The Organ
LSM boasts a new organ by Kenneth Tickell & Co. of Northampton installed in 2007. Detailed technical
information, along with some more photographs, is available on Tickell's site. The organ is of traditional tracker action, with electric stop action. The Great organ as well as the Pedal Principals are in the case built in the 1970s for the previous organ, but the Swell organ and the larger pedal ranks are in the choir room on the south side of the church, which housed the organ before 1978.
The Swell speaks through the open window tracery which lies behind the casework. The Great organ has 7 stops, including a Trumpet 8 and mounted Cornet IV which provides colour together with the main chorus. The Swell organ contains a secondary principal chorus, a pair of flutes, a narrow scaled Sesquialtera which can combine with either the principals or reeds, a pair of strings, and 16ft and 8ft reeds.
All this provides versatile resources for both choral accompaniment and organ repertoire, as well as firm congregational accompaniment. The pedal organ has soundboards in the rear case for the larger 16ft ranks, while the Principals 8ft and 4ft, and shared Trumpet, play from the Great soundboard, providing good definition.
Photographs of the new organ during the construction process can be found
on LSM's photograph
site.
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