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Name
  
George England


Died
  
1816

George Pike England

George Pike England (ca.1765–1816) was one of the main organ builders in England during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Life

He was the son of George England (organ-builder) and Mary Blasdale. He married Ann Wilson on 13 Oct 1789 in St Pancras Parish Church.

Career

He left a list of the organs he built in an extant account book. They are those of:

  • St. George's Chapel; Portsmouth Common, 1788
  • St James's Church, Clerkenwell, and Fetter Lane Chapel, 1790
  • Warminster Church, and Adelphi Chapel, 1791
  • Gainsborough Church, Lincolnshire, 1793
  • Newington Church, Surrey, and Blandford Forum Church, 1794
  • St Peter's, Carmarthen, 1796
  • St Margaret Lothbury, 1801
  • Sardinian Embassy Chapel, 1802
  • Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, 1803
  • Sheffield Parish Church, St. Philip's, Birmingham, and St Martin Outwich, 1805
  • Hinckley Parish Church, 1808
  • St Thomas' Church, Stourbridge; Richmond, Yorkshire; Lancaster Priory, 1809
  • Shiffnall, Salop, and Ulverston, 1811
  • St Mary's Church, Islington, 1812

    • For a short while before his death, Joseph William Walker (1802–1870) was apprenticed to him. He later founded the company of J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd.

    References

    George Pike England Wikipedia
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