Horsham High School for Girls, Horsham, Hymnal

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A few years ago the Horsham Photographer was given some memorabilia from the Horsham High School for Girls. The school was based at Tanbridge House off the Worthing Road until about 1993 when it was uprooted and merged with the boys at the new Tanbridge House School.

It’s only now, in September 2014, that the Horsham Photographer has had a chance to look again at what arrived and one item is the Hymnal

It is a well used copy of the High School for Girls, Horsham, Hymnal – which is a ‘book of hymns’ for those that are new to the word ‘hymnal’. The only clue to its date is at the end of the third update to the preface which is marked as November 1926. A few key pages have been scanned:

It would appear that this a standard hymn book with the front cover customised to suit the school buying the copies as nothing beyond the front sheets above refers again to Horsham High School for Girls. It is not clear whether the school song is at the request of the school but it almost certainly is.

If you have any memories regarding this book please feel free to share via the comment form below. As a final treat there are three hymns hand written and pasted into the back. It would be good to know if all the girls were required to do this or just the owner of this copy.

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8 thoughts on “Horsham High School for Girls, Horsham, Hymnal”

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  5. Boys had joined the school well before the move to the newly built Tanbridge House. In the late 1970’s the school changed from a grammar school for girls to a mixed comprehensive on a split site, the other site where the library is now at the top of Worthing road. This was definitely very inconvenient as staff had to commute between the two sites.
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  6. I attended HHS from 1959 to 1966. By this time the School Hymn Book was the standard Anglican Songs of Praise with the deer on the front cover. However, the School Hymn was as printed in the copy you have. In my day we were given a piece of paper to paste into our Hymn Book.My mother attended HHS leaving about 1938. She had the same hymn book as yours. My Mum said the School Hymn was written by Miss Marchant who was the Headmistress in my Mum’s time and was a Methodist. Before moving to Tanbridge House, the School was in the Methodist Church (I assume the one in London Road but I am not sure as it was before I was born. My Mum is gone so I cannot ask her.).

    The words of the school hymn have always meant a lot to me. They have been a watchword for all of life.

    There was also ‘The End of Term Hymn’ which is a standard Hymn and is in the 1936 Methodist Hymn Book amongst others. It was ‘O God, our Father who dost make us one’. When I left the school I was in pieces on my last day singing this hymn.

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  7. I went to Horsham High School between 1967-1972.
    The school hymn “Father of life, make us selfless and loyal” was sung to the tune of Brightest and Best are the sons of the morning.
    We each had to paste the words of this school hymn to the inside of our individual copy of the hymnal.

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