What's on - Christmas

  • Thu 4th Dec

    7.00pm - 8.30pm

    Yorkshire Evening Post Carol Service

    YEP Brass
    Choir of Leeds Minster
    Organiser: Yorkshire Evening Post
    Admission: Please sign up for your free tickets (retiring collection in aid of Martin House Children’s Hospice and Leeds Minster – minimum recommended donation £5)
    Doors open 6pm

    Anthem: How far is it to Bethlehem? | arr. Lindley
    Anthem: Silent Night | David Houlder
    Anthem: Jesus Child | John Rutter

  • Sun 7th Dec

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Choral Evensong – Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten

    Responses, Psalm 11, and Canticles will be sung to Plainsong
    Anthem: Ceremony of Carols | Benjamin Britten

    This service is sung by the upper voices of the Minster Choir, with members of St Peter’s Singers. The Britten anthem is accompanied on the harp by Bethan Cole.

  • Thu 11th Dec

    7.00pm - 8.30pm

    Childline Carols by Candlelight

    Organised by: NSPCC Leeds
    Admission: From £11.55 Book here
    More Info: Doors open 6.30pm

  • Sun 14th Dec

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Nine Lessons and Carols

    The traditional readings, anthems and carols following the pattern of King’s College, Cambridge, led by the clergy and choir of Leeds Minster, with well-known carols for all to sing.

    Veiled in Darkness | Glenn Rudolph
    Adam lay ybounden | Boris Ord
    Love came down at Christmas | Edgar Pettman.
    And the Glory of the Lord | Georg Frideric Handel
    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | Elizabeth Poston
    A Spotless Rose | Herbert Howells
    A child is born in Bethlehem | Samuel Scheidt, ed. Willcocks
    My Lord has come | Will Todd
    We three Kings | Martin Neary
    Voluntary: Final from Symphonie I | Louis Vierne
  • Sat 20th Dec

    2.30pm - 4.00pm

    Christingle Service with activities and refreshments for families

    A Christmas service for all the family taking home your own Christingle.

  • Sat 20th Dec

    5.00pm - 6.00pm

    Joy to the World Service with the Joy Choir

    A contemporary Carol Service with Joy Choir

    Free Admission

  • Sun 21st Dec

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Carols and Readings

    At St John’s, Briggate.
    A traditional service led by the clergy and choir of Leeds Minster in  the oldest church in Leeds.
    Please wrap up for the cold in the building.

    Love came down at Christmas | Edgar Pettman.
    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | Elizabeth Poston
    A Spotless Rose | Herbert Howells
    In the bleak midwinter | Harold Darke
    Sussex Carol | arr. Willcocks

  • Wed 24th Dec

    11.00pm - 12.30am

    Midnight Mass

    The First Communion of Christmas with refreshments available from 10.30pm.

    Setting: Messe de Minuit | Charpentier
    Gradual Anthem: Silent Night | David Houlder
    Anthem at Communion: My Lord has come | Will Todd
    Voluntary: In dulci jubilo BWV 729 | J. S. Bach

  • Thu 25th Dec

    10.30am - 11.30am

    The Eucharist for Christmas Day

    Common Worship
    We welcome the Bishop of Kirkstall as president and preacher

    Setting: Communion Service in E | Darke
    Anthem: I saw three ships | arr. Willcocks
    Anthem: Ding Dong
    Voluntary: Toccata | Widor

  • Sun 13th Dec

    6.00pm - 7.15pm

    Nine Lessons and Carols

    The traditional readings, anthems and carols following the pattern of King’s College, Cambridge, led by the clergy and choir of Leeds Minster, with well-known carols for all to sing.

  • Sat 19th Dec

    5.00pm - 6.00pm

    Joy to the World Service with the Joy Choir

    A contemporary Carol Service with Joy Choir

    Free Admission

  • Sun 20th Dec

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Carols and Readings

    At St John’s, Briggate.
    A traditional service led by the clergy and choir of Leeds Minster in  the oldest church in Leeds.
    Please wrap up for the cold in the building.

  • Thu 24th Dec

    11.00pm - 12.30am

    Midnight Mass

    The First Communion of Christmas with free refreshments available from 10pm.

  • Fri 25th Dec

    9.00am - 9.45am

    Holy Communion

    Book of Common Prayer

  • Fri 25th Dec

    10.30am - 11.30am

    The Eucharist

    Common Worship