Organ Biography > Places and Organs > England > London > Westminster > Chapel Royal (St. James)
Organ History | |
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1710 | Built by Christopher Schrider |
1819 | Removed |
Status | |
Destroyed | |
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 | |
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1866 | Built by Hill |
1900 | Modified by Hill |
Status | |
Unknown | |
Sources | |
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921 | |
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 |
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3 | 27 | - | 6 | P |
I. Choir (Pneumatic CC-g3 56 notes) | |||
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1. | Open Diapason | 8' | Metal. |
2. | Dulciana | 8' | (Gamut g) |
3. | Lieblich Gedact | 8' | Wood. |
4. | Gemshorn | 4' | Metal. |
5. | Suabe Flute | 4' | Wood. |
6. | Clarionet | 8' | (Tenor C) |
i | Swell to Choir | ||
II. Great (Pneumatic CC-g3 56 notes) | |||
7. | Open Diapason | 8' | Metal. |
8. | Cone Gamba | 8' | Metal. |
9. | Stopped Diapason and Clarabella | 8' | Wood. |
10. | Principal | 4' | Metal. |
11. | Twelfth | 2 2/3' | Metal. |
12. | Fifteenth | 2' | Metal. |
13. | Mixture | II | Metal. |
14. | Trumpet | 8' | Metal. |
ii | Swell to Great | ||
III. Swell (Pneumatic CC-g3 56 notes) | |||
15. | Lieblich Bourdon | 16' | Wood. |
16. | Open Diapason | 8' | Metal. |
17. | Keraulophon | 8' | Metal. |
18. | Stopped Diapason | 8' | Wood. |
19. | Principal | 4' | Metal. |
20. | Celestina | 4' | Metal. |
21. | Fifteenth | 2' | Metal. |
22. | Mixture | III | Metal. |
23. | Horn | 8' | Metal. |
24. | Oboe | 8' | Metal. |
iii | Super-Octave | ||
Pedal (Pneumatic CCC-f 30 notes) | |||
25. | Open Diapason | 16' | Wood. |
26. | Bourdon | 16' | Wood. |
27. | Violon | 8' | Wood. |
iv | Great to Pedal | ||
v | Choir to Pedal | ||
vi | Swell to Pedal |
Organ History | |
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1925 | Built by Hill, Norman & Beard |
Status | |
Unknown | |
Sources | |
The Musical Times 985 |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
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3 | 30 | 26 | 12 | P |
I. Choir | |||
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1. | Gamba | 8' | |
2. | Dulciana | 8' | |
3. | Gedackt | 8' | |
4. | Lieblich Flute | 4' | |
5. | Clarinet | 8' | |
6. | Tromba | 8' | |
7. | Tremulant | ||
i | Super-Octave | ||
ii | Unison Off | ||
iii | Sub-Octave | ||
iv | Swell to Choir | ||
II. Great | |||
8. | Open Diapason I | 8' | |
9. | Open Diapason II | 8' | |
10. | Hohl Flute | 8' | |
11. | Octave | 4' | |
12. | Harmonic Flute | 4' | |
13. | Tromba | 8' | |
v | Swell to Great | ||
vi | Choir to Great | ||
III. Swell | |||
14. | Contra Gamba | 16' | |
15. | Open Diapason | 8' | |
16. | Viol d’Amour | 8' | |
17. | Rohr Flute | 8' | |
18. | Vox Angelica | 8' | |
19. | Gemshorn | 4' | |
20. | Suabe Flute | 4' | |
21. | Dulciana Mixture | ||
22. | Contra Faggoto | 16' | Units [SW:FG] |
23. | Horn | 8' | |
24. | Oboe | 8' | |
25. | Tremulant | ||
vii | Super-Octave | ||
viii | Unison Off | ||
ix | Sub-Octave | ||
Pedal | |||
26. | Sub-Bourdon | 32' | Units [PD:BD] |
27. | Open Diapason | 16' | |
28. | Dulciana | 16' | Units [PD:DL] |
29. | Bourdon | 16' | Units [PD:BD] |
30. | Dolce | 8' | Units [PD:DL] |
31. | Bass Flute | 8' | Units [PD:BD] |
32. | Contra Faggoto | 16' | Units [SW:FG] |
x | Swell to Pedal | ||
xi | Great to Pedal | ||
xii | Choir to Pedal |
Unit | Division | Rank | Footage | Pipes | I. Choir | II. Great | III. Swell | Pedal |
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PD:BD | Pedal | Bourdon | 32 | 32, 16, 8 | ||||
PD:DL | Pedal | Dulciana | 16 | 16, 8 | ||||
SW:FG | Swell | Faggoto | 16 | 16 | 16 |
List of Organists | |
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1660-76 | Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676) |
1660-82 | Edward Lowe (1610-1682) |
1676-1708 | John Blow (1649-1708) |
1682-95 | Henry Purcell (1659-1695) |
1697-1704 | Francis Pigott (-1704) |
1704-07 | Jeremiah Clarke (1669-1707) |
1707-27 | William Croft (1678-1727) |
1708-36 | John Weldon (1676-1736) |
1727-55 | Maurice Greene (1696-1755) |
1736-37 | Jonathan Martin (1715-1737) |
1737-58 | John Travers (1703-1758) |
1756-83 | James Nares (1715-1783) |
1758-79 | William Boyce (1710-1779) |
1779-96 | Thomas Dupuis (1733-1796) |
1780-1805 | Edmund Ayrton (1734-1808) |
1782 | John Stanley (1713-1786) |
Charles Wesley (1757-1834) | |
1783-1802 | Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) |
1796-1822 | Charles Knyvett (1752-1822) |
1802-36 | John Stafford Smith (1750-1836) |
1822-67 | George T. Smart (1776-1867) |
1836-38 | Thomas Attwood (1765-1838) |
1838-56 | John Bernard Sale (1779-1856) |
1856-76 | George Cooper (1820-1876) |
1876-91 | Charles S. Jekyll (1842-1914) |
1891-1902 | William Creser (1844-1933) |
1902-16 | Walter G. Alcock (1861-1947) |
1917-19 | Charles Harford Lloyd (1849-1919) |
1919-54 | Stanley Roper (1878-1953) |
1954-74 | W. Harry Gabb (1909-1995) |
1957-58 | John Anthony Birch (1929-2012) |
1974-79 | Timothy Farrell (1943-) |
1979-2000 | Richard Popplewell (1935-2016) |
2000- | Andrew Gant (1963-) |
2004-07 | Joseph Nolan |
List of Assistant Organists | |
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Martin Noble | |
Huw Williams | |
1704-07 | William Croft (1678-1727) |
Charles Stroud (1705-1726) | |
Jonathan Battishill (1738-1801) | |
1803- | Charles Smith (1786-1856) |
Thomas W. Henshaw (1780-1868) | |
1905-16 | Stanley Roper (1878-1953) |
R. M. Armitage (1898-1954) |
List of Other Organists | |
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1817 | William Hawes (1785-1846) |