Anna Seward in Gloucester Cathedral - late July, 1791, in the afternoon

from Letter from Anna Seward to Lady Gresley, 30 July 1791, page 96:

[W]e walked through the cathedral at Glocester [sic], during choir-service in the afternoon, exulting in the superiority of our own, both as to architectural beauty and choral powers[.]

cite as

Anna Seward, Letter from Anna Seward to Lady Gresley, 30 July 1791. In Archibald Constable (ed.), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, volume 3 (Edinburgh, 1811), p. 96. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1535705949385 accessed: 14 December, 2024

location of experience: Gloucester Cathedral

Listeners

Anna Seward
Poet, Writer
1742-1809

Listening to

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Choral music performed by Choir of Gloucester Cathedral

Experience Information

Date/Time late July, 1791, in the afternoon
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Notes

By 'our own', Anna Seward refers to Lichfield Cathedral, near which she lived.


Originally submitted by lcc5 on Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:59:10 +0100
Approved on Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:15:40 +0100