Sunday Services
The services at Saint Paul’s are embellished with music every Sunday and on special days through the year.
There is a very large repertoire of Plainchant masses, Polyphonic masses from the 16th and 17th centuries, settings from the Viennese tradition and modern settings, including a few special commissions.
Concerts
S. Paul’s also hosts concerts for the Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) each autumn, including the BREMF LIVE! series for young artists, and the church is the rehearsal venue for the BREMF Community Choir and BREMF Consort of Voices.
Other regular performers at S. Paul’s include The Brighton Singers and the Brighton Chamber Choir.
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The Choir
S. Paul’s has a small but confident choir which offers excellent support to anyone wanting to improve their repertoire, musicality, and sight reading.
If you would like to join the Choir please ask the Director of Music, Martin McPherson-Pottle, by email or at the organ after Mass.
Marriage
The interior of S. Paul’s is the picture perfect setting for a traditional church wedding. Newly restored after the devastating fire at Christmas 2010, the beauty of the church will add so much to the joy of your special day.
Your wedding, whether it be simple or grand, can be celebrated within the traditional Church of England Marriage Service or a Nuptial Mass.
S. Paul’s can also provide a wide selection of joyful wedding music and our excellent choir.
Are you thinking of getting married in S. Paul’s?
Please contact the Vicar who will be very happy to discuss the possibility of getting married and St Paul’s.
Comprehensive advice is also available at
the Church of England Wedding web site.
There are plenty of photo opportunities in the church precincts, the celebrated Fishermen’s Vestry, the Vicarage Garden and lively West Street.
Between the Station and the sea, in the heart of the old town, S. Paul’s is surrounded by Brighton’s best hotels and plentiful parking.
The Organ
The church has no less than three organs. an excellent organ which was built by George Hunter of Clapham and inaugurated in August 1893. It was renovated and augmented between 1968-70.
However, the ravages of time and the great fire in 2010 have greatly reduced the organ’s functions and made it very difficult to play.
When it was decommissioned for cleaning after the fire, its place was taken by a small, sweet-voiced electronic chamber organ. Now, alas, the ancient bellows have almost expired and sound like a faulty air-conditioning system.
We now have a new full-sized Viscount digital organ which will serve us very well until the pipe organ is fully reconditioned.