ST. MAGNUS THE MARTYR—LONDON BRIDGE.

MAY 1871.

ST. OLAVE’S, SOUTHWARK.—The organ, with four towers, and famous for having a thirty-two feet stop on the Great Organ, after the manner of large German instruments, stands at the west end, in a good plain case, but one that would hardly be worth adopting as a model for another instrument.

ST. SEPULCHRE’S has a handsome large organ, with a Choir case in front. The wood-work is fine, the mouths of the pipes nicely shaped, and the effect of the angular tower in the centre good. The case, I should think, must have looked better before the two wings of large pipes were added.

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ST. SEPULCHRE—SNOW HILL.

16TH. MAY 1871.

CHESTER CATHEDRAL.

The new organ, erected in 1876, stands in a stone loft, with marble pillars, under the north arch of the centre tower. It has an abundance of carved Gothic wood-work, and the pipes are plain gilt. The mouths of the large pipes are shaped in the French style, but appear to me a little exaggerated. On the Choir Screen stands the Echo Organ, which puts me in mind of that in Notre-Dame de Bruges, on a very small scale. The thirty-two feet pedal pipes (wood) stand on the ground at the end of the north transept. They were incomplete when I saw them in November, 1876, and I should very much doubt if they will prove effective. Water-power and a gas-engine have been tried for blowing, and did not succeed, and a steam-engine was being erected.