Compton Small Church Pipe Organs - a miscellany by Chris Lawton

A collection of some of my videos of me playing small church pipe organs built by the John Compton Organ Company Ltd. All of the instruments in this video are pure Compton and fully enclosed built on the extension principal.

The following instruments can be seen in this video:

Borough Welsh Chapel, Southwark, London
2 manual 4 rank built in around 1950
'Come, risen Lord and be our guest today'

St Andrew's Church, Muswell Hill, London
2 manual 6 rank built in 1950
'Lord of the boundless curves of space'

St James Church, Elmers End, Croydon
2 manual 4 rank built in 1935
'Bread is blessed and broken'

Raleigh Road United Church, Richmond
2 manual 4 rank built in 1934 for Royal Hospital Chapel in Chelsea. Moved here in 1980.
'Breathe on me, breath of God'

Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Worthing
2 manual 4 rank built in 1937
'Come, let us sing of a wonderful love'

All Saint's Church, Penarth
2 manual 6 rank built in 1954
'Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise'

St John's Church, Dudley Wood
2 manual 5 rank built in 1937
'Baptise us with your spirit'

All Saint's Church, Intake, Doncaster
2 manual 4 rank built in 1958
'I want to walk with Jesus Christ'

Tower Hill Methodist Church, Hessle, Hull
2 manual 4 rank built in the 1950s for Oxted Congregational Church, Surrey. Moved here in 2001.
'Spread the table of the Lord'

Holy Trinity, Eggleston, County Durham
2 manual 4 rank built in 1948/49
'Jesus, stand among us'

Carmyle Church, Glasgow
2 manual 4 rank built in 1950
'God give us life'

For more information on the John Compton Organ Company Ltd and to see me play other Compton organs, please click on the following link for my site dedicated to the John Compton Organ Company Ltd:

http://comptonorgans.yolasite.com/

REQUEST: I am always on the lookout for Compton organs to play - particularly electrones - so if you know of any churches which still have these then please do let me know. I will happily give a donation or pay any applicable room hire charge.

If you have an interest in Compton organs then I invite you to join my facebook group at:

  / comptonorgans