Easton-on-the-Hill

All Saints, Easton-on-the-Hill (Northamptonshire)

Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches

Organ and dumb organist by ‘G.M. Holdich, Organ Builder, 4, Judd Place East, New Road, London’. Opened 18 November 1849. Purchased by subscription at a total cost of £230 at the instigation of the newly appointed Rector, Rev William H. Charlton. Restored in 1952 and 1976, with a complete overhaul in 1992 by Richard Bower & Co of Wroxham, Norfolk: www.bowerorgans.co.uk/organs/Easton.html. BIOS Historic Organ Certificate awarded 1998 (ungraded). Tunes recorded in 1999. Two barrels x 6 tunes; the names of the tunes are written on the barrels.

References: Lincolnshire Chronicle (23 Nov. 1849) p.4; Sharp (1957); Boston (1959); Turner (2002); Davidson (2003); Rodney Matthews, A Reluctant Convert. The Life and Times of G.M. Holdich: Organ Builder (Birling, 2013) pp.48-9; NPOR, N03476.

BARREL 1

Tune

Metre

1.1

Morning Hymn [Barthélémon]

1.2

St Anne

1.3

Mount Ephraim

1.4

Old 100th

1.5

Single Chant: Farrant

1.6

Single Chant: Nares

BARREL 2

Tune

Metre

2.1

Evening Hymn

2.2

Hanover

104th

2.3

Bedford

2.4

St Stephen

2.5

Single Chant: Purcell

2.6

Single Chant: Blow

Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches

All Saints, Easton-on-the-Hill (Northamptonshire)

Organ and dumb organist by ‘G.M. Holdich, Organ Builder, 4, Judd Place East, New Road, London’. Opened 18 November 1849. Purchased by subscription at a total cost of £230 at the instigation of the newly appointed Rector, Rev William H. Charlton. Restored in 1952 and 1976, with a complete overhaul in 1992 by Richard Bower & Co of Wroxham, Norfolk: www.bowerorgans.co.uk/organs/Easton.html BIOS Historic Organ Certificate awarded 1998 (ungraded). Tunes recorded in 1999. Two barrels x 6 tunes; the names of the tunes are written on the barrels.