Stapleford
St Helen

Organ

1877

At the time of the 1877 renovation a new organ was presented to the church by Mrs J Whiteley. This was built by C Lloyd and Co of Nottingham. Charles Lloyd was a pipe organ builder who flourished in Nottingham between 1859 and 1909. One of his achievements was to win a gold medal award for an organ that he constructed for the Birmingham Trade Exhibition in 1865.

The organ installed in Stapleford was enclosed in a stained and varnished deal case and contained the following stops as described by Scattergood:

Great Organ: CC to G (56 notes)
  Open diapason
  Stop bass
  Keraulauphon Harmonic flute
  Principal
  Three spare slides
Swell Organ: CC to G (56 notes)
  Salcinal
  Vox Angelica
  Fifteenth
  Oboe
Pedal Organ: CCC to E
  Bourdon
Couplers
  Great to Pedal
  Swell to Pedal
  Swell to Great
Two composition pedals

1901

At a vestry meeting on the 7th October 1901 it was resolved to buy a new organ for £450 and in September 1902 a Faculty was obtained for selling the organ, providing a new one and altering the organ chamber. It is not stated why the old organ – only twenty four years old – was not satisfactory.

Today

Today (in 2011) there is no fixed organ at St Helen’s. The Allen electronic organ was removed during the refurbishment in 2008, and the church was using a Yamaha Clavinova in 2011.