© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
St Bartholomew, Brightwell Baldwin (Oxfordshire)
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Three green carriage-mounted barrels x 10 tunes including two slightly different versions of ‘Sicilian Mariners’. The handwritten tunelists for barrels 1 & 2, pasted to the casework, are now illegible. There is no tunelist for the third barrel, so it may have been a later addition.
References: Country Life (15 Aug. 1903) p.255; K.V. Carter, ‘Church Barrel Organs’, The Sunday Times (13 Aug. 1939); MacDermott (1948); Boston (1959); Boston & Langwill (1967); Letter, The Times (13 Jan. 1988); NPOR, N01037.
BARREL 1 GREEN
Tune
Metre
1.1
Morning Hymn [Barthélémon]
LM
1.2
Wareham
LM
1.3
Carey’s
LM
1.4
Devizes
CM
1.5
New York
CM
1.6
Portuguese Hymn
LM
1.7
Angel’s Hymn
LM
1.8
Shirland
SM
1.9
Eaton
LM
1.10
Double Chant: Mornington
BARREL 2 GREEN
Tune
Metre
2.1
Evening Hymn
LM
2.2
Luther’s Hymn
LM
2.3
Abridge
CM
2.4
Cambridge New
CM
2.5
Harington
CM
2.6
Babylon
113th
2.7
Sicilian Mariners
87.D
2.8
Hanover
104th
2.9
Easter Hymn
77.77.D
2.10
Double Chant: Robinson
BARREL 3 GREEN
Tune
Metre
3.1
Austria
87.87.D
3.2
Cassel
77.77.77.
3.3
Darwall’s
148th
3.4
Helmsley
87.87.47.
3.5
Corinth
87.887.
3.6
Hart’s
77.77.
3.7
Innocents
77.77.
3.8
Sicilian Mariners
87.D
3.9
Spain [Spanish Hymn]
77.77.D
3.10
Double Chant: Dupuis
Brightwell Baldwin (Oxfordshire) Brightwell Baldwin (Oxfordshire) Brightwell Baldwin (Oxfordshire)
Barrel organ, the engraved keyframe reads: ‘Joseph Walker, Maker, London, 1843’. Possibly secondhand from Watlington. The organ stands at the west end of the north aisle. It is operated from the rear and blown by pedal. The oak Gothic case has three panels of gold painted dummy pipes backed with cloth. Restored in 1963 by R.H. Walker & Son, Chesham. Tunes recorded in 1996. BIOS Historic Organ Certificate awarded 2013 (Grade I).
© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
St Bartholomew, Brightwell Baldwin (Oxfordshire)
Three green carriage-mounted barrels x 10 tunes including two slightly different versions of ‘Sicilian Mariners’. The handwritten tunelists for barrels 1 & 2, pasted to the casework, are now illegible. There is no tunelist for the third barrel, so it may have been a later addition.
References: Country Life (15 Aug. 1903) p.255; K.V. Carter, ‘Church Barrel Organs’, The Sunday Times (13 Aug. 1939); MacDermott (1948); Boston (1959); Boston & Langwill (1967); Letter, The Times (13 Jan. 1988); NPOR, N01037.
BARREL 1 GREEN
Tune
Metre
1.1
Morning Hymn [Barthélémon]
LM
1.2
Wareham
LM
1.3
Carey’s
LM
1.4
Devizes
CM
1.5
New York
CM
1.6
Portuguese Hymn
LM
1.7
Angel’s Hymn
LM
1.8
Shirland
SM
1.9
Eaton
LM
1.10
Double Chant: Mornington
BARREL 2 GREEN
Tune
Metre
2.1
Evening Hymn
LM
2.2
Luther’s Hymn
LM
2.3
Abridge
CM
2.4
Cambridge New
CM
2.5
Harington
CM
2.6
Babylon
113th
2.7
Sicilian Mariners
87.D
2.8
Hanover
104th
2.9
Easter Hymn
77.77.D
2.10
Double Chant: Robinson
BARREL 3 GREEN
Tune
Metre
3.1
Austria
87.87.D
3.2
Cassel
77.77.77.
3.3
Darwall’s
148th
3.4
Helmsley
87.87.47.
3.5
Corinth
87.887.
3.6
Hart’s
77.77.
3.7
Innocents
77.77.
3.8
Sicilian Mariners
87.D
3.9
Spain [Spanish Hymn]
77.77.D
3.10
Double Chant: Dupuis
Brightwell Baldwin (Oxfordshire)
Barrel organ, the engraved keyframe reads: ‘Joseph Walker, Maker, London, 1843’. Possibly secondhand from Watlington. The organ stands at the west end of the north aisle. It is operated from the rear and blown by pedal. The oak Gothic case has three panels of gold painted dummy pipes backed with cloth. Restored in 1963 by R.H. Walker & Son, Chesham. Tunes recorded in 1996. BIOS Historic Organ Certificate awarded 2013 (Grade I).