The Chapel Organ

The present organ was provided in 1708 by Charles Quarles, then organist of Trinity College. It is almost certain that the organ was made by the famous "Father" Smith — certainly the surviving pipework is his, and the cases are typical of his work. Over the years, the organ had been gradually extended and had become so heavy that by 1977 a collapse of the Wren gallery was imminent.

A substantial rebuild of the organ was carried out by N. P. Mander Ltd. in 1980. The need for reducing the size of the organ provided the opportunity of reconstituting an authentic Smith organ. The actual Smith organ had a Great organ of eight stops and a Chaire organ of four stops. In the rebuild, the Great was enlarged by one and the Chaire by two stops. A Pedal organ, which would not have existed in any seventeenth or early eighteenth-century English organ, was added for practical reasons. The action is mechanical.

Couplers etc: Chaire to Great; Great to Pedal; Chaire to Pedal; Tremulant.

Compasses: Manuals: AA, C - g'''
Pedal: C - f'.

* Indicates surviving Smith pipework.