Abraham Jordan Organ

St. George’s is home to a very special and unique church organ: the best surviving example of an 18th century Abraham Jordan organ in the world.

The organ was built in 1723 and originally housed at St George Botolph, a church in the City of London designed by Sir Christopher Wren. When this church was demolished in the 1901 the organ was moved to the newly built St George’s in Southall.

You can listen to a piece played on our organ by Tom Bell.   Its was wirtten in the 18th century by John Stanley.  It's called 'Trumpet Tune'.

You can also listen to a fun piece composed by Bernie Gardner with local school children combining Asian style music with the organ.  It's called 'See-Yo!'

The Story of our Organ

To read the whole story you can download our booklet for free.

But in summary: following a lot of hard work we made a successful application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for money to restore the organ to its original condition which was undertaken by Mander Organs in 2009.

To make sure the organ becomes an asset for our local community we have run an education project with local schools about the science, history and music of the organ.

To see our presentation of the history of the organ 'Through the eyes of our organ' click here.

To see a presentation of archive material about the organ click here.

To see pictures of the organ in the workshop during the restoration click here.

Poetry

We held a competition for poetry about the organ. Read all the entries.

Schools Project

Click here to find out about the project during the restoration.

To see pictures of the Blair Peach school pupils' visit to Manders click here.

To see pictures of the Tudor Road school pupils' visit to Manders click here.

To see pictures of Guru Nanak school pupils' organ workshop click here.

To see Tudor Road pupils explain how the organ works click here.

To see how the organ was used in science lessons click here.

To see videos of the City of Sound Canvas in production click here.