Organ Biography > Places and Organs > England > Ely > Cathedral
Details of Cathedral, Ely, England
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| Built by Renatus Harris | |
| Status | |
| Unknown | |
| Sources | |
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” , 1877. | |
1851
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1851 | Built by Hill |
| Status | |
| Unknown | |
| Sources | |
| Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ”, 1877. | |
| Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 32 | 32 | 4 | - |
| I. Choir ( CC-f3 54 notes) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
| 2. | Clarabella | 8 | |
| 3. | Stopped Diapason | 8 | |
| 4. | Octave | 4 | |
| 5. | Flute | 4 | |
| 6. | Super-octave | 4 | |
| 7. | Cremona | 8 | |
| II. Great ( CC-f3 54 notes) | |||
| 8. | Double Diapason | 16 | |
| 9. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
| 10. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
| 11. | Stopped Diapason | 8 | |
| 12. | Quint | 5 1/3 | |
| 13. | Octave | 4 | |
| 14. | Octave Quint | 2 2/3 | |
| 15. | Super-octave | 4 | |
| 16. | Sesquialtera | ||
| 17. | Mixture | ||
| 18. | Posaune | 8 | |
| 19. | Trumpet | 8 | |
| 20. | Clarion | 4 | |
| i | Swell to Great | ||
| ii | Choir to Great | ||
| III. Swell ( CC-f3 54 notes) | |||
| 21. | Double Diapason | 16 | |
| 22. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
| 23. | Stopped Diapason | 8 | |
| 24. | Octave | 4 | |
| 25. | Trumpet | 8 | |
| 26. | Hautboy | 8 | |
| Pedal ( CCC-f 30 notes) | |||
| 27. | Open | 16 | |
| 28. | Open | 16 | |
| 29. | Octave | 8 | |
| 30. | Super-octave | 4 | |
| 31. | Sesquialtera | ||
| 32. | Trombone | 16 | |
| iii | Pedals to Great | ||
| iv | Pedals to Choir | ||
1908
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1908 | Harrison |
| Status | |
| Unknown | |
| Sources | |
| Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist”, 1927. | |
| “Dictionary of Organs and Organists”, 1912. | |
| “Dictionary of Organs and Organists”, George Mate & Son, 1921. | |
| Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 69 | - | 19 | P/EP |
| List of Organists | |
|---|---|
| George Legge | |
| 1453 | William Kyng |
| c1535 | Thomas Barcrofte |
| 1541-42 | William Smith |
| 1542-61 | Christopher Tye (1497-1572) |
| 1562-66 | Robert White (1530-1574) |
| 1566-72 | John Farrant |
| 1571-79 | William Fox (-1579) |
| 1580-1610 | George Barcrofte (-1610) |
| 1610-41 | John Amner (1579-1641) |
| 1641-62 | Robert Claxton (-1668) |
| 1663-82 | John Ferrabosco (1629-1682) |
| 1682-1729 | James Hawkins (1662-1729) |
| 1729-62 | Thomas Kempton (1694-1762) |
| 1762-68 | John Elbonn (-1768) |
| 1768-74 | David Wood |
| 1774-77 | James Rogers |
| 1777-78 | Richard Langdon (1730-1803) |
| 1778-1803 | Highmore Skeats (1760-1831) |
| 1804-30 | Highmore Skeats (1787-1835) |
| 1831-66 | Robert Janes (1806-1866) |
| 1866-86 | E. T. Chipp (1823-1886) |
| 1872-77 | T. King Holtham (1855-1918) |
| 1887-92 | Basil Harwood (1859-1949) |
| 1892-98 | T. Tertius Noble (1867-1953) |
| 1898-1900 | Hugh Allen (1869-1946) |
| 1901-19 | A. W. Wilson (1869-1950) |
| 1919-26 | Noel E. Ponsonby (1891-1928) |
| 1926-31 | Hubert S. Middleton (1890-1959) |
| 1931-49 | Marmaduke P. Conway (1885-1961) |
| 1939 | C. P. R. Wilson |
| 1949-53 | Sidney S. Campbell (1909-1974) |
| 1953-58 | Michael Howard (1922-2002) |
| 1958-90 | Arthur Wills (1926-) |
| 1973-76 | Gerald Gifford |
| 1989-91 | Jeremy Filsell (1964-) |
| 1990-2019 | Paul Trepte (1954-) |
| 2012-14 | Alexander Berry |
| 2019- | Edmund Aldhouse |
| List of Assistant Organists | |
|---|---|
| Roger Judd | |
| William Bean | |
| -1857 | H. J. Bailey (1839-1866) |
| -1865 | William J. Kempton (1843-1904) |
| William George Price (1865-1952) | |
| 1903-06 | Frederick Chubb (1885-1966) |
| 1906-09 | H. L. Stocks (1884-1956) |
| 1912-14 | Edwin Alec Collins (1893-) |
| 1927-29 | Guillaume Ormond (1896-1971) |
| 1931-33 | Frederick Benjamin Coley (1906-) |
| Robert Groves (1912-1994) | |
| 1947-48 | Russell Arthur Missin (1922-2002) |
| 1949-58 | Arthur Wills (1926-) |
| 1958-61 | Christopher Scarf |
| 1961 | Gerald Hendrie (1935-) |
| 1961-64 | Michael Dudman |
| 1964-66 | Anthony Greening |
| 1977-89 | Stephen le Provost |
| 1991-96 | David Price (1969-) |
| 1996-98 | Sean Farrell |
| 1999-2002 | Scott Farrell |
| 2002-13 | Jonathan Lilley |
| 2013-19 | Edmund Aldhouse |
| 2019- | Glen Dempsey |
| List of Organ Scholars | |
|---|---|
| 2006-08 | Edward Taylor |
| List of Other Organists | |
|---|---|
| 2006-11 | Louise Reid |
| 2008-12 | Oliver Hancock |
| 2010- | Sarah Mac Donald |
| 2015-17 | Alexander Goodwin |
| 2017- | Aaron Shilson |
