© Maggie Kilbey 2026
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Tunes M-R
+ 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.
© Maggie Kilbey 2026
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Tunes M-R
+ 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.