Organ Biography > Places and Organs > England > Lichfield > Cathedral
Organ History | |
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Built by Thomas Schwarbrook | |
1789 | Removed by |
Status | |
Destroyed | |
Sources | |
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” |
Organ History | |
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1789 | Built by Green |
Status | |
Destroyed | |
Sources | |
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist”, 1927. | |
“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” |
Organ History | |
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1860 | Built by G. M. Holdich |
Status | |
Unknown | |
Sources | |
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
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3 | 51 | 53 | 6 | - |
I. Choir ( CC-f3 54 notes) | |||
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1. | Dulciana | 8 | |
2. | Stopped Diapason | 8 | |
3. | Stopped Diapason | 8 | |
4. | Principal | 4 | |
5. | Flute | 4 | |
6. | Fifteenth | 2 | |
7. | Cremona | 8 | |
i | Great to Choir | ||
ii | Swell to Choir | ||
II. Great ( CC-f3 54 notes) | |||
8. | Sub-bass | 16 | |
9. | Tenoroon | 16 | |
10. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
11. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
12. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
13. | Bell Gamba | 8 | |
14. | Clarabella | 8 | |
15. | Stopped Diapason | 8 | |
16. | Octave | 4 | |
17. | Gamba Octave | 4 | |
18. | Waldflote | 4 | |
19. | super-quint | 2 2/3 | |
20. | Super -octave | 2 | |
21. | Tierce | 1 3/5 | |
22. | Sesquialtera | 1 1/3 | |
23. | Doublette | 2 | |
24. | Mixture | ||
25. | Posaune | 8 | |
26. | Clarion | 8 | |
iii | Swell to Great | ||
III. Swell ( CC-f3 54 notes) | |||
27. | Bourdon | 16 | |
28. | Double Diapason | 16 | |
29. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
30. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
31. | Keraulophon | 8 | |
32. | Stopped Diapason | 8 | |
33. | Principal | 4 | |
34. | Fifteenth | 2 | |
35. | Tierce | 1 3/5 | |
36. | Sesquialtera | 1/2 | |
37. | Mixture | ||
38. | Cornopean | 8 | |
39. | Cornopean | 8 | |
40. | Trumpet | 8 | |
41. | Hautboy | 8 | |
42. | Tromba | 16 | |
43. | Clarion | 4 | |
Pedal ( CCC-e 29 notes) | |||
44. | Double Double Open Diapason | 32 | |
45. | Double Open Diapason | 16 | |
46. | Montre | 16 | |
47. | Grand Bourdon | 16 | |
48. | Octave | 8 | |
49. | Super-octave | 4 | |
50. | Sesquialtera | ||
51. | Mixture | ||
52. | Grand Trombone | 16 | |
53. | Grand Trumpet | 8 | |
iv | Pedals to Great | ||
v | Pedals to Choir | ||
vi | Pedals to Swell |
Organ History | |
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1884 | Rebuilt by Hill |
1908 | Rebuilt by Hill |
Status | |
Destroyed | |
Sources | |
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist”, 1927. | |
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists”, 1912. | |
“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” |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
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4 | 65 | - | 17 | - |
List of Organists | |
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Lamb | |
c1618-c1638 | Michael Este (1580-1648) |
1638-41 | Henry Hinde (-1641) |
1662-88 | William Lamb (-1688) |
1662-88 | Lamb |
1688- | William Lamb |
-1749 | George Lamb (-1749) |
1749-60 | John Alcock (1715-1806) |
1766-1807 | William Brown (1737-1807) |
1807-64 | Samuel Spofforth (1780-1864) |
1864-81 | Thomas Bedsmore (1833-1881) |
1881-1924 | John B. Lott (1852-1924) |
1925-59 | Ambrose Porter (1885-1970) |
1959-78 | Richard Greening |
1968-74 | Peter Noyce |
1978-91 | Jonathan Rees-Williams (1949-) |
1991 | Mark Shepherd |
1992-2002 | Andrew Lumsden (1962-) |
2002-10 | Philip Scriven |
2008- | Martyn Rawles |
2010- | Ben Lamb |
List of Assistant Organists | |
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William Grainger | |
1849-64 | Thomas Bedsmore (1833-1881) |
1854 | Franklin Taylor (1843-1919) |
1865-66 | James C. Culwick (1845-1909) |
1885-88 | Donald Wallace Lott (1868-1947) |
1886-91 | William Granger (1870-) |
1890-97 | C. Charlton Palmer (1871-1944) |
Percival J. Illsley (1866-) | |
-1895 | Herman Brearley (1876-1940) |
1902-09 | H. Rose (1863-1955) |
1909-11 | Thomas Milton Sowell |
1911-19 | W. H. Harris (1883-1973) |
1919-24 | Montague Spinney (1887-1974) |
1927-47 | Edgar Morgan |
1928-30 | J. Durham Holl (1905-) |
Andrew Petticrew (1910-) | |
1950-52 | P. W. Read |
1952-55 | Paul H. Matthews |
1955-59 | David Cox |
1959 | J. W. Sharwood |
-1960 | Norman William N. Frayling (1894-) |
1960-67 | Robert Green |
1978-86 | Peter King |
1986-94 | Mark Shepherd |
1994-2002 | Robert Sharpe |
2002-07 | Alexander Mason |
2007- | Cathy Lamb |
List of Organ Scholars | |
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David Leigh | |
Nigel Potts |
List of Other Organists | |
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2014-15 | Sachin Gunga |
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