On Wednesday 8th September at 7.30pm the spectacular African’s Children’s Choir are back at Malmesbury Abbey for a vibrant concert of African and Gospel music. Tickets are available from the Abbey Bookshop for £6 (adults) and £4 (children and students) and all proceeds for this event go to the choir.

The African Children’s Choir™ is made up of some of the neediest and most vulnerable children in their countries. Many have lost one or both parents to poverty or disease. The Choir helps these children break away from the everyday cycle of poverty and hopelessness. While touring …

This June we began our summer teaching series from Genesis 37-50 —Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dream-life. If you want to go deeper with this material we suggest you buy R.T.Kendall’s ‘God Meant it for good’ which is on sale at the back of the Abbey. You can also catch up on sermons you missed on our website.
For those of you who are curious as to what is coming up in our future Abbey series a sneak preview of what is provisionally planned: This autumn we hope to study 1 …

Across the Church of England the end of June and the beginning of July is associated with the ordination of deacons and priests – this is linked to the feast day of St Paul, June 29th. This year there are four people to support or remember in your prayers who have a strong Abbey connection; three ordinations and one licensing.
Rev Lee Barnes, curate at the Abbey will be ordained priest on Saturday July 3rd at Bristol Cathedral at 3.30pm. Members of the Malmesbury & Upper Avon group are …

The charity Music in Country Churches is returning to Malmesbury Abbey for three concerts on Friday May 21st & Saturday May 22nd 2010. The concerts will be of international calibre and will be raising money for repair and maintenance at Malmesbury Abbey and Little Somerford Church.
On the 21st the Kings Concert perform Purcell, Vivaldi and Handel at 7.30pm; on Saturday at 11am the Russian violinist Sergey Krylov performs unaccompanied Bach and Paganini; and then on Saturday at 7.30pm the London Chamber Orchestra, with Krylov, perform Mozart and Haydn in the …

Loads of pics on the Malmesbury Abbey Skate Facebook page.  You dont need an account to access it.

Well done to the young people of TRAX, FNT and Piepline who baked cakes and sold them at the Abbey last Sunday to raise money for the Haiti Earthquake appeal. £267 was raised and it will be banked tomorrow morning in the DEC’s bank account.
Reports of the earthquake in Haiti this week have left us all with the deeply shocking news that tens of thousands may be dead and approximately 3 million lives affected. As international relief teams continue to arrive in Port-au-Prince it’s good to remember that we can …

Malmesbury Abbey Skate

Following the huge success of last year’s event we are once more transforming Malmesbury Abbey into a Skate Park for three days in the February half term. There will be an Ash Wednesday communion followed by the opening of the park, for more details please see our Programme or for further info go to “Facebook.com/abbeyskate” or contact us on skate@malmesburyabbey.com
This year we will have three days of skating courtesy of Christian Skaters UK, with sessions for beginners /girls only / and of course sessions for the …

Although I went to a very traditional Church of England school, I never grew up with faith and actively rejected it even as an adult when I got married and had children.
I always thought it wasn’t ‘cool’ to be a Christian, and that my friends getting up to no good were the cool ones. But the journey from there to me getting in the pool and being baptised was a slow and very gradual one. There was not one ‘Road to Damascus’ moment, but many, many little things that brought …

The brochure for the fourth Malmesbury Abbey Holy Week Festival is now available. You can download it here or e-mail for it to be posted to you.
The festival opens on Friday 26th March 2010 at 7.30pm and runs through to Easter Day. As last year, our festival will open with a brand new Stations of the Cross art exhibition created by A-level students at Malmesbury School followed by a glass of wine and an hour and a half of live, clean, comedy with Andy Kind and Paul Kerensa. On the …

On Easter Day 2010 at our 6.30pm Choral Evensong Malmesbury Abbey choir will give the first performance of a new setting of the Preces & Responses by Ian Stephens. Ian has had his compositions performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Singers and has been commissioned to write the work by Malmesbury Abbey to mark the 1000th anniversary of the monk Eilmer’s flight from the Abbey roof. One of Ian’s earlier works ‘Through the affrighted air’ was a chamber work that portrayed Eilmer’s flight…and landing. You can …