Bedfordshire

*Ampthill : NOT A BARREL ORGAN. Ref: Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service (BARS), P30/5/1 Churchwardens’ accounts (1718-1816); Maggie Kilbey ‘The early use of barrel organs in the English parish church’, JBIOS, 43 (2019) pp.58-71 Arlesey : Barrel organ scrapped 1850; replaced by another barrel organ. Ref: Biggleswade Chronicle (18 Jun. 1937) p.3 *Bedford (St Mary): William Allen barrel organ installed 1804. Sold to Stagsden. Ref: C.W. Pearce, Notes on English Organs of the Period 1800- 1810 (London, 1912) p.128; H. Holman, ‘Barrel organs in history’, Etude Music Magazine (Feb. 1941) p.93 *Blunham : Barrel organ installed 1827. Ref: F.C. Hamlyn, ‘In Quires and Places where they Sing ... The Gallery Musicians of Bedfordshire’, The Bedfordshire Magazine, III no.19 (Winter 1951/52) pp.99-103 *Clophill : Barrel organ. *Cockhayne Hatley : Barrel organ. Ref: Biggleswade Chronicle (26 Nov. 1937) p.1 *Eaton Socon : NOT A BARREL ORGAN. Ref: BARS, P5/5/2 Churchwardens accounts (1794-1838); Bedfordshire Mercury (13 Jan. 1866) p.3; Hamlyn (1951); Kilbey (2019) Elstow : Joseph Walker barrel organ installed 1845. Converted to finger organ 1868. Ref: NPOR, D01182 *Everton : Barrel organ. Transferred to Burstwick (Yorks.) 1852. Ref: Hamlyn (1951) *Flitton : Gray & Davison improved barrel organ installed 1843. Converted to finger organ 1887. Ref: Bedfordshire Times and Independent (15 Jun. 1906) p.2; Ampthill & District News (16 Jun. 1906) p.4 *Higham Gobion : Barrel organ installed 1849. Ref: BARS, P125/1/5 Register of Baptisms (1813-1993); Bedfordshire Magazine, vol.10 no.79 (Winter 1966/7) p.308 Langford : Barrel organ. Ref: NPOR, D00222 *Luton : Barrel organ. 2 barrels transferred to Luton museum. Ref: Luton Times and Advertiser (3 Mar. 1899) p.5; Hamlyn (1951) *Meppershall : J.W. Walker barrel & finger organ installed 1859. Ref: Bedfordshire Times and Independent (9 Mar. 1945) p.8 *Old Warden : Gray & Davison barrel organ installed 1842. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 3 (1842) p.153; Musical Times (1 Nov. 1899) p.737 *Pavenham : Barrel organ installed 1841. Ref: C.D. Linnell, ‘Annals of the Village II - the Churchwardens’, Bedfordshire Magazine, vol.4 no.26 (Autumn 1953) pp.59-62 Podington : Barrel organ. Transferred to private collection 1905. Ref: BARS, P127/28/26 Note by the Rev T. Woolfenden (1954) *Renhold : Bevington & Sons organ & dumb organist installed 1889. Sold 1957. Ref: Bedfordshire Magazine, vol.6 no.43 (Winter 1957/8) p.121; All Saints’ Church Renhold http://www.all-saints-church- renhold.org/organandorganist.html [accessed 5 Mar. 2022] Sandy : J.W. Walker barrel & finger organ installed 1853. Transferred to Abthorpe (Northants.) 1872. Ref: NPOR, R01310 *Shillington : NOT A BARREL ORGAN. Ref: BARS, P44/5/3 Churchwardens accounts (1775-1829); Hamlyn (1951); Kilbey (2019) Southill : Joseph Walker barrel organ. Ref: NPOR, N09427 *Stagsden : William Allen barrel organ. Transferred from Bedford, St Mary. Converted to finger organ. Ref: Noel A. Bonavia-Hunt, ‘The Organ in Stagsden Church’, Musical Opinion (Jun. 1965) pp.551-3 Stotfold : John Gray barrel organ. Transferred from Exton (Rutland) 1844. Sold/scrapped c.1980. Ref: NPOR, D02415 Sutton (Beds): See Surviving instruments *Woburn : Flight & Robson barrel organ installed 1813. Ref: BARS, P118/5/4 Churchwardens’ accounts (1753-1834), R4/608/35/20 Letter (1816); Kilbey (2020) Yelden : Gray & Davison barrel organ installed 1850. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 5 (1850) p.192 * Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) pp.69-70