Forthcoming events and recruitment
Welcome to All Hallows choir page, we are always looking for new members in all voices if you enjoy singing contact me or just come along on Friday night at 7pm. Steve Hicking - Organist and choir master (and flautist) 
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The choir of All Hallows has a total (on a good day) of 25member.
The adult choir has been generous with its commitment not only in the morning but also the evening service where the singing of psalm and canticles is competently achieved.
Evensong has a small but capable body of singers to lead the congregation in a service which now days is increasingly only observed in cathedrals.
The choir meet every Friday at 7.00pm. Our work includes preparation of hymns and psalms for the Sunday services and seasonal anthems.
In addition, the choir and organist are called upon to take part at weddings, Gedling is a popular venue on average there are approximately ten weddings a year.
The addition of a four part choir in a parish church is becoming a rare thing, we welcome any new singers (no experience necessary) to join us in leading the congregation to sing praises to the Lord.
The adult choir has been generous with its commitment not only in the morning but also the evening service where the singing of psalm and canticles is competently achieved.
Evensong has a small but capable body of singers to lead the congregation in a service which now days is increasingly only observed in cathedrals.
The choir meet every Friday at 7.00pm. Our work includes preparation of hymns and psalms for the Sunday services and seasonal anthems.
In addition, the choir and organist are called upon to take part at weddings, Gedling is a popular venue on average there are approximately ten weddings a year.
The addition of a four part choir in a parish church is becoming a rare thing, we welcome any new singers (no experience necessary) to join us in leading the congregation to sing praises to the Lord.
All Hallows Choir 1965
All Hallows Choir 1965
The All Hallows Gedling organ
In 1874 the original two manual pipe organ was built by Forster and Andrews of Hull and was presented to Gedling church by William Elliott Burnside in memory of his grandparents. It was rebuilt with a new (present) case in in 1925.
In 1999 a further rebuild was undertaken by Jonathan Wallace of Henry Groves organ builders. All of the pipe work was removed along with the failing pneumatic action. The great and swell organ was repositioned in the chamber and a choir organ was added sounding over the chancel. Various new stops were added along with the originals, trumpet, clarinet, flute and piccolo to name a few plus the action was electrified and a “capture system” was added.
Specification of the organ, those in italics are new stops added by Groves.
Great organ
Trumpet 8ft, Clarion 4ft, Super octave 2ft, Mixture 2rk, Harmonic flute 4ft, Twelfth 2 2/3ft, Dulciana 8ft, Open Diapason 8ft, Hohl flute 8ft,
Swell organ
Cornopean 8ft, Mixture 3rk, Fifteenth 2ft, Principal 4ft, Voix Celeste 8ft, Salicional 8ft,
Lieblich Gedect 16ft, Open Diapason 8ft.
Choir organ
Trumpet 8ft, Clarion 4ft, Larigolt 1 1/2ft, Clarinet 8ft, Fifteenth 2ft, Piccolo 2ft, Flute 4ft,
Nazard 2 2/3ft, Stopped Diapason 8ft, Pricipal 4ft.
Pedal organ
Double trumpet 16ft, Trumpet 8ft, Clarion 4ft, Fifteenth 4ft, Octave flute 4ft, Principal 8ft,
Bass flute 8ft, Bourdon 16ft, Lieblich Bourdon 16ft.
In 1874 the original two manual pipe organ was built by Forster and Andrews of Hull and was presented to Gedling church by William Elliott Burnside in memory of his grandparents. It was rebuilt with a new (present) case in in 1925.
In 1999 a further rebuild was undertaken by Jonathan Wallace of Henry Groves organ builders. All of the pipe work was removed along with the failing pneumatic action. The great and swell organ was repositioned in the chamber and a choir organ was added sounding over the chancel. Various new stops were added along with the originals, trumpet, clarinet, flute and piccolo to name a few plus the action was electrified and a “capture system” was added.
Specification of the organ, those in italics are new stops added by Groves.
Great organ
Trumpet 8ft, Clarion 4ft, Super octave 2ft, Mixture 2rk, Harmonic flute 4ft, Twelfth 2 2/3ft, Dulciana 8ft, Open Diapason 8ft, Hohl flute 8ft,
Swell organ
Cornopean 8ft, Mixture 3rk, Fifteenth 2ft, Principal 4ft, Voix Celeste 8ft, Salicional 8ft,
Lieblich Gedect 16ft, Open Diapason 8ft.
Choir organ
Trumpet 8ft, Clarion 4ft, Larigolt 1 1/2ft, Clarinet 8ft, Fifteenth 2ft, Piccolo 2ft, Flute 4ft,
Nazard 2 2/3ft, Stopped Diapason 8ft, Pricipal 4ft.
Pedal organ
Double trumpet 16ft, Trumpet 8ft, Clarion 4ft, Fifteenth 4ft, Octave flute 4ft, Principal 8ft,
Bass flute 8ft, Bourdon 16ft, Lieblich Bourdon 16ft.
