Church and Co Organ

We are lucky at All Saints’ to have our wonderful organ, installed in 1984 by Church & Co. Information on the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register here.

Director of Music, Dr Douglas Knight playing the organ at All Saints’

One hundred years after the installation of the first organ at All Saints’, a new organ was installed and was placed at the west end of the nave, returning to the pre-19th century tradition of having a choir and organ assisting the congregation from behind.

The contract for this organ was awarded to Church and Company of Newcastle upon Tyne and it was agreed that the organ should be encased, free-standing and have a reliable mechanical action so that the organist is directly responsible for the articulation of the sound produced. The overriding desire was that the organ should produce as ‘natural’ a sound as possible without feeling forced, and this is achieved by using lower wind pressures and relying on well-voiced stops of differing timbres and pitches as opposed to thicker and less well-blending sounds of similar pitch. An opening concert was played on the organ on 15th April 1984 by David Patrick, the organist at that time.

Our current Director of Music and Organist is Douglas Knight. For more information about the organ he can be contacted at: dcpknight@gmail.com.