The Grosvenor Chapel
The Grosvenor Chapel

            THIS WEEK

 SUNDAY 9th February - 

The Fourth Sunday before Lent

11am Sung Eucharist

​Flor Peeters - Missa S Josephi​

Heinrich Schütz - Verlei uns Frieden

Hendrik Andriessen - Theme

& Variations

 

TUESDAY 11th February

9am Morning Prayer

12.30pm Said Eucharist

1.10pm Mayfair Organ Concert 

at St George’s

Richard Pearce (BBC)

 

THURSDAY 13th February

9am Morning Prayer

 

FRIDAY 14th February

8.45am Morning Prayer

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

 

SUNDAY 16th February - 

The Third Sunday before Lent

11am Sung Eucharist

Giovanni Croce - Missa Prima

Sexti Toni

J.P.Sweelinck - Beati pauperes

Théodore Salomé -

Grand Choeur in G

 

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.

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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