*Attleborough (Assumption of the BVM) : Joseph Walker barrel organ installed 1846. Transferred to collection of Canon Boston. Ref: Norfolk Record Office (NRO), PD 438/15 Papers relating to alterations (1841-52); White, Directory of Norfolk (1854); Boston (1959) 116 *Barnham Broom (St Peter & St Paul) : James Corps of Norwich barrel & finger organ installed 1850. Barrel mechanism removed. Ref: NRO, PD326/21 Banks-Upcher Correspondence; Norfolk Chronicle (1 Apr. 1848) 1 & (9 Sept. 1848) 2; Norfolk News (20 Apr. 1850) 2; Eastern Daily Press (15 May 1935) 7 *Barton Turf (St Michael) : T.C. Bates & Son barrel organ. Converted to finger organ c.1870. Ref: NRO, PD187/39 Churchwardens’ accounts Beeston St Lawrence (St Lawrence) : Barrel organ installed 1826. Ref: NPOR, N06144 Blofield (St Andrew) : Bishop & Sons barrel organ installed 1848. Replaced by Bates barrel organ; transferred to Norton Subcourse 1877. Ref: Elvin (1984) 102 *Boughton (All Saints) : Barrel & finger organ. Ref: Norfolk Chronicle (4 Oct. 1873) 6

Brandon (St Peter) : Barrel organ. Ref: Norfolk Chronicle (4 Oct. 1873) 6 Bressingham (St John) : See Surviving instruments *Brisley (St Bartholomew) : Henry Bevington barrel & finger organ installed 1832. Barrel mechanism removed. Ref: Ralph Bootman, ‘Some Organs in Norfolk and the Diocese of Norwich’, The Organ (Autumn 1997) 194-7 Caston (Holy Cross) : Barrel organ ex West Tofts c.1854. Ref: Caston On Line www.caston-online.co.uk/theparishchurch [accessed 6 Jan. 2025] Catfield (All Saints) : Barrel organ. Ref: Evening News, London (22 Apr. 1926) 2 *Diss (St Mary) : Benjamin Flight barrel organ installed 1789. Transferred to Wortham (Suffolk) 1844. Ref: NRO, PD100/62 Churchwardens’ accounts, PD100/78 (1713), PD100/81 Accounts of sexton/organist (1813-22); William Gardiner, Music and Friends, or, Pleasant Recollections of a Dilettante, III (London, 1838-53) 94-5; Diss Express (5 Nov. 1943) 5; E. Pursehouse, Waveney Valley Studies: Gleanings from Local History (Diss, 1966) 260; Kilbey (2019); NPOR, K00428 *East Raynham (St Mary) : H. Bryceson barrel & finger organ installed 1852. Converted to finger organ. Ref: NRO, PD369/34 Rector’s Annals of the consolidated rectories of East and West Raynham (1853) *East Rudham (St Mary) : Robson & Son barrel organ installed 1837. Ref: NRO, PD 415/38-39 Churchwardens’ accounts (1837-67); Norfolk Chronicle (16 Jun. 1888) 4; Lynn Advertiser (26 Apr. 1890) 4; Boston (1959) 117 *Feltwell (St Mary) : Hill barrel organ installed 1838. Fersfield (St Andrew) : See Surviving instruments Garboldisham (St John the Baptist) : H. Bryceson barrel organ installed 1843. Ref: The Bury and Norwich Post, and East Anglian (8 Nov. 1843); White, Directory (1845) 423 Gaywood (St Faith) : Samuel Street barrel organ installed 1842. Ref: NRO, PD451/95 Churchwardens’ accounts Great Bircham (St Mary the Virgin) : T.C. Bates improved barrel organ. Ref: NRO, PD34/49 R.H. Tomlinson, Notes re Bircham Parish & Church (c.1980); Vaux, Church Folklore (1894); Church Family Newspaper (24 Mar. 1905); Tower Hamlets Independent and East End Local Advertiser (5 Dec. 1908) 5 Gunthorpe (St Mary) : Gray & Davison improved barrel organ installed 1844. Ref: Gray & Davison Ledger 4 (1844) 236 Happisburgh (St Mary the Virgin) : Barrel organ. Ref: NPOR, N06331 *Hardingham (St George) : Barrel organ. Sold 1860. Ref: Norfolk Chronicle (7 Jul. 1860) 4; Boston (1959) 116 *Heacham (St Mary) : B. Flight & Son barrel organ installed 1840. Transferred to Thornham 1847. Ref: NRO, PD699/32 Churchwardens’ accounts; Clement Inglesby (ed.), A Supplement to Blomefield’s Norfolk (London, 1929) 85 & ‘The West Window and Gallery in Heacham Church’, c.1850; Boston (1959) 116 *Hindringham (St Martin) : T.C. Bates & Son improved barrel organ. Transferred to Letheringsett 1950. Ref: Country Life (6 Nov. 1958) 1062; C.L.S. Linnell, Letheringsett with Bayfield (Letheringsett, 2000) 11 Hingham (St Andrew) : William Pilcher barrel organ installed 1840. Transferred to Merton 1878. Ref: NRO, PD575/78 Churchwardens’ accounts; PD575/190 J. Barham Johnson, A Contribution Towards a History of the Parish Church of St Andrew, Hingham, Norfolk (Norwich 1889) 25; Norwich Mercury (21 Oct. 1905) 7 Hockering (St Michael) : J.W. Walker improved barrel organ installed 1852. Transferred to Mattishall Burgh 1977. Ref: White, Directory (1854) *Houghton-next-Harpley (St Martin) : B. Flight & Son barrel organ. Transferred to Houghton Hall stables. Ref: Boston (1959) 116 *Hoveton (St John) : C. & W. Wheatstone barrel organ installed 1820. Transferred to St Peter Hungate Museum, Norwich 1935, NWHCM : 1935.11. Ref: Archaeological Journal (1943) 65 Plate iii fig. D; MacDermott (1948) 68; Boston (1959) 116 Kimberley (St Peter) : Barrel organ installed 1839. Ref: White, Directory (1845) 441 Letheringsett (St Andrew) : See Surviving instruments Loddon (Holy Trinity) : John Bullen barrel organ installed 1821. Ref: J. Matchett, The Norfolk and Norwich Remembrancer and Vade-Mecum (Norwich, 1822) 204 Mattishall Burgh : See Surviving instruments Merton (Norfolk) (St Peter) : H. Bryceson barrel organ installed 1870. Replaced by William Pilcher barrel organ ex Hingham 1878. Ref: NRO, PD532/20 Churchwardens’ accounts; PD532/32 Geo. Crabbe ‘Annals of Merton’ (from 1851) Needham (St Peter) : Flight & Robson barrel organ ex Starston 1878. Rebuilt c.1880. Sold. Ref: NPOR, N12902 *North Elmham (St Mary) : Mark Noble barrel & finger organ installed 1859. Barrel mechanism removed 1890. Ref: NRO, PD 209/157 Churchwardens’ accounts; Boston (1959) 116 North Lopham (St Nicholas) : See Surviving instruments Northrepps (St Mary the Virgin) : Barrel organ. Ref: A Hundred years at Northrepps Hall, 1795-1895 www.gurney.co.uk/book/northrepps-history-search.htm [accessed 6 Jan. 2025] Norton Subcourse (St Mary) : Bates barrel organ ex Blofield 1877. Ref: Elvin (1984) 102 Norwich (St Giles): Barrel organ. Sold 1851. Ref: Norfolk Chronicle (1 Nov. 1851) p.3; Eastern Evening News (10 Jul. 1890) 3; Yarmouth Independent (18 May 1935) 17 Rackheath Magna (All Saints) : Barrel organ. Ref: Thomas Caddy, Sketches for an Ecclesiology of the Deaneries of Sparham and Taverham in Norfolk (Norwich, 1846) 137; Pevsner & Wilson, Norfolk 1, 641-2 Rushall (St Michael) : Barrel organ. Sold 1878. Ref: Diss Express (3 May 1878) 4 Saham Toney (St George) : Barrel organ. Replaced by Gray & Davison barrel organ 1841. Ref: NRO, PD566/57 Churchwardens’ accounts; BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 3 (1841) 158 Sisland (St Mary) : Barrel organ. Ref: Gordon Paget, Letter, Sunday Times (23 Apr. 1950); L & B, 87 Snettisham (St Mary) : Barrel organ. Ref: Peter Murray, The Parish Church of St Mary’s Snettisham Norfolk (2013) *Stanfield (St Margaret) : Barrel organ. *Stanhoe (All Saints) : J.C. Bishop barrel & finger organ installed 1845. *Starston (St Margaret) : Flight & Robson barrel organ installed 1838. Transferred to Needham 1878. Ref: NRO, PD119/97 Churchwardens’ a/c (1838-82) *Swafield (St Nicholas) : Flight & Robson barrel organ. Converted to finger organ 1880. Thetford (St Mary) : Corps of Hampstead barrel & finger organ installed 1859. Sold 1866. Ref: Bury and Norwich Post (27 Dec. 1859); Norfolk Chronicle (12 May 1866) 4 *Thornham (All Saints) : B. Flight & Son barrel organ ex Heacham 1847. Transferred to Mission Church in South Africa. Ref: NRO, PD576/81 Churchwardens’ accounts Thorpe Abbotts (All Saints) : T.C. Bates barrel organ installed 1835. Converted to finger organ 1878. Ref: NPOR, N12901 *Titchwell (St Mary) : Barrel organ. Tittleshall (St Mary the Virgin) : See Surviving instruments Walpole St Peter (St Peter & St Paul) : Barrel organ. Ref: Country Life (17 Dec. 1921) 834 West Bradenham (St Andrew) : See Surviving instruments *West Somerton (St Mary) : Samuel Street barrel organ installed 1845. Ref: Norfolk News (21 June 1845) 3; Gordon Paget, Letter, Sunday Times (23 Apr. 1950) West Tofts (St Mary) : Barrel organ transferred to Caston c.1854. Ref: www.caston-online.co.uk/theparishchurch Wiggenhall St German (St Germans) : Gray & Davison barrel organ installed 1849. Ref: BOA, Gray & Davison Ledger 5 (1849) 165; Lynn Advertiser (27 May 1921) 3 Witton (St Margaret) : See Surviving instruments Woodrising (St Nicholas) : See Surviving instruments * Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) 86-7

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