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IMAGES OF St. JAMES'S
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Inside the Church Images Contents: Inside the Church | Colourful Church Year | Brass & Plate | Flowers | Kneelers | Organ | Stone, Tilework & Mosaics | Woodwork

Inside the Church Images - The Organ

We have a fine three-manual Bishop organ, reworked and extended in 1997. Members of St. James's congregation and visitors to the church will probably be familiar with a somewhat distant view of the organ on the north side of the Chancel.


The organ console
Organ pipes
The organ console
 
Organ pipes

Only an intrepid few, however, will have ventured into the interior of the instrument. These images are an opportunity to see behind the console and to marvel at the
God-given talents both of the designers and builders of this instrument, and
also of the musicians who make it speak with such power and beauty.


Metal and wooden pipes of many shapes and sizes
The more familiar view
Wooden louvres that open and close
Metal and wooden pipes of many shapes and sizes
The more familiar view
Wooden louvres that open and close to change the volume

These pipes were beautifully decorated
These pipes were beautifully decorated
The miniature computer
These pipes originally formed the frontage in the west arch of the organ chamber. They were moved inside in 1916  
The miniature computer that is the 'brain' of the instrument

... and yet more pipes ...
... and yet more pipes ...
... and yet more pipes ...
... and yet more pipes ...

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