Chapel

Pembroke Chapel is open through the day for prayer, peace and meditation. The worship is a vital part of the College community. We welcome all stages, faiths, and levels of commitment. We offer good music, spiritual engagement, and food for thought. The Pembroke family has a wide range of ages and background, and the Chapel is available to the whole community in times of stress, celebration and grief.

The Chapel is the first building of Christopher Wren, consecrated in 1665. Its new classical style set the fashion for other College chapels and continues to afford a fine setting for Christian worship and music.

In Full Term the main services are on Sundays: Holy Communion at 9.30 a.m. and Evensong with sermon at 6.15 p.m. Details are on the Chapel Card. Visitors are always welcome at these services and communicants from all denominations are invited to receive the Sacrament. There are daily prayers through the week in the tradition of the Church of England.

The Chapel Choir sings at Sunday Evensong as well as at each Term's corporate Eucharist held to celebrate a Feast Day. We value the fine contribution the Choir and Organ Scholars make to our worship as well as the congregational participation which is encouraged.

Reaching further afield than Cambridge, Pembroke House is a social centre housed round a church in Walworth, South London, just off the Old Kent Road.

Pembroke, founded in 1347, was the first Cambridge College to have a chapel of its own (now the Old Library where there is regular hospitality after Chapel services). Worship in the Wren Chapel still provides a notable focus in the life of this friendly community.