Fifty Years On

Turn on the Tap Challenge 2008

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:55:23 +0000

Everyone is warmly invited to join in our Sunday School Fun Day to raise funds for Samaritan's Purse Turn On The Tap (TOTT) Challenge on Sunday 8th June after the morning Eucharist service from 12.15-2.30pm.

Laudibus at St Bride's

Wed, 14 May 2008 10:49:11 +0000

As part of the "50 Years On" celebrations, St Bride's was delighted to host "Laudibus", the Chamber Choir of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, on Sunday 11th May 2008, at 6.30pm.

And now comes the world leader in punctuality and a world icon to beat all icons

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:29:51 +0000

With split-second timing, as befitting the world leader in punctuality, the sound of the trumpets reverberating around the walls and a packed congregation patiently waiting, our Sovereign Lady, her husband at her side, steps once more into the historical limelight of the spiritual home of journalists - St Bride's in Fleet Street.

Journalists' memorial cabinet begins to take shape

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:59:09 +0000

In a busy workshop down a leafy lane in the cathedral city of St Albans, two highly-skilled cabinet makers are hard at work on one of the most important and potentially historical commissions they have tackled in their many years of furniture making.

Church set to create world record newspaper harvest

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:01:51 +0000

St Bride's, the spiritual home for hundreds of journalists around the world, has been creating regular pieces of history down the centuries from its position in London's Fleet Street. Now, the church is about to embark on an historical chapter with a difference.

October, the usual month when churches are filled with fruit and vegetables to celebrate harvest festival, St Bride's will be filled with hundreds of newspapers from the UK and abroad to mark its very own unique harvest.

Eyewitness Reports of the Destruction of St Bride's

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:33:14 +0000

At the time of the destruction of St Bride's, three members of today's congregation who witnessed the devastation in December 1940, must have had doubts as to whether the church would ever rise again here in Fleet Street. But the rest of the story, to quote an age-old saying, is history.

New hymn written for St Bride's

Mon, 14 May 2007 16:19:42 +0000

In the Name of Christ we Worship is a new hymn written to reflect the past, present and future of St Bride's and dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the church's restoration and rededication following enemy bombing in 1940. It is the work of one of the nation's most prolific hymn writers, Canon Michael Saward.

Twenty Years On: The Sunday School celebrated on 18th March

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:08:24 +0000

A vital aspect of the Christian message at St Bride's, as in all churches, is a thriving Sunday School, often rightly referred to as tomorrow's church.

Dedication of new Guild virge on February 4

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:16:00 +0000

To mark the 50th anniversary year of the church's rededication as well as the half century of the Guild of St Bride, Guild Sunday on February 4 saw the dedication of a new Guild virge (or wand) which will be carried in procession at the beginning and end of Eucharist.

Top composer to write special anthem for St Bride's

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:48:03 +0000

Bob Chilcott, one of the UK's most popular and prolific composers is set to write a special anthem for choir and organ, as part of the 2007 celebrations to mark the rededication of St Bride's in 1957.

Fortitude, heroism and resolve...

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:47:01 +0000

The night St Bride's didn't die: a service to commemorate the firebombing of St Bride's Church on 29th December, 1940. That was the description on the front cover of the service sheet for a special choral evensong in the church on 14th January, 2007.

Editor's Welcome

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:58:01 +0000

Welcome to this new web site which St Bride's has created so that we can beam around the world news and events to be held over a two-year period and starting in the New Year. In 2007, it will be exactly 50 years since the church rose from the ashes after the devastation caused by World War II bombing, signalling a new chapter in Christian worship on the famous site where the church now stands in the heart of Fleet Street and the City of London.

December 29 a no day? Not for these Guildsmen

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:45:19 +0000

December 29 is one of those days in the year which has, in many ways, become a 'no day.' It is sandwiched between the Christmas and New Year celebrations. The Wise men in the Christmas story have returned home. The Christ child has not quite left the manger with his parents, Mary and Joseph. In modern society, the shops are crowded with bargain hunters at the sales.

Press Awareness Launch

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:28:39 +0000

After the Great Fire of London in 1666 St Bride's was rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, one of his most expensive and elaborate churches. Since the sixteenth century the area was particularly associated with printing and latterly newspaper-making, so that St Bride's became known as the journalists' church. During the Blitz the church was fire-bombed on the night of 29th December 1940, and the nave was completely destroyed. In 1953 the work of reconstruction began, and the beautifully restored church was rededicated, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, on 19th December 1957.

Background History

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:38:36 +0000

After the Great Fire of London in 1666 St Bride's was rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, one of his most expensive and elaborate churches.

Since the sixteenth century the area was particularly associated with printing and latterly newspaper-making, so that St Bride's became known as the journalists' church. During the Blitz the church was fire-bombed on the night of 29th December, 1940, and the nave was completely destroyed. In 1953 the work of reconstruction began, and the beautifully restored church was rededicated, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, on 19th December 1957.