Opening Times

"Early Welcome"

7.30 a.m. on Fridays;

other weekdays 10.30 a.m.

Regular Services

Every Thursday

 (except 1st in month)

 at 1.15 p.m.

HOLY COMMUNION

1st Thursday in month

 at 1.10 p.m.

CHORAL EUCHARIST

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 of services 2008 

Forthcoming Concerts

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Contents

Contact information

All enquiries to the

 Church Administrator,

Mr Geoffrey Webber

Postal Address:

   Rood Lane, Eastcheap

   London EC3M 1HS

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7623 6630

Fax:

 +44 (0)20 7283 2304

  (via Busoga Trust)

Email:

st.m.pattens@btinternet.com               

The Guild Church of St Margaret Pattens

The Organ

St Margaret Pattens does not appear to have had an organ until Thomas Griffin provided one in 1747.  He was paid £150 and given an annuity of £20 per annum for playing and maintaining the organ.  Upon his death his widow was to receive the money, but no responsibility for the organ was to burden her.  Griffin was first paid his annuity in 1750 and this continued until his death in 1771, after which George Griffin appears to have succeeded him as tuner.

G.M. Holdich did work on the organ in 1856, and added Pedal Pipes.  Work projected by Hill in the 1870s included much revoicing, the addition of new stops and a tuning to equal temperament.

Equal temperament came with the complete rebuild by Messrs Forster and Andrews in 1886.   Minor work was carried out by the same firm in 1912, and overhauls were subsequently made in 1946 by J.W. Walker and Son Ltd, and in 1954 by Messrs Rushworth and Dreaper.

The present specification is:

             Information compiled by Rupert Perkins - May 2003