This festival, held in partnership with the Royal School of Church Music, was a fantastic opportunity for local school choirs to come and sing some wonderful music in the beauty of Croydon Minster, together with the Minster Choirs. The service at 5.30pm celebrated God’s saints, in words and music, with anthems by Wesley and How, among others.

On Saturday 18th June, the Croydon Minster Choir of boys and men joined forces with two other first-class boys’ choirs: The Choir of the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court, and The Godfrey Searle Choir of Reigate Grammar School (formerly “Reigate Choristers”). The concert opened with a stunning rendition of Handel’s Zadok the Priest sung by a massed choir of over 100 boys and men in the splendour of Croydon’s civic church, followed by a wonderful selection of Anglican choral classic