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The Organ of St.Peter's Parkstone
The organ of 1888
The alterations of 1915
The 1930 rebuild
The 1982 rebuild
The alterations of 2000
Pictures
The Organ of St.Peter's Parkstone was exhibited by Bryceson Brothers in the Inventors' Exhibition of 1885. It was one of the first instruments in the country to employ electric action. In 1888 it was purchased by the Revd Septimus Pontifex, a curate of St.Peter's, who presented the instrument to the church in memory of his mother. At that stage the present church was half complete, the earlier church of 1833 having been demolished and the new building of 1870 being thirteen years away from completion. Bryceson Brothers installed the instrument with electro-pneumatic action. The Choir, Swell and Pedal divisions were installed, but the Great was never completed. One reason for this may have been that instrument was installed in the organ chamber, high up in the Triforium on the North side of the choir. It is thought that the Great would have been in an identical case on the south side where there would have been space. In the end, the cost of a Triforium for the whole church proved too much and was never completed. Any space for the Great on the South side never materialised. The specification for this organ was as follows:
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