Events Archive – St Bride's Church

Morning Prayer

Friday 3rd April, 2026

A short, reflective service of prayer held downstairs in the Crypt Chapel. Find out more…

Painting showing Mary at the foot of the cross, cradling the dead figure of Christ

Good Friday: i) Stabat Mater – Pergolesi

Friday 3rd April, 2026

The companionship and servitude of the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday give way to the utter bleakness and desolation of Good Friday. We mark this in music, words and prayer at St Bride’s in our Three Hours’ Devotion which begins with a performance of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at 12 noon on Good Friday, 3rd April, […]

Painting of the Crucifixion by Glyn Jones

Good Friday: ii) An hour at the foot of the Cross

Friday 3rd April, 2026

We gather on this most solemn of days to retell in words and music the story of the last hours of Christ’s life and his death on the Cross. The central section of our Three Hour Good Friday observance this year is a reflection on the Passion narrative in St Mark’s Gospel, focusing on three […]

Good Friday: iii) God so loved the world – the Crucifixion in choral music and poetry

Friday 3rd April, 2026

Good Friday is the most bleak and dark day of Holy Week. We mark this in music, words and prayer at St Bride’s in our Three Hours’ Devotion. This event at 2pm concludes that devotion with an hour of poetry and choral music for Passiontide entitled God so loved the world sung by St Bride’s […]