At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month 1918 the guns fell silent across northern France. This was, and continues to be, Armistice Day. There was hardly a family in the United Kingdom that had not been affected by the previous four years of war with an incalculable loss of human potential. To mark this day, on 11th November at 7.00pm, St Paul’s will hold a service of sung Evensong from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer with which vast numbers of British and soldiers of the then Empire would have been very familiar.
The service will include the Piper’s Lament and the lighting of a TocH lamp that has been gifted to St Paul’s Church by Talbot House. The Sunset hymn, The Day Thou Gavest will mark “Lights Out and duty done” as we keep faith with the fallen of so many in that conflict and those since, in our Act of Remembrance in 2025.
