Saving beautiful chapel organs is not a pipe dream | Register

ON A few years ago I ventured into an abandoned chapel in Caernarfon. Engedi, a Welsh Presbyterian chapel that closed in the 1980s, is a place where time has frozen. The rich stucco ceiling, with its moldings and ornate roses in brilliant azure and white, is still there, as is the large pulpit and seat of the elders, which overlook rows of pews encrusted in thick layers of bird droppings. The eye then falls on the ornate pipes of a Victorian organ, the style of which is immediately recognizable to any enthusiast as the work of Peter Conacher from Huddersfield.

It was clearly a formidable instrument in its day, but all efforts to save it have clearly failed miserably. All that remains is the pipe facade. That

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