St John the Baptist

The Organ.

The present organ is a fine example of the work of Harrison & Harrison of Durham, built in 1917 when the firm was under the direction of Arthur Harrison. This instrument is one of only four constructed in that year, as many of the skilled craftsmen who had worked for Harrison before the Great War were slowly returning to peacetime work. The organ replaced a previous instrument built by Forster and Andrews. The organ has three manuals and pedals and the Swell and Choir organs are both enclosed.

The organ originally had exhaust-pneumatic action, but this was electrified by Cousins in 1980.

Three stops were prepared for but, sadly, never installed:

Pedal Ophicleide (16’), Great Mixture (“Harmonics”) and Great Clarion (4’)

The specification is as follows:

Pedal

1 Open Wood 16

2 Geigen (from 14) 16

3 Sub Bass 16

4 Octave Wood (from 1) 8

5 Flute (from 3) 8

Choir (enclosed)

7 Lieblich Bourdon 16

8 Viola da Gamba 8

9 Claribel Flute 8

10 Concert Flute 4

11 Viol d'Orchestre 4 original 8' transposed (1980)

12 Piccolo 2

13 Clarinet 8

Great Reed on Choir

Great

14 Gross Geigen 16

15 Large Open Diapason 8

16 Small Open Diapason 8

17 Hohl Flute 8

18 Stopped Diapason 8

19 Octave 4

20 Harmonic Flute 4

21 Octave Quint 2 2/3

22 Super Octave 2

24 Tromba 8

Swell (enclosed)

26 Open Diapason 8

27 Lieblich Gedeckt 8

28 Echo Gamba 8

29 Voix Celestes 8 TC

30 Gemshorn 4

31 Mixture III 15.19.22

32 Double Trumpet 16

33 Trumpet 8

34 Hautboy 8

35 Clarion 4

36 Tremulant

Accessories

6 thumb pistons to Great.
6 thumb pistons to Swell. (duplicated by toe pistons)
6 thumb pistons to Choir.
6 toe pistons to Pedal.
Reversible thumb piston for Gt-Pd. (duplicated by toe piston), ch-pd, sw-pd and sw-gt (duplicated by toe piston) Pedal to Great pistons.
Balanced Swell and Choir pedals.

Further Details can be found at the National Pipe Organ Register Website:

http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N03444