All Things Bright an Beautiful is the title of a famous Anglican hymn, though it is often sung during the services of other Christian denominations, such as the Roman Catholic Church. The text was written in Minehead in 1848 by Cecil F. Alexander in the village of Dunster, and was probably inspired by a verse from S. T. Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The hymn was first published in Alexander's Hymns for Little Children.