St Bartholemew's Church, Binley, Warwickshire
The Parish of Binley is part of the Diocese of Coventry, and is situated towards the eastern edge of the City. Its boundary stretches beyond that of the city into the county of Warwickshire.
The present Church is relatively modern, being built in the 1770's, and is dedicated to St Bartholomew.
The pipe organ was a 7 stop two-manual instrument by J. Charles Lee and is undated. It was situated in the North aisle, and was replaced many years ago by an electronic instrument.
The new Eminent organ (installed late December 2007) has 32 speaking stops with two on each division capable of drawing alterable voices from the built-in library. The light oak console is in the North transept, and the speaker systems are mounted on the West end wall in specially designed curved timber cabinets. Both Swell and Great are under expression with independent swell pedals.
A mobile speaker system is due to be installed shortly - this will allow a flexible solution for accompanying the choir, and will be switchable at the console.
More Photos will appear on the left in due course:
The church from the South-West
Open Diapason 8
Open Diapason 8
Open Diapason 16 Swell
to Great 8
Pistons to Great 5 Audio
channels Features Two Expression Pedals
Great Organ
Harmonic Flute 8
Dulciana 8
Principal 4
Flute 4
Twelfth 2 2/3 Alterable Voice
Fifteenth 2
Blockflute 2
Mixture IV
Trumpet 8
Clarinet 8 Alterable Voice
Swell Organ
Stopped Diapason 8
Echo Gamba 8
Voix Celeste 8
Gemshorn 4
Rohr Flute 4
Fifteenth 2
Tierce 1 3/5 Alterable Voice
Mixture III
Contra Fagotto 16
Oboe 8 Alterable Voice
Clarion 4
Tremulant
Pedal Organ
Subbass 16
Bourdon 16 Alterable Voice
Octave 8
Gedackt 8
Fagotto 16
Trumpet 8 Alterable Voice
Couplers
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Gt & Pd Pistons Coupled
Auto Pedal
Pistons
8 Pistons to Swell
8 General Pistons
3 Reversers
Set & Cancel Pistons
Stop sequencer system with 16 pages and 8 steps per page
Sequencer Advance thumb piston in Swell key slip
Adjustable bench
Audio
Full range speakers west wall
Alternative Voicing Programme
64-Stop Library
Alesis reverberation unit (characteristics selectable via keyboard commands)
Wind noise and wind robbing effects
Full MIDI interface
Multi LED display showing capture system status, library stop selection and sequencer function
12 different tuning Temperaments
Theatre Tremulant switch
Headphone socket
Transposer and fine tuning control
Two additional alterable-voice specifications controlled by pistons (German and French)
Five different tunings for celeste
14 speed and 8 depth variations for tremulants
Organ Console finished in light oak