MAUNDY THURSDAY, 17th April
6.30 pm Sung Eucharist of the Lord’s Supper
with the washing of feet, stripping of the altars, and watch until 10pm
Francisco Guerrero Missa
Inter vestibulum
C.V.Stanford Gloria in C
Maurice Duruflé Ubi caritas
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Love bade me welcome
William Byrd Ave verum corpus
Thomas Tallis The Lamentation
of Jeremiah
GOOD FRIDAY, 18th April
12.00pm Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
Plainsong The St John Passion
John of Portugal Crux Fidelis
John Sanders The Reproaches
Antonio Lotti Crucifixus etiam
pro nobis
HOLY SATURDAY -
Easter Eve, 19th April
7pm The Easter Vigil
with the lighting of the new fire and the first Eucharist of Easter,
followed by refreshments
Francis Jackson Communion
Service in G major
John Taverner Dum transisset sabbatum
Hernert Howells Paean
EASTER DAY, 20th April
11am Festival Sung Eucharist
with orchestra, followed by celebratory refreshments
Walford Davies O sons
and daughters
W.A.Mozart Coronation Mass
in C major K317
W.A.Mozart Regina coeli K276
J.S.Bach Prelude & Fugue in G major BWV 541
TUESDAY 22nd April
9am Morning Prayer
12.30pm The Eucharist
1.10pm Mayfair Organ Concert
at St George’s
Eben Eyres
THURSDAY 24th April
9am Morning Prayer
FRIDAY 25th April
8.45am Morning Prayer
9am Act of Collective Worship
St George’s School (parents and carers only)
SUNDAY 27th April –
The Second Sunday of Easter
11:00am Sung Eucharist
With Cantor and Organ
The Champniss Organ Scholarship
2025-26
Applications are invited for the Organ Scholarship at Grosvenor Chapel for the academic year 2025/6.
Details on the music page of this website.
CHAPEL OPENING TIMES
The Chapel is normally open to visitors Monday - Friday 8am to 3pm. Exceptons are public holidays and private bookings.
The Chapel is also open on
Saturdays for Occasional Offices and on Sundays for the 11am Sung Eucharist.
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.
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 |