The Chapel and Chapel Services
Michaelmas Term 2020:
We are very pleased that choral services have resumed in chapel. There are four services a week: our choristers and clerks will be singing Choral Evensong on Saturdays and Sundays at 5.45, and the clerks will sing Compline on Tuesdays at 9.00pm, and a Eucharist on Thursdays at 6.15pm.
If you are a current student, staff member or fellow you are very welcome to attend services in chapel, and it will be a joy to gather together again. There will be the usual precautions around distancing and hygiene and we ask for your patience. For this term chapel services, like all college events, will not be open to visitors, including friends and family and old members. If you can't be with us in person, we are livestreaming Compline on Tuesdays and evensong on Saturdays and Sundays on the New College Choir YouTube channel. We look forward to the day when we can welcome everyone back and hear the choir in full voice.
Service sheets and Music details
A Service of Readings and Carols for the Season of Christmas
Christmas Carols Service Sheet
Click the dates below to view the service Livestream:
Saturday 5th December, 17.45 GMT
Sunday 6th December, 17.45 GMT
Weekly Services
Eucharist Music and Service Sheet
Evensong Music and Service Sheet
Past Services
Advent Carols Service Sheet Act of Remembrance
All Souls Requiem Mass Service Sheet
Freshers' Evensong 2020 Service Sheet
Marian Meditations Service Sheet
History
When William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, founded New College at the end of the fourteenth century, he placed the service of God at the heart of College life. The Chapel was made the most inspiring of the College buildings and was provided with a permanent choir to support and enliven its worship.
The Chapel community today seeks to carry forward this same tradition of praise and thanksgiving, petition and intercession, as part of its local witness to the universal presence and power of God's love. We are an inclusive community, and hope that all who come here will find themselves welcome.
Together, the Chapel and Ante-Chapel form the first T-shaped plan, a form which has since become familiar in a number of Oxford and Cambridge college chapels.
There are many items of interest housed within, including:
William of Wykeham's crozier
18th century stained glass
A spectacular reredos
A large ornamental screen behind the altar
A statue of Lazarus by Jacob Epstein
The world-famous New College Choir still sing Evensong, which everyone is free to attend.
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