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1561 Iniunctions Bishop of Norwich sig. A.iv^v Whether the Priestes, and deacons saye daylie the morning and euening seruice, openlye or priuatelye.

1646 Perfect Diurnall No. 131. 1049 Until five of the Clock at furthest in the afternoon, when Evening Service hath bin first performed.

1777 T. Lindsey Let. 18 Dec. (2007) I. 250 As far as I recollect in the evening-service, there is no direct invocation of any but the Father in any but the concluding prayer of Chrysostom's.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. ii. 53 St. Aubert read, in a low and solemn voice, the evening service.

1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian II. ii. 74 Bryan, deeply affected, retired to a little distance, and began to chant the evening service to the Virgin.

1930 E. H. Young Miss Mole iv. 38 People used to say things. She was never at the Sunday evening service, and that didn't look well, did it?

1966 C. Potok Chosen vii. 101 The Evening Service was over very quickly, and afterward one of the younger men chanted the Havdalah, the brief service that marks the end of the Shabbat.

2008 Christianity Today Feb. 28/1 An evening service featuring songs, readings, and the gradual extinguishing of lights to represent Christ's death.

1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xi. 99 King Henrie the eight could not onely sing his part sure, but of himselfe compose a Seruice of foure, fiue, and sixe parts.

1641 J. Barnard (title) The first book of selected church musick, consisting of services and anthems, such as are now used in the cathedrall, and collegiat churches of this kingdome.

1782 W. Mason Coll. Anthems p. xix The Service which Thomas Tallis composed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

1837 Morning Post 23 Oct. The choir sang Boyce's Service in A, Jomelli's Sanctus and Responses, and a treble anthem from the 8th Psalm.

1863 Imperial Dict. Universal Biogr. III. 940/2 He..left in MS. various works, and composed a beautiful morning and evening service for the cathedral of Aberdeen.

1952 Musical Q. 27 478 Both Tallis and Byrd, among others, wrote large-scale ‘Great’ Services, in which the words were expanded musically at will.

1967 Musical Times 108 801/2 His upbringing in an Anglican choir has led him naturally to write in the long tradition of church music, not only settings of the Canticles—his Evening Service in C in Latin-American rhythms is probably his most frequently performed work—but more extended settings of sacred texts.

2014 Sunday Mercury (Birmingham) (Nexis) 6 Apr. 12 Composer Ben Parry watched as the 50 gowned boys and girls of the Solihull Chamber Choir sang The Solihull Service during Choral Evensong in the cathedral.