Barrel Organs

Extant

ENGLAND
BEDFORDSHIRE
Sutton, All Saints

picture: 
http://myancestry.org/places/bedfordshire.htm		 Barrel-organ by T C Bates & Sons, No. 2917.  Dated 1831, the extant tune lists refer to it as 'The Sacred Barrel Organ'. Restored to use by John Budgen of Messrs. Bishop & Son of Ipswich, after many years in disuse. Rededicated 14 January 1967. Plate 29 in C&CB-O.

3 barrels of 10 tunes each
Foot blown
 

National Pipe Organ Register.  Report no. D1330 dated 2008
 
 
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         

Console

Stop type  Drawstop (small)   Label type  Ivory  

No console as such - stops, barrel handle, barrel mechanism,
tune changing lever and foot blower at back of instrument;

Couplers

Department and Stop list

Organ Key action   Stop action   Compass-low   Compass-high   Keys 
             1 Bourdon 16  
             2 Open Diapason 8  
             3 Stopt Diapason 8  
             4 Principal 4  
             5 Fifteenth 2

       
BERKSHIRE
Boxford, St Andrew
SU4271
 		 According to C&CB-O, thought to be by Flight & Robson, but label now defaced. Further comment in C&CB-O that the word 'London' could still be seen in 1970 on the name plate, and that one of the barrels was labelled. Position now at west end of north aisle. The front has a row of 3-7-3 gilt dummies.

26 notes
5 barrels (one secular) 0f 10 tunes each

National Pipe Organ Register.  Report no. N9938 dated 1943
 

Console
Stop type  Small brass knobs  
Label type  Black  
Label font  Gilt  
Square shanks
 
5 stops:        
1 Diapason 8 AF shows Dulciana
2 Principal 4    
3 Twelfth 2 2/3    
4 Fifteenth 2    
5 Flute      

   
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Latimer, St Mary Magdelene
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Meldreth, Holy Trinity
DERBYSHIRE
Calke Abbey, Chapel
DORSET
Sherborne, Abbey Church
Steeple, St Michael & All Angels
ESSEX
Faulkbourne, St Germanus
Fobbing, St Michael
Chelmsford?, North End, Black Chapel
HAMPSHIRE
Avington, St Mary Built ca.1830.
*Stratfield Saye, St Mary
 West Tytherley, St Peter Built 1834.
HERTFORDSHIRE
Stanstead St Margaret, St Mary the Virgin
KENT
Bicknor, St James
LINCOLNSHIRE
Raithby, St Peter
NORFOLK
Bradenham, St Andrew
Bressingham, St John the Baptist Built ca. 1820 by Bryceson -  [EVC]
Letheringsett, St Andrew
Mattishall Burgh, St Peter
North Lopham, St Nicholas
Witton, St Margaret
Woodrising, St Nicholas Built 1862 by Flight & Robson; restored 1957; one barrel replaced 1960. Repertoire of 30 "hymns". -  [EVC]
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Easton on the Hill, All Saints
Edgecott, St James
Fawsley, St Mary the Virgin
Sutton, St Michael & All Angels
Winwick, St Michael & All Angels
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Ossington, Holy Rood Built by Thomas Robson c. 1830, and restored in 2005 by Aistrup & Hind. 3 barrels. On small gallery at west end.
Staunton in the Vale, St Mary
OXFORDSHIRE
Brightwell Baldwin, St Bartholomew Built by Walker in 1843, three barrels, six stops, ten tunes on each barrel. Replaced by harmonium 1860s.  Restored 1963. Now in north-west corner of church.
Hampton Gay, St Giles Barrel Organ with three cylinders in the West Gallery.
RUTLAND
Wardley, All Saints
SHROPSHIRE
Cardeston, St Michael
Llanfairwaterdine, St Mary
Tasley, Sts Peter and Paul
SOMERSET
Isle Abbots, Blessed Virgin Mary
Muchelney, Sts Peter and Paul
St Audries, St Ethelreda Formerly at Kilton, St Nicolas [Info from Neil Marchant]
SUFFOLK
Beccles, St Michael the Archangel
Shelland, King Charles the Martyr
Wissington (Wiston), St Mary the Virgin
SURREY
Godalming, Sts Peter and Paul
SUSSEX
*Brightling, St Thomas à Becket
Piddinghoe dedication not known [Information from EVC, but this is suspected to be an old barrel organ no longer capable of being played - EMLM]
WILTSHIRE
Lyddington, All Saints
YORKSHIRE - East Riding
Holme-upon-Spaldingmoor, All Saints
YORKSHIRE - North Riding
Blacktoft, Holy Trinity
Farnham, St Oswald
Built 1831 by Elliott & Hill, London. and presented tyo the church by the then Curate, Rev'd Thomas Collins. 3 stops, noted by Langwill & Boston as totally unplayable in 1970. 1986(pre) - organ moved to Mechanical Music Museum, Chichester

WALES
MONTGOMERYSHIRE, now POWYS
Trelystan, St Mary the Virgin
MONMOUTH
Grosmont, St Nicholas
 
Abbreviations

EVC

English Village Church, The
RJ Brown

Robert Hale Ltd,
ISBN 0-709066-59-7
C&CB-O  
 

Barrel Organs

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Previously known
ENGLAND
 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Withington, St Michael


HAMPSHIRE
Boldre, St John
 
 
 
 
 

GAZETTEER OF ORGANS IN SUFFOLK by David Drinkell
(links to individual churches will be added as soon as possible)

From:  http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/suffolkorgans2.htm

This is compiled from the National Pipe Organ Register, the writings of various enthusiasts and my own notes. I owe a great debt to the knowledge of John Budgen, who was for many years in charge of Bishop & Son (Ipswich). This list does not claim to be 100% complete, and the information may have been rendered out of date by recent events and transfers.

Alpheton – Case of Bryceson barrel organ c.1850, insides by Wheaton (Cambridge). Here 1976 from Lutton, Northamptonshire.

Dalham – Walker 1860, converted from a barrel organ

Denham, near Diss – E.W. Norman’s first commercial commission c.1870. Based on a Walker barrel organ.

Great Glemham – Flight & Son, early 19th century. Originally a barrel and finger organ. Restored Bishop & Son 1968.

Great Waldingfield – Trustam (Bedford) 1888, replacing or incorporating Walker barrel and finger organ 1855.

Hoxne – Walker barrel organ 1836, converted 1876 and rebuilt 1906.

Shelland – Bryceson barrel organ 1810. The only barrel organ still in exclusive use in a church. A new barrel was made by John Budgen in 2005, the tunes including ‘Be still, for the presence of the Lord’.

Wissington – working John Gray barrel organ 1840. Finger organ by Roger Pulham 1970.

 

 

 

 

 

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Extant

 ENGLAND
DERBYSHIRE
Dale Abbey, All Saints
 
 
OXFORDSHIRE
Brightwell Baldwin, St Bartholomew
Chiselhampton, St Katherine
Easington, St Peter
 
 

 

 

Pitchpipes
EAST SUSSEX
Ditchling  -  [EVC]  [Preserved in church - EVC 1998]

CUMBRIA
Matterdale  -  [EVC]  [Preserved in church - EVC 1998]

WARWICKSHIRE
Morton Morell  -  [EVC]  [Preserved in church - EVC 1998]

HAMPSHIRE
Crondall - dated 1783  -  [EVC]  [Preserved in church - EVC 1998]

Other of Interest
Clynnog Fawr, Caernarvonshire Dog Tongs   [Preserved in church - EVC 1998]
Baslow, Derbyshire Dog Whip   [Preserved in church - EVC 1998]

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