CHURCH OPENING TIMES:
SUNDAY – 10:00am to 1:00pm (High Mass at 11:00am)
TUESDAY – FRIDAY 10:00am to 4:00pm (Low Mass (said) at 12:30pm
High Mass is live-streamed every Sunday, whenever possible
St Magnus the Martyr church stands at the head of the old London Bridge in the City of London. It was Sir Christopher Wren’s most expensive parish church and the first to be visited by all those crossing into the City.
A beacon of the Anglo-Catholic tradition, we are open for daily prayer and celebrate a rich and musical High Mass each Sunday.
We welcome visitors from around the world to
Ed Walters is Director of Music at St Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge, and founder of the Paddington Ensemble and Castle Chamber Choir and Orchestra. He has conducted numerous ensembles, including Imperial College Chamber Choir, the Derwent Singers, and Stevenage Symphony Orchestra.
As a baritone he has sung in the Royal Albert Hall as Section Leader of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, St David’s Cathedral with the Epiphoni Consort, and St Martin-in-the-Fields, where he was a choral scholar. Orchestral collaborations include the BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, and Britten Sinfonia at venues ranging from the Southbank Centre to Twickenham Stadium. He has broadcast for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Four and recorded with the National Youth Choir and the Rodolfus Choir. Recent highlights include singing in the first Classical Pride concert at the Barbican with Coro Spezzato and the CBSO, step-out solos in Handel’s As Pants the Hart and Dixit Dominus, with the Academy of Ancient Music and Philharmonia Baroque and conducting J. S. Bach’s St John Passion at St James’s Sussex Gardens.
A Fraternity was founded in 1343 for the purpose of singing the hymn Salve Regina – a practice that was repeated in a number of other churches of medieval London.
