Master list of churches with documented or other signs of
musical activity, c1545
These 800 or so churches are the ‘targets’ for near-future exploration on the spot with the aid of grants
(April 2013 to April 2016) from the Society of Antiquaries. Churches already surveyed and
photographed to date are in bold ; those with complete measured surveys are marked with an asterisk
[*] ; other places visited, with fewer points of interest, are marked thus : (*).
Last revised to 3 September 2015
AS = ‘Parish Church Musicians in England in the reign of Elizabeth I (15581603): an annotated register’ Alan Smith (1964) Royal Musical Association
Research Chronicle No 4
AW = ‘Lost Books of polyphony in England: a list to 1500’ Andrew Wathey (1988)
Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle No 21
MC = Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, H Munro Cautley (1937, Boydell
Press 5th edition 1982) and Norfolk Churches, H Munro Cautley (Boydell
Press 1949)
MW = ‘Liturgical polyphony within English parish churches before 1560’
appendix to ‘Liturgical music in the late medieval parish’ Magnus
Williamson, in The Parish in Late Medieval England: 2002 Harlaxton
Symposium, ed. Burgess & Duffy (2006)
PJ
= The Collegiate Churches of England and Wales, Paul Jeffrey (Robert Hale
2004)
CWA = Churchwardens’ Accounts from the Fourteenth Century to the Close of
the Seventeenth Century, John Charles Cox (Methuen 1913) and other CWA
CCT = Churches Conservation Trust
B
= bishops’ or archbishops’ manors, houses or ‘palaces’
D
= ‘double’ or two-storey north-of-chancel buildings
E (E) = eagle lecterns, extant and (E) ‘lost’ (from Oman, Architectural Journal 87,
1930)
I
= Edwardian period inventories (various dates from c1549-1552/3)
M
= presence of misericords, from the catalogue by G L Remnant
Q
= quire lecterns (from English Church Woodwork, Howard & Crossley,
Batsford, 1917)
Y
= possible presence of acoustic jars
+ or (+) = churches demolished or burnt or with lost, later or rebuilt chancels
If dates are given below, these are earliest and latest dates of organs found in
transcriptions of accounts or other sources (noted) but only up to 1600.
If there is any doubt, counties and spelling are as in (ed.)‘Betjeman’: Collins Guide
to English Parish Churches, except that here I have put Southwark in Surrey and
some London churches are under Westminster (once a diocese, briefly …)
Beds Ampthill* ; visited VH & MR 4 November 2013
Beds Barton le Clay* visited VH & MR 10 Feb 2014 ; demolished NE building [R]
Beds Bedford St Paul ; M
Beds Bolnhurst locked 4 November 2013
Beds Clifton CWA
Beds Cranfield* : I: one pr organs ; visited MR 6 May 2013 ; D ; Large NE building noticed even by
Pevsner – upper storey not yet visited ?
Beds Dean* (Lower) ; visited VH & MR 4 November 2013 ; very interesting church
+Beds Dunstable former priory ; visited VH & MR 9 February 2014
Beds Eaton Bray* ; visited VH & MR 9 February 2014 and 18 Jan 2015
Beds Felmersham* visited MR 25 November 2014
Beds Great Barford visited MR ?June 2012
Beds Houghton Conquest* ; Phillip and Mary : Edmund Conquest had apparently sold an organ
worth iiij li to repair the church. His widow was obliged to return this money, it seems.
Doom and two-storey NE building, visited VH & MR 4 November 2013 following earlier
outside visit
Beds Houghton Regis(*) locked : outside visited VH & MR 10 Feb 2014
Beds Kempston* ; visited VH & MR 4 November 2013
Beds Leighton Buzzard* ; M ; visited VH & MR 9 February 2014 [church reb after fire]
Beds Luton* D: in church plan – on N chancel with Easter sepulchre etc ; visited VH & MR 9 Feb 2014
Beds Northill* collegiate NC ?-sold 1590 PJ ; M ; visited VH & MR 10 Feb 2014
Beds Pertenhall* ; screen ; visited VH & MR 20 August 2015 ; chancel shortened
Beds Sharnbrook locked 22 July 2013
Beds Shillington* (AS ‘Herts’ to end of 1690s) ; CWA ; visited MR 5 May 2013
Beds Swineshead* ; M ; visited VH & MR 4 November 2013
Beds Toddington* ; visited VH & MR 10 Feb 2014 ; revisited (3-story NE building) 18 Jan 2015
(+) Beds Turvey ; visited MR 6 May 2013 [large ch different periods ; north chancel mostly reb C19]
Beds Willington(*) B visited MR 2014
Beds Wootton* Church guide book : ‘1536, Thomas Fox of Wooton left 20d ‘to the mendings of the
organs’ ; visited MR 6 May 2013
Beds Wymington locked 22 July 2013
Berks Brightwalton CWA
Berks East Hendred* Q [??] [now Oxon ? Berks in Pevsner] ; visited VH & MR 15 Feb 2015
Berks Eton college (Bucks in Pevsner) E ; (AW 1465 organ book) PJ
Berks Newbury(*) I: 2 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 7 October 2014
Berks New Windsor CWA
+Berks Reading St Giles(*) -1519-sold 1578 C (MW 1518-58 singers and poly copied) ; seen VH &
MR 15 Feb 2015 [church rebuilt almost totally 1873]
+Berks Reading St Laurence(*) : CWA organ 1506, sold 1578 (AS 1578) (MW 1505 singers,
inventory 1517 of music books) ; seen VH & MR 15 Feb 2015 [locked]
+Berks Reading St Mary(*) CWA ; outside seen VH & MR 15 Feb 2015 [chancel 1864]
Berks Shottesbrooke* ; collegiate PJ/AHT ; visited VH & MR 14 Feb 2015 and 17 March 2015
Berks Stanford in the Vale CWA [now Oxon. ? Berks in Pevsner]
Berks Sutton Courtenay [Oxon ?] ; M
Berks Thatcham CWA
+Berks Wallingford(*) collegiate (not Oxon) PJ ; church rebuilt 1854 ; visited VH & MR 14 Feb
2015
Berks Wantage ; M
(+)Berks Wargrave(*) B (Winchester) ; church reb after 1914 fire ; seen VH & MR
17 March 2015
Berks Windsor college of St Edward (now Albert chapel) PJ
Berks Windsor college of St George (AW 1384/5 song and organ books) PJ
+Berks Winkfield(*) CWA ; seen VH & MR 14 Feb 2015 [chancel rebuilt 1858]
Bristol Augustinian Abbey* (later cathedral) (AW 1491-2 song book) ; visited VH & MR 22 Feb
2015
Bristol All Saints college CWA 1455-1529 I: 1 pr organs (MW 1461-1536 payments for copying
polyphony) PJ ; unavailable late February 2015
+Bristol Christ Church(*) CWA (AS to at least 1574, possibly 1597) ; mostly 1786 ; seen VH & MR
22 Feb 2015
+Bristol Clifton CWA ; bombed WW II
Bristol SS Philip & James CWA [1558] ; locked 24 February 2015
+Bristol St Ewan/Ewen CWA 1454-1501… inventory 1455 ‘1 pr organs’ (AS to possibly 1584) (MW
inventory 1454 music) [demolished 1820]
Bristol St John Baptist* CWA (AS to possibly 1575) ; visited VH & MR 24 Feb 2015
Bristol St Mary Redcliffe* CWA (AS to possibly 1570s) ; visited VH & MR 24 Feb 2015
+Bristol St Mary-le-Port CWA [bombed 1940]
Bristol St Nicholas(*) (E) ; CWA I: ‘receipt’ for 1 pr organs ; rebuilt C18 and gutted 1940 ; visited
VH & MR 24 Feb 2015
Bristol St Peter* ; ruins with 2-storey NE building and possible wind-trunk hole ; visited VH & MR
22 Feb 2015
Bristol St Stephen (MW will 1505 leaving prick song etc) ; locked 22 and 24 Feb 2015
Bristol Temple Church (Holy Cross)* ; (AS to about 1587) ; gutted 1940 ; ruins visited VH & MR
22 Feb 2015
+Bristol St Thomas CWA [rebuilt 1789]
+Bristol St Werburgh CWA [dismantled 1877]
Bristol Westbury-on-Trym* ; college ; visited VH & MR 23 Feb 2015
Bucks Amersham* [1540]; at 1637 visitation: case ‘in town’ ; visited VH & MR 17 March 2015
Bucks Aylesbury ; M
(+)Bucks Beaconsfield* I 1 pr organs ; visited MR ? Sept 2011 ; almost all C19
Bucks Burnham I: 1 pr organs ; still there at 1637 visitation
+Bucks Chalfont St Peter I: 1 pr organs ; church rebuilt 1726 and ‘savagely gothicised’ (NP) Street 1857
Bucks Chesham (‘Magna’, St Mary) (E) ; I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 17 March 2015
Bucks Denham [1637 visitation said : organ there c1577]
Bucks Dinton (‘Denton’) ; I: 1 pr organs
Bucks Edelsborough* ; Q and stalls ; outside visited VH & MR 9 Feb 2014 ; inside 18 Jan 2015
Bucks Eton college (now Berks ? Bucks in Pevsner) PJ
Bucks Hambleden* I: sold organ pipes; 1637 visitation: pipes were sold 1578 ; visited VH & MR
17 March 2015
Bucks Hillesden* ; carving of (two views of) church organ in frieze in east chancel near roof ; visited
VH & MR 18 Jan 2015
Bucks Ivinghoe* [1637 visitation] Q ; B (Winchester) ; visited VH & MR 9 Feb 2014
+Bucks Marlow Magna CWA I: 1 pr organs ; 1637 visitation: case still there [church replaced C19]
Bucks Newport Pagnell* ; visited VH & MR 18 Jan 2015
Bucks North Marston ; M
Bucks Olney* I: 1 pr organs ; visited MR 6 May 2013 ; ch much rebuilt early C19
Bucks Thornton ; chantry in Lady Chapel, song and grammar school
Bucks West Wycombe B (Winchester)
Bucks Weston Turville I: 1 pr organs
Bucks Wing* CWA 1537 (organ from Woburn Abbey; ?another 1539 from Langley)-1554+
I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 9 Feb 2014
Bucks Winslow (*) ; visited 18 Jan 2015
Bucks [High] Wycombe* [“Cheping” or “High”] I: 2 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 17 March 2015
Cambs Balsham* B M with reredoses ; fine chancel ; visited VH & MR 11 July 2015
Cambs Bassingbourn* R ; CWA [1511-12] ; visited MR 20 Feb 2014 then MR & VH 5 May 2014 ;
ruins of substantial NE building outside N chancel ; splendid c1350 singing chancel
Cambs Burwell* ; dated chancel (before 1464) and nave (just after) with angels and musical
instruments ; visited VH & MR 2015
Cambs Cambridge All Saints (*) visited VH & MR 6 May 2014
Cambs Cambridge Christ’s College E PJ
Cambs Cambridge Clare Hall college PJ
Cambs Cambridge Corpus Christi College (AW 1439 music books) PJ
Cambs Cambridge Gonville Hall college PJ
Cambs Cambridge Great St Mary* CWA 1504-1613 (AS to 1583) (MW 1528-9 singers’ and organ
books repaired) ; visited VH & MR 6 May 2014
Cambs Cambridge Holy Trinity* visited VH & MR 6 May 2014
Cambs Cambridge Jesus College* PJ ; M ; visited VH & MR (with Roger Bowers) 6 May 2014
Cambs Cambridge King’s College E ; (AW 1448- various music books) PJ ; visited (not
measured) VH & MR 6 May 2014
Cambs Cambridge Little St Mary* ; visited VH & MR 6 May 2014
Cambs Cambridge : former King’s Hall college, now St Michael* PJ ; visited VH & MR 6 May
2014 ; large singing chancel ; nave now restaurant
Cambs Cambridge Pembroke [Hall] college PJ ; M
+Cambs Cambridge Peterhouse college PJ ; M
Cambs Cambridge Queens’ College PJ
Cambs Cambridge St Catherine’s Hall college PJ
Cambs St Clement ; M
+Cambs Cambridge St John’s College PJ
Cambs Cambridge Trinity College (E)
Cambs Cambridge Trinity Hall college PJ
Cambs Doddington B
Cambs Duxford St John* ; unrestored survival of fine church ; visited VH & MR 11 July 2015 [CCT]
Cambs Duxford St Peter []} in Vetus Liber Eliensis ; Ecc [St Peter ?] de Duk[...] ‘organi optimi ...
copa chori’ ; locked 11 July 2015 ; looks very over-restored
Cambs Ely cathedral Lady Chapel* visited VH & MR 7 May 2014
Cambs Ely St Mary* visited VH & MR 7 May 2014
Cambs Fen Ditton B ; visited VH & MR 10 July 2015
Cambs Fordham(*) M ; church very rebuilt C19 ; unique [pilgrimage ?] Lady Chapel (now ‘junior
church ‘!) visited VH & MR 10/11 July 2015
Cambs Gamlingay* ; M with reredoses ; visited VH & MR 8 July 2015
Cambs Godmanchester [Hunts]; M
Cambs Great Eversden ; M
Cambs Great Shelford B
Cambs Hardwick B
Cambs Ickleton(*) (MW pre-1320 inventory ‘liber cantus organici ex dono Philippi vicarii’) ; visited
VH & MR 11 July 2015 ; east parts missing or tidily rebuilt
Cambs Isleham* E ; M ; visited VH & MR 10 July 2015
Cambs Landbeach* ; M ; visited VH & MR 10 July 2015
Cambs Leverington CWA
Cambs Litlington visited VH 5 May 2014
Cambs Little Gransden B
(+)Cambs March|(*) CWA (church and museum) ; visited VH & MR 17 August 2013 ; chancel all
19th C and bad ; nave with wonderful angel roof
(+)Cambs Milton(*) ; M (minimal ; chancel rebuilt 1847) ; locked ; outside only seen VH & MR
10 July 2015
Cambs Newton (St Mary on the Sea*) college PJ; parish church visited VH & MR 7 May 2014
Cambs Orwell ; M
Cambs Over* ; M and chancel ; visited VH & MR 9 July 2015
(+)Cambs Ramsey Abbey(*) (AW 14th-cent: Item liber organicus fratris Willelm de Chiltham) ; site
visited VH & MR 9 July 2015
Cambs St Neots* [Hunts] ; M; visited VH & MR 8 July 2015
Cambs Soham* ; M ; visited VH & MR 10 July 2015
Cambs Whittlesford (from PG)
Cambs Wisbech(*) (MW 1517-48 HT guild supported singing priests); visited VH & MR 17 August
2013 [not much evidence] B
Cheshire Bebington [Wirral] ; M
Cheshire Bunbury* college PJ ; visited VH & MR 1 September 2015
Cheshire Chester cathedral* ; I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 1 September 2015
Cheshire Chester St John Without* [St John Baptist college PJ] ; I: 1 pr organs ; chancel ruins visited
VH & MR 1 September 2015
Cheshire Chester St Mary-on-the-Hill(*) CWA; I: 1 pr organs ; locked 1 September 2015
Cheshire Chester St Peter* ; I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 1 September 2015
+Cheshire Eccleston I: 1 pr organ ‘with pipes of lead’ [church replaced 1899]
Cheshire Great Budworth I: case of ‘a fair organ’, from Norton priory
Cheshire Macclesfield (MW)
Cheshire Malpas (MW) ; M
Cheshire Nantwich* ; M ; visited VH & MR 1 September 2015
Cheshire Prestbury CWA (AS to at least 1570s)
Cheshire Wilmslow CWA
Cornwall Antony CWA
Cornwall Breage* ; visited VH & MR 10 October 2014
Cornwall Bodmin* CWA 1470 ; M ; visited VH & MR 12 October 2014
Cornwall Cambourne CWA
Cornwall Crantock college* PJ ; visited VH & MR 14 October 2014
Cornwall Glasney – see Penryn
Cornwall Kilhampton(*) ; visited VH & MR 13 October 2014
Cornwall Lanner B
Cornwall Launcells* ; visited VH & MR 13 October 2014
Cornwall Launceston* ; CWA 1479 to civil war period (AS ‘to 1574’) (MW 1478 singers hired) ;
visited VH & MR 16 October 2014
Cornwall Lawhitton B
Cornwall Lelant(*) ; visted VH & MR 10 October 2014
Cornwall Liskeard* (MW 1546 2 chantries paid for singers) ; visited VH & MR 12 October 2014
Cornwall North Petherwin* CWA ; visited VH & MR 16 October 2014
Cornwall Panton B
Cornwall Penryn, Glasney college PJ ; site visited VH & MR 9 October 2014 B
Cornwall Poughill(*) CWA ; brief visit VH & MR 13 October 2014
Cornwall Probus college* PJ ; visited VH & MR 9 October 2014
Cornwall St Breock(*) CWA ; visited VH & MR 12 October 2014
Cornwall St Buryan college* PJ ; M ; visited VH & MR 10 October2014
Cornwall St Columb Major* college PJ ; visited VH & MR 12 October 2014
Cornwall St Endellion college* PJ ; visited VH & MR 14 October 2014
Cornwall St Eval (*) ; visited VH & MR 14 October 2014
Cornwall St Germans B ; M
Cornwall St Ives* (music composer here, Oliver, paid 1570 by Stratton [CW?] for Te Deum) CWA ;
visited VH & MR 10 October 2014
Cornwall St Just(*) ; visited VH & MR 10 October 2014
Cornwall St Mawgan in Pydar(*) ; visited VH & MR 14 October 2014
Cornwall St Michael’s Mount I: 2 pr organs
Cornwall St Michael Penkevil college* PJ ; visited VH & MR 9 October 2014
Cornwall St Neot(*) ; visited VH & MR 12 October 2014
Cornwall Stratton* CWA (MW 1526 pricksong book given to pay for a grave) ; contract for rood
screen etc mentions organ loft, (AS Blanchminster charity payments till 1579) ; visited VH
& MR 13 October 2014
Cumberland Carlisle* former priory ; visited VH & MR 29 August 2015
Cumberland Great Salkeld(*) CWA ; visited & MR 30 August 2015
Cumberland Greystoke* college PJ ; M ; visited VH & MR 30 August 2015
Cumberland Kirkoswald on the Eden*, college PJ ; visited VH & MR 30 August 2015
Derbys Ashbourne
Derbys Bakewell ; M
Derbys Chaddesden(*) (‘Derby village’) ; college or chantry [AHT and Pevsner] founded C14 in
rebuilt c1357 (post-Sandiacre) chancel (restored 1857-8) ; stalls ; visited 29 May 2015 VH &
MR outside only; locked ‘Anglican Evangelical’ church
Derbys Church Gresley ; M
Derbys Derby All Saints college CWA 1465-1583 PJ
Derbys Derby St Alkmund college PJ
Derbys Haddon Hall – report of staircase to organ loft (CWA 1876-7) via PH
Derbys Hartington* I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 28 May 2015
Derbys Norbury* ; magnificent singing chancel with original glass in N and S windows ; visited VH &
MR 28 May 2015
Derbys Sandiacre* ; large singing chancel, ?1340s ; visited VH & MR 28 May 2015
Derbys Sawley I: 1 pr organs
Derby Tideswell* ; M ; large singing chancel ; visited VH & MR 28 May 2015
Derbys Wirksworth* I: 1 pr organs ; (few medieval vestiges) visited VH & MR 28 May 2015
Devon Abbotskerswell ; rood with platform (?)
Devon Ashburton* JCC 1483-1580 [hole made in roof to remove organs…] (MW 1492-1558 much
polyphony copied) (AW pricksong x 2) ; visted VH MR 17 Jan 2013
Devon Atherington* ; N screen with platform and balustrades ; long visit VH & MR 15 July 2015
Devon Bampton* ; visited VH MR 14 Jan 2012 ; rood screen not in original place
Devon Barnstaple(*) CWA [1558-65] ; outside N only measured VH & MR 17 July 2015
Devon Bere Ferrers* college PJ ; visited VH & MR 18 July 2015
Devon Berry Pomeroy ; rood loft platform
Devon Bishops Clyst B
Devon Bishops Tawton B
Devon Bishopsteignton B
Devon Bovey Tracey E ; rood screen with platform ; M
Devon Bradninch ; rood platform
Devon Braunton (AS) ; visited VH & MR 17 July 2015
Devon Branscombe* (MW 1307 inventory. ‘inus rotulus de cantu organico magnus et longus’)
(AW ditto) ; visited MR & PH 12 March 2013
Devon Bridford ? rood platform ; old colours in screen
Devon Broad Clyst* 1640s, in diary of army officer ; visited VH & MR 14 March (pm, locked) and
15 March 2013 [higher nave arches where rood screen used to be]
Devon Broadhempston CWA
Devon Buckland Monachorum* ; two-story NE building ; visited VH & MR 18 July 2015
Devon Buckfastleigh P (1844) with perspective view from NW ‘as it is’
Devon Burrington* ; rood platform (no access) ; visited VH & MR 16 July 2015
Devon Chagford CWA
Devon Chudleigh CWA ?-1608… (AS to c1573), B
Devon Chulmleigh* – former collegiate church (John Stabb) with large rood screen with restored
platform (MW 1546 semi-collegiate church with five prebends and boys; birthplace of Sebastian
Westcote) PJ ; visited VH & MR 14 July 2015
Devon Clyst Honiton B
Devon Clyst St Lawrence ; rood platform
Devon Cockington ; M
Devon Coldridge ; CWA ; rood-screen measured VH & MR 17 July 2015 ; tools found here 1930s
Devon Combeinteignhead ; possible rood platform
Devon Combe Martin* ; no platform ; NE building (interior seen) ; visited VH & MR 16 July 2015
Devon Crediton college [organ 1570, sold1595] PJ B
Devon Cullompton* ; visited 15 January 2012 VH & MR ; large rood platform REVISIT
Devon Dartington CWA ; possible rood platform
Devon Dartmouth, St Mary 1433-1538 (MW c1480-1539 music copied)
Devon Dartmouth, St Saviour ; possible rood platform
Devon Down St Mary ; possible rood platform
Devon Exeter Rougemont castle collegiate chapel PJ
Devon Exeter cathedral E (I :‘a great dexte of laton wt a spread eagle’) ; I: 2 pr organ in choir, one great
one small; 2 in Lady Chapel, one greater one lesser, and 2 pr elsewhere (AW c1477 organ
book)
Devon Exeter Holy Trinity
Devon Exeter Royal Albert Memorial Museum ; M
+Devon Exeter St Mary Major (reb. 19th cent, demolished 1970s)
Devon Exeter St Mary Steps (P 1824)
Devon Exeter St Pancras (P 1830-1)
Devon Exeter St Paul I: 1 pr small organs
Devon Exeter St Petrock C 1458-1589
Devon Exeter St Tooles (Olave) I: 1 pr small organs [tuning contract]
Devon Farringdon B
Devon Feniton ; possible rood platform
Devon Iddesleigh CWA
Devon Ilfracombe ; will of Sir John Down, the Curate of Ilfracombe, 10 January, 1580/1; proved 21
April ; desired burial in the chancel ‘between the Quyer dores and the organs’. [Nigel Browne]
Devon Haccombe college PJ
Devon Halberton (St Andrew) (*) ; (AS organ repaired) ; rood platform & NE building ; visited VH
& MR 14 July 2015 REVISIT to see NE building inside
Devon Harberton ; fine rood platform
Devon Hartland/Stoke* (AS -c1598) (MW 1548 Guild of Jesus had ‘great deske’ and ‘orgayns’)
CWA ; visited VH & MR 13 October 2014 (rood platform measured)
Devon Holcombe Rogus* ; visited 14 Jan 2012 [?parts of former Tiverton rood screen] ; revisited
VH & MR 14 July 2015
Devon Huntsham* ; visited VH & MR 14 Jan 2012
Devon Ipplepen ; possible rood platform
Devon Kenn (near Powderham) ; possible rood platform
Devon Kentisbeare* ; visited VH & MR 15 January 2012 REVISIT ?
Devon Kenton ; new roodloft platform?
Devon Kingsbridge ; M
Devon King’s Nympton* ; roodloft platform ; detailed survey of loft VH & MR 16 July 2015
Devon Lapford* ; screen ; visited VH & MR 18 July 2015
Devon Lew Trenchard(*) ; remade rood loft, 1899-1915 ; visited VH & MR 18 July 2015
Devon Marwood* ; side screen with rear balustrade ; visited VH & MR 17 July 2015
Devon Morchard Bishop ; parts of very fine coloured screen, restored 1928-40
Devon Modbury
Devon Molland(*) ; unrestored interior ; visited VH & MR 16 July 2015
Devon North Molton* CWA ; visited VH & MR 16 July 2015
+Devon Okehampton CWA [chancel etc rebuilt]
Devon Ottery St Mary* college PJ ; M ; visited MR & PH 12 March 2013 (VH 13th)
Devon Paignton (MW music copied from here for Dartmouth) B
Devon Payhembury ; restored fine screen
Devon Pilton* ; visited VH & MR 17 July 2015
Devon Pinhoe (Exeter) ; rood platform
Devon Plymouth St Andrew CWA
Devon Plymstock (P 1826)
Devon Plymtree* ; visited MR & PH 13 March 2013 ; fine rood screen, once had ?Green organ
Devon Sidbury* CWA [1639 sic] ; visited MR & PH 14 March 2013
Devon Slapton college PJ
?+Devon South Molton – home of the Chappington family [church substantially rebuilt – but check
chancel]
Devon South Tawton* CWA ; visited VH & MR 18 July 2015
Devon Staverton ; rood platform ?modern
Devon Swimbridge* ; rood platform and NE building ; visited VH & MR 15 July 2015
Devon Talaton ; coving east and west
Devon Tavistock(*) ; C 1538/9-1562+ (AS -1562...) (MW 1552-3 pricksong bought) CWA ; visited
VH & MR 18 July 2015
Devon Tiverton* college PJ ; visited VH MR 14 January 2012
Devon Totnes ; roodloft access in chancel ; remains of screen with colour
Devon Uffculme* ; visited VH MR 15 January 2012 ; very long rood screen with loft ; church partially
rebuilt C19 ; revisited VH & MR 14 July 2015
Devon Willand* ; rood platform (very small church and screen) ; visited VH & MR 14 July 2015
Devon Winkleigh CWA
Devon Wolborough (Newton Abbot) E
Devon Woodbury* (AS -?1570s or later) CWA; visited VH & MR 14 March 2013
Devon Woodland CWA
+Dorset Bridport CWA [chancel rebuilt C19]
Dorset Cerne [Abbas]* I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR ?30 April 2015
Dorset Lyme Regis* (MW 1548 lands devoted to lady service with clerk and boys) ; visited VH & MR
13/14 March 2013 ; much refaced outside ; very late perp hall-church, no signs of rood screen
Dorset Gillingham(*) I: 2 pr organs ; visited VH & MR ?29 April 2015
Dorset Milton Abbas ; M
Dorset Newton Buckland* I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR ?29 April 2015
Dorset Sherborne Abbey(*) & Sherborne All Hallows [ruins only] (MW 1534-5 pricksong
bought) ; visited VH & MR 30 April 2015
Dorset Tolpuddle(*) I: 1 pr organs ; brief visit VH XXX April 2015 [chancel rebuilt C19]
Dorset Whitchurch Canonicorum* ; visited VH & MR 11 March 2013
Dorset Wimborne Minster college CWA (?1405) 1475-sold 1643/4 PJ ; M
Dorset Wynterbourne Marten* [Martinstown] I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR ?29 April 2015
Durham Auckland college PJ B ; M
Durham Barnard Castle B
Durham Bishop Middleham B
(+) Durham Brancepeth ; M [fire 1990s]
Durham Chester-le-Street* college PJ ; visited VH & MR 28 August 2015
Durham Darlington* college PJ B ; M ; visited VH & MR 27 August 2015
Durham Durham cathedral* (E) (AW 1387 organ book bought for 3s 4d) ; M(Cosin) ; visited VH
& MR 28 August 2015
Durham Durham castle, Bp Tunstall’s chapel ; M
Durham Durham St Margaret* I: 1 pr organs ‘left’ [in church] ; visited VH & MR 28 August 2015
+Durham Durham St Nicholas CWA [church completely rebuilt 1850s ; visited VH & MR 28 August
2015]
Durham Durham St Oswald* CWA ; visited VH & MR 28 August 2015
Durham Easington B
Durham Houghton-le-Spring* I: 1 pr organs (AS -1602) ; visited VH & MR 28 August 2015
Durham Lanchester college* PJ ; M (& reredoses) ; visited VH & MR 28 August 2015
Durham Norton* college (Stockton on Tees) PJ ; visited VH & MR 27 August 2015
Durham Sedgefield(*) ; M(Cosin) ; visited VH & MR 27 August 2015
Durham Staindrop college PJ ; M
Durham Stockton on Tees B
Essex Abbess Roding(*) ; a fief of Capel Cure family ; visited VH & MR 11 Jan 2015
Essex Aveley* (Alythley in Essex Arch ; Alvythele in 1418) ; visited VH & MR 6 Feb 2015
Essex Belchamp St Paul ; M
Essex Blackmore(*) ; western part of priory church ; no access to eastern areas ; visited VH & MR
11 Jan 2015
Essex Bradwell-juxta-Coggeshall(*) ; wall paintings ; outside only visited VH & MR 11 Jan 2015
Essex Braintree CWA
Essex Broomfield CWA
Essex Brightlingsea* ; I: [sold] xxiiij organyne pypes, broky[n] & holle, of lead …Item An olde payre
of orgayne case [not sold, it seems] ; visited VH & MR 12 Jan 2015
Essex Bures* ; large support structure NE chancel ; visited VH & MR 22 August 2014
Essex Castle Hedingham ; M
Essex Chelmsford CWA 1558-9
Essex [Chiche] St Osyth* ; I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 12 Jan 2015
Essex Clacton Magna CWA
Essex Coggeshall* ; large wool church ; visited VH & MR 11 Jan 2015
Essex Dagenham* ; I: 1 pr small organs ; visited VH & MR 11 Jan 2015
Essex Felsted(*) ; visited MR 18 Feb 2014
Essex Fingringhoe* : D reported by David Whymark ; visited VH & MR 12 Jan 2015
Essex Gestingthorpe* ; visited VH & MR 13 Jan 2015
Essex Great Dunmow(*) CWA 1531 (organ from Saffron Walden £9, sold 1621 [connections with
Stoke College] ; visited MR 2012, revisited VH & MR 28 September 2013
Essex Great Hallingbury ; ?piscina at rood-loft level
Essex Halstead* ; visited VH & MR 13 Jan 2015
Essex Hatfield Broad Oak* ; remains of former priory and church ; visited VH & MR 22 August
2014
+Essex Havering (atte Bower) (E) ; church replaced 1875-8 (Champneys)
Essex Heybridge CWA
Essex Hornchurch* ; I: 1 pr broken organs [ch appr. to New College] ; visited VH & MR 11 Jan 2015
Essex Lawford* ; large double-cube early 14th-century chancel with sedilia sculptures of musicians and
instruments ; visited VH & MR 12 Jan 2015
Essex Le[i]gh I: 1 pr organs
(+)Essex Littlebury(*) Q [chancel 1870-5] ; base only of wooden dext ; visited VH & MR 11 July
2015
Essex Little Waltham(*) ; former NE building & Easter sepulchre ; visited VH & MR
+Essex Pleshey(*) ; college PJ (chancel 1720 and 19th-cent) ; visited MR 18 Feb 14 ; nothing now to
see ; church largely C19, college site almost invisible
Essex Rainham chapel(*) (MW ?1530-1548 singer in chantry) ; outside seen VH & MR 6 Feb 2015
Essex Rayle[igh] I: 2 pr organs
+Essex Romford I: 1 pr organs ; all church rebuilt 1849-50
Essex Saffron Walden* (E) CWA; organ given by man who dies 1511; I [sold:] ‘Certen organ pypes
for iiis liiijd…Certain more organ pipes for xxvs [by ?] James Cowle & Richard Goodwyn,
churchwardens, by the advice of the Tresorer and his brethren, a orgayn case for xvs.’ Another
organ (the 1511 one ?) was sold in 1531 to Great Dunmow; see above ; visited VH & MR 5 May
2014
(+)Essex South Weald(*) ; I: 1 pr organs ; church substantially rebuilt 1868, new nave and chancel
(by Teulon) and no useful signs now ; visited VH & MR 11 Jan 2015
Essex Stansted Mountfichet (P 1829)
Essex Thaxted* ; visited VH & MR 11 August 2014
Essex Thor[r]ington(*) : B CWA ; locked 12 Jan 2015 ; no obvious interest
Essex Walthamstow I: 1 pr organs
+Essex Wivenhoe CWA
Glos Awre (AS – Hopkins and Sternhold)
Glos Bishop’s Cleeve* B ; visited VH & MR 3 September 2015
Glos Blockley D vestry ?
Glos Boughton on the Water* ; visited VH & MR 13 May 2013
Glos Chipping Camden* E ; visited VH & MR 12 May 2013
Glos Cirencester* visited VH & MR 23 Feb 14 (MW)
Glos Clifton CWA
Glos Down Ampney visited outside only VH & MR 23 Feb 2014
Glos Duntisbourne Rous ; M
Glos [??] Easington CWA
Glos Fairford locked ; M – o/s only VH & MR 23 Feb 14 REVISIT
Glos Gloucester St John Baptist (MW chantry cert. re organ player)
Glos Lechlade* ; visited VH & MR 13 May 2013
Glos Minchinhampton CWA ? organ sold c1575
Glos Mitcheldean ; M
Glos Moreton in Marsh(*) visited VH & MR 13 May 2013
Glos Northleach* D? ; visited VH & MR 13 May 2013 [one-storey NE building, but window in north
aisle very high ; small space over NE ‘vestry’ door for organ ?]
Glos Stow on the Wold* ; visited VH & MR 13 May 2013
Glos Tewkesbury* abbey (AS -?1600s) ; M ; visited VH & MR 3 September 2015
Glos Tormarton college PJ
Glos Westbury-on-Trym* college PJ [under Bristol]
Glos Winchcombe [?]
Glos Upton(*) visited VH & MR 23 July 2013
Hants [New] Alresford B
Hants Alton ; M
+?Hants Andover [1470-2] church replaced C19
(+)Hants Basingstoke Hospital and fraternity of the Holy Ghost [1557-65]
Hants Bishop’s Sutton* 1 Feb 13 outside only, revisited VH & MR 1 Jan 2015
Hants Bishop’s Waltham palace ruins and church* ; B visited VH & MR 14 September 2013
Hants Bisterne B
Hants Bramley CWA
Hants Christchurch ; former abbey
Hants Crondall CWA
Hants East Meon* I: 1 pr organs ; B ; visited VH & MR 14 & 15 September 2013
Hants Ellingham CWA
Hants Fareham B
Hants Fordingbridge I: 1 pr organs
Hants Highclere B
Hants Marwell college PJ B
Hants Pamber former priory ; visited VH & MR 27 November 2011 & Sep 2013
Hants Portsmouth CWA
Hants Sopley I: 1 pr organs
Hants Southampton St Lawrence
Hants Southampton St Michael E (two, one from Holy Rood after war damage)
Hants Stoke Charity CWA
Hants Weyhill CWA
Hants Winchester St Cross hospital ; visited outside excavations at, VH & MR 1 September 2013
+Hants Winchester St Elizabeth’s college PJ [merged with St Mary’s and demolished ; some
foundations seem to show existence of pulpitum ; excavation plans seen 1 September 2013]
Hants Winchester St Mary’s college* (AW 1404 cantu organico etc) PJ [NB present organ still
‘standing’ north of chancel] ; visited VH & MR 1 September 2013 (guided tour) and 14
September 2013 with archivist
Hants Winchester St John Baptist B
Hants Winchester St Maurice I: 1 pr organs
Hants Winchester St Swithun over Kingsgate(*) ; visited VH & MR 14 Sept 13
Hants Wootton CWA
Herefs Abbey Dore(*) ; visited VH & MR 23 September 2012
Herefs Bosbury(*) (MW schoolmaster teaches young to play organs, before 1548) ; very brief visit VH
& MR 3 September 2015
Herefs Bromyard portionary church PJ
Herefs Ewyas Harold(*) ; visited VH & MR 24 Sept 2012
Herefs Hereford, All Hallows* ; I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 24 September 2012;
choirstalls from local priory
Herefs Hereford cathedral ; visited VH & MR 24 September 2012; rood screen door
Herefs Hereford, St Peter* ; I: 2 pr organs ‘one without pipes’ ; M ; visited VH & MR 24 September
2012 ; choirstalls from local friary ?
Herefs Ledbury portionary college PJ ; M
Herefs Leintwardine* ; M ; visited VH & MR 3 September 2015
+Herefs Leominster(*) (AW cantus organice ..) brief visit VH & MR 3 September 2015
Herefs Moccas ; M
Herefs St Margaret Vowchurch* ; visited VH & MR 24 September 2012 [rood screen, loft and
altars]
Herefs Stoke Edith CWA
Herts Albury* I: 1 pr organs (from Ashridge ?) Q (? not seen ; from Ashridge too ?) visited MR
14 Nov 2011 REVISIT
Herts Aldenham I: 1 pr old organs in decay B: ‘Tudor vestry’
Herts Anstey ; M
Herts Ashwell* [1562-3] (MW: 1529 a chaplain to play at organs, employed by fraternity of St John
Baptist) ; visited MR 6 May 2013 and VH & MR 5 May 2014
Herts Baldock* [c1540-4] ; visited MR ?6 May 2013
Herts Berkhamsted* I:1 pr organs and 1 pr ‘portatives’ (moveable organ) ; visited MR ?2011
Herts Bishops Stortford* (E) ; CWA 1489-1631 I: 1 pr organs (MW 1483/4 paid for book of prick
song) (AW 1484 pricksong) ; visited VH & MR 28 September 2013
Herts Bushey I: part of 1 pr organs
Herts Cheshunt I: 1 pr organs
Herts Flamstead* D I: 1 pr organs ; visited MR 5 May 2013 ; upper room surveyed
Herts Harpenden I: 1 pr organs
(+)Herts Hatfield* I: 1 pr organs ; visited MR 6 May 2013 [NE of church reb as Cecil mausoleum]
Herts Hemel Hempstead* I: 1 pr organs ; visited MR 5 May 2013
Herts Hitchin* visited MR 6 May 2013
Herts Knebworth CWA
Herts Pirton ; visited MR 5 May 2013
Herts Royston(*) ; visited MR 5 May 2014 [chancel much altered ; few remains of old priory]
Herts St Albans St Peter I: 1 pr organs [Grimthorpe demolished old vestry N of chancel 1890s]
Herts St Albans St Stephen E (from Holyrood ?)
Herts Stanstead St Margaret’s college PJ
Herts Stevenage ; M
Herts Totteridge [?] B
Herts Tring Magna* I: 1 pr organs ; visited MR 2011 ; chancel rebuilt C19 ? REVISIT
Herts Ware* I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 5 May 2014
Herts Watford I: 1 pr organs
Herts Watton at Stone(*) I: 1 pr organs [locked 6 May 2013 and 5 May 2014] REVISIT
Hunts Abbots Ripton* [Cambs] I : 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 9 July 2015
Hunts [Cambs] Bluntisham* I: 1 pr organs, sold ; visited VH & MR 9 July 2015
Hunts Brampton* [Cambs] I: 1 pr organs ; M ; visited VH & MR 8 July 2015
Hunts Buckden* [Cambs] I: 1 pr organs missing some (case ?) pipes ; visited MR outside XX & inside
(briefly) 17 May 2013
Hunts Bury(*) ;locked ; visited outside VH & MR 20 August 2015 (contacts made)
Hunts Castor* ; carvings etc ; vicited VH & MR 20 August 2015
Hunts [Cambs] Fenstanton* ; Dec chancel dated 1345-52 ; visited VH & MR 9 July 2015
Hunts Godmanchester* [Cambs] M ; visited VH & MR 20 August 2015
Hunts Holywell* [Cambs] CWA ; visited VH & MR 9 July 2015
+Hunts Huntingdon [Cambs], St Benedict I: 1 pr organs [church demolished ...]
Hunts Huntingdon All Saints and St Mary (*) ; locked churches seen from outside only
VH & MR 20 August 2015
Hunts Kimbolton* [Cambs] I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 20 August 2015 ; chancel shortened etc
Hunts Ramsey* [Cambs] I: 1 pr organs ; Q ; visited VH & MR 9 July 2015
Hunts St Neots* ; M , from Milton Ernest says Pevsner ; visited VH & MR 8 July 2015
Hunts Somersham* [Cambs] I: 1 pr organs ; house of bishops of Ely B ; visited VH & MR 9 July 2015
Kent Addington* ; visited MR Ascension Day 2013 ; priest there went to be precentor of St Paul’s
c1360 ; connection with Trottiscliffe (q.v.) ?
Ken Adisham* ; early ‘singing chancel’ ; visited VH & MR 7 Feb 2015
Kent Aldington ; M ; B
Kent Alkham* ; large quasi-collegiate north aisle ; visited MR 21 May 2015
Kent Allhallows (Hoo, Isle of Grain) CWA
Kent Ash (*) ; visited VH & MR 16 August 2014
Kent Ashford(*) college of St Mary ; I: 2 pr great organs PJ ; preliminary visit MR 22 May 2015
Kent Bethersden* ; CWA 1519-1558; I: 1 pr ‘base’ organs ; visited MR 19 May 2015
Kent Birling ; visited VH & MR outside 11 January 2013, MR inside later 2013 ; Nevill family church,
formerly ‘private’ collegiate ?
Kent Bishopsbourne* D ; visited MR 17 June 2013 [rich church – value £48-14-2 in VE]
Kent Boxley ; visited MR 24 Feb 2014 [well-known pilgrimage abbey and church]
Kent Bredgar* ; college PJ ; visited MR 18 May 2015
Kent Brenzett CWA
+Kent Bromley I: 1 pr organs [church bombed 1941]
Kent Canterbury All Saints I: 1 pr organs
Kent Canterbury Holy Cross Westgate I: 2 pr organs ; M
+Kent Canterbury St Andrew CWA 1493-1548 (MW payments to pricksong singers) – and Talleis !
(BL 1485 pricksong) [church demolished]
Kent Canterbury Christ Church cathedral priory Lady Chapel (and quire floor)* (E)
(BL 1290) ; visited VH & MR (and PG) 9 Feb 2015
Kent Canterbury St Dunstan* JCC [1566-1579] (MW inventory c1500 with music) ; visited VH &
MR 8 Feb 2015
Kent Canterbury St Elphege/Alphege I: 1 pr organs
+Kent Canterbury St George I: 1 pr organs (sold) [tower only survives]
+Kent Canterbury St Margaret I: 1 pr old organs (sold..) [chancel rebuilt]
Kent Canterbury St Martin* ; possible presence of choir shool ; visited VH 7 MR 17 August 2014
+Kent Canterbury St Mary Breadman I: 1 pr organs (sold) [church demolished]
Kent Canterbury St Mildred* ; 2-storey NE building seen outside VH & MR 17 August 2014 /
inside 8 Feb 2015
+Kent Canterbury St Paul(*) ; I: 1 pr organs (sold) ; visited VH & MR 17 August 2014 [ch rebuilt]
Kent Canterbury St Peter (*) ; visited VH & MR 17 August 2014
Kent Charing ; B ; visited MR 4 October 2013 ; fire later C16, but signs of two-storey NE building ;
Archbishop’s house/farm next to church
Kent Chartham* ; outside only VH & MR 9 Feb 2015 ; inside 16 May 2015 [important late C13
singing chancel with original north and south windows’ glazing]
+Kent Chilham(*) ; chancel totally rebuilt C19
Kent Cliffe at Hoo CWA ; M
Kent Cobham college PJ ; M ; visited MR & VH 13 April 2014 ; college buildings almost intact
Kent Cranbrook(*) [1561-7] to be revisited (MW)
Kent Dartford* (E) ; I: 1 pr organs ; passage to organ loft ; visited VH & MR 6 Feb 2015
Kent Detling* Q (two-sided lectern), north-of-chancel ?chantry, choir stalls (now gone) ;
visited VH & MR 15 May 2015
Kent Doddington* [‘Dudintune’ in old documents] ; visited MR 17 June 2013
Kent Dover St Martin’s priory, inventory c1534: 1 pr organs (in quire)
Kent Dover St Mary CWA (MW 1542-55 supper for preists and clerks – Egerton MS in BL)
Kent East Malling* ; visited VH & MR 20 November 2012 (poor light) MR later (June 2013)
?collegiate chancel, now without chancel aisles
Kent Eastry* ; early ‘singing chancel’ ; visited VH & MR 7 Feb 2015
Kent Egerton ; visited MR 4 October 2013
Kent Elham* ? remains of former tall NE building ; visited/measured MR 1 August 2013
+Kent Eltham CWA I: 1 pr portatives (with stops) [church rebuilt C19]
Kent Faversham (MW 1506 choir regulations) ; large NE chantry ; preliminary visit MR 3 July 2015
Kent Folkestone priory (*) locked REVISIT ; visited MR 18 June 2013, briefly outside ; reb C19 (MW)
Kent Fordwich [CCT church] CWA
Kent Frinsted(*) ; visited VH & MR 1 Dec 2013
+Kent Greenwich I: 1 pr organs [ch rebuilt]
Kent Harbledown (P 1822) ‘view from NW’
Kent Harrietsham* ; visited MR 1 August 2013
Kent Hawkhurst* CWA [1548/9] ; visited MR 14 June 2013 (outside only), 4 December 2013
(inside) ; church damaged in WWII
Kent Herne ; M
+Kent Hernehill(*) ; in Orme list of song schools ; visited VH & MR 26 May 2015 ; eastern parts
rebuilt [‘a complete Perp church’ [sic] – Buildings of England’] ; large box-tree in churchyard
Kent Hoo All Hallows – see Allhallows
Kent Hythe CWA
Kent Ickham* ; early ‘singing chancel’ ; visited VH & MR 7 Feb 2015
Kent Ivychurch* misericords visited VH & MR 26 April 2014
Kent Kenardington(*) visited MR 31 July 12 [church very reduced]
Kent Lamberhurst* visited MR 31 July 12
Kent Leeds* collegiate chancel with acoustic jars formerly in nave [?] ; visited MR 18 June 2013, revisit
7 September 2013 [; blocked rood doorway south aisle, c 2’ by 5’, up c2’6”, to wide restored
rood screen
Kent Lenham* – music lectern, large NE chantry building ; visited MR ?15 June & 4 October 2013
+Kent Lewisham I: 1 pr organs [church rebuilt 1697]
Kent Littlebourne* ; early ‘singing chancel’ ; visited VH & MR 7 Feb 2015
Kent Lydd* CWA:1430-1554 (two organs) ; visited MR ? September 2012 ; one organ possibly at
west end of chapel north of chancel where there are signs of a structure (large corbels...), cf
Smeeth
Kent Lydden(*) visited VH & MR 15 June 2013
Kent Maidstone* college pc (AW 1327 song) PJ ; M ; visited VH & MR 15 May 2015
Kent Minster in Sheppey ; priory inventory c1535: 1 pr portatives
Kent Minster in Thanet* ; M ; minster church ; visited VH & MR 7 Feb 2015
Kent Mersham* I: 1 pr organs, possibly on north chancel wall where there is an old doorway leading
now to a Victorian vestry built on an earlier site (see plan on photo) - a double-storey
vestry/chantry ? ; visited VH & MR 15 June 2013, revisit MR 20 May 2015
Kent Newenden(*) (near Rye) visited VH & MR 31 July 2012
Kent Newington (near Sittingbourne)* ; visited MR 17 June 2013 (am, locked) ; tall NE building ;
visited VH & MR 6 Feb 2015 and 15 May 2015
Kent New Romney (MW c1500 faburdens copied and now in town court book)
Kent Pluckley* I: 1 pr organs ; visited MR 4 October 2013
Kent Postling ; visited MR 22 July 12 [corbels in sanctuary]
Kent Rainham* CWA ; visited VH & MR 16 May 2015 [rood gallery access from east]
Kent Rochester St Nicholas ; I: 1 pr organs missing pipes
Kent Rolvenden ; visited MR 31 July 2012
Kent Ruckinge* blocked north chancel window, remains of southern return stalls and parclose
screen ; visited MR various dates including 14 June 2013 and 26 April 2014
Kent Ryarsh REVISIT
Kent St Lawrence in Thanet (Ramsgate), chapel of Minster ; outside seen 8 Feb 2015
Kent St Peter in Thanet (Broadstairs), chapel of Minster ; outside seen 8 Feb 2015
Kent St Mary Cray I: 1 pr organs
Kent St Mary’s Hoo (Isle of Grain)
Kent St Nicholas at Wade* ; former building NE of chancel ; visited VH & MR 8 Feb 2015
Kent Sandwich St Mary* ; CWA 1447-1502+(MW inventory 1473 chanting and organ books) (AW
1473 chant and le organ bok in the rode loft) ; visited VH & MR 17 August 2014
Kent Sandwich St Clement* ; M ; visited VH & MR 16 August 2014 ; Y found
Kent Sandwich St Peter(*) ; visited VH & MR 16 August 2014 [church reduced]
Kent Selling* ; visited VH & MR 9 Feb 2015
Kent Smarden CWA ?-sold case 1547 pipes 1549
Kent Smeeth* I: 1 pr organs [apparently at west end of chapel (Lady Chapel ?) north of chancel where
there are signs of access and supports for beams for a platform ; Scott’s Hall (Baliol family)
nearby till 1808] ; visited VH & MR 15 June 2013
Kent Stone-in-Oxney(*) visited VH & MR 27 April 2014
(+)Kent Stowting(*) (MW priest leaves music books ? to priory or church ?) ; visit MR 20 May 2015
to church completely reb C19 ; two good windows, one possibly from Stelling (cf Upper
Hardres east window)
+Kent Strood CWA [ch rebuilt]
Kent Swanscombe Q ; outside seen VH & MR 6 Feb 2015
Kent Throwley ; M
Kent Ulcombe* early ‘college’ PJ (ended at date uncertain early C16) ; visited MR various dates and
10 July 2014
Kent Upper Hardres[*] ; small early manorial singing chancel ; brief visit MR 20 May 2015
Kent Warehorne* I: 2 pr organs [presumably one at least set over one of the parclose screens formerly
at east end of nave aisles, probably the northern one where the access staircase was] ; visited
MR various dates including 14 June 2013 and 19 May 2015
Kent Westbere* ; NE building with early door ; visited VH & MR 8 Feb 2015
Kent Westwell* ; I: 1 pr organs ; M ; visited VH & MR 9 Feb 2015
Kent Wingham* college ; M ; inventory: 1 pr organs in the quire PJ ; visited MR 1 August 2013 ;
revisited VH & MR with access to 2-storey area 16 August 2014
Kent Wittersham* I: 1 pr old organs ; visited VH & MR 27 April 2014
Kent Woodchurch* visited MR 31 July 2012
+Kent Woolwich I: 1 pr organs [church rebuilt C18]
Kent Wrotham* B ; double-storey vestry ; visited MR briefly 28 November 2014 and VH & MR 15
May 2015
+Kent Wye college [1529] PJ ; chancel destroyed by fall of tower
Lancs Ashton-under-Lyne I: 1 pr organs
?Lancs Bishops Morton I: gift of 1 pr organs
Lancs Blackburn ; M
Lancs Bolton le Moors : M
Lancs Cartmel* former priory CWA ; visited VH & MR 31 August 2015
Lancs Clitheroe D ?
Lancs Garstang* [Churchtown] ; M ; visited VH & MR 31 August 2015
Lancs Halsall ; M
Lancs Manchester college PJ ; M
Lancs Middleton nr Oldham I: 1 pr organs …1 pr ‘rigalles’ ; M
Lancs Prescot(*) : CWA 1549 ; pipes sold 1579/80, case there 1605/6 ; M (Cosin/Neild) ;visited
VH & MR 31 August 2015
Lancs Rochdale I: 1 pr organs
Lancs Whalley ; M
Leics Ashby de la Zouch (P 1824)
Leics Bottesford* I: 1 pr organs ; visited MR & PH 2012 (?) ; revisited VH & MR 2 November 2013
Leics Branston by Belvoir ; visited VH & MR 20 July 13 and 21 Sept 13
(+)Leics Buckminster ; visited VH & MR 17 August 2013 [very large rood access system] ; chancel
altered
Leics Castle Donington ; visited 22 April 2013 ; interesting church but no signs of music, though
obviously a wealthy village at one time
Leics Church Langton ; visited VH & MR 21 July 2014
Leics Eaton* ; visited VH & MR 21 Sept 2013 ; rood screen details
Leics Great Bowden ; visited VH & MR 22 July 2013 [C17 organ case in pine]
Leics Harby visited VH & MR 21 July 2013 and 22 Sept 13
Leics Hose visited VH & MR 21 July 2013
Leics Kegworth* [D] ; visited VH MR PH 22 April 2013 [large once wealthy church now rather bare
and scraped (organ by Roger Yates; it should be given HOC); double-storey NE building visited
Leics Launde chancel of priory
Leics Leicester Newarke college PJ
Leics Leicester St Margaret (E) 1555, sold 1569
Leics Leicester St Martin (E) CWA ?–sold 1547; (another?) sold 1567
Leics Leicester St Mary ( BVM) Abbey (AW c1480 ‘liber de canticis organicis’)
Leics Leicester St Mary de Castro college CWA [1495-1505] PJ, P (1844)
Leics Loughborough (MW 1517x20 visitation dispute over singing polyphony)
Leics Lutterworth visited VH & MR 23 March 2014
Leics Kirkby-on-the-Wreake [Kirby Bellars ?] : chantry college, founded 1319 [A H Thompson]
Leics Market Harborough ; visited MR & VH 21/22 July 2013
Leics Melton Mowbray(*) CWA I: 1 pr organs in the quire over the south side (AS –c1563) ;
visited MR & PH ?2011 ? Nov 2011 REVISIT ; locked 21 July 2013
Leics Noseley college PJ ; visited (outside) VH & MR 21 July 2013 REVISIT
Leics Sapcote* college PJ ; visited VH & MR 7 December 2013 ; rather bare and featureless
Leics Sharnford visited MR 21 June 2012 & VH & MR 7 Dec 2013
Leics Sproxton visited VH & MR 21 July & 22 Sept 2013
Leics Wigston (Great) B
Leics Wymeswold P (1845) ; visited VH & MR 19 July 2013 ; fine Pugin reconstruction of chancel etc
Lincs Addlethorpe and Ingoldmells CWA
Lincs Boston* (E) ; inventory 1534 Guild of BVM 2 pr organs; organ ‘on screen’ 1480-1590
(MW 1506-54: Guild BVM; links with K Coll Cambr) ; visited VH & MR 9 May 2014
+Lincs Coningsholme(*) outside visited MR 21 August 2015 ; example of extreme retrenchment
Lincs Croft E
Lincs Deeping St James (E)
(+)Lincs Frampton (AS song school...) ; visited VH & MR 8 May 2014 [chancel shortened C19]
Lincs Grantham* (MW 1541-2 singers from here at Belvoir castle) ; visited VH & MR 2 November
2013
Lincs Hagworthingham CWA
Lincs Heckington* ; very large Dec singing chancel ; long visit to all parts VH & MR 21 August 2015
Lincs Horncastle(*) (MW 1522-3 ‘presbitero cantatori’ from H pd by BVM guild at Boston) ; outside
only seen VH & MR 21 August 2015
Lincs Kirton-in-Lindsey* CWA (AS ?1602) ; visited VH & MR 22 August 2015
Lincs Leverton CWA
Lincs Long Sutton* E (AS to after 1603); visited VH & MR 9 May 2014
Lincs Louth* ; CWA 1500-1521+ (at least two, possibly three organs, one Flemish) (MW 1478
-1550 polyphony copied, choir supported by BVM and HT guilds) ; visited VH & MR 22August
2015
Lincs Quadring* ; will of yearling calf ‘for organ’ [1534] ; visited VH & MR 231 August 2015 ;
chancel shortened before C19
Lincs Ruskington* (AS to ? c1602) ; visited VH & MR 21 August 2015 ; chancel shortened
before C19
Lincs Saxilby CWA
Lincs Sleaford* (AS song school) ; visited VH & MR 21 August 2015
Lincs Spilsby college PJ
Lincs Stamford CWA
Lincs Stamford Browne’s Hospital ; M
Lincs Strubby CWA
Lincs Sutterton* [c1548] CWA ; visited 9 May 2014 VH & MR
Lincs Tattershall* college and pc (AW 1493 many song books) PJ ; M ; visited VH & MR 8 May 2014
(+)Lincs Wigtoft* CWA B [1580] ; visited 9 May 2014 VH & MR [chancel shortened (as Frampton)]
London All Hallows Barking by the Tower* (MW 1476 chantry [in separate building] Ed IV;
singers in choir and adjacent Lady chapel ; MR : by around 1519 both these buildings had
organs maintained by Antony Duddington) ; visited MR & 3 June 2013 [burnt out 1943,
rebuilt 1960s]
+1666 London All Hallows the Great (MW inventory 1552 ‘... pricksong bookes’)
+1666 London All Hallows Honey Lane (MW inventory 1552 singing books)
+ reb 1756 London All Hallows London Wall C c1455-1536
+ reb 1670 London All Hallows Staining [-1520+] (purchase of new organ and repair of old) (AS - ?)
(MW c1550 pricksong books bought)
+ ? date London Bridge chapel St Thomas (MW 1398-1514 boys and poly copied)(AW 1474/5
pricksong)
+London Garlickhythe college PJ
+London Guildhall college chapel of BVM and Mary Mag (MW 1477 bequest to maintain choir and
organist) dem 1822
+1666 London Holy Trinity the Less (MW inventory 1552 pricksong books)
+London Pountney college PJ
+reb 1634 London St Alban Wood Street (MW pre-1548 anthems sung in Lent)
+reb 1777 London St Alphege London Wall CWA 1530-?sold 1555 (AS -?) [some vestiges left ?]
+reb Wren London St Andrew Holborn CWA c1515-?1570s
+1666 London St Andrew Hubbard CWA c1460-1572 (AS -?) (MW 1528-9 surplices for men and
boys)
+1666 London SS Anne and Agnes (MW inventory 1552 2 singing books for the choir)
+1666 London St Antholin (MW chantry priest and other singing pd Skinners’ Company)
London St Bartholomew the Great
+reb 1789 London St Bartholomew the less (AS -1581)
+1666 London St Benet Fink (MW vestments for children)
+1666 London St Benet Gracechurch Street CWA [1549-1553] (AS -1570s?) (MW 1548-57 poly
copied, 1552 inventory had great song books ... 1557 men sang on patronal feast)
+reb 1754 London St Botolph Aldersgate Street CWA (AS -c1571)
+reb 1741 London St Botolph Aldgate CWA
+reb 1725 London St Botolph Bishopsgate CWA [1638-1643] (AS – c1571) (MW)
+London St Catherine Aldgate CWA
+reb 1628-31 London St Catherine Cree (MW 1526-7 paid for pricking a mass)
+1666 London St Christopher le Stocks (MW inventory 1483 pricksong books with divers masses) (AW
1483 pricksong)
+reb Wren London St Clement Danes (AS – ?1571)
+1666 London St Dionis Backchurch (MW 1474(-94) bequest of Jesus Mass and salve for 20 years)
+1666 London St Dunstan in the East CWA (MW 1500-20 poly copied; organist and choirmaster 1548)
+reb 1831 London St Dunstan in the West – [and other London refs in Guildhall Library] (AS till at
least 1574) (MW 1532-3 paid for book of Jesus mass)
+1666 London St Edmund Lombard Street (MW pre-1548 Salve endowed)
London St Ethelburga (AS -?1571)
+1666 London St Gabriel Fenchurch (MW pre-1548 Salve endowed)
damaged 1940 London St Giles Cripplegate (AS ?1566)
London St Helen Bishopsgate [1547-1560] (AS -?1571)
+1666 London St James Garlickhithe (AS 1571) (MW 1449-c1560 5 books of polyphony and pricksong
bt c1550) (AW 1449 organ book)
+1666 London St Lawrence Jewry (MW Robert Golder conduct, 1547)
+1666 London St Lawrence Pountney (MW inventory 1552 4 books of polyphony)
+1666 London St Magnus (MW 1548-1552 choir and books in inventories)
+1666 London St Margaret Moses (MW 1549 books pricked ‘in ynglesche’)
+1666 London St Margaret New Fish Street (MW inventory post 1472: one book of polyphony)
+1666 London St Margaret Pattens CWA – (MW 1516-21 clerkes paid for salve with children)
+London St Martin le Grand college (MW 1558 will of musician lists pricksong books) PJ
+1666 London St Martin Vintry (AS -c1555?)
+1666 London St Mary Aldermanbury CWA [?organ put 1570 into a loft] (AS -?1570s)
+1666 London St Mary Aldermary (AS –c1571)
+1666 London St Mary at Hill CWA 1477-1533 (inventory 1496 2 old os) (AS -1571) (MW 1353-1559
much music)(AW pricksong 1483-5, organ books 1496/7)
+1666 London St Mary le Bow (MW inventory 1552 3 books of poly)
+1666 London St Mary Magdalen Milk Street CWA (AS -c1571) (MW)
+1666 London St Mary Woodchurch CWA (MW)
+1666 London St Mary Woolchurch Haw (AS -1570) (MW inventory 1552 7 small books of pricksong)
+1666 London St Mary Woolnoth JCC [1532] (AS organ removed by 1574) (MW 1547-52 anthem
endowed, poly copied)
+1666 London St Matthew Friday Street CWA (AS –c1571? [check church]) (MW pricksong books
bought c1550s)
+1666 London St Michael Bassishaw (MW pre-1548 endowment for lights at anthem time)
+1666 London St Michael Cornhill (E) CWA 1459-sold 1572 (AS -1560s?) (MW 1465-1563 fraternity
of St Anne and BVM: numerous payments for copying poly)(AW 1465 pricksong)
+1666 London St Michael le Querne (AS -?1571) (MW 1517-1552 polyphony copied and donated)
+dem 1548 London St Nicholas Shambles (MW inventory c 1425-75 various refs to pricksong)
+1666 London St Nicholas Olave (MW pre-1548 Salve funded by bequest)
+ damaged 1941 London St Olave Hart Street (MW 1512-1552 inventory 1552 3 books of polyphony
etc)
+1666 London, St Olave Old Jewry (MW 1480 bequest for dirige and mass to be sung with 3 priests
and a clerk)
+1666 London St Pancras Soper Lane CWA
+1666 London St Paul’s cathedral (AW 1255 liber organorum W de Faukeborge perpulcrum est
incipiens viderunt fuit christus pater & [other?] organ books 1295 and 1445)
+London St Peter ad Vincula college PJ
+1666 London St Peter [West]Cheap[side] CWA 1433-sold 1567 (or AS 1571) (MW inventories 1500
& 1552; 1 book of polyphony c1500, 8 in 15520 (AW 15th-cent pricksong)
+1666 London St Peter upon Cornhill (MW inventory 1552 4 books of polyphony)
+part reb Wren London St Sepulchre [without] Newgate (MW 1532 cantarist appointed)
+1666 London St Stephen Coleman Street (MW 1494-1542 singers hired; inventory 1542 with poly)
+1666 London St Stephen Walbrook CWA [1510] (AS -?1571)(MW 1530s-1558 singers on patronal
feast; inventory 1558 polyphony)
+1666 London St Vedast Foster Lane (MW 1548 endowment for masses and Salve)
London Temple church ; inventory 1312: 2 organs in Great Church, one organ book (among many
others) in the Choir
+London Walworth’s college PJ
+London Whittington’s College (MW 1548 clergy and choristers supported by Mercers’ Company)
+Middx Acton I: 1 pr organs with some pipes missing [church rebuilt 1865-7]
+Middx Ealing (‘Yelinge’) I: 1 pr organs [church rebuilt]
Middx Chelsea I: 1 pr organs
Middx Enfield I : 1 pr organs
+Middx Fulham I: 1 pr organs ‘that lieth all to be broken’ [church rebuilt 1880-1]
Norfolk Attleborough* college PJ ; M ; rood-screen climbed and surveyed VH & MR 8 May 2015
Norfolk Aylmerton* D ; visited VH & MR 29 July 2013
Norfolk Aylsham* ; M ; visited VH & MR (outside) 28 July 2013, (inside) 29 July 2013
Norfolk Banningham D ?
Norfolk Binham priory ; M ; chancel in ruins ; visited VH & MR 10 May 2014 (for concert)
Norfolk Billingford (NW of Norwich) E
Norfolk Blakeney* ; M ; upper storey to chancel ; visited VH & MR 6 September 2013
Norfolk Booton(*) ; visited VH & MR ; harmonium repaired & distant photo of Salle taken
30 September 2013
Norfolk Brisley* ; visited VH & MR ? date ; chancel sanctuary crypt (like Covehithe Suffolk was ?)
Norfolk Brockdish CWA
Norfolk Bunwell* R ; I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 14 March 2014 ; revisited 10 May 2015
Norfolk Burgh-next-Aylsham (St Mary) ; D? blank wall N chancel
Norfolk Castle Acre priory(*) ; visited VH & MR 9 July 2013
Norfolk Castle Acre church* D ; M ; collegiate chancel ; visited VH & MR 19 August 2013
Norfolk Castle Rising ; visited VH & MR 30 July 2013
Norfolk Caston ; M
Norfolk Cawston* – former collegiate chancel (burnt out 1740s, 3 misericords left) ;
visited VH & MR 25 & 26 June 2013 and 30 September 2013 (chantry and loft stairs)
Norfolk Cley* ; M ; visited VH & MR 29 July 2013
Norfolk Creake Abbey ruins(*) ; visited VH & MR 29 September 2013
Norfolk Denton* (MW rules for intonations in CWA book, 1507) [PJ?] visited VH & MR
17 March 2014
Norfolk Diss* D; I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 14 March 2014 : entrance to organ loft from room
over ‘vestry’ found
Norfolk Docking I: 1 pr organs locked Sunday 29 September 2013
Norfolk Downham Market* visited VH & MR 11 May 2014
Norfolk Dunton(*) visited VH & MR 29 September 2013 ; ’home-made’ rood loft
Norfolk East Dereham CWA
Norfolk East Harling* ; M ; chancel stalls and vestry ; Q (stolen) ; visited VH & MR 7 May 2015
Norfolk East Lexham ; M ; brief visit 20 August 2013
Norfolk East Winch ; remains of N chancel chapel
Norfolk Elsing ; D? sacristy ?
Norfolk Emneth* MC: ‘north of chancel is a sacristy with an upper room’; visited VH & MR Sun 18
August 2013 ; two-storey set-up
Norfolk Fakenham ; visited VH & MR 29 September 2013; church over-restored C19 ; few signs
Norfolk Field Dalling* – north chancel chapel ; visited VH & MR 6 September 2013
Norfolk Fincham* D ; visited VH & MR 19 August 2013 and (‘vestry’) 11 May 2014
Norfolk Forncett [St Mary and] St Peter(*) CWA ; brief visit VH & MR 9 May 2015
Norfolk Foulsham* R ; I: 1 pr organs purchased; MC: ‘chancel door in NW corner …there was a
sacristy N of chancel’ [church burnt out 15 June 1770] ; visited VH & MR 25 June 2013
Norfolk Garboldisham(*) – N chapel ; brief visit VH & MR (and tower of other church) 7 May 2015
Norfolk Gooderstone – chancel stalls
Norfolk Great Massingham* I: 1 pr organs purchased ; visited VH & MR 28 September 2013
Norfolk Great Ryburgh* I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 29 September 2013
(+)Norfolk Great Yarmouth (AS ..) CWA ; church burnt out WW II
Norfolk Great Witchingham ; demolished NE building
Norfolk Grimston ; M
Norfolk Griston(*) brief visit VH & MR 7 May 2015
Norfolk Happisburgh* ; visited VH & MR 15 March 2014 – chancel stalls
Norfolk Harpley* – sacristy was vaulted (MC); visited VH & MR 28 September 2013
Norfolk Heacham I: 1 pr organs locked 28 September 2013
Norfolk Herringby(*) college PJ (no traces, in depopulated village near Stokesby)
Norfolk Hingham* – two-storey vestry N of v large decorated singing chancel with blocked NE
window – outside seen 7 May 2015 ; inside and vestry visited VH & MR 10 May 2015
Norfolk Ingham* – was conventual priory church; remains of a pulpitum ? (MC) ; visited VH & MR
15 March 2014 [NE church under scaffolding]
Norfolk Kelling* MC: ‘widest rood stairs I have ever seen’, in N transept; Easter sepulchre with real
earth tomb, ruins of ?chantry NE chancel ; visited VH & MR 6 September 2013
Norfolk Kings Lynn St Margaret* E ; M (MW 1522-4 singers from Lynn hired by BVM guild,
Boston) visited VH & MR 19 August 2013
Norfolk Kings Lynn St Nicholas* E ; visited VH & MR 19 August 2013
Norfolk Litcham ; M ; short visit VH & MR (work in graveyard) 20 August 2013 ; choir school there
now (Jonathan Boston)
Norfolk Little Dunham – chancel chapel
Norfolk Little Walsingham* (E) ; I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 6 September 2014 ; ch reb after
fire but wide place of rood loft still obvious
Norfolk Loddon o/s only visited VH & MR 17 March 2014 ; CWA ; chancel aisles ?REVISIT
Norfolk Merton(*) ; brief visit outside VH & MR 7 May 2015
Norfolk Mundford ; visited (to photo Comper organ case and screen) VH & MR 30 July 2013
Norfolk Narborough I: 1 pr organs
Norfolk Neatishead – chancel only of large church
Norfolk North Burlingham* visited VH & MR 17 March 2014 (2 churches)
Norfolk North Elmham* CWA ; M ; visited VH & MR 30 July 2013
Norfolk North Walsham ; M
Norfolk Northwold – hole above Easter sepulchre N chancel ?
Norfolk Norton Subcourse* visited VH & MR 17 March 14
Norfolk Norwich cathedral visited VH & MR 16 March 2014
Norfolk Norwich St Andrew Coslany* I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 16 March 2014
Norfolk Norwich St Andrew (E) ; I: 2 pr organs
Norfolk Norwich St George Tombland* visited VH & MR 16 March 14 – chancel chapel of guild of
St George
Norfolk Norwich St Giles ; E from St Gregory
Norfolk Norwich St Gregory* ; M ; visited VH & MR 16 March 2014 – old vestry door leading to
vanished NE building
Norfolk Norwich St John Maddergate LOCKED 16 March 14 REVISIT ?
Norfolk Norwich St Margaret ; M
Norfolk Norwich St Mary Coslany* I: 1 pr organs ; M ; visited MR & VH 16 March 14
Norfolk Norwich St Michael Coslany o/s only seen 16 March 14
Norfolk Norwich St Michael at Thorn(e) Q, P (1838)
Norfolk Norwich St Peter Mancroft ; M ; inventories P&M and earlier 1 pr organs – sacristy (MW
inventory c1500 many books incl for organ and Salve festa dies)
Norfolk Norwich St Peter Parmentergate* inventory and a/cs temp Ed VI one pr organs with
regalls ; visited VH & MR 16 March 2014
Norfolk Norwich St Stephen* [?1569] (AS –c1570) ; M ; visited VH & MR 16 March 2014
Norfolk Outwell* visited VH & MR 7 May 2014
Norfolk Oxburgh (Oxborough) E (chancel only)
Norfolk Oxnead – chancel chapel in ruins
Norfolk Potter Heigham N chancel chapel
Norfolk Pulham St Mary* JCC : ‘there was a chapel north of chancel’ (there was indeed) ; visited VH
& MR 9 May 2015
Norfolk Ranworth* ; M ; Q and rood screen paintings c1450 ; antiphoner of c1400, misericords,
wooden Easter Sepulchre renmants ; visited VH & MR 17 March 2014
Norfolk Raveningham ; visited VH & MR 17 March 2014
Norfolk Redenhall(*) E (double-headed) ; D [revisit] ; CWA ; visited VH & MR 17 March 2014
Norfolk Reepham(*) ; visited VH MR 25 June 2013 ; much-rebuilt C19 (2 churches ; 3rd dem C18)
Norfolk Rushford(*) – collegiate church, much altered ; locked ; outside seen VH & MR 7 May 2015
Norfolk Salle* (MW post 1375 ‘liber vocatus Orgenboc’) (AW same 1375 organ
book) ; M ; visited VH MR 25 June 2013 ; revisited VH & MR 28 July 2013 (4 ½ h on site)
and 30 September 2013 [Further work here includes need to find out if there were
ever any buildings NE of church ; also where clerkes etc were accommodated]
Norfolk Salhouse ; M
Norfolk Salthouse ; locked, evening of 29 September 2013 REVISIT
Norfolk Scole ; visited VH & MR 14 March 2014 ; Q ; horribly rebuilt after fire
Norfolk Shelton* ; ‘private chantry’ (?) (red brick Tudor) church ; visited VH & MR 9 May 2015
Norfolk Shipdham* [1513] CWA ; N chancel chapel (AS new organ 1591) Q ; brief visit VH MR 26
June 2013 (church under repair)
(+?)Norfolk Snettisham E I: 1 pr broken organs C; 40’ chancel gone 1690s (MC) CWA
Norfolk South Creake* I: 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 29 September 2013
Norfolk South Pickenham* ; visited VH & MR 7 September 2013 (for organ from West Tofts)
Norfolk Sprowston ; visited VH & MR 15 March 2014 – N chancel chapel
Norfolk Stiffkey* ; M ; visited VH & MR 6 September 2013
Norfolk Swaffham* CWA MC: ‘At the end of the N aisle is the Vestry with a priest’s chamber
above…’ ; visited VH & MR 20 August 2013
Norfolk Terrington St Clement* (MW inventory c1367 ‘unus liber de novo cantu’) (AW same
c1367 song book) ; visited VH & MR 19 August 2013
Norfolk Thetford priory -1508-1531(+) ; visited VH & MR 20 August 2013
Norfolk Thetford pc (MW 1535 guild BVM supported three chaplains and two lay clerks)
Norfolk Thompson* – college PJ ; M ; unrestored interior ; visited VH & MR 7 May 2015
Norfolk Thornham* – N chancel aisle ; visited VH & MR 29 September 2013
Norfolk Tibenham* visited VH & MR 14 March 2014 – S chancel chapel
Norfolk Tilney All Saints* ; M ; 1451-1551+ (MW 1556 pricksong bought) ; visited VH & MR
19 August 2013 and 10 May 2014 to talk to local history society AGM
Norfolk Trunch* ; M ; visited VH & MR 15 March 2014
Norfolk Tunstead* ; visited VH & MR 15 March 2014 ; raised area behind altar (cf Clare, Suffolk ?) ;
singing chancel, blocked east window
Norfolk Upper Sheringham* visited VH & MR 15 March 2014
Norfolk Upwell E
Norfolk Walpole St Peter* ; M ; fine collegiate chancel ; visited VH & MR 18 August 2013
Norfolk Walpole St Andrew [CCT] ; visited VH & MR 18 August 2013 ; found two lads playing
organ there ; went up tower with them
Norfolk Walsoken* I: 1 pr organs; MC: sacristy with an upper room S of chancel ; visited VH & MR
Sun 18 August 2013
Norfolk Warham N chancel chapel – which Warham, St Mary or All SS ?
Norfolk Wells I: 1 pr organs bought ; visited VH & MR 29 September 2013 (church reb. after lightning
strike C19 ; account of old church found at SAL)
Norfolk West Acre – former priory ?
(+)Norfolk West Lynn ; M ; visited VH & MR 11 May 2014 ; original chancel gone
Norfolk West Walton* I : 1 pr organs ; visited VH & MR 18 August 2013
Norfolk Weybourne* – remains of former priory chancel etc attached to church – signs of possible
organ gallery ; visited VH & MR 29 July 2013
Norfolk Whissonsett* I: 1 pr organs; chancel aisle ; visited VH & MR 28 September 2013
Norfolk Wiggenhall St Mary Virgin* E (1518) ; chancel aisle (MW inventory 1367 ‘j quaternus de
cantu’) (AW same c1367) ; visited VH & MR 19 August 2013
Norfolk Wiggenhall St German* ; visited VH & MR 11 May 2014
Norfolk Wighton* ; visited VH & MR 6 September 2013
Norfolk Wiveton* I: 1 pr organs : visited VH & MR 6 September 2013
(+)Norfolk Wolferton ; visited VH & MR 28 September 2013 [chancel replaced C19]
??Norfolk Woodbury* visited VH & MR 14 March 2013
Norfolk Worstead* ; visited VH & MR 15 March 2014 – MC 1450 vestry ‘with a room above’
added to church finished c 1399
Norfolk Wymondham – LOCKED SUNDAY 10 MAY 2015 2 pm
Norfolk Yelverton S chancel chapel
Northants Benefield (E) ; M (from Fotheringhay ?) [C19 church]
Northants Burton Latimer CWA (at church ?) locked 22 July 2013
Northants Castor : portable organ carving on roof beam
Northants Cotterstock college PJ and AHT locked 3 November 2013
Northants Crick* visited VH & MR 23 March 2014 (large C14 chancel as at Astley Warws,
Shottesbrooke Berks, Hingham Norfolk)
Northants Culworth CWA
Northants Denford ; ? Y visited VH & MR 4 November 2013
Northants Gayton ; M
Northants Great Doddington ; M
Northants Great Oakley ; M
Northants Finedon locked 22 July 2013
(+)Northants Fotheringhay college PJ (AW 1445 organ book) ; visited VH & MR 3 November 2013 ;
sad relic of large building, all collegiate part gone
Northants Hemington ; M
Northants Higham Ferrers college PJ ; M ; visited 22 July 2013 VH & MR – churches, bedehouse
and some college buildings (in town) remain
Northants Holdenby ; M
Northants Irthlingborough college PJ ; M ; visited VH & MR 22 July 2013
Northants Isham ; M
Northants King’s Sutton (P 1841)
Northants Towcester : small college and free school founded 1448 [AHT]
+Northants Northampton All SS college and 16 chaplains, burnt 1675 PJ
Northants Northampton churches (MW All SS 1460-1548 college of chantry priests and organist; St
Giles 1535 fees paid by St Andrews priory to vicar and choir))
Northants Oundle*; E ; large 2-storey NE building ; visited VH & MR 10 August 2014 ; entry to
medieval organ loft still in situ in ‘vestry’
Northants Passenham ; M
Northants Peakirk ; Q
Northants Peterborough St John Baptist ; CWA 1467-1546 ; outside only seen VH & MR ?date
Northants Peterborough cathedral(*) E and (E) (‘two desks of latten’) M ; visited VH & MR
?DATE
Northants Rothwell ; M
Northants Stanford CWA ; M
Northants Tansor ; M (from Fotheringhay)
Northants Wappenham : chantry college, founded 1327 [AH Thompson]
Northants Wellingborough ; M
Northumberland Hexham* former abbey; B (York) ; M visited VH & MR 29 August 2015
Northumberland Newcastle cathedral E
Northumberland Ponteland college PJ
Notts Clifton* college PJ ; visited VH MR 22 April 2013
Notts Collingham M
Notts East Drayton (MW c1450-1500 York Gradual copied for use here)
Notts East Retford (MW 1552 scholars in church to help in choir)
Notts Hawton* ; visited VH & MR & PH 9 August 2014 ; carvings of extraordinarily high quality
(ES, pisc., sed. etc) ; missing NE building
(+)Notts Holme Pierrepoint CWA ; visited VH & MR 20 July 2014 chancel rebuilt C19
Notts Kinoulton B (York)
Notts Newark on Trent* (AS song school till at least 1590s) (MW 1514-95 guild BVM paid for
singers) ; M ; visited VH & MR 20 July 2013 / 8 May 2014 (on top of screen)
Site of organ found : 6’ by 3’ in centre east of quire (not rood ?) screen
Notts Nottingham St Mary* : quire stalls now at M Sneinton, medieval vestry rebuilt later (152146) : priests’ duties included singing in choir on Sundays etc) ; apparent alcove site of ? med.
organ next to ‘vestry’ ; visited VH & MR 3 November 2013
Notts Collingham ; M
Notts Nottingham St Peter (MW 1464-1515 St George’s guild paid for pricksong etc; singers employed)
Notts Ruddington college PJ
Notts Scrooby(*) B (York) ; visited VH & MR 22 August 2015
Notts Sibthorpe* ; chantry college PJ and AHT ; visited VH & MR & PH 9 August 2014
Notts Screveton ; M
Notts Strelley* ‘private collegiate’ church visited MR 27 February 2014
Notts Southwell(*) E college PJ (AS restored as collegiate choir 1584) ; M ; brief visit VH & MR
20 July 2013, chiefly to see and photo pulpitum ; B (York)
Notts Thurgarton (priory) ; M
Notts Tuxford (*) college PJ ; visited (outside) MR 17 June 2013, visited (inside) later MR date ?
Notts Worksop CWA B (AS ???)
Notts Wysall ; M
Oxon Adderbury* : carving of portable organ in N outside frieze ; visited VH & MR 19 Jan 2015
Oxon Alkerton* : organ on cart pulled by bear in N outside frieze ; visited VH & MR 19 Jan 2015
+Oxon Banbury (MW organist in 1548, guild BVM) large Perp church totally rebuilt 1790
Oxon Bampton ; former Minster appropriated to Ottery St Mary, Devon ; M [?]
Oxon Bicester* ; church under repair on visit VH & MR 23 March 2014 ; revisited 20 Jan 2015
Oxon Burford* ; visited VH & MR 13 May 2013
Oxon Cropredy*; E double-storey ‘vestry’ ; visited VH & MR 19 Jan 2015
Oxon East Hendred* (formerly Berks) ; doubtful Q ; possible C19 rebuild of NE building ; visited
VH & MR 15 Feb 2015
Oxon Hanwell* ; frieze and statues of musicicans ; visited VH & MR 19 Jan 2015
Oxon Henley on Thames* CWA ; visited VH & MR 14 Feb 2015
Oxon Kidlington ; M
Oxon Mollington ; outside only visited VH & MR 19 Jan 2015 (evening)
Oxon Oxford All Souls College (AW 15th-cent pricksong) PJ
Oxon Oxford Balliol College PJ
Oxon Oxford Brasenose College PJ
Oxon Oxford Cardinal College PJ ; M ; (Christ Church) visited VH & MR 22 March 2014
Oxon Oxford Corpus Christi College PJ
Oxon Oxford Exeter Hall college PJ
Oxon Oxford Lincoln College PJ ; M
Oxon Oxford Magdalen College (AW 1483 pricksong and organ book) PJ ; M ; visited VH & MR
22 March 2014
Oxon Oxford Merton College E ; [org ? c1482-94] (AW 1410 song books) PJ
Oxon Oxford New College (AW 1470 song books) PJ ; visited VH & MR 22 March 2014
Oxon Oxford Oriel College PJ
Oxon Oxford St George in the Castle college PJ
Oxon Oxford St Giles visited VH & MR 22 March 2014
+Oxon Oxford St Martin [church demolished] (MW)
Oxon Oxford St Mary* visited VH & MR 22 March 2014
Oxon Oxford St Mary Magdalen* visited VH & MR 22 March 2014
Oxon Oxford St Michael Northgate* JCC 1500/1-1532(?+) ; visited VH & MR 22 March 2014
Oxon Oxford St Peter-in-the East CWA LOCKED ; now library for St Edmund Hall
Oxon Oxford St John’s College ; visited VH & MR 22 March 2014 ; pre-Reformation chasuble
Oxon Oxford The Queen’s College PJ
Oxon Oxford University College PJ
Oxon Pyrton CWA
Oxon Shipston on Stour
Oxon Spelsbury [?] CWA
Oxon Stanton [St John ? Harcourt ?] ; organ bought C15
Oxon Swinbrook ; M
Oxon Thame* CWA (MW 1528-58 choir of clerks and boys; 1530 play and organ book) ; visited VH
& MR 21 March 2014
+Oxon Wallingford(*) collegiate (formerly Berks) PJ ; visited VH & MR 14 Feb 2015 [church 1854]
Oxon Wantage ; misericords (Pevsner)
Oxon Witney B (Winchester)
Rutland Lyddington* ; visited VH & MR 3 November 2013 ; remains of acoustic jars in chancel ;
former bishop’s lodge (then almshouses) north of church ; art exhibition
Rutland Manton* college PJ ; visited VH & MR 3 November 2013 (?)
Rutland Oakham outside only 21 July 2013
Rutland Stoke Dry ; unuual screen top
Rutland Whissendine ; large dec church, with transepts ‘open to choir and not nave’ (P) ; screen from
St John’s chapel, Cambridge
Shrops Battlefield* college PJ (CCT) ; visited VH & MR 2 September 2015
+Shrops Bridgnorth college PJ
Shrops Burford* college PJ (portionary) ; visited VH & MR 3 September 2015
Shrops Cheswardine CWA
(+)Shrops Church Pulverbatch(*) CWA ; brief visit VH & MR 2 September 2015
Shrops Holdgate* college PJ ; M (missing) ; visited VH & MR 2 September 2015
Shrops Hughley* ; screen etc ; visited VH & MR 2 September 2015
Shrops Ludlow* college CWA -1540-1583+(AS and CWAs show till well into 17th century...) (MW
1486-1581 Palmer’s guild supports chaplains and boys, organist etc ; some post-Ref part books
survive) ; visited VH & MR 3 September 2015
Shrops Newport college PJ
Shrops Oswestry (AS -1598) CWA
Shrops Pontesbury* college PJ ; visited VH & MR 2 September 2015
Shrops Ryton CWA
+Shrops Shrewsbury Abbey
+Shrops Shrewsbury St Chad college PJ [demolished]
Shrops Shrewsbury St Mary college PJ
Shrops Tong college PJ ; M
Shrops Worfield CWA 1531-1555/6+ tuning contract 1532
Somerset Banwell* CWA ; visited VH & MR 2 May 2015
+Somerset Bath St Michael CWA ; church rebuilt 1835-7
Somerset Beaminster(*) ; visited VH & MR 1 May 2015
Somerset Bradford on Tone ; visited VH & MR 15 January 2012
Somerset Bridgwater CWA LOCKED 12 November 2014
Somerset Cheddar* Q (remains[?]) CWA ; visited VH & MR 2 May 2015
Somerset Chedzoy* CWA ; visited VH & MR 2 May 2015
Somerset Clapton-in-Gordano* ; visited VH & MR 25 Sept 2012 & 16 March 2013 ;
CCT church with sanctus tower ; key at pub en route
Soimerset Crewkerne* ; visited VH & MR 30 April 2015
Somerset Croscombe* CWA [1487/8] [Jacobean interior, using medieval bits] ; visited VH & MR
13 July 2015
Somerset Dunster* ; visited VH & MR 11 November 2014
Somerset Easton in Gordano ; visited VH MR 25 September 2012
Somerset Goathurst(*) CWA ; visited VH & MR 12 November 2014
Somerset Glastonbury Abbey
Somerset Glastonbury St John ?1420-1610+
Somerset Halse* CWA ; visited VH & MR 12 November 2014
Somerset Ic[k]leton (AW c1320 ‘liber cantus organici ex dono’
Somerset Ilminster* CWA ; visited VH & MR 29 April and 2 May 2015
Somerset Langford Budville ; visited LOCKED 15 January 2012
Somerset Lydeard St Lawrence* CWA ; visited VH & MR 12 November 2014
Somerset Middlezoy* ; M ; visited VH & MR 13 July 2015
Somerset Milton CWA
Somerset Milverton(*) ; visited VH & MR 15 Jan 2012 ; ‘robe for organ’ in will of John Moyn, 1525
Somerset Minehead* ; visited VH & MR 11 November 2014
Somerset Nettlecombe CWA
Somerset North Cadbury* college PJ & local chapel by cross-roads ; visited VH & MR 29 April 2015
Somerset Nynehead(*) ; visited VH & MR 15 January 2012 outside only
Somerset Pilton* CWA (MW) ; visited VH & MR 13 July 2015
Somerset Portbury ; visited 25 September 2012 ; locked
Somerset Shepton Mallet* ; 2-storey NE Perp ‘vestry’ ; visited VH & MR 13 July 2015
Somerset Staplegrove CWA
Somerset Stogumber* CWA ; visited VH & MR 11 November 2014
Somerset Stogursey* (Stoke Courcy) CWA ; visited VH & MR 12 November 2014
Somerset Stoke sub Hamdon* : college in demolished Chapel of St Nicholas PJ ; parish church visited
VH & MR ?1 May 2015
Somerset Taunton St Mary Magdalene(*) (MW) ; visited VH & MR 14 July 2015
Somerset Tintinhull* CWA (MW) ; visited VH & MR ?1 May 2015
Somerset Trull* CWA ; visited VH & MR 12 November 2014
Somerset Wellington*, P (1847) ; visited VH & MR 15 January 2012
Somerset Wells Cathedral* ; visited VH & MR 10 November 2014
Somerset Wells St Cuthbert* ; visited VH & MR 10 November 2014 (MW)
Somerset West Buckland (*) ; outside only visited VH & MR 15 January 2012
Somerset Weston in Gordano ; M
Somerset Worle ; M
Somerset Yatton* ; 1460/1-1558/8+ CWA ; visited VH & MR 13 Nov 2014
Somerset Yeovil* E ; CWA (MW) ; visited VH & MR ?1 May 2015
Staffs Abbots Bromley
Staffs Burton-on-Trent (E)
Staffs Clifton Campville* ; M ; visited MR 16 Nov 2011 & VH & MR 19 July 2013
Staffs Colton ; M
Staffs Eccleshall ; M
Staffs Enville ; M
Staffs Fairwell ; M
Staffs Gnosall college PJ
Staffs Lichfield cathedral (1345 liber organicus etc)
Staffs Lichfield chapel of BVM in marketplace (MW 1387-1548 guilds use singers)
Staffs Penkridge college PJ ; M
Staffs Stafford college (St Mary’s) PJ CWA
Staffs Tamworth* college PJ ; visited VH & MR 26 May 2015
Staffs Tettenhall college PJ
Staffs Walsall All Saints (MW c1510-1548 guild filled choir with priests; pricksong books listed 1516
inventory etc) ; M
Staffs Wolverhampton college PJ (chancel 19th-cent)
Staffs Yoxall CWA
Suffolk Badwell Ash* MC: rood loft opening only 16” wide ; visited VH & MR 13 October 2012
Suffolk Bardwell* CWA ; visited VH & MR 13 October 2012
Suffolk Barking* D ; visited VH & MR 14 August 2011 and 14 October 2012
Suffolk Barrow* MC: ‘had choir stalls’ ; visited VH & MR 1 November 2012
Suffolk Baylham ; visited VH & MR 8 November 2012
Suffolk Beccles(*) ; visited VH & MR 8 May 2015 ; church damaged by fire 15 ...
Suffolk Beyton(*) visited VH & MR 1 Nov 2012 and 23 August 2014
Suffolk Bildeston ; M
Suffolk Blythburgh* Q ; visited VH & MR 20 Nov 2011 and 26 August 2014 (with PG)
Suffolk Boxford* ; CWA 1530-1549+; visited VH & MR 22 August 2014
Suffolk Bramfield* ; very fine rood screen ; visited VH & MR 26 August 2014 (with PG)
Suffolk Brundish* ; M ; visited VH & MR 20 Nov 2011
Suffolk Bungay(*) St Mary CWA 1523-1577 MC ‘attached to prioty – some remains’ ; church and
ruins visited VH & MR 8 May 2015 ; church badly damaged in fire in ?1688
Suffolk [see Essex] : Bures ; MC: ‘chapel N of sanctuary (tomb there had a canopy)’ visited VH & MR
22 August 2014]
Suffolk Bury, St Mary* : college of Jesus PJ ; MC: N chancel aisle 15C ‘entered through chantry
chapel of Jankyn Smith’ (MW 1463 will for music to be sung and with ‘pleyers at the orgenys’)
visited VH & MR 1 Nov 2012
Suffolk Bury, St James* visited VH & MR 1 Nov 2012
Suffolk Bury Abbey(*)
Suffolk Moyse’s Hall Museum ; M
Suffolk Cavendish* E ; visited VH & MR 27 August 2014 (with PG)
Suffolk Chelsworth MC ‘had chapel N of chancel’
Suffolk Chevington CWA
Suffolk Clare* ; E visited VH & MR 16 July 2011 & 1 Nov 2012
Suffolk Cockfield ; M
Suffolk Coddenham ; M
Suffolk Cotton* MC: ‘had a two-storey chamber N of chancel behind an existing arched recess 8’ up’ ;
visited VH & MR 13 Oct 2012
Suffolk Covehithe* ; (ruined church, CCT); entry to gallery N of sanctuary with joist holes below ;
visited VH & MR 20 Nov 2011 and 26 August 2014 (with PG)
Suffolk Cratfield* JCC 1479-1576; MC: ‘chapel N of chancel now vestry’; remains of organ gallery in
tower ; visited VH & MR 7 & 8 Nov 2012
Suffolk Debenham* ; organ money willed 1517 and 1520 ; visited VH & MR 14 Aug 2011 and
25 August 2014 (with PG) ; rood beam measured from long ladder
Suffolk Denham ; M
Suffolk Dennington* D organ to c1613; upper room with wind-trunk hole ; visited VH & MR 14 Aug
2011 and 20 Nov 2011 and 25 August 2014 (with PG)
Suffolk Denston* college PJ; MC: college of chantry priests 1474, N chapel, high rood beam, screens ;
visited VH & MR 1 Nov 2012
Suffolk Elmsett(*) ; CWA ; visited VH & MR 22 August 2014
Suffolk Eriswell MC: [unexplained] large structure NE corner of sanctuary
Suffolk Eye* ; short visit VH & MR 8 Nov 2012 and survey 24 August 2014
Suffolk Fornham ; M
Suffolk Framlingham* ; seems to have kept organ through Commonwealth, avoiding Dowsing (no
sign of this story there) ; visted VH & MR 25 August 2014 (with PG)
Suffolk Framsden ; M
Suffolk Fressingfield* ; visited VH & MR 7 Nov 2012
Suffolk Glemsford* ; former college PJ ; large once-rich PC ; visited VH & MR 27 August 2014 (with
PG)
Suffolk Gorleston(*) [organ broken by Dowsing, 1640s] MC: originally chancel of Augustinian priory;
Lady chapel N of sanctuary ; locked on visit VH & MR 8 May 2015
Suffolk Great Waldingfield* ;visited VH & MR 14 Aug 2011
Suffolk Halesworth* MC: ‘vestry N of chancel’ ; visited VH & MR 8 Nov 2012
Suffolk Hawstead* inventory dated 1637: ‘two organs in chancel’ Q ; visited VH & MR 14 Oct 2012
Suffolk Hesset* MC: chapel N of sanctuary (PYX) Henry Chitting visiting early 17th-c mentioned
shields ‘on the north window by the orgaines’ – double-storied ‘vestry’ ; visited VH & MR 1
Nov 2012
Suffolk Horham CWA
Suffolk Huntingfield* CWA ; visited VH & MR 8 Nov 2012
Suffolk Ipswich St Peter (Cardinal college)* PJ ; visited VH & MR 21 Jan 2015 (and gateway)
Suffolk Ipswich St Laurence* (MW 1535 chantry pays singers and boys) visited VH & MR 21 Jan
2015
Suffolk Ipswich St Margaret
Suffolk Ipswich St Mary at Elms visited VH & MR 21 Jan 2015
Suffolk Ipswich St Mary le Port ; outside seen only VH & MR 21 Jan 2015 (under renovation)
Suffolk Ipswich St Mary le Tower(*) visited VH & MR 21 Jan 2015 (eight misericords only ;
church rebuilt C19)
Suffolk Ipswich St Stephen* visited VH & MR 21 Jan 2015
Suffolk Lavenham* ; visited VH & MR 16 July 2011
Suffolk Laxfield* ; visited VH & MR 8 Nov 2012
Suffolk Levington(*) ; visited VH & MR 20 Jan 2015 (rood beam)
Suffolk Long Melford* [1547 inventory 3 pr organs] (MW 1547-54 polyphony bought) ; visited VH &
MR 16 July 2011 TO BE REVISITED
Suffolk Lowestoft, St Margaret E (1504)
Suffolk Mendlesham* ; organ money willed 1488 C ; visited VH & MR 13 Oct 2012 and 24 August
2014
Suffolk Metfield CWA
Suffolk Mettingham college PJ (few remains)
Suffolk Mickfield (*) ; CWA ; church now independent of C of E ; visited VH & MR 25 August 2014
(with PG)
Suffolk Mildenhall* MC: chantry chapel N of chancel; imps playing organ on ‘first detached principal
from west ‘ (photo p116) ; visited VH & MR 27 July 2013
Suffolk Needham Market* ; visited VH & MR 25 August 2014 (with PG)
Suffolk Norton ; M
Suffolk Occold(*) ; D ; M ; visited VH & MR 24 August 2014
Suffolk Old Newton (*) ; D reported by David Wymark ; visited VH & MR 23 August 2014 (outside
only)
(+?)Suffolk Orford(*) ruined chancel includes Norman work
Suffolk Oulton ; M
Suffolk Rattlesden* MC: vestry (former chapel) N of chancel with a sacristan’s chamber above ; visited
VH & MR 14 Oct 2012 ; altered collegiate stalls, chancel with special internal roof shape
Suffolk Redgrave(*) o/s only MC: Eliz vestry N of chancel; visited VH & MR 14 March 2014
Suffolk Redlingfield* ; visited VH & MR 8 Nov 2012
Suffolk Rougham Green* ; MC: organ carving in hammerbeam nave roof ; visited VH
& MR 14 Oct 2012 and 23 August 2014
Suffolk Rumburgh* MC: ‘formerly part of Benedictine priory; N of chancel was a small chapel with
dorter over & squint; traces since obliterated by plaster’ ; visited VH & MR 8 Nov 2012
Suffolk South Elmham St Peter* MC: formerly chapel of Our Lady N of chancel’ ; visited VH & MR
9 May 2015
Suffolk Southwold* ; M ; MC: acoustic caverns in chancel, guild chapel in N aisle; Walker [Choir]
organ through arch high in N chancel [in old position? date of arch ?] o/s seen only 14 March
2014 ; visited VH & MR 26 August 2014 (with PG) but not yet the opening in the organ
Suffolk Stoke-by-Clare* college PJ; D (not in MC) archives with three organs for College use in
chancel area ; joists of organ gallery and access doorway ; visited VH & MR 16 July 11 and 14
Aug 11 and 14 Oct 12 and (college buildings and church) 3 June 2014 and 27 August 2014 with
PG and measure distance from church to college etc
Suffolk Stoke by Nayland ; M
Suffolk Stowlangtoft* ; M ; visited VH & MR 13 Oct 2012 (outside) and 23 August 2014
Suffolk Stowmarket* SS Peter & Paul ; D ; MC: chapel with chamber over it N of chancel ; visited
VH & MR 23 evening / 24 August 2014
Suffolk Sudbury St Peter ; CCT ? ; M ; MC: N chancel chapel with underground sacristy [sic]’
Suffolk Sudbury St Gregory* ; M ; college PJ ; visited VH & MR 27 August 2014 (with PG)
Suffolk Ufford ; M
Suffolk Walberswick* JCC 1500-1582 (church ruined and reduced) (MW 1473-82 polyphony copied)
; (AW 1473 and 1482 prick song); signs of organ loft over former ‘vestry’ door with joist holes
below ; visited VH & MR 20 Nov 2011 and 26 August 2014 (with PG)
Suffolk Walsham le Willows* visited VH & MR 13 Oct 2012 [2-storey NE building]
Suffolk Wangford* ; visited VH & MR 20 Nov 2011
Suffolk Wenhaston(*) ; doom painting ; visited VH & MR 26 August 2014 (with PG) ; chancel C19
Suffolk Westhorpe* MC: chapel N of chancel ; visited VH & MR 13 Oct 2012
Suffolk Wetherden* ; (D MacCulloch article (his father Nigel vicar here) and home of Mr Betts the
organ maker – see Boxford, 1549 ; visited VH & MR 23 August 2014
Suffolk Wetheringsett* ; M ; MC: piscina in what is now vestry N of chancel [possible traces of
structure in wall above vestry door ?] ; visited VH & MR 13 Oct 2012
Suffolk Weybread* B CWA ; visited VH & MR 7 Nov 2012
Suffolk Wickhambrook* MC: N chapel now vestry ; visited VH & MR 1 Nov 2012
Suffolk Wilby* ; visited VH & MR 7 Nov 2012 and 26 August 2014 (with PG)
Suffolk Wingfield* ; college PJ; M ; stairs to loft over chapel N end of rood platform ; visited
VH & MR 7 Nov 2012 and 24 August 2014 (with PG)
Suffolk Woodbridge St Mary MC: vestry end of S aisle
Suffolk Woolpit* E ; still has canopy of honour to rood (MC illus 9) ; visited VH & MR 14 Oct 2012
Suffolk Wortham* visited VH & MR ?15 March 2014
Suffolk Yoxford o/s only visited 14 March 2014 REVISIT ?
Surrey Ashtead
Surrey Beddington(*) ; M ; outside visited MR 11 June 2015 LOCKED
+Surrey Bermondsey (AW gradual 1310) [church rebuilt 1675-9]
Surrey Bletchingley CWA
(+)Surrey Croydon (parish church) E saved from fire
Surrey Esher B (Winchester)
Surrey Farnham B (Winchester)
Surrey Guildford, Holy Trinity (E)
+Surrey Horley [Hurley] CWA [church rebuilt 1881]
Surrey Kingston-on-Thames 1509-1563+ CWA
Surrey Kingston-on-Thames Lovekyn chapel college PJ
Surrey Lambeth CWA 1517-1574 (AS 1571+) (MW 1554-8 singers hired in)
Surrey Lingfield* college PJ ; M ; inventory 20 Sept 6th Ed VI (Surrey Arch Colls XXIV (1911) p 11
‘Item ij pair of organs’ Q [also Lingfield College of St Peter ‘byll of ornaments’ ‘yeven by the
founders’ (Sir Reygnold Cobham) : p13 Item a gret antyfener ; p19 Copy of instructions to
New (7 Ed VI) commissioners with 16 items to sort out – n.o.m. but includes: ‘11. item to
sell by weight to the kynges use all parcells of metall except bells’ ; visited VH & MR ?21
March 2013
Surrey Merton* ; visited MR 11 June 2015
Surrey [Kent ?] Seal CWA
Surrey Shere ; reported anchoress’ cell N of chancel
+Surrey Southwark St Margaret CWA (MW) [church redundant after 1540]
Surrey Southwark St Mary [Overie]* 1455-? (AS ?1560s) ; visited MR 11 June 2015
+Surrey Southwark St Olave CWA [church demolished 1926]
+Surrey Wandsworth -1545-1567 (AS –c1571) [church rebuilt 1779-80]
(+)Surrey Wimbledon Manor [1649 survey] [demolished 1949]
Sussex Arundel college PJ pc HT ; M ; (AW coll HT organ book 15th c)
Sussex Arlington CWA
Sussex Ashurst CWA
Sussex Billingshurst CWA
Sussex Bolney CWA
Sussex Bosham college PJ (organ on N wall of chancel)
Sussex Brede CWA
Sussex W Broadwater ; M
Sussex Chichester St Mary’s Hospital ; M
Sussex Cowfold CWA
Sussex East Lavant ; M
Sussex Etchingham* ; ‘private college’ church ; visited MR 4 December 2013
Sussex W Hardham ; M
Sussex Hastings castle college PJ
Sussex Maresfield CWA
Sussex Playden (MW)
[Sussex Robertsbridge Abbey MSS – see Etchingham]
Sussex Rotherfield
Sussex Rye c1513-1569 (AS to c1570) (MW)
Sussex South Malling college PJ
Sussex Southover (Lewes)
(+?)Sussex Steyning college PJ [ch rebuilt ?]
Sussex West Tarring CWA ; M
Sussex West Wittering ; M
Sussex Worth CWA
Warws Astley* college PJ ; M ;(former chancel now nave ; same style as Crick, Northants) ;
visited VH & MR 10 August 2014
Warws Birmingham (MW organist guild Holy Cross 1546) [in Dugdale 1666]
Warws Coventry Henry VIII Grammar school ; M
Warws Coventry, Holy Trinity* E ; M ; CWA 1526-1641 (AS organ sold 1583) (MW 1559 some
polyphonic music copied) ; visited VH & MR 21 April 2013
Warws Coventry, St John Baptist* college PJ = Bablake collegiate church 1461-1520 (MW 1545
Trinity guild employed choir) ; visited VH & MR 21 April 2013
Warws Coventry, St Michael* (E) ; [1505] ; visited VH & MR 21 April 2013 [and abbey remains]
Warws Halford ; M
Warws Henley in Arden (MW before 1548 Guild with 3 chaplains and organist) See Dugdale 1666.
Warws King’s Norton* visited VH & MR 23 Feb 2014
Warws Knowle* college PJ (MW 1548 Guild with chaplains and organist) ; M ; visited VH & MR
21 April 2013
Warws Little Compton B (York)
Warws Maxstoke college PJ
Warws Merevale; visited VH & MR (outside only) 7 December 2013
Warws Stratford on Avon college PJ (MW 1548 guild and college HT maintained singers) visited VH
& MR 21 February 2014 ; two-storey NE building till later C18 (door still there). Dugdale
‘Warwickshire’ (1666) has many details of the College and Gild of the Holy Cross, including 4
choristers taught ‘singing to the organ’. Were they housed and slept in the large NE building,
demolished c1782 ? 26 misericords plus ?conductor’s seat
Warws Warmington* ; large D NE building (chantry below) ; visited VH & MR 19 Jan 2015
Warws Warwick college and pc St Mary PJ (AS choir till at least 1571) (MW 1546 guild HT & St
George pay fees for singers and ?organist previously in college) (AW 1464 song and organ
books) ; visited VH & MR 21 February 2014. Description of Beauchamp chapel and documents
in Dugdale, 1666 : REVISIT.
Warws Warwick St Nicholas ; organ sold 1547
Westminster Abbey/Cathedral/Collegiate St Peter (E sold 1547 ?to Italy) (AW 1304 ...viiij rotulos
de organo etc) ; visited VH & MR 24 May 2014 outside Henry VII chapel and inside main
church 24 May 2014
Westminster St Margaret (AS -1590s ?+) (MW 1500-1550 poly copied etc) (AW songs from before
1470s) outside only seen 24 May 2014
+Westminster St Martin in the Fields CWA 1525-1563 (AS -1571) (MW 1533-4 choristers taught)
+Westminster St Stephen’s chapel – college set-up included organ player PJ
Westmoreland Appleby visited MR ?Sept 2013
Westmoreland Kirkby Stephen CWA
Wilts Avebury visited VH & MR 16 March 2013
Wilts Bishops Cannings* ; manor of Bp of Salisbury ; large two-storey NE building, the upper floor
said to be late C15 (church guide) ; visited VH & MR 24 Feb 2015 ; to be revisited
Wilts Bradford on Avon* ; (MW Children taught 1548) ; visted VH & MR 23 Feb 2015
Wilts Broad Chalke* : carving of portable organ on corbel ; visited VH & MR 2 Jan 2015
Wilts Calne CWA
Wilts Devizes St John (*) ; visited outside only VH & MR 24 Feb 2015
Wilts Devizes St Mary (*) ; CWA 1500-sold 1562 [see JCC book p 203] ; signs of former NE
building ; visited outside only VH & MR 24 Feb 2015
Wilts Downton B (Winchester)
Wilts Edington* ; visited VH & MR 3 Jan 2015
Wilts Great Bedwyn* (MW 1405 visitation: 2 books of poly) (AW ‘divers cant’ de organ’) ; visited
VH & MR 31 August 2013 ; [church very over-restored ; Wolf Hall nearby]
Wilts Heytesbury* college PJ ; visited VH & MR 2 Jan 2015
Wilts Highworth* D ; M ; visited VH & MR 13 May 2013 and 31 August 2013
Wilts Knook(*) ; visited VH & MR 3 Jan 2015
Wilts Malmesbury [remains of abbey] (P 1822)
Wilts Mere* CWA -1556/7-1587-(AS -1570s+) ; M ; visited VH & MR 8 October 2014
Wilts Salisbury cathedral ; M
Wilts Salisbury St Edmund* college PJ (AS to at least 1570s, but a/cs show much longer than that)
(MW 1472-1560 poly books, singers paid including by Jesus guild) (AW 1472 organ book) ;
visited VH & MR 2 Jan 2015
Wilts Salisbury St Martin* E ; 1567-1653 ; visited VH & MR 2 Jan 2015
Wilts Salisbury St Thomas* new organ 1568 [vestry a building of three storeys, built 1465-7] (AS to
1570s) (MW 1548-60 singers paid, poly books) ; M ; visited VH & MR 2 Jan 2015
Wilts Steeple Ashton* CWA ?-1620 (sold) ; visited VH & MR 3 Jan 2015
Wilts Sutton Veny(*) visited VH & MR 3 Jan 2015 REVISIT OLD CHURCH ?
Wilts Upton Scudamore(*) ; visited VH & MR 3 Jan 2015
Wilts Wanborough CWA
Worcs Badsey CWA
Worcs Broadway* ; visited VH & MR 12 May 2013
Worcs Droitwich St Andrew (P 1837)
Worcs Elmley castle college PJ
Worcs Evesham* (two churches, one CCT, & abbey entrance tower) ; visited VH & MR 12 May 2013
Worcs Great Malvern ; M
Worcs Halesowen(*) -1503-1578+(AS organ repaired) [organ from H abbey brought over to church,
1539] ; visited 11 May 2013 VH & MR outside only – locked
Worcs Kings Norton* visited VH & MR 23 February 2014
Worcs Pershore* former abbey ; visited VH & MR 12 May 2013
Worcs Ripple* ; M ; visited VH & MR 3 September 2015
Worcs South Littleton CWA
Worcs Stoke Prior (P 1847)
Worcs Worcester Priory and cathedral B (AW 1396 sung or organ ‘organicu’)
Worcs Worcester St Helen [1519] JCC [organ loft apparently joined to rood loft]
Worcs Worcester St John in Bedwardine (P 1840)
Worcs Worcester St Michael in Bedwardine CWA (wrongly under Warwick in JCCox’s Index of
Wardens’ Accounts) 1548
+Yorks NR Acaster Selby WR college PJ
Yorks ER Beverley* college (St John) PJ B ; visited VH & MR 24 August 2015
(+)Yorks ER Bishop Burton(*) B ; C19 chancel ; visited VH & MR 24 August 2015
Yorks NR Bishopthorpe B
Yorks NR Bishop Wilton B
Yorks ER Bubwith(*) ; report of glass with picture of organ (Sir John Glynne) ; visited VH & MR
25 August 2015 ; glass not found, but other things ...
Yorks NR Cawood B
Yorks WR Darrington ; M
+Yorks Doncaster (AS organ case sold 1569) (MW 1546 8 chantry priests singing ‘by note’)
Yorks Ecclesfield CWA (AS to at least 1572)
Yorks Grinton Q
Yorks Hackness ; M
Yorks Halifax WR ; M
Yorks Hedon St Augustine* ER ; CWA c1398-?1547+ ; visited VH & MR 24 August 2015
Yorks Hemingbrough* college PJ ; M ; visited VH & MR 25 August 2015
(+)Yorks Howden(*) college PJ (chancel collapsed later) B (Bp Durham) ; visited VH & MR
25 August 2015
Yorks Hull Holy Trinity* (AS ?1571) (MW 1479-1546 Alcock chantry funds choir) ; visited VH
& MR 24 August 2015
Yorks Kirkby Malzeard (AS -1590?)
Yorks Kirkby Overblow, ‘college’ [AHT]
Yorks Long Preston (MW)
Yorks Loversall (*)WR ; M ; locked 23 August 2015 ; outside seen VH & MR
+Yorks Lowthorpe college PJ (roofless chancel) ; I: one pair of old organs (per N Saul)
Yorks Killome : I : one pair of organs (per N Saul)
Yorks Middleham NR college PJ
Yorks Middleton(*) by Pickering ; M ; visited VH & MR 27 August 2015
Yorks Old Malton(*) M; part of Gilbertine priory church ; visited VH & MR 27 August 2015
Yorks WR Otley B
Yorks NR Oxton B
+Yorks Pontefract castle chapel of St Clement WR college PJ (chancel ruins)
Yorks NR Riccall B Durham
Yorks Richmond NR ; M
Yorks Ripon SS Peter & Wilfred college PJ 1399-1531+ B
Yorks WR Rotherham* college ; M ; visited VH & MR 23 August 2015 (& bridge chapel o/s)
Yorks Selby Abbey(*) 1397-8+ ; visited VH & MR 25 August 2015
Yorks Sheffield (AS to at least 1560s) (MW 1560 psalm in pricksong sung at funeral of Earl of
Shrewsbury)
Yorks NR Sherburn in Elmet B
Yorks Sherrif Hutton 1539-59+
Yorks Sprotborough* [S] ; M in fine chancel ; voisited VH & MR 23 August 2015
Yorks Sutton on Hull(*) ; college PJ ; locked ; outside visited VH & MR 24 August 2015
Yorks ER Swine ; M
Yorks Topcliffe (MW 1546 guild supports choir with boys)
Yorks Wakefield WR ; M
Yorks Well (MW 1543-8 grammar master and organist)
Yorks York All Saints North Street* ; (MW 1438-58 rector owned ‘motets’ and ballads) ; M ;
visited VH & MR 26 August 2015
+Yorks York All Saints’ Pavement(*) ; Q from St Crux/Holy Cross, chancel gone ; visited VH &
MR 26 August 2015
Yorks York cathedral(*) (AW 1389 libro organico empto pro choro) ; M post 1829 fire ; visited
VH & MR 26 August 2015
+Yorks York chapel of St William Ouse Bridge (MW clerk from St Sampson appointed to sing and teach
boys)
[Yorks York Corpus Christi Guild]
+Yorks York Holy Cross Fossgate(*) (MW will 1544 to be buried with BVM mass with pricksong
and organs) ; site of heavily reduced church visited VH & MR 26 August 2015
Yorks York Holy Trinity King’s Court (MW) CWA
Yorks York St John Evangelist B
Yorks York St Mary Castlegate ; M ; LOCKED 26 August 2015
Yorks York St Michael le Belfrey (*) ; visited VH & MR 26 August 2015
Yorks York St Michael Spurriergate(*) ; (MW bequest 1503-48 for weekly mass with pricknote
etc) ; vitied VH & MR 26 August 2015
Yorks York St Sampson* (MW clerk from here appointed to chapel on Ouse bridge) ; visited
VH & MR 26 August 2015
Yorks York St Saviour* ; M ; visited VH & MR 26 August 2015
WALES
(WR = from thesis by William Reynolds)
Aberdare WR
Abergili (Carms) college PJ
Abergavenny* ; visited VH & MR 21 and 23 September 2012 [ch includes remains of priory]
Basingwerk Abbey WR
Brecon* cathedral ; visited VH & MR 21 September 2012
Cardiff, St Fagan’s Musuem (St Teilo church) ; visited 4 January 2014
Cardiff St John WR
Cardiff St Mary WR
Chepstow visited VH & MR 25 Sept 12 [tiles in large, reduced Norman and later ch]
Clynnog Fawr (Gwynned) WR
Conwy WR
Cowbridge ; visited VH & MR 2 January 2014
Crumwear/Cronwern (Pembs) (P 1843)
Cwmhir abbey/priory WR
Farrington (?farrington Gurney, Ba) WR
Flint WR
Gelligaer (Caern) WR
Holt (Wrexham) WR
Holyhead (Anglesey) college PJ, WR
Holywell (Flints) WR
Llanbeblig (Caerns) WR
Llanddewi-Brefi (Cards) college PJ
Llancarfan (Glam) ; visited VH & MR 2 January 2014
(+)Llandaff cathedral WR [much altered]
Llantwit Major* (Glams) ; visited VH & MR 2 and 3 January 2014
Llangywyd (nr Bridgend) WR ? visited
Monmouth WR
Montgomery WR
Neath abbey* (Glams) ; visited VH & MR 21 September 2012
Old Radnor* (Rads) existing pre-Reformation organ case (restored) ; visited VH & MR 30 April 2011
Patrishow (Powys)* ; visited VH & MR 23 September 2012 [fine and complete small rood screen with
two altars]
Ruthin (Denbigs) WR/PJ part of college still there
St Athan visited VH & MR 3 Jan 2014 o/s
St Davids (Pembs) cathedral and St Mary’s college PJ
Strata Florida abbey WR
Strata Marcella abbey/priory WR
Swansea St Mary WR ; brief visit with WR 31 Dec 2013 [ch reb C19 and bombed WW2]
Talgarth (Powys) WR
Tintern Abbey* (Mons) [brass ‘first made from zinc and copper’ here 1568] ; visited VH & MR
19 September 2012
Tynwyn (Merioneths) WR
Valle Crucis abbey WR
Wrexham E
FRANCE / Brittany :
Brelevenez visited MR June 2014
Kermaria*
Lannion*
St.-Brieuc cathedral* visited May 2014
Tréguier* former cathedral visited MR June 2014