Biographical Dictionary of the Organ | Building Details | Cathedral, Exeter, England

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Details of Cathedral, Exeter, England

1665

Organ History
1665	Built by John Loosemore
	Rebuilt & enlarged by Speechly
Sources
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” - Robert Cocks & Co., 1877, London

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
3	31	31	6	T

I. Choir (Tracker CC-f3 54 notes)
1.	Gamba	8'	metal.
2.	Lieblich Gedact	8'	wood and metal.
3.	Dulciana	8'	metal.
4.	Wald Flute	4'	wood.
5.	Gemshorn	4'	metal.
6.	Corno di Bassetto	8'	metal.
i	Swell to Choir
II. Great (Tracker GG,FF-f3 58 notes)
7.	Double Diapason	16'	wood and metal.
8.	Open Diapason	8'	metal.
9.	Open Diapason	8'	metal.
10.	Stopped Diapason	8'	wood and metal.
11.	Clarabella	8'	wood.
12.	Principal	4'	metal.
13.	Flute Harmonique	4'	metal.
14.	Twelfth	2 ²/₃'	metal.
15.	Fifteenth	2'	metal.
16.	*Mixture	II	metal.
17.	*Mixture	III	metal.
18.	Trumpet	8'	metal.
19.	Clarion	4'	metal.
ii	Swell to Great
III. Swell (Tracker CC-g3 54 notes)
20.	Double Diapason	16'	wood and metal.
21.	Open Diapason	8'	metal.
22.	Stopped Diapason	8'	wood and metal.
23.	Salicional	8'	metal.
24.	Octave	4'	metal.
25.	Mixture	III	metal.
26.	Cornopean	8'	metal.
27.	Oboe	8'	metal.
28.	Clarion	4'	metal.
Pedal (Tracker CCC-f 30 notes)
29.	Open Diapason	32'	metal.
30.	Open Diapason	16'	metal.
31.	Bourdon	16'	wood.
iii	Swell to Pedal
iv	Great to Pedal, GG
v	Great to Pedal, CC
vi	Choir to Pedal

1891

Organ History
1891	Rebuilt by Willis
Sources
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
4	57	-	13	P

List of Organists
1584-86	Matthew Godwin (1568-1586)
1591	Arthur Cooke
1591-1601	Arthur Cock (-1604)
1609-40	John Lugg (1587-1655)
1611-44	Edward Gibbons (1568-1650)
1665-74	Theodore Coleby
1674-c1688	Henry Hall (1655-1707)
1686	Peter Passmore
c1686-93	John White
1694-1741	Richard Henman
1741-53	John Silvester
1753-77	Richard Langdon (1730-1803)
1777-1803	William Jackson (1730-1803)
1804-35	James Paddon (1768-1835)
1835-41	S. S. Wesley (1810-1876)
1842-76	Alfred Angel (1816-1876)
1876-1919	Daniel J. Wood (1849-1919)
1919-27	Ernest Bullock (1890-1979)
1928-33	Thomas Armstrong (1898-1994)
1933	A. W. Willcocks
1933-52	Alfred Wilcock (1887-1953)
1953-57	Reginald Moore (1910-1968)
1957-72	Lionel Dakers (1924-2003)
1973-98	Lucian Nethsingha (1936-2021)
1999-2016	Andrew Millington (1952-)
2016-	Timothy Noon
OA	Walter Hoyle (1873-)

List of Assistant Organists
	Edward Roberts West
1856	H. G. Halfyard (1835-)
1861-68	Graham Clarke
1861-69	William Pinney (1845-1906)
-1880	Edward Vinnicombe (1847-1915)
1881-83	Ernest Slater (1860-1936)
1899	Frederick Gandy Bradford (1887-1962)
1900-06	Arnold D. Culley (1867-1947)
1906-18	F. J. Pinn (1877-1927)
	T. Washington Metcalfe (1884-)
1929-37	W. Harry Gabb (1909-1995)
1937-40	John Hind (1916-1984)
1945-46	John Hind (1916-1984)
1946-48	Edgar S. Landen (1923-)
1951-54	Howard Stephens (1921-)
1956-61	Stuart Marston Smith
1961-69	Christopher Gower (1939-)
1969-2010	Paul Morgan
2010-16	David Davies
2016-	Timothy Parsons

List of Organ Scholars
	David Thorne (1951-)
1993-95	Benjamin Frost
2016	Edward Jones
2018	Hamish Fraser

List of Other Organists
	Thomas Washington-Metcalfe (1884-)
1994-2016	Stephen Tanner

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