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
Status
Unknown
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
Status
Unknown
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
Status
Unknown
Sources
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist” - Musical Opinion, 1927, London
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - H. Logan & Co., 1912, Bournemouth
“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-Henry Byolin (1856-1932)
1910-Arthur Johnson (1868-)
1943-58J. Eric Hunt (1903-1958)
1951-65Samuel Wensley Baker (1907-)