Here are two photos of one of four sections of the 1892 organ cases at Southwell Minster. When the cases (of solid teak) were removed by HN&B in 1934, four identical sections went to grace organs they built over the next two or three years – Cromer parish church, Hay on Wye parish church, St Saviour’s church, Weston super Mare, and Park Chapel, Llanelli. When the Hay on Wye case became redundant in 2010, Henry Groves & Son took it into storage until a new home presented itself. Some fifteen years later this has come to pass, as it fits perfectly the gallery in Ilkeston Catholic church, behind the existing gallery front, which had to remain in place. Groves are building a new organ behind it and the front pipes will be the original Southwell Minster 1892 gilded Bishop & Son dummies.
I’ve been working at home for much of February, on three books, as it happens. However, work on the Gloucester Cathedral organ has been proceeding well at Nicholsons and in the cathedral, to both of which I have been making my monthly inspection visits. Here is a selection of photos which I hope are found interesting.
