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Details of New College, New College Street, Oxford, England

Organ History
1663	Built by Rober Dallam
	Byfield
1774	Restored and enlarged by Samuel Green
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

Organ History
1874	Rebuilt by Willis
Sources
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
4	43	-	9	T/P

I. Choir
1.	Bourdon	16'
2.	Viol d’amour	8'
3.	Dulciana	8'
4.	Claribel Flute	8'
5.	Lieblich Gedact	8'
6.	Principal	4'
7.	Harmonic Flute	4'
8.	Stopped Flute	4'	Dallam
9.	Corno di Bassetto	8'
i	Great to Choir
II. Great
10.	Double Diapason	16'	Dallam
11.	Open Diapason I	8'
12.	Open Diapason II	8'	Green
13.	Claribel Flute	8'	Bishop
14.	Gamba	8'
15.	Harmonic Flute	4'
16.	Principal	4'
17.	Twelfth	2 ²/₃'
18.	Fifteenth	2'
19.	Mixture
20.	Fourniture
21.	Trumpet	8'
22.	Clarion	4'
ii	Swell Unison to Great
iii	Swell Sub-Octave to Great
iv	Swell Super-Octave to Great
v	Solo to Great
III. Swell
23.	Bourdon	16'	Green
24.	Open Diapason	8'	Green
25.	Salicional	8'
26.	Voix Celeste	8'
27.	Stopped Diapason	8'	Green
28.	Principal	4'	Green
29.	Fifteenth	2'
30.	Mixture
31.	Oboe	8'
32.	Cornopean	8'
33.	Clarion	4'
IV. Solo
34.	Harmonic Flute	8'
35.	Harmonic Flute	4'
36.	Orchestral Oboe	8'
37.	Tuba	8'
Pedal
38.	Open Diapason	16'
39.	Violone	16'
40.	Octave	8'
41.	Mixture
42.	Ophicleide	16'
43.	Clarion	8'
vi	Choir to Pedal
vii	Great to Pedal
viii	Swell to Pedal
ix	Solo to Pedal

Organ History
	Rushworth & Dreaper
Sources
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist” - Musical Opinion, 1927, London

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
4	47	-	14	-

List of Organists
1630-37	William Meredith (-1637)
1640	Pink
1646	Simon Coleman
1652	Miles
1657	Crouch
1662	Flexney
1662-63	Robert Pickhaver (-1678)
1663-80	William King (1624-1680)
1682-94	Richard Goodson (1655-1718)
1694-1702	John Weldon (1676-1736)
1702-31	Simon Child
1718-41	Richard Goodson (1685-1741)
1732-76	Richard Church (1699-1776)
1776-97	Philip Hayes (1738-1797)
1797-99	Isaac Pring (1777-1799)
1799-1825	William Woodcock (1754-1825)
1825-30	Alfred Bennett (1805-1830)
1830-60	Stephen Elvey (1805-1860)
	Henry R. Bennett (1819-1896)
1860-65	George B. Arnold (1832-1902)
1865-1900	James Taylor (1833-1900)
1901-19	Hugh Allen (1869-1946)
1919-28	W. H. Harris (1883-1973)
1929-33	J. Dykes Bower (1905-1981)
1932-38	Sydney Watson (1903-1991)
1938-55	Herbert Kennedy Andrews (1904-1965)
1955-59	A. Meredith Davies (1922-2005)
	David Arthur Wright (1934-)
1959-76	David Lumsden (1928-)
1976	Edward Higginbottom
	Robert Quinney (1976-)

List of Assistant Organists
	Timothy Wakerell
	Nicholas Wearne
	William Walond (1719-1768)
1794-97	Isaac Pring (1777-1799)
	Richard Porter (1837-1875)
2007-14	Steven Grahl (1975-)

List of Organ Scholars
	Nicholas Wearne
	Paul Hale
	Ben Bloor
1969-72	Jonathan Rees-Williams (1949-)
1972-75	Paul Trepte (1954-)
	Geoffrey Cox (1951-)
	John Keys (1956-)

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