© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2026
St Peter, Raithby (Lincolnshire)
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
The mahogany and softwood Gothic case has three flats of gold painted dummy pipes (3-11-3) backed with blue cloth.
Stop list: Open Diapason, Principal, Fifteenth.
Restored and repaired by John Budgen & Carl Leonard in 1963. Tunes recorded in 2001.
Three green barrels x 10 tunes in a revolving 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: Grimsby Daily Telegraph (3 July 1963) 7;
Boston & Langwill (1967); Elvin (1984); Pacey (2002);
Budgen (2017); NPOR, D04122.
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.
BARREL 1
GREEN
Tune
Metre
BARREL 3
GREEN
Tune
Metre
BARREL 2
GREEN
Tune
Metre
© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2026
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
St Peter, Raithby (Lincolnshire)
References: Grimsby Daily Telegraph (3 July 1963) 7; Boston & Langwill
(1967); Elvin (1984); Pacey (2002); Budgen (2017); NPOR, D04122.
The mahogany and softwood Gothic case has three flats of gold
painted dummy pipes (3-11-3) backed with blue cloth.
Stop list: Open Diapason, Principal, Fifteenth.
Restored and repaired by John Budgen & Carl Leonard in 1963.
Tunes recorded in 2001.
Three green barrels x 10 tunes in a revolving 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.
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.
BARREL 1
GREEN
Tune
Metre
BARREL 2
GREEN
Tune
Metre
BARREL 3
GREEN
Tune
Metre