Chapel

Westcott's chapel is at the heart of the life of the House. Its uncluttered simplicity makes it an ideal space for the range of services that happen there: from sung high mass to said morning prayer, from adoration of the blessed sacrament to "prayer and praise". At Westcott we believe it is important to learn to inhabit the Anglican tradition of corporate worship and to learn to adapt and innovate from a base of understanding. To this end, students at Westcott are involved in the planning, leading, and provision of all the community worship.

During term time, the regular daily pattern of worship in the chapel includes morning prayer, evening prayer, the Eucharist and compline. Variations to this order accommodate a weekly breakfast for tutor groups that allows for more informal prayer and fortnightly evening worship for the whole Federation.

The usual daily pattern runs as follows:

7.15 Silent Meditation
7.40 Morning Prayer
8.05 Eucharist
6.00 Evening Prayer
9.30 Compline

There are some standard variations to the pattern: every other Tuesday Evening is Federation Worship; Wednesday mornings are for tutor group prayers, and on Thursday evening we have our Community Eucharist. We also mark particular feast days or saints days each term and on these occasions, as well as on others, invite guest preachers. Visiting preachers have included the Chief Inspector of Prisons (for a celebration of Elizabeth Fry), the chaplain of Great Ormond Street Hospital (for St Luke) and the Archbishop of Canterbury (for the patron of our chapel, St Athanasius).

Attendance at morning and evening prayer (or compline) is a mandatory part of the college's discipline as is, normally, attendance at the Community Eucharist, "Soup and Notices", and Compline on Thursdays.