We removed this 1871 Hill organ from St. Phillip's Church,
Battersea in 1992, restored it and then erected on the extended
gallery of Reading School Chapel in 1993. We had to be clever to
rework the organ around the roof beam which passes through the great
organ.
The work has included the restoration of cone tuning
and the reprovision of a tracker pedal action, together with the
repolishing of the casework and regilding of the facade pipes. The
organ retains its original straight pedal board, combination action
and trigger swell pedal. The great mixture has been completed to IV
ranks as originally 'prepared for'. This manual action was restored
as Hill made it, and is somewhat heavy when the Swell to Great
Octave and Swell to Great Sub Octave are used!