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Bedfordshire, Luton Waldeck Road, Bury Park,  United Reformed Church [N09380]

HOC

Congregational Church
Grid ref: TL0821
Survey date: 1997
Maintained by: A. Noterman
(Organ playable)
Historic Organ Certificate awarded 1998 Grade=Ungraded

Builders

1906 Norman & Beard
2-manual organ; Order Book 10, p122, job 715 (1905); plate 'NORMAN & BEARD Ld'
'1906'; cost £430; opened by Mr Frederick Gostelow, 19th February, 1906;

Casework

Position  "E" end, central  Type  Pipe Rack

Console

Console type  attached   Stop type  drawstop   Label type  ivory   Label font  Sans Serif caps   Pedalboard  concave radiating  

large drawstops, original cloth sliding cover;

Couplers

Swell to Pedal

Swell to Great

Swell octave

Great to Pedal

Department and Stop list

Pedal Key action TP  Stop action TP  Compass-low C  Compass-high f1  Keys 30
             1 Bourdon 16
             2 Bass Flute 8 ext, appears original
Great Key action TP  Stop action TP  Compass-low C  Compass-high a3  Keys 58
             3 Open Diapason 8
             4 Clarabel Flute 8
             5 Dulciana 8
             6 Principal 4
             7 Harmonic Flute 4
Swell Key action TP  Stop action TP  Compass-low C  Compass-high a3  Keys 58
             8 Open Diapason 8
             9 Lieblich Gedact 8
             10 Echo Gamba 8
             11 Voix Celeste 8
             12 Gemshorn 4
             13 Horn 8

Details

Blowing=electric  Tuning=Eq Temp  

Accessories

2 composition pedals Swell, 2 Great; gt-pd reversible pedal;
lever pedal; tremulant pedal (whole organ)

Further information

S.W. Harvey collection L.O. 170
Organist and Choirmaster, February 1906

Photographs

logo Picture 1 15KB

British Organ Archive information

The British Organ Archive (See BIOS ) has the following material but if you are using NPOR addresses, rather than native BOA addresses, check the identification of the building and address carefully.

Beds,  LUTON,  Bury Park Congregational (Congr)   

Primary sources

1905 N&B Ord Bk Vol=10  Page=122  Job=0715    2m org

Update history

1905 BOA N&B reference inserted;
1997 DAt OSD 1906
Bass Flute inserted on Pedal (?omission in Organist and Choirmaster, 1906);

Administrative details

Source=CD  Input-date=02-FEB-2000  input-by=DA  Reference=CD.1.77


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