St Mary and St Nicholas
with All Saints, Leatherhead
The 1766 Thomas Parker organ
Progress Report 3, July
2007
Restoration & Assembly work
all images by permission of
Goetze & Gwynn unless otherwise stated
Casework
Nearly all the casework is finished – only the
tower caps need making.
The carving is finished and is being fitted to the towers.
Wind
The wind trunks and the two multi-fold bellows are
completed. The measurements and details are taken from the
original Thomas Parker system at Great Packington, but needed an
extra trunk for supplying blower air. At Great Packington it was
evidently not possible to install the blower in a way that would
also allow manual pumping.
Metal pipes
All the pipework is now completed, and is ready to be
voiced.
Assembly
After levelling the ground frame, the rest of the
casework is being put together, and the interior parts installed.
With both Great and Swell soundboards in position the wind trunks
are being connected. The lowest trunks are fixed with the
bellows, and the blower and its cut-off valve are ready. The
roller boards have been fitted, and are ready to be connected to
the pull-downs. The keyboards have been fitted into the console,
and the stop jambs prepared for the stop action.
Backfalls and their beams are ready to be finished and fitted so
that the key action can be completed.
The front pipes have been stayed in their frames and will now be
gilded.
Charles Marsden has begun to prepare the casework for colouring
and finishing
Martin Goetze, 2nd July 2007
Goetze & Gwynn
 Gussets |
 Edward at a corner |
 multifolds |
 Martin fitting front pipes |
 Martin burnishing a raised panel |
 Tim fitting casework to the ground frame |
 inside the lower case |
 The Swell Box |
 Console with keyboards |
 The organ back |