- Monk's Gate
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Coordinates: 51°02′07″N 0°17′09″W / 51.03519°N 0.28579°W
Monk's Gate 
Monk's Gate
Monk's Gate shown within West SussexOS grid reference TQ202276 Parish Nuthurst District Horsham Shire county West Sussex Region South East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Police Sussex Fire West Sussex Ambulance South East Coast EU Parliament South East England UK Parliament Horsham List of places: UK • England • West Sussex Monk's Gate is a hamlet in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the A281 road 2.6 miles (4.3km) southeast of Horsham.
Hymn tune
Although it is a tiny settlement, its name is well known around the world as a popular hymn tune in 65 65 66 65 metre to the hymn To be a pilgrim.
When Ralph Vaughan Williams was commissioned at the start of the 20th century to edit a new hymnal as an alternative to Hymns Ancient and Modern, he set John Bunyan's hymn, in an adaptation by Percy Dearmer, to his own adaptation of the tune of an English folk song Valiant or Welcome Sailor which he had collected from Mrs Harriet Verrall of Monk's Gate.[1] Mrs Verrall was also the source of a widely-used tune for the carol "On Christmas night all Christians sing", with her version thereafter being called the Sussex Carol.[2]
References
- ^ "Our Captain Cried All Hands". 2007-05-26. http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/martin.carthy/songs/ourcaptaincriedallhands.html. Retrieved 2008-06-15.
- ^ On Christmas Night, www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com
External links
Categories:- Horsham
- Villages in West Sussex
- Hymn tunes
- Compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams
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