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Beacon Hill Christmas Eve Carol Sing

Boston, MA · Quirky

When

December 24, 2026

Where

17 Louisburg Square · Boston · MA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

The Beacon Hill Bellringers have carried handbells through Louisburg Square on Christmas Eve since Margaret Nichols Shurcliff started the tradition in 1924. Neighbors gather on the steps of 17 Louisburg Square at 8pm to sing carols and ring along on borrowed sleigh bells. It remains one of Beacon Hill's best known holiday traditions.

The history within reach

• Beacon Hill Christmas Eve Carol Singsame spot

  The Beacon Hill Bellringers have carried handbells through Louisburg Square on Christmas Eve since Margaret Nichols Shurcliff started the tradition in 1924.

• Cheers0.2 mi

  The bar where everybody knows your name is, on the outside, the Bull & Finch Pub on Beacon Hill, the exterior shot at the top of the show for eleven years while the inside was a Los Angeles set that looked nothing like it.

• The African Meeting House0.2 mi

  Built by free Black Bostonians on the north slope of Beacon Hill, the oldest Black church building still standing in America.

• The Boston Pops on the Esplanade0.3 mi

  Arthur Fiedler thought orchestral music should be free and outdoors and fought the trustees for years to get it.

• Mary Dyer hanged on the Common0.3 mi

  A Quaker who kept returning to a colony that had banished her on pain of death, deliberately, to break the law.