page_title: St Martin-in-the-Fields
section_title: List of organists
hierarchical_section_title: St Martin-in-the-Fields / Music / List of organists
caption_attribution_description: English: St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square - West end, near to City of London, Great Britain.
context_page_description: St Martin-in-the-Fields is an English Anglican church at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London. It is dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. There has been a church on the site since at least the medieval period. It was at that time located in the farmlands and fields beyond the London wall, when it was awarded to Westminster Abbey for oversight.
  It became a principal parish church west of the old City in the early modern period as Westminster's population grew. When its old structure was found to be near failure, the present building was constructed in an influential neoclassical design by James Gibbs in 1722–1726. The church is one of the visual anchors adding to the open-urban space around Trafalgar Square.
context_section_description: Organists include:
  John Weldon 1714–1736
  Joseph Kelway 1736–1781 (formerly organist of St Michael, Cornhill)
  Benjamin Cooke 1781–1793
  Robert Cooke 1793–1814 (son of Benjamin Cooke)
  Thomas Forbes Gerrard Walmisley 1814–1854
  William Thomas Best 1852–1855?
  W.H. Adams, appointed 1857
  H.W.A. Beale
  William John Kipps 1899–1924
  Martin Shaw 1920–1924
  Arnold Goldsborough 1924–1935
  John Alden 1935–1938
  Stanley Drummond Wolff 1938–1946
  John Churchill 1949–1967
  Eric Harrison  1967–1968
  Robert Vincent 1968–1977 (later organist of Manchester Cathedral)
  Christopher Stokes 1977–1989 (later Director of Music, St. Margaret's Westminster Abbey and Organist & Master of the Choristers Manchester Cathedral)
  Mark Stringer 1989–1996 (currently Director of Music, Wells Cathedral School, Wells UK, since April 2015; Executive Director Trinity College London, 1997–2012; sometime Director of Music, Methodist Central Hall, Westminster)
  Paul Stubbings 1996–2001 (later Director of Music, St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh)
  Nick Danks 2001–2008
  Andrew Earis 2009 –
caption: West end and organ by J. W. Walker
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