JULIAN RHODES' DREAM ORGANS
ORGANS OF HASTINGS & ST. LEONARDS



All Saints, Old Town, Hastings
Willis 1878 & 1915  III/25


All Saints Church

GREAT
    16       Lieblich Bourdon
     8       Open Diapason
     8       Open Diapason
     8       Claribel Flute
     4       Principal
     2       Fifteenth
    III      Mixture  17.19.22
     8       Tromba
 
SWELL
    16       Bourdon
     8       Open Diapason
     8       Lieblich Gedact
     8       Salicional
     8       Vox Angelica                 tc
     4       Principal
     2       Flageolet
     8       Cornopean
     8       Hautboy
             Tremulant
 
CHOIR
     8       Viola da Gamba
     8       Dulciana
     8       Claribel
     4       Harmonic Flute
     8       Corno di Bassetto
 
PEDAL
    16       Open Diapason
    16       Bourdon
     8       Violoncello
 
5 unison couplers (no Swell to Choir).
 
Composition pedals:  3 to Swell, 3 to Great.
 
Balanced pedal to Swell.
 
Mechanical key, stop and combination action;
pneumatic to pedal stops (Dalladay 1915).
 
Compass: 56/30.



In 1915 Willis replaced the Twelfth on Great with a second Open Diapason, added the Swell Tremulant, and revoiced the Great Trumpet as a Tromba. Since then the console has been modified somewhat, presumably when the organ was restored by Hawkins of Walsall Wood in 1976.

The illustration shows the church interior today; the organ is in a chamber on the north side of the chancel.



SOURCE:
Author's survey 1993 - 1999, and information from published and unpublished historical notes.



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