MUSIC PLAYS a central role in life at Christ Church and St Luke's.

On this page you will find information regarding the music in and around the parish.

THE CHOIR AT CHRIST CHURCH sings every Sunday Morning and at monthly choral evensong. Repertoire centres around the English tradition, with occasional forays into more adventurous pieces - in recent years the choir has performed Vierne's Messe Solenelle as well as Haydn's Nelson Mass (with professional period-instrument orchestra), as well as a wealth of smaller pieces.

WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE two fine organs by English builder Noel Mander, a one-manual chamber organ at St Luke's and a large three-manual at Christ Church. The instrument at St Luke's is built in the English 18th-century style, has eight speaking stops on three ranks of pipes, and is controlled by an electric action. Christ Church's organ was built in 1953, as an expansion of an earlier instrument by Lewis, which in turn incorporated work by Walker. It has thirty-three speaking stops, together with a large selection of couplers, and is tonally speaking in the English Romantic school of organ-building. It dominates the upper storey of the South Transept, with the detached console located opposite, in the west corner of the North Transept.