Organ Biography > Places and Organs > England > Lincoln > St. Mary’s Cathedral
Details of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Lincoln, England
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1442 | Possibly built by Mynhamber |
| Status | |
| Unknown | |
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1826 | Built by W. Allen |
| 1851 | Enlarged by Charles Allen |
| Status | |
| Unknown | |
| Sources | |
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” , 1877. | |
| Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 31 | 33 | - | - |
| I. Choir ( GG-f3) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Stopped Diapason | ||
| 2. | Dulciana | ||
| 3. | Viol di Gamba | ||
| 4. | Principal | ||
| 5. | Flute | ||
| 6. | Fifteenth | ||
| II. Great ( GG-f3) | |||
| 7. | Large Open Diapason | ||
| 8. | Small Open Diapason | ||
| 9. | Stopped Diapason | ||
| 10. | Clarabella | ||
| 11. | Principal | ||
| 12. | Twelfth | ||
| 13. | Fifteenth | ||
| 14. | Cornet | ||
| 15. | Sesquialtera | ||
| 16. | Trumpet | ||
| 17. | Trumpet | ||
| III. Swell ( G-f3) | |||
| 18. | Double Diapason | ||
| 19. | Open diapason | ||
| 20. | Stopped Diapason | ||
| 21. | Principal | ||
| 22. | Flute | ||
| 23. | Twelfth | ||
| 24. | Fifteenth | ||
| 25. | Hautboy | ||
| 26. | Horn | ||
| Pedal ( CCC-G 30 notes) | |||
| 27. | Sub-bourdon | 32 | |
| 28. | Open Diapason | 16 | |
| 29. | Principal | 8 | |
| 30. | Twelfth | 5 1/3 | |
| 31. | Fifteenth | 4 | |
| 32. | Sesquialtera | ||
| 33. | Trombone | 16 | |
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1898 | Built by Willis |
| Status | |
| Unknown | |
| Sources | |
| Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist”, 1927. | |
| “Dictionary of Organs and Organists”, 1912. | |
| “Dictionary of Organs and Organists”, George Mate & Son, 1921. | |
| Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 58 | - | 18 | - |
| List of Organists | |
|---|---|
| 1439- | John Ingleton |
| -1490 | John Davy |
| 1490- | John Warcup |
| 1506-08 | Leonard Pepir |
| 1508-18 | Thomas Ashwell (1478-1513) |
| 1518-24 | John Watkins |
| 1524-c1528 | John Gilbert |
| 1528-37 | Robert Dove |
| 1538-39 | Thomas Appilby (1500-1562) |
| 1539-41 | James Crowe |
| 1541-62 | Thomas Appilby (1500-1562) |
| 1563-72 | William Byrd (1543-1623) |
| 1572-95 | Thomas Butler |
| George Waterhouse (-1601) | |
| 1599-1616 | Thomas Kingston |
| 1616- | John Wanless |
| 1660-63 | Thomas Mudd |
| c1663-93 | Andrew Hecht (-1693) |
| 1670-74 | John Reading (1645-1692) |
| 1693 | Thomas Hecht (-1734) |
| 1693-1704 | Thomas Allinson (-1704) |
| 1703- | John Reading (1677-1764) |
| 1705-21 | George Holmes (1689-1721) |
| 1721-41 | Charles Murgatroyd (-1741) |
| 1741-56 | William Middlebrook (-1756) |
| 1756-84 | Lloyd Raynor |
| 1784-94 | John Hasted |
| 1794-1850 | George Skelton |
| 1850-95 | John M. W. Young (1822-1897) |
| 1870 | William Thomas Freemantle (1849-1931) |
| 1895-1930 | George J. Bennett (1863-1930) |
| 1931-66 | Gordon Slater (1896-1979) |
| 1966-86 | Philip Marshall (1921-2005) |
| 1986-88 | David Flood (1955-) |
| 1988-2003 | Colin Walsh |
| 2003- | Aric Prentice |
| List of Assistant Organists | |
|---|---|
| Julian Thomas | |
| Thomas Butler | |
| Stephen Bullamore | |
| 1593-94 | John Hilton (1560-1608) |
| 1857-58 | William James Young (1835-1913) |
| -1864 | W. H. Wish |
| -1881 | E. C. Owston (1855-) |
| W. R. Pullein (1865-1945) | |
| 1893-94 | Frank Pullein (1871-1954) |
| 1895-99 | Edgar C. Robinson (1877-1953) |
| 1899-1903 | Harry Smith Trevitt (1878-1979) |
| Frederick D. L. Penny (1896-) | |
| 1922-26 | William Wells Hewitt (1898-1966) |
| 1926-30 | Edward Francis Reginald Woolley (1895-1954) |
| 1931-36 | Willis Grant (1907-1981) |
| 1936- | Clifford Hewis (1910-) |
| 1975-92 | Roger Bryan |
| 1992-93 | Andrew Post |
| 1992-93 | James Vivian (1974-) |
| 1994-99 | Jeffrey Makinson |
| 1999 | John Hosking (1976-) |
| 1999-2003 | Simon Morley |
| 2005-07 | Richard Apperley (1982-) |
| 2008-11 | Benjamin Chewter (1983-) |
| 2011-14 | Claire Innes-Hopkins |
| 2014-19 | Hilary Punnett |
| List of Other Organists | |
|---|---|
| c1822 | Benjamin Whall (1780-1855) |
| J. T. Bavin (1869-1937) | |
| 2003-14 | Charles Harrison |
| 2015- | Jeffrey Makinson |
