The Yattendon Hymnal was a small but influential hymnal compiled by Robert Bridges and H. Ellis Wooldridge assisted by Monica Bridges for the Church of England parish church at Yattendon, Berkshire, England where Monica's family lived.

[3] He had become deeply dissatisfied with the state of English hymnody in the late Victorian period: We are content to have our hymn-manuals stuffed with the sort of music which, merging the distinction between sacred and profane, seems designed to make the worldly man feel at home, rather than to reveal to him something of the life beyond his knowledge, compositions full of cheap emotional effects and bad experiments made to be cast aside, the works of the purveyors of marketable fashion, always pleased with themselves, and always to be derided by the succeeding generation.

The hymnal's primary intended use would have been for unaccompanied singing at the choir stall or lectern, and its design, perhaps deliberately, hindered its use at the organ console, or even by the congregation.

[1][2] The Palestinian harmonization used in the hymnal's 80 plain songs was created by Wooldridge assisted by Monica Bridges.

[4] The Fell types used in the hymnal was a revival of a 16th century typeset created by the calligrapher Monica and her husband.