What’s on in Malvern Priory

Welcome
to the Priory’s Events listing


For more info please follow the links or take a look on our Calendar

You’ll find info about regular services and Messy Church by clicking the links.

All events listed below take place in the
Priory Church,
Church Street,
Great Malvern,
WR14 2AY
unless otherwise stated

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 18th July 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Farmers Market in the churchyard

What Lovely Things Thy Hand Hath Made

Tuesday 21st July 2026
1pm
The Choir of All Saints Fulham presents 'What Lovely Things Thy Hand Hath Made' - an hour of beautiful sacred music for a summer's afternoon, including choral favourites and new discoveries by composers from Brumel and Byrd to Howells, Grieg and Sasha Johnson Manning.
Free entry with retiring collection

Organ Recital

Saturday 25th July 2026
12 noon
Hilary Norris, Leominster Priory. Programme to include Buxtehude Prelude, Fugue & Ciacona & Rheinberger Passacaglia. Part of the 2026 Organ Recital Series.
Free entry with retiring collection

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 1st August 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Tower Tours hourly 11am - 3pm, weather permitting. £5 for adults, £2.50 for children 8-16. Sorry, children aged under 8 may not climb the tower
Arts and Crafts Market in the churchyard.

Cello and Piano recital

Monday 3rd August 2026
6.30pm
Performance by young artists attending cello masterclasses in Great Malvern with internationally-renowned cellist Hannah Roberts, Senior Professor, Royal Academy of Music.
Free entry, with a retiring collection in aid of Great Malvern Priory.

Malvern Chamber Music Festival

Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th August 2026
Concerts at 3pm and 7.30pm each day
This summer sees the inaugural Malvern Chamber Music Festival, brought to you by the emerging Elgar Ensemble. The Priory welcomes an exceptional line up of exciting and young, talented performers to present a wonderful array of classical concerts in the heart of Elgar-Country. We look forward to welcoming you.
Ticket info: Concert ticket £20, Day Ticket £35, Festival Ticket £60. Available from malvernchambermusicfestival.com or on the door (subject to availability).

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 15th August 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Farmers Market in the churchyard

Eternal Light: A Choral Celebration of Consolation and Transcendence

Wednesday 19th August 2026
7.30pm
Featuring: Requiem (Fauré); Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan-Williams); Blest Pair of Sirens (Parry); Hear my Prayer (Mendelssohn); and Silentium (Maunu). Soloists Jennifer Clark (Soprano) and Roderick Williams (Baritone). Part of the Great Malvern Festival of Singing.
Tickets £20 available from the Festival Website


Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 29th August 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Tower Tours hourly 11am - 3pm, weather permitting. £5 for adults, £2.50 for children 8-16. Sorry, children aged under 8 may not climb the tower

Organ Recital

Monday 31st August 2026
12 noon
Michael Bacon, Great Malvern Priory. Programme to include Whitlock Plymouth Suite & Naji Hakim Variation on Two Themes. Part of the 2026 Organ Recital Series.
Free entry with retiring collection

The Gents of St John's Cambridge, a Concert in Aid of the charity, Mandalay School for the Deaf

Saturday 19th September 2026
7pm
The Gents of St John's present a celebration of choral masterpieces from across the centuries with a second half of a capella, close-harmony arrangements of classic popular songs.
Adults £20; Students £10; Children Free; Tickets from www.thehaileyburysociety.org/society-events 

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 3rd October 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Tower Tours hourly 11am - 3pm, weather permitting. £5 for adults, £2.50 for children 8-16. Sorry, children aged under 8 may not climb the tower
Arts and Crafts Market in the churchyard.

Organ Recital

Saturday 10th October 2026
12 noon
Iain Simcock, Concert Organist. Programme to include Vierne Symphony No.5. Part of the 2026 Organ Recital Series.
Free entry with retiring collection

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 7th November 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Tower Tours hourly 11am - 3pm, weather permitting. £5 for adults, £2.50 for children 8-16. Sorry, children aged under 8 may not climb the tower
Arts and Crafts Market in the churchyard.

Priory Christmas Super Saturday

Saturday 28th November 2026
10am - 4pm
Free craft activities for all, free refreshments, music
Tower Tours to the ringing chamber hourly 11am - 3pm. £4 for adults, £2 for children 8-16. Sorry, children aged under 8 may not climb the tower
Tour Guides available
Arts and Crafts Market in the churchyard.

La Nativité Du Seigneur

Tuesday 8th December 2026
6:30pm
Andrew Caskie (Great Malvern Priory) plays Messiaen’s meditations on the birth of the Saviour. Part of the 2026 Organ Recital series.
Free entry with retiring collection