Biographical Dictionary of the Organ | Building Details | St. John-the-Apostle’s (Torquay Parish Church), Torquay, England

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Details of St. John-the-Apostle’s (Torquay Parish Church), Torquay, England

Organ History
1873	Built by Hill & Son
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
4	35	35	10	T

I. Choir (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
1.	Pierced Salicional	8'
2.	Wald Flute	8'
3.	Rohr Flute	4'
4.	Viol d’Amour Pierced	4'
5.	Spitz Flote	2'
6.	Bassoon	8'
7.	Tremulant
i	Swell to Choir
ii	Sub-octave
iii	Sup-octave
II. Great (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
8.	Bourdon	16'
9.	Open Diapason	8'
10.	Hohl Flute	8'
11.	Octave	4'
12.	Harmonic Flute	4'
13.	Twelfth	2 ²/₃'
14.	Fifteenth	2'
15.	Mixture	IV
16.	Posaune	8'
iv	Swell to Great
v	Choir to Great
III. Swell (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
17.	Bourdon	16'
18.	Open Diapason	8'
19.	Lieblich Gedact	8'
20.	Octave	4'
21.	Suabe Flute	4'
22.	Mixture	III
23.	Horn	8'
24.	Oboe	8'
25.	Tremulant
vi	Sub-octave
vii	Sup-octave
IV. Solo (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes)
26.	Viol di Gamba	8'
27.	Unda Maris	8'	(tenor c)
28.	Dulciana	8'
29.	Vox Humana	8'
30.	Cremona	8'
31.	Tremulant
Pedal (Tracker CCC-f 30 notes)
32.	Sub-bass	32'
33.	Open Diapason	16'	metal.
34.	Open Diapason	16'	wood.
35.	Bourdon	16'
36.	Principal	8'
37.	Fifteenth	4'
38.	Trombone	16'
viii	Swell to Pedal
ix	Great to Pedal
x	Choir to Pedal

Organ History
1900	Restored by Hill
Sources
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
4	39	-	11	-

List of Organists
1848-49	John Vinning (1809-)
	Charles Fowler (1826-1891)
1858	J. H. Deane (1824-1881)
1858	Thomas Lloyd Fowle (1827-1896)
-1862	William Vinning (1838-1927)
1864-65	John Abram (1840-1918)
1871-73	M. G. Rice (1831-1890)
1873-76	Thomas Roylands Smith (1847-1927)
1876-79	Charles Banson (1850-1915)
1879-83	Ditton Newman (1843-1883)
1884-86	Bertram Luard-Selby (1853-1918)
1887-	T. Henry Webb (1851-1914)
1887-1905	T. W. Noble (1855-)
1905-11	Oliver Brooksbank (1859-1933)
1912-28	Harold Rhodes (1889-1956)
	W. Gordon Brewer (1901-1985)
1928-47	Vernon Sydney Read (1886-1979)
1954-57	Donald Hunt (1930-2018)

List of Assistant Organists
1905-06	Melbourne Holman (1885-)

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