Festive parish Eucharist at St Albans Cathedral in which the cathedral children perform a traditional Christmas crib scene.
St Albans Cathedral holds its Parish Eucharist with Nativity on Sunday 13 December, one of the festive services that run through the cathedral's winter programme. The service runs from 9:30am to 11:00am, with the nave doors open from 8:45am for anyone wanting to get in early.
The main draw is the Nativity itself: the cathedral's children perform a retelling of the first Christmas, which they rehearse the week before. It's the kind of service where the traditional crib scene comes to life, and it's described as being full of laughs and festivity. If you've got kids with you, it's a good one to bring them along to.
For context, the cathedral is the shrine to Britain's first saint and the oldest site of continuous Christian worship in the country, and it's the district's biggest winter attraction. It stays open daily from 9am to 5pm through the winter, with Christmas services running from the Advent Procession on 29 November through to Carols on Boxing Day, so this is one of several ways to spend a morning there over the season.
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It's at St Albans Cathedral, Sumpter Yard, St Albans, AL1 1BY. The service is on Sunday 13 December, 9:30am to 11:00am, with the nave doors open from 8:45am.
