St Peter's School
Cambridge

Lawton & Osborne 1936 (3/40 electric)

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The main school buildings at St Peter's School were designed by the noted inter-war architect Roy Alston Lippincott. The school was established in 1936 by an English textile millionaire Arthur Francis Broadhurst, who expressed a desire for the buildings to appear distinctively English and to harmonise well with the local landscape. While concrete was used for many of the buildings, the free-standing cruciform chapel is of timber, with the organ sited in the left hand transept.

The organ was built in 1936 by Lawton & Osborne, of Onehunga and Aberdeen, Scotland. Originally built with tubular-pneumatic action, this has been electrified by the Croft firm under Kenneth Aplin, but the instrument overall remains a rare surviving example of the firm's work that has not sustained major alterations and of considerable interest for its generous tonal scheme and romantic voicing.

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Lawton & Osborne 1936 (3/40 electric)

GREAT Double Diapason Open Diapason I Open Diapason II Claribel Flute Dulciana Principal Suabe Flute Twelfth Fifteenth Mixture Trumpet SWELL Lieblich Bourdon Open Diapason Lieblich Gedackt Echo Gamba Voix Celeste Gemshorn Lieblich Flute Mixture Horn Oboe CHOIR (enclosed) Wald Flute Viol d'Orchestre Salicional Harmonic Flute Clarinet CHOIR (duplexed) Diapason Principal Trumpet Clarion PEDAL Acoustic Bass Open Wood Open Metal Bourdon Minor Bourdon Principal Bass Flute Fifteenth Trumpet Trumpet 8 couplers

16 8 8 8 8 4 4 2-2/3 2 III 8 16 8 8 8 8 4 4 III 8 8 8 8 8 4 8 8 4 8 4 32 16 16 16 16 8 8 4 16 8

A B prep. C D B B C C A E D E C prep. C

Detached drawknob console

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Peter Shaw, A History of New Zealand Architecture. 2nd ed. s.l.: Hodder Moa Beckett, c.1999, pp 124-5.
Michael Cox, An organ tour of the Waikato Region by the Auckland Organists' Association Saturday 13th October 2001, Organ News vol 37 no 4 (February 2002) pp.83-84.