James Chapman Bishop

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James Chapman Bishop (1783 – 2 December 1854{{cite news |author= |title=Died |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000082/18541206/034/0008 |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=England |date=6 December 1854 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}) was a notable British organ manufacturer of the 19th century.{{cite book |last1=Bush |first1=Douglas Earl |last2=Kassel |first2=Richard |date=2006 |title=The Organ: An Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgDJaeFFUPoC&pg=PA68 |location=Google Books |publisher=Psychology Press |page=68 |isbn=9780415941747 }}

History

He was apprenticed to Benjamin Flight and then set up his own business in London in 1807 initially at York buildings in Marylebone and later at 250 Marylebone Road.

On his death in 1854, the business was run by his son, Charles Augustus Bishop (born 1821), John Starr and William Ebenezer Richardson, and was known as Bishop, Starr and Richardson from 1854 to 1857, and then Bishop and Starr from 1857 onwards. From 1873 it became Bishop and Son.

Works

All Saints' Church, Northallerton 1818{{National Pipe Organ Register|id=N07911 |access-date=26 December 2016}}
St Peter's Church, Dorchester 1823{{cite news |author= |title=Dorchester Musical Festival |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000361/18230922/017/0001 |newspaper=Salisbury and Winchester Journal |location=England |date=22 September 1823 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
St Mary Abchurch 1823
St John's Church, Waterloo 1824
St Mary Aldermanbury 1824
All Souls Church, Langham Place 1825
St Mark's Church, North Audley Street 1825
St Paul's Cathedral 1826
Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone 1828
The Revd Dr Philip Wynter, President, St John's College, Oxford 1828
St James's Church, Bermondsey 1829
St Bartholomew's Church, Wednesbury 1830{{cite news |author= |title=Wednesbury Musical Festival |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000196/18300719/020/0001 |newspaper=Aris's Birmingham Gazette |location=England |date=19 July 1830 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
St James' Church, Clapham 1832
St Edmund, King and Martyr 1833
Norwich Cathedral 1834{{cite news |author= |title=Opening of the Cathedral Organ |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001669/18340118/034/0003 |newspaper=Norwich Mercury |location=England |date=18 January 1834 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
St Michael's Church, Coventry 1836{{cite news |author= |title=Opening of St Michael's Organ |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000196/18360418/004/0001 |newspaper=Aris's Birmingham Gazette |location=England |date=18 April 1836 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
St Peter's Church, Eaton Square 1837
St Giles Church, Willenhall 1837{{cite news |author= |title=Willenhall Church |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001308/18370222/005/0001 |newspaper=Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser |location=England |date=22 February 1837 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
Port Antonio Church, Jamaica 1838
Shrewsbury Music Hall 1839
St James' Church, Devizes 1841{{cite news |author= |title=Yesterday being the day appointed for the opening of the new organ in St James's Church, Devizes |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000411/18420418/021/0003 |newspaper=Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette |location=England |date=3 June 1841 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
Catholic Chapel, Dalton Square, Lancaster 1841{{cite news |author= |title=Sacred Music |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000488/18410807/004/0001 |newspaper=Lancaster Gazette |location=England |date=7 August 1841 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
Gravesend Literary Institution 1842{{cite news |author= |title=The New Organ at the Gravesend Literary Institution |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001097/18420913/029/0003 |newspaper=South Eastern Gazette |location=England |date=13 September 1842 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
Church of St Barnabas, Queen Camel 1842{{cite news |author= |title=The opening of a new organ erecting at Queen Camel Church |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000411/18420418/021/0003 |newspaper=Sherborne Mercury |location=England |date=18 April 1842 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
Roman Catholic Chapel, Stockton-on-Tees 1842{{cite news |author= |title=Opening of the new Roman Catholic Chapel at Stockton |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000350/18490926/020/0005 |newspaper=Durham County Advertiser |location=England |date=15 July 1842 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
Savoy Chapel 1843
St Giles' Church, Camberwell 1844
St Martin's Church, Liskeard 1844{{cite news |author= |title=Liskeard |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000178/18441122/013/0002 |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=England |date=22 November 1844 |access-date=26 November 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
St Kentigern's Church, Crossthwaite, Cumbria 1844-45
Holy Trinity Church, Clapham 1845
St John's, Notting Hill 1846
Holy Trinity Church, Paddington 1846
St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere 1846{{cite news |author= |title=The Bowness Church Organ |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000430/18460815/009/0003 |newspaper=Kendal Mercury |location=England |date=15 August 1846 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
Brighton Town Hall 1847
Jesus College, Cambridge 1847
Catholic Chapel, Lowther Street, Carlisle 1848{{cite news |author= |title=Catholic Chapel, Lowther Street, Carlisle |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000363/18481215/035/0002 |newspaper=Carlisle Journal |location=England |date=15 December 1848 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
Hereford Cathedral 1849{{cite news |author= |title=Hereford Musical Festival |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001578/18490915/040/0010 |newspaper=Illustrated London News |location=England |date=15 September 1849 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
St Mark's Church, Pensnett 1849{{cite news |author= |title=Kingswinford |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000350/18490926/020/0005 |newspaper=Worcestershire Chronicle |location=England |date=26 September 1849 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
St James's Church, Piccadilly 1852{{cite news |author= |title=The authorities at St James' Church, Piccadilly… |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000231/18521023/026/0003 |newspaper=Hampshire Chronicle |location=England |date=23 October 1852 |access-date=4 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
St George's, Bloomsbury 1853

References

Category:Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery

Category:1783 births

Category:1854 deaths

Category:British pipe organ builders