Events at Guildford Cathedral
See also Art Exhibitions
All services and events are included in the diary, except Art Exhibitions (see link above). Please note that events are subject to change, especially those advertised more than a month in advance.
Saturday 1st July 2023
Henry, John, and Henry Venn the younger, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1797, 1813 and 1873
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 10.30am
- Ordination of Priests
Nave Altar
Organ: Marche in D (Op. 25, No 3) - Alexandre Guilmant
Sunday 2nd July 2023
The Fourth Sunday after Trinity
Proper 8
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 10.30am
- Ordination of Deacons
Nave Altar
Organ: Alleluyas - Simon Preston - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 3.00pm
- Valedictory Organ Recital Given by Marcus McDevitt, Organ Scholar
Tickets (free admission with retiring collection) - 6.00pm
- First Choral Evensong of Thomas, Apostle
Quire and Nave
Responses: Howells
Evening Service in B minor - Herbert Howells
Psalm 27
Strengthen ye the weak hands - William Harris
Organ: Rhapsody No 3 - Herbert Howells
Monday 3rd July 2023
Thomas the Apostle
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Eucharist
High Altar
Mass for four voices - William Byrd
O sacrum convivium - Thomas Tallis
Organ: Wir glauben all an einen Gott (BWV 680) - Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday 4th July 2023
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Wednesday 5th July 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer
Lady Chapel
Thursday 6th July 2023
Thomas More, Scholar, and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, Reformation Martyrs, 1535
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Cleobury
Fauxbourdons Evening service - Katherine Dienes-Williams
Jesu, grant me this, I pray - Philip Moore
Friday 7th July 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Ebdon
Evening Service in B minor - Thomas Tertius Noble
Os iusti - Anton Bruckner
Saturday 8th July 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 2.00pm
- Tower Tour
Tickets £6.50 from Guildford Cathedral Online Box Office - 2.00pm
- Tower Tour
Tickets £6.50 from https://www.guildford-cathedral.org/events/boxoffice or Guildford Cathedral Online Box Office
Sunday 9th July 2023
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity
Proper 9
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Missa Brevis - Zoltan Kodály
Psalm 145.8-15
O salutaris hostia - Thomas Tallis
Organ: Toccata (Symphonie No 5) - Charles Marie Widor - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong (With valediction and installation of choristers)
Quire and Nave
Responses: Rose
Evening Service in A - Charles Villiers Stanford
Psalm 56
The Twelve - William Walton
Organ: Finale (Symphonie No 1) - Louis Vierne
Monday 10th July 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Tuesday 11th July 2023
Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong (attended by Diocesan Church Foundation School Governors)
Quire
Responses: Byrd
Evening service in E - Herbert Murrill
I sat down under his shadow - Edward Bairstow
Wednesday 12th July 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer
Lady Chapel
Thursday 13th July 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Friday 14th July 2023
John Keble, Priest, Tractarian, Poet, 1866
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Saturday 15th July 2023
Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862
Bonaventure, Friar, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith, 1274
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 16th July 2023
The Sixth Sunday after Trinity
Proper 10
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist (sung by Guildford Cathedral Singers)
Nave Altar
Missa in honorem Sancti Josephi - Flor Peeters
Psalm 65.8-13
Bogoroditse Djevo - Sergei Rachmaninoff - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong (sung by Guildford Cathedral Singers)
Quire and Nave
Responses: Sanders
Evening Service in G - Charles Villiers Stanford
Psalm 60
O thou the central orb - Charles Wood
Monday 17th July 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Tuesday 18th July 2023
Elizabeth Ferard, first Deaconess of the Church of England, Founder of the Community of St Andrew, 1883
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Wednesday 19th July 2023
Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, and his sister Macrina, Deaconess, Teachers of the Faith, c.394 and c.379
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer
Lady Chapel
Thursday 20th July 2023
Margaret of Antioch, Martyr, 4th century; Bartolomé de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Friday 21st July 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Saturday 22nd July 2023
Mary Magdalene
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 23rd July 2023
The Seventh Sunday after Trinity
Proper 11
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Quire - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire and Nave
Monday 24th July 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Tuesday 25th July 2023
James the Apostle
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Wednesday 26th July 2023
Anne and Joachim, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer
Lady Chapel
Thursday 27th July 2023
Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher of the Faith, 1901
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Friday 28th July 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Saturday 29th July 2023
Mary, Martha and Lazarus, Companions of our Lord
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 30th July 2023
The Eighth Sunday after Trinity
Proper 12
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Quire - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire and Nave
Monday 31st July 2023
Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire