Bampton

We have now completed building the new organ for St Mary's Church, Bampton, Oxfordshire. We have used some of the original pipework and casework and added a number of new stops.

The organ in St Marys Church was built around 1812 by William Gray and modernised in around 1870 by Gray & Davison. We have restored and reused all of the original pipework, adding new Mixtures on the swell and great, and a new Cornopean on the swell. The original casework and gold leafed front pipes have all been reused and the casework has been extended with matching panels to accommodate the new layout of the chests.

The new mobile console, chests, bellows and wind system have all been designed and built in our factory.

The console is mobile and has several plug in points to allow for flexible worship and concerts.

Fitting the bars to the new manual chests

Sanding the bars flat

The bars now fitted with the table and bottom board glued in. The layout drawings are now ready to be marked for boring.

These are the new birch plywood trunks.

The bars now fitted with the table and bottom board glued in. The layout drawings are now ready to be marked for boring.

These are the upperboards and rackboards cut ready.

These are the new pull down magnets, just arrived from Franz Heissler, Germany. These will pull the manual chest pallets open.

These are the manual chests with the holes drilled ready for the remaining parts to be assembled to them.

Just taken delivery of the new slider solenoids.

We've started racking in the original Bampton pipework onto the new swell and great slider chests.

New building frames completed.

new 16ft pedal open diapason chest

Fitting slide seal cards to the manual chests.

ew building frames completed.

The 16ft pedal open chest and pipes now in place, the building frame is now constructed.

The new manual chests ready to be fitted to the building frame.

One of the manual chests.

Fitting the pallet pins.

Cleaning and fitting the pallets.

Pallets and springs now fitted.

General view of the chests in place with the 16ft pedal open diapason in place behind, which are still to be restored. The planks on the floor are going to be used to make the swell box frame.

This is the new swell slider chests with the new drawstop motors installed. We have made these chests in C and C# sides to make them easier to install.

The wood cut ready for the swell box frame.