*Abingdon now Oxfordshire (St Nicholas) : Flight & Robson barrel organ installed 1815. Converted to finger organ. Ref: Nigel Hammond, First Organ at St Nicholas Church www.aaahs.org.uk/files/Newsletters/Spring05.pdf [accessed 7 Mar. 2022] *Aldermaston (St Mary the Virgin) : Flight & Robson barrel organ. Part-exchanged 1851. Arborfield (St Bartholomew) : Barrel organ. Ref: Arborfield WI, History, Stories & Customs of the Parish of Arborfield and the Liberty of Newland (1922) www.arborfieldhistory.org.uk/Arborfield_WI.htm [accessed 7 Mar. 2022] Ascot : Barrel organ. Ref: Reading Mercury (28 Oct. 1865) 6 *Ashbury now Oxfordshire (St Mary the Virgin) : Barrel organ. Ref: Notes & Queries, CXLVII (15 Nov. 1924) 363 *Barkham (St James) : Barrel organ. Ref: P.H. Ditchfield, The Parson's Pleasaunce (1810) 7; Hampshire Observer & Basingstoke News (31 Aug. 1910) p.6; MacDermott (1948) 67 Basildon (St Bartholomew) : Gray & Davison improved barrel & finger organ installed 1848. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 4 (1848) 158 Bisham (All Saints) : Barrel organ installed c.1845. Ref: Reading Observer (20 Aug. 1881) 2; South Bucks Standard (8 Jan. 1897) 7; Maidenhead Advertiser (13 Feb. 1901) 6 Boxford (St Andrew) : See Surviving instruments Buckland now Oxfordshire (St Mary the Virgin) : Daniel Gray barrel & finger organ installed 1851. Barrel mechanism removed. Ref: NPOR, D05928 *Coxwell, Great or Little? now Oxfordshire : Barrel organ. Converted to finger organ. Ref: Suffolk and Essex Free Press (24 Aug. 1898) 1; H. Prosser Chanter, Letter, Notes & Queries, X (3 Jun. 1922) 437 *Cumnor now Oxfordshire (St Michael) : Elliot & Hill barrel & finger organ ex Eynsham (Oxon.). Removed c.1924. East Garston (All Saints) : Barrel organ. Ref: Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser (6 Mar. 1902) 3 Enborne (St Michael & All Angels) : Henry Bevington barrel organ. Ref: Reading Mercury (31 Dec. 1892) 2 Greenham (St Mary) : Barrel organ. Ref: Berkshire Chronicle (29 Jun. 1861) 4 Hampstead Norreys (St Mary the Virgin) : Bevington & Sons barrel organ installed 1840. Converted to finger organ. Ref: NPOR, N09941 *Hamstead Marshall (St Mary) : Bevington & Sons barrel organ installed c.1840. Ref: Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser (23 Feb. 1893) 6 Old Windsor (St Peter) : Barrel organ. Ref: Windsor and Eton Express (25 May 1889) 3 Shellingford (St Faith) : Gray & Davison barrel organ installed 1850. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 5 (1850) 179 Shrivenham (St Andrew) : Barrel organ. Ref: E.F. Hill, A Record of the Parish of Shrivenham (1928) 10 Sonning (St Andrew) : Barrel organ transferred to a church in Lincolnshire 1849. Ref: Hugh Pearson, Memorials of the Church and Parish of Sonning (1890) xiv & 50 Streatley (St Mary) : J.C. Bishop barrel organ installed 1836. Ref: NPOR, D01790 Sulham (St Nicholas) : Barrel organ. Ref: NPOR, D02126 *Sunninghill (St Michael & All Angels) : Barrel organ. Removed 1861. Thatcham (St Mary) : Gray & Davison barrel organ installed 1844. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 4 (1844 ) 220 Tilehurst (St Michael) : Barrel organ installed 1836. Ref: Berkshire Record Office, D/P 132/5/7 Vouchers and papers (1836) Warfield (St Michael) : Barrel organ. Ref: ‘Parishes: Warfield’, A History of the County of Berkshire: vol.3 (London, 1923) 184-191, BHO www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp184-191 * Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) 70

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