© Maggie Kilbey 2024
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Nottinghamshire
*Colwick :
Barrel organ.
Ref:
Nottingham Journal
(29 Nov. 1860) p.2
*Edwinstowe :
Gray & Davison improved barrel organ installed 1845. Forster & Andrews organ & dumb organist installed 1862.
Ref: Elvin (1976) p.28
*Gamston :
Forster & Andrews barrel & finger organ installed 1856. Scrapped 1964.
Ref:
Churches of Kent
(London, 1877) p.69; Elvin (1976) p.26; Ord-Hume (1978) p.152
*Harworth :
Barrel organ.
Ref: J.T.F., ‘Letter’,
Notes and Queries
, X (6 May 1922) p.353 & (20 May 1922) p.398
Kelham :
Nicholson barrel & finger organ installed 1848.
Ref:
Bradford Observer
(13 Apr. 1848) p.8
*Kinoulton :
Flight & Robson clockwork barrel & finger organ transferred from Gosfield Hall (Essex) 1947. Sold to private collection 2001.
Ossington :
See
Surviving instruments
*Rampton :
Martin barrel & finger organ installed 1821.
Ref:
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury
(23 Nov. 1821); Ord-Hume (1978) p.79
Rolleston :
Barrel organ installed 1853.
Ref:
Holy Trinity Rolleston
http://www.rollestonchurch.org.uk/registers.html
[accessed 18 October 2023]
Scofton :
Flight & Robson barrel organ.
Ref: NPOR, D07699
Stanton Hill :
Forster & Andrews barrel organ installed 1852.
Ref: NPOR, N13640
Staunton :
Barrel organ sold to
Hook
(Yorks.) 1854. Replaced by improved barrel organ. See
Surviving instruments
Sturton-le-Steeple :
Barrel organ.
Ref:
Retford and Worksop Herald and North Notts Advertiser
(9 Mar. 1901) p.8
Widmerpool :
Barrel & finger organ.
L.S. Barnard, ‘Buckingham’s Travels: Part VIX’,
The Organ
, vol.LIV no.213 (1975-76) p.45
*
Listed in
Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston,
Church and Chamber Barrel Organs
, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970)
pp.89-90
© Maggie Kilbey 2024
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Nottinghamshire
*Colwick :
Barrel organ.
Ref:
Nottingham Journal
(29 Nov. 1860) p.2
*Edwinstowe :
Gray & Davison improved barrel organ
installed 1845. Forster & Andrews organ & dumb organist
installed 1862. Ref: Elvin (1976) p.28
*Gamston :
Forster & Andrews barrel & finger organ installed
1856. Scrapped 1964. Ref:
Churches of Kent
(London, 1877)
p.69; Elvin (1976) p.26; Ord-Hume (1978) p.152
*Harworth :
Barrel organ.
Ref:
J.T.F., ‘Letter’,
Notes and
Queries
, X (6 May 1922) p.353 & (20 May 1922) p.398
Kelham :
Nicholson barrel & finger organ installed 1848.
Ref:
Bradford Observer
(13 Apr. 1848) p.8
*Kinoulton :
Flight & Robson clockwork barrel & finger organ
transferred from Gosfield Hall (Essex) 1947. Sold to private
collection 2001.
Ossington :
See
Surviving instruments
*Rampton :
Martin barrel & finger organ installed 1821.
Ref:
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury
(23 Nov. 1821); Ord-
Hume (1978) p.79
Rolleston :
Barrel organ installed 1853.
Ref:
Holy Trinity Rolleston
http://www.rollestonchurch.org.uk/registers.html
[accessed
18 October 2023]
Scofton :
Flight & Robson barrel organ.
Ref:
NPOR, D07699
Stanton Hill :
Forster & Andrews barrel organ installed 1852.
Ref: NPOR, N13640
Staunton :
Barrel organ sold to
Hook
(Yorks.) 1854. Replaced
by improved barrel organ. See
Surviving instruments
Sturton-le-Steeple :
Barrel organ.
Ref:
Retford and Worksop
Herald and North Notts Advertiser
(9 Mar. 1901) p.8
Widmerpool :
Barrel & finger organ.
L.S. Barnard, ‘Buckingham’s Travels: Part VIX’,
The Organ
,
vol.LIV no.213 (1975-76) p.45
*
Listed in
Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston,
Church and Chamber
Barrel Organs
, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970)
pp.89-90
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