© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2025
St Margaret of Antioch, Huttoft (Lincolnshire)
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Stop list: Open Diapason 8’, Principal 4’, Twelfth 2 2/3’, Fifteenth 2’.
Repaired 2013 by Robert Pacey & John Williamson. Tunes recorded in 2025.
3 barrels x 12 tunes in a revolving frame. [There are no links to recordings of barrels 1 and 3]
Photos: M. Kilbey.
References: Lincolnshire Archives, 2 LARKEN 12/10 Photograph; Yorkshire Gazette (5 Jul. 1851) p.4; Boston & Langwill (1967); Elvin (1976)
p.30; Pacey (2002) p.52; Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thislocation=Huttoft [accessed 6
Jan. 2025]; NPOR D03928
Forster & Andrews improved barrel organ given by the vicar, Rev. George Bryan. Handwritten at the bottom of the tunelist:
‘This organ was opened on Easter Sunday 1851’.
The organ is located in the north aisle and operated from the rear. The mahogany Gothic case has three flats of gold painted dummy
pipes (3-5-3) backed with pink cloth.
BARREL 2
RED
Tune
Metre
BARREL 1
Tune
Metre
1.1
York
CM
1.2
Devizes
CM
1.3
Old 100th
LM
1.4
[unknown]
1.5
[unknown]
1.6
Evening Hymn
LM
1.7
[unknown]
1.8
Sicilian Mariners
87.D
1.9
[unknown]
1.10
[unknown]
1.11
[unknown]
1.12
[unknown]
BARREL 3
UNPLAYABLE
Metre
3.1
Wareham
LM
3.2
St Anne
CM
3.3
Austria
87.87.D
3.4
Hanover
104th
3.5
Cambridge New
CM
3.6
St Bride
SM
3.7
Angel’s Hymn [Song]
LM
3.8
Clarke 11th
3.9
Clarke 10th
3.10
New York
CM
3.11
Helmsley
87.87.47
3.12
Chant
© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2025
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
St Margaret of Antioch,
Huttoft (Lincolnshire)
Stop list: Open Diapason 8’, Principal 4’, Twelfth 2 2/3’, Fifteenth 2’.
Repaired 2013 by Robert Pacey & John Williamson. Tunes recorded
in 2025.
3 barrels x 12 tunes in a revolving frame. [There are no links to
recordings of barrels 1 and 3]
Photos: M. Kilbey.
References: Lincolnshire Archives, 2 LARKEN 12/10 Photograph;
Yorkshire Gazette (5 Jul. 1851) p.4; Boston & Langwill (1967); Elvin
(1976) p.30; Pacey (2002) p.52; Society for Lincolnshire History and
Archaeology www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thislocation=Huttoft
[accessed 6 Jan. 2025]; NPOR D03928
Forster & Andrews improved barrel
organ given by the vicar, Rev.
George Bryan. Handwritten at the
bottom of the tunelist:
‘This organ was opened on Easter
Sunday 1851’.
The organ is located in the north
aisle and operated from the rear.
The mahogany Gothic case has
three flats of gold painted dummy
pipes (3-5-3) backed with pink
cloth.
BARREL 1
Tune
Metre
1.1
York
CM
1.2
Devizes
CM
1.3
Old 100th
LM
1.4
[unknown]
1.5
[unknown]
1.6
Evening Hymn
LM
1.7
[unknown]
1.8
Sicilian Mariners
87.D
1.9
[unknown]
1.10
[unknown]
1.11
[unknown]
1.12
[unknown]
BARREL 3
UNPLAYABLE
Metre
3.1
Wareham
LM
3.2
St Anne
CM
3.3
Austria
87.87.D
3.4
Hanover
104th
3.5
Cambridge New
CM
3.6
St Bride
SM
3.7
Angel’s Hymn [Song]
LM
3.8
Clarke 11th
3.9
Clarke 10th
3.10
New York
CM
3.11
Helmsley
87.87.47
3.12
Chant
BARREL 2
RED
Tune
Metre
