Our Organ

St Michael and All Angels, Hinton Admiral has an outstanding organ. Built in 1874 by the leading British organ builder, Hill & Son, it is an organ eminently capable of performing all its roles in the church with aplomb, and is a first-rate musical instrument.

It is very remarkable the organ has survived without any significant alteration over the years, being in the same state Hill left it. As such, it is an organ of significant historic value and interest and should be carefully maintained as such. 

The organ is now in need of cleaning, overhaul and minor repairs, commensurate with the routine "servicing" organs need every 25-40 years. The organ was last "serviced" in the early 1970s so this work is now overdue. 

The Hill & Son organ at St. Michaels is an entirely characteristic and effectively unaltered example of their work. All the characteristic details of Hill's work survive, including all the pipework, soundboards, key and stop action, console, casework and wind system. The console retains all its period Hill features, including the tinted stop shields Hill employed from the late 1860s through the 1870s, with their characteristic block capital serif font, the straight flat pedalboard to E and trigger swell pedal. The appearance of the organ is very splendid, with richly decorated pipes including gold relief, held up by wrought ironwork, which is very characteristic of the period