Ashby Magna (St Mary) : Bevington & Son barrel organ. Sold 1867. Ref: Musical Times (1 Mar. 1867) 4 Ashby Parva (St Peter) : H. Bryceson barrel organ installed 1856. Sold 1866. Ref: Musical Times (1 Mar. 1867) 4 *Barkby (St Mary) : Forster & Andrews dumb organist installed 1848. Ref: The Dramatic and Musical Review (1848) 221; Morning Post (6 Jul. 1849) 3; David E.G. Shuker, Historic Organs of Leicestershire (Rothley, 2010) 22-3 *Barkestone (St Peter & St Paul) : Bates barrel organ. Converted to finger organ 1862. Ref: Laurence Elvin, Forster and Andrews: their Barrel, Chamber and Small Church organs (Lincoln, 1976) 29 Claybrook Parva (St Peter) : Bunting of London barrel organ installed 1830. Ref: Northampton Mercury (17 Apr. 1830) 3 *Coalville (Christ Church) : J.W. Walker dumb organist purchased 1868. Ref: Plumley (2023) *Cold Overton (St John the Baptist) : H. Bryceson barrel organ. Transferred to Newarke Houses Museum, Leicester. Ref: Leicester Chronicle (1 Aug. 1969) 12-3; Budgen (2017) 65

Cranoe (St Michael) : Barrel organ. Ref: Daily Express (18 Feb. 1935) 10 Diseworth (St Michael & All Angels) : John Gray barrel organ installed 1824. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 1 (1824) 42; L.S. Barnard, ‘Buckingham’s Travels: Part VII’, The Organ, vol.LIII no.211 (1973-74) 79 East Norton (All Saints) : Barrel organ. Ref: Andrew David Hedderwick Trollope, An Inventory of the Church Plate of Leicestershire, with some account of the donors, 1 (1890) 253 Hinckley (Holy Trinity) : Barrel organ installed 1839. Ref: Hinckley Past & Present www.hinckleypastpresent.org/holytrinitychurch.html [accessed 16 Oct. 2023] Kings Norton (St John the Baptist) : Gray & Davison barrel organ installed 1847. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 4 (1847) 291 Norton-juxta-Twycross (Holy Trinity) : See Surviving instruments Oadby (St Peter) : Barrel organ. Ref: Leicester & Rutland History, Gazetteer and Directory (1863) 764 *Orton-on-the-Hill (St Edith) : Barrel organ. Transferred to Orton Hall. Plungar (St Helen) : Barrel organ. Ref: Melton Mowbray Times & Vale of Belvoir Gazette (9 May 1991) 7 Rothley (St Mary) : Bates & Son dumb organist installed 1855. Ref: Leicestershire Mercury (12 May 1855) 3 Saxelby (St Peter) : Barrel organ. Ref: Melton Mowbray Times and Vale of Belvoir Gazette (20 Oct. 1961) 7 *South Kilworth (St Nicholas) : Gray & Davison barrel & finger organ installed 1846. Barrel mechanism removed 1948. Ref: Boston (1959) 114; Coventry Evening Standard (18 Aug. 1969) 9 Swepstone (St Peter) : Barrel organ. Ref: NPOR, E01960 Thurmaston (St Michael & All Angels) : Barrel organ. Ref: Leicester Evening Mail (9 Dec. 1938) 10 Tugby (St Thomas Becket) : Barrel organ. Ref: Melton Mowbray Times & Vale of Belvoir Gazette (3 Jul. 1896) 5 Waltham-on-the-Wolds (St Mary) : John Gray barrel organ installed 1833. Converted to finger organ 1834. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 1 (1833) 105 Welham (St Andrew) : Barrel organ. Ref: Daily Express (18 Feb. 1935) 10 Wistow (St Wistan) : Flight & Robson barrel organ. Ref: Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Record Office DG24/1035/4 Flight & Robson to Sir Henry Halford, Wistow (1820) Witherley (St Peter) : Barrel organ. Ref: Nuneaton Observer (15 Feb. 1889) 5 * Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) 83

*Burley-on-the-Hill (Holy Cross) : Now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. B. Flight & Son barrel organ installed 1795. Ref: Pearl Finch, History of Burley-on-the-Hill, vol. I (London, 1901) 18; Grantham Journal (23 Feb. 1935) 14; Boston (1959) 118; Davidson (2003) 177 Exton (St Peter & St Paul) : John Gray barrel organ transferred to Stotfold (Beds.) 1844. Ref: Davidson (2003) 179 Greetham (St Mary the Virgin) : John Gray barrel & finger organ. Ref: Davidson (2003) 180 Liddington (St Andrew) : See Surviving instruments *North Luffenham (St John the Baptist) : Barrel organ. Ref: Boston (1959) 118; Davidson (2003) 183 Oakham (All Saints) : Barrel organ. Ref: Grantham Journal (1 Oct. 1938) 6 Stoke Dry (St Andrew) : H.C. Lincoln barrel & finger organ ex Tallington (Lincs.) 1878. Barrel mechanism removed 1890. Ref: Davidson (2003) 186 Wardley (St Botolph) : Now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. See Surviving instruments * Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) 90-1

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