Wellington Methodist Church, Telford, Shropshire
In November 2004, the Methodist family moved into their new modern, multi-occupancy building at the heart of the community. The new Wellington Methodist Church and Centre is a spacious suite of premises which caters for almost every kind of activity; having a bias towards being a church for all ages and circumstances.
The organ was commissioned early in the planning stages, and we were able to have full involvement in these plans including perfect positioning of the two independent sets of speaker cabinets (one in the main body of the church and the other in the Sanctuary area, and controlled by a switch on the console).
The regular position for the console is, as can be seen on the left, on the North side of the church.
The organ is a two manual with 37 speaking stops.
The organist of the church wrote to us recently regarding the organ, and has very kindly allowed us to reprint his letter in full:
"Decisions regarding the organ in our new church were taken before I was appointed, but I have to say that I am delighted with the instrument chosen. The richness of sound gives tremendous support to our congregational singing, and the range and voicing of the specification is most convincing in our well attended lunchtime organ concerts. There is no need to yearn for that extra stop since the generous built-in library caters for every situation.
The organ at Telford is well worth a visit and anyone is warmly invited to come and play it.
Michael Davey MA, FRCO
Double Diapason 16
Open Diapason 8
Contra Bourdon 32 Alterable Voice Swell
to Great 8
Pistons to Great
Full range speakers Hall and Sanctuary Features Two Expression Pedals
Great Organ
Open Diapason 8
Stopped Diapason 8
Dulciana 8
Principal 4
Flute 4
Twelfth 2 2/3
Fifteenth 2
Blockflute 2
Sesquialtera II Alteralble Voice
Mixture IV
Orchestral Trumpet 8 Alterable Voice
Trumpet 8
Clarinet 8
Swell Organ
Chimney Flute 8
Echo Gamba 8
Voix Celeste 8
Principal 4
Rohr Flute 4
Fifteenth 2
Larigot 1 1/3 Alterable Voice
Mixture III
Scharf III Alterable Voice
Contra Fagotto 16
Cornopean 8
Oboe 8
Clarion 4
Pedal Organ
Open Diapason 16
Subbass 16
Bourdon 16
Octave 8
Gedackt 8
Choral Bass 4
Trombone 16
Trumpet 8 Alterable Voice
Couplers
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Swell Tremulant
Great Tremulant
Gt & Pd Pistons Coupled
Auto Pedal
Pistons
8 Pistons to Swell
8 General Pistons
3 Reversers
Set & Cancel Pistons
16 Memory Levels
Stop sequencer system with 16 pages and 8 steps per page
Sequencer Advance thumb piston in Swell key slip
Audio
5 channel amplification
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
Romantic / classical voicing selector by piston control
12 different tuning Temperaments
Theatre Tremulant switch
Headphone socket
Transposer and fine tuning control
Organ Console finished in light oak