Organ Biography > Places and Organs > England > Oxford > Christ Church Cathedral
Organ History | |
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1680 | Built by Bernard Smith |
Status | |
Unknown | |
Sources | |
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist” - Musical Opinion, 1927, London | |
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921 | |
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” - Robert Cocks & Co., 1877, London |
Organ History | |
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1870 | Built by Gray & Davison |
Status | |
Unknown | |
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 |
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3 | 28 | 28 | 5 | T |
I. Choir (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes) | |||
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1. | Dulciana | 8' | |
2. | Stopped Diapason | 8' | |
3. | Principal | 4' | |
4. | Flute | 4' | |
5. | Cremona | 8' | |
i | Swell to Choir | ||
II. Great (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes) | |||
6. | Open Diapason | 8' | |
7. | Open Diapason | 8' | |
8. | Stopped Diapason | 8' | |
9. | Principal | 4' | |
10. | Twelfth | 2 2/3' | |
11. | Fifteenth | 2' | |
12. | Sesquialtera | III | |
13. | Mixture | III | |
14. | Trumpet | 8' | |
ii | Swell to Great | ||
III. Swell (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes) | |||
15. | Double Diapason | 16' | |
16. | Open Diapason | 8' | |
17. | Keraulophon | 8' | |
18. | Stopped Diapason | 8' | |
19. | Principal | 4' | |
20. | Fifteenth | 2' | |
21. | Mixture | II | |
22. | Cornopean | 8' | |
23. | Oboe | 8' | |
24. | Clarion | 4' | |
Pedal (Tracker CCC-f 30 notes) | |||
25. | Grand Open Diapason | 16' | |
26. | Grand Bourdon | 16' | |
27. | Grand Principal | 8' | |
28. | Grand Trombone | 16' | |
iii | Swell to Pedal | ||
iv | Choir to Pedal | ||
v | Great to Pedal |
Organ History | |
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1884 | Rebuilt by Willis |
1910 | 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 | |
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 |
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4 | 40 | - | 10 | P |
Organ History | |
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1922 | Rebuilt and enlarged by Harrison |
Status | |
Unknown | |
Sources | |
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist” - Musical Opinion, 1927, London | |
The Musical Times 961 |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
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4 | 48 | - | 16 | - |
List of Organists | |
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1526-30 | John Taverner (1495-1545) |
1530-64 | John Benbow |
1564 | William Blithman (1525-1591) |
1564-1605 | Bartholomew Lant |
1605-08 | Leonard Major |
1608-30 | William Stonard (-1630) |
1611-13 | Matthew White |
1630-82 | Edward Lowe (1610-1682) |
1682-90 | William Husbands |
1690-91 | Charles Husbands |
1691-1718 | Richard Goodson (1655-1718) |
1718-41 | Richard Goodson (1685-1741) |
1741-76 | Richard Church (1699-1776) |
1776-90 | Thomas Norris (1741-1790) |
1790-1807 | William Crotch (1775-1847) |
1807-25 | William Cross (1777-1825) |
1825-46 | William Marshall (1806-1875) |
1846 | Frederick A. Gore Ouseley (1825-1889) |
1846-82 | Charles Corfe (1814-1883) |
1882-92 | Charles Harford Lloyd (1849-1919) |
1892-1909 | Basil Harwood (1859-1949) |
1909-26 | H. G. Ley (1887-1962) |
1926-28 | Noel E. Ponsonby (1891-1928) |
1928-33 | W. H. Harris (1883-1973) |
1933-55 | Thomas Armstrong (1898-1994) |
1955-70 | Sydney Watson (1903-1991) |
1970-81 | Simon Preston (1938-2022) |
1981-85 | Francis Grier (1955-) |
1985-2018 | Stephen Darlington (1952-) |
2016- | Makoto James |
2018- | Steven Grahl (1975-) |
List of Assistant Organists | |
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1753 | William Walond (1719-1768) |
1924-28 | Sidney Thomas Mayow Newman (1906-1971) |
1932 | Ronald Woodham (1912-) |
1938-40 | Ivor Keys (1919-) |
1943-45 | Alec Wyton (1921-2007) |
1945-49 | Eric Robert Taylor (1928-) |
1953-55 | Harrison Oxley (1933-2009) |
1957-61 | Anthony Crossland |
1973- | Nicholas R. Cleobury (1950-) |
Francis Grier (1955-) | |
1986-90 | Simon Lawford |
1990-96 | Stephen Farr |
1996-2001 | David Goode (1971-) |
2001- | Clive Driskill-Smith (1978-) |
List of Organ Scholars | |
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1941-46 | Allan Wicks (1923-2010) |
Philip Cranmer (1918-2006) | |
Gavin William Brown (1925-) | |
1951-53 | Harrison Oxley (1933-2009) |
1954-57 | Christopher Robinson (1936-) |
1957-59 | Michael John Smith |
1959-62 | Roger Fisher (1936-2021) |
1965-68 | Paul Morgan |
1971-74 | Stephen Darlington (1952-) |
1974-78 | Colin Walsh |
1978-81 | Mark Blatchly (1960-) |
1980-83 | Harry Bicket (1961-) |
1982-85 | Timothy Byram-Wigfield |
1986-89 | Laurence Cummings (1968-) |
1992-95 | Timothy Noon |
1998-2001 | Neil Gaston-Nash |
2000-03 | Christian Wilson |
2002-05 | Elizabeth Burgess |
2004-07 | Henry Parkes |
2006-09 | Edward Tambling |
2008-11 | Benjamin Sheen |
2009-12 | Michael Heighway |
2011-14 | Ghislaine Reece-Trapp |
2012-15 | Alexander Pott |
2015-18 | William Wallace |
2018- | Ben Collyer |