St Stephen's Church, Bournemouth

Traditional Anglo-Catholic church in Bournemouth town centre

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This Thursday at 1pm the Brass in Harmony quartet of David Cornford, Cliff Brock, Peter Guntrip and Tony Kent will be giving the latest in our series of lunchtime summer recitals. All welcome!

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On this day 130 years ago, the foundation stone for the chancel and Lady Chapel of St Stephen's was laid by Sir George Meyrick (the nave having been completed a decade earlier)

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Free piano recital by Julian Hellaby. Thursday 1pm. All welcome!

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A stunning unaccompanied solo Missa de Angelis this morning at our Solemn Mass for the second Sunday of Trinity.

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Welcoming Samuel Bristow of Chelmsford Cathedral to St Stephen’s for this first of this year’s Saturday morning organ recitals. The series continues on the first Saturday of each month at 11am.

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Organ recital this Saturday ... all welcome! (Same time, same place, first Saturday of the month for the rest of the year!)

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Join us on Thursday at 1pm for the first of this year's Summer Recitals, this week featuring the Spectrum Duo (piano and violin). All welcome!

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A busy week ahead with the start of our Thursday lunchtime weekly summer recital series and our Saturday morning monthly organ recitals.

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Jean Langlais's Missa in simplicitate will be the Mass setting at St Stephen's this coming Sunday morning. All welcome!

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Pentecost/Whitsun today. Joyful St Thomas Mass setting this morning.

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Join us for Mass this Sunday as we celebrate the day of Pentecost

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🎺 Another date for your diary in what is shaping up to be a busy summer of concerts and recitals at St Stephen's,

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This Sunday we'll be joined by The New Eden Consort who'll be singing Byrd's Mass for four voices

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Our Thursday lunchtime summer recitals are back for 2026 throughout June, July and August

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This Thursday, Bournemouth Town Centre Parish will mark Ascension Day with Solemn Mass at St Stephen's at 7pm. All welcome! (NB no Compline this Thursday)

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Today we welcomed back Fr Rob to preach and to baptise baby Zoe during Solemn Mass. Many of Zoe’s family travelled from Belgium to join us at Mass.

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Join us on Sunday for Solemn Mass on the final Sunday of the Easter season, with the baptism of baby Zoe, St Stephen's youngest regular Mass-goer.

The service will be sung to a setting by Martin How, and the motet is 'Above him stood the seraphim' by Richard Dering.

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St Stephen’s looking great in the early evening sun just before Thursday 5.30pm Compline

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Wrapping up the May Festival with Choral Evensong featuring works composed by musicians associated with our church down the years