Philip J Wells

Christchurch Priory is (or was) also horizontal above the south nave. There is a picture of mine on the NPOR showing this http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=D06714

What temperament was the Collins organ?

Re Transept division. Anyone know where in the building this is? North East or South East Transepts (ie nearer the main altar)? Are the areas north and south of the steps at the front of the Nave also known as transepts?

There seem to be a couple of typo's on the Solo stops. Concert Flute should be 4ft and Piccolo Harmonique 2ft, I think.

I expect you have already tried an NPOR search as I did without success. [i used the name of the builder, set the in-between dates (so as not to get HN&B ) and then the Tierce stop and then searched]. It actually shows that the recording of specifications could be improved. When there is only one record which gives the latest spec it is often difficult to work out what the original spec was. However, as a resource based on voluntary effort I think we would all miss it if it was not there.

Is there confusion here between Selwyn and Sidney Sussex?

Gosh; thank you very much for posting those John Mander. It looks magnificent.

Thank you John Mander for the additional information. I wonder if there is a better picture of the case anywhere or will I just have to wait until you write it up for your website?

You are correct. Thanks. The earlier article did not name the location but did give the surname of the client which I see corresponds with a press report I found from a Henley newspaper which carried a report of the consecration of this new RC church/chapel.

[CULHAM COURT; not Fulham as was auto corrected - sorry]. The property section of the Saturday Telegraph 5 Nov 2016 contains and article about this years winners of The Georgian Group Awards. The winner of the 'New Building in the Classical Tradition' is given as a Roman Catholic chapel at Culham Court, Oxfordshire. The chapel may have been consecrated in January this year. An interior photograph looking westwards appears to show a substantial case of an organ with 5 flats (possibly including 2 towers) in a wooden case with cornice and pipe shades. Given the owner who could afford to have all this built hails from the continent does anyone have any further information about the organ and who built it?

There is a modern 32ft Contra Reim here See details of N10177 at Milton Abbey in Dorset.

The same confusion has just happened on the front cover of the Spring Pugin Society Journal. They were very quick to email members to apologise. There can be problems when the writer is also proof reader as I know to my cost!

Has anybody from the public thought to nominate such organists or do they expect institutions to nominate their own as in the past? The system was changed to allow the public to nominate as well but what we don't get to see is the names of those nominated who did not make it through.

Burges designed a splendid case for his proposed Lille Cathedral to go on a gallery under a rose window, so it could be in the Transept rather than the West end. There are pyramids on top of what looks like battlements on the towers with several in between bits which look like tiled sloping roofs on a case with nine compartments. It has a 'chair ' case on the front of the gallery as well. Unfortunately, it is only a black and white print so I do not know if the original was coloured in what might have been a riot of colours. Fantastical! It appears on page 137 of the 2013 revised J Mordaunt Crook book on William Burgess which was bought new for significantly less than the £45 listed on the cover. The pages alone measure in at 3.5 cm thickness. I call that a good buy!

I hope they upload the promised organ photo's. I am interested to see what the new west end looks like and what the new choir organ case looks like. Also, the design proposed by Burges. [Edit I now see the link is broken from the organ specification page. It is better to look at the main Cathedral website and on the Music/ organ tabs. I would still like to see some more pictures, though I appreciate given the position of the organ they are rather difficult to take. An ordinary view of the west end and choir organ would be good.]

I am reminded of the Gabler organ in Ochsenhausen where the ox emerges from its stable when you draw the Cuckoo stop!

Thank you Peter Gunstone for helping my memory. I am obviously mistaken and perhaps confused the destination of the old organ with one from another Oxford College.

I had always understood that the current Mander instrument was one part of the solution to provide for organs in the chapel. What has not happened is the provision of a much larger instrument in the south transept. Perhaps they were waiting for a rich old boy who had an interest in music/ organs to die. I was told the old H&H/HNB was very cramped on the screen making maintenance and tuning difficult. It was, however, regarded by some as the best organ in Oxford for choir accompaniment. Do I recall seeing that the church which bought it is now redundant?

I thought that David Wells of Liverpool was doing the work, but may be wrong. They are also having a new 2 manual + pedal as a choir organ I think. Is one builder doing both or are two involved? I wonder if the Positive division is staying in the choir or being incorporated into the main organ in the transept. All questions but no answers I'm afraid.

1902 N&B Ord Bk Vol=07 Page=224 Job=0425 temp org; org ex All Saints, West Dulwich 1906 N&B Ord Bk Vol=10 Page=312 Job=0797 temp org; to Irish International Exhibition, Dublin The two entries from the BOA information (above) on the Westminster Cath NPOR record [N17955] for a Chancel organ may provide some of what you are looking for along with the specification.

Chelmsford Cathedral has a west end organ and another behind the south choir stalls at the east end. They can be played from the one choir console.

Interesting you have homed in on aspects of the console Neil as it has now assumed even greater importance in the UK now it is described as 'the office'. I would have thought that with the organ now to be split between north and south, design work might have been directed to the two organ cases, if this has not already been done, or are the two haves to be just positioned at the front of the triforia? I realise you have just relayed the information as released but surely all those goodly bodies who vet such things after much committee consideration will be more focused on the cases and the ensuing discussions, which must also have gone on at Worcester and Llandaff, rather than a structure to support a console (which we know H&H are very good at making)! I wonder what the cases will look like?

The 2015 BIOS AGM included a report from the NPOR which can be found published with other AGM papers on the BIOS website. The following may be of interest: 'In spite of our efforts the backlog is still proving obstinate. The number of items is about 875 and the waiting time 17 months as compared with 800 and 16months a year ago. This is disappointing, but the reasons are understandable: although two new editors were appointed last year, one subsequently stood down and several editors had to take time off during 2014 for illness or other reasons. Another editor has been appointed and is being trained.' Please don't give up basdav, however frustrating the delay is, or the resource will loose credibility if not kept up to date from the field work contributing members provide.

Nicholson & Co (Worcester) Ltd had an exhibition organ at the IOF in St Alban's Abbey in 1973. Stopped Flute bass 8 Stopped Flute 8 Principal 4 Conical Flute 2 Quartane 19-22 Polished Mahogany case with raised and fielded panels and spotted metal front pipes. Laminate slide seals with individual windway seals. Ivory stop knobs and keyboard coverings. Price £3,000 + Vat. Provision is made for one additional stop to be fitted, so might this have been the above Dulciana when the organ was sold on? From memory I am not sure the 'chamber organ' type case had a back or a top when exhibited and again from memory I think it was reported that Nicholson staff in the workshop were all off sick with some sort of disease linked to the working of a hardwood? Edit. The above is on a typewritten sheet of A4 paper which was presumably Nicholson's advertising literature by the organ. I do not have the 1973 IOF brochure/programme which may have more, or less, information.

I am sorry to report that Martin Goetze has passed away recently. More information on the 'Blog' on the Goetze & Gwynn's web site. http://www.goetzegwynn.co.uk/blog/ PJW