Job number: A408

Christ Church, Walmsley near Bolton, Lancashire is one such place where an organ of cinema origin can be found in a church that retains much of its original character.

The organ was installed in the late 1960s by Ronald Curtis of cinema organ fame to replace a previous instrument. The console and some of the pipework was originally at the Odeon cinema in Bolton with other pipework coming from other redundant Compton cinema organs including the Paramount cinema in Liverpool.

Although the essential cinema ranks such as a Tibia and Vox Humana are no longer on this instrument, their is a Glockenspiel percussion stop which can be heard in this video.

The console is located on the left hand side of the church by the choir with the pipework fully enclosed in a chamber on the right hand side originally used by the previous instrument.

The specification reads:

PEDAL
Acoustic Bass 32'
Tuba Bass 16'
Diapason 16'
Bourdon 16'
Trumpet 8'
Tuba 8'
Diapason 8'
Bass Flute 8'
Violoncello 8'
Flute 8'
Flute 4'
Accompaniment to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Solo to Pedal

ACCOMPANIMENT
Clarinet 16'
Contra Viola 16'
Bourdon 16'
Trumpet 8'
Tuba 8'
Diapason 8'
Claribel Flute 8'
Clarinet 8'
Viola 8'
Viole Celeste 8'
Flute 8'
Clarion 4'
Octave 4'
Claribel Flute 4'
Clarinet 4'
Flute 4'
Violin 4'
Violin Celeste 4'
Viola Twelfth 2.2/3'
Violette 2'
Flautino 2'

GREAT
Contra Tuba 16'
Diapason 16'
Bourdon 16'
Trumpet 8'
Tuba 8'
Diapason 8'
Claribel Flute 8'
Clarinet 8'
Viola 8'
Viole Celeste 8'
Flute 8'
Trumpet 4'
Clarion 4'
Octave 4'
Claribel Flute 4'
Flute 4'
Violin 4'
Violin Celeste 4'
Twelfth 2.2/3'
Fifteenth 2'
Flautino 2'
Tierce 1.3/5'
Larigot 1.1/3'
Twenty Second 1'
Glockenspiel 4'
Solo to Great

SOLO
Double Trumpet 16'
Diapason 16'
Trumpet 8'
Tuba 8'
Diapason 8'
Clarinet 8'
Trumpet 4'
Tuba 4'
Octave 4'
Sub Octave
Unison Off
Octave
Great to Solo

ACCESSORIES
8 thumb pistons to Accompaniment
8 thumb pistons to Great
6 thumb pistons to Solo
6 toe pistons to Pedal
2 tremulants
2 balanced expression pedals - organ
1 balanced expression pedal - crescendo
1 setter thumb piston
1 general cancel thumb piston