Forster and Andrews

Forster and Andrews. British organ building company, was formed by James Alderson Forster (1818–1886) and Joseph King Andrews (1820–1896), who had been employees of the London organ builder J. C. Bishop.

They opened the business that bore their name in Hull in 1843. The business developed and became one of the most successful of the North of England organ builders. The business was taken over by John Christie in 1924 and finally wound up in 1956. As well as their Hull headquarters, the company had branches in London and York.[1]

The German builder Edmund Schulze (1823–1878), an influence on Forster and Andrews, used to recommend them to prospective clients when he was unable to accept commissions.[2]

List of organs

• Congregational Chapel, Derby 1846
• St Wilfrid's Church, Alford, Lincolnshire
• All Saint's Church, Hessle, Hull 1846, removed to St George's Church, West Grinstead, Sussex 1890,[3]
• St Andrew's Church, Epworth 1849, now in St John the Baptist's Church, Burringham
• St James' Church, Hill 1853
• St James' Church Glossop 1859
• St George and St Mary's Church, Church Gresley 1860
• Church of St Mary de Castro, Leicester 1860
• St Peter's Church, Lowick 1861
• Methodist Church, Partick, Glasgow 1862
• St John the Baptist's Church, Collingham 1863 (enlargement)
• All Saints' Church, Cambridge 1864
• Castle Gate Congregational Centre, Nottingham 1865,[3] organ rebuilt in St Salvatorkerk, Harelbeke (Belgium) in 2012[4]
• St Radegund's Church, Scruton 1865
• St Peter & St Paul's Church, Aylesford 1865, extended F&A 1879
• All Saints' Church, North Street, York 1867
• St Wilfrid's, York 1867
• All Souls Church, Halifax 1868
• St Oswald's Church, Askrigg 1869 (restored 1998)[5]
• Sts Thomas Minster 1870
• Church of St Mary the Virgin and All Souls, Bulwell 1872
• Tondu Wesleyian Methodist Church, Bridgend, South Wales 1872
• St Boniface Church, Antwerp 1873
• St Andrew's Church, Walpole 1873
• St Peter's Church, Netherseal 1874
• unknown 1875, organ rebuilt in the Regenboogkerk (Rainbowchurch), Leiden (The Netherlands) in 2006
• St Philip and James Church, Booterstown 1876
• St Paul's Church, Glenageary c.1876. Rebuilt and enlarged by Derek Verso & Co. in 1993.
• St. Margaret's Church, Rochester 1877, subsequently extended by Browns in 1902
• West Bromwich Town Hall 1878
• Parish Church, Hurlford, near Kilmarnock, Ayrshire 1878 (removed from original installation in Hurlford Kirk to the former Reid Memorial Church at the union of the two in 1994.)
• Trinity Methodist Church, Harrogate 1880
• Christ Church, Taney Parish c.1880 (exact date unknown). Rebuilt and altered by Kenneth Jones & Associates, 1989.
• St Brigid's Church, Castleknock c.1880 (exact date unknown).
• St Matthias' Church, Ballybrack c.1880 (exact date unknown).

First Methodist Church, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1882

• All Saints' Anglican Church[6], Woollahra, Australia, 1882
• St Patrick's Church, Dalkey 1883
• St John the Evangelist's Church, Truro 1884
• Robertson Street Congregational Church, Hastings 1884[7]
• St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr 1885
• St Peter and St Paul's Church, Water Orton 1885
• St John the Baptist, Potters Bar, 1885 (moved to St Mary the Virgin & All Saints, Potters Bar, in 1915 after St John's was closed)[8]
• Congregational Church (now shop) in Tunbridge Wells 1885, organ rebuilt in the Reformed Church De Tabernakel,[9] Vaassen (The Netherlands) in 1992
• St. Audoen's Church, Dublin 1885
• St Paul's Church, Clapham 1886[10], historically congruent rebuild of the organ was finished in 2019 by Andrew Cooper & Co. Ltd[11]
• St.Margaret, Horsmonden 1886 (rebuild and enlargement of a William Hill and Son organ, built 1837)
• All Saints' Church, Matlock Bank 1886[12]
• Saint Joseph's Church, Singapore 1888
• St Mary's Church, Redbourn Hertfordshire 1888
• St. Margaret and St. Leonard's Church, Edinburgh 1888
• St. Peter's Church, Bourton on Dunsmore Warwickshire 1888[13]
• All Saints Church, Frindsbury, Kent 1889.
• St Helen's Church, Ainderby Steeple 1889-1890
• St James' Church, High Melton 1898
• St Wilfrid's Church, Egginton 1892[14]
• now at The Barn Church, Kew, 1894
• St Peter's Church, Field Broughton 1894[15]
• St Luke's Church, Shireoaks 1896
• St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber 1898; moved to St Mary's, Barton-upon Humber 1972-4
• St Mary's and St Helen's Church, Neston 1900
• St Andrew's Church, Derby 1902
• United Reformed Church, Llandudno (Wales) 1902, rebuilt and enlarged in the Nazareth-Kirche, Hannover (Germany) in 2018-2019 by Orgelbau Reinhard Hüfken[16][17]
• Parish Church, Darvel, Ayrshire 1908
• St Augustine of Hippo Grimsby
• St Wistan's Wistow, Leicestershire
• St Mary's White Waltham, 1892
• Pilrig St. Paul's Church,[18] Edinburgh 1903
• Saint Paul Church, Valparaíso[19]

References

1. British Institute of Organ Studies, The National Pipe Organ Register, archived from the original on 24 December 2012, retrieved 10 September 2012
2. The making of the Victorian organ. Nicholas Thistlethwaite
3. Laurence Elvin, Forster And Andrews Organ Builders 1843-1956
4. "Feenstra Orgelrestauratie - Harelbeke". www.frfeenstra.nl.
5. ""St Wilfrid's, R.C. Church, York", Harrison & Harrison" (PDF).
6. "All Saints Church - Woollahra NSW". allsaintschurch.org.au.
7. Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 19 July 1884 p7
8. "The Organ". St John the Baptist, Potters Bar.
9. "The Forster and Andrews Organ". Reformed Church De Tabernakel.
10. "The National Pipe Organ Register - NPOR". www.npor.org.uk.
11. "Music | St Paul's Clapham". stpaulsclapham.
12. "Organ Opening at Matlock Bank". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. England. 18 December 1886. Retrieved 6 January 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
13. Pratt, Graham. "St. Peter's Church, Bourton on Dunsmore".
14. "Egginton. Opening and Dedication of the Organ at the Parish Church". Derby Mercury. Derby. 9 November 1892. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
15. "St Peters Church – Helping Maintain an Anglican Presence on the Cartmel Peninsula". www.stpetersfieldbroughton.org.uk.
16. "Nazarethkirche hat neue Orgel". HAZ – Hannoversche Allgemeine.
17. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
18. "Pilrig St. Paul's Church – Scottish charity number SC007277".
19. "Records of Forster and Andrews" (PDF). hullhistorycentre.org.uk. p. 1. Retrieved 7 May 2019.

Literature: Laurence Elvin, Forster and Andrews, Their barrel, chamber, and small church organs