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Details of Cathedral, Winchester, England

Organ History
1665Built by Thamar of Peterborough
1681Rebuilt by Renatus Harris
1794Rebuilt by Avery
1850Moved to Christ Church (Lancaster Gate), Bayswater, Paddington, London, England
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
1851Built by Willis
1897Restored 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

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
448485T

I. Choir (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
1.Open Diapason8'
2.Stopped Diapason8'
3.Dulciana8'
4.Principal4'
5.Flute4'
6.Fifteenth2'
7.Sesquialtera
8.Cremona8'
II. Great (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
9.Double Diapason16'
10.Open Diapason8'
11.Open Diapason8'
12.Stopped Diapason8'
13.Principal4'
14.Principal4'
15.Twelfth2 2/3'
16.Fifteenth2'
17.Sesquialtera
18.Mixture
19.Trombone8'
20.Trumpet8'
21.Clarion4'
iSwell to Great
iiChoir to Great
III. Swell (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
22.Double Diapason16'
23.Open Diapason8'
24.Stopped Diapason8'
25.Principal4'
26.Flute4'
27.Twelfth2 2/3'
28.Fifteenth2'
29.Sesquialtera
30.Mixture
31.Trumpet16'
32.Trumpet8'
33.Hautboy8'
34.Clarion4'
IV. Solo (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
35.Harmonic Flute8'
36.Harmonic Flute4'
37.Piccolo2'
38.Horn8'
39.Orchestral Hautboy8'
40.Corno di Bassetto8'
Pedal (Tracker CCC-f 30 notes)
41.Double Double Diapason32'
42.Double Open Diapason16'
43.Double Dulciana16'
44.Open Diapason8'
45.Principal4'
46.Mixture
47.Trombone16'
48.Tromba8'
iiiGreat to Pedal
ivChoir to Pedal
vSwell to Pedal
Organ History
1905Enlarged by Hele
Sources
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
460-8-

Chamber Organ

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

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
26--P


List of Organists
1402John Dyer
1537Matthew Fuller
1541-72Richard Wynslate (-1572)
c1572John Langton
1600-02Thomas Weelkes (1575-1623)
-1602John Holmes (1575-1629)
1602-15John Lant (-1615)
Adrian Batten (1585-1637)
1615-31George Bath (-1625)
1631-38Thomas Holmes (1606-1638)
1638-60Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676)
1661-66John Silver
1666-75Randall Jewitt (1603-1675)
1675-81John Reading (1645-1692)
1682-92Daniel Roseingrave (1650-1727)
1692-1729Vaughan Richardson (1670-1729)
1729-37John Bishop (1665-1737)
1737-74James Kent (1700-1776)
1774-1802Peter Fussell (1750-1802)
1802-49George Chard (1765-1849)
1849-65S. S. Wesley (1810-1876)
1865-1902George B. Arnold (1832-1902)
1876C. Lee Williams (1851-1935)
Cyril Fogwell (1893-1950)
1933-49Harold Rhodes (1889-1956)
1949-71Alwyn Surplice (1906-1977)
1972-88Martin Neary (1940-)
1988-2002David Hill (1957-)
2002-Andrew Lumsden (1962-)
2017-Claudia Grinnell

List of Assistant Organists
E. Gilbert
1787-1802George Chard (1765-1849)
1834-49Benjamin Long (-1850)
1851-54George M. Garrett (1834-1897)
1863-Thomas Somerford (1827-1894)
1865-70C. Lee Williams (1851-1935)
c1866G. Blunden (1851-)
-1869Edward Birch (1849-1934)
J. Kendrick Pyne (1852-1938)
Frank H. Simms (1853-1901)
1879Harry Moreton (1864-1961)
Henry W. Radford (1861-1931)
William Prendergast (1868-1933)
1894-98Frank E. Bastick (1878-1957)
J. S. Matthews (1870-1934)
1898-99A. E. Floyd (1877-1974)
1902-04Louis H. Torr (1884-)
H. A. Hawkins (1880-1966)
1906George C. Macklin (1881-1967)
1906-13Howard Roscoe Eady (1891-1957)
Walter Charles Brennard-Smith (1882-1958)
W. Brennand Smith (1882-1958)
1908-12Frederick James Parsons (1891-1980)
1910-13E. Douglas Taylor (1886-1956)
1912-21Henry William Stubbington (1891-1965)
1919-33Hilda Bird (1894-1966)
Felton Rapley (1907-1976)
1958-66Graham Matthews
1967-Clement Mc William (1934-)
1975-85James Lancelot (1952-)
1985-91Timothy Byram-Wigfield
1991-96David Dunnett
1996-98Stephen Farr
1999-2002Philip Scriven
2002-08Sarah Baldock (1975-)
2003-08Philip White-Jones
2008Richard Mc Veigh
2008-12Simon Bell
2012-George Castle

List of Organ Scholars
Dan Soper
Mark Elliott-Smith
1984David Halls
1990Meirion Wynn Jones
1991-93Katherine Dienes-Williams (1970-)
1994Robert Quinney (1976-)
1995Clive Driskill-Smith (1978-)
1996-98Christopher Monks
1998Christopher Whitton
2002James Sherlock
2012-14Jonathan Hope
2014Timothy Parsons

List of Other Organists
1902-33William Prendergast (1868-1933)
2017Richard Moore