Choir

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All Saints has a small SATB choir, which rehearses every Friday evening at 7.45pm and enriches the worship at our weekly Sunday morning services. The choir sings mainly traditional liturgical repertoire, from the music of the sixteenth century to the great Romantic masterpieces of the nineteenth century, but is also not averse to being challenged with more modern music in a range of styles.

 

In addition to its core Sunday morning function, the choir sings at many of the great Christian festival services throughout the year, and we maintain a regular sequence of Sunday evening choral evensongs.

 

The choir has many friends across our part of Surrey and is often joined for major choral services by guest singers. On Good Friday this year we were joined by The Loveday Singers and the soloist, Anna Loveday, for a performance of Elegy, an English setting of the Stabat Mater by the contemporary composer David Perkins.

 

In addition to being dedicated to its musical contribution to All Saints’ liturgy, the choir is a very socially friendly outfit – we frequently finish Friday evenings at a suitable local venue to put the world to rights over a drink! New members are always welcome. Please contact the Director of Music, Jeffrey Gray, at music@allsaintswoodham.co.uk

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Organ

All Saints is home to one of the finest organs in the Diocese of Guildford. The church’s first organ was a small J.W. Walker and Sons instrument, purchased from an unspecified church in London and installed in 1894 for the princely sum of £35. This organ was enlarged and moved into a new chamber on the north side of the chancel (its current location) in 1912. The instrument deteriorated rapidly and became unusable in the 1920s.

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A new organ was built and installed in 1928 by the renowned Durham firm of Harrison & Harrison, using some of the pipes from the earlier Walker instrument but substantially enlarging it. The resulting compact three-manual instrument is a superb surviving example of work from that period and was voiced by Harrison’s ‘top team’, under the supervision of Arthur Harrison himself.

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The organ was fully refurbished in 2025 by Mander Organ Builders of Canterbury, in a project that carefully preserved the instrument's historic character. This involved the full dismantling of the instrument, comprehensive pipe cleaning, re-leathering and the installation of a new electronic control system. At the same time, the specification was enhanced with a new Great Mixture, an additional twelve pipes to the Choir Harmonic Flute and a new solo trumpet available on both the Great and Choir divisions, extended downwards as a 16' trombone on the Pedal, along with additional octave and sub-octave couplers.

 

The full specification of the organ is available here.

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Piano

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In addition to the organ, the church has an excellent grand piano and a new high-quality digital piano in the parish room (the Jean Rignall Room), which can be used as a rehearsal space.

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Concerts

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The church hosts an annual programme of concerts, including choral music, opera events and instrumental recitals. This year, to mark the refurbishment of the organ, we are holding a special series of organ recitals: