Nine Lessons and Carols 2026

You are warmly invited to one of our Christmas Carol services at Christ Church.  On account of the extremely high demand for these services, you are permitted to book only two tickets across all four services, and you are asked to provide the name of both attendees at the point of booking.

Booking is essential.  Booking closes on Wednesday 2 December, but we would urge you to register at your earliest convenience since all four services were fully booked within a matter of minutes last year.

You will be issued, by email, with an electronic ticket bearing a QR code (i.e. a barcode) for each guest - please bring the email with you and be ready to show it to Cathedral staff in the queue on the night.  The doors will open half an hour before the service and we ask that you are in your place ten minutes beforehand, at which point any unoccupied spaces will be offered to the public queue.

Even if you’re unable to join us for one of our carol services, we very much hope to welcome you to the Cathedral over Advent and Christmas.  Details of our other events and services may be found at www.chch.ox.ac.uk/cathedral/christmas.

Please kindly note that on-site parking regrettably isn’t available. There are, however, public car parks at Oxpens (OX1 1RQ) and Westgate (OX1 1TR), though we would recommend the Park and Ride schemes, which often prove the easiest way to travel into the city centre.  There are three public bays on St Aldates (right outside Christ Church), and a further two in Pembroke Square (opposite Christ Church), for use by Blue Badge holders.

Please direct enquiries to cathedral@chch.ox.ac.uk .