Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2020-11-02 - In 1838 Christ Church constructed a significant expansion of the building-- the original church became the transepts and the building was expanded with the present nave. Famed author James Fenimore Cooper, an advocate of the new gothic style, pushed for a gothic revival interior treatment and either paid for or heavily subsidized the new gothic rood screen. A stock model one-manual organ with gothic case was purchased from Henry Erben. Existing examples of this style instrument have between 5 and 7 stops. The organ replaced the church's original 2 1/2 stop organ built ca. 1810 by a local craftsman, which was given to St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in nearby Westford, along with the pulpit, old bible, sterling-silver 18th-century English wall sconces, and 8 clear-glass gothic windows. This church was begun as a mission of Christ Church. When the Erben was replaced with a two-manual Jardine during another enlargement of the chancel ca. 1868, the organ was sold to the Methodist Church in nearby Fly Creek where it existed until the late 1950s when it was replaced with a Conn spinet electronium. The now empty casework housed the organ's speakers. The Erben case, with its gothic finials removed in the 1960s, is still extant in Fly Creek. -Scot Huntington
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