Mark Oakley by

Join festival evensong with the Dean of Southwark Cathedral the Very Rev’d Dr Mark Oakley.

Oakley is a former chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral and former dean of St John’s College, Cambridge. He has written books on poetry and spirituality and is a winner of the Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing and the Lanfranc award for education and scholarship. He is particularly known for a commitment to human rights and has served on the boards of Liberty and the Civil Liberties Trust.

The festival evensong at Pusey House is free and no booking is required.

Pusey House in St Giles was opened in 1884 as a memorial to Edward Bouverie Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew and Canon of Christ Church, who was for 40 years a figurehead of the Oxford Movement, a movement of high church members of the Church of England. Its chapel, designed by Temple Moore and decorated by Ninian Comper, is known as a fine example of Gothic design.