Raithby

St Peter, Raithby (Lincolnshire)

Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches

Restored and repaired by John Budgen in 1963. Tunes recorded in 2001. Three green barrels x 10 tunes in a frame, the original tunelist is pasted inside the case. There is no mechanical tune indicator. Pasted to the windchest is a print of the mechanism of this organ with faded handwritten instructions for changing the tune. Several tunes on barrel 3 have been repinned.

References: Boston & Langwill (1967); Elvin (1984); Pacey (2002); NPOR, D04122.

BARREL 1 GREEN

Tune

Metre

1.1

Morning Hymn [Barthélémon]

1.2

Cambridge New

1.3

Old 100th

1.4

Hanover

104th

1.5

Wareham

1.6

Abingdon

1.7

Gainsborough

1.8

Devizes

1.9

Falcon Street

1.10

Islington

BARREL 2 GREEN

Tune

Metre

2.1

Evening Hymn

2.2

Bedford

2.3

New York

2.4

Abridge

2.5

Montgomery

2.6

Portuguese [Portugal New]

2.7

Luther’s Hymn

2.8

Esher

87.D

2.9

St Anne

2.10

St Stephen

BARREL 3 GREEN

Tune

Metre

3.1

German Hymn Rockingham

3.2

Sicilian [Mariners]

87.D

3.3

Irish

3.4

Peckham

3.5

Harington Eaton

3.6

Mount Ephraim

3.7

Bexley Colchester

3.8

Carlisle Double Chant: Mornington

3.9

Wiltshire Hotham

7s.

3.10

Handel University

Improved barrel organ. Maker’s stamp on windchest & end of barrel: ‘GRAY & SON’. Installed when the church was rebuilt in 1839. The organ is located in a narrow west gallery accessed from the ringing chamber. It is operated from the rear, blown by pedal independent of the barrel mechanism, therefore the barrel can be held in position for accompanying chant without loss of wind pressure. The mahogany and softwood Gothic case has three panels of gold painted dummy pipes backed with blue cloth.