Services

Sunday	Mass 10.00, Vespers 17.00
Weekdays	Mass 08.35, Vespers 17.45

Facilities

Shop: Bookshop open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 14.30-16.30, Sunday 11.00

Website: www.downside.co.uk/abbey

E-mail address: monks@downside.co.uk

Telephone
Office 01761 235161

Music

Monastic Choir Master
Dom David Foster (since )

Choir
The Schola Cantorum is the main school choir, which sings the main services and which has produced the CD recordings: 'The Abbey' & 'Gregorian Moods'. There are two chamber choirs, a boys and a girls choir, numbering about 20 singers each. They sing Mass on some Sundays, specialise in 'a cappella' preformances, concerts and television appearances.

Organ
There is a 4 manual Compton organ in the Abbey Church.

Cathedral

Prior
The Very Revd Dom David Foster (since )

Abbot
The Rt Revd Dom Aidan Bellenger (since )

Building
The Benedictine Community came to Downside in 1814. The present buildings were begun in 1873 partly to accommodate a growing school. The Abbey church was begun in 1880 with its nave, by Giles Gilbert Scott, in 1925 and the church tower was completed in 1938. The school is a central part of the monasteries work but it also has focused on Hospitality and the St Bede Centre for talks and days of reflection in recent years.