Henry Croswell et al. in St Luke's Church, Canterbury Road, Kilburn, London - 22 March, 1885, 07:10 PM
from Transcript of the diaries of Henry Croswell, page 428:
O[rgan]. – Ordinary, played by young man in a surplice.
H[ymns]. – Church Hymns - not much. Time the large new Bickers came in
C[hoir]. – Large, surpliced, well-trained.
[…]
550 there, a representative gathering. All seats free. There were many poor. It seems to me a poor district.
S[ermon]. – [We d]idn't stop
[…]
M[iscellaneous]. – A very long time the service took. Got there at 7.10. Not home until 9.35! A very well managed Broad Church.
Henry Croswell, Transcript of the diaries of Henry Croswell. In British Library, number 000826807, C.194.c.113 , p. 428. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1553513230001 accessed: 19 December, 2024 (By permission of the British Library.)
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| Date/Time | 22 March, 1885, 07:10 PM |
| 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. ‘Church Hymns’ (1871) and ‘Church Hymns with Tunes’ (1874) were publications of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (S.P.C.K.), under the musical editorship of Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). This collection was the most successful of the competitors to ‘Hymns Ancient and Modern’ in the late nineteenth century, containing a larger number of hymns overall, and more hymns specifically intended for children and young people. ‘Bickers’ refers to ‘The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer’ (1870, rev. 1877; and in a revised edition with tunes, 1890) compiled by Edward Henry Bickersteth (1825–1906).