Organ Biography > Places and Organs > England > London > Westminster > Abbey
Organ History | |
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1596 | Built by John Chapington |
Status | |
Unknown |
Organ History | |
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1660 | Built by Bernard Smith |
1730 | Built by Schrider & Jordan |
1848 | Rebuilt by Hill |
Status | |
Rebuilt | |
Sources | |
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
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4 | 38 | 38 | 5 | - |
I. Choir ( CC-F 54 notes) | |||
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1. | Open Diapason | ||
2. | Hohl Flute | ||
3. | Stopped Diapason | ||
4. | Principal | ||
5. | Flute | ||
6. | Cromorne | ||
II. Great ( CC-F 54 notes) | |||
7. | Double Diapason | ||
8. | Open Diapason | ||
9. | Open Diapason | ||
10. | Stopped Diapason | ||
11. | Principal | ||
12. | Principal | ||
13. | Stopped Flote | ||
14. | Twelfth | ||
15. | Fifteenth | ||
16. | Sesquialtera | ||
17. | Mixture | ||
18. | Double Trumpet | ||
19. | Posaune | ||
20. | Clarion | ||
i | Swell to Great | ||
III. Swell ( CC-F 54 notes) | |||
21. | Double Diapason | ||
22. | Open Diapason | ||
23. | Stopped Diapason | ||
24. | Principal | ||
25. | Fifteenth | ||
26. | Sesquialtera | ||
27. | Contra Fagotto | ||
28. | Cornopean | ||
29. | Hautboy | ||
30. | Clarion | ||
IV. Solo ( CC-G 56 notes) | |||
31. | Bourdon | 8 | |
32. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
33. | Harmonic Flute | 8 | |
34. | Tuba Mirabilis | 8 | |
35. | Vox humana | 8 | |
36. | Orchestral Oboe | 8 | |
Pedal | |||
37. | Great Open Diapason | 32 | |
38. | Open Diapason | 16 | |
ii | Great to Pedal | ||
iii | Great octave to Pedal | ||
iv | Choir to Pedal | ||
v | Swell octave to Pedal |
Organ History | |
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1895 | Rebuilt by Hill |
Status | |
Rebuilt | |
Sources | |
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists”, 1912. | |
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists”, George Mate & Son, 1921. |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
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5 | 78 | - | 22 | - |
List of Organists | |
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1549 | John Howe |
1562-69 | John Taylor |
1570-75 | Robert White (1530-1574) |
1575-1606 | Henry Leeve |
1606-21 | Edmund Hooper (1553-1621) |
1621-23 | John Parsons (-1623) |
1623-25 | Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) |
1625-32 | Thomas Day (-1654) |
1633-42 | Richard Portman (1610-1656) |
1642-44 | Thomas Warwick (-1644) |
1660-66 | Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676) |
1666-68 | Albertus Bryan (1621-1668) |
1668-79 | John Blow (1649-1708) |
1679-95 | Henry Purcell (1659-1695) |
1695-1708 | John Blow (1649-1708) |
1727-62 | John Robinson (1682-1762) |
1762-93 | Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793) |
1793-1802 | Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) |
1802-14 | Robert Cooke (1768-1814) |
1814-19 | George Ebenezer Williams (1783-1819) |
1819-31 | Thomas Greatorex (1758-1831) |
1831-82 | James Turle (1802-1882) |
1882-1919 | Frederick Bridge (1844-1924) |
1919-28 | Sydney H. Nicholson (1875-1947) |
1928-41 | Ernest Bullock (1890-1979) |
1941-63 | William Mc Kie (1901-1984) |
1963-81 | Douglas Guest (1916-1996) |
1981-87 | Simon Preston (1938-) |
1988-99 | Martin Neary (1940-) |
1999 | Martin Baker (1967-) |
2000- | James O’Donnell |
List of Assistant Organists | |
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Stephen le Provost | |
Peter Holder | |
Geoffrey Morgan | |
1774 | Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793) |
1800-05 | George Ebenezer Williams (1783-1819) |
John Scott (1776-1815) | |
1819-31 | James Turle (1802-1882) |
1845-47 | C. E. C. Willing (1830-1904) |
1860-75 | Charles S. Jekyll (1842-1914) |
1881-96 | Davan Wetton (1862-1928) |
Frank J. Sawyer (1857-1908) | |
1884- | Charles W. Perkins (1855-1927) |
F. Muspratt (1860-) | |
1889-1916 | Walter G. Alcock (1861-1947) |
1895-1904 | Wilfrid Ernest Sanderson (1878-1935) |
1899-1904 | T. J. Crawford (1877-1955) |
1917- | Stanley Roper (1878-1953) |
F. Hubert Belton (1894-1975) | |
1920-27 | A. W. Goldsborough (1892-1964) |
Osborne Harold Peasgood (1902-1962) | |
1947-50 | Hugh Marchant (1916-) |
1962-67 | Simon Preston (1938-) |
1967- | Timothy Farrell (1943-) |
1968 | David Bruce-Payne (1945-) |
Stephen Cleobury (1948-2019) | |
1979-84 | Christopher Herrick (1942-) |
Harry Bicket (1961-) | |
1988-92 | Andrew Lumsden (1962-) |
1992-99 | Martin Baker (1967-) |
1999 | Robert Quinney (1976-) |
Daniel Cook (1979-) | |
2004-13 | Robert Quinney (1976-) |
List of Organ Scholars | |
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Adrian Lenthall | |
Meirion Wynn Jones | |
James Cryer | |
William Whitehead (1970-) | |
1996-99 | John Hosking (1976-) |
Daniel Cook (1979-) | |
2007-08 | Benjamin Chewter (1983-) |
List of Other Organists | |
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1875-82 | Frederick Bridge (1844-1924) |
Larry King (1932-1990) | |
1974-79 | Christopher Herrick (1942-) |
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