Moravian Church - Talk and Music

What an interesting evening the audience had! Nigel Pocock introduced the history of the Moravian Church, East Tytherton, founded in 1742 and its school in 1794 with stories about their religious beliefs, preaching and school children. This included the story about the life of an Antiguan slave, Leonora Casey Carr (1808-1837) who was brought to East Tytherton. Her gravestone of is the only one known of an ex-slave in Wiltshire. It is therefore nationally important.

Music was an important part of Moravian worship and recreation. Dr Christopher Kent and his Avon Consort of musicians gave an engaging concert of the music which would have been played at the Moravian church in the early years including that of the Moravian minister, Christian Ignatius Latrobe, who visited East Tytherton in 1797 and promoted the playing of music from composers such as Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart.