Organ looking for new home - St George Church, Hurstpierpoint

[trustams]

Due to recent Church sale and possible conversion to dwelling, this organ maybe looking for a new home. If anyone is interested or wants to know more please get in touch.

Here are the details courtesy of the NPOR

http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D06968

Thanks

[Janner]

Unfortunately the NPOR has little information apart from a reasonable, though not close up, photograph. It's difficult to tell from that, but it gives the impression of being a moderately sized instrument for a relatively small building.

Any further details?

[trustams]

I will try to gather more details / photos etc and get them posted up here....

[EdwardDean]

"The final service was held on the feast of the martyrdom of James Hannington in October 2008 in the presence of the parish family and of many members of the Hannington family." http://www.achurchnearyou.com/hurstpierpoint-st-george/

[EdwardDean]

Furthermore, the National Archives have documents of 'Correspondence, estimate and receipt concerning an organ for St. George's Church, 1901-1902', and these are held at the West Sussex Record Office in Chichester. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=182-par4_2&cid=9-4-22#9-4-22

These are the only relevant pieces of information that I could source online.

Best,


ED

[trustams]

Having spoken with the new owner of the church, the organ is looking more and more like it will be simply pulled and dismantled. He has tight deadlines on the new conversion and is not able to meet with the proposed timescale for advertising / recording its current state. That said it was manually pumped and played over the weekend, so unless there is someone who can act quickly and remove it for themselves, it looks like this piece will be lost. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!  :(