Henry Croswell et al. in All Saints' Church, Grosvenor Road, Pimlico, London - 4 November, 1883, 07:00 PM
from Transcript of the diaries of Henry Croswell, page 358:
O[rgan]. – Nice, good and well played.
H[ymns]. – A. & M. - a churchy selection, the tunes pretty.
C[hoir]. – Large, rather ordinary, the boys paid.
The Psalms - Redhead, sometimes beautiful.
[The congregation numbered] 750 – It was probably unusually full being the Festival of All Saints. […]
S[ermon]. – […] We didn't stop.
[…]
M[iscellaneous]. – It is a modern so-called High Church. There was little to find fault with and little to admire.
Henry Croswell, Transcript of the diaries of Henry Croswell. In British Library, number 000826807, C.194.c.113 , p. 358. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1552927940294 accessed: 25 April, 2024 (By permission of the British Library.)
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| performed by the choir and organist of All Saints' Church Grosvenor Road | |
| hymns selected from 'Hymns A&M' | performed by the choir and organist of All Saints' Church Grosvenor Road |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 4 November, 1883, 07:00 PM |
| Duration | 45 minutes |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Henry Croswell (1840–93) kept a record of his visits to churches in London over a period of more than twelve years (1872–85). He made methodical notes about the number of clergy, the churchmanship, the congregation, the sermon and the church architecture, as well as commenting on the music that he heard (the organ, the hymns and the choir). The above listening experience has been extracted from one of these records. In the transcript, the record is dated as 14 November 1883, which was not a Sunday. Croswell’s mention of the Feast of All Saints places the date as 4 November, which in 1883 was the nearest Sunday to All Saints’ Day. ‘Hymns Ancient and Modern for use in the Services of the Church’ (1861; Appendix, 1868; Second edition, 1875; Supplement, 1889) was envisaged as an anthology of the best hymns available and became the most widely-used hymnbook in the Church of England during the late nineteenth century. William Henry Monk (1823–89) was musical editor. The church music publications of Richard Redhead (1820–1901) reflect his Tractarian sympathies. He produced the first Anglican plainsong psalter, ‘Laudes diurnae’ (1843).