© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
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’. It is included in the firm’s 1855 list. The barrel mechanism is operated from the front and the organist’s music desk has a window through which the barrel can be seen. 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
Edgcote (Northamptonshire) Edgcote (Northamptonshire) Edgcote (Northamptonshire)
© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
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’. It is included in the firm’s 1855 list. The barrel mechanism is operated from the front and the organist’s music desk has a window through which the barrel can be seen. 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
Edgcote (Northamptonshire)