Remembrance services planned at St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds

St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds has announced a series of memorial events in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday next month.

These are all open to the public, with a strong emphasis on public participation.

On October 30, a candlelit requiem will be staged to mark All Souls' Day, with residents invited to remember deceased friends and family.

The event will be held at the cathedral from 3.30pm.

Small card crosses are currently being made available at the cathedral, and people will be able to write their loved ones' names on these.

They can fix these to a larger 'Cross of Remembrance' at St Edmundsbury on the day, and there will also be an opportunity to light candles.

At 10.45am on November 11, staff and pupils from King Edward VI School will lead a Remembrance service at the cathedral.

They will setting poppies and crosses on the memorials within the cathedral in memory of former students who have died in war.

The school service will be followed by the Choral Mattins service at 10am on November 13.

This will be led by the Cathedral Choir, and is to precede the Civic Remembrance Day Parade on Angel Hill.

A spokesperson for the cathedral said: "The service of Mattins is one of the ancient 'Hours' of the monastic day, and forms a prayerful link with our Benedictine roots on the site of the former Abbey of St Edmund.

"Musical settings of the service have been written by composers down the centuries, especially since the Reformation.

"It is in that tradition that we worship as we remember and give thanks for those whose lives have been scarred by war, and those who have given their lives in the cause of our freedom, justice and peace."