Builders

1915. J.J. Binns £650
1989. K. Scudamore Restoration work;
2018. A. Cooper Partial re-leathering

Cases
Position  North Chancel chamber  Type  Pipe Rack

9 + 3 + 7 + 3 + 9 diapasons surrounding console and facing South
4 + 3 + 7 + 3 + 4 matching display facing West through an arch

Department and Stop list

Pedal
	1	Contra Bass	16
	2	Sub Bass	16
	3	Dolce Bass	16
	4	Octave Bass	8
	5	Flute Bass	8
Great
	6	Bourdon	16
	7	Open Diapason	8
	8	Hohl Flute	8
	9	Dulciana	8
	10	Principal	4
	11	Flute Harmonic	4
	12	Flautina	2
	13	Trumpet	8
Swell
	14	Geigen Diapason	8
	15	Rohr Flute	8
	16	Viol d’Orchestre	8
	17	Vox Angelica	8
	18	Voix Celestes	8
	19	Salicet	4
	20	Dulciana Mixture	II
	21	Cornopean	8
	22	Oboe	8
	23	Tremulant

Console

Key & Stop action: Tubular Pneumatic
Compass C-C4 (man) C-F1 (Ped)
Console type Attached Stop type  Drawstop   Label type  Ivory  
Label font  Sans Serif Caps   Pedalboard  Radiating concave  

Angled jambs, wooden roll-down lockable cover
The four octave / sub octave couplers are centrally positioned
above the Swell Manual; Associated labels read:
“Couplers” and “Binns’ Patent Tubular Pneumatic Action”

Couplers
Swell to Pedal
Swell to Great
Swell octave to Great
Swell suboctave to Great
Swell octave
Swell suboctave
Great to Pedal

Details

Blowing Electric and Hand  

Accessories

Centrally balanced Swell pedal
4 + 4 composition treadles

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Previous Organ

An organ, previously built by Russell and Cranston and installed in Lady St Mary Church in Wareham in 1826 was transferred to St George’s Church, Langton Matravers in 1883.

Pedal
	1	Pedal Pipes, 20 Keys
Great
	2	Open Diapason	8
	3	Horn Diapason (1860, tenor C)	8
	4	Stopped Diapason	8
	5	Principal	4
	6	Fifteenth	4
	7	Sesquialtera	2
Swell
	8	Open Diapason	8
	9	Principal	4
	10	Oboe	8

Attached console. Drawstops

Accessories

Keys to Pedal
Three Composition Pedals

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J. J. Binns: Organ in St George’s 1915

James Jepson Binns (1855-1928) established his firm in 1880 in Leeds, and became one of the most successful and prolific of the numerous Yorkshire organ builders at the turn of the 20th century. Binns’ most distinguished work was produced between the 1890s and the First World War. His instruments are characterized by sturdy – almost heavy – design and workmanship that earned them the nickname ‘Battleship Binns’. Binns wisely avoided the tonal and mechanical eccentricities which proved the downfall of many of his contemporaries, but did invent an ingenious and entirely mechanical piston setter mechanism. He was acclaimed particularly for his Schulze-in-spired flue-work, but his instruments never had the cachet of those by more prominent firms and his smaller church organs, built to standard stop lists, have been criticized on ground of dullness.