Organ in St Botolph's Church
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Organ in St Botolph's Church
Image: © Tiger Taken: 15 Jul 2020
This instrument with its charming Victorian oaken casework was built around 1855 by George Maydwell Holdich and was moved to Graveley from the neighbouring village of Papworth St Agnes in Image in the mid-1970s. There are nine stops on the single manual and a pedal bourdon with 17 keys. The 17 pipes in the front of the case (arranged in a haiku sequence 5-7-5) are gilded wooden dummies and do not speak. Canon Nicholas Thistlethwaite in "The Organs of Cambridge" (1983) wrote: "The style of the whole is a charming anachronism when one considers the development of the previous two decades - case with three flats in a naïve Gothic, black-headed stop knobs with square shanks, and paper labels above."
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Image Location
Latitude
52.260608
Longitude
-0.170366