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

GREAT
    16       Double Diapason         stopped wood & metal
     8       Open Diapason No 1
     8       Open Diapason No 2
     8       Clarabella              wood
     4       Principal
     4       Flute Couverte
    2 2/3    Twelfth
     2       Fifteenth
    III      Mixture 17.19.22
     8       Posaune                 harmonic trebles
     4       Clarion                 harmonic trebles
 
SWELL
     8       Open Diapason           wood & metal
     8       Lieblich Gedeckt        wood bass
     8       Aeoline                 stopped wood bass
     8       Voix Celestes           tc
     4       Geigen Principal
     2       Fifteenth
    III      Mixture 12.19.22
    16       Contra Oboe
     8       Trumpet                 harmonic trebles
     4       Clarion                 harmonic trebles
             Tremolo
 
CHOIR
     8       Viola
     8       Dulciana                stopped bass
     8       Hohl Flute              stopped metal & open wood
     4       Suabe Flute             stopped wood
    2 2/3    Nazard
     2       Flautina
     8       Tromba                  heavy pressure, harmonic trebles
             enclosed:
    1 3/5    Tierce
     8       Clarinet
     8       Orchestral Oboe
             Tremolo (except Tromba)    
 
PEDAL
    32       Resultant Bass          derived
    16       Open Bass               wood
    16       Bourdon                 wood
     8       Octave                  metal, 30 pipes
     8       Flute                   extension Bourdon
    16       Trombone                wood, heavy-pressure
 
6 unison couplers plus Swell 8ve, Swell sub8ve.
 
Thumb pistons:  4 Great & Pedal, 4 Swell, 3 Choir, 
                Great to Pedal, Swell to Great.
 
Toe pistons: 4 Great & Pedal, 4 Swell, Great to Pedal.
 
Balanced pedals to Swell and Choir.
 
Compass: 58/30.
 
Tubular-pneumatic action.
 
Tromba and Trombone 10in., all other stops 5in.

Allan Biggs, organist of Christ Church, St. Leonards, contributed an article about this rebuild to 'The Organ' quarterly, January 1948.

In 1983 this instrument was rebuilt at Holy Trinity, Hastings by John Males. St. Mary Magdalen now houses a Greek Orthodox congregation.

SOURCE:
'The Organ' quarterly, January 1948.