Mary Berry in The Magdalen Hospital, Southwark - 14 April, 1811, in the afternoon
from Diary of Mary Berry, 14 April 1811, page 472:
After five, went to the Magdalen. We got there early, before the chapel was a third part full; but before the service began it was full in every part, containing, I suppose, at least six or seven hundred people. Everything about it very decent, and well kept and ordered. It was well lighted up with no less than ninety-six spermaceti candles. The preaching not good; the singing of the hymns and psalms from the women behind the high screen of green stuff, which entirely hides them from the audience, agreeable and affecting; indeed, I think the Evening Hymn always so. One or … more >>
Mary Berry, Diary of Mary Berry, 14 April 1811. In Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852, volume 2 (London, 1865), p. 472. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1542106491085 accessed: 11 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composershymns and psalms | performed by the choir of the Magdalen Hospital |
Evening Hymn | performed by Choir of the Magdalen Hospital |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 14 April, 1811, in the afternoon |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
The Magdalen Hospital was a home for the rehabilitation of 'penitent prostitutes'. Founded in 1758, it moved to premises in Southwark in 1772, where its octagonal chapel became a fashionable place of worship, and the money raised in collections provided useful funds for the Hospital.