© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2026
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.
References: Yorkshire Gazette
(18 Dec. 1847) 5; Boston &
Langwill (1967); Budgen (2017);
NPOR, H00824.
Holy Trinity, Blacktoft (Yorks, E. Riding)
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
© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2026
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.
References: Yorkshire Gazette (18 Dec. 1847) 5; Boston & Langwill
(1967); Budgen (2017); NPOR, H00824.
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