206. The Pattern of the Year
Sat, 03 Aug
|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.
Time & Location
03 Aug 2024, 15:00 – 17:00
Warbleton Church , Church Hill, Warbleton, East Sussex, TN21 9BD
Guests
About the event
Tickets Free event, with suggested minimum voluntary contribution of £5
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.