© Maggie Kilbey 2026
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Northumberland
*Alnwick (St Paul) : T.J.F. Robson barrel & finger organ
installed 1846. Exported to Demerara 1863.
Ref: Newcastle Journal (17 Oct. 1846) 3 & (7 Dec. 1937) 3;
Elvin (1976) 28
Bamburgh (St Aidan) : Barrel organ.
Ref: The Berwick Advertiser (31 Jul. 1891) 3
Belford (St Mary) : Barrel organ.
Ref: The Berwick Advertiser (1 Sep. 1905) 3
Blyth : Barrel organ installed 1830. Ref: Blyth News ( 9 Apr.
1887) 5; Newcastle Daily Chronicle (24 Jan 1906) 6
Felton (St Michael & All Angels) : Bevington barrel organ
installed 1845. Ref: Bevington & Sons (1847); The Newcastle
Courant (29 Mar. 1878) 6
Rothbury (All Saints) : Barrel organ. Ref: David Dippie
Dixon, Upper Coquetdale, Northumberland (1903) 417
Warkworth (St Lawrence) : Barrel organ.
Ref: Newcastle Journal (18 Aug. 1927) 6; Berwick Advertiser
(18 Aug. 1829) 6; Halifax Evening Courier (6 Dec. 1937) 8
Whittingham (St Bartholomew) : Brown of York barrel
organ installed 1840. Ref: Newcastle Journal (23 May 1840),
3; W.S.F. Pickering, A Social History of the Diocese of
Newcastle; Newcastle Courant (17 Jun. 1887) 2; David Dippie
Dixon, Whittingham Vale, Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, 1895) 208-11; A History of Northumberland, vol.14
(1935) 498
* Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and
Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) 89