The Organ (left, click to enlarge the image) has made a huge difference to our worship and concerts. It was played formally for the first time – and blessed by the Lord Bishop of London – at a special service of Thanksgiving on 26th September 2013. You can hear it every week in our Sunday services and every month in our First Friday Lunchtime Organ Music.
The organ was built in Switzerland by the specialist firm La Manufacture d’Orgues St Martin. It has 1,667 pipes, many of which were sponsored by individuals and groups under the church’s Pipe Up! appeal. Other funds were raised from the Bedford Park Festival, fund-raising Balls and a Hymnathon.
Work began in July 2012 and our new organ was ready for its first performance in September 2013, after more than six years’ planning and fundraising. It was a huge project in terms of the time it took to make detailed plans and carry them out; to raise the considerable funds; and then build and instal it.
You can read more about the History of St Michael & All Angels on this page, and see more pictures, on St Michael’s World War 1 Project website, the Victorian Web website and the Bedford Park page of this website.