Organ Biography > Organs > England > St. Alban’s > Cathedral
Organ History | |
---|---|
Built by Bernard Smith | |
Moved from St. Dunstan’s-in-the-East, Billingsgate, City of London, London, England by | |
Status | |
Unknown | |
Sources | |
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” |
Organ History | |
---|---|
1861 | Built by Hill |
1907 | Restored & enlarged by Abbott & Smith |
Status | |
Unknown | |
Sources | |
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist”, 1927. | |
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists”, George Mate & Son, 1921. |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
---|---|---|---|---|
4 | 49 | - | 12 | - |
List of Organists | |
---|---|
1498 | Robert Fairfax (1464-1521) |
c1529 | Henry Besteney |
1820-31 | Thomas Fowler |
1831-33 | Edwin Nicholls |
1833-37 | Thomas Fowler |
1837-46 | Thomas Brooks |
1846-55 | John Brooks |
1858-80 | John Stocks Booth (1828-1879) |
1880-1907 | George Gaffe (1849-1907) |
1907-30 | Willie L. Luttman (1874-1930) |
1918-19 | T. H. Croxall (1893-1958) |
1930-37 | Cuthbert E. Osmond (1904-1937) |
1936-37 | Kenneth F. Malcolmson (1911-) |
1937-47 | Albert Tysoe (1884-1962) |
1947-49 | A. Meredith Davies (1922-2005) |
1951-57 | Peter Burton (1916-1957) |
1978-85 | Stephen Darlington (1952-) |
1985-88 | Colin Walsh |
1998- | Andrew Lucas |
List of Assistant Organists | |
---|---|
1908-09 | John Cawley (1881-) |
1913-18 | Alleyne Warren (1881-1945) |
1921-30 | George C. Straker (1899-1973) |
1936-39 | Sydney John Barlow (1919-1976) |
1945-51 | Frederick G. Carter (1913-) |
1951-70 | John Henry Freeman (1908-) |
Anthony Jennings (1945-1995) | |
1975-76 | John Clough |
1976-2001 | Andrew Parnell (1954-) |
2001-08 | Simon Johnson |
List of Organ Scholars | |
---|---|
Alexander Woodrow (1986-) |
Please note we have not yet completed the full cross index of organists to churches, &c.