page_title: Merton College Chapel
section_title: Modern era
hierarchical_section_title: Merton College Chapel / Modern era
caption_attribution_description: English: The organ of Merton College Chapel, Oxford, England.Français&#160;: Orgue de la chapelle du Merton College, à Oxford, en Angleterre.
context_page_description: Merton College Chapel is the church of Merton College, Oxford, England. Dedicated to St Mary and St John the Baptist, the chapel was largely completed in its present form by the end of the 13th century. The building retains a number of original stained glass windows, and is noted for its acoustics. A choral foundation was established in 2008 by Peter Phillips.
context_section_description: A new choral foundation was established in 2008 when Peter Phillips and Benjamin Nicholas were appointed Directors of Music. The College Choir consists of twenty-eight singers, of whom eighteen are choral scholars; there are also two organ scholars. The choir has toured in France (2009 and 2010), in the USA (2011) and in Sweden (2013) and features prominently during Merton's annual festival Passiontide at Merton. The choir's repertoire includes a number of pieces written for it by Howard Skempton, Gabriel Jackson and John Tavener. The college celebrated its 750th anniversary in 2014, when the Merton Choirbook was premiered.
  The College also recently commissioned a new organ to be installed, to coincide with the anniversary celebrations. The organ was built by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders from Lake City, Iowa and arrived in August 2013. It was officially opened at the Organ Festival weekend in April 2014.
  A spire from the chapel has resided in Pavilion Garden VI of the University of Virginia since 1928, when "it was given to the University to honor Jefferson's educational ideals".
caption: The chapel organ
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