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Wells Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England. Organ seen from the crossing. The first record of an organ dates from 1310, with a smaller organ, probably for the Lady Chapel, being installed in 1415.
Thomas Henry Davis was born on 25 September 1867 in Birmingham and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham.. In 1892, he became curate at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, moving to Wells Cathedral in 1895 as priest vicar.
Wells Cathedral School, which was established to educate these choirboys, dates its foundation to this point. [21] There is, however, some controversy over this. Following the Norman Conquest, John de Villula moved the seat of the bishop from Wells to Bath in 1090. [22] The church at Wells, no longer a cathedral, had a college of secular clergy ...
From 2004 to 2007 Vaughn was assistant director of music at St Edmundsbury Cathedral [5] before being appointed assistant organist at Wells Cathedral, where he served for ten years until 2017. He recorded five CDs with the Wells Cathedral choir and one with the Exon Singers, all under the direction of Matthew Owens.
Fanfare for Wells (2002), organ, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and cymbals (a two-minute fanfare (in the style of Marcel Dupré') for use immediately before Hubert Parry's I was glad), commissioned by the Wells Cathedral voluntary choir
Former pupils have held positions at St. Paul's Cathedral London, Westminster Abbey, Wells Cathedral, Llandaff Cathedral, St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh, and Coventry Cathedral. Stewart has been Borough Organist in Kirklees at the Huddersfield Town Hall since 1989, playing regular organ recitals on the 1865 Henry Willis & Sons organ. [5]
He was later organ scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge. His organ teachers included Ralph Downes, Gillian Weir, and Nicolas Kynaston and he studied composition with Herbert Sumsion, Bernard Stevens and Alan Ridout. [2] Archer married Alison (an artist and musician) in 1994, and they have a son (b.1997) and a daughter (b.1999).
Conrad William Eden, TD (1905–1995) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Wells Cathedral and Durham Cathedral. [1]He was born in 1905 in Alton, Hampshire, and was a chorister at Wells Cathedral.