Smaller projects 2023

We give the same attention to detail to all projects that we undertake, large and small. Some of the smaller projects completed in 2023 are listed here.

COMPLETED

BOSBURY, HEREFORDSHIRE – HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

III/31 1871 Speechly & Ingram; 1897 Ingram & Co.

Fitting counterweights to Swell drawstop mechanism to prevent unintended draw. Improving safety of maintenance access.

BROMSGROVE, WORCESTERSHIRE – ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH

1981 II/16 Tamburini

Repairs to collapsing facade pipes

BOURTON-ON-THE-HILL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE – ST LAWRENCE’S CHURCH

1931 II/10 Nicholson & Co.

Repairs to reservoir

CAMBRIDGE – EMMANUEL COLLEGE CHAPEL

1988 III/34 Kenneth Jones & Associates

Repairs and modification to mechanical action, keyboards, pedalboard, expression box mechanism, repairs to collapsing reeds and general cleaning and regulation of whole organ.

CHELTENHAM – ST GREGORY’S RC CHURCH

1986 II/21 S.F. Blank

Repairs to conveyancing

EASTNOR, HEREFORDSHIRE – CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

1867 II/16 John Nicholson, restored Nicholson & Co. 2004/5

Cleaning, including fitting a protective screen over the Great pipework.

FARNHAM, SURREY – ST THOMAS-ON-THE-BOURNE CHURCH

1911 Nicholson & Co. / 1964 Arnold, Williamson & Hyatt / 1990 Nicholson & Co.

Cleaning and overhaul, including re-leathering of both reservoirs and restoration of all chests.

LANCING COLLEGE, SUSSEX

1986 IV/54 J.W. Walker & Sons

Re-leathering balancier motors.

LEICESTER – CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREATER

III/54 1923 Stephen Taylor & Son; 1961 J.W. Walker & Sons; 2003 Nicholson & Co.

Restoring water-damaged Double Trumpet 16′ chest and Viola 8’/Open Diapason 8′ chest

ST ASAPH CATHEDRAL

IV/54 1834/1846 William Hill; 1859/1867/1897 William Hill & Son; 1926/1966 Hill, Norman & Beard; 1998 David Wood

Restoring water-damaged Open Wood 16′ and Trombone 16′ chests, cleaning and repairing all Great pipework, cleaning and repairing Swell chorus reeds, top overhaul of Great soundboard, and top overhaul of Swell chorus reeds soundboard.