Alice Gertrude Croswell et al. in Westminster Abbey, London - 23 March, 1884, 07:00 PM
from Transcript of the diaries of Henry Croswell, pages [381]:
Evening Service only in Advent, Lent and Summer.
[…] We left in the middle of the service.
O[rgan]. – Of course, perfect.
H[ymns]. – "Through all the changing scenes …" Anthem "Seek ye the Lord …"
C[hoir]. – Any number - out of my sight; perhaps forty men and twenty boys. Special papers of hymns etc.
[The congregation numbered] ?thousands – any number; many … more >>
Henry Croswell, Transcript of the diaries of Henry Croswell. In British Library, number 000826807, C.194.c.113 , p. [381]. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1553015967020 accessed: 24 April, 2024 (By permission of the British Library.)
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| Date/Time | 23 March, 1884, 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. This record is unnumbered in the transcript, but its position within the whole is no. 381. The Croswell family had visited the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, the same morning (see record no. 380, LE no. 1553015061791)