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Details of Cathedral, Hereford, England

Organ History
1686Built by Renatus Harris
Enlarged by Byfield
Repaired by Snetzler
Repaired by Green
Repaired by Avery
Repaired by Lincoln
1806Enlarged, added pedals by Elliot
1864Rebuilt & enlarged by Gray & Davison
1872Restored
1879Rebuilt by Willis
Status
Unknown
Sources
The Musical Times 757
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” - Robert Cocks & Co., 1877, London

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
34040-T/TP

I. Choir
1.Stopped Diapason  
2.Principal  
3.Flute  
4.Dulciana  
5.Spitzflote  
6.Flageolet  
7.Cremona  
II. Great
8.Bourdon16' 
9.Open Diapason8' 
10.Open Diapason8' 
11.Gamba8' 
12.Clarabella8' 
13.Stopped Diapason8' 
14.Principal4'metal.
15.Principal4' 
16.Twelfth2 2/3' 
17.Fifteenth2' 
18.Tierce1 3/5' 
19.Larigot1 1/3' 
20.MixtureII 
21.FurnitureIV 
22.Trumpet8' 
23.Clarion4' 
III. Swell
24.Bourdon16' 
25.Open Diapason8' 
26.Keraulophon8' 
27.Soft Diapason8' 
28.Principal4' 
29.Fifteenth2' 
30.Mixture  
31.Cornopean8' 
32.Oboe8' 
33.Clarion4' 
Pedal (Tracker CCC-f 30 notes)
34.Bourdon16' 
35.Grand Open Diapason16' 
36.Violone16'metal.
37.Principal8' 
38.Fifteenth4' 
39.Trombone16' 
40.Trumpet8' 
Organ History
1892Rebuilt by Willis
Status
Unknown
Sources
The Musical Times 757

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
457568P

I. Choir (Pneumatic CC-a3 58 notes)
1.Bourdon16' 
2.Dulciana8' 
3.Spitz Flöte8' 
4.Lieblich Gadacht8' 
5.Claribel Flute8' 
6.Lieblich Flöte4' 
7.Gemshorn4' 
8.Piccolo2' 
9.Corno di Bassetto8' 
II. Great (Pneumatic CC-a3 58 notes)
10.Double Diapason16' 
11.Bourdon16' 
12.Open Diapason I8' 
13.Open Diapason II8' 
14.Open Diapason III8' 
15.Stopped Diapason8' 
16.Claribel8' 
17.Gamba8' 
18.Principal4' 
19.Harmonic Flute4' 
20.Twelfth2 2/3' 
21.Fifteenth2' 
22.MixtureIII 
23.Double Trumpet16' 
24.Trumpet8' 
25.Clarion4' 
iSwell to Great  
iiChoir to Great  
iiiSolo to Great  
III. Swell (Pneumatic CC-a3 58 notes)
26.Contra Gamba16' 
27.Open Diapason8' 
28.Stopped Diapason8' 
29.Salicional8' 
30.Vox Angelica8' 
31.Principal4' 
32.Lieblich Flöte4' 
33.Fifteenth2' 
34.MixtureIII 
35.Double Trumpet16' 
36.Trumpet8' 
37.Hautboy8' 
38.Clarion4' 
39.Vox Humana8' 
ivSwell Sub-Octave  
IV. Solo and Echo ( CC-a3 58 notes)
Solo (Pneumatic)
40.Harmonic Flute8' 
41.Harmonic Flute4' 
42.Tuba8' 
Echo (Pneumatic)
43.Viola da Gamba8' 
44.Voix Celeste8' 
45.Höhl Flute4' 
46.Clarinet8' 
47.Orchestral Oboe8' 
48.Tromba8' 
49.Glockenspiel  
Pedal (Pneumatic CCC-f 30 notes)
50.Double Diapason32' 
51.Open Diapason16' 
52.Violone16' 
53.Bourdon16' 
54.Violcello8' 
55.Octave8' 
56.Trombone16' 
57.Trumpet8' 
vGreat to Pedal  
viChoir to Pedal  
viiSwell to Pedal  
viiiSolo to Pedal  
Organ History
1909Enlarged by Willis
1920Enlarged by Willis
Status
Unknown
Sources
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist” - Musical Opinion, 1927, London
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” - Robert Cocks & Co., 1877, London

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
460-17P


List of Organists
John Hodge
1517William Woode
1527Richard Palmer
1536John Slade
1538John Hodges
1581Thomas Mason
1582-86John Bull (1563-1628)
1586-89Thomas Warrock
1589-92Thomas Mason
1592-93John Farrant
1593-94John Fidow (-1640)
1595-97John Gibbs
1596-1608William Inglott (1554-1621)
1597William Juglott
1630-c1644Hugh Davies (-1644)
1661-c1688John Badham
1688-1707Henry Hall (1655-1707)
1707-13Henry Hall (-1713)
1713-c1721Edmund Tomson
1714-18Edward Thompson
1721-54Henry Swarbrick (-1754)
1754-79Richard Clack (-1779)
1779-c1789William Perry
1789-c1805Miles Coyle
1805-18Charles James Dare (-1820)
1818-20Aaron U. Hayter (1799-1873)
1820-32John Clarke (1770-1836)
1832-35S. S. Wesley (1810-1876)
1835-42John Hunt (1806-1843)
1843-77George Townshend Smith (1813-1877)
1877-89Langdon Colborne (1835-1889)
1889-1917George R. Sinclair (1863-1917)
1917-19Gordon S. Brown (1893-)
1918-49Percy C. Hull (1878-1968)
1949-55A. Meredith Davies (1922-2005)
1956-66Melville Cook (1912-1993)
1966-74Richard Lloyd (1933-)
1974-2001Roy Massey (1934-)
2001Peter Dyke
2001-Geraint Bowen (1963-)

List of Assistant Organists
1597-1633John Fidow (-1640)
1883-84F. J. Livesey (1864-)
1884-89Allan Paterson (1865-)
1890-93Ivor Atkins (1869-1953)
1892-95Edgar C. Broadhurst (1876-1967)
1896-1914Percy C. Hull (1878-1968)
1912-18W. R. Carr (1862-1933)
Gordon S. Brown (1893-)
1919-23F. H. Ernest Willoughby (1895-1984)
1924-35Reginald H. West
1935-40Colin A. C. Ross (1911-1993)
1940-42Christopher John Morris (1922-2014)
1942-49Colin Mann
1950-53Ross Fink
1953-58Michael Illman (1930-)
1958-62Michael Burton (1928-)
1962-67Roger Fisher (1936-2021)
1968-84Robert Green
1985-88David Briggs (1962-)
1989-94Geraint Bowen (1963-)
1995-98Huw Williams
1998-Peter Dyke

List of Organ Scholars
2008Simon Bland
2009Jeremy Cole
2010Timothy Parsons
2011Douglas Tang
2012Joseph Wicks
2013Jonathan Allsopp
2014William Fox
2015Charles Maxtone-Smith
2016Laurence John
2017Joel Trekell
2018Henry Metcalfe
2019Jonathan Lee

List of Other Organists
Lindsay Lafford (1912-2014)