We are excited to be holding a Festal Evensong on 23rd April 2023 which will feature not only distinguished Shakespearian actor Michael Maloney in conversation with our Priest-in-Charge and Shakespeare scholar, Rev Dr Alycia Timmis, but also the Turkdean Choir's singing of William Byrd's Short Service in this 400th anniversary year of the Composer's death, a service that will have been familiar to Shakespeare.

Hymns
All people that on earth do dwell (100)
Words: Psalm 100 arr. William Kethe
Music “Old 100th”: Genevan Psalter (1551)

Come down, O Love divine (156)
Words: Bianco da Siena trans. Richard Littledale
Music: “Down Ampney” Ralph Vaughan Williams

Rejoice the Lord is King (139)
Words: Charles Wesley
Music “Gopsal”: Georg Friedrich Händel

Anthem
Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake
Words: from Lidley’s Prayers (1566), ed. Henry Bull
Music: Richard Farrant

Refreshments will be served in the Nave after the Service.
All very welcome.