Organ Biography > Places and Organs > England > Lichfield > Cathedral
Details of Cathedral, Lichfield, England
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 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” , 1877. | |
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 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”, 1877. | |
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 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”, 1877. | |
| Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 51 | 53 | 6 | - |
| I. Choir ( CC-f3 54 notes) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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”, 1877. | |
| Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 65 | - | 17 | - |
| List of Organists | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| David Leigh | |
| Nigel Potts | |
| List of Other Organists | |
|---|---|
| 2014-15 | Sachin Gunga |
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