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Organ case in
St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham by Thomas Swarbrick of 1715
Thomas Swarbrick (c. 1675 – c. 1753) (sometime Schwarbrook) was an organ builder active in England in the eighteenth century.
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History
He learned his trade as an apprentice to the famous builder
Renatus Harris . He appears to be working on his own by 1706 when he rebuilt an organ in St Alphege’s Church, Greenwich.
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His most famous organ is that in St Michael’s Church, Coventry of 1733.
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His nephew, Henry Swarbrick, was organist of
Hereford Cathedral from 1720 to 1754.
Works
1703
St Saviour's Church, Southwark
1705
All Saints' Church, Northampton
1706
St Alphege’s Church, Greenwich
1710 Residence of
Other Windsor, 2nd Earl of Plymouth , Bromsgrove
1713
St Nicholas' Church, Bristol
1714 St Michael's Church, Minehead
1715
St Philip's Church, Birmingham
1716
St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
1717
St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Warwick
1718
St Cuthbert's Church, Wells
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1719 Vicar's Hall, Wells
1723
St Mary Magdalene's Church, Launceston
1725
St Martin's Church, Birmingham (transferred to
St. Alphege's Church, Solihull )
1731
Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon
1732
Southwell Minster
1733
St Michael's Church, Coventry
1735
Lincoln Cathedral (repairs)
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1736
Magdalen College, Oxford
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1737 St Nicholas Church, Stanford on Avon
1739 St Thomas' Church, Salisbury
1740
Lichfield Cathedral
1742
St Mary's Church, Nottingham (case now in
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Uppingham )
1744
Christ Church, Bristol
1744
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shepton Mallet
1752
Worcester Cathedral (repairs)
References
^ The English Organ. Stephen Bicknell. Cambridge University Press. 1999
^ The Organ: An Encyclopedia. Douglas Earl Bush, Richard Kassel. Psychology Press, 2006
^ The Organ. Hopkins and Rimbault. 1855
^ A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England: William Sweetland of Bath. Gordon D. W. Curtis, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2011
^ A History of Lincoln Minster, Dorothy Owen, CUP Archive, 1994
^ The Lives and Works of William and Philip Hayes, Simon Heighes. Taylor & Francis, 1995