© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2026
St Germanus, Faulkbourne (Essex)
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
1848 dumb organist labelled on case and on barrel 3: ‘T.C. BATES & SON, Organ Builders, 6 LUDGATE HILL, LONDON.’ Purchased from
Wickham Bishops church for £6 by Canon F.W. Galpin, Rector of Faulkbourne 1921-33. It was first used on 25 September 1932 for the
Harvest Festival service.
There are three original boxes for the barrels & a more modern box for the dumb organist itself.
Barrels refurbished in 1963 by Freddy Hill. Tunes recorded in 1996.
Four colour-coded barrels x 8 tunes.
References: Chelmsford Chronicle (30 Sep. 1932) 10; MacDermott (1948); Hughes
(1955); Boston (1959); Boston & Langwill (1967); Booty (Autumn 1978); Brian
Galpin, Correspondence, The Galpin Society Journal, L (1997) 310; Turner (2000);
Turner (2002); NPOR, N18627.
BARREL 2
RED
Tune
Metre
BARREL 1
YELLOW
Tune
Metre
BARREL 3
GREEN
Tune
Metre
BARREL 4
BLACK
Tune
Metre
© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2026
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
St Germanus, Faulkbourne (Essex)
1848 dumb organist
labelled on case and on
barrel 3: ‘T.C. BATES &
SON, Organ Builders, 6
LUDGATE HILL,
LONDON.’ Purchased
from Wickham Bishops
church for £6 by Canon
F.W. Galpin, Rector of
Faulkbourne 1921-33. It
was first used on 25 September 1932 for the Harvest Festival service.
There are three original boxes for the barrels & a more modern box
for the dumb organist itself.
Barrels refurbished in 1963 by Freddy Hill. Tunes recorded in 1996.
Four colour-coded barrels x 8 tunes.
References: Chelmsford Chronicle (30 Sep. 1932) 10; MacDermott
(1948); Hughes (1955); Boston (1959); Boston & Langwill (1967);
Booty (Autumn 1978); Brian Galpin, Correspondence, The Galpin
Society Journal, L (1997) 310; Turner (2000); Turner (2002); NPOR,
N18627.
BARREL 1
YELLOW
Tune
Metre
BARREL 2
RED
Tune
Metre
BARREL 3
GREEN
Tune
Metre
BARREL 4
BLACK
Tune
Metre