Hark, the nightly church-bell numbers. Bp. F. H. Bickersteth. [Evening.] Written in 1853 and let published in a tract, The Cottager's Handbook of Family Prayers, 1854. It was repeated in his Supplement to his Psalms & Hymns, based on the Christian Psalmody, 1858, No. 7, and again iii his work, The Two Brothers, &c, 1871, p. 247, and entitled, “The Village Evening Hymn."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)