© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
St John the Baptist, Bressingham (Norfolk)
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Barrel organ by an unknown builder. Painted plate on case: ‘THIS ORGAN Was Presented to the Parish of Bressingham By Revd G.H. Bidwell [George Henry Clarke Bidwell] March 1st 1859.’ The organ is operated from the rear and blown by pedal independent of the barrel mechanism, therefore the barrel can be held in position for accompanying chant without loss of wind pressure. The grained softwood castellated case has three flats of gold painted dummy pipes (3-11-3) backed with red cloth.
References: MacDermott (1948); Boston (1959); Boston & Langwill (1967); Elvin (1984); Turner (2002); NPOR N06175.
BARREL 1 GREEN
Tune
Metre
1.1
LM
1.2
SM
1.3
87.D
1.4
CM
1.5
LM
1.6
104th
1.7
CM
1.8
LM
1.9
CM
1.10
1.11
1.12
BARREL 2 GREEN
Tune
Metre
2.1
LM
2.2
SM
2.3
LM
2.4
87.87.D
2.5
LM
2.6
CM
2.7
CM
2.8
CM
2.9
CM
2.10
2.11
2.12
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Stop list: Open Diapason 8’, Diapason Bass 8’, Stopped Diapason 8’ Dulciana 8’, Principal 4’, Fifteenth 2’. Restored by W.A. Boggis of Diss in 1938, and later by John Budgen. Tunes recorded in 1997. BIOS Historic Organ Certificate awarded 1999 (ungraded). Played by John Betjeman in A Passion for Churches, first broadcast in December 1974: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p022ktzy Two green carriage-mounted barrels x 12 tunes corresponding with the handwritten tunelists pasted to the casework. Photos: M. Kilbey and M. Glover.
© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
St John the Baptist, Bressingham (Norfolk)
Barrel organ by an unknown builder. Painted plate on case: ‘THIS ORGAN Was Presented to the Parish of Bressingham By Revd G.H. Bidwell [George Henry Clarke Bidwell] March 1st 1859.’ The organ is operated from the rear and blown by pedal independent of the barrel mechanism, therefore the barrel can be held in position for accompanying chant without loss of wind pressure. The grained softwood castellated case has three flats of gold painted dummy pipes (3-11-3) backed with red cloth.
References: MacDermott (1948); Boston (1959); Boston & Langwill (1967); Elvin (1984); Turner (2002); NPOR N06175.
BARREL 1 GREEN
Tune
Metre
1.1
LM
1.2
SM
1.3
87.D
1.4
CM
1.5
LM
1.6
104th
1.7
CM
1.8
LM
1.9
CM
1.10
1.11
1.12
BARREL 2 GREEN
Tune
Metre
2.1
LM
2.2
SM
2.3
LM
2.4
87.87.D
2.5
LM
2.6
CM
2.7
CM
2.8
CM
2.9
CM
2.10
2.11
2.12
Bressingham (Norfolk)
Stop list: Open Diapason 8’, Diapason Bass 8’, Stopped Diapason 8’ Dulciana 8’, Principal 4’, Fifteenth 2’. Restored by W.A. Boggis of Diss in 1938, and later by John Budgen. Tunes recorded in 1997. BIOS Historic Organ Certificate awarded 1999 (ungraded). Played by John Betjeman in A Passion for Churches, first broadcast in December 1974: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p022ktzy Two green carriage-mounted barrels x 12 tunes corresponding with the handwritten tunelists pasted to the casework. Photo: M. Kilbey.