Lillington

St Martin of Tours, Lillington (Dorset)

Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches

Dumb organist, painted nameplate on organ case: ‘BATES & SON, Organ Builders, 6 Ludgate Hill, LONDON’ which dates the organ to 1850-63. Purchased in 1996 from a private collection near Bournemouth. Restored and installed in 1997 by John Budgen. Tunes recorded in 2000. Restored by Goetze & Gwynn in 2021 at the instigation of Charles Watson: www.goetzegwynn.co.uk/organ/lillington-dorset-bates-and-son-finger-and-barrel-organ/ Originally two barrels x 8 tunes; original handwritten tunelist pinned to dumb organist. Only one red barrel now survives, labelled ‘BATES & SON’ and initialled T. B. [Theodore Bates].

References: Budgen (1997); Turner (1999); Turner (2002); Gordon Bartlet, ‘The Lillington Church Organ’, The Music Box, vol.28 no.5 (Spring 2018) 188-9; NPOR, D04692.

BARREL 1 RED

Tune

Metre

1.1

Old 100th

1.2

Carey’s

112th

1.3

Islington

1.4

Abridge

1.5

Bedford

1.6

Shirland

1.7

Easter Hymn

77.77.D

1.8

Advent Hymn [Helmsley]

87.87.47.

BARREL 2

** MISSING **

Metre

2.1

Evening Hymn

2.2

Portuguese Hymn

2.3

Rockingham

2.4

Irish

2.5

Oxford

2.6

University

2.7

Mount Ephraim

2.8

Hanover

104th

Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches

St Martin of Tours, Lillington (Dorset)

Dumb organist, painted nameplate on organ case: ‘BATES & SON, Organ Builders, 6 Ludgate Hill, LONDON’ which dates the organ to 1850-63. Purchased in 1996 from a private collection near Bournemouth. Restored and installed in 1997 by John Budgen. Tunes recorded in 2000. Restored by Goetze & Gwynn in 2021 at the instigation of Charles Watson: www.goetzegwynn.co.uk/organ/lillington-dorset-bates-and-son- finger-and-barrel-organ/ Originally two barrels x 8 tunes; original handwritten tunelist pinned to dumb organist. Only one red barrel now survives, labelled ‘BATES & SON’ and initialled T. B. [Theodore Bates].

References: Budgen (1997); Turner (1999); Turner (2002); Gordon Bartlet, ‘The Lillington Church Organ’, The Music Box, vol.28 no.5 (Spring 2018) 188-9; NPOR, D04692.