Organ Biography > Places and Organs > England > Rochester > Cathedral
Organ History | |
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Built by Samuel Green | |
1835 | Enlarged by Hill |
Rebuilt by Walker | |
Completed by Forster & Andrews | |
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” |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
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3 | 34 | 34 | 5 | - |
I. Choir ( GG-f3 59 notes) | |||
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1. | Dulciana | 8 | |
2. | Stopped Diapason | 8 | |
3. | Gamba | 8 | |
4. | Principal | 4 | |
5. | Wald Flute | 4 | |
6. | Fifteenth | 2 | |
7. | Clarionet | 8 | |
II. Great ( GG-f3 59 notes) | |||
8. | Double Open Diapason | 16 | |
9. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
10. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
11. | Stopped Diapason | 8 | |
12. | Principal | 4 | |
13. | Flute | 4 | |
14. | Twelfth | 2 2/3 | |
15. | Fifteenth | 2 | |
16. | Sesquialtera | ||
17. | Mixture | ||
18. | Trumpet | 8 | |
i | Swell to Great | ||
ii | Choir Sub-octave to Great | ||
III. Swell ( CC-f3 54 notes) | |||
19. | Bourdon | 16 | |
20. | Open Diapason | 8 | |
21. | Stopped Diapason | 8 | |
22. | Dulciana | 8 | |
23. | Principal | 4 | |
24. | Dulciana Principal | 4 | |
25. | Cornet | ||
26. | Dulciana Mixture | ||
27. | Horn | 8 | |
28. | Hautboy | 8 | |
29. | Clarion | 4 | |
Pedal ( CCC-f 30 notes) | |||
30. | Open Diapason | 16 | |
31. | Violone | 16 | |
32. | Open Diapason | 16 | |
33. | Principal, or Violoncello | 8 | |
34. | Posaune | 16 | |
iii | Swell to Pedal | ||
iv | Great to Pedal | ||
v | Choir to Pedal |
Organ History | |
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1903 | Rebuilt by Walker |
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” |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
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3 | 40 | - | 6 | P |
List of Organists | |
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1559 | James Plomley |
1588 | Roper Blundell |
1599 | John Williams |
1614 | John Heath (-1668) |
1672 | Charles Wren |
1674-98 | Daniel Henstridge (-1736) |
1699-1704 | Robert Bowers (-1704) |
1704-21 | John Spain (-1721) |
1721-53 | Charles Peach (-1753) |
1753-c1781 | Joseph Howe |
1781-c1790 | Richard Howe |
1790-1841 | Ralph Banks (1762-1841) |
1841-56 | John L. Hopkins (1819-1873) |
1856-1900 | John Hopkins (1822-1900) |
1900-16 | Bertram Luard-Selby (1853-1918) |
1916-30 | Charles Hylton Stewart (1884-1932) |
1930-56 | Harold A. Bennett (1891-1978) |
1956-77 | Robert Ashfield (1911-2006) |
1977-94 | Barry Ferguson (1942-) |
1994-2008 | Roger Sayer |
2008-18 | Scott Farrell |
2018-19 | Adrian Bawtree (1968-) |
2019- | Francesca Massey |
List of Assistant Organists | |
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, 1869 | Joseph C. Bridge (1853-1929) |
-1841 | Henry Edmund Ford (1821-1909) |
1850-55 | Philip Armes (1836-1908) |
James Pech (1839-) | |
1865 | Frederick Bridge (1844-1924) |
1865-68 | Alfred Alexander (1844-) |
Daniel J. Wood (1849-1919) | |
1899-1901 | Glanville Hopkins (1877-1963) |
1912-21 | Alfred H. Allen |
1912-30 | Percy Whitlock (1903-1946) |
1931-76 | James Alfred Levett (1909-) |
1976-81 | David Poulter |
1982-89 | Paul Hale |
1989-94 | Roger Sayer |
1994-98 | William Whitehead (1970-) |
1998-2001 | Sean Farrell |
2001-02 | James Eaton |
2002-06 | Edmund Aldhouse |
2006-10 | Dan Soper |
2010-14 | Samuel Rathbone |
2014-18 | Claire Innes-Hopkins |
2018- | Jeremy Lloyd |
List of Organ Scholars | |
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David Price (1969-) |
List of Other Organists | |
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2014 | Adrian Bawtree (1968-) |
2015 | Ben Bloor |
2016-18 | James Norrey |
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