Organ Biography > Places and Organs > England > Shrewsbury > St. Mary-the-Virgin’s Collegiate Church

Details of St. Mary-the-Virgin’s Collegiate Church, Shrewsbury, England

Organ History
1729Built by Harris & Byfield
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
Organ History
1874Built by Gray & Davison
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

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
323233T

I. Choir (Tracker CC-e3 53 notes)
1.Stopped Diapason
2.Dulciana (to tenor c)
3.Principal
4.Flute
5.Fifteenth
II. Great (Tracker CC-e3 53 notes)
6.Open Diapason
7.Stopped Diapason
8.Principal
9.Twelfth
10.Fifteenth
11.SesquialteraIII
12.MixtureIII
13.Trumpet
iSwell to Great
III. Swell (Tracker C-e3 41 notes)
14.Double Diapason
15.Open Diapason
16.Stopped Diapason
17.Principal
18.Fifteenth
19.SesquialteraIII
20.Hautboy
21.Cornopean
22.Clarion
Pedal (Tracker CCC-d 27 notes)
23.Open Diapason (from CCC to D)
iiPedals to Choir
iiiPedals to Great
Organ History
1911Built by Binns
Sources
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
456-20P


List of Organists
1729-31William Hayes (1706-1777)
1732-86James Burney
Edmund Baker (-1765)
1877-a1883Henry Byolin (1856-1932)
1910-Arthur Johnson (1869-)
1943-51J. Eric Hunt (1903-1958)
1951-65Samuel Wensley Baker (1907-)