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The Church of England's Latin liturgy was replaced with scripture and prayers in English; the Great Bible in English was authorised in 1539 and Thomas Cranmer introduced the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. [14] [15] These changes were reflected in church music, and works that had previously been sung in Latin began to be replaced with new music ...
Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, St Peter, St Paul and St Swithun Anglican Canterbury 1079 NK 650 170.1 NK NK NK N/A 46 80 4 Willis, Harrison & Harrison Worcester Cathedral: Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary
Additionally, 9.7 million people visit at least one of its churches every year and 1 million students are educated at Church of England schools (which number 4,700). [53] In 2019, an estimated 10 million people visited a cathedral and an additional "1.3 million people visited Westminster Abbey, where 99% of visitors paid / donated for entry". [54]
The song is referenced in the novel Burr by Gore Vidal. This song is referenced in the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton in the song " Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) ". In 1972, the Marxist historian Christopher Hill published The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution ISBN 0-85117-025-0 .
York Minster showing the typically English square east end. Gloucester Cathedral (1089) also had three chapels, two of which, on the north and south sides of the aisle, still remain; the same is found in Canterbury Cathedral (1096–1107) and Norwich Cathedral (1089–1119), the stern chapel in all three cases having been taken down to make way for the Lady-chapel in Gloucester and Norwich ...
The placement of the choir within a large Latin cross church The choir of Bristol Cathedral, with the nave seen through the chancel screen, so looking west. A choir, also sometimes called quire, [1] is the area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church choir.
Carols developed in the fourteenth century as a simple song, with a verse and refrain structure. [24] Their use expanded as processional songs sung during festivals, particularly at Advent, Easter and Christmas, [24] while others were written to accompany religious mystery plays (such as the Coventry Carol, written before 1534). [23]
Osbert Parsley [note 1] (1510/1511 – 1585) was an English Renaissance composer and chorister. Few details of his life are known, but he evidently married in 1558, and lived for a period in the parish of St Saviour's Church, Norwich. A boy chorister at Norwich Cathedral, Parsley worked there throughout his musical career. [4]