Saturday 17th November – Visit to the Organ of St Mary de Lode, Gloucester

The event originally advertised for the following Saturday has had to be postponed but we are fortunate to have been offered a visit to the historic organ at St Mary de Lode. This organ was originally built in 1780 in a splendid mahogany case with a front a three towers and two intervening flats. The towers are surmounted by a crown and vases. Before 1831, a short compass Swell was added with a nag’s head type of shutter as a later addition. John Budgen restored the instrument in 2003 and provided an old English specificaton of some note.