With Guest Speaker Revd Dr Malcolm Guite
Dorchester Abbey Festival Service
Dorchester Abbey Festival Service

Go along to this special Dorchester Abbey Festival service with Guest Speaker poet Malcolm Guite, and 2023’s Junior BBC Chorister of the year Belinda Gifford-Guy

This service will be packed with favourite hymns and a lovely anthem from their amazing Dorchester Abbey choir. 

A bit of peace and quiet in the middle of the Festival madness!

Malcolm Guite is a poet, priest and rocker!

His passion for poetry started in his childhood since when he has become a much-published author, lecturing widely in England and USA on poetry and theology. 

He is Chaplain of Girton College Cambridge, author of 21 books and plays in Cambridge rock band Mystery Train,

If you need disabled parking or access do contact uhem here with your requirements – we’d love to help you!

Dorchester Abbey is a beautiful historic Church of England parish church and event venue.

It was formerly a Norman abbey church and was built on the site of a Saxon cathedral.  Find out more here

Dorchester Festival

Dorchester High St
Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire OX10 7HN United Kingdom

The biennial Dorchester-on-Thames Festival is one of Oxfordshire’s leading Festivals based in and around the stunning location of Dorchester Abbey.

Since 2005 the Festival has regularly attracted over 5,000 people each year, from serious followers of the arts to schools, families and children of all ages and has raised significant profile and £350,000 for Dorchester Abbey and local charities.

In 2026 they are partnering with local charity Be Free Young Carers, who enable Oxfordshire Young Carers to achieve their full potential by delivering a far-reaching developmental and emotional support network of people and resources in their daily lives, schools and communities.

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