Abbotsbury (St Nicholas) : Barrel organ. Ref: Southern Times and Dorset County Herald (13 Ap. 1872) pp.11-2 *Bere Regis (St John the Baptist) : John Gray barrel organ transferred from Puddletown 1852. Transferred to private ownership & then to Dorset County Museum 1935. Restored by John Budgen & Gordon Bartlet in 2015. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQVs1vITXQU Ref: Western Gazette (23 Jan. 1925) p.7 & (13 Feb. 1925) p.7; Western Daily Press (15 May 1925) p.8; F.W. Galpin, The Choir (Jul. 1934) p.150; Gordon Bartlet, ‘The Dorset County Museum Barrel Organ - Part One’, The Music Box, vol.27 no.6 (Summer 2016) pp.212-7; ‘The Dorset County Museum Barrel Organ - Part Two’, The Music Box, vol.27 no.7 (Autumn 2016) pp.251-7 *Bothenhampton (Holy Trinity) : Now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Barrel organ. Ref: Bridport News (14 Jun. 1878) p.2; MacDermott (1948) p.67 Bridport (St Mary) : Alexander Buckingham barrel organ installed 1827. Ref: NPOR, N10022 Buckhorn Weston (St John the Baptist) : Barrel organ installed 1846. Ref: NPOR, N00255 *Buckland Newton (Holy Rood) : Barrel organ converted to finger organ 1859. *Bushey (Chapel) : T.C. Bates barrel organ installed 1836. Ref: Salisbury & Winchester Journal (10 Oct. 1896) p.8; G.M. Marston, Letter, Notes and Queries, X (1 Apr. 1922) p.254 Cerne Abbas (St Mary) : Barrel organ rebuilt c.1864. Ref: Dorset County Chronicle (17 Dec. 1863) p.4 Chalbury (All Saints) : Barrel organ. Ref: Dorset History Centre (DHC), PE/CHY/CW 1/3 (1879) Charmouth (St Andrew) : Robson & Son barrel organ installed 1836. Ref: DHC, PE/CMO/CW 11 Bills including one for a psalmodic barrel-organ (1836) Church Knowle (St Peter) : Barrel organ built from parts of Tyneham organ. Ref: John Budgen, ‘Experiences with Barrel Organs’, BIOS Reporter (Apr. 1997) Corfe Mullen (St Hubert) : Gray & Davison barrel organ installed 1863. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 7 (1863) p.271 Durweston (St Nicholas) : Barrel & finger organ sold 1877. Ref: Salisbury and Winchester Journal (10 Mar. 1877) p.4 Kimmeridge (St Nicholas) : Barrel organ. Ref: Salisbury and Winchester Journal (10 Oct. 1896) p.8 Lillington (St Martin of Tours) : See Surviving Instruments *Lydlinch (St Thomas Becket) : Robson & Son barrel & finger organ installed 1843. Transferred to Rudston (Yorks.) 1850. Ref: Hull Packet (17 Nov. 1848) p.1; The Organ (Jul. 1958) p.13; Elvin (1976) p.23 *Lytchett Maltravers (St Mary the Virgin) : Bates & Son barrel organ installed 1855. Converted to finger organ 1871. Ref: DHC, PE/LMA/CW 5/2 Bills and receipts for barrel organ (1854-5), PE/LMA/CW 5/3 Receipted bills for converting barrel organ to finger organ (1871); MacDermott (1948) p.67 Lytchett Minster : Henry Bryceson barrel organ installed 1845. Ref: DHC, PE/LMR/VE 1/2 Minute book, subscribers to barrel organ (1845); Southern Times and Dorset County Herald (18 Apr. 1874) p.6 Netherbury (St Mary) : John Gray barrel organ installed 1828. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 1 (1828) p.61 *Portland, Reforne (St George) : Now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Barrel organ. *Puddletown (St Mary the Virgin) : John Gray barrel organ installed 1839. Replacement barrel organ transferred to Bere Regis 1852. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 3 (1839) p. 127; Dorset County Chronicle (28 Jun. 1855) p.4; Galpin (1934) p.150; Arthur Helps, A Guide to the the Ancient Church of St Mary’s, Puddletown (Bridport, 1938); MacDermott (1948) p.67; Bartlet (2016) Ryme Intrinseca (St Hippolytus) : Barrel organ. Ref: Western Gazette (8 Jan. 1886) p.4 *Sherborne (Abbey Church) : Barrel organ installed 1849. Sixpenny Handley (St Mary) : Barrel organ. Ref: NPOR, N10073 Steeple (St Michael & All Angels) : See Surviving instruments Stinsford (St Michael) : Barrel organ installed 1840. Ref: Timothy Hands, Thomas Hardy & Stinsford Church (Bridport, 1992) Studland (St Nicholas) : Barrel organ. Ref: Salisbury & Winchester Journal (10 Oct. 1896), p.8 Sturminster Marshall (St Mary) : Gray & Davison barrel & finger organ installed 1859. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 6 (1859) p.238 Tarrant Gunville (St Mary) : Gray & Davison barrel & finger organ installed 1852. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 5 (1852) p.239 *Tarrant Keyneston (All Saints) : Gray & Davison barrel & finger organ installed 1853. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 5 (1853) p.251 *Tyneham (St Mary) : Barrel organ. Parts used to build organ at Church Knowle. Ref: Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset (Mar. 1896) p.14; Budgen (1997) *Wimborne St Giles (St Giles) : Barrel organ destroyed by fire c.1908. * Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) pp.74-5