Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of
South-West England

 

Sabine Baring-Gould

1834 - 1924

'A Dear Lover of Songs'

 

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The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was the 'Squarson', that is the Squire and Parson, of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon from 1881 to 1924. He is best known as the writer of the hymn 'Onward, Christian Soldiers' but he was also an author, a historian and a collector of folk songs. It is his role as a collector of the folk songs of Devon and Cornwall that is the main subject of these pages.

Martin Graebe

 

 

INDEX

 

  Brief biography

 

  Collecting Folk Songs in Devon and Cornwall

 

  Songs collected by Baring-Gould and his colleagues

 

  The Baring-Gould Folk Song Manuscripts
(includes an index to the Killerton folk song manuscripts)

 

  The Baring-Gould Heritage Project

 

  Bibliography

 

  MRG on SB-G
(Some of the things that I have written)

 

  Recordings and Books

 

  The Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society
(The Society now has it's own web-site)

 

  Baring Gould in Iceland

 

 

Baring-Gould's Places:

Photographs and details of some of the places associated with Baring-Gould.

(Because these pages contain a number of photographs, expect them to load slowly.)

  Lewtrenchard

  Horbury Bridge

  Dalton

  East Mersea

  Folk song related

 

Number of visitors since November 20th 2002

 

  

 Who is Martin Graebe?

If you want to know a bit about me then click here. You will find a bit of biography, something about the songs that I have written and a bit of other stuff that was on these pages before I completely re-wrote them in December 2000

 

 

 Updated 20th November 2002