2023

The candlelit, fan-vaulted Chapel of King's College, Cambridge is the stunning setting for this much anticipated annual celebration of the Christmas story. Led by the Dean, the Rev Dr Stephen Cherry, the service of music, readings and prayer begins in the time-honoured way as a solo boy chorister sings the first verse of Once in Royal David's City. The world-famous choir sings carols old and new, including Silent Night and In the Bleak Midwinter, and leads the congregation in other popular carols, while the story of the Nativity is read by members of King's College in the words of the King James Bible and in poems by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Marion Strobel, Thomas Hardy and Walter de la Mare.