When the Church of Jesus

Top Media Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Arrangements Instances

When the church of Jesus

Author: Fred Pratt Green (1968)
Tune: KING'S WESTON
Published in 19 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI, Recording

Piano/Organ
	The Church Pianist's Library, Vol. 11

Representative Text

Source: Community of Christ Sings #358

(This is the only representative text available.)^ top

Author: Fred Pratt Green

The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies. Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more." --Seven New Hymns o… Go to person page >

^ top

Related Texts

First Line:	When the church of Jesus
Title:	When the Church of Jesus
Author:	Fred Pratt Green (1968)
Meter:	6.5.6.5 D
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1969 Hope Publishing Co.

Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 8 (13)

^ top

Tune

KING'S WESTON

Ralph Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) composed KING'S WESTON for this text ["At the name of Jesus" by Caroline Noel]. It was published in Songs of Praise (1925). The combination of text and tune in a festive hymn-anthem by Vaughan Williams has become a favorite of many church choirs. The tune's title ref…

Go to tune page >

All tunes published with 'When the Church of Jesus'^ top