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Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
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+ Magdalen College, by William Hayes (1706-77).
Barnston.
* + Manchester (New) (aka Charmouth or Yarmouth), by Robert Wainwright (1748-82).
Boxford, Fobbing, Letheringsett, Liddington, Mattishall Burgh, Meldreth, Muchelney, North End, Shelland, Staunton, Steeple, Stratfield
Saye, West Quantoxhead, West Tytherley, Winwick, Witton.
* Mansfield.
Hampton Gay.
* Martin’s Lane (aka St Martin’s).
Boxford, Edgcote, Meldreth.
* + Martyrdom, by Hugh Wilson (1766-1824).
Fobbing, Isle Abbotts, Trottiscliffe, Winwick, Wissington.
* + Melcombe, by Samuel Webbe sen. (1740-1816).
Barnston, Stockland Bristol, Woodrising.
+ Melita, by John Bacchus Dykes (1823-76).
Woodrising.
+ Mendelssohn, by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-47).
Barnston.
Messiah, based on ‘I know that my redeemer liveth’ from the oratorio Messiah by George Frederic Handel (1685-1759).
Stratfield Saye.
* + Miles Lane, by William Shrubsole (1759-1806).
Huttoft.
* + Montgomery, attributed to John Stanley (1712-86).
Brightling, Cardeston, Isle Abbotts, Mattishall Burgh, North End, Norton-juxta-Twycross, Raithby, Sutton (Beds.), West Tytherley.
* + Morning Hymn (also known as Awake my soul), by François Hippolyte Barthélemon (1741-1808).
Avington, Bressingham, Brightwell Baldwin, Cardeston, Easton-on-the-Hill, Fersfield, Letheringsett, Liddington, Mattishall Burgh,
Meldreth, Muchelney, North Lopham, Ossington, Raithby, Steeple, Stratfield Saye, Sutton (Beds.), Sutton (Northants.), Winwick.
Morning Hymn, by George Thomas Smart (1776-1867).
Edgcote, Fobbing, Shelland.
* + Mount Ephraim, by Benjamin Milgrove (c.1731-1810).
Bressingham, Brightling, Cardeston, Easton-on-the-Hill, Faulkbourne, Fobbing, Hampton Gay, Isle Abbotts, Letheringsett, Liddington,
Llanfair Waterdine, Mattishall Burgh, Meldreth, Muchelney, North End, North Lopham, Norton-juxta-Twycross, Ossington, Raithby, South
Stoneham, Staunton, Steeple, Stockland Bristol, Stratfield Saye, Sutton (Beds.), Trottiscliffe, West Quantoxhead, West Tytherley,
Wissington, Witton, Woodrising.
* Mount Pleasant, by James Leach (1761-98).
Barnston, Isle Abbotts, Stanstead St Margaret.
Mount Sinai, based on a tune attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91).
Avington.
Naughton.
Hampton Gay.
Newcastle.
Boxford.
* New Sabbath (aka Sabbath New).
Avington, Boxford, Brightling, Cardeston, Fobbing, Hampton Gay, Meldreth, Ossington, Shelland, Woodrising.
* New York (aka Chimes, Sheffield, Sheldon or Whittons).
Barnston, Boxford, Bressingham, Brightling, Brightwell Baldwin, Hampton Gay, Letheringsett, Liddington, Meldreth, Muchelney, North
End, Norton-juxta-Twycross, Raithby, Shelland, Staunton, Steeple, Stratfield Saye, Sutton (Beds.), Sutton (Northants.).
+ Nicaea, by John Bacchus Dykes (1823-76).
Barnston.
* Norwich, from Day’s Psalter (1563).
Blacktoft.
+ Old 25th (aka Southwell), from Daman’s Psalmes of David (1579)
Faulkbourne.
* + Old 100th (aka Savoy) from the Genevan Psalter (1551).
Avington, Barnston, Blacktoft, Boxford, Bressingham, Brightling, Cardeston, Easton-on-the-Hill, Faulkbourne, Fersfield, Fobbing, Hampton
Gay, Isle Abbotts, Letheringsett, Liddington, Lillington, Llanfair Waterdine, Mattishall Burgh, Meldreth, Muchelney, North End, North
Lopham, Norton-juxta-Twycross, Ossington, Raithby, Shelland, South Stoneham, Staunton, Steeple, Stockland Bristol, Stratfield Saye,
Sutton (Beds.), Sutton (Northants.), Wardley, West Quantoxhead, West Tytherley, Winwick, Wissington, Witton, Woodrising.
Old 148th.
Fobbing.
* Oldham.
Isle Abbotts.
+ Oriel, by Caspar Ett (1788-1847).
Ossington, Sutton (Northants.).
* + Oxford (New) (aka Chelsea or Lincoln), by Isaac Smith (c.1734-1805).
Boxford, Bressingham, Brightling, Faulkbourne, Fersfield, Isle Abbotts, Liddington, Mattishall Burgh, Shelland, Sutton (Beds.), West
Tytherley, Winwick, Wissington.
* Peckham, by Isaac Smith (c.1734-1805).
Hampton Gay, Isle Abbotts, Mattishall Burgh, North End, Raithby, Shelland, Staunton, West Tytherley.
+ Petra (aka Redhead no. 76), by Richard Redhead (1820-1901).
Barnston.
* Portsmouth New.
Stanstead St Margaret.
* Portugal, by Thomas Thorley (fl.1780-1835).
Boxford, Faulkbourne, Hampton Gay, Shelland, Stanstead St Margaret.
* Portugal New (also known as Adeste Fideles, Christmas Hymn, New Portuguese, Portuguese or Portuguese Hymn), probably by
John Francis Wade (1711-86).
Avington, Barnston, Boxford, Brightling, Brightwell Baldwin, Cardeston, Edgcote, Fobbing, Hampton Gay, Isle Abbotts, Letheringsett,
Meldreth, North End, Raithby, Shelland, Staunton, Steeple, Stockland Bristol, Stratfield Saye, Sutton (Beds.), Wardley, West Quantoxhead,
West Tytherley, Winwick.
* Prague, probably by Christian Ignatius LaTrobe (1758-1836).
Mattishall Burgh.
Prestwich, by Thomas Egerton, Earl of Wilton (1749-1814).
Stratfield Saye.
Prodigal Son.
Wardley.
Psalm 92, by Joseph Key (d.1784).
Stanstead St Margaret.
+ Quam Dilecta, by Henry Lascelles Jenner (1820-98).
Barnston.
Redford.
Isle Abbotts.
+ Regent Square, by Henry Smart (1813-79).
West Quantoxhead.
Resignation, from Bible Class Magazine (1853).
Avington.
Richmond, adapted from Thomas Haweis (1734-1820) by Samuel Webbe the younger.
Norton-juxta-Twycross.
* + Rockingham, by Edward Miller (1735-1807).
Bressingham, Faulkbourne, Fobbing, Huttoft, Isle Abbotts, Letheringsett, Liddington, Mattishall Burgh, Muchelney, Ossington, Raithby,
Shelland, Staunton, Steeple, Stockland Bristol, Stratfield Saye, Sutton (Beds.), Sutton (Northants.), West Quantoxhead, West Tytherley,
Winwick, Witton.
* Rousseau’s (Dream), from the opera Le Devin du Village (1752) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78).
Cardeston, Fobbing, Huttoft, Sutton (Beds.).
Royston.
Witton.