The Adult Choir

Ross Parish Church has a long tradition of good music making. Its choir is highly regarded by the congregation, the local community and throughout the diocese with a well earned reputation. The adult choir is a group of about 20 singers who maintain the bulk of the musical services at St Mary’s. In recognition of…

The Youth Choir

We’re running a taster day on Saturday 27th September at 2.00pm. The idea of this is to give prospective choristers and their parents a chance to meet the Youth Choir and to get a feel for what we do. There are many benefits to belonging to a well run children’s church choir, many are obvious…

Music Lists

Evensong

Choral Evensong is one of the very special services of the Church of England; you’ll find it taking place in the late afternoon on most days in cathedrals, and college chapels around the country. At St Mary’s we’re lucky to have a choir that is able to sing it on a regular basis in our…

The Organ

The three manual, romantic, organ at St Mary’s was built in 1921 by Hele and Co. of Plymouth. It was originally built with pneumatic action and incorporated sliderless chests, popular at the time. The action was partially electrified with solid-state switching in the 1980s. A major rebuild of the organ was undertaken in 2011. The…

Recordings

In addition the the recordings and video on this page you find live streamed services on our YouTube Channel Some recent recordings by the choir Most have been recorded in services, are otherwise unedited, and come warts and all with various liturgical (and other) noises off! Archive recordings Commercial recordings We’ve made a few CD…

Come, Sing & Sup!

We’ve expanded our Come & Sing program. Now it includes a hearty supper in the church after the service, which is optional; you can still Come & Sing without supping! Our next event will be on Sunday 11th January – An Epiphany Carol Service. The music will be All the music, and an order of…

Choir Members page

You’ll find the current music list here And here’s the latest date list: Learning notes From the past Sumsion in G – Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis – Hereford Cathedral 18th February: MacMillan: O Radiant Dawn: Smith Responses: Batten 4th Evening Service Byrd: Teach me, O Lord

Round Byrd

Round Byrd is St Mary’s occasional choir, made up of experienced singers from across the West of England and South Wales, focussing on the “performance” of English Cathedral Music from the 16th and 17th Centuries in a liturgical context. We get together once a term, to rehearse and sing evensong in a single afternoon. New…