Services

Sunday

Sung Eucharist 09.45, Matins 11.15, Evensong 18.30

Facilities

Entrance: Free but suggested donation of £2 per adult

Disabled: Wheelchair entrance via North Porch.

Guided tours: Guided tours at £3 per adult. Special Evening Tours & School Tours, but all to be pre-booked from the Head Verger. Tower Visits at £2 per adult

Shop: Gift Shop is in a separate building near the West door, a Bookshop is in the Baptistry at the West End.

Website: www.christchurchpriory.org

E-mail address: verger@christchurchpriory.org

Telephone
Office 01202 488645
Head Verger 01202 485804

Music

Master of the Choristers
Andrew Post (since )

Choir
There are three choirs - a boys & mens choir with 20 boys and 12 men, a girls choir of 20 girls aged 8-13, who sing alternate Sunday services with the boys, and the Priory Singers, a mixed voice choir, who the services on about five Sundays a year.

Organ
The Father Willis Organ of 1865, in the South Transept, was rebuilt in 1951 by John Compton until it fell silent in 1973. By 1998 a new organ had been designed by Nicholson's of Malvern with 58 stops over 4 manuals, reusing the majority of the original pipework.

Cathedral

Building
The church was granted to the residents of Christchurch as their parish church by Henry V111 after the dissolution of the monasteries. The Nave, at 118 ft long and 58ft high, is Norman up to the Triforium, with the Cerestory being Early English. The Quire Screen, the Jesse Reredos and the South Nave Aisle windows are Decorated Gothic, whilst the Quire is classic Perpendicular Gothic at its best, with some early examples of pendant vaulting.