Fifth Viscount Torrington in Knutsford - 13 June, 1790, in the morning
from A Tour in the Midlands, 1790, page 175:
The church is of red brick, and has been built about 50 years, in the Venetian, ball room stile. […] As this was a new, dry church (for any place of damp gives me cold,) I was tempted to stay divine service […] [The church] is a neat, well-pew’d building; and was well fill’d with well-dress’d company, many of whom came in their coaches; and there was one sedan … more >>
John Byng, A Tour in the Midlands, 1790. In C. Bruyn Andrews (ed.), The Torrington Diaries Containing the Tours Throughout England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (Later Fifth Viscount Torrington) Between the Years 1781 and 1794, volume 2 (London, 1935), p. 175. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1546533996517 accessed: 3 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composerschurch bells | |
Te Deum and psalms at a church service | performed by church choir and organist |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 13 June, 1790, in the morning |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
All spelling and punctuation copied from the original source.