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Details of St. Saviour’s Cathedral, Church Street, Borough, Southwark, London, England

St. Saviour’s, Southwark, London, England

Building History
1897	Became cathedral

Organ History
1703	Built by Jordan
	Rebuilt & enlarged by Byfield
1818	Rebuilt & enlarged by Davis
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	28	28	4	T

I. Choir (Tracker GG-f3)
1.	Open Diapason
2.	Stopped Diapason
3.	Principal
4.	Stopped Flute
5.	Fifteenth
6.	Mixture	III
7.	Vox Humana
II. Great (Tracker GG-f3)
8.	Double Open Diapason
9.	Open Diapason
10.	Open Diapason
11.	Stopped Diapason
12.	Principal
13.	Stopped Flute
14.	Twelfth
15.	Fifteenth
16.	Cornet	V
17.	Sesquialtera	IV
18.	Furniture	III
19.	Trumpet
20.	Clarion
i	Swell to Great
ii	Choir to Great
III. Swell (Tracker C-f3)
21.	Open Diapason
22.	Stopped Diapason
23.	Principal
24.	Sesquialtera	III
25.	Trumpet
26.	Oboe
27.	Clarion
Pedal (Tracker GGG-c)
28.	Open Wood	21 ¹/₃'
iii	Great to Pedal
iv	Swell to Pedal

Organ History
	Rebuilt by Bishop
1841	Moved
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	28	28	5	T

I. Choir (Tracker GG-f3)
1.	Open Diapason
2.	Stopped Diapason
3.	Principal
4.	Stopped Flute
5.	Fifteenth
6.	Mixture	III
7.	Cremona
II. Great (Tracker GG-f3)
8.	Double Open Diapason
9.	Open Diapason
10.	Open Diapason
11.	Stopped Diapason
12.	Clarabella
13.	Principal
14.	Stopped Flute
15.	Twelfth
16.	Fifteenth
17.	Sesquialtera	IV
18.	Furniture	III
19.	Trumpet
20.	Clarion
i	Swell to Great
ii	Choir to Great
III. Swell (Tracker G-f3)
21.	Open Diapason
22.	Stopped Diapason
23.	Principal
24.	Sesquialtera	III
25.	Trumpet
26.	Oboe
27.	Clarion
Pedal (Tracker GGG-c)
28.	Open Wood	21 ¹/₃'
iii	Great to Pedal
iv	Swell to Pedal
v	Pedal Octave

Organ History
1897	Built by Lewis
Sources
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
4	60	-	10	EP

List of Organists
1705-50	Bartholomew Isaac
1750-74	Starling Goodwin (1713-1774)
1774-	William Goodwin (-1784)
c1845	Esther E. Cope (1809-1851)
1882-97	Frank N. Abernethy (1864-1927)
1897-1908	A. Madeley Richardson (1868-1949)
1908-53	Edgar T. Cook (1880-1953)
1953-56	Sidney S. Campbell (1909-1974)
1956-68	Harold Dexter (1920-2000)
1968-76	Ernest Herbert Warrell (1915-)
1976-89	Harry Bramma (1936-)
1989-2019	Peter Wright (1954-)
2019-	Ian Keatley

List of Assistant Organists
	Martin Wightman
	F. Stanley Winter
1899-1903	R. T. Bedford (1878-1921)
1901-08	Edgar Ford (1881-1961)
	Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884-1960)
1914-22	Francis W. Sutton (1886-1970)
1924-34	Russell William Kenward Taylor (1904-)
1934-35	Philip Miles
1935-37	Ernest F. A. Suttle (1914-1988)
1946-54	Ernest Herbert Warrell (1915-)
1955-56	William Allen Humpherson (1932-)
1957-	Denys Darlow (1921-)
1962-	Arthur Newell
1971-	Christopher Jenkins
1975-78	Nicholas Woods
1978-85	John Scott (1956-2015)
1985-88	Andrew Lumsden (1962-)
1988-97	Stephen Layton (1966-)
1997-	Stephen Disley

List of Organ Scholars
2000-02	Daniel Cook (1979-)
2002-04	Ian Keatley
2004	Martin Ford
2005-07	David Pipe
2007	Timothy Wakerell
2008-10	Tom Little
2010-12	Jonathan Hope
2012-14	Martin Noble
2014-16	Alexander Binns
2016-18	Edward Hewes (1993-)
2018	Jack Spencer
2019	Nicholas Morris
2020	Alexander Knight

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