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Details of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Aldate’s Street, Oxford, England

1680

Organ History
1680Built by Bernard Smith
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

1870

Organ History
1870Built by Gray & Davison
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

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
328285T

I. Choir (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
1.Dulciana8'
2.Stopped Diapason8'
3.Principal4'
4.Flute4'
5.Cremona8'
iSwell to Choir
II. Great (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
6.Open Diapason8'
7.Open Diapason8'
8.Stopped Diapason8'
9.Principal4'
10.Twelfth2 2/3'
11.Fifteenth2'
12.SesquialteraIII
13.MixtureIII
14.Trumpet8'
iiSwell to Great
III. Swell (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
15.Double Diapason16'
16.Open Diapason8'
17.Keraulophon8'
18.Stopped Diapason8'
19.Principal4'
20.Fifteenth2'
21.MixtureII
22.Cornopean8'
23.Oboe8'
24.Clarion4'
Pedal (Tracker CCC-f 30 notes)
25.Grand Open Diapason16'
26.Grand Bourdon16'
27.Grand Principal8'
28.Grand Trombone16'
iiiSwell to Pedal
ivChoir to Pedal
vGreat to Pedal

1884

Organ History
1884Rebuilt by Willis
1910Rebuilt by Willis
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

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
440-10P

1922

Organ History
1922Rebuilt and enlarged by Harrison
Sources
The Musical Times 961

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
448-16-


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1926-28Noel E. Ponsonby (1891-1928)
1928-33W. H. Harris (1883-1973)
1933-55Thomas Armstrong (1898-1994)
1955-70Sydney Watson (1903-1991)
1970-81Simon Preston (1938-2022)
1981-85Francis Grier (1955-)
1985-2018Stephen Darlington (1952-)
2016-Makoto James
2018-Steven Grahl (1975-)

List of Assistant Organists
1753William Walond (1719-1768)
1882-A. Herbert Brewer (1865-1928)
1924-28Sidney Thomas Mayow Newman (1906-1971)
1932Ronald Woodham (1912-)
1938-40Ivor Keys (1919-)
1943-45Alec Wyton (1921-2007)
1945-49Eric Robert Taylor (1928-)
1953-55Harrison Oxley (1933-2009)
1957-61Anthony Crossland
1973-Nicholas R. Cleobury (1950-)
Francis Grier (1955-)
1986-90Simon Lawford
1990-96Stephen Farr
1996-2001David Goode (1971-)
2001-Clive Driskill-Smith (1978-)

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1941-46Allan Wicks (1923-2010)
Philip Cranmer (1918-2006)
Gavin William Brown (1925-)
1951-53Harrison Oxley (1933-2009)
1954-57Christopher Robinson (1936-)
1957-59Michael John Smith
1959-62Roger Fisher (1936-2021)
1965-68Paul Morgan
1971-74Stephen Darlington (1952-)
1974-78Colin Walsh
1978-81Mark Blatchly (1960-)
1980-83Harry Bicket (1961-)
1982-85Timothy Byram-Wigfield
1986-89Laurence Cummings (1968-)
1992-95Timothy Noon
1998-2001Neil Gaston-Nash
2000-03Christian Wilson
2002-05Elizabeth Burgess
2004-07Henry Parkes
2006-09Edward Tambling
2008-11Benjamin Sheen
2009-12Michael Heighway
2011-14Ghislaine Reece-Trapp
2012-15Alexander Pott
2015-18William Wallace
2018-Ben Collyer