© Maggie Kilbey 2025
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Lincolnshire
*Allington (Holy Trinity) : Forster & Andrews barrel organ
installed 1849. Ref: Elvin (1976) p.25
Ancaster (St Martin) : Barrel organ installed 1826. Ref:
Grantham Journal (29 Oct. 1859) p.3; Robert Pacey,
Lincolnshire Church Organs (Burgh le Marsh, 2002) p.9
Anderby (St Andrew) : Barrel organ. Ref: Pacey (2002) p.9
*Barrowby (All Saints) : Forster & Andrews barrel organ
installed 1849. Ref: Elvin (1976) p.25; Pacey (2002) p.12
Barton-upon-Humber (St Mary) : John Ward barrel organ
installed 1825. Transferred to Ballidon (Derbys.) 1856.
Ref: Sir Stephen Glynne, ‘Church Notes’, Antiquary, 34 (July.
1898) p.201; Stamford Mercury (4 Apr. 1856) p.2; NPOR,
R01621
*Belton (St Peter & St Paul) : H. Bryceson barrel organ
installed 1816. Ref: L.S. Barnard, ‘Buckingham’s Travels: Part
VII’, The Organ, vol.LIII no.211 (1973-74) p.78; MacDermott
(1948) p.69; Pacey (2002) p.14
*Bishop Norton (St Peter) : Barrel organ transferred from
Market Rasen 1854. Ref: Elvin (1976) p.30; Pacey (2002) p.15
Blankney (St Oswald) : Barrel organ. Ref: Pacey (2002) p.16
Branston (All Saints) : Barrel organ. Ref: Grantham Journal
(28 Aug. 1909) p.3
*Broughton (Lincs.) (St Mary) : Forster & Andrews barrel &
finger organ installed 1847. Ref: Elvin (1976) p.22; Pacey
(2002) p.22
*Burton-upon-Stather (St Andrew) : Barrel organ. Ref: E.L.
Blanchard (ed.), Dugdale's England and Wales delineated
(London, 1860) 2, p.291; J.T.F., ‘Letter’, Notes and Queries, X (6
May 1922) p.353; Pacey (2002) p.23
Careby (St Stephen) : Barrel organ. Sold 1848. Ref:
Lincolnshire Chronicle (3 Mar. 1848) p.4
*Carlton-le-Moorland (St Mary) : Barrel organ installed
1863. Scrapped c.1885. Ref: The Organ (Jul. 1958); Pacey
(2002) p.24
*Colsterworth (St John the Baptist) : Forster & Andrews
barrel & finger organ installed 1853.
Ref: Elvin (1976) p.30; Pacey (2002) p.26
Cumberworth (St Helen) : Barrel organ. Ref: Pacey (2002)
p.29
Denton (St Andrew) : Bevington & Sons improved barrel
organ installed 1843. Converted to finger organ.
Ref: Bevington & Sons (1847); Lincolnshire Chronicle (4 Aug.
1843) p.3; Leicester Journal (11 Aug. 1843) p.2; Lincoln, Rutland
& Stamford Mercury (18 Aug. 1843); Andrew Hayden, 'Star
Organ', The Organ (Feb. 2006) pp.2-7
*Donington (St Mary & the Holy Rood) : Timothy Russell
barrel organ. Ref: Stamford Mercury (27 Oct. 1837)
Ewerby (St Andrew) : John Gray barrel & finger organ
installed 1830. Barrel mechanism removed 1837. Ref: Pacey
(2002) p.32
*Fleet (St Mary Magdalene) : E. & J. Pistor barrel organ.
Transferred to Royal Pump Room, Harrogate.
Ref: Boston (1959) p.123; Harrogate Advertiser (13 Jan. 1962);
Pacey (2002) p.33
Frampton (St Mary) : G.M. Holdich barrel & finger organ
installed 1844. Ref: Pacey (2002) p.34
Fulbeck (St Nicholas) : Gray & Davison barrel organ installed
1848. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 4 (1848) p.180; Pacey
(2002) p.35
Gedney (St Mary Magdalene) : Thomas S. Robson barrel
organ installed 1835. Ref: Pacey (2002) p.37
*Gosberton (St Peter & St Paul) : Flight & Son barrel organ
installed 1836. Ref: Walter Jenkinson Kaye, A Brief History of
the Church and parish of Gosberton (London, 1897) pp.54-55;
Pacey (2002) p.37
*Great Ponton (Holy Cross) : Forster & Andrews barrel
organ installed 1848. Converted to barrel & finger organ
1852. Ref: Elvin (1976) p.22; Pacey (2002) p.41
*Grimsby (St Mary & St James) : Flight & Robson barrel
organ installed 1800.
Ref: George Oliver, The History and Antiquities of [...] St James,
Great Grimsby (Grimsby, 1829) pp.41-2; Stephen E. Maltby,
‘The Organs of St James’ Church, Grimsby’, The Organ (Jan.
1983) pp.24-35; Pacey (2002) p.43; Kilbey (2019)
Halton Holegate (St Andrew) : Barrel organ. Ref:
haltonholegatestandrew.co.uk/church-history-2/the-organ/
*Harlaxton (St Mary & St Peter) : Forster & Andrews barrel &
finger organ installed 1856. Ref: Elvin (1976) p.26; Pacey
(2002) p.46
Haugham (All Saints) : Now in the care of the Churches
Conservation Trust. Barrel organ. Ref: NPOR, D04745
Horncastle (Holy Trinity) : H.C. Lincoln barrel & finger organ
transferred from Horncastle (St Mary) 1860. Sold 1869.
Ref: Pacey (2002) p.51
Horncastle (St Mary) : H.C. Lincoln barrel & finger organ
installed 1810. Transferred to Horncastle (Holy Trinity).
Ref: Pacey (2002) p.51
*Huttoft (St Margaret) : See Surviving instruments
Kingerby (St Peter) : Now in the care of the Churches
Conservation Trust. Barrel organ transferred to Snelland
1977. Ref: Pacey (2002) p.53
*Louth (Holy Trinity) : Forster & Andrews barrel & finger
organ installed 1846. Sold 1870. Ref: Elvin (1976) p.22; Pacey
(2002) p.64
Mablethorpe (St Mary) : Barrel organ. Ref: Pacey (2002) p.65
*Manthorpe (St John the Evangelist) : J.W. Walker barrel
organ installed 1858. Ref: Lincolnshire Chronicle (4 June 1858)
p.6; J.T.F., Letter, Notes and Queries, X (6 May 1922) p.353;
Boston (1959) p.114; Pacey (2002) p.66
Market Deeping (St Guthlac) : Barrel organ. Ref: Organists'
Review (Dec. 2019), p. 36
*Market Rasen (St Thomas) : Barrel organ installed 1847.
Transferred to Bishop Norton 1854.
Ref: Stamford Mercury (1847); Pacey (2002) p.67
Nocton (St Peter) : B. Flight barrel organ. Ref: Pacey (2002)
p.70
North Owersby (St Martin) : Forster & Andrews barrel &
finger organ installed 1849. ‘Chopped up for firewood’ 1940.
Ref: Elvin (1976) p.23; Pacey (2002) p.71
North Thoresby (St Helen) : Barrel organ. Transferred to
private collection. Ref: Lincolnshire Standard and Boston
Guardian (14 Sep. 1940) p.6
Old Bolingbroke (St Peter & St Paul) : H.C. Lincoln barrel
organ. Ref: Pacey (2002) p.72
Raithby (St Peter) : See Surviving instruments
*Scremby (St Peter & St Paul) : Barrel organ. Ref: Pacey
(2002) p.77
Snelland (All Saints) : Barrel organ transferred from
Kingerby 1977. Ref: NPOR, D04167
*South Elkington (All Saints) : Flight & Robson barrel organ
installed 1836. Transferred to Tansley (Derbys.) 1848.
Ref: Hull Packet (17 Nov. 1848) p.1; Elvin (1976) p.31; Pacey
(2002) p.81
South Ferriby (St Nicholas) : Barrel organ installed 1846.
Ref: Elvin (1976) p.21
South Kyme (St Mary & All Saints) : Barrel organ. Ref: Elvin
(1976) p.28
*Spridlington (St Hilary) : Robson & Son barrel organ
transferred from Ventnor (Hants.) 1859.
Ref: Elvin (1976) p.28; Pacey (2002) p.84
Stoke (St Mary & St Andrew) : G.M. Holdich barrel organ
installed 1840. Ref: Lincolnshire Chronicle (23 Oct. 1840) p.3
Sutton Bridge (St Matthew) : Joseph Walker barrel & finger
organ installed 1846. Ref: Stamford Mercury (25 Dec. 1846)
p. 5
Swineshead (St Mary the Virgin) : Barrel & finger organ.
Ref: Stamford Mercury (13 Jan. 1843) p.2
Syston (St Mary) : Joseph Walker barrel organ installed 1866.
Converted to finger organ 1876. Ref: NPOR, N14453
Tallington (St Lawrence) : H.C. Lincoln barrel & finger organ.
Transferred to Stoke Dry (Rutland) 1878. Ref: Davidson
(2003) p.186
Tathwell (St Vedast) : Gray & Son barrel organ installed
1839. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 2 (1840) p.123
*Theddlethorpe-All-Saints (All Saints) : Now in the care of
the Churches Conservation Trust. Barrel organ.
Ref: J.T.F., ‘Letter’, Notes and Queries, X (6 May 1922) p.353;
Boston (1959) p.114; Pacey (2002) p.89
*West Halton (St Etheldreda) : Barrel organ. Ref: J.T.F.,
‘Letter’, Notes and Queries, X (6 May 1922) p.353
Wrangle (St Mary & St Nicholas) : Barrel & finger organ
installed 1827. Ref: NPOR, D04380
Wyberton (St Leodegar) : Barrel organ. Ref: William Beebey
Lighton, Autobiography and Early Reminiscences (Albany, 1854)
p.255
* Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber
Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) pp.83-5