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Details of Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne (Dorset), England

Organ History
1856Built by Gray & Davison
1876Rebuilt & enlarged by Gray & Davison
Status
Unknown
Sources
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - H. Logan & Co., 1912, Bournemouth
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921
The Musical Times 158
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
336366T

I. Choir (Tracker CC-f3 54 notes)
1.Gamba8' 
2.Dulciana8' 
3.Stopped Diapason8' 
4.Clarionet Flute8' 
5.Gemshorn4' 
6.Flute4' 
7.Fifteenth2' 
8.Piccolo2' 
9.Clarionet8' 
iSwell to Choir  
II. Great (Tracker CC-f3 54 notes)
10.Double Diapason16' 
11.Open Diapason8' 
12.Open Diapason8' 
13.Stopped Diapason8' 
14.Octave4' 
15.Twelfth2 2/3' 
16.Fifteenth2' 
17.SesquialteraIII 
18.Harmonic Flute4' 
19.Posaune8' 
20.Clarion4' 
iiSwell to Great  
iiiSwell to Great and Octave  
III. Swell (Tracker CC-f3 54 notes)
21.Bourdon16' 
22.Open Diapason8' 
23.Keraulophon8' 
24.Stopped Diapason8' 
25.Octave4' 
26.Harmonic Flute4' 
27.Super-octave2' 
28.Sesquialtera  
29.Cornopean8' 
30.Oboe8' 
31.Clarion4' 
32.Tremulant  
Pedal (Tracker CCC-f 30 notes)
33.Open Diapason16' 
34.Bourdon16' 
35.Octave8' 
36.Super-octave4' 
37.Trombone16' 
ivGreat to Pedal  
vChoir to Pedal  
viSwell to Pedal  


List of Organists
1737-38John Broderip (1719-1785)
1848-49James Vincent (1827-)
1852-54John H. Nunn (1827-1905)
1859-71Edward Herbert (1830-1872)
1872-75R. P. C. Corfe (1846-1935)
1876-77Henry J. Vaughan (1839-1918)
1879-1900George Edwin Lyle (1842-1900)
1900-H. W. Clinter
1900-06H. W. Chuter (1875-1943)
1907-14A. R. Mote (1880-1950)
1915-53William Edward Wearden (1881-1959)
1970-2000Julian Dams
2000-02John Padley
2003-07Joseph Sentance
2007-Paul Ellis
2019-James Henderson

List of Assistant Organists
1983-84James Henderson