James Jepson Binns
{{Short description|British organ builder (c.1855–1928)}}
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James Jepson Binns (c. 1855–11 March 1928){{cite web |url=http://www.thebinnsfamily.org.uk/individual.php?pid=I4059 |title=The Binns Family: James Jepson BINNS (I4059) |publisher=thebinnsfamily.org.uk |date=1 August 2013 |access-date=24 October 2013}} was a pipe organ builder based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.{{cite journal| first = Kenneth C. | last = Jackson | title = James Jepson Binns : a Yorkshire organ-builder | journal = Yorkshire Archaeological Journal | volume = 74 | year = 2002 | pages = 235–45 | publisher = Maney | issn = 0084-4276 }}
Organs
Pipe organs at the following locations were either built or rebuilt by James Jepson Binns or his JJ Binns company. A number of these buildings have been demolished and the organs broken up or destroyed. Many original Binns organs in this list have been subsequently rebuilt by other organ builders.
- Albert Hall, Nottingham – built by Binns in 1909, replacing a Brindley & Foster destroyed by fire.{{cite web| url=http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N01509 | title=National Pipe Organ Register entry for Nottinghamshire, Nottingham Albert Hall, Derby Road [N01509] }}
- All Saints' Church, Stamford – the 1890 Hill organ was rebuilt by Binns in 1916.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N14342|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- Baillie Street Methodist Church. Rochdale – built 1892. Building demolished, but organ acquired by Christ Church, Worthing in 1967.
- Castle Street Methodist Church, Cambridge has one of the last organs built before Binns's death.{{cite web|url=https://www.castlestreet.org.uk/about/history-of-the-church/|access-date=22 December 2017|title=History of the church | Castle Street Methodist Church|publisher= Castle Street Methodist Church}}
- Christ Church, Patricroft, City of Salford – built 1896.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=R01766|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- Christ Church, Great Ayton – build date uncertain, possibly around 1899.{{Cite journal|title=What's on Your Wish List?|url=http://www.christchurchgreatayton.org.uk/content/pages/documents/1382544227.pdf|access-date=2021-06-18|publisher=Christ Church Great Ayton|page=3|publication-date=November 2013|quote=Organ Renovation Our pipe organ, that accompanies most of our services, was built by Binns, a noted organ builder. Over recent years it has presented more niggley little problems and is in need of a bigger overhaul. Estimates from the organ builders are around the £40k mark.|journal=Spire: The Magazine of the Church of England in Great Ayton with Easby & Newton Under Roseberry Parishes}}
- Christ Church, Worthing, acquired from Baillie Street Methodist Church, Rochdale in 1967 and rebuilt by Percy Daniel & Co. in 1970.{{ cite web| url = http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N15650 | title = National Pipe Organ Register entry for Sussex (Sussex, West), Worthing Christ Church [N15650] }}
- Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Newcastle upon Tyne – work on the 1902 Vincent and Co. organ by Binns, Fitton and Haley in 1931.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N04095|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- Eldon Wesleyan Methodist Church, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds (demolished). Organ relocated to Lidgett Park Methodist Church, Leeds[https://lpmc.uk/leaflet%20reorderd.pdf Treasures revealed] lpmc.uk
- Church of St Thomas, Stanningley, Pudsey Purchased 1906 by Dr James Varley-Roberts, Restored 1946, (Binns, Fitton and Haley). Leeds, West Riding (Yorkshire, West) Pudsey – Stanningley (SE2234), St. Thomas (Anglican Parish Church){{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=N02644|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- Farnsfield parish church of St. Michael – build date unknown.
- Fulneck Moravian Church – 1930 work on 1748.Schnetzler organ{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=R00791|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- G.E. Franklin, Derby – 1903. Moved to Castle Gate Congregational Centre in 1909.
- Galston Parish Church – 1913.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kirknews.org.uk/ |title=Kirk News Welcome – kirknews |access-date=10 July 2022 |archive-date=18 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618144026/http://www.kirknews.org.uk/ |url-status=dead }} – 3-manual pipe organ by J.J.Binns installed in 1913. It has an electro-pneumatic action patented by the organ maker. Centenary celebrations for the organ commenced with a Songs of Praise in Galston Parish Church on Sunday, 10 February 2013, featuring the congregation, organist and choirmaster Graeme Finnie and the Church Choir – along with international mezzo-soprano Linda Finnie. The service was conducted by Rev. Alastair Symington, locum tenens during the church's vacancy. Representatives of the Scottish Historic Organ Trust visited the church on 27 April 2013 to examine, photograph and play the organ. The British Institute of Organ Studies, in June 2013, awarded the Galston Organ a Grade 2* Historic Organ Certificate, the second highest grade of certificate awarded. A Celebrity Organ Recital was held on Saturday, 19 October at 7pm, featuring international organist Ian Hare.
- Gilcomston South Church – 1902.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=A00439|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- Providence Congregational Church, at Whitle, New Mills – 1914.
- Jesmond Parish Church, Tyneside (also known as Clayton Memorial Church) – rebuilt in 1913 with four manuals, but contains pipework from an earlier T.C.Lewis organ.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N14888|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- Jesus College Chapel, Oxford, 1899.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N11028|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N12384|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- Kingsway Hall, Holborn – 1912.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N16549|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- Lothersdale Methodist Church, Op. 191, 1896, II/P/15. Church closed in 2010; instrument is currently undergoing an extensive rebuild in Germany.
- Queens' College, Cambridge.{{Cite web|title=National Pipe Organ Register entry for Cambridgeshire, Cambridge Queens' College Chapel [N05221]|work=The National Pipe Organ Register – NPOR|url=https://npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=N05221|access-date=2021-06-18 }}
- Rochdale Town Hall pipe organ, built by Binns in 1913, rebuilt by J.W. Walker & Sons Ltd in 1979{{Cite web|url=https://iao.org.uk/ortoa/rthorgan.htm|title = Oldham Rochdale & Tameside Organists' Association}}
- St Aidan's Church, Leeds – 1896.[http://staidan-leeds.org.uk/music-at-st-aidans/the-organ-2/ St Aidan's Leeds] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310171140/http://staidan-leeds.org.uk/music-at-st-aidans/the-organ-2/ |date=10 March 2012 }} The Organ
- St. Bartholomew's Church, Barrow.{{ cite web| url = http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D08213 | title = National Pipe Organ Register entry for Cheshire, Barrow, Great St. Bartholomew [D08213] }}
- St. Catherine's Church, Ventnor.{{ cite web|url = http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N09734| title = National Pipe Organ Register entry for Hampshire (Isle of Wight), Ventnor St. Catherine [N09734] }}
- St. Dunstan's Church, Benoni, South Africa.{{cite web|url=http://www.stdunstanscathedral.org.za/index.php|title=St Dunstan's Cathedral|access-date=18 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429091411/http://www.stdunstanscathedral.org.za/index.php|archive-date=29 April 2011|url-status=dead}} The Ben Dijkman Organ was originally built in the 1870s by Binns in Leeds and installed in the NG Kerk in Queenstown. In 1925 it was brought to Benoni for the Dutch Reformed Church in Benoni. They sold it to St. Dunstan's in 1948 and it had to be totally rebuilt and enlarged in 1961 when the church was extended. Approximately one-third of the present pipework and most of the air-chests are original, however, the case is new. Christian Ganser was the Organ Builder.
- St. Edward the Confessor, Barnsley{{Cite web|url=https://www.barnsleybenefice.org/st-edwards/church-information/the-organ/organ.php|title = The Benefice of Central Barnsley | Organ}}
- St. George's Church, Hartlepool. Three-manual Binns organ built in 1904 and last renovated in 2015.{{Cite web|title=The Church's Organ {{!}} St. Georges URC Hartlepool|url=http://www.stgeorgesurc.co.uk/the-churchs-organ/|access-date=2021-06-18|website=St. Georges URC Hartlepool}}
- St. Laurence's Church, Frodsham (also recorded as St. Lawrence's) – 1882-3 and rebuilt by J.J. Binns in 1923.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=H00016|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- St. Laurence's Church, Norwell, Nottinghamshire – 1908.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N13611|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- St. Mary's Church, Astbury- 1912 for King's Hall, Stoke, but presented to St. Mary's by Stoke City Council in 1962 and rebuilt and installed by Reeves & Merner.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N04306|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- St Nicholas Buccleuch Parish Church, Dalkeith. This organ was originally built for the West Parish Church, Dalkeith, but was moved to its current location in the early 1990s upon the union of the two congregations.
- St. Paul's Church, Boughton.{{ cite web| url = http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N04290 | title = National Pipe Organ Register entry for Cheshire, Chester St. Paul [N04290] }}
- St. Peter's Church, Harrogate – work on 1879 Edmund Schulze organ.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N02809|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N02913|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N02914|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N01463|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=E01076|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- Stoke Minster – 1899, moved from private residence by unknown organ builder in 1927.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=A00301|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N04881|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=E00286|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N05025|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- St. John's Church, Deptford, London – 1901.{{Cite web|title=Organ Restoration Project|url=https://sjht.org.uk/page/21/organ-restoration-project|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Deptford: St John w Holy Trinity|language=en-gb}}
- St. John's Church, Haifa, Israel – 1914.{{Cite web|url=http://organ.org.il/pws/page!5278|title=Israel Organ Society List of Organs|accessdate=17 May 2024|archive-date=19 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019064543/https://organ.org.il/pws/page!5278|url-status=dead}}
- St. Stephen's Comelybank Church, Stockbridge, Edinburgh – 1902.{{Cite web|url=https://npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=N11976|title=NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register|website=npor.org.uk|accessdate=17 May 2024}}
- St. Wilfid's, Calverley, West Yorkshire – 1894.{{Cite web|url=https://calverleyparish.church/organ-restoration-project|title = Organ Restoration Project – Calverley Parish Church}}
- Wesley Chapel, Harrogate – 1912.
- Former Wesleyan Chapel, Rodley, Leeds, had a Binns organ, recorded there in 1886 and 1888,[http://www.npor.org.uk/ National Pipe Organ Register: Records for Rodley Wesleyan, ref.24283] Recorded by Harvey and Gatward in 1886 and 1888 and photographed between 1902 and 1914.See :File:Church at Rodley (28).JPG The chapel was demolished in 1973.
- George Street Methodist Church, Little Driffield – 1906. Moved to Acomb Methodist Church, Front Street, York in 1964. This organ is known locally to be one of the finest examples of the work of this well renowned organ builder. It is home to many tonal delights, and has stood the test of time. During 2009 a major restoration of the pedals was undertaken, and in 2010, the organ was awarded an Historic Organ Certificate.{{cite journal|url=http://ydoa.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/7-October-2010.doc|title=Acomb Methodist Church, Historic Organ Certificate | page=4 |journal=The Pipe Line: The Monthly Newsletter of York & District Organists' Association |publisher= York & District Organists' Association|date=October 2010}}
- Central Methodist Church, Hucknall - c.1930 - Binns pipe organ built by James Jephson Binns and one of the last organs to be built by this renowned organ builder. Originally installed in Trinity Methodist Church then reinstalled when the church building was redesigned in 1989. https://npor.org.uk/survey/G00602
