Biographical Dictionary of the Organ | Building Details | St. Michael’s College, Tenbury, England

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Details of St. Michael’s College, Tenbury, England

Organ History
1874	Built by Willis
1916	Rebuilt by Willis
Status
Unknown
Sources
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist” - Musical Opinion, 1927, London
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - H. Logan & Co., 1912, Bournemouth
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921
The Musical Times 882

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
4	55	55	13	P

I. Choir (Pneumatic CC-g3 56 notes)
1.	Viola da Gamba	8'	metal.
2.	Dulciana	8'	metal.
3.	Claribel Flute	8'	wood.
4.	Lieblich Gedackt	8'	metal.
5.	Gemshorn	4'	metal.
6.	Flauto Traverso	4'	metal.
7.	Lieblich Flöte	4'	metal.
8.	Piccolo	2'	metal.
9.	Corno di Bassetto	8'	metal.
i	Swell to Choir
ii	Solo to Great
II. Great (Pneumatic CC-g3 56 notes)
10.	Double Open Diapason	16'	metal.
11.	Bourdon	16'	wood.
12.	Open Diapason I	8'	metal.
13.	Open Diapason II	8'	metal.
14.	Stopped Diapason	8'	wood.
15.	Claribel Flute	8'	wood.
16.	Quint	5 ¹/₃'	metal.
17.	Principal	4'	metal.
18.	Flûte Harmonique	4'	metal.
19.	Twelfth	2 ²/₃'	metal.
20.	Fifteenth	2'	metal.
21.	Mixture	II	metal.
22.	Fourniture	III	metal.
23.	Tromba	8'	metal.
24.	Clarion	4'	metal.
iii	Choir to Great
iv	Swell to Great
v	Solo to Great
IIIl Swell (Pneumatic CC-g3 56 notes)
25.	Lieblich Bourdon	16'	wood, metal.
26.	Open Diapason	8'	metal.
27.	Lieblich Gedackt	8'	wood, metal.
28.	Salicional	8'	metal.
29.	Voix Celeste	8'	metal. (tenor c)
30.	Geigen Principal	4'	metal.
31.	Flageolet	2'	metal.
32.	Mixture	V	metal.
33.	Contra Fagotto	16'	metal.
34.	Cornopean	8'	metal.
35.	Hautboy	8'	metal.
36.	Vox Humana	8'	metal.
37.	Clarion	4'	metal.
38.	Tremulant
vi	Swell Super-Octave
vii	Swell Super Unison Off
viii	Swell Sub-Octave
IV. Solo (Pneumatic CC-g3 56 notes)
39.	Gamba	8'	metal.
40.	Flûte Harmonique	8'	metal.
41.	Concert Flute	4'	metal.
42.	Clarionet	8'	metal.
43.	Orchestral Oboe	8'	metal.
44.	Tremulant
45.	Tuba	8'	metal.
ix	Solo Sub-Octave
Pedal (Pneumatic CCC-F 30 notes)
46.	Contra Bourdon	32'	wood.
47.	Open Wood	16'	wood.
48.	Open Metal	16'	metal.
49.	Violone	16'	metal.
50.	Bourdon	16'	wood.
51.	Quint	10 ²/₃'	metal.
52.	Principal	8'	metal.
53.	Violoncello	8'	metal.
54.	Fifteenth	4'	metal.
55.	Mixture	V	metal.
56.	Ophicleide	16'	metal.
57.	Clarion	8'	metal.
x	Choir to Pedal
xi	Great to Pedal
xii	Swell to Pedal
xiii	Solo to Pedal

List of Organists
	Allan Pattison
1856-57	John Capel Hanbury (1833-)
1860-74	Langdon Colborne (1835-1889)
1874-77	Alfred Alexander (1844-)
1877-86	William Claxton (1853-1933)
1886-89	Walter J. Lancaster (1860-1952)
1889-93	Allan Paterson (1865-)
1893	C. H. Moody (1874-1965)
1894-96	James Lyon (1872-1949)
1896-1907	Edgar C. Broadhurst (1876-1967)
1908-09	Gordon Burgess (1884-1964)
1910	Percy C. Davis
1910	J. P. Davis
1911-13	Norman C. Woods (1882-1944)
1913-19	Arthur Baynon (1889-1954)
1917-18	Carlton Borrow (1883-1960)
1918-19	Vivian Stuart
1919	Ernest Bullock (1890-1979)
1920-26	Heathcote Statham (1889-1973)
1926-31	Stanley Thorne
1931-35	L. Crosthwaite (1906-)
1935-40	Maxwell Menzies (1912-)
1941-46	C. E. S. Littlejohn (1879-1959)
1946-52	Maxwell Menzies (1912-)
1952-59	Kenneth Beard (1927-2010)
1959-73	Lucian Nethsingha (1936-2021)
1973-85	Roger Judd

List of Assistant Organists
	George R. Sinclair (1863-1917)
1956-58	Keith Bond (1929-2008)