicars Choral singing in the Quire at St Paul's Cathedral
Film and video
Advent
Music

Advent Singing Assembly

A Singing Assembly for Advent with an address by the Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, Dr Paula Gooder, led by Tom Daggett and sung by the Vicars Choral. Learn the hymn 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel'.
Siobhan Jolley is a white woman with long dark hair and round glasses, wearing a dark grey jacket over a black dress. She stands in the National Gallery in front of Caravaggio’s painting The Supper at Emmaus.
Written reflection
Advent
Art

Advent: The Art of Anticipation

Siobhán Jolley reflects on paintings in the National Gallery which anticipate the coming of Christ this Advent.
procession at service

Attending a service

If you’re new to attending church, find out what happens at a typical St Paul’s service.

Anthony Reddie laughing
Sermon
Hope
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King

MLK Anniversary Eucharist Sermon Dec 2024

Sermon to mark the 60th Anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr preaching at St Paul's Cathedral. Professor Anthony Reddie, Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture, University of Oxford at Sunday Eucharist, on 8th December 2024.
Richard is a white man with short grey hair and black rimmed glasses. He wears a clerical collar and black shirt under a casual light jacket and stands holding onto the wooden railing of a boat or a jetty on a lake. The shoreline in the distance has trees, and some buildings, and there are mountains in the distant background. The sky is pale blue with some clouds and the sun is shining on Richard.
Written reflection
Advent
Christmas
Holy Land

Advent Reflections from Jerusalem

Richard Sewell, Dean of St George's College in Jerusalem, reflects on Advent in the Holy Land.