Charles Lloyd (organ builder)

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Charles Lloyd was a pipe organ builder based in Nottingham who flourished between 1859 and 1909.^[1]

Background

Charles Lloyd had previously worked for Groves of London. Charles Lloyd set up in business first with Lorenzo Valentine and shortly afterwards with Alfred Dudgeon. Their workshop was at 52A Union Road, near the centre of Nottingham. They were soon at work installing organs in places of worship in and around the Nottingham area. Charles Lloyd was commissioned by Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers of Holme Pierrepont, to construct and exhibit a 2 manual & pedal organ at the Birmingham Trades Exhibition in 1865. It was to win Lloyd a gold medal award for its workmanship and tone. After the exhibition was over the organ was removed back to Nottingham and installed in St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont.

C. LLoyd & Co

Lloyd & Dudgeon were partners until the death of Albert Dudgeon on 6 February 1874.^[2] The company then became changed to C. Lloyd & Co, Church Organ Builders, Nottingham.

When the Great Central Railway was brought to Nottingham in 1896, land occupied by the Lloyd business had to be cleared to make way for the Victoria Station. Charles Lloyd moved to 79 Brighton Street, St Ann’s.

In 1909, his son, Charles Francis Lloyd took over the business and it continued until 1928 with no change to the name. The company was then acquired by Roger Yates.

Company names and addresses

• Lloyd and Valentine 1859 - 1860, Bilbie Street, Nottingham
• Lloyd and Valentine 1861, 19 William Street, and 6 Sherwood Street, Nottingham
• Lloyd and Dudgeon 1862 - 1876, 52A Union Road, Nottingham
• C. Lloyd & Co 1876 - 1896, 52A Union Road, Nottingham
• C. Lloyd & Co 1896 - 1928, 79 Brighton Street, St Ann’s, Nottingham

Apprentices

The first was Ernest Wragg of Carlton, who after his period of training set up as an organ builder himself in 1894 on Carlton Road, Thorneywood, as E. Wragg & Son, Organ Builders.

The second was John Compton, born in Measham, Leicestershire. He entered into organ building first at Birmingham, then with Brindley of Sheffield, then in Nottingham under Charles Lloyd. When free of his apprenticeship in 1902, along with an organ builder named Musson of Woodborough Road, Nottingham, they became Compton & Musson.

Noted instruments

• Union Workhouse, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire 1859^[3]
• Scalford Church 1859^[4]
• Melton Mowbray Wesleyan Church 1859^[5]
• St George's Church, Leicester 1860^[6] additions
• All Saints Church, Loughborough 1862^[7] additions
• Holy Trinity Church, Bulcote, Nottinghamshire 1862
• St Ann's Church, St Ann's Well Road, Nottingham 1864^[8]
• All Saints' Church, Nottingham 1865^[9]
• Hyson Green Church, Nottingham 1865^[10]
• St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont 1865
• St Mary's Church, Evedon, Lincolnshire 1866
• St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont 1868
• St. Mary's Church, Cromford, Derbyshire ca. 1868
• Broad Street Baptist Church, Nottingham 1869
• All Saints' Church, Mackworth, Derbyshire 1870
• St. Andrew's Church, Nottingham from St Mary's Church, Nottingham 1871
• All Saints' Church, Finedon, Derbyshire ca. 1875
• St. James Church, Swarkestone, Derbyshire ca. 1876
• Thoresby Church 1876^[11]
• St Helen's Church, Burton Joyce, 1879^[12]
• Congregational Church, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire, ca 1880
• Holy Trinity Church, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire, ca 1880
• Shaw Lane Methodist Church, Milford, Derbyshire, ca 1880
• St. Thomas' Church, Nottingham 1882
• Chellaston Methodist Church, High Street, Chellaston, Derbyshire 1882
• Riddings Congregational Church, Alfreton, Derbyshire 1883^[13]
• Addison Street Congregational Church, Nottingham 1885
• Holloway Methodist Church, Church Street, Holloway, Derbyshire ca. 1885
• Hickling Church (restoration) 1886^[14]
• St. Bartholomew's Church, Nottingham 1887^[15]
• St. Barnabas Church, Derby, ca. 1889
• St. Lawrence Church, North Wingfield, Derbyshire, 1890
• St. Mary and St Barlok's Church, Norbury, Derbyshire 1890
• St. Sebastian's Church, Great Gonerby, Lincolnshire, 1890
• St Michael's Church, Hoveringham 1891
• Wood Street Methodist Church, Ripley, Derbyshire, 1892
• Somercoats Church, Alfreton, Derbyshire 1894
• St Bartholomew's Church, Clay Cross, Derbyshire 1894
• St. Andrew's Church, Barrow Hill, Derbyshire 1895
• Draycott Methodist Church, Market Street, Draycott, Derbyshire ca. 1897
• St. Giles Church, West Bridgford, Nottingham 1899 at a cost of £300. It was a 3 manual & pedal with Choir organ prepared for. It was rebuilt and enlarged by Henry Willis & Sons in 1952, and removed in 1993.
• Ebenezer Methodist Church, Newhall, Derbyshire ca. 1900 (now in Swadlincote Baptist Church)
• Christ Church, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, ca. 1900
• Bingham Road Methodist Church, Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire 1900
• Free Church, Upper Broughton, Nottinghamshire ca. 1900
• St John the Evangelist, Hazelwood, Derbyshire 1902
• St. Michael and All Angels, Alvaston, Derbyshire 1904
• Albion Congregational Church, Sneinton, Nottingham 1905
• Carlton Methodist Church, Nottingham 1905
• St Thomas the Martyr, Brampton, Derbyshire 1906
• St. John's Church, Ripley Derbyshire 1906 (now in St. Mary the Virgin, Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire)
• St John's Church, Newhall, Derbyshire 1909
• St. Mary's Church, Greasley, Nottinghamshire 1910
• St. Mary the Virgin, Bunny, Nottinghamshire 1916 (rebuild)
• Bloomsgrove Congregational Church Mission, Radford, Nottingham 1927 (now in St. Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington, Derbyshire)

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