This Lincoln College organ carving was created for the college's historic chapel at Oxford, built between 1629 and 1631. The design responds to the chapel's own history — its original screen was carved from cedar, recalling the cedar used in the biblical Temple, a fitting material history for a space built to house sacred music.
Consoles
Flats and towers
Facade
Lincoln College Chapel's Choir in Oxford has a custom made pipe organ built for the Chapel. The console and paneling were made to fit under the gallery also the organ standing above is connected using tracker action. I built the console and paneling and carved the shades inspired from late seventeenth-century style of ornamentation.
This project reflects the same design approach behind all our organ carving commissions.
Organ case console and bench in quarter-sawn oak.
''The Chapel was built in 1629-1631. Its chief glories were the windows and the screen; this is built of cedar wood (to recall the Temple in Jerusalem) and for over a hundred years filled the Chapel with the scent of cedar. The front pews with their statues and the carved ceiling were added in the 1680s''
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