Chapel and Choir
The chapel welcomes all members of college and staff wishing to explore ideas, and all are encouraged to enjoy the possibility that the chapel and its services offer for reflection.
The chapel exists to promote thoughtful responses to faith. It has a strong musical tradition, with a wide repertoire, and guest preachers and speakers emphasize the diversity of the Christian tradition, and the possibilities of inter-faith dialogue.
The principal term time services are:
- Sunday 6pm: sung evensong with an address by the chaplain or a guest preacher, an anthem sung by the choir and three hymns. This service lasts an hour in total, and sherry is served afterwards before formal hall.
- Wednesday 6.30pm: choral evensong: a formal service sung by the choir with readings and prayers. There is no address, and the service lasts around forty minutes.
- There is a Eucharist on Sunday morning at 8.45 lasting half an hour, before breakfast and newspapers at the chaplain’s house, and morning prayer is said every week day in full term at 8.30, lasting a quarter of an hour.
- There is a termly Roman Catholic Mass, and members of every Christian denomination as well as those with no Christian faith are valued participants in all aspects of chapel life.
Download the Chapel Term card for Hilary Term 2012
Download the Chapel Music List for Hilary Term 2012
Competition to compose a new College Grace
This competition is open to the junior, middle, senior and alumni common rooms and to current staff, and it is hoped that as many enthusiastic amateur composers as possible might want to take this opportunity to leave an audible legacy to the College. Entries for the competition will be accepted from the 1 January 2012 until 12 noon on 16 April 2012. Two copies of your handwritten or computer-processed scores, plus the covering sheet available from the College website, must be sent via (internal or external) post to the Organ Scholar. A winner will be announced by 1 May 2012 and will be awarded £100. Two runners-up will receive £50. The three will be then invited to dine at high table at Sunday formal hall for the first performance of the new Grace before the end of Trinity term. From then on, this new setting will be used alongside the current version of the grace.
Below are an article about the competition, a copy of the rules and the covering sheet which should be submitted with all entries.
