The Grosvenor Chapel
The Grosvenor Chapel

            THIS WEEK

Sunday 21st April

11:00am Sung Eucharist –

The Fourth Sunday of Easter

Philip Moore - Missa in

Tempore Paschalis

C.V.Stanford - Ye choirs

of new Jerusalem

C.V.Stanford - Prelude

on Gartan  Op. 101no.51

 

Tuesday 23rd April 

9.00am Morning Prayer

12.30pm Said Eucharist

1.10pm Mayfair Organ Concert

at St George's Hanover Square

Simon Williams 

(Cheltenham Ladies College)

Bryan Kelly - Gott sei gelobet

und gebenedeiet

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Sonata in D minor op. 65 no. 6  

Bryan Kelly - Easter Music

Louis Vierne - Andante;

Final (from Symphony 1 op. 14)

 

Wednesday 24th April 

7.30am Morning Prayer 

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9.00am Morning Prayer

 

Thursday 25th April 

9.00am Morning Prayer

 

Friday 26th April

8.45am Morning Prayer

9.00am Act of Collective Worship St George’s School (parents and carers only) 

 

Sunday 28th April

11:00am Sung Eucharist –

The Fifth Sunday of Easter

Orindio Bartolini -

Mass for Five Voices

William Byrd - Cibavit eos

Girolamo Frescobaldi -

Ricercare Dopo il Credo

 

Applications are invited for the position of Organ Scholar at Grosvenor Chapel from September 2024 -

August 2025.  

Details on the music pages.

 

CHAPEL OPENING TIMES

The Chapel is usually open to visitors Monday - Friday during office hours.

The Chapel is also open on

Saturdays for Occasional Offices, and

Sundays for the 11am Sung Eucharist.

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
  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    
     
  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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