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Details of Winchester College, Winchester, England


Chapel (1685)

Organ History
1685Rebuilt by Renatus Harris
1780Rebuilt by Green
Status
Unknown
Sources
The Musical Times 736
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
31515--

I. Choir ( GG-e3 57 notes)
1.Stopped Diapason  
2.Principal  
3.Flute  
4.Fifteenth  
II. Great ( GG-e3 57 notes)
5.Open Diapason  
6.Stopped Diapason  
7.Principal  
8.Twelfth  
9.Fifteenth  
10.SesquialteraIII 
III. Swell ( G-e3 34 notes)
11.Open Diapason  
12.Stopped Diapason  
13.Principal  
14.CornetIII 
15.Hautboy  

Chapel (1875)

Organ History
1875Built by Bishop & Son
Enlarged by William Hill
Status
Unknown
Sources
The Musical Times 388
The Musical Times 736

Chapel (1909)

Organ History
1909Rebuilt & enlarged by Norman & Beard
Status
Unknown
Sources
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist” - Musical Opinion, 1927, London
Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - H. Logan & Co., 1912, Bournemouth
Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
320-8-

I. Choir ( CC-c4 61 notes)
Section I (Electro-pneumatic)
1.Echo Diapason8'metal.
2.Viol d’Orchestra8'prepared  
3.Viol Celeste8'prepared  
4.Lieblich Piccolo2'prepared  
Section II (Electro-pneumatic)
5.Hohl Flöte8'wood.
6.Æoline8'metal.
7.Harmonic Claribel4'wood.
8.Corno di Bassetto8'metal.
9.Orchestral Oboe8'metal.
10.Tromba8'Units [CH:TR]
11.Clarion4'Units [CH:CL]
iChoir Super-Octave  
iiChoir Sub-Octave I  
iiiChoir Sub-Octave II  
ivChoir Unison Off  
vSwell to Choir  
II. Great (Electro-pneumatic CC-c4 61 notes)
12.Double Diapason16'prepared  
13.Open Diapason8'metal.
14.Geigen Diapason8'metal.
15.Stopped Diapason8'wood.
16.Corno Flute8'prepared  
17.Octave4'metal.
18.Spitz Flöte4'metal.
19.Twelfth2 2/3'metal.
20.Fifteenth2'metal.
21.MixtureIVmetal.
22.Tromba8'Units [CH:TR]
23.Clarion4'Units [CH:CL]
viSwell to Great  
viiSwell to Great  
viiiChoir to Great  
ixChoir Sub-Octave to Great  
III. Swell (Electro-pneumatic CC-c4 61 notes)
24.Violone16'Units [SW:VL]
25.Open Diapason8'metal.
26.Violoncello8'metal.
27.Lieblich Gedeckt8'wood and metal.
28.Echo Salicional8'metal.
29.Vox Angelica8'metal.
30.Geigen Principal4'metal.
31.Lieblich Flöte4'prepared  
32.Harmonic Gemshorn2'metal.
33.Viole MixtureIIImetal.
34.Contra Hautboy16'prepared  
35.Horn8'metal.
36.Oboe8'metal.
37.Tremulant  
Pedal (Electro-pneumatic CCC-G 30 notes)
38.Sub-Bass32'wood.
39.Open Diapason16'wood.
40.Open Diapason16'metal.
41.Bourdon16'wood.
42.Violone16'Units [SW:VL]
43.Flute8'wood.
44.Trombone16'Units [CH:TB]
45.Tromba8'prepared  
xSwell to Pedal  
xiGreat to Pedal  
xiiChoir to Pedal  

UnitDivisionRankFootagePipesI. ChoirII. GreatIII. SwellPedal
CH:CLChoirClarion444
CH:TBChoirTrombone1616
CH:TRChoirTromba888
SW:VLSwellViolone161616

Hall

Organ History
1924Moved to St. John-the-Baptist’s (Rudmore), Portsmouth, England by J. Ivimey of Southampton
Status
Unknown

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
222-5-

Music Room

Organ History
1904Built by Norman & Beard
Status
Unknown
Sources
Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
320-8P



List of Organists
1538William Dore
1542Robert Mose
1543Robert Moose
1543John How
1548John Hawkyns
1549John Hawkins
1598-1602Thomas Weelkes (1575-1623)
1606-37William Emes (-1637)
1645-65George King (-1665)
1665-78Robert Pickhaver (-1678)
c1673Robert Pickaver
1678-81Geffrys
1681-92John Reading (1645-1692)
1692-c1695Jeremiah Clarke (1669-1707)
1695-1737John Bishop (1665-1737)
1737-74James Kent (1700-1776)
1774-1802Peter Fussell (1750-1802)
1802-49George Chard (1765-1849)
1849-50Benjamin Long (-1850)
1850-65S. S. Wesley (1810-1876)
1865William Hunt (1843-)
1865-1901William Hutt (1843-1904)
1901-24E. T. Sweeting (1863-1930)
1906-08Reginald F. C. Holloway (1888-1976)
1924-38George Dyson (1883-1964)
1938-46Sydney Watson (1903-1991)
1946-53Henry Havergal (1902-)
1953-71Christopher Home Cowan (1908-)
1970-79Raymond George Humphrey (1916-2017)
1979-90Julian John Hamling Smith (1930-)
1990-2007Christopher Tolley
2007-Malcolm Archer (1952-)

List of Assistant Organists
Claire Innes-Hopkins
1953-70Raymond George Humphrey (1916-2017)
1991-93Katherine Dienes-Williams (1970-)
1994Robert Quinney (1976-)
1995Clive Driskill-Smith (1978-)
1998Christopher Whitton

List of Organ Scholars
Peter Barley

List of Other Organists
Arthur Edgar Perry (1864-1925)