Tuesday to Friday
8.45am Morning Prayer
at the Chapel
Tuesday 28th November
1.10 - 1.50pm Mayfair Organ Concert at the Chapel
Alastair Ross
Francois Couperin -
Movements from the Messe
pour les Paroisse
Free Admision. Retiring Collection.
Wednesday 29th November
7.30am Morning Prayer (online)
The Revd Dr Alan Piggot
Online - www.facebook.com/
thegrosvenorchapel
Thursday 30th November
12 midday Thursday Lunch Club
for Intl Homeless and Refugee people. All welcome.
Friday 1st December
9.10am Act of Collective Worship
St George’s School (parents only)
The Revd Roderick Leece, Rector at St George’s, Hanover Square
Sunday 3rd December
11:00am Sung Eucharist –
Advent Sunday
Celebrant and Preacher:
The Revd Stephen Coleman
Plainsong - The Advent Prose
James MacMillan - Missa Brevis
William Byrd - Vigilate
Andrew Carter - Toccata on Veni Emmanuel
CHAPEL OPENING TIMES
Monday - Friday
(except Bank Holidays)
Saturdays for Occasional Offices
Sundays 11am Sung Eucharist
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 |