© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Holy Trinity, Blacktoft
(Yorks, E. Riding)
Barrel organ by an unknown
builder, installed when the church
was rebuilt following storm damage
in 1841-2.
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
panels of gold painted dummy
pipes backed with gold cloth.
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: 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