St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town

[Martin Cooke 0]

Does anyone know about the new organ here, replacing the Copeman Hart? Just received a forwarded tweet with a picture of a very attractive terraced console, but no mention of the builder.

[ptindall 0]

It's a Hauptwerk installation. 

[S_L 0]

Didn't the 'Copeman Hart' have a terraced console? I seem to remember a picture of the console, in a gallery, looking down towards the high altar and a lot being made of the fact that the organist could see over the top of the console at the unfolding liturgy.

There is also a nice little one manual chamber organ dating from about 1772 and, partially, restored by our hosts in 2010. 

[SomeChap 0]

FYI before and after pictures are on Facebook.

[S_L 0]

4 hours ago, S_L said:

Didn't the 'Copeman Hart' have a terraced console? 

Obviously not.

Many thanks for the 'facebook' link. Excellent pictures of before and after. And the link brought back quite a few memories of the 'High' church of England that some of us, living where we do, dearly miss!!!