Ardleigh : Gray & Davison improved barrel organ installed 1854. Sold 1906. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger, 5 (1854), p.264; Chelmsford Chronicle (2 Apr. 1909) p.4 *Ashdon : Barrel organ converted to finger organ. Barling : Henry Bryceson barrel organ sold 1874. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (15 May 1874) p.5 Barnston : See Surviving instruments Bobbingworth (also known as Bovinger) : Barrel organ sold 1931. Ref: A.V. Phillips, Essex Review (Jul. 1918) p.158; Essex Record Office (ERO), D/P 127/6 Sale of old barrel organ (1931); Kilbey (2020) Bradfield : Gray & Davison barrel organ installed 1850. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger, 5 (1850) p.189; Chelmsford Chronicle (4 Jun. 1850) p.4 *Bradwell-on-Sea : T.C. Bates barrel & finger organ. Barrels removed. Ref: ERO, D/P 51/5/1 Churchwardens’ accounts Broomfield : John Rayment Rust improved barrel organ installed 1849. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (14 Dec. 1849) p.2 Buckhurst Hill : Barrel organ rebuilt 1860. Ref: NPOR, E00517 Bulphan : Barrel organ. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (30 Jan. 1863) p.3 Chipping Ongar : Barrel & finger organ installed 1835. Sold 1896. Ref: Essex Herald (26 May 1835) p.3 *Clavering : Gray & Davison barrel & finger organ installed 1845. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger, 4 (1845) p.263 Colchester (St Botolph) : Timothy Russell barrel & finger organ installed 1845. Ref: Essex Standard (2 Aug. 1890) p.8 Colchester (St Giles) : Timothy Russell barrel & finger organ installed 1854. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (21 Apr. 1854) p.3 *Corringham : Barrel organ. East Donyland : Henry Bryceson barrel & finger organ installed 1840. Ref: Essex Standard (8 May 1840) p.3 East Ham : J.C. Bishop barrel organ installed 1837. Replaced by barrel organ transferred from Stratford 1847. Ref: John Spencer Curwen, Studies in Worship Music (1880) p.93; Laurence Elvin, Forster and Andrews (Lincoln, 1976) p.20 East Hanningfield : Gray & Davison improved barrel organ installed 1843. Removed to rectory c.1860. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 4 (1843) p.212 East Horndon : Bevington & Sons barrel organ installed 1841. Ref: ERO, D/P 260/5/2 accounts (1841-2); Bevington & Sons (c.1841) *Elmstead : Dumb organist. Ref: Christopher Turner, ‘Pins, barrels and dumb organists’, Choir & Organ (Jan. 1997) pp.21-3 Epping : Joseph Walker barrel organ installed 1835. Ref: ERO, D/Q 19/42 Epping & associated charities (1841) *Epping Upland : Bevington & Sons barrel organ. Scrapped 2007. Faulkbourne : Transferred from Wickham Bishops. See Surviving instruments *Felsted : Bevington & Sons improved barrel & finger organ installed 1842. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (5 Aug. 1842) p.4; Bevington & Sons (1847) Fingringhoe : Barrel organ. Ref: Christopher Turner, ‘Barrel Organs’, BIOS Reporter (April 1997) Fobbing : See Surviving instruments Forest Gate : G.M. Holdich barrel organ installed 1854. Ref: ERO, D/P 592/5/10 Churchwardens’ a/cs (1854) *Fryerning : Flight & Robson barrel organ installed c.1820. Converted to finger organ 1870. Ref: ERO, D/P 249/5/1 Churchwardens' a/cs; E.E. Wilde, Ingatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning (London, 1913) pp.57-60 Goldhanger : Barrel organ. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (15 Jan. 1937) p.12 Gosfield : Gray & Son barrel organ installed 1839. BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger, 3 (1839) p.123 Great Baddow : Barrel organ installed 1832. Removed 1841. ERO, T/A 560/1 Great Baddow church & National Schools (1832) Great Burstead : Henry Bryceson barrel & finger organ installed 1844. Ref: Essex Herald (2 Jan. 1844) p.4 Great Clacton : Barrel organ. Ref: Essex Standard (21 May 1858) p.3 Great Dunmow : Barrel organ. Replaced by Henry Bryceson barrel & finger organ 1839. Ref: Essex Herald (8 Oct. 1839) p.1; Bevington (c.1841) *Great Leighs : W. Phillips barrel organ installed 1838. Sold to private collector 1914. Ref: E.S. Knights, Essex Review (1933); MacDermott (1948) p.68; John Hughes, The Singing Church in Essex: handbook to the exhibition of Essex church music held in Chelmsford Cathedral Chapter House during the second festival week, 3rd-12th June 1955 (1955) p.14; Country Life (26 Aug. 1965) p.520 Great Totham : Barrel organ. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (14 Sep. 1877) p.5 Great Waltham : Bevington & Sons barrel organ installed 1844. Barrel mechanism removed. Ref: ERO, D/P 121/8/1; Bevington & Sons (1847) In the same parish: North End (see below) *Hadstock : Barrel organ removed 1884. *Helions Bumpstead : J.W. Walker barrel & finger organ installed 1851. Barrel mechanism removed. Ref: Saffron Walden Weekly News (4 Oct. 1963) p.22; NPOR, N12929 High Ongar : Gray & Son improved barrel organ installed 1840. Sold 1871. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger, 3 (1840) p.134; Chelmsford Chronicle (28 Apr. 1871) p.1 Hockley : Barrel organ. Converted to finger organ 1842. Broken up c.2008. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (7 Apr. 1911) p.6 Hornchurch : Henry Bevington barrel organ installed 1833. Ref: Essex & Herts Mercury (23 Jul. 1833) p.4; H. Bevington, Psalms and Hymn-Tunes as set on the new organ ... in Hornchurch (London, c.1833); Bevington & Sons (c.1841) *Ingatestone : Barrel organ removed 1886. Ref: Wilde (1913) pp.57-60 *Layer-de-la-Haye : Imhof & Co. barrel organ installed 1845. Transferred to Colchester Museum. Ref: A.V. Phillips, Essex Review (Jul. 1918) pp.157-8; MacDermott (1948) p.68; NPOR, C00892 *Leytonstone : Barrel organ installed 1832. Little Dunmow : Bevington & Sons barrel organ installed c.1838. Ref: Bevington & Sons (c.1841) *Little Ilford : Barrel organ rebuilt 1892. Ref: ‘Little Ilford’, in: A History of the County of Essex, vol.6 (London, 1973) pp.163-74 Little Totham : Barrel organ. Ref: Essex Herald (10 Dec. 1883) p.5 Little Waltham : Bevington & Son barrel organ installed 1839. Converted to finger organ 1866. Ref: ERO, D/P 220/8/1 Vestry minutes (1839); Chelmsford Chronicle (1 Feb. 1839) p.2; Bevington & Sons (c.1841) Loughton (Essex), St John : Elliot & Hill barrel organ transferred from Loughton, St Nicholas 1847. Ref: ERO, D/P 233/6/17 Correspondence & papers (c.1830) Loughton (Essex), St Nicholas : Elliot & Hill barrel organ installed 1831. Transferred to Loughton, St John 1847. Ref: ERO, D/P 233/6/17 Correspondence & papers (c.1830) Maldon : Barrel organ. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (14 Oct. 1864) p.5 Manningtree : Barrel organ installed 1824. Ref: NPOR, R02038 Marks Tey : Barrel organ. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (10 Aug. 1928) p.4 *Moreton : Barrel organ installed 1869. Ref: A.V. Phillips, Essex Review (Jul. 1918) pp.157-8 Noak Hill : Gray & Davison barrel organ installed 1843. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger, 4 (1843) p.217 North End (in the parish of Great Waltham): See Surviving instruments Pebmarsh : Barrel organ. Ref: Thomas Denis Scott Payley, Pebmarsh Church, Essex (Oxford, 1946) p.48 Pleshey : John Rayment Rust barrel organ installed 1846. Ref: Essex Herald (24 Nov. 1846) p.2 Prittlewell : James Eagles barrel & finger organ installed 1839. Ref: The Times (22 Oct. 1839); Essex Standard (15 Nov. 1839) p.2 *Ramsey (Essex) : Barrel organ. *Roydon : Barrel organ. Sandon : Barrel organ. Ref: Essex Herald (21 Apr. 1868) p.4 Shalford : Timothy Russell barrel organ installed 1847. Ref: Essex Herald (20 Apr. 1847) p.2 Southminster : Bevington & Sons improved barrel & finger organ installed 1840. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (25 Sept. 1840) p.2 South Weald : Barrel organ installed 1802; replaced by improved barrel organ, sold 1867. Ref: ERO, D/P 128/8/4 Vestry minutes (1802); Chelmsford Chronicle (5 Jul. 1867) p.1 Springfield : John Rayment Rust barrel & finger organ installed 1851. Ref: Essex Herald (22 Apr. 1851) p.2 *Stansted Mountfitchet : Flight & Robson barrel organ installed c.1820. Converted to finger organ 1966. Stapleford Tawney : J.W. Walker barrel organ sold 1873. Ref: Essex Herald (27 May 1873) p.1 Stebbing : Bevington & Son barrel organ installed 1839. Ref: Essex Standard (15 Feb. 1839) p.2; Bevington & Sons (c.1841) *Stock : Barrel organ installed 1843. Converted to finger organ 1870. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (21 Jul. 1843) p.1; F.W. Austen, Rectors of Two Essex Parishes and their Times (1943) p.380 *Stondon Massey : Joseph Walker barrel organ installed 1850. Stratford : Barrel organ transferred to East Ham 1847. Ref: Essex Times (9 Feb. 1889) p.6; Musical Opinion (Nov. 1895) p. 85 Takeley : Bevington & Sons improved barrel & finger organ installed 1849. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (20 Apr. 1849) p.2 Theydon Bois : Barrel organ sold 1843. Ref: Theydon Bois Official Guide, 2nd edn. (n.d.) p.10 Theydon Garnon : Barrel organ; replaced by Bevington & Sons improved barrel organ 1858. Ref: ERO, D/P 152/8/4 Vestry minutes (1864); Chelmsford Chronicle (4 Jun. 1858) p.1 & (10 Feb. 1865) p.1 *Thorpe-le-Soken : Flight & Robson barrel organ transferred from Islington (Middx.) 1835. Ref: ERO, D/P 8/6/25-37 Papers relating to barrel organ (1835); Country Life (30 Sep. 1965) *Tolleshunt d’Arcy : J.W. Walker barrel & finger organ installed 1856. Ref: NPOR, D01266 *Upminster : Barrel organ. Ref: Hughes (1955) p.14 *Waltham Abbey : Flight & Robson barrel organ installed 1819. Rebuilt 1860. Ref: E.W. Gallagher, ‘The Organ at Waltham Abbey’, The Organ (Jul. 1958); NPOR, R02102 Walton-on-the-Naze : Barrel organ. Ref: Essex Standard (7 Aug. 1880) p.8 *Wennington : Hill & Davison barrel organ installed 1838. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (17 Aug. 1838) p.4; ERO, T/P 50/14 Notes on Wennington West Hanningfield : John Rayment Rust improved barrel organ installed 1855. Barrels transferred to private collection. Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle (16 Nov. 1855), p.3 & (9 May 1862) p.2 Wickham Bishops : See Faulkbourne Widford (Essex) : John Rayment Rust barrel organ installed 1850. Ref: Essex Herald (23 Apr. 1850) p.2; NPOR, D06514 Writtle : Bevington & Sons barrel & finger organ installed 1842. Ref: Bevington & Sons (c.1841); Essex Herald (18 Jan. 1842) p.3 * Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) pp.75-77