Leatherhead Parish Church - Thomas Parker Organ - Specification
RESTORED THOMAS PARKER ORGAN OF 1766
FOR ST MARY AND ST NICHOLAS LEATHERHEAD
Martin Goetze and Dominic Gwynn Ltd
Stoplist
The stoplist is based on the surviving Great wind chest,
and the entry in the Walker shopbooks, when they moved the organ
to Leatherhead in 1843.
| Great | * Open Diapason * Stop Diapason bass * Principal * Flute Twelfth * Fifteenth * Sesquialtra IV ranks bass * Cornet IVranks treble Trumpet bass Trumpet treble |
E to e¹ 25 gilded pipes in
front GG to b stopped wood c¹ – e³ metal chimney flutes GG to e³ GG to e³, stopped wood GG to e³ GG to e³ GG to c¹ c#¹ to e³ GG to c¹ c#¹ to e³ |
| Swell | * Open Diapason Stop Diapason * Principal Hautboy |
c¹ to e³ c¹ to e³ (Walker, 1843) c¹ to e³ c¹ to e³ |
The stops marked with an asterisk have mostly original pipework. The Trumpet is new, based on the surviving Parker Trumpet in the organ at St Mary’s, Barnsley and the Bridge organ at Christ Church, Spitalfields.
The Great and Swell keys survive. Unusually, the Swell keys are below the Great. There are no couplers. The upper keys (Great organ) have a compass of GG C AA D to e³. The lower keys (Swell organ) have a compass of c¹ to e³
Mechanism
The key and stop actions, and the wind system are new,
reconstructed by copying those at the ca 1750 Thomas Parker organ
at Great Packington, Warwickshire.
The surviving Great wind chest and upperboards are restored. The Swell wind chest with its box are new, based on the surviving Great chest, and on Parker organs at Great Packington and ones we have restored or examined.
Case
The case is new, following the dimensions given in the
Walker shopbooks, and the sketch in the Sperling Notebooks, with
reference to surviving contemporary cases of the same size, such
as the 1770 Thomas Knight case at Richmond parish church). The
case is darkened, and the front pipes gilded. It would occupies a
floor space of about 9ft (2.75m) wide, 6ft deep (1.83m), and
stand 16ft tall (4.88m).
page last updated 23 October 2007