Nigel Church was a British organ builder based in Stamfordham, Northumberland from 1971 to 1998
He started building organs as Church and Company in Stamfordham in 1971 and concentrated on new build organs with mechanical action.
Although some restoratons of older organs were undertaken (mostly in the area around Durham near their workshop) Church's small organ-building company gradually became best known for effective design of small organs (of one or two manuals) in the neo-baroque style then fashionable, often featuring modernist architectural design and casework - in strong contrast to the elaborate, noble and grand post-Victorian aesthetics of most of Britain's organ stock. As such, the firm's legacy constitutes a modest but important ingredient in the spread of the 20th Century European Organ reform movement into the UK.
The firm ceased trading in 2000. Many of Church's organs are still in regular use.
Newcastle Royal Grammar School 1973St Willibrord with All Saints, Newcastle upon Tyne 1974St Paul’s Church, Winlaton, Durham 1974All Saints’ Church, The Oval, Pin Green, Stevenage 1974St Michael's Church, Breaston 1975 now in English Martyrs Church, Alvaston, DerbyshireSt James and St Basil’s Church, Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne 1975The Church of the Holy Saviour, Lemington, Tyne and Wear 1975Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Hucknall 1976 then at Sedbergh School - now at SS Peter & Paul RC Church, LincolnSt George’s Church, Hartlepool 1976Trent College Chapel, Nottingham 1976St Matthew’s Church, Newcastle upon Tyne 1977St Giles' Church, Sandiacre 1977St Mary's Church, Disley, Cheshire 1977Saxon Church, Escomb, Durham 1977St Peter ad Vincula, Thornaby-on-Tees 1978St Michael's church, Coxwold, North Yorkshire 1978Church of Our Lady and St Columba, Wallsend 1979St Helen’s Church, Hoveton, Norfolk 1979St John of Beverley School, Beverley, Humberside 1979St Robert of Newminster, Morpeth, Northumberland 1980United Reformed Church, Aston Tirrold, Berkshire 1980St Edward the Confessor, Dringhouses, Yorkshire 1980St Mary's Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne 1981Houston and Killellan Kirk, Strathclyde 1981St Joseph’s Church, Cookham Road, Maidenhead 1981St Hugh of Lincoln, Timperley, Greater Manchester 1981Hartley Hall of Residence, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester 1981St Mary’s Church, Harborne, Birmingham 1982St James’ Church, Inverleith Row, Edinburgh 1982St Mary Magdalene's Church, Trimdon 1982Priory Church of St Hilda, Sneaton Castle 1983St Mary the Virgin, Denham, Buckinghamshire 1983Lylesand Church Paisley, Strathclyde 1983St Alban’s Church, Chester Road, Macclesfield 1983Arley Hall Chapel, Cheshire 1983St George’s Church, Wigan 1984All Saints’ Church, Friern Barnet, London 1984Liverpool Cathedral 1984Christ Church, Chilwell 1984Holy Trinity Church, Old Bewick 1986Barnard Castle School Chapel, Durham 198655 Courthill Avenue, Glasgow 1987Chetham’s School, Greater Manchester 1987St Thomas of Aquin and Stephen Harding, Market Drayton 1987Birmingham Conservatoire 1987St Joseph’s Church, Westgate, Wetherby 1987
