The Temple Church Choral Service Book

Consisting of the Responses in their Ferial and Festival Forms, the Canticles Pointed, Appropriate Psalter Chants, Congregational Settings of the Responses to the Commandments, and Psalms and Hymns, with their Tunes. 242pp. Includes historical preface. Full leather binding with gilt rules and lettering, all edges gilt (a little worn and rubbed at edges, spine sunned and cracking). A little spotting on text block edge. Labels on the front endpapers, one with a previous owner's name, the other blank. Small binder's ticket on rear endpapers, indicating the volume was bound by J Eleanor Cooper, else internally neat and clean. Temple Church is a Royal Peculiar in the City of London;, built by the Knights Templar as their London headquarters, and consecrated in 1185. Today it serves both as a Church an as a private chapel for members of the Inner and Middle Temples. Small 8vo.