The Organ at St. Bartholomew's

St. Bartholomew's has a very fine two manual pipe organ built by F.H. Browne and Sons of Canterbury during 1971-2, installed by them in 1972, and variously enlarged, altered and updated by them in 1985, 1996 and 2005. The instrument was built high in the gallery, the pipe work each side of the window depicting Christ the King at the west end of the church beneath which the forward-facing console sits. The instrument provides ample resources for leading a capacity congregation in hymn singing, as well as providing the tonal colours necessary to choral singing in the parish. It is also occasionally used as a solo and a concerto instrument.

The 2005 refurbishment and extension of the instrument was entirely supported by the parishioners by way of a Sponsor a Pipe scheme. The Choirs and the Parish will always remain greatly appreciative of the generosity shown by so many.

(In August 2020 F H Browne & Sons Ltd announced that it had acquired the trading name and intellectual property rights of Mander Organs Ltd. From 1 October 2020 F H Browne (Organ Builders) Ltd began trading under the name Mander Organ Builders.)

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Organ Specification

Stop tab console
61 key manuals
30 note concave and radiating pedal-board
Solid state piston relays and switches#

Swell Organ

Open Diapason 8'
Lieblich Gedact 8'
Salicional* 8'
Principal 4'
Fifteenth 2'
Larigot 1 1/3'
Mixture II
Double trumpet 16'
Trumpet 8'
Oboe# 8'
Tremulant#

Great Organ

Double Dulciana 16'
Open Diapason 8'
Claribel 8'
Dulciana 8'
Principal 4'
Flute* 4'
Twelfth 2 2/3'
Fifteenth 2'
Sesquialtera# III
Trumpet (Swell)# 8'

Pedal Organ

Resultant Bass** 32'
Bourdon 16'
Dulciana 16'
Principal 8'
Bass Flute 8'
Fifteenth 4'
Octave Flute 4'
Trumpet 16'
Clarion 8'

Couplers

Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Swell to Great
​Swell Octave
Great+Pedal pistons coupled
General thumb to Swell toe pistons#

Thumb Pistons

Six Great
Six Swell
Six General#
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal#
Swell to Great
Swell Trumpet on Great#
General Cancel#

Toe Pistons

Six Pedal
Six Swell
Great to Pedal

​Balanced Swell pedal
Multi-level piston capture system#
Variable Tremulant#

 * 1985 addition                       ** 1996 alteration
# 2005 addition/alteration