There’s something grand yet comforting about the carol services at Saint Martin’s-in-the-Fields, near Trafalgar Squareīeyond the university setting, there’s something rather grand yet comforting about the carol services at Saint Martin’s-in-the-Fields, near Trafalgar Square in London. For that sense of occasion and history, any of the Oxbridge colleges is worth a visit (the chapels are all so different and all so beautiful), and they often put on a whole series of concerts in the run-up to Christmas. For an hour or so, the mad bustle of the festive season stopped and serenity seeped in. To borrow from another popular carol: all was calm all was bright.Ī few years ago, I went to a carol service at Christ Church, Oxford, and the college carol service experience was even more enchanting in real life. For us, Christmas didn’t begin until an angelic chorister had delivered the opening lines of Once in Royal David’s City. On Christmas Eve, my siblings and I would settle down to wrap our presents, with fairy lights twinkling and the King’s College carol service softly playing on the radio. When I was growing up, one of my most treasured family traditions was, in retrospect, a hygge-inspired affair one of cosiness and contentment. Choirboys at Salisbury Cathedral for a candlelit Christmas service.
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