In my research on the life and work of John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876) I came across an interesting list of residences and household members. I suspect this had as much to do with the familial prosperity as anything else. His grandfather was the pastor at St John’s Church, Hull, England for 57 years and was a close friend of William Wilberforce. (Wilberforce was the leading force behind the abolition of slavery in England and its possessions.) John’s father was a very successful banker.

Having your grandfather pastoring your church would give the precocious young Dykes the easy opportunity to play the organ for services and become immersed in church music and church life.

Dykes attended St. Catherine’s College and earned a BA in classics. He had a reputation for singing comic songs with the university music society. Upon graduation he was ordained as a Deacon in the Church of England and quickly advanced from Curate to a Priest by 1848.

In 1850 he married Susanna Kingston. They went on to have seven children. There is a record from 1871 that John (48) and Susan (43) resided at 27 Church Street, Durham with their children, Susanna’s blind brother, and a staff of three: a cook, waiter, and a housemaid.

Although Dykes published many articles and sermons, he is best remembered for his hymn tunes. In 1862, a new hymnal known as “Hymns Ancient and Modern” featured some of his oeuvre at that time. (This hymnal continues to this day, periodically be revised with new “modern” hymns, thus staying always fresh and well-grounded in historical hymnody.)

www.Hymnary.org lists 142 hymn tunes for Dykes, though I found a few mislabeled. His most famous tunes include Dies Irae, Hollingside, Melita, Nicaea, St Cuthbert, Gerontius, Lux Benigna, Strength and Stay, and O Quanta Qualia.

 

Here are the hymns I have recorded so far which use a Dykes tune:

Text Tune Meter YouTube Author
No Form of Human Framing Alford https://youtu.be/h0r0ocw8fR8 Henry Van Dyke
Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand Alford https://youtu.be/KqxNHfE6JWo Henry Alford
The Fathers Built This City Alford https://youtu.be/xmcgI8egMGs William G Tarrant
My God, Is Any Hour So Sweet Almsgiving https://youtu.be/QK2zyGwWb3U Charlotte Elliott
O Lord of Heaven and Earth and Sea Almsgiving https://youtu.be/byLirGFpTxU Christopher Wordsworth
Abundant Fields of Grain Shall Wave Beatitudo 8.6.8.6. https://youtu.be/RaI32i0zxPQ Psalm 72
Early, My God, Without Delay Beatitudo 8.6.8.6. https://youtu.be/RrOmqzh5qLE Isaac Watts
Immortal Love, Forever Full Beatitudo 8.6.8.6. https://youtu.be/TDlXGLErblo John Greenleaf Whittier
Jesus, United by Thy Grace Beatitudo 8.6.8.6. https://youtu.be/TJaq1pnNke4 Charles Wesley
Let Saints on Earth in Concert Sing Beatitudo 8.6.8.6. https://youtu.be/yn-3NVVKNVs Charles Wesley
O for a Closer Walk with God Beatitudo 8.6.8.6. https://youtu.be/bxZesDYGd0Y William Cowper
O For a Faith That Will Not Shrink Beatitudo 8.6.8.6. https://youtu.be/2EmH6ZOqQt4 William H Bathurst
O for a Heart to Praise My God Beatitudo 8.6.8.6. https://youtu.be/BlkVIzpA0xI Charles Wesley
Oh, for a Thousand Tongues to Sing Beatitudo 8.6.8.6. https://youtu.be/4svXNyh6rNc Charles Wesley
One Prayer I Have Beatitudo 8.6.8.6. https://youtu.be/UPx6kb4hfok James Montgomery
The Lord’s My Shepherd Beatitudo 8.6.8.6. https://youtu.be/VuNh2JoRRz8 Francis Rous
Father, How Wide Thy Glory Shines Beatitudo – alt https://youtu.be/D6onLjlPNiA Isaac Watts
O Father God, Dear Abba Blairgowrie 13.13.13.13 https://youtu.be/TMXsBW-etmw Linda Bonney Olin
O Love Divine and Golden Blairgowrie 13.13.13.13 https://youtu.be/QogTBqhGSjI John S B Monsell
O Young and Fearless Prophet Blairgowrie 13.13.13.13 https://youtu.be/pvPRuys0l_E S Ralph Harlow
How I Love to Use My Hands Blairgowrie alt https://youtu.be/B4RZS-VWa_c Linda Bonney Olin
O Lord, My God, My Joyful Heart Calm https://youtu.be/VXNXHPTj7Zw Psalm 86
And Now, Beloved Lord, Thy Soul Resigning Commendatio https://youtu.be/5KasZ2wPMHI Eliza S Alderson
Day of Wrath! O Day of Mourning! Dies Irae – Dykes https://youtu.be/sZdoNHX2OxA Thomas of Solano
Alas my God! My Sins Are Great Dominus regit me https://youtu.be/k-0bhWyArrw Martin Rutilius
Immortal Love, Forever Full Faith https://youtu.be/a-N82ldcbRg John Greenleaf Whittier
Have Mercy on Us, God Most High Gerontius https://youtu.be/4O72qvxCMao Frederick W Faber
Praise to the Holiest in the Height Gerontius https://youtu.be/ABk-mO6O3CY John Henry Newman
Jesus, Master, Whom I Serve Glastonbury https://youtu.be/_A2JSD6fwXU Frances R Havergal
I Could Not Do Without Thee Hartford https://youtu.be/FmPSamV8BOQ Frances R Havergal
O Sing Ye Hallelujah Hartford https://youtu.be/1QzUvC5xEOw Psalm 147
Jesus, Lover of my Soul Hollingside https://youtu.be/3juMJOgIXRs Charles Wesley
Sinners, Turn Why Will Ye Die Hollingside https://youtu.be/LUYnY8h1C4k Charles Wesley
Take My Life and Let it Be Hollingside https://youtu.be/YzHETVigOT4 Frances R Havergal
Hosanna to the Living Lord Hosanna https://youtu.be/D7yJ13IhQuU Reginald Heber
O Jesus, Crucified for Man Intercession https://youtu.be/vqsrG5qXu3I William Walsham How
Forth in Thy Name, O Lord, I Go Keble https://youtu.be/jhi7hfaQ15I Charles Wesley
Lord of All Being, Throned Afar Keble https://youtu.be/FEWuDhAFQ5c Oliver W. Holmes
O Spirit of the Living God Keble https://youtu.be/F0J1289Md1c James Montgomery
Strong Son of God, Immortal Love Keble https://youtu.be/W8FmkpBfQjQ Alfred Tennyson
Come, Let us Join Our Cheerful Songs Laud https://youtu.be/XU6tyE_51MM Isaac Watts
Jesus, With Thy Church Abide Litany of the Passion https://youtu.be/O0_Ojm4aVAw Thomas Benson Pollock
Lead, Kindly Light Lux Benigna https://youtu.be/z6QaKyWrpww John Henry Newman
My Shepherd is the Lord Who Knows my Needs Lux Benigna https://youtu.be/_-MIm-XI0tE Psalm 23
Eternal Father, Strong to Save Melita https://youtu.be/SZJdqQeieyg William Whitting
God of Our Fathers, Known of Old Melita https://youtu.be/27QoxonmDYs Rudyard Kipling
O Lord, To Us Thy Mercy Show Melita https://youtu.be/oXApP8wdan8 Psalm 85
O Master of the Waking World Melita https://youtu.be/N6p_JJFCzIg Frank Mason Nort
O Quickly Come, Dread Judge of All Melita https://youtu.be/wlq1MgNXkHs Lawrence Tuttiett
Our Father’s God, From Out Whose Hand Melita https://youtu.be/6o-cZ6DvdYw John G Whittier
Bring, O Morn, Thy Music Nicea https://youtu.be/AAPxvBo8Tb0 William C Gannett
God is King Forever; Let the Nations Tremble Nicea https://youtu.be/UzLw7eIjaYM Psalm 99
Now the Laborer’s Task is O’er Requiescat https://youtu.be/9Xctk0o-ZCk John Ellerton
Father of All, Whose Love Profound Rivaulx https://youtu.be/hmcDntTxIoo E Cooper
O Lord Most High, With all my Heart Rivaulx https://youtu.be/qggvCbZoorA Psalm 9
Eyes of a Child St Aelred https://youtu.be/XwDhWD2uT58 Linda Bonney Olin
Fierce Raged the Tempest O’er the Deep St Aelred https://youtu.be/DyciJqc1SZk Geofry Thring
According to Thy Gracious Word St Agnes https://youtu.be/JnIA9cxzNCs James Montgomery
Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread St Agnes https://youtu.be/ZAKgB6yNWUQ James Montgomery
Behold Us, Lord, A Little Space St Agnes https://youtu.be/lsMFDunFTsI John Ellerton
Calm, on the Listening Ear St Agnes https://youtu.be/cvGh-qFBqpc Edmund Hamilton Sears
Come in, Thou Blessed of the Lord St Agnes https://youtu.be/vCO1B95I5A8 James Montgomery
Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove St Agnes https://youtu.be/rP6cPffwPs8 Isaac Watts
Early, My God, Without Delay St Agnes https://youtu.be/sZ92SVg-Zvg Isaac Watts
Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee St Agnes https://youtu.be/lXGOA4AYrc8 Charles Wesley
God of the Nations, Near and Far St Agnes https://youtu.be/HzXmBL7jRmc John Haynes Holmes
Happy the Home When God is There St Agnes https://youtu.be/U5Tt-nX4A98 Henry Ware Jr
How Precious is the Book Divine St Agnes https://youtu.be/5QizsZm35Uo John Fawcett
I Bow My Forehead to the Dust St Agnes CM https://youtu.be/a5P5yOv7zWc John Greenleaf Whittier
I to the Hills Will Lift My Eyes St Agnes https://youtu.be/FOCN3XnFqfM Psalm 121
Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee St Agnes https://youtu.be/eaHo7aFT7-c Bernard of Clairvaux
Laden With Guilt and Full of Fears St Agnes https://youtu.be/cR2_BcFMEec Isaac Watts
Lo! What a Glorious Sight Appears St Agnes https://youtu.be/Vg6ZiCNZOcg Isaac Watts
Lord, It Belongs Not to My Care St Agnes https://youtu.be/4xY7t3nTEG8 Richard Baxter
Mid All the Traffic of the Ways St Agnes https://youtu.be/aWXwQ0U1DoQ John Oxenham
O Lord and Master of Us All St Agnes https://youtu.be/r_ECrBtT8Kg John G Whittier
O Thou, in All Thy Might So Far St Agnes https://youtu.be/wcYXnbWYOlc Frederick L Hosmer
O, For a Faith That Will Not Shrink St Agnes https://youtu.be/ulIxJStuaHk William H Bathurst
Once More, My Soul, the Rising Day St Agnes https://youtu.be/_95C79jjRHY Isaac Watts
Prayer Is the Soul’s Sincere Desire St Agnes https://youtu.be/hK7mPuQndsQ James Montgomery
Shepherd of Souls, Refresh and Bless St Agnes https://youtu.be/721y0jL5PS0 James Montgomery
There’s Not a Tint That Paints the Rose St Agnes https://youtu.be/NcRtLU5ktk4 J A Wallace
Thy Home Is with the Humble, Lord St Agnes https://youtu.be/-olE7CHmMys Frederick W Faber
Ye Men and Angels, Witness Now St Agnes https://youtu.be/Su9SIGwGDO4 Benjamin Beldome
Christian, Dost Thou See Them St Andrew of Crete https://youtu.be/vuMJJPRD5E0 Andrew of Crete
Father, I Know that All My Life St Bede https://youtu.be/aVJpiw9Kduc Anna L Waring
Calmly, Calmly Lay Him Down St Bees https://youtu.be/z4cFEJGMSas William Gaskell
Come, Said Jesus Sacred Voice St Bees https://youtu.be/o1HDV3CjVVY Anna L Barbauld
Hark, My Soul, It is the Lord! St Bees https://youtu.be/4tYPQ6TS4Lw William Cowper
Jesus! Name of Wondrous Love! St Bees https://youtu.be/Qz3ijCR5urE William Walsham How
Lord, As We Thy Name Profess St Bees https://youtu.be/B9PTWfxlBvI Edwin P Parker
Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love St Bees https://youtu.be/J5n7CxcRqPw Unknown
O Come and Mourn with Me Awhile St Cross https://youtu.be/AyZAeTL15IU Frederick W Faber
Show Pity, Lord, O Lord, Forgive St Cross LM https://youtu.be/Ulc0mZZ53j8 Isaac Watts
That Day of Wrath, That Dreadful Day St Cross https://youtu.be/vAELHSzP6Ok Thomas of Celano
Tis Finished So the Savior Cried St Cross https://youtu.be/D0G9ymWQmQs Samuel Stennet
Our Blest Redeemer, Ere He Breathed St Cuthbert https://youtu.be/WCx0BEV5PBc Harriet Auber
Ride On! Ride On in Majesty! St Drostane https://youtu.be/S_CtIWSeVyY Henry H Milman
The King Rejoiceth in Thy Strength St Drostane https://youtu.be/xGx4vuGe48Y Psalm 21
How Beautiful the Sight of Brothers St Godric https://youtu.be/pu0L7dvmjds James Montgomery
To Thee, Our God We Fly St Godric https://youtu.be/p0XscR3iEew William W How
Unto God our Savior St Mary Magdalene https://youtu.be/DHPSOEW499Y Psalm 98
Bright The Visions That Delight St Oswald https://youtu.be/_cw_0FljbAI Richard Mant
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah St Oswald https://youtu.be/Jix8qryvVGg William Williams
Hail! Thou Long Expected Jesus St Oswald https://youtu.be/XQnZiTSZk24 Charles Wesley
Sweet the Moments, Rich in Blessing St Oswald https://youtu.be/RlyGXmkeooc James Allen & Walter Shirley
God is in His Holy Temple St Sylvester https://youtu.be/iO2JDoOeLiY James Montgomery
By the Cross of Jesus Standing Stabat Mater https://youtu.be/O0Dsgm-MK7U Horatius Bonar
Father to Us Thy Children Strength and Stay https://youtu.be/Np6xAxXCbDU James Freeman Clarke
O Brother Man Strength and Stay https://youtu.be/2O7agHIkDag John Greenleaf Whittier
O Perfect Love, All Human Thought Transcending Strength and Stay https://youtu.be/R2lPXiXI2NI Dorothy Fraces Gurney
Holy Father, Cheer Our Way Vesperi Lux https://youtu.be/2ESw0JWo2_A Richard H Robinson
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say Vox dilecti https://youtu.be/GHylH7m8TeE Horatius Bonar
Do Ye, O Men, Speak Righteousness Bone Pastor https://youtu.be/ZP-pZ7hHMCE Psalm 58
Hear This, All Ye People, Hear Ferrier https://youtu.be/9EHtiNn19Kw Psalm 49
Gracious God, My Heart Renew Gethsemane https://youtu.be/yz0pX_23HsQ Psalm 51
In Thy Wrath and Hot Displeasure St Sylvester https://youtu.be/gR93LI85i0M Psalm 38
O God, According to Thy Grace Vox Dilecti https://youtu.be/lyOIQjyGexk Psalm 51

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