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

(St. Aldate’s Street)

1680

Organ History
1680Built 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

1870

Organ History
1870Built 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

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
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

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
440-10P

1922

Organ History
1922Rebuilt and enlarged by Harrison
Status
Unknown
Sources
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist” - Musical Opinion, 1927, London
The Musical Times 961

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
448-16-


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1846Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley (1825-1889)
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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)
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-)

List of Organ Scholars
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