In August 2008, the ECS visited Lincoln Cathedral for a week and sang the daily services there. Additionally, we were privileged to provide the music for the annual service of the Knights Templar. The music list was as follows:
Monday 4 August
- Preces and Responses: Nardone
- Office Hymn: OH 3
- Psalms: 7, 8
- Canticles: Hopper in B minor
- Anthem: O for a closer walk – Grayston Ives
- Hymn: NEH 464
Tuesday 5 August
- Preces and Responses: Archer
- Office Hymn: NEH 218
- Psalms: 9
- Canticles: Sumsion in A
- Anthem: Now the God of Peace – Gerald Knight
- Hymn: 492
Wednesday 6 August – Transfiguration
- Introit: O Nata Lux – Thomas Tallis (OUP)
- Office Hymn: NEH 176
- Preces and Responses: Byrd
- Psalm: 72
- Canticles: Harwood in A flat
- Anthem: Christ whose glory fills the sky – Harold Darke
- Hymn: NEH 178
- Antiphon
Friday 8 August (with the viols consort)
- Preces and Responses: Byrd
- Office Hymn: 220
- Psalms: 13, 14
- Canticles: 1st Service – Thomas Weelkes
- Anthem: O thou the central Orb – Orlando Gibbons
- Hymn: 482
Saturday 9 August – The Knights Templar
- Introit: Lift up your heads, O ye gates
- Hymn: Christ is made the sure foundation (NEH 205) .
- Anthem: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem – Charles V. Stanford
- Hymn: Praise my soul, the King of Heaven (NEH 436)
- Anthem: I was glad – Charles H. Parry
- Anthem: Non nobis Domine
- Hymn: When a knight won his spurs
- Hymn: For all the saints (NEH 197)
- Hymn: National Anthem
Saturday 9 August
- Preces and Responses: Archer
- Office Hymn: OH 1
- Psalms: 15, 16
- Canticles: Sumsion in G
- Anthem: Hear my prayer – Adrian Batten
- Hymn: NEH 338
Sunday 10 August
Sung Eucharist
- Communion Setting: The Prince of Peace – W.S. Lloyd Webber
- Motet: I give to you a new commandment – Peter Nardone
- Hymns: AMNS 148, 220, 273, 372
Mattins
- Preces and responses Sumsion
- Venite
- Psalm: 88
- Te Deum: Stanford in B flat
- Jubilate: Stanford in B flat
- Anthem: God is gone up with a merry noise – William Croft
- Hymns: AMNS 194, 146 (omit * verses)
- Final responses: Sumsion
Evensong
- Preces and Responses: Sumsion
- Office Hymn: OH 2
- Psalm: 86
- Canticles: Brewer in D
- Anthem: Let Saints on earth – Anthony Caesar
- Hymn: AMNS 170
- Final Responses: Sumsion
- Final sung prayer: Bless O Lord, us thy servants – John Harper