Every year Edington Priory Church hosts the Festival of Music within the Liturgy, to bring high quality church music in context to the otherwise benighted West Country. I have passed through the village a few times on the way to cricket matches, but never stopped to look at the church, until Bath Abbey Chamber Choir were guest choir at Evensong – our first ‘away’ fixture since Exeter Cathedral 18 months ago.
Edington Priory Church
The sound of the church is familiar to me from broadcasts, when different choirs are located in different parts of the building, which is not as large as I’d expected. The nave (where we sang) has a dry and exposed acoustic, while the quire is more resonant. We brought with us Bullock in D, two of Parry’s Songs of Farewell and the Field Responses.
We were given a generous tea by the congregation, and a choir member hosted a meal in the next village afterwards.