Baldock : Chamber organ with barrel mechanism added by John Gray 1835. Ref: Cadbury Research Library (CRL), John Gray Ledger 1 (1835) p.129 Barkway : Barrel organ installed 1844. Ref: HALS, DP13/5/2-3 Bengeo : T.C. Bates & Son improved barrel organ installed 1850. Ref: HALS, DP17/6/13; HG (24 Mar. 1860) p.5; Chelmsford Chronicle (7 Sep. 1928) p.5 Berkhamsted : Barrel organ installed 1819. Ref: HALS, DP19/6/11; DP19/6/1; HMR (28 Apr. 1849) p.3 Bovingdon : Barrel organ transferred from Stanmore (Middx.) 1853. Ref: CRL, Gray & Davison Ledger 5 (1853) p.155 Bramfield : Barrel organ installed 1842. Ref: HALS, DP22/12/4 *Braughing : Barrel organ installed 1810. Replaced by Bishop & Sons barrel & finger organ c.1850. Ref: HALS, DP23/5/1; St James's Chronicle (24 Jul. 1810) p.1; Evening Mail (25 Sep. 1811) p.1; Star (London) (17 Sep. 1811) p.1; P.G. Ward, A History of Braughing Church and its Benefactors (1888) p. 17 Broxbourne : Barrel organ installed 1804. Replaced by H.C. Lincoln barrel organ installed 1831. Ref: HALS, DP24/5/2-14; DP24/6/4; DE/Hd/F3 *Bushey Heath : G.M. Holdich dumb organist installed 1845. Ref: www.stpeterbusheyheath.org.uk/section/13 Cheshunt (St James) : Bates barrel & finger organ installed 1862. Ref: HMR (2 Aug. 1862) p.3; HG (2 Aug. 1862) p.8 *Cheshunt (St Mary) : Not a church barrel organ. Ref: NPOR, N14061 *Chipping Barnet : Flight & Robson barrel organ installed 1824. Ref: HALS, DP15/5/2, DP15/12/5 *Cottered : B. Flight & Sons barrel organ installed 1832. Ref: H.T. Pollard, ‘Cottered Church’, Transactions, East Herts Archaeological Society, vol.III part II (Hertford, 1907) p.164; J.E. Cussans, History of Hertfordshire, I (London, 1870) p.183 *East Barnet : Flight & Robson barrel organ installed 1824. Ref: HMR (15 Nov. 1862) p.2; F.C. Cass, East Barnet, I (1885) p.182 *Elstree : George Parsons barrel organ installed 1826. Ref: HALS, DP36/5/1; BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 5, p.254 Essendon : ?William Pilcher barrel organ installed 1851. Ref: HALS, DP37/5/4; Ord-Hume (1978) p.137 Flaunden : Barrel organ installed c.1838. Ref: Judith Burg (ed.), Religion in Hertfordshire 1847-51, Hertfordshire Record Society, vol.XI (Hertford, 1995) p.184 Great Amwell : ?William Allen barrel organ installed 1825. Ref: CRL, Gray & Davison Ledger 2 (1844) p.175; HALS, DP4/5/1-8; Hertfordshire Almanac (27 Jul. 1866) p.94 *Great Gaddesdon : Dumb organist installed 1850. Sold 1863. Ref: British Library, Add MS 47775A; Musical Times (1 Mar. 1863) p.18; HMR (16 May 1863) p.3; MacDermott (1948) p.68 Great Hormead : Barrel organ installed 1855. Ref: HALS, DP55/5/1 *Great Wymondley : Barrel organ installed c.1844. Ref: Percy A. Scholes, ‘Barrel Organs in Church’, Radio Times (2 Mar. 1934) p.620 Hertingfordbury : Barrel organ installed 1842. Ref: HALS, DP/50/8/3 Vestry minutes (1842) Hexton : John Gray barrel & finger organ installed 1826. Barrel mechanism removed. Ref: BOA, John Gray Ledger (1826) p.35; Cussans, History, II, p.10; E.E. Squires, ‘St Faith’s Church, Hexton’, Transactions, East Herts Archaeological Society, vol.IV part I (Hertford, 1909) p.48; Maggie Kilbey, ‘Hexton, Hertfordshire: A Tale of Two Organs’, Organists’ Review (Jun. 2017) pp.40-1 Hitchin : Charles Green barrel organ installed 1805. Ref: HALS, DP53/8/2; DP53/29/9 Miscellaneous items (1805); DE/R/F220; HMR (27 Feb. 1858) p.3 Hoddesdon : ?R.W. Keith barrel organ installed 1805. Converted to finger organ. Ref: HALS, DP24A/5/1-3; DP24A/6/10; DP24A/8/10; HMR (4 Nov. 1865) p.3 *Hunsdon : ?Joseph Walker barrel organ installed 1827. Ref: HALS, DP57/5/2; J.E. Morris, ‘Hunsdon Church’, Transactions, East Herts Archaeological Society, vol.II part I, pp. 50-1; MacDermott (1948) p.68 Ickleford : T.C. Bates & Son barrel organ installed 1849. Ref: HALS, DP58/5/1; Cussans, History, II, p.29 Kimpton : Barrel organ installed c.1819. Ref: HALS, DP61/1/2; John Pollington, Kimpton Parish Church (1978) Little Gaddesden : Barrel organ installed c.1849. Ref: H. Senar, Little Gaddesden (Chichester, 1983) pp.86, 134 & 157; V. Bell, Little Gaddesden (London, 1949) p.165 Markyate : Barrel organ installed 1830. Replaced by Gray & Son barrel organ 1840. Replaced by Gray & Davison barrel organ 1844. Ref: Incorporated Church Building Society (ICBS) 1133; CRL, Gray & Davison Ledger 2 (1842) p.152 & vol. 3 (1840) p.143 *Much Hadham : Barrel organ installed 1827. Replaced by Gray & Davison improved barrel organ 1844. Ref: HALS, DP44/5/1; CRL, Gray & Davison Ledger 2 (1844) p.166 & vol. 6 (1859) p.249; HMR (26 Nov. 1859) p.3 North Mymms : John Gray barrel & finger organ installed 1820. Ref: HALS, DP69/5/1; CRL, John Gray Ledger 1 (1831) p.89 Northchurch : Barrel organ installed 1836. Ref: HALS, DP74/5/24 Churchwardens’ accounts (1836) Norton (Herts) : Gray & Son improved barrel organ installed 1840. Sold 1909. Ref: CRL, Gray & Davison Ledger 3 (1840) p.138; G. Aylott, ‘Norton Manor and Church’, Transactions, East Herts Archaeological Society, vol.II part III (Hertford, 1904) p.276; Hertfordshire Express and General Advertiser (23 Mar. 1935) p.2 Offley : Barrel organ installed 1861. Ref: HALS, DP76/5/1 Pirton : Barrel organ installed1854. Ref: HALS, DP80/4/1-2; Church Bells (6 March 1875), p.162; (13 March 1875), p.175 Radwell : H. Bryceson barrel organ installed 1837. Ref: HMR (31 Oct. 1837) p.3 Redbourn : Barrel organ installed 1848. Ref: LPL, ICBS 4042 (1848); Luton Times and Advertiser (19 Aug. 1910) p.7; A. Featherstone, Redbourn’s History (Redbourn, 2001) p.208; Rickmansworth : H. Bryceson barrel organ installed 1826. Ref: HALS, DP85/5/1 Ridge : Bevington & Son barrel organ installed 1851. Ref: Kelly’s Post Office Directory of Hertfordshire (1851) p.215; HALS, DP86/5/2 (1854) Royston : Barrel organ installed c.1820. Ref: CRL, Gray & Davison Ledger 6 (1820) p.121 *Sacombe : Bevington & Sons barrel organ installed c.1840. Transferred to Hertford Museum 1939, HETFM.3400. Ref: MacDermott (1948) p.68 *St Albans (St Michael): ?J.C. Bishop barrel organ installed 1833. Transferred to St Albans Organ Theatre c.1982. Ref: St Michael’s, St Albans, Vestry order book 21 (1819-34), Churchwardens’ papers 4 (1831-4), Correspondence (1974), Notes on barrel organ (n.d.); HMR (19 Jun. 1858) p.3; HG (30 Mar. 1867) p.5; Herts Advertiser (18 Jan. 1902) p.5; Anon., English Church History Exhibition (St Albans, 1905); Country Life (15 Jul. 1965), p. 175 St Ippolyts : Barrel organ installed 1840. Ref: HALS, DP59/5/2 *St Pauls Walden : Dumb organist installed 1850. Ref: BL, Add MS 47775A; MacDermott (1948) pp.42 & 68 Stanstead Abbots : B. Flight barrel organ installed c.1832. Ref: HG (2 Mar. 1867) p.5 *Stanstead St Margaret : See Surviving instruments Stevenage : John Gray barrel & finger organ installed 1836. Ref: CRL, John Gray Ledger 1 (1836) 132; HALS, DP105/3/3 (1836) *Stocking Pelham : T.C. Bates & Son barrel organ installed c.1848. Ref: BL, Add MS 47775A; H.T. Pollard, ‘Stocking Pelham Church’, Transactions, East Herts Archaeological Society, Vol.II part I (Hertford, 1906) p.76; MacDermott (1948) *Studham : Gray & Davison improved barrel organ installed 1842. Ref: NPOR, N09441 Thorley : Barrel organ installed 1850. Ref: HALS, DP108/5/1 Thundridge : Barrel organ installed 1849. Ref: HALS, DP110/8/2; HMR (12 Nov. 1853) p.3 Tring : Barrel organ installed 1832. Ref: HALS, DP111/8/20; HG (13 Jan. 1863) p.2 Walkern : Barrel organ installed 1842. Ref: HALS, DP114/8/1 *Watford : Joseph Walker barrel & finger organ installed 1842. Ref: HALS, DP117/5/1, DP117/8/1-3; MacDermott (1948) pp.41 & 68 Watton-at-Stone : J.C. Bishop barrel organ installed 1839. Ref: HALS, DP118/8/13 (1839); HMR (18 Apr. 1840) p.3 Welwyn : Gray & Davison barrel organ installed 1854. Ref: CRL, Gray & Davison Ledger 5 (1854) p.272 Westmill : H. Bryceson barrel organ installed 1829. Ref: HALS, DP120/1/4 Weston : William Hill barrel organ installed 1842. Ref: NPOR, D00528 *Wheathampstead : ?William Allen barrel organ installed 1829. Ref: HALS, DP122/5/1 (1818-29), DP122/29/9 Canon Owen Davys, Typescript history & guide to church (1908); HG (11 May 1867) p.5 Widford (Herts) : Barrel organ installed 1868. Ref: HALS, DP123/6/1 Willian : Barrel organ installed c.1831. Ref: HALS, DP125/1/3 (1864), DP125/5/1; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, 4 (London, 1831) p.475; HMR (12 Nov. 1864) p.3; Peter Harkness, All Saints ... and Sinners (1999) p.41 Wormley : Barrel organ installed 1844. Ref: LPL, ICBS 3423 (1844); HALS, DP126/8/2; 'Parishes: Wormley', in A History of the County of Hertford: vol.3 (London, 1912) pp.487-490. BHO http://www.british- history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol3/pp487-490 [accessed 15 June 2017] * Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) pp.79-81

For details see Maggie Kilbey, Music-making in the Hertfordshire parish 1760 to 1870 (Hatfield, 2020).

Abbots Langley : Barrel organ installed c.1840. Ref: Raymond Stewart Wilkinson, The Church and Parish of Abbots Langley (Abbots Langley, 1959) pp.91-2 *Aldenham : John Gray barrel organ installed c.1820, replaced by Gray & Davison barrel & finger organ 1853. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 5 (1853) p.199; Hertfordshire Archives and Library Services (HALS), DP3/29/17; Kenneth F. Gibbs, The Parish Registers of Aldenham (St Albans, 1902) p.204; MacDermott (1948) p.68 Ardeley (aka Yardley) : Barrel organ installed 1840. Ref: Hertford Mercury and Reformer (HMR) (21 Dec. 1850) p.1 Aspenden : H. Bryceson barrel organ installed 1821. Ref: HALS, DP8/1/3; Herts Guardian (HG) (27 May 1856) p.3 *Ayot St Lawrence : Barrel & finger organ installed c.1780. Barrel mechanism removed 1964. Ref: Nikolaus Pevsner & Bridget Cherry, Hertfordshire, Buildings of England, 2nd edn. (London, 1977) p.79; ‘The early use of barrel organs in the English parish church’, JBIOS, 43 (2019) pp.58-71