HOLY WEEK
Sunday 29th March
Palm Sunday
10.45am Blessing of Palms, Procession & Sung Eucharist
beginning in Mount Street Gardens
Preacher:
The Revd Stephen Coleman
Thomas Weelkes
Hosanna to the son of David
Jacob Handl Missa Undique Flammatis
T.L.de Victoria St Matthew Passion
Anton Bruckner Christus factus est
Holy Tuesday, 31st March
9am Morning Prayer
12.30 pm Said Eucharist
1.10pm – 1.50pm Music
for Holy Week
with the Grosvenor Chapel Choir
Anthems and motets by Victoria, Peter Philips, Thomas Morley, John Blow, Michael Wise, John Goss, John Stainer & F.A.G Ouseley, Chorale Preludes by J.S. Bach.
All welcome - admission free,
no booking required.
Holy Wednesday, 1st April
7.00 pm Ecumenical Stations
of the Cross
beginning at Farm Street RC Church and ending at Grosvenor Chapel with refreshments
Maundy Thursday, 2nd April
6.30 pm Solemn Eucharist of the Lord’s Supper
with the washing of feet, stripping of the altars, and watch until 10pm
Orlandus Lassus Missa Octavi Toni
C.V.Stanford Gloria in C;
Maurice Duruflé Ubi caritas
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Love bade me welcome
Thomas Tallis O sacrum convivium
Thomas Tallis The Lamentation
of Jeremiah
Good Friday, 3rd April
12.00 noon Solemn Liturgy of our Lord’s Passion
Plainsong The St John Passion
John of Portugal Crux Fidelis
T.L.de Victoria The Reproaches
Francis Poulenc Timor et tremor
Easter Eve 4th April
7pm The Easter Vigil
with the lighting of the new fire and the first Eucharist of Easter
followed by celebratory refreshments
Philip Moore Missa in Tempore Paschalis
John Taverner Dum transisset sabbatum
G.P. da Palestrina Sicut cervus
Easter Sunday 5th April
11am Festival Sung Eucharist
with orchestra, followed by celebratory refreshments
Walford Davies O sons and daughters
W.A.Mozart Missa Solemnis in C K337
G.F.Handel The Hallelujah Chorus
Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Two Trumpets
CHAPEL OPENING TIMES
The Chapel is normally open to visitors Monday - Friday 8am to 2.30pm. The Chapel is also open on
Saturdays for Occasional Offices and on Sundays for the 11am Sung Eucharist. Exceptons to weekday opening times are public holidays, private bookings, and staff annual leave.
ACCESSIBILITY
Step-free access to the Chapel is via a ramp through the main entrance. Please arrange in advance by contacting the Chapel office.
Audability: The Chapel's soundsystem is suitably fitted with
a loop system for pews directly
beneath the south gallery
ORGAN SCHOLARSHIP
Applications are invited for the Champniss Organ Scholarship from September 2026. Please see the music pages for further details.
Education
"Formation Sundays", "Lent Course" & "Quiet Days"
We take our faith seriously at the Chapel but also believe in having fun. We believe in asking questions and exploring our faith with intellectual integrity, even if it leaves us confused from time to time! Part of our annual programme is to have a series of Sunday Studies, which we call, "Formation Sundays". These take place on Sundays through the year. They begin at 12.30pm with lunch and then a talk by our Visiting Preacher and finish at 2pm.
Examples of past Formation Sundays include a talk by choir member, Katy Cooper on her Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella. Previous to that Stewart Trotter and players, offered a presentation on "The Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth" to align with the Season of All Saints and All Souls!
Our Lent Talks take place on Wednesdays throughout Lent in the Chapel Room at Grosvenor Chapel (7pm light supper of soup & cheese, 7.30pm Presentation). Examples of series that we have done in the past:
"Lear in Lent", exploring themes of the play and their relation to Christian faith and practice. We had speakers such as Prof. Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature & Public Understanding of the Humanities, University of East Anglia:
"Blindness, appearance and reality"; Dr. Dale Mathers, Jungian Psychotherapist & Author: "Broken relationships in the family "; The Rev'd Dr. Malcolm Guite, Bye Fellow & Chaplain to Girton College, Cambridge: "Compassion and Reconciliation"; Fr Richard Carter, Associate Vicar of St Martin's-in-the Field & former member of the Melanesian Brotherhood: "Wilderness, nakedness and the fool: voices from the margins. The perspective of experiences of grief, homelessness and exile."
We have also had the following speakers talk at our Formation Sundays :
1.) The Rev'd Dr Jo Bailey-Wells who talked about how to read and interpret the Old Testament
2.) Canon Prof. Paul Avis, who gave a presentation about the nature of Anglicanism and what it is to be an Anglican
3.) The Rev'd Mark Dean, Chaplain to the University of the Arts, London, who offered a presentation on "Modern Art & Christianity", 4.) Dr Eddie Adams,
'What did Paul'schurcheslooklikeandcan/shouldwetrytoreplicatethemtoday?" which was a Montgomery Trust Lecture.
5.) Canon Lucy Winkett, "The Theology & Experience of Women's Ordination".
6.) Fr David Rushton, Chaplain to the Royal Free Hospital will preach at Candlemas and give a talk at our Parish Lunch on "What is Christian Healing?"
Our last Advent Quiet Day was - "Cultivating Gratefulness & Expectancy in Advent" - at the St Michael's Convent, Ham Common. We have also had a Pilgrimage to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne.
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