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Organ Biography > Places and Organs > England > Birmingham > St. Philip’s (Anglican) Cathedral
St. Philip’s, Birmingham, England
Building History | |
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1905 | Became cathedral |
Organ History | |
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1715 | Built by Schwarbrick |
1804 | Reconstructed by England |
1883 | Moved form West to East |
1892 | Rebuilt by Nicholson of Worcester |
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 |
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3 | 34 | - | 10 | - |
List of Organists | |
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1715-30 | Barnabas Gunn (1680-1753) |
1765- | Jeremiah Clarke (1742-1809) |
1803 | Joseph Harris |
1803-29 | Bishop Simms (1767-1829) |
1829-71 | Henry Simms (1804-1872) |
1871-88 | Charles J. B. Meacham (1850-1930) |
1888-98 | Yates Mander (1862-1917) |
1898-1901 | A. G. Thompson |
1901-06 | Arthur Elmore (1875-1932) |
1906-14 | Edwin Stephenson (1871-1922) |
1914-36 | Frederick Dunnill (1880-1936) |
1936-58 | Willis Grant (1907-1981) |
1958-68 | Thomas Tunnard (1918-) |
1968-74 | Roy Massey (1934-) |
John Harper (1947-) | |
1974-78 | David Bruce-Payne (1945-) |
1978-86 | Hubert Best (1952-) |
1986-2018 | Marcus Huxley (1949-) |
2018- | David Hardie |
2019- | Ashley Wagner |
List of Assistant Organists | |
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Arthur Simms (1839-1914) | |
1907-08 | Samuel Royle Shore (1856-1946) |
1907-14 | T. Appleby Matthews (1881-1949) |
Norman Blake (1915-2000) | |
1950-51 | Harrison Oxley (1933-2009) |
1952-54 | Michael Toll (1930-) |
1954-56 | John K. Nicholas |
1956-95 | Rosemary Field |
1966-68 | Roland L. Keen |
Hubert Best (1952-) | |
1995-97 | Rupert Jeffcoat (1970-) |
1997-2004 | Christopher Allsop |
2004-10 | Stuart Nicholson |
2010-14 | Tim Harper |
2014-18 | David Hardie |