Thought by some scholars to date back to the Middle
Ages, KINGSFOLD is a folk tune set to a variety of
texts in England and Ireland. The tune was published in
English Country Songs [sic: English County Songs]
(1893), an anthology compiled by Lucy E. Broadwood and
J. A. Fuller Maitland. After having heard the tune in
Kingsfold, Sussex, England (thus its name), Ralph
Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) introduced it as a hymn tune
in The English Hymnal (1906) as a setting for Horatius
Bonar's "I Heard theâ...(+)
Thought by some scholars to date back to the Middle
Ages, KINGSFOLD is a folk tune set to a variety of
texts in England and Ireland. The tune was published in
English Country Songs [sic: English County Songs]
(1893), an anthology compiled by Lucy E. Broadwood and
J. A. Fuller Maitland. After having heard the tune in
Kingsfold, Sussex, England (thus its name), Ralph
Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) introduced it as a hymn tune
in The English Hymnal (1906) as a setting for Horatius
Bonar's "I Heard the…
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