© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
BARREL 1 GREEN
Tune
Metre
1.1
LM
1.2
LM
1.3
LM
1.4
104th
1.5
LM
1.6
LM
1.7
CM
1.8
CM
1.9
CM
1.10
SM
1.11
87.D
1.12
87.87.47.
1.13
1.14
1.15
St Mary the Virgin, Avington (Hampshire)
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Barrel organ by an unknown builder, possibly Benjamin Flight. Given by Mrs John Shelley on Christmas Day 1849. Her husband (brother of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) had purchased the Avington estate the previous year. The organ is located in the west gallery, only accessible from the tower, and is operated from the rear. The stained softwood Gothic case has three flats of gold painted dummy pipes (3-7-3) backed with blue cloth. The mechanism is accessed by lifting a flap hinged at the top of the case. This makes it very dark inside the organ, and two candleholders have been provided inside the case. Stop list: Open Diapason 8’, Stopped Diapason 8’, Principal 4’. Restored by John Budgen in 1960, and an electric blower was fitted. In 1995 it was overhauled by Bishop & White. Tunes recorded in 1997. Two green carriage-mounted barrels (originally three, later four) x 15 tunes corresponding with the handwritten tunelist pasted to the case. Barrel 2 has been repinned at some point, as the tune ‘Resignation’ was not composed until 1853. Two barrels were disposed of during the 1950s because of woodworm damage.
References: MacDermott (1948); Boston (1959); Country Life (6 Apr. 1961) p.756; Boston & Langwill (1967); Turner (2002); NPOR N18659.
Avington (Hampshire) Avington (Hampshire)
© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
St Mary the Virgin, Avington (Hampshire)
References: MacDermott (1948); Boston (1959); Country Life (6 Apr. 1961) p.756; Boston & Langwill (1967); Turner (2002); NPOR N18659.
BARREL 1 GREEN
Tune
Metre
1.1
LM
1.2
LM
1.3
LM
1.4
104th
1.5
LM
1.6
LM
1.7
CM
1.8
CM
1.9
CM
1.10
SM
1.11
87.D
1.12
87.87.47.
1.13
1.14
1.15
Avington (Hampshire)
Barrel organ by an unknown builder, possibly Benjamin Flight. Given by Mrs John Shelley on Christmas Day 1849. Her husband (brother of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) had purchased the Avington estate the previous year. The organ is located in the west gallery, only accessible from the tower, and is operated from the rear. The stained softwood Gothic case has three flats of gold painted dummy pipes (3-7-3) backed with blue cloth. The mechanism is accessed by lifting a flap hinged at the top of the case. This makes it very dark inside the organ, and two candleholders have been provided inside the case. Stop list: Open Diapason 8’, Stopped Diapason 8’, Principal 4’. Restored by John Budgen in 1960, and an electric blower was fitted. In 1995 it was overhauled by Bishop & White. Tunes recorded in 1997. Two green carriage-mounted barrels (originally three, later four) x 15 tunes corresponding with the handwritten tunelist pasted to the case. Barrel 2 has been repinned at some point, as the tune ‘Resignation’ was not composed until 1853. Two barrels were disposed of during the 1950s because of woodworm damage.