© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2025
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Barrel organ by Robert Postill of York, installed 1848.
The organ was moved to its present location below the gallery in 1965, is operated from the rear and blown by pedal. The Gothic case is
painted dark red and gold to match the west gallery in which it was originally located, and has three flats of gold painted dummy pipes
(3-7-3) backed with gold cloth.
Stop list: Open Diapason 8’, Stopped Diapason 8’, Principal 4’, Flute 4’.
Repaired by John Budgen in 1965. Tunes recorded in 2001.
Originally 2 barrels x 10 tunes corresponding with the handwritten list pasted to the casework, but barrel 1 is now missing.
BARREL 1
** MISSING **
Metre
1.1
Evening Hymn
LM
1.2
St David
CM
1.3
Sicilian Mariners
7s.
1.4
Bennet’s
CM
1.5
Calvary
PM
1.6
Durham
SM
1.7
Devizes
CM
1.8
Portuguese
LM
1.9
Hanover
104th
1.10
Bedford
CM
BARREL 2
Tune
Metre
2.1
PM
2.2
LM
2.3
CM
2.4
LM
2.5
CM
2.6
7s.
2.7
LM
2.8
SM
2.9
PM
2.10
LM
Holy Trinity, Blacktoft (Yorks, E. Riding)
© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2025
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Holy Trinity, Blacktoft
(Yorks, E. Riding)
Barrel organ by Robert Postill of York,
installed 1848.
The organ was moved to its present
location below the gallery in 1965, is
operated from the rear and blown by
pedal. The Gothic case is painted
dark red and gold to match the west
gallery in which it was originally
located, and has three flats of gold
painted dummy pipes (3-7-3) backed
with gold cloth.
Stop list: Open Diapason 8’, Stopped Diapason 8’, Principal 4’, Flute 4’.
Repaired by John Budgen in 1965. Tunes recorded in 2001.
Originally 2 barrels x 10 tunes corresponding with the handwritten list
pasted to the casework, but barrel 1 is now missing.
BARREL 1
** MISSING **
Metre
1.1
Evening Hymn
LM
1.2
St David
CM
1.3
Sicilian Mariners
7s.
1.4
Bennet’s
CM
1.5
Calvary
PM
1.6
Durham
SM
1.7
Devizes
CM
1.8
Portuguese
LM
1.9
Hanover
104th
1.10
Bedford
CM
References: Yorkshire Gazette (18 Dec. 1847) p.5; Boston
& Langwill (1967); NPOR, H00824.
BARREL 2
Tune
Metre
2.1
PM
2.2
LM
2.3
CM
2.4
LM
2.5
CM
2.6
7s.
2.7
LM
2.8
SM
2.9
PM
2.10
LM
