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Details of Magdalen College, High Street, Oxford, England

(High Street)

Chapel (1487)

Organ History
1487	Built by William Wotton
Status
Unknown

Chapel (1637)

Organ History
1637	Built by Thomas Harris
1654	Move
1660	Move
Status
Unknown
Sources
The Musical Times 733

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
2	13	13	-	-

Great
1.	Diapason I
2.	Diapason II
3.	Principal I
4.	Principal II
5.	Fifteenth I
6.	Fifteenth II
7.	Two-and-Twentieths I
8.	Two-and-Twentieths II
Choir
9.	Stopped Diapason
10.	Principal I
11.	Principal II
12.	Recorder
13.	Fifteenth

Chapel (1690)

Organ History
1690	Renovated by Renatus Harris
1737	Moved to St. Mary’s Abbey, Tewkesbury, England
Status
Unknown
Sources
The Musical Times 733

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
2	13	13	-	-

Great
1.	Diapason
2.	Stopped Diapason
3.	Principal
4.	Cedirne
5.	Great Twelfth
6.	Fifteenth
7.	Furniture	III
8.	Cymbal	II
Choir
9.	Stopped Diapason
10.	Principal
11.	Flute
12.	Nason
13.	Fifteenth

Chapel (1740)

Organ History
1740	Built by Thomas Schwarbrook
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

Chapel (1855)

Organ History
1855	Built by Gray & Davison
Status
Unknown
Sources
The Musical Times 141
The Musical Times 754
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
4	35	35	9	T/TP

I. Choir
1.	Salicional	8'
2.	Gamba	8'
3.	Stopped Diapason, Bass	8'
4.	Concert Flute	8'
5.	Octave	4'
6.	Flute d’Amour	4'
7.	Piccolo	2'
8.	Corno di Bassetto	8'
i	Swell to Choir
II. Great
9.	Open Diapason	8'
10.	Open Diapason	8'
11.	Stopped Diapason	8'
12.	Octave	4'
13.	Flute	8'
14.	Twelfth	2 ²/₃'
15.	Super-octave	4'
16.	Sesquialtera	III
17.	Mixture	III
18.	Posaune	8'
ii	Swell to Great
iii	Choir Sub-octave to Great
iv	Swell to Great, Sub-octave
v	Swell to Great, Super-octave
III. Swell
19.	Bourdon	16'
20.	Open Diapason	8'
21.	Stopped Diapason, Bass	8'
22.	Clarionet Flute	8'
23.	Keraulophon	8'
24.	Octave	4'
25.	Super-octave	2'
26.	Sesquialtera	III
27.	Cornopean	8'
28.	Oboe	8'
29.	Clarion	4'
30.	Tremulant
vi	Solo to Swell
IV. Solo
31.	Flute Harmonic	8'
32.	Tromba	8'
Pedal
33.	Grand Open Diapason	16'
34.	Grand Bourdon	16'
35.	Grand Octave	8'
36.	Grand Trombone	16'
vii	Swell to Pedal
viii	Great to Pedal
ix	Choir to Pedal

Chapel

Organ History
	Binns
	Hele
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

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
4	50	-	-	-

Hall

Organ History
	Built by John Byfield
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

List of Organists
	Lewis Richard
1490	Richard Davies
1490	William Bernard
1490-92	Richard Davy (1467-1516)
1491	Ralph Barton
1498-1500	John Thomas
1500-02	Richard Parker
1502-20	George Kendall
1509	John Mason
1519	Robert Porret (-1550)
1523-26	Clement Perrot
1523-26	William Whyterton
1530-42	Robert Perrot (-1550)
1539-41	Thomas Appilby (1500-1562)
1542-54	John Shepherd (1515-1554)
1543	Thomas Preston (1500-1564)
1595-1639	Richard Nicolson (1595-1639)
1639-61	Arthur Phillips (1605-1695)
1661-64	Theodore Coleby
1664-85	Benjamin Rogers (1614-1698)
1665	Edmund Slater
1685-87	Francis Pigott (-1704)
1688-95	Daniel Purcell (1660-1717)
1695-1734	Thomas Hecht (-1734)
1734	Matthew Phillips
1734-77	William Hayes (1706-1777)
1777-97	Philip Hayes (1738-1797)
1797-1845	Walter Vicary (1770-1845)
1845-59	Benjamin Blyth (1824-1883)
1860-72	John Stainer (1840-1901)
	Frederick Archer (1838-1901)
1872-82	Walter Parratt (1841-1924)
1882-1919	J. V. Roberts (1841-1920)
1919-38	Haldane Campbell Stewart (1868-1942)
1938-41	William Mc Kie (1901-1984)
1941-43	Haldane Campbell Stewart (1868-1942)
1943-57	Philip J. Taylor
1957-81	Bernard Rose (1916-1996)
1981-91	John Harper (1947-)
1991-2009	Grayston Ives (1948-)
2009-	Daniel Hyde

List of Assistant Organists
	David Leigh
	Walter Vicary (1770-1845)
1858-59	Edward Vine Hall (1837-1909)
	Ernest Prichard (1887-1945)

List of Organ Scholars
	David Davies
	Geoffrey Morgan
	Jeremy Suter
1961-64	Robert William Vincent (1941-)
	Steven Grahl (1975-)

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