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  GAZETTEER OF ORGANS IN SUFFOLK by David Drinkell
(links to individual churches will be added as soon as possible)


This is compiled from the National Pipe Organ Register, the writings of various enthusiasts and my own notes. I owe a great debt to the knowledge of John Budgen, who was for many years in charge of Bishop & Son (Ipswich). This list does not claim to be 100% complete, and the information may have been rendered out of date by recent events and transfers.


Acton – organ from elsewhere, 1983, replacing electronic.
Aldeburgh – Walker 1864, rebuilt Hunter (Clapham), subsequently modified by Bishop.
Aldringham – organ by George White (London) replaced by an electronic.
Alpheton – Case of Bryceson barrel organ c.1850, insides by Wheaton (Cambridge). Here 1976 from Lutton, Northamptonshire.
Ampton – Lewis 1889
Ashbocking – supplied Chappell & Co (London) 1879. Probably built by Prosser (ex-Bevington).
Aspall – Gray & Davison
Assington – Bevington 1883

Bacton – Albert Pease (London) 1864
Badingham – Gray & Davison
Badley – Bevington. Gothick case.
Badwell Ash – Bates. Nice case.
Bardwell – Bishop & Son 1909, apparently supplied and installed by Norden.
Barham – Walker 1895
Barking – George Greene (Ipswich)
Barnardiston – early 19th century, ex-Barnardiston Methodist, installed 1999.
Barnby – R. Forster (London). Gothick case.
Barnham – James Corps (London) Gothick case.
Barningham – Henry Jones 1878
Barrow – Ingram 1894
Barsham – Hill 1877
Barton Mills – Conacher (Huddersfield) 1870, Bishop 1931
Battisford – Bishop & Starr 1862, as a residence organ for Charles Steggall, organist of Lincoln’s Inn. Here 1914. Fierce looking case.
Bawdsey – ex-Shottisham. Here in the 1930s.
Baleham – Thomas Jones
Beccles, St. Michael – George Pike England and Abraham Jordan 1796, much rebuilt, most recently by Rushworth & Dreaper (Liverpool) 1938 and Boggis 1981
Beccles, St. Benet RC – Norman & Beard ex-Bungay RC 1891
Bedfield – Bevington c.1860, ex-Fressingfield. Here 1938.
Bedingfield – Norman & Beard
Belstead – Norman & Beard c.1890
Benacre – Holdich 1848. One stop plus octave coupler. Gothick case.
Benhall Green – ex-Chevington 1936
Bentley – Robson 1848, ex-Old Hall, East Bergholt. Rebuilt here by Bishop c.1920.
Beyton – Gray & Davison chamber organ 1854 ex-Severn Bank School
Bildeston – Hill
Blaxhall – Thomas Jones (London)
Blundeston – W.C. Mack (Great Yarmouth) c.1870
Blythburgh – from Cocking, Sussex, originally by Bevington. Rebuilt Bishop & Son 1894, 1951, Boggis 2002-3
Botesdale – possibly Hart (Redgrave) from Redgrave Hall.
Botesdale Methodist – Hill
Boulge – Norman & Beard 1891
Boxford – Hill 1875
Boxted – Casson ‘Positive’
Bradfield Combust – anonymous, Gothick case.
Bradfield Combust Methodist – W.H. Laycock
Bradfield St. George – Casson ‘Positive’
Bramfield – Cousans (Lincoln) ‘Premier’ model organ
Bramford – Hunter (Clapham) 1895
Brandeston – chamber organ c.1785, attributed to Robson, ex-Butley. Restored 1999 Peter Bumstead (Ipswich) with a new case in period style
Brandon – Conacher (Huddersfield)
Brandon, St. Thomas of Canterbury RC – Casson ‘Positive’ ex-Oundle RC, Northamptonshire. Here 1995.
Brandon, Baptist – Speechley & Ingram (London) c.1870
Brantham – Bishop & Son 1970, enlarged c.1985
Bredfield – Alfred Noble (Birmingham) 1875
Brent Eleigh – Bates chamber organ
Brettenham – Conacher organ replaced by electronic
Brightwell – Casson ‘Positive’, installed Boggis1967
Brockley – rather odd, possibly chamber organ, installed by Tom Robbins (Kent)
Brome, St. Mary – Walker, enlarged Norman & Beard 1889
Brome, St. Michael – Thomas Elliot 1817. Moved here 1938 from a house in Surrey by Hill, Norman & Beard. Pretty case with glass doors.
Bromeswell – Casson ‘Positive’ c.1905
Bucklesham – Hele (Plymouth) 1911
Bungay, Holy Trinity – 1855, rebuilt
Bungay, St. Mary – E.W. Norman, ex-Rose Hall, Bungay. Rebuilt Walker 1961.
Bungay, St. Edmund RC – Norman & Beard 1891 (old organ went to Beccles RC)
Bures – Norman & Beard 1909
Burgate – Walker 1866
Burgh – Thomas Jones ‘St. Cecilia’ model organ (similar to a Casson)
Burstall – Boggis 1884. Nice case.
Bury St. Edmunds, Cathedral - Nicholson (Worcester) 1971. Due for rebuilding (Harrison, Durham) with new case when the tower is paid for. There is also a 1791 chamber organ by Henry Holland (London), ex-St. Mary, Hales, and, in the Song School, a Casson ‘Positive’ which originally stood in St. Paul’s Cathedral and was acquired by Canon Gordon Paget..
Bury St. Edmunds, St. John – Hunter (Clapham) c.1870, rebuilt Johnson (Cambridge) 1978
Bury St. Edmunds, St. Mary – Large 4 manual organ, in its present state principally by Hill, Norman & Beard 1931, but modified by Compton 1959 and Kenneth Canter 1988. Also a chamber organ by John Harris c.1700 from a chapel in Neasden. Casework not original.
Bury St. Edmunds, St. Edmund RC – Gildersleeve, Cedric Arnold 1960
Bury St. Edmunds, Trinity Methodist – Cedric Arnold 1938
Bury St. Edmunds, United Reformed – Norman Brothers
Butley – Tunks (London) previous organ went to Brandeston
Buxhall – Mander ‘Denham’ model organ 1958 – striking case.

Campsea Ashe – Gray & Davison 1878
Capel St. Mary – Willis 1896. Fine case added by Bishop & Son 1927.
Carlton – W.C. Mack 1901
Carlton Colville – Brindley & Forster (Leeds) 1884
Cavendish – Henry Jones 1884
Cavendish United Reformed – Hunter c.1897
Charsfield – early 19th century chamber organ ex-Fishtoft, Lincolnshire. Here c.1960.
Chattisham – pretty little early 19th century organ, here after 1969.
Chedburgh – Gildersleeve
Chediston – Very odd ex-chamber organ, c.1830 with an extravagant case
Chelmondiston – Roger Pulham 1982. Very fine case.
Chelsworth – August Gern (London). One of his early ones which retains the French influence of his master, Aristide Cavaillé Coll.
Chevington – ex-Little Paxton, Cambridgeshire
Clare – rebuild Bishop post-1976.
Clare, United Reformed – Wadsworth (Huddersfield) 1925. Secondhand. Previous organ to Lavenham Congregational.
Claydon – Bevington 1863
Clopton Green – c.1880 rebuilt Arnold 1951
Cockfield – Bevington
Cockfield, Congregational – small anonymous organ
Coddenham – Norman Bros. & Beard 1895
Combs – Binns 1910, ex-St. Andrew, Great Yarmouth. Installed here by Boggis 1963.
Coney Weston – small anonymous organ
Cookley – Casson ‘Positive’, ex-Laxfield
Copdock – Lewis & Co.
Corton – Storr 1951, reconstructed Bower 1990
Cotton – Abbott & Smith (Leeds) 1901. Enthusiasts should note that the Mechanical Instrument Museum at Cotton has a small but excellent Wurlitzer theatre organ and the unique Compton organ from Great Yarmouth Central Methodist Church with its electronically produced basses.
Cowlinge – Lewis & Co.
Cransford – chamber organ in the shape of an upright piano. Markings on bellows weights ‘JJB’ could refer to Bullen of Diss or they could be from an organ by Binns (who certainly did not make this one!).
Cratfield – one manual organ
Creeting Hall – Walker 1881, installed here 1955 by Storr from a bombed London church.
Creeting St. Mary – Gildersleeve c.1900 – very large for him (three manuals)
Cretingham – Daniel Gray 1843
Crowfield – Norman & Beard 1913
Culford – Binns c.1910

Dalham – Walker 1860, converted from a barrel organ
Dallinghoo – Alfred Monk (London) 1883
Darsham – two manual organ from elsewhere, replacing Casson which went to Wicklewood in 1946.
Debenham – Bishop & Son
Denham, near Diss – E.W. Norman’s first commercial commission c.1870. Based on a Walker barrel organ.
Denham St. Mary – W.H. Prosser (London)
Dennington – ‘Father’ Willis Model organ, 1895, for St. Katharine’s College, Tottenham, erected here behind the old case (ex-St. Margeret’s, Ipswich) by Bishop 1967.
Denston – Thomas Jones 1881 from elsewhere.
Drinkstone – installed by Gildersleeve from Thurston 1901. Report by Peter Bumstead 2003 identifies the original builder as Hart (Redgrave), but John Budgen says that some of the pipes are uncannily like the Thamar pipework at Framlingham, so this is possibly a much more important instrument than would at first appear. Of the 16 drawstops, 5 have misspellings.
Dunwich – Roger Pulham 1992. A rebuild of his organ originally in Hazelwood School, which was damaged in a storm. Superb double case in west gallery.

Earl Soham – Norman & Beard 1897 incorporating parts of earlier instrument.
Earl Stonham – Gildersleeve 1899, revised by Bishop 1973.
East Bergholt – Bishop 1891 for St. Andrew, Gravesend. Rebuilt by them here 1965
Easton – Harrison (Durham) organ 1885 from Clacton Wesleyan Church exchanged with previous Easton organ. Work done by Bedwell (Cambridge, although the plate says ‘London and Clacton-on-Sea).
Edwardstone – Martin (Oxford) 1870. Rebuilt Arnold 1970, and again by Peter Bumstead 1998. Some pipework is said to be from ‘Father’ Smith’s earliest organ in the Sheldonian Theatre (late 17th century). Superb Bodley case.
Ellough – chamber organ by John Squire (London) moved to Brampton, near Halesworth.
Elmsett – John Gray c.1830. Gothick case.
Elmswell – Henry Jones 1901
Elveden – Norman & Beard 1907. Case by Caröe 1899-1903.
Eriswell – from somewhere in Yorkshire, rebuilt by Summers & Barnes of York 1957.
Erwarton – Norman & Beard 1912
Euston – anonymous two manual organ 1884
Exning, St. Agnes – Henry Jones 1886
Exning, St. Martin – Harper (Newmarket) 1908, reconstructed by Rest Cartwright and completed by E.J. Johnson in 1965.
Eye – last rebuilt Walker 1979. In 2003, moves were afoot to replace this with a three manual Binns organ from St. Mark’s, Leeds. The church also contains a small chamber organ obtained through Gordon Paget from a Mission Hall in High Wycombe.
Eyke – Noble 1878

Fakenham Magna – attributed to James Scott (West Tofts) 1867
Falkenham – chamber organ long attributed to Samuel Green, but recent research suggests that it is not his.
Felixstowe, St. Andrew – Norman & Beard ex-Middlegate Congregational, Great Yarmouth. Moved here 1930s by Norden (Ipswich)
Felixstowe, St. John the Baptist – Norman & Beard c.1895, Spurden Rutt c.1930, Boggis 1992.
Felixstowe, Trinity Methodist – Norman & Beard 1906
Felixstowe, United Reformed Church – Kingsgate Davidson (London) 1926, Bishop 1994
Felixstowe¸Walton, Baptist – Bishop & Son c.1896
Felsham – Hill 1899
Finningham – Bevington, from a residence in Nottingham 1980.
Flempton – Bevington
Flixton – Bryceson Bros. & Ellis
Fornham All Saints – Bishop & Son 1907
Fornham St. Martin – Nelson (Durham) 1912 for Newark Road Methodist Church, Lincoln. Installed here 1974 Cousans (Lincoln).
Framlingham – Thomas Thamar (1674) for Pembroke College Cambridge, but the case may be older – one of less than a handful of pre-Commonwealth cases. Here 1708. Last major rebuild by Bishop & Son 1969 returned it to the west gallery and has resulted in the reconstitution of a most historically important instrument. The front pipes may be the oldest speaking organ pipes in the country – c.1630. The church also contains a chamber organ by William Allen 1797, ex-Brimington, Derbyshire, brought here 1982.
Framlingham Unitarian – old chamber organ
Freckenham – anonymous single manual organ
Fressingfield – ‘Father’ Willis organ 1865 ex-Chapel Royal of the Savoy, erected here by Hill, Norman & Beard 1939. New case by Ralph Bootman 1963.
Freston – Bishop & Son 1938
Friston – George White
Frostenden – anonymous two manual organ

Gazeley – Gildersleeve
Gisleham – Hill 1874
Gislingham – Bevington 1870 ex-Dickleburgh, moved here by Boggis 2002
Glemsford – Forster & Andrews 1877
Great Ashfield – Forster & Andrews 1884
Great Barton – Boggis (Diss) replaced former organ with a second-hand instrument 1998/99
Great Bealings – Binns (Leeds) 1894
Great Blakenham – Martin & Coate (Oxford) 1959 – the last organ they built – ex-St. Michael, New Marston, Oxford. Rebuilt here 1997 by local reed-organ restorer J. Burggy using some pipes from previous organ by Dixon (Cambridge).
Great Bradley – Gray mid 19th century ex-Walberswick 1959.
Great Bricett – R. Watson (London) ‘Imperial Pipe Organ’
Great Cornard – Hunter, rebuilt Bishop c.1970
Great Finborough – Hele (Plymouth) 1920
Great Glemham – Flight & Son, early 19th century. Originally a barrel and finger organ. Restored Bishop & Son 1968.
Great Livermere – Norman Bros. & Beard c.1888, Gothick case c.1840.
Great Saxham – W.H. Prosser (London)
Great Thurlow – Holdich
Great Waldingfield – Trustam (Bedford) 1888, replacing or incorporating Walker barrel and finger organ 1855.
Great Wenham – early T.C. Lewis. Small 3 manual – a fine, little known instrument.
Great Wratting – small organ with Gothick case given in 1953.
Groton – ‘Father’ Willis Model Organ 1888 for University College School, Hampstead, then in Bickersteth Memorial Hall, Hampstead. Here 1950.
Grundisburgh – Hill 1878
Gunton – Griffin & Stroud (Bath)

Hacheston – ‘Paddy’ Benson for Norman & Beard 1905.
Hadleigh – ‘Father’ Smith case c.1687 ex-Donyland Hall, Essex. Organ by Binns 1900, modified 1976.
Hadleigh, United Reformed Church – Bishop & Son ex-Strand Public School, Brixton. Here 1966.
Halesworth – Norman & Beard 1889
Halesworth, St. Edmund RC – Thomas Jones ex-Hadstock PC, Essex, moved here by holmes 7 Swift 1985
Harkstead – Bryceson
Harleston – Holdich
Hartest – Norman & Beard, incorporating previous instrument by Sturgeon (Hartest)
Hasketon – Norman & Beard
Haughley – Alfred Monk c.1880
Haverhill – Miller (Cambridge) 1897, Hill, Norman & Beard 1938, Norman Hall (Cambridge) c.1984
Haverhill, West End Congregational , Jardine (Manchester) 1911
Haverhill, Old Independent – Binns 1894. Arguably the finest surviving Binns organ.
Hawkedon – Norman & Beard 1912
Hawstead – Rayson (Ipswich) 1910 incorporating old organ by Sturgeon (Hartest) 1858 and 1898. Fine gothic revival case.
Helmingham – Alfred Monk 1914
Hemingstone – anonymous single manual organ.
Hemley – Holdich, ex-Martlesham. Here 1970s.
Hengrave – Wordsworth (Leeds) c.1896. Case by Sir Walter Tapper.
Henley – Casson ‘Positive’ 1909
Henstead – Bishop and Son. Case by Caröe.
Hepworth – Wordsworth (Leeds)
Herringfleet – Rudd & Co, Paris and Soho. Only known organ by them. Fierce Gothick case.
Herringswell – W.H. Prosser (London) 1870
Hessett – Conacher (Huddersfield) 1869, modified by Bishop & Son
Heveningham – Norman & Beard
Higham St. Mary – Norman & Beard 1892, from Cavendish College.
Higham St. Stephen – W.H. Prosser, ex-Denham
Hinderclay – anonymous single manual organ
Hintlesham – Hele (Plymouth)
Hitcham – two manual organ, mid 19th century style with Gothick case
Holbrook – Miller (Cambridge) 1900
Holbrook School Chapel – Hill, Norman & Beard 1933. One of the finest large (four manual) organs of its period, standing behind the country’s largest pipe-less organ screen in excellent acoustics. There is a smaller Hill, Norman & Beard organ (1983) at the east end.
Hollesley – Holdich, ex-Nettleham Hall, Lincoln. Rebuilt here by Cousans (Lincoln) 1928.
Holton St. Mary – W.J. Haywood (London)
Holton St. Peter – Eustace Ingram (London)
Homersfield – anonymous chamber organ
Honington – Bishop & Son 1909
Hoo – small organ c.1830 with Gothick case. John Budgen suggests a local builder.
Hopton – installed by public subscription 1886. Case in the style of Burges.
Horham – Hele (Plymouth) c.1910
Horringer – Cedric Arnold, Williamson & Hyatt?
Hoxne – Walker barrel organ 1836, converted 1876 and rebuilt 1906.
Hundon – Wadsworth (Manchester & Aberdeen) 1904 residence organ from Norman Tower, Elgin, installed here 1914 after the fire. Suffolk Churches reports rebuilding in 2003.
Hunston – Godball 1885
Huntingfield – Casson 1921, but more elaborate than most, with a separate pedal board.

Icklingham – Bedwell (NPOR entry refers to All Saints, but may be an error for St. James).
Ilketshall St. Andrew – Casson ‘Positive’
Ingham – Bevington 1861
Ipswich, All Hallows – Binns, Fitton & Haley 1939
Ipswich, Christ Church (UR and Baptist), Tackett St – Hill, Norman & Beard 1947
Ipswich, Holy Trinity – Bishop & Son 1908
Ipswich, St. Augustine – Walker 1931, Bishop & Son 1971 and subsequently
Ipswich, St. Bartholomew – Norman & Beard 1909
Ipswich, St. Clement – Holdich, rebuilt Bishop, moved to Selworthy, Devon.
Ipswich, St. Helen – Bryceson 1964
Ipswich, St. John the Baptist – Binns, Fitton & Haley 1938
Ipswich, St. Joseph’s College Chapel – Grant, Degens & Bradbeer 1967
Ipswich, St. Margaret – Walker 1857, ex-Holy Trinity, Bedford
Ipswich, St. Mary-at-Stoke – Holdich
Ipswich, St. Mary-at-Elms – Hunter 1912
Ipswich, St. Mary-le-Tower – ‘Father’ Willis 1865, last rebuilt Bishop 1997
Ipswich, St. Matthew – Forster & Andrews 1882, Bishop 1960s
Ipswich, St. Nicholas – Spurden Rutt, no longer present
Ipswich, St. Peter – Gray & Son, Case and possibly pipework to Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, 1960s
Ipswich, St. Thomas – Hill, Norman & Beard 1939
Ipswich, Unitarian – Bishop & Son
Ipswich, United Reformed, Castle Hill – Christie (Hill, Norman & Beard) theatre organ 1936, ex-Essoldo, Clacton. Here 1971 and subsequently enlarged.
Ipswich, Whitton – Miller (Cambridge), ex-Melbourn Baptist.
Ixworth – Nicholson & Lord (Walsall)

Kedington – Walker chamber organ 1842, brought here 1990, having previously stood in the vestry (not the church) at Great Sampford, Essex.
Kelsale – August Gern 1877
Kenton – organ by T. Chapell (Mildenhall) c.1860, ex-Worlingworth moved to Edington, Wiltshire in the 1960s
Kersey – Bishop & Son
Kesgrave – Walker 1991. Striking modern case.
Kessingland – Rushworth & Dreaper (Liverpool) c.1939
Kettlebaston – Lewis ‘Lieblich’ Model Organ, acquired from Wattisham 1977
Kirton – Cousans (Lincoln) ‘Premier’ Model Organ
Knodishall – Binns 1909

Lackford – Bevington 1882
Lakenheath – Rayson 1925
Langham – Walker 1889
Lavenham – ‘Father’ Willis 1885 for Holy Trinity, Bournemouth. Rebuilt by Degens & Rippin (later Grant, Degens & Bradbeer) 1964. Moved to St. Swithin, Bournemouth 1972. Moved here 1996 by the Rector, Revd. Derrick Stiff, under the guidance of John Bailey (a Colchester man trained by Grant, Degens & Bradbeer, who now manages the Ipswich branch of Bishop & Son).
Lawshall – Wadsworth (Leeds)
Laxfield – Organ from Clitheroe Baptist installed here by Boggis 1963. Previous organ to Cookley.
Layham – Bishop & Son 1903
Leiston – Binns
Levington – Ebrall organ from St. Chad, Rubery, rebuilt here by Compton 1959.
Lidgate – Hill, Norman & Beard 1924
Lindsey – Hugh Russell chamber organ 1801, here 1927 from Kersey and previously Boxford.
Little Bealings – Rayson
Little Blakenham – Casson ‘Positive’
Little Glemham – F.W. Durham (London)
Little Saxham – Norman & Beard, ex-Mount Tabor Chapel, Downham Market. Here 1964.
Little Stonham – Rayson 1929
Little Thurlow – small organ, older than the case it occupies.
Little Waldingfield – Hart (Redgrave) c.1809 ex-St. Mary, Thetford. Installed here by Peter Bumstead 1990. A notable example of the successful transplant of an historic instrument.
Little Welnetham – Gildersleeve 1870
Long Melford – Walker 1867
Long Melford United Reformed – Kirkland c.1880, from a church in Hertfordshire 1904.
Lound – Harrison & Harrison (Durham) 1913. Comper case.
Lowestoft, St. Andrew – secondhand organ installed by Terry Hepworth (Lowestoft) 1970s
Lowestoft, St. Margaret – Forster & Andrews1871, 1902, Hill, Norman & Beard 1937
Lowestoft, St. Mark – Hill, Norman & Beard
Lowestoft, SS Peter & Paul, Kirkley – Brindley & Foster (Leeds) 1861, last rebuilt Boggis 1959. Four manual.
Lowestoft, Central Methodist – Benjamin Grindrod (Rochdale)
Lowestoft, Congregational, Oulton Broad – Nelson (Durham)
Lowestoft, Our Lady Star of the Sea RC – Norman & Beard 1900

Market Weston – Wordsworth & Maskell (Leeds)
Marlesford – Bishop & Son
Martlesham – Holdich organ moved to Hemley.
Mellis – Bedwell 1898
Melton – Hill, rebuilt Norman & Beard
Mendham – Rayson 1872
Mendlesham – Nicholson (Worcester) organ from Worple Road Methodist, Wimbledon, rebuilt here in existing case 1983.
Metfield – Morton & Moody (Oakham) 1909, erected here by Storr 1953, replacing old Corps organ.
Mettingham – Walker, rebuilt Williamson & Hyatt 1960
Middleton – Bishop & Son 1938
Mildenhall – ‘Father’ Willis 1865
Mildenhall, St. John RC – Compton ‘Miniatura’ Model Organ c.1950, moved here 2002, completed by Holmes & Swift. Case from an organ by Sweetland (Bath).
Monk Soham – Rayson 1908
Monks Eleigh – Walker 1879
Moulton – Hill

Nacton – Browne (Canterbury) ex-Ightham, Kent. Installed here by local enthusiasts c.1979.
Naughton – chamber organ by Robertus Gray 1777.
Nayland – Organ came here from Canterbury Cathedral in 1777, when Samuel Green built a new one there. Some pipes may be pre-Green (e.g. Snetzler). This was during the incumbency of the Revd. William Jones, who was a noted scholar and composer (he wrote the popular hymn tune ‘St. Stephen’). As it stands, the organ is substantially as rebuilt by Henry Jones 1865. It was moved from the west gallery by W. Raeburn Andrew (London) 1894, rebuilt by Bishop 1914 and rebuilt and returned to the gallery by Arnold, Williamson & Hyatt 1968. A very fine instrument.
Nedging – Casson ‘Positive’
Needham Market – Rayson 1883
Newbourne – Casson ‘Positive’
Newmarket, All Saints – Binns 1908
Newmarket, St. Mary – Brindley & Foster (Leeds) 1910
Newton Green – Bevington organ ended up in Prague. Roger Pulham built a new one in 1975, but this was later advertised for sale.
North Cove – small two manual organ
Norton - Dixon (Cambridge) 1882
Nowton – August Gern

Oakley – Abbott & Smith (Leeds)
Occold – Bevington
Old Felixstowe – Gray & Davison
Old Newton – Peter Bumstead (Ipswich) 1987, using parts of old Dixon (Cambridge) organ.
Orford – Bishop & Son
Otley – possibly Norman & Beard. Ex-Clacton-on-Sea Baptist
Oulton – 2 manual organ 1898
Oulton Broad – Walker organ installed by Hill, Norman & Beard 1950
Ousden – Bevington

Pakefield – Hill, Norman & Beard, replacing a Bevington installed here 1948 from Tiptree Congregational, Essex.
Pakenham – Bates c.1850
Palgrave – Walker 1907
Parham – Norman & Beard 1903
Peasenhall – Alfred Monk 1894
Pettaugh – Rayson 1942
Pettistree – Alfred Noble
Playford – 2 manual organ
Polstead – Henry Jones 1870
Preston – James Trustam (Bedford)

Rattlesden – Gray & Davison, restored with new case Bishop & Son 1970
Raydon – Bevington 1880s, Kingsgate Davidson 1952
Rede – Bevington
Redgrave – Casson 1889, larger than his usual with two manuals and various complicated devices.
Redisham – small organ with simple case
Rendham – Alfred Monk
Rendlesham – Hill
Reydon – Walker 1884, resited by Bishop 1981
Rickinghall – Walker
Ringsfield – Henry Jones from Groton 1950
Ringshall – Casson ‘Positive’
Risby – George Green (Ipswich) 1868
Rougham – Norman & Beard 1900, Norman Hall 1970
Rumburgh – Hill 1870, ex-Shipmeadow. Here 1980.
Rushbrooke – no pipe organ, but the furnishings installed by Colonel Rushbrooke in 1840 include an elaborate, if crude, organ case at the west end.
Rushmere St. Andrew – Dixon (Cambridge) 1882, Hill, Norman & Beard 1948, subsequent minor modifications by Bishop & Son.

Santon Downham – Osmond (Taunton) Model Organ 1968
Saxmundham – Albert Pease (London)
Saxtead – chamber organ installed in the 1980s.
Semer – Norman & Beard
Shadingfield – Geo. Parsons & Son (London), enlarged and altered Walker (1894), Bishop (1970)
Shelland – Bryceson barrel organ 1810. The only barrel organ still in exclusive use in a church. A new barrel was made by John Budgen in 2005, the tunes including ‘Be still, for the presence of the Lord’.
Shelley – small organ ex-Woodbridge Baptist, possibly originally Woodbridge PC. Here 1977.
Shimpling – Bevington 1871
Shipmeadow – Hill organ went to Rumburgh 1980.
Shotley – Flight, supplied by Godball
Shottisham – Bevington, ex-St. Andrew, Felixstowe.
Sibton – Bishop & Starr 1872
Snape – Peter Bumstead 2001. Pattern of case decoration suggested by local reed-beds.
Somerleyton – 1860, ex-Chapel in the Fields Congregational, Norwich. Here (Hill Norman & Beard) 1971.
Somerton – small organ possibly by Sturgeon (Hartest) or Gildersleeve (Bury).
Sotherton – Bevington 1888
Sotterley – Bevington 1880s, enlarged Hill, Norman & Beard 1923.
South Cove – 19th century chamber organ by D. Grant (London)
South Elmham All Saints – Ingram (London) 1884
South Elmham St. Andrew – Casson ‘Positive’
South Elmham St. Cross – Norman & Beard
South Elmham St. James – 19th century chamber organ given 1956
South Elmham St. Margaret – Henry Jones 1900 secondhand
Southwold – Walker 1887, rebuilt Arnold, Williamson & Hyatt 1966
Southwold, Congregational – only the case remains of the rather fine Holdich acquired from the Parish Church.
Southwold, Methodist – old (Holdich?) organ dismantled and parts dispersed.
Southwold, RC – small 2 manual organ by Vowles (Bristol) – secondhand.
Spexhall – chamber organ in Gothick case, signed inside by E. Kendall, Kensington, 1840. Said to have come from Turret Green Baptist, Ipswich (but not the large organ which was in that church when it closed). Restored by Peter Bumstead 1993.
Sproughton – Hill, Norman & Beard 1934
Stanningfield – Rayson
Stansfield – Henry Jones c.1900
Stanstead – Thomas Jones
Stanton – Wordsworth & Maskell (Leeds) 1887
Sternfield – pretty little organ replaced by an electronic and moved to Little Tey, Essex.
Stoke Ash – David Miller (Orwell) installed an organ, rebuilt by Rest Cartwright, from Toddington Baptist, Bedfordshire 1991.
Stoke by Clare – Henry Jones 1904
Stoke by Nayland – Gray & Davison 1847, subsequent work by Henry Jones and Bishop & Son.
Stonham Aspall – Bishop & Son 1935, incorporating earlier work by Bevington.
Stoven – ‘Father’ Willis ‘Scudamore’ organ 1849, enlarged by Bevington 1882, acquired by Ranald Clouston when the church closed.
Stowlangtoft – “Medieval’ organ built for the Great Exhibition 1851. Case by John Seddon. A good example of what the early Tractarians thought an organ should be.
Stowmarket – Bishop & Son 1994, incorporating Hele organ c.1886 from Emmanuel, Harrow Road, Paddington.
Stowmarket, Bethesda Baptist – E.W. Norman
Stowmarket United Reformed – Willis 1953 (fine instrument. New after war damage).
Stowupland – Binns 1911, Bishop & Son 1972
Stradbroke – Holdich 1873
Stradishall – old chamber organ in a utilitarian new case installed by Storr 1956
Stratford St. Mary – W.C. Mack (Great Yarmouth). One of his best.
Stuston – Kirkland 1891
Stutton – Bishop & Son 1903, Boggis 1977
Sudbourne – Gray & Davison 1879
Sudbury, All Saints – Brindley & Foster 1870, Bishop & Son 1882
Sudbury, St. Gregory – Bishop & Son 1879 and subsequently
Sudbury, St. Peter – Lewis & Co. 1911. An important example of their work.
Sudbury – Hardy (Stockport)
Sudbury, Masonic Temple – Robson c.1800. Here 1886 and subsequently enlarged.
Sudbury, Methodist – Beales (Croydon). Originally belonged to Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Sudbury, United Reformed – Conacher (Huddersfield)
Sutton – ex-Marlesford 1932
Sweffling – Samuel Parsons chamber organ – glass fronted case
Swilland – Wordsworth & Maskell (Leeds)
Syleham – Norman & Beard 1891

Tannington – Bishop & Son
Tattingstone – Bevington 1887
Theberton – Norman & Beard ex-St. John, Woodbridge 2003, replacing 3 manual Henry Jones ex-practice organ, which was one of the oddest in the area.
Thelnetham – Bates c.1855
Thorndon – E.W. Norman 1881
Thornham Magna – Abbott & Smith (Leeds)
Thorpe Morieux – J.C. Bishop c.1830 for Curzon Street Chapel, London, subsequently in chapels in Brixton and Kingsbury. Here 1968. Fine example with good case attributed to Byfield c.1760..
Thorpeness – George White. The largest of several in the county by this otherwise obscure London builder.
Thrandeston – Osmond (Taunton) Model Organ installed Bishop 1992.
Thurston – Willis 1901. Old organ went to Drinkstone.
Trimley St. Martin – C.H. Walker (London) – an ex-Bishop man, nothing to do with J.W. Walker.
Trimley St. Mary – J.W. Walker
Troston - Wordsworth & Co. (Leeds)
Tuddenham St. Mary – Bevington
Tuddenham St. Martin – Bishop & Son
Tunstall – Bishop & Son installed a 2 manual organ from the People’s Hall (Methodist), Ipswich

Ubbeston – Squire organ dispersed when the church closed
Ufford – Norman & Beard 1912
Uggeshall – Bevington 1873

Walberswick – Willis 1959 – an example of Henry Willis 4’s ‘Junior Development Plan’, enlarged 1961 and remodelled by Bishop & Son 1994. Case by Ralph Bootman . Old organ went to Great Bradley.
Waldringfield – Casson ‘ Positive’
Walpole – Holdich, from a Methodist chapel in Littleport. Gothick case.
Walsham-le-Willows – Norman & Beard, ex-Crossway Congregational, New Kent Road, London 1914.
Wangford – Walker 1880. A particularly good one.
Wantisden – Stiddolph (Woodbridge) – minimalist with only one stop.
Washbrook – Casson ‘ Positive’
Wattisfield – Cedric Arnold 1954
Wenhaston – J.C. Bishop 1810 for Old Marylebone Parish Church. Here 1950. Good case.
Westerfield – Bishop & Son 1920, modified by them 1962 and by Peter Bumstead 1993
Westhall – Walker 1870
Westleton – presented 1920 – an enlargement by the Premier Organ Co. of a late 18th century chamber organ
Weston – Casson ‘Positive’ replaced with electronic 1969, went to Scoulton, Norfolk
West Row – Norman Hall replaced an organ by Thomas Jones
West Stow – Bevington 1886
Wetherden – Rayson 1918, enhanced by Bishop & Son
Wetherden, Baptist – ex-Hadleigh Congregational 1966
Wetheringsett – given in 1856. Gothick case, second manual a later addition.
Weybread – Bevington
Whatfield – Cedric Arnold 1952, incorporating parts of a chamber organ belonging to the former Rector, the Revd. J.H. Burn, a noted organ enthusiast.
Whepstead – Cedric Arnold 1957
Wherstead – Hugh Russell 1843. From Wilby, via Field Dalling, Whittlesey Methodist and Field, Oxfordshire. Moved to present location by Boggis & Briscoe 1976.
Wickham Market – Noble
Wickham Skeith – chamber organ with mahogany case, possibly George Pike England.
Wickhambrook – W.H. Prosser 1886
Wilby – Norman & Beard, altered by a previous incumbent, recently rebuilt by Boggis
Wingfield – Hele
Winston – early 19th century chamber organ
Wissett – chamber organ by ‘Jones & Co.’ acquired from Wrentham 1970.
Wissington – working John Gray barrel organ 1840. Finger organ by Roger Pulham 1970.
Withersfield – W.H. Wallis Johnson (Cambridge). May be an older chamber organ. Restored and the case painted by Cedric Arnold, Williamson and Hyatt.
Woodbridge – Monk 1886, rebuilt by Bishop, most recently in 1989.
Woodbridge, United Reformed – ‘Johannes Lincoln’ 1789
Woodbridge, Methodist – Norman & Beard 1896
Woolpit – Bryceson 1897
Woolverstone – Lewis 1890
Worlingham – Walker 1874
Worlington – Cousans ‘Premier’ Model Organ
Worlingworth – Norman & Beard 1890
Wortham – Norman & Beard 1911
Wrentham – Bevington 1889, revoiced c.1930 by the Revd. Noel Bonavia Hunt, an enthusiast and prolific writer about organs.
Wyverstone – Gray & Davison 1860, installed by Peter Bumstead 2001
Yaxley – Bevington c.1872
Yoxford – original organ by G.P. England 1791 for Moravian Church, Fetter Lane, London. Reconstructed by Henry Gunther 1920. Fine case.




David Drinkell BA, FRCO(CHM), ADCM, ARCM
Organist & Choir Director
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist,
St. John’s
Newfoundland

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