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Details of Cathedral, Wells, England

Organ History
1664	Rebuilt by Robert Taunton
1664	Rebuilt by Bernard Smith
1786	Rebuilt by Green
1830	Inlarged, added pedal by Smith of Bristol
1857	Rebuilt 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

1875

Organ History
1875	Built by Willis
1891	Restored 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

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
3	39	39	5	T

I. Choir (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
1.	Double Diapason	16'	wood.
2.	Open Diapason	8'	metal.
3.	Dulciana	8'	metal.
4.	Stopped Diapason	8'	wood.
5.	Principal	4'	metal.
6.	Flute Harmonique	4'	metal.
7.	Piccolo Harmonique	2'
8.	Clarinet and Corno di Bassetto	8'
9.	Oboe (Orchestral)	8'	(fiddle G)
II. Great (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
10.	Double Diapason	16'	metal.
11.	Open Diapason	8'	metal.
12.	Open Diapason	8'	metal.
13.	Stopped Diapason	8'	wood.
14.	Principal	4'	metal.
15.	Principal	4'	metal.
16.	Twelfth	2 ²/₃'	metal.
17.	Fifteenth	2'	metal.
18.	Sesquialtera	III	metal.
19.	Mixture	III	metal.
20.	Posaune	16'	metal.
21.	Trombone	8'	metal.
22.	Clarion	4'	metal.
i	Swell to Great
ii	Choir to Great
III. Swell (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
23.	Double Diapason and Dulciana	16'
24.	Open Diapason	8'	metal.
25.	Stopped Diapason	8'	wood.
26.	Principal	4'	metal.
27.	Fifteenth	2'	metal.
28.	Echo Cornet	III
29.	Contra Fagotto	16'	wood.
30.	Trumpet	8'	metal.
31.	Hautboy	8'	metal.
32.	Clarion	4'	metal.
Pedal (Tracker CCC-f 30 notes)
33.	Double Diapason	16'	wood.
34.	Violone, Open	16'	wood.
35.	Principal	8'	metal.
36.	Fifteenth	4'	metal.
37.	Mixture	III	metal.
38.	Trombone	8'	wood.
39.	Posaune	16'	metal.
iii	Swell to Pedal
iv	Great to Pedal
v	Choir to Pedal

1909

Organ History
1909	Rebuilt & enlarged by Harrison
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
4	55	-	21	P/EP

List of Organists
1416-18	Walter Bagele
1421-22	Robert Cator
1428-31	John Marshal
1437-62	John Marshal
1461-62	John Menyman
1461-62	Richard Hygons (-1509)
1479-1507	Richard Hygons (-1509)
1507-08	Richard Bramston
1508	John Clansay
1508-09	John Clausy
c1509-1546	John Gye
1514	William Mylwhard
1515-31	Richard Bramston
1534-38	John Smyth
1547-54	Nicholas Prynne
1556-57	John Marker
1558	Robert Awman
1559-62	William Lyde
1562-67	Thomas Tanner
1568-78	Matthew Nailer
1578-88	Elway Bevin (1564-1638)
1588-	John Clerk
1594-99	John Farrant
1600	Thomas Hunt
1608-13	James Weare
1614-19	Richard Browne
1614-19	Richard Brown (-1664)
1619-40	John Oker
1660-63	John Oker
1663-74	John Brown (-1674)
1674	Henry Hall (1655-1707)
1674-88	John Jackson (-1688)
1688-89	Robert Hodge (-1709)
1690-1712	John George
1713-26	William Broderip (1683-1726)
c1720	Edmund Broderip
1726	Joseph Millard
1727-40	William Evans (-1740)
1740-41	Jacob Nickells
1741-74	John Broderip (1719-1785)
1771-74	Peter Parfitt
1774-81	Robert Parry
1781-1819	Dodd Perkins (1750-1820)
1819-60	William Perkins (-1860)
1860-95	Charles Williams Lavington (1819-1895)
1894	C. H. Moody (1874-1965)
1895-99	Percy C. Buck (1871-1947)
1899-1933	Thomas H. Davis (1867-1947)
1933-36	Conrad Eden (1905-1994)
1936-70	Denys Pouncey (1906-1999)
1971-96	Anthony Crossland
1996-2004	Malcolm Archer (1952-)
2005-19	Mathew Owens
2019-	Joshua Stephens
2019-	Jeremy Cole

List of Assistant Organists
	Alfred Angel (1816-1876)
1842-59	Charles Williams Lavington (1819-1895)
	W. J. Bown (1847-1936)
c1880	Frederick Joseph W. Crowe (1862-1931)
1890	Davan Wetton (1862-1928)
1894-95	C. H. Moody (1874-1965)
1896	F. W. Hek (1869-1954)
1904-06	R. J. Maddern-Williams (1885-1955)
1906	Kenneth J. Miller (1887-1915)
1908	F. P. Wheeldon (1885-1917)
	Frank B. Porkess (1885-1968)
1921-25	Marmaduke P. Conway (1885-1961)
1926-27	C. H. Trevor (1895-1976)
1927-33	Conrad Eden (1905-1994)
1932-	Martindale Sidwell (1916-1998)
1946-53	Michael Peterson
1961-70	Anthony Crossland
1977-83	David Cooper (1949-)
1983-90	Christopher Brayne
1990-94	Andrew Nethsingha (1968-)
1994-2005	Rupert Gough
2004-05	Rupert Gough
2005-07	David Bednall (1979-)
2007-17	Jonathan Vaughn (1981-)
2017-19	Jeremy Cole
2018	Joshua Stephens
2019-	Rupert Gough

List of Organ Scholars
	David Terry (1975-)
2002-04	David Bednall (1979-)
2004-06	Ben Lewis-Smith
2006	Samuel Hudson
2009	Oliver Walker
2010	Stephen Buzard
2011	Sachin Gunga
2012	Owain Park (1993-)
2012-14	William Fox
2013	Jeremy Woodside
2014	Nicholas Freestone
2015	Brian Anderson
2016	James Kealey
2016-18	Nicholas Tall
2017	Joshua Stephens
2018	Harrison Cole

List of Other Organists
	C. H. Trevor (1895-1976)
1990-94	Colin Hunt
2019-	David Stevens (1984-)

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