Henry Croswell et al. in St Mary's Church, Paddington Green, London - 8 February, 1885, 07:00 PM
from Transcript of the diaries of Henry Croswell, page 422:
Dreadfully wet evening but got on well.
[…]
O[rgan]. – Small in West Gallery; rather florrid [sic]. My companion said that the service was Dykes and he thought it good.
[The congregation numbered] 500 A curious gathering - many poor girls, some working men and some elderly gentlemen.
S[ermon]. – [We d]idn't stop.
[…]
M[iscellaneous]. – Rain dripped on me. We moved. Everything cosy and irregular. Seats all anyhow. One man in Choir called out Thanksgiving defiantly.
Henry Croswell, Transcript of the diaries of Henry Croswell. In British Library, number 000826807, C.194.c.113 , p. 422. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1553327604584 accessed: 19 December, 2024 (By permission of the British Library.)
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Anglican church music
written by John Bacchus Dykes |
performed by the choir and organist of St Mary's Church Paddington Green |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 8 February, 1885, 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.