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Towcester Town Hall

Tour of St. Lawrence's Church, Towcester

The Organ


Image of organ  


The present organ was installed in 1978 from the redundant church of St Edmund in Northampton. It was manufactured in 1886 by Hill of London.

The previous "Pomfret Organ" was damaged by fire in 1976 and remains in the Victoria & Albert museum awaiting sufficient allocation of funds to permit its restoration. It was a highly ornamented piece of woodwork and was given by the Earl of Pomfret in 1817, and was originally in William Beckford's Fonthill Abbey.



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This page is from the Towcester and District Local History Society website.
Acknowledgements and a full list of sources and references can be found [here].
The section was last updated on 4th May 2007

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