Organ Biography > Organs > England > Salisbury > Cathedral
Details of Cathedral, Salisbury, England
1710
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1710 | 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. | |
1792
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1792 | Built by Green |
| 1876 | Moved by |
| Status | |
| Unknown | |
| Sources | |
| “Dictionary of Organs and Organists”, George Mate & Son, 1921. | |
| Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ”, 1877. | |
1876
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1876 | Built by Willis |
| Status | |
| Unknown | |
| Sources | |
| “Dictionary of Organs and Organists”, 1912. | |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 55 | 55 | 9 | - |
| I. Choir ( CC-a3 58 notes) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lieblich Gedact | 16 | |
| 2. | Lieblich Gedact | 8 | |
| 3. | Lieblich Gedact | 4 | |
| 4. | Flute Harmonique | 8 | |
| 5. | Flute Harmonique | 4 | |
| 6. | Salicional | 8 | |
| 7. | Gemshorn | 4 | |
| 8. | Flageolet | 2 | |
| 9. | Corno di Bassetto | 8 | |
| 10. | Cor Anglais | 8 | |
| II. Great ( CC-a3 58 notes) | |||
| 11. | Double Open Diapason | 16 | |
| 12. | Open Diapason, large | 8 | |
| 13. | Open Diapason, small | 8 | |
| 14. | Stopped Diapason | 8 | |
| 15. | Claribel Flute, closed, Bass | 8 | |
| 16. | Principal | 4 | |
| 17. | Flute Harmonique | 4 | |
| 18. | Twelfth | 2 2/3 | |
| 19. | Fifteenth | 2 | |
| 20. | Piccolo | 2 | |
| 21. | Mixture, full | 2 | |
| 22. | Double Trumpet | 8 | |
| 23. | Cornopean | 8 | |
| 24. | Clarion | 4 | |
| i | Swell to Great, Unison | ||
| ii | Swell to Great, Super-octave | ||
| iii | Swell to Great, Sub-octave | ||
| iv | Solo to Great | ||
| v | Choir to Great | ||
| III. Swell ( CC-a3 58 notes) | |||
| 25. | Contra Gamba | 16 | |
| 26. | Viol di Gamba | 8 | |
| 27. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
| 28. | Lieblich Gedact | 8 | |
| 29. | Vox Angelica | 8 | |
| 30. | Octave | 4 | |
| 31. | Flute Harmonique | 4 | |
| 32. | Super-octave | 2 | |
| 33. | Mixture | ||
| 34. | Contra Fagotto | 16 | |
| 35. | Trumpet | 8 | |
| 36. | Hautboy | 8 | |
| 37. | Clarion | 4 | |
| 38. | Vox Humana | 8 | |
| 39. | Tremulant to Vox Humana | ||
| IV. Solo ( CC-a3 58 notes) | |||
| 40. | Flute Harmonique | 8 | |
| 41. | Flute Harmonique | 4 | |
| 42. | Orchestral Oboe | 8 | |
| 43. | Tuba | 8 | |
| 44. | Corno di Bassetto | 8 | |
| 45. | Clarion | 4 | |
| Pedal ( CCC-f 30 notes) | |||
| 46. | Double Open Diapason | 32 | |
| 47. | Open Diapason | 16 | |
| 48. | Violone | 16 | |
| 49. | Bourdon | 16 | |
| 50. | Octave | 8 | |
| 51. | Open Diapason | 16 | |
| 52. | Flute Open | 8 | |
| 53. | Mixture | ||
| 54. | Contra Posaune | 32 | |
| 55. | Ophicleide | 16 | |
| 56. | Clarion | 8 | |
| vi | Solo to Pedal | ||
| vii | Swell to Pedal | ||
| viii | Great to Pedal | ||
| ix | Choir to Pedal | ||
1900
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Restored by Willis |
| 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 | 55 | - | 11 | P |
| List of Organists | |
|---|---|
| 1463 | John Kegewyn |
| 1529-43 | Thomas Knyght |
| 1558-59 | Beckwyth |
| 1561-62 | Robert Chamberlayne |
| 1566-87 | Thomas Smythe |
| 1587-92 | John Farrant |
| 1592-98 | Richard Fuller |
| 1598-1618 | John Farrant (1575-1818) |
| 1602-10 | John Holmes (1575-1629) |
| 1618-29 | Edward Tucker |
| 1629-68 | Giles Tomkins (1604-1668) |
| 1668-87 | Michael Wise (1638-1687) |
| 1688-92 | Peter Isaac (-1694) |
| 1700-17 | Anthony Walkeley (1672-1717) |
| 1718-46 | Edward Thompson |
| 1746-81 | John Stephens (1720-1780) |
| 1781-92 | Robert Parry |
| 1792-1804 | Joseph Corfe (1740-1820) |
| 1804-63 | Arthur T. Corfe (1773-1863) |
| 1857-68 | Christopher Dearnley (1930-2000) |
| 1863-81 | John E. Richardson (1825-1903) |
| 1881-83 | Bertram Luard-Selby (1853-1918) |
| 1916-47 | Walter G. Alcock (1861-1947) |
| 1947-50 | John Charles Stirling Forster (1915-) |
| 1947-50 | David Willcocks (1919-2015) |
| 1950-57 | Douglas Guest (1916-1996) |
| 1968-97 | Richard Seal (1935-) |
| 1985-2005 | David Halls |
| 1997-2005 | Simon Lole (1957-) |
| 2005- | David Halls |
| List of Assistant Organists | |
|---|---|
| Stephen Jeffries (1662-1712) | |
| Aaron U. Hayter (1799-1873) | |
| 1845-63 | John E. Richardson (1825-1903) |
| Thomas Bentinck Richardson (1831-1893) | |
| 1881-84 | Albert Wilshire (1863-1935) |
| 1886-89 | G. Street Chignell (1870-1955) |
| E. Prys Lloyd (1884-1961) | |
| 1917 | Herbert Howells (1892-1983) |
| 1917-27 | Cuthbert E. Osmond (1904-1937) |
| 1933-47 | Reginald Moore (1910-1968) |
| 1947-50 | John Foster |
| 1947-53 | Ronald Tickner (1920-1999) |
| 1954-57 | Christopher Dearnley (1930-2000) |
| 1957-66 | Richard Lloyd (1933-) |
| 1967-74 | Michael John Smith |
| 1974-78 | Jonathan Rees-Williams (1949-) |
| 1978-85 | Colin Walsh |
| 2005-11 | Daniel Cook (1979-) |
| 2012- | John Challenger |
| List of Other Organists | |
|---|---|
| Ellis Gibbons (1573-1603) | |
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