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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 ...
Denys Duncan Rivers Pouncey was born on 23 December 1906 and was educated at Marlborough College and Queens' College, Cambridge.. In 1935 he founded the Northampton Bach Choir.
Henry Willis (27 April 1821 – 11 February 1901), also known as "Father" Willis, was an English organ player and builder, who is regarded as the foremost organ builder of the Victorian era. [1] His company Henry Willis & Sons remains in business.
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.
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.
The organ was later installed in Winchester Cathedral by the family firm (largely due to the initiative of Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the then Cathedral organist) after being reduced to 49 speaking stops, which was felt at the time to be an appropriate size for the Cathedral. When installed at Winchester in 1854, it was the first cathedral organ ...