Carol Service at St Stephen Walbrook 2022

Monday 12th December 2022

Start: 6.30pm | Finish: 8.30pm

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As Alderman for the Ward of Walbrook and Lay Chairman of the Parochial Council and one of the Churchwardens, the Master has chosen St Stephen Walbrook, the Lord Mayor's and Christopher Wren's parish church, for the Guild's carol service this year.

The church of today is one of Sir Christoper Wren's masterpieces, built in 1674 and was his prototype for the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral. It was the first classical dome to be built in England at the time. The church features the magnificent round altar table sculpted by Sir Henry Moore, with forms cut into the circular sides suggesting that the centre of the church reflected the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem commemorating the sacrifice of Abraham and Isaac as a prefiguring of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross and the place for the offering of the Eucharist at the heart of Christian worship. This place was designed for people to gather as a community around the altar where God could be found at the centre.

The Samaritans were orginally founded here, and in 2006 the London Internet Church was esablished at St Stephen. As the Parish church of the Lord Mayor, who lives "next door" at Mansion House during his year of office, it now holds an annual thanksgiving service for the outgoing Lord Mayor. The incoming Lord Mayor is appointed an Honorary Churchwarden.

There will be refreshments in the church afterwards, catered by The Cook and The Butler.

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