George Pike England (ca.1765 – February 1815) was an English organ builder who was among the most prominent in England during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.[1]
Life
editHe was the son of organ builder George England and Mary Blasdale. He married Ann Wilson on 13 October 1789 in St Pancras parish church. He was buried at St Andrew's, Holborn, after his death in February 1815.[1]
Career
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He left a list of the organs he built in an extant account book. They are those of:
- St. George's Chapel; Portsmouth Common, 1788
- St James's Church, Clerkenwell, and Fetter Lane Chapel, 1790
- Adelphi Chapel, 1791
- Gainsborough Church, Lincolnshire, 1793
- Newington Church, Surrey, and Blandford Forum Church, 1794
- St Peter's, Carmarthen, 1796
- St Margaret Lothbury, 1801
- Sardinian Embassy Chapel, Lincoln's Inn, London, 1802 (demolished)
- Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, 1803
- Sheffield Parish Church, St. Philip's, Birmingham, and St Martin Outwich, 1805
- Hinckley Parish Church, 1808
- St Thomas' Church, Stourbridge; Richmond, Yorkshire; Lancaster Priory, 1809
- Shiffnall, Salop, and Ulverston, 1811
- St Mary's Church, Islington, 1812
The 1809 organ at St Mary the Virgin, Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire is also attributed to him.[2]
England built an organ for Salisbury Cathedral which proved to be insufficiently powerful, and in 1792 was reinstalled in St Denys' Church, Warminster, Wiltshire.[3][4] Its organ case is described by Pevsner as "a delightful piece".[5]
For a short while before his death, Joseph William Walker (1802–1870) was apprenticed to him.[6] Walker later founded the company of J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd.
References
edit- ^ a b "George Pike England (1765?–1814)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780192683120.001.0001/odnb-9780192683120-e-8807 (inactive 1 November 2024). Retrieved 12 January 2019.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) - ^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bishops Cannings (1193298)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 8 pp 117-124 – Warminster: Church". British History Online. University of London. 1965. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Historic England. "Parish Church of St Denys (1364460)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975) [1963]. Wiltshire. The Buildings of England (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 544–545. ISBN 0-14-0710-26-4.
- ^ Historic organs of New South Wales. Graeme David Rushworth. 1988