THIS WEEK
SUNDAY 30th November
The First Sunday of Advent
11am Sung Eucharist
William Byrd - Mass for Five Voices
William Byrd - Vigilate
J.S.Bach - Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV661
TUESDAY 2nd December
9am Morning Prayer
12.30pm The Eucharist
1.10pm Mayfair Organ Concert
at St George’s
Jeremiah Stephenson
(All Saints, Margaret Street)
WEDNESDAY 3rd December
6.30pm Advent Carol Service
All welcome - no booking required.
THURSDAY 4th December
9am Morning Prayer
FRIDAY 5th December
8.45am Morning Prayer
9.10am Act of Collective Worship (St George’s School)
SUNDAY 7th December
The Second Sunday of Advent
11am Sung Eucharist
Preacher: The Revd George Bush
G.P.da Palestrina -
Missa Pater Noster
Orlando Gibbons -
This is the record of John
Johann Pachelbel - Nun komm
der Heiden Heiland
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. Exceptons to weekday 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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