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206. The Pattern of the Year

Sat, 03 Aug

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Warbleton Church

Sussex Harmony This enthusiastic group, dressed in the costume of the period, will perform the sacred and secular music that was heard throughout the year in our local churches and chapels, harvest gatherings and at funerals.

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206. The Pattern of the Year
206. The Pattern of the Year

Time & Location

03 Aug 2024, 15:00 – 17:00

Warbleton Church , Church Hill, Warbleton, East Sussex, TN21 9BD

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Sussex Harmony was formed to keep alive the music performed in rural parishes before 1850.  Written for and by amateur musicians, singers and instrumentalists joined in psalms, hymns, canticles and carols that can be florid and joyful, or soulful and melancholy. This is called West Gallery

music, so called because it was often performed from a gallery at the west end of a church, like the one at Warbleton.

In co-operation with the Sussex Family History Group, the Sussex Harmony will intersperse the music with readings transcribed from the early 19th  diaries of Nicholas Oxley who farmed at Bodle Street and Rushlake Green.  As a devout non-conformist he attended the local chapels with his

workers, many of whose descendants still live in this area today.

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