© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2025
St James, Edgcote (Northamptonshire)
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Barrel & finger organ, builder’s nameplate: ‘G.M. Holdich, Organ Builder, 4, Judd Place East,
New Road, London’. 1855 or earlier as it is included in the firm’s 1855 list.
The barrel mechanism is operated from the front. The softwood Gothic case has three flats of
gold painted dummy pipes (5-9-5).
Stop list: Bourdon 16’, Stopped Diapason Bass 8’, Open Diapason 8’, Clarabella 8’, Dulciana 8’,
Principal 4’, Fifteenth 2’.
Tunes recorded in 1999.
Two carriage-mounted barrels x 6 tunes corresponding with the handwritten tunelists pasted
to the casework.
References: Boston (1959); Boston & Langwill (1967); Davidson (2003); NPOR, D02950.
BARREL 1
Tune
Metre
1.1
LM
1.2
CM
1.3
CM
1.4
SM
1.5
87.D
1.6
77.77.D
BARREL 2
Tune
Metre
2.1
LM
2.2
LM
2.3
LM
2.4
CM
2.5
SM
2.6
113th
© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2025
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
St James, Edgcote
(Northamptonshire)
Barrel & finger organ, builder’s
nameplate: ‘G.M. Holdich,
Organ Builder, 4, Judd Place
East, New Road, London’.
1855 or earlier as it is included
in the firm’s 1855 list.
The barrel mechanism is operated from the front. The softwood
Gothic case has three flats of gold painted dummy pipes (5-9-5).
Stop list: Bourdon 16’, Stopped Diapason Bass 8’, Open Diapason 8’,
Clarabella 8’, Dulciana 8’, Principal 4’, Fifteenth 2’.
Tunes recorded in 1999.
Two carriage-mounted barrels x 6 tunes corresponding with the
handwritten tunelists pasted to the casework.
References: Boston (1959); Boston & Langwill (1967); Davidson
(2003); NPOR, D02950.
BARREL 2
Tune
Metre
2.1
LM
2.2
LM
2.3
LM
2.4
CM
2.5
SM
2.6
113th
BARREL 1
Tune
Metre
1.1
LM
1.2
CM
1.3
CM
1.4
SM
1.5
87.D
1.6
77.77.D
