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In 1620 a new organ, built by Thomas Dallam, was installed at a cost of £398 1s 5d, however this was destroyed by parliamentary soldiers in 1643 and another new organ was built in 1662, [1] which was enlarged in 1786, [2] and again in 1855. [3] In 1909–1910 a new organ was built by Harrison & Harrison with the best parts of old organ ...
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 ...
The Lansing diocese includes three of Michigan's largest cities (Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Flint) and covers 10 counties as follows: Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Hillsdale, Ingham, Jackson, Lenawee, Livingston, Shiawassee and Washtenaw. [2] The cathedral church of the diocese is the Gothic Revival St. Mary Cathedral, built in 1913 in Lansing.
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J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd is a British firm of organ builders established in 1828 by Joseph William Walker in London. Walker organs were popular additions to churches during the Gothic Revival era of church building and restoration in Victorian Britain, and instruments built by Walker are found in many churches around the UK and in other countries.
Link Piano and Organ Company; Los Angeles Art Organ Company, The; Charles McManis (1913–2004) Marr and Colton, Warsaw, New York (1915–1932) Midmer-Losh Organ Company, Merrick, New York; M. P. Moller Pipe Organ Company, Hagerstown, Maryland; David A. Moore, North Pomfret, Vermont [137] Robert Morton Organ Company, Van Nuys, California (1920s ...
The merged company was bought by John Christie in 1923, and remained in the Christie family until the business was wound up in 1998. [ 2 ] Amongst others, the company built the four manual organ in Norwich Cathedral (1899, rebuilds and upgrades in 1940–42, 1950 and 1969), [ 3 ] the 5038 pipe instrument in Lichfield Cathedral (1899, rebuilds ...
Malvern Priory organ case. Nicholson & Co. Ltd manufactures pipe organs. It was founded in 1841 by John Nicholson. Its work encompasses the creation of new instruments as well as historical restorations, rebuilds and renovations. In 2013, the firm completed the first wholly new instrument in a British cathedral since 1962 at Llandaff Cathedral ...