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Cumbrian Society of Organists


Events News

Our next event is a visit to play two very fine organs in West Cumbria, meeting at St. James' Church, Whitehaven, 2pm on Saturday 20th April, followed by St. Bees Priory.

Organ Work News

St. Cuthbert's, Cliburn, a few miles south of Penrith, has a small 2-manual Wilkinson organ, c.1882, where the bellows leather was disintegrating. The old bellows have been replaced with a new single-rise reservoir, so the wind supply is much improved. Work done by Andrew Carter, with new bellows by Chris Holford.

      

At St. Mary's, Thornwaite (near Keswick) the organ was removed from the church by Harrison & Harrison in 2016 following shallow flooding of the building during Storm Desmond. It has since been stored at the H&H works near Durham until its recent return and rebuilding on its platform on the north side of the church. Orginally built by Harrsion in 1891, it is unaltered apart from the swapping of the 4' stops between Great and Dwell in 1879 and sounds well in the church with its stone floors and mostly plain walls.