page_title: Henry Aldrich
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Aldrich / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: The former Church of England parish church of All Saints, High Street, Oxford: view from the High Street. The church was built 1706-08 and may have been designed by Henry Aldrich. In the early 1970s it was converted into a library for Lincoln College.
context_page_description: Henry Aldrich was an English theologian, philosopher, and composer.
context_section_description: Henry Aldrich was a man of unusually varied gifts. A classical scholar of fair merits, he is best known as the author of a little book on logic (Artis Logicæ Compendium). Although not innovative in the field of Logic itself (it closely follows Peter of Spain's Summulae Logicales), its insistent use by generations of Oxford students has shown it to be of great synthetic and didactic value: the Compendium continued to be read at Oxford (in Mansel's revised edition) till long past the middle of the 19th century.
  Aldrich also composed a number of anthems and church services of high merit, and adapted much of the music of Palestrina and Carissimi to English words with great skill and judgment. To him we owe the well-known catch, "Hark, the bonny Christ Church bells."
  Evidence of his skill as an architect may be seen in the church and campanile of All Saints Church, Oxford, and in three sides of the so-called Peckwater Quadrangle of Christ Church, which were erected after his designs. He bore a great reputation for conviviality', and wrote a humorous Latin version of the popular ballad A soldier and a sailor, A tinker and a tailor, etc.
  Another specimen of his wit is furnished by the following epigram of the five reasons for drinking:
  Si bene quid memini, causae sunt quinque bibendi;
  Hospitis adventus, praesens sitis atque futura,
  Aut vini bonitas, aut quaelibet altera causa.
  The translation runs:
  If on my theme I rightly think,
  There are five reasons why men drink:—
  Good wine; a friend; because I'm dry;
  Or lest I should be by and by;
  Or — any other reason why.
caption: All Saints Church on the north side of the High Street, designed by Henry Aldrich and completed in 1720.
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