Focus 6: Christ Church Linthwaite

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FOCUS: CHRIST CHURCH, LINTHWAITE

Christ Church Linthwaite, Huddersfield

Built: 1920 for Linthwaite Methodist Church by J.J. Binns
Rebuilt: 1992 for Christ Church by Wood of Huddersfield
Action: Electro-Pneumatic
Manuals: 3 (61 notes), 30 note pedalboard
Noteable features: A good deal of spotted metal pipework, which is unusual for Binns.
Location in Church: West Gallery
Organist: Rodney Pearson, BA FTCL FLCM

Pedal

  1  Bourdon                    16         
  2  Open Diapason              16          
  3  Bass Flute                 8         
  4  Octave                     8         
  5  Fifteenth                  4
  6  Flute                      4 
  7  Trumpet                    8
  8  Trombone                   16
     Choir to Pedal
     Great to Pedal
     Swell to Pedal
     Gt & Pd Combs Coupled
     Generals on Swell Toe Pistons

Choir (Enclosed)

  9  Lieblich Gedacht           8         
 10  Viol d'Orchestra           8     
 11  Flauto Traverso            4         
 12  Flautino                   2
 13  Sesquialtera               12:17
 14  Vox Humana                 8
 15  Clarinet                   8
 16  Tromba (from Great)        8
     Tremulant        
     Swell to Choir

Great

 17  Bourdon                    16
 18  Open Diapason              8        
 19  Hohl Flute                 8          
 20  Flute Harmonique           4          
 21  Principal                  4               
 22  Twelfth                    2 2/3        
 23  Fifteenth                  2        
 24  Mixture                    22:26:29     
 25  Tromba                     8
     Swell to Great
     Choir to Great

Swell

Enclosed

 26  Open Diapason              8       
 27  Rohr Flute                 8       
 28  Salicional                 8
 29  Voix Celestes (c13)        8
 30  Principal                  4         
 31  Fifteenth                  2         
 32  Mixture             15:19:22     
 33  Oboe                       8
 34  Cornopean                  8        
 35  Contra Fagotto            16  
     Tremulant
     Octave

Pistons:: 8 thumb pistons to Swell, Great and Choir. 8 toe pistons to Great (and/or Pedal) and Swell (or Generals). 8 General pistons. General Cancel. Set piston. 8 levels of combined general/divisional memory. Switch (with lock) disabling the heavy reeds and mixtures.