page_title: Warrington Cavaillé-Coll Organ
section_title: Bracewell Hall
hierarchical_section_title: Warrington Cavaillé-Coll Organ / History / Bracewell Hall
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Second orgue de John Hopwood dans l'atelier d'Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, avenue de Maine (gravure publié dans L'Illustration [XXVIII], n° 1411, 12 mars 1870, p. 195
context_page_description: The Warrington Cavaillé-Coll Organ is housed in Parr Hall in Warrington. It is one of the few surviving pipe organs in the UK that were built by the French organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.
context_section_description: The organ was originally built in 1870 for Mr John Turner Hopwood, a lawyer and Liberal MP for Clitheroe, and was installed in his house at Bracewell Hall, Barnoldswick, Lancashire (demolished 1950). According to reports in The Musical World the completion of the organ - which cost more than £3,000 - was commemorated with three days of organ recitals by Dr William Spark the civic organist of Leeds.
  The large music room (in which the organ is placed) [... is] 63 feet long, 25 feet wide and 30 feet high. Nothing can be finer than the view of the organ as you approach it from the dining room, rising, as it does, to the very roof, and occupying the whole breadth of the western end. The pipes in the front towers of the noble looking case of Gothic style, are made of pure tin, having the appearance of burnished silver.
caption: The organ (in 1870) displayed in the demonstration hall of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in Paris prior to its delivery to Bracewell Hall.
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