Barnard Castle (St Mary the Virgin) : James Davis barrel organ installed 1822. Converted to finger organ 1846. Ref: Newcastle Guardian (28 Mar. 1846) 5 Chester-le-Street (St Mary & St Cuthbert) : Nicholson barrel organ. Ref: Elvin (1986) 157 Chopwell now Tyne & Wear (St John the Evangelist) : Barrel organ ex Greenside 1905. Rebuilt 1936. Ref: NPOR, T00039 Durham (St Margaret) : Flight & Robson barrel organ installed 1828. Ref: Buckingham (1972-5); Durham County Advertiser (14 Dec. 1906) p.8; Durham Chronicle (28 Jul. 1916) 7 Durham (St Nicholas) : Barrel organ. Ref: Durham Chronicle (22 Sep. 1837) 3 Greenside now Tyne & Wear (St John) : Barrel organ ex Ryton 1886. Transferred to Chopwell 1905. Ref: NPOR, K00515 *Pelton (Holy Trinity) : Bates & Son improved barrel organ installed 1853. Ref: Chester-le-Street Chronicle and District Advertiser (13 Jan. 1933) p.5; Boston (1950) 111 Redmarshall (St Cuthbert) : Barrel & finger organ. Ref: ‘Parishes: Redmarshall’, in A History of the County of Durham: vol.3 (London, 1928) 315-321, BHO www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/durham/vol3/pp315-321 *Roseworth (St Chad) : J.W. Walker barrel & finger organ ex Balsham (Cambs.) 1956. Barrels lost. *Ryton, Durham (Holy Cross) : Wood, Small, & Co., Edinburgh barrel & finger organ installed 1828. Transferred to Greenside 1886. Replaced with Wood & Small barrel & finger organ. Ref: Newcastle Courant (20 Dec. 1828) 2-3; Newcastle Chronicle (6 May 1939) 4 Seaham Harbour (St John) : Robert Postill barrel organ installed 1840. Ref: William Fordyce, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, vol.II (London 1857) 592 *Whitburn (St Mary) : Barrel organ. Ref: Haydn T. Giles, Letter, Notes and Queries, X (17 Jun. 1922) 477 Winlaton (St Paul) : Wood, Small, & Co., Edinburgh barrel & finger organ installed 1828. Ref: Newcastle Courant (20 Dec. 1828) 2-3 * Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) 75

Barnard Castle

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