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Southwark Cathedral. Southwark Cathedral (/ ˈsʌðərk / ⓘ SUDH-ərk) [1] or The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark, London, lies near the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge. It is the mother church of the Diocese of Southwark. It has been a place of Christian worship for more than ...
As an organ scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, between 1973 and 1976, he pursued his organ studies with Gillian Weir and Flor Peeters. [2] Wright was sub-organist of Guildford Cathedral and, from 1989 to 2019, served as organist and director of music at Southwark Cathedral .
The Metropolitan Cathedral Church of St George, usually known as St George's Cathedral, Southwark, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark, south London, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Southwark. The cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Province of Southwark which covers the Archdiocese of Southwark ...
The pipe organ of Chester Cathedral. The following list contains information about organists at Church of England cathedrals in England. The cathedrals of England have a long history of liturgical music, often played on or accompanied by the organ. The role of the cathedral organist is a salaried appointment, the organist often also serving as ...
The organ which provides music and accompanies the choir may be located on the screen, or may be in the gallery above the choir, or in a transept. Some churches have an organ loft at the west end of the church. These are usually a later addition to medieval churches; large examples had portative organs, often several. [37]
Lewis & Co. Lewis and Company was a firm of organ builders founded by Thomas Christopher Lewis (1833–1915), one of the leading organ builders of late 19th-century Britain. [1] Lewis Organ in St Paul's Melbourne. Lewis Organ in Glasgow 's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Born in London in 1833, the son of Thomas Archdeacon Lewis (1780 ...
Southwark. Christ's Chapel of God's Gift is a church in Dulwich, a district of London, within the College of God's Gift complex. [1] It was consecrated in 1616 by George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, as the centre of Edward Alleyn 's College of God's Gift which was to be established in 1619. It is one of two churches in the parish of Dulwich ...
The Southwark Cathedral Merbecke Choir was established in late 2003 to provide a choir for ex-cathedral choristers (boys and girls) to continue singing. [1] It also comprises other young singers - often ex-choral scholars from university college choirs and student singers based in London. The Merbecke Choir is the only amateur chamber choir ...