St Clement (hymn tune)

[5] In his book, Bradley writes: In an article in the Hymn Society Bulletin in 1994 Mervyn Horder, himself a hymn-tune composer, suggested that 'Sullivan almost certainly had a larger hand in St Clement than has been or can ever definitely be, credited to him.'

None of the 41 other hymn-tunes penned by this self-taught musician show anything like the craftsmanship, originality or melodic sweep of St Clement.Critics of the tune have included Ralph Vaughan Williams, W.H.

Frere, the 1897 editor of Hymns Ancient and Modern, and the former archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang the latter of whom described it in The Times as a "feeble waltz tune".

[3] Clement Scholefield was educated at Pocklington Grammar School and, after three years at St John's College, Cambridge, he was ordained a deacon in 1867 and a priest in 1869 in the Church of England.

After his death his estate was administered by the Court of Chancery, and, pending an order being made, the executors were for some time obliged to refuse all applications for the use of St Clement.

The tune was used as a theme for the Anne Boleyn section of Rick Wakeman's 1973 concept album, The Six Wives of Henry VIII.