ORGANS IN & AROUND CHESTERFIELD

ST. LEONARD, SCARCLIFFE

Scarcliffe lies close to Bolsover, near the Nottinghamshire border. This small village was the site of a Romano-British settlement; the church of St. Leonard dates from the 12th-century, and contains an organ which was installed by Albert Keates (Sheffield) in 1908. It was inspected in 1977 by Henry Willis & Sons Ltd., who recorded the following stoplist:

GREAT
     8       Open Diapason
     8       Stopped Diapason
     8       Dulciana
     4       Principal    
 
SWELL    
     8       Open Diapason     
     8       Viol di Gamba
     8       Voix Celeste          tc
     4       Gemshorn    
 
PEDAL   
    16       Bourdon
     8       Bass Flute            extension
 
Couplers: 3 unison, Swell octave & suboctave.
Composition pedals: 2 Great.
Balanced pedal to Swell.
Compass: 61/30.
Tubular-pneumatic action.

In 1977 Willis was presented with a proposal for a new organ, using the redundant instrument previously in St. John the Baptist, Staveley, which had been stored at Scarcliffe since 1973. The tonal scheme was to be unaltered; the organ was to go on the west gallery, with a new case and new electro-pneumatic action. This scheme was the brainchild of a local enthusiast who had purchased the Staveley instrument, but a year later no decision had been made, and Willis proposed one of its 'Junior Development Plan' instruments. In 1979 their tuning contract was terminated.

In 1988 Chalmers & Hyde (Dronfield) rebuilt the extant organ with several new ranks and extensions. The stoplist is now as follows:

GREAT
     8       Open Diapason
     8       Stopped Diapason
     8       Dulciana
     4       Principal
     2       Fifteenth              new   
 
SWELL    
     8       Open Diapason     
     8       Viol di Gamba
     8       Voix Celeste           tc
     4       Gemshorn
     4       Flute                  unit; new
     2       Piccolo                unit; new
     8       Oboe
 
PEDAL   
    16       Bourdon
     8       Bass Flute             extension
     4       Octave Flute           extension; new
 
Couplers: 3 unison, Swell octave & suboctave.
Balanced pedal to Swell.
Compass: 58/30.
Electric & electro-pneumatic action.

The instrument is divided on both sides of the chancel, with the attached drawstop console on the north side.

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