Organ matters - Organs matter!

http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=P00718

Is this it?

http://www.willis-organs.com/newcastle_general.html

The RC church of St Peter's Cobridge (Potteries) has closed and its 1953 Willis has been remodelled and rebuilt only a few miles away in Newcastle under Lyme.
The project is nearing completion. I must say that I think the quality and voicing of the pipework is excellent.

There are two redundant Methodist instruments on eBay at the moment.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VICTORIAN-CHURCH-PIPE-ORGAN-/170985238430?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item27cf83af9e

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANOTHER-VICTORIAN-CHURCH-PIPE-ORGAN-Tracker-action-/170987490188?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item27cfa60b8c

Ah - I think I should step in before we go off on a tangent about the digital alternative. St Mary's has a second pipe organ - fully working - installed only a few years ago from a redundant Methodist chapel. It's a smaller instrument but it is capable of accompanying the liturgy quite well. The parish priest at the time grasped the opportunity to acquire this instrument as he knew he could never raise enough money to restore the Jardine.

Quote from: matt h
Could you give a bit more info on the state of the organ please.......

I have now been to visit and the answer is "not good" (something of an understatement).

Quote from: revtonynewnham
Peter - can you send the info to NPOR please.

Have now done so.
Blessings to you too.

Organ in an RC church in North Staffordshire available. Church now closed for worship.

Two manuals (61 note) and pedals (30 note). Organ installed and rebuilt/remodelled (from a Methodist church) in the late 1960s/early 1970s by Oakes. Swell - mechanical action. Great - pneumatic. Pedals - electric. Organ is not listed on NPOR.

Great - 888844 2 2/3 2 1 3/5 1 1/3  Swell 88884288 8ve coupler  Pedal 16(metal) 16 10 2/3 8 4  usual couplers

Swell mechanical action needs a lot of attention.

Church is secure but open to the elements to cure rot in the roof. Rot, as far as I can see, has not affected the organ.
Instrument free to a good home. Any interest and I can probably arrange for a faculty to be granted for removal quite quickly.

Matt - I shall visit the church within the next two weeks and try to assess the damage.  I think the timescale will be around six months or so. More information when I have it.

Hello everyone. I'm new here. With three other colleagues, I try to help the parishes of the RC Archdiocese of Birmingham in matters organic.

This two-manual Jardine is in a state of dereliction. It has not played for several decades (fallen roof debris and water damage etc...  - all rather sad).
http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N03272

A faculty application to have the instrument removed (scrapped?) is imminent.

Yes, the instrument could simply be mothballed but the parish would never have funds sufficient to restore it.
All suggestions as to secure some sort of future for the organ - even if only the pipework - welcome. Thank you.