I’ve written lots of sacred songs. They’re mostly Christmas related, but there are lots of others too. Here are twelve of the best of them, with a few other suggestions as well! Here’s a snippet of each of the twelve, but you can find more information and more recordings below. Click on the titles for more information and scores. There are also plenty of full videos of the songs. If you’d like more information, contact Cheryl

The Lamb
It’s for SSAATB choir or a single line with accompaniment, setting William Blake’s poem. It’s a beautiful, flowing melody with beautiful, flowing accompaniments, and was originally composed as a unison melody with round for a primary school choir, then later sung by the whole school, then adapted for SATB choir and performed by lots of choirs all over the place, sometimes at Christmas, sometimes at Easter, sometimes at other times too.

Ave Maria
It’s also for SSAATB choir but also with tambourine, and composed in response to a commission for a concert full of Ave Marias. Most of the others were in the concert were slow, gentle, lustrous, tender. I decided to go for joyous, energetic, rhythmic. Rock Festival Choir have performed it a few times, including most thrillingly at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh at a 2024 Fringe event.

Carol Of Godric Of Finchale
SATB choir. It’s one of the Winter Wear collection of songs, and tells the tale of St. Godric who lived beside and sometime in the River Wear in NE England, was fond of the creatures that lived there too, and was visited by pilgrims. The songs uses some medieval language, dancing rhythms, and is joyous in character.

Tiny, Flickering Flame
This gently flowing tune was first composed for a primary school choir, and has been performed by lots of them, and also by choirs of grown-ups too. It explains the symbols of Christingle: orange; candle; fruit; ribbon in simple terms. There are opportunities for finger clicks and a round too if you’re feeling adventurous! Below is the learning video I made for primary schools but here too is a “grown-up” choir singing it!

Quiet Window
SATB with glass orchestra, which is not as frightening nor as difficult to put together as it sounds. We used wine glasses with different amount of water for tuning, marbles in various receptacle and some blown bottles with water. Ordinary percussion instruments could be substituted! I composed this for a glass-themed concert in a church full of brightly coloured windows, and one (actually two matching) plain windows with minimal colour, and therefore rather quiet. It’s mostly ethereal, dramatic in places, with a soaring soprano solo. All the instruments were played by members of the choir – a community choir, so it perfectly manageable by you too!

How Beautiful Are The Feet
I didn’t write this one – it’s by Handel – but I did make the arrangement for unaccompanied SATB choir!

Aves Beati Cuthberti
SATB choir with divisi, organ (or other keyboard), drum and bells.
It’s about St. Cuthbert who was for a time in charge of Lindisfarne Priory in Northumberland, who lived for a time on his own on one of the other Farne Islands, who communed with the birds there, who was buried for a time on Lindisfarne. His body was then carried around the north east of England by monks escaping the turmoil of the Vikings. He was eventually laid to rest at the site of Durham Cathedral where his shrine now is. When I was composing this song, there was an information board at the cathedral explaining that on St. Cuthbert’s Day on March 20th each year, monks would be summoned to the shrine with the sound of bells attached to his coffin lid being raised, so I tried to simulate the coming of these monks from all parts of the cathedral complex to the shrine…bells, out-of-synch-ness, solemn processional. Then they all arrive and sing a hymn invoking the birds he loved.

There is also a version for SATB choir with organ and percussion, which you can hear here!

Peering Through The Rood Screen
Unison song with accompaniment and round. This was a commission for a day of activities for Year 3 pupils in Wakefield Cathedral. The organisers wanted the children to learn about the different areas of the cathedral in a variety of workshops. Mine took place in the quire, so I focussed on what you could see from there. Lots of the things you can see from the quire in Wakefield Cathedral are replicated in other churches so this, it turns out, is not a one-church song!

Omnes de Saba
It’s an Epiphany anthem, full of rhythmic vitality. There are three versions: SSAA; TTBB; SATB. It’s a companion piece to the Five Christmas Fanfares, all of which set a Latin text.

You Will Remember
This was initially composed for a youth theatre who performed it at a Miners’ Memorial Service. I altered the lyrics for a WW1 memorial concert in 2018 and that version has proven to be popular with performances in the original unison with round version and the subsequent SATB arrangement. The lyrics are inspired by my two grandfathers, one of whom was killed in WW2 and other other of whom survived WW1 but rarely spoke of it.

Knit Me Together
A setting of parts of Psalm 139 selected by Richard Evans who commissioned the song in memory of his wife Carol. It is for SATB choir and was first performed by a quartet from The Bridge Singers. The whole choir performed it a few months later. The melodic fragments of the accompanying parts do indeed knit themselves together, weaving around the wide-ranging and flowing melody.

Cantate Domino
This is for SSAATTBB choir and is one of five Christmas Fanfares, all of which have been performed several times individually and at least once all together! They are all settings of Latin texts, all antiphonal and all (but one) very lively. They are Cantate Domino; Exulta Filia Sion; Laetentur Caeli; Dies Sanctificatus; Hodie Christus Natus Est I’ve chosen Cantate Domino to feature here because there is this remarkable performance and recording of it by the wonderful Kantos choir, and they recently included it again in their Christmas concerts (in 2025), but all five of them are fab, and in fact Hodie Christus Natus Est has been performed more times than anything else I’ve written…and all around the world too!

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