ST MARY'S PARISH CHURCH, HINCKLEY.
 

SPECIFICATION OF THE 1808 ORGAN    

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COMPLETED 1808
 Mr George Pike organ builder Tottenham Court Road, London. England.

 21 Stops and three sets of ivory keys; the one plays the full or great organ, another the choir or soft organ, and the third the echo or swell; the compass of the great or choir organ is GG to F in alto, and the swell from middle G to F in alto. (extended down to CC in 1876)

This Organ was placed in the West Gallery was opened in on October 19th 1808 and had cost 500 guineas.

The builder George Pike was the son of the famous Organ builder George England and flourished between 1788 and 1814. He built a total of 22 organs.

 

GREAT ORGAN

    OPEN DIAPASON  (in front of case)           58 pipes

    SECOND OPEN DIAPASON                      58 pipes

 

    STOPT DIAPASON                                    58 pipes

 

    PRINCIPAL                                                58 pipes

 

    TWELFTH                                                 58 pipes 

 

     FIFTEENTH                                              58 pipes

 

     SESQUILTERA (3 ranks)                          174 pipes

 

     MIXTURE II                                             116 pipes

 

     TRUMPET                                               58 pipes

 

.    SOLO CORNET  (*)                                    120  pipes

     (*) REPLACED IN 1876 WITH A 4 FOOT WALD FLUTE

 

 

SWELL ORGAN

                       

                              OPEN DIAPASON                    35 pipes

                              PRINCIPAL                               35 pipes

                              STOPT DIASAPON                  35 pipes

                              TRUMPET                               35 pipes

                              HAUT BOY                             35 pipes

                              CORNET (3 ranks)                 105 pipes

                                           1876 ADDITIONS

     DOUBLE OPEN DIAPASON  (bottom 12 notes stopped)         16 foot

     SALICIONAL                                                                         8 foot

     HARMONIC FLUTE                                                                4 foot

     TREMULANT

 

                                                  

 

CHOIR ORGAN

                                        DULCIANA    (to c)   (to CC in 1876)   42 pipes

                               STOPT DIAPASON                           58 pipes

                               PRINCIPAL                                       58 pipes

                               FLUTE                                              58 pipes

                              FIFTEENTH   (removed in 1876)         58 pipes

1876 ADDITIONS

CLARINET (to tenor C)                   8 foot

CLARIBEL FLUTE (to middle G)

PEDAL ORGAN 

NO PEDALS WERE PRESENT ON THIS ORGAN IN 1808 BUT BY 1876 SOME PEDAL KEYS HAD BEEN ADDED BUT THEY ONLY PULLED DOWN THE MANUAL NOTES AND HAD NO PIPES OF THEIR OWN.

IN 1876 AN INDEPENDANT PEDAL ORGAN WAS ADDED OF 2 STOPS with a compass of 29 notes CC - E

BOURDON           16 foot

OPEN DIAPASON      16 foot

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