UPCOMING SERVICES
TUESDAY 30th June
9am Morning Prayer
1.10pm Mayfair Organ Concert
at St George’s
Jason Tang
(Royal Academy of Music)
THURSDAY 2nd July
9am Morning Prayer
FRIDAY 3rd JULY
8.45am Morning Prayer
SUNDAY 5th July
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity
11am Sung Eucharist
Preacher:
The Revd Stephen Coleman
Richard Dacey - Missa Brevis
Harold Friedell - Draw us in the spirit’s tether
Francis Jackson - Intrada
TUESDAY 7th July
1.10pm Mayfair Organ Concert
at the Chapel
Richard Hobson (Grosvenor Chapel)
THURSDAY 9th July
9am Morning Prayer
FRIDAY 10th JULY
8.45am Morning Prayer
SUNDAY 12th July
The Sixth Sunday after Trinity
11am Sung Eucharist
Preacher:
The Revd Stephen Coleman
Orlandus Lassus - Missa super
Frere Thibault
Henry Purcell - Thy word is a lantern
William Walond - Voluntary
in D minor
TUESDAY 14th July
11am Coffee Morning -
All welcome
1.10pm Mayfair Organ Concert
at St George’s
John Kitchen (Edinburgh City Organist)
THURSDAY 16th July
9am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Choral Evensong
Adrian Batten - O praise the Lord
Thomas Morley Preces & Responses
Herbert Sumsion - Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G
Ned Rorem - Sing, my soul, his wondrous love
FRIDAY 17th JULY
8.45am Morning Prayer
SUNDAY 19th July
The Seventh Sunday
after Trinity
11am Sung Eucharist
Preacher:
The Revd Stephen Coleman
William Byrd - Mass for Five Voices
William Byrd - Aspice Domine
de sancta tua
J.S.Bach - Prelude in C major
BWV 547(i)
VACANCY
VERGER & LITURGICAL ADMINISTRATOR
See Vacancy page for more details. The closing date for applications is Friday 10th July 2026.
CHAPEL OPENING TIMES
The Chapel is normally open to visitors Monday - Friday 8am to 2.30pm. The Chapel is also open on
Saturdays for Occasional Offices and on Sundays for the 11am Sung Eucharist. Exceptions to opening times are public holidays, private bookings, and staff annual leave.
ACCESSIBILITY
Step-free access to the Chapel is via a ramp through the main entrance. Please arrange in advance by contacting the Chapel office.
Audability: The Chapel's soundsystem is suitably fitted with
a loop system for pews directly
beneath the south gallery.
William Drake Organ
The organ in Grosvenor Chapel was built by Abraham Jordan and installed in 1732. It had Great and short compass Swell divisions and no pedals. It stood in an upper gallery at the west end, a position it occupied until 1908. It was altered twice in the 19th c. by Bishop, and rebuilt in 1908 by Ingram. In 1930 J.W.Walker and Sons built a new two manual organ incorporating much second-hand pipework both from the old instrument and from elsewhere. The case was widened, and the organ had 21 stops, electropneumatic action and a stop key console.
This instrument was replaced in 1991 by William Drake of Buckfastleigh, Devon, who built a new organ in a broadly 18th c. English style. The Great has the traditional long compass and all pipework is new except for the treble of the Swell Stopped Diapason. The original Jordan front pipes survive, but were not used in 1991 as they are not at 'modern' pitch. The organ is tuned to an unequal temperament and has mechanical action for keys, pedals and stops. The console was modelled on surviving 18th c examples and the pedalboard is flat and straight. Soundboards are of traditional construction with no modern materials, and the action is unbushed. The case was remade and restored by William Drake.
The scaling and treatment of the diapason stops is based on the surviving front pipes, and the Great Stopt and Flute are modelled on ranks in the Seede organ at Lulworth Castle. The Great Cornet is a copy of that in the England organ at Blandford Forum in Dorset, and the reeds are based on the early 19th c. William Allen stops at Everingham in Yorkshire.
The organ was inaugurated by Gustav Leonhardt in May 1991.
Between February and April 2017 the organ was cleaned and overhauled by Drake Organs.
| Great GG/AA - f''' 58 notes |
Swell C - f''' 54 notes |
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| Open Diapason | 8 | Open Diapason | 8 | |
| Stopt Diapason | 8 | Stopt Diapason | 8 | |
| Principal | 4 | Principal | 4 | |
| Flute | 4 | Fifteenth | 2 | |
| Twelfth | 2 2/3 | Mixture | III | |
| Fifteenth | 2 | Cornet Treble | III | |
| Furniture | III | Cornet Bass | III | |
| Sesquialtera | III-IV | Trumpet | 8 | |
| Cornet | V from middle c | Hautboy | 8 | |
| Trumpet Treble | 8 | Tremulant | ||
| Trumpet Bass | 8 | |||
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| Pedal C-f | 30 notes | |||
| Stopt Diapason | 16 | Swell to Great | ||
| Principal | 8 | Swell to Pedal | ||
| Trumpet | 16 | Great to Pedal | ||
| Three couplers | ||||
| Tremulant | ||||
| Grosvenor Termperament | ||||
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