Editing Selby Abbey (section)

==Organ==
[[File:Organ case by John Oldrid Scott in Selby Abbey.jpg|thumb|left|The organ at Selby Abbey, built in 1909 by [[William Hill & Son]], (south) case designed by [[John Oldrid Scott]]]]

The previous organ was installed in 1825 by Renn and Boston, in a gallery on the east side of the choir screen wall. It was rebuilt several times by Booth of Wakefield, Forster and Andrews of Hull and Conacher of Huddersfield. In 1868 the organ was rebuilt and moved to a bay in the quire. The opening recital was given by [[William Thomas Best]]. This organ was rebuilt in 1891 by James Jepson Binns of Bramley and moved again, this time to the north side of the quire. A rebuild took place by [[John Compton (organ builder)|John Compton]] in 1906, but the organ was destroyed by the great fire of that year, which nearly destroyed the abbey too.{{cn|date=October 2023}}

Following the 1906 fire<ref>{{NPOR|id=N07130 |desc=Yorkshire, North, Selby, Abbey of St. Mary and St. Germain, Selby Abbey, The Crescent|access-date= 11 September 2023}}</ref> and as part of the subsequent restoration of the Abbey, the firm of [[William Hill & Son]] was commissioned to build the current organ, completed in 1909.<ref>{{NPOR|id=N05109|desc=Yorkshire, North, Selby, Abbey of St. Mary and St. Germain, Selby Abbey, The Crescent|access-date=22 November 2023}}</ref> With 67 speaking stops and 4 manuals, most of the pipes of this instrument occupy two organ cases designed by [[John Oldrid Scott]] and placed either side of the choir stalls in the Chancel. The huge pipes of the "Pedal: 32' Double Open Diapason" lie horizontally on the floor of the Triforium overlooking the Nave. 

The first major restoration of this organ was carried out in 1950 by [[Hill, Norman and Beard]].<ref>{{NPOR|id=N05111 |desc=Yorkshire, North, Selby, Abbey of St. Mary and St. Germain, Selby Abbey, The Crescent|access-date=22 November 2023}}</ref> In the early 1960s, the Italian virtuoso [[Fernando Germani]] made several LP recordings at the Abbey of organ music by Reger, Franck and Liszt, bringing the organ to international attention. In 1975, further alterations and additions were made to the organ by John T. Jackson.

By the 2010s, the organ was showing its age and becoming increasingly unreliable. In 2014, Geoffrey Coffin and Principal Pipe Organs of York were commissioned to carry out a major restoration with Paul Hale as the adviser. The project was completed in 2016.<ref>{{NPOR|id=K01532|desc=Yorkshire, North, Selby, Abbey of St. Mary and St. Germain, Selby Abbey, The Crescent|access-date=22 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://paulhale.org/consultant/projects-of-significance/selby-abbey/ | title=Selby Abbey |first=Paul |last=Hale |accessdate=22 November 2023}}</ref>
===Organists and Directors of Music===
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*Wharton Hooper 1864–1866 <ref>''Hampshire Telegraph'' – Saturday 20 August 1864</ref> 
*[[Edward Johnson Bellerby]] 1878–1881<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bardon-music.com/music.php?id=Bellerby_EdwardJ_1858&curr=gbp|title=Bardon Music &#124; Organ Sheet Music &#124; Compositions by Edward J. Bellerby|website=www.bardon-music.com|accessdate=23 October 2023}}</ref>
*[[Frederick William Sykes]] 1881–1919<ref>''Yorkshire Gazette'' – Saturday 3 December 1881</ref><ref>Thornsby, Frederick&nbsp;W., ed. (1912) ''Dictionary of Organs and Organists''. Bournemouth : Logan.</ref>
*[[Henry Oswald Hodgson]] 1920–1921<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in Music and Musicians' International Directory |page=159 |volume=2 |publisher=Hafner Publishing Company |editor-first=Landon |editor-last=Ronald |year=1937}}</ref>
*Herbert Hill 1921–1922 <ref>Thornsby, Frederick&nbsp;W., ed. (1921) ''Dictionary of Organs and Organists''; 2nd ed. London: G.&nbsp;A. Mate</ref><ref>''Hull Daily Mail'' – Friday 7 January 1921</ref><ref>''Hull Daily Mail'' 7 March 1922</ref>
*[[Walter_Hartley_(organist)|Walter Hartley]] 1922–1962<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/3385958-Walter-Hartley|title=Walter Hartley|website=Discogs|accessdate=23 October 2023}}</ref>
*[[David Patrick Gedge]] 1962–1966<ref>{{cite book|title=International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory: (in the Classical and Light Classical Fields) |page=224 |edition=17th |publisher=Psychology Press |editor-first=David M. |editor-last=Cummins |year=2000 |isbn=9780948875533}}</ref>
*[[Mervyn John Byers]] 1966–1976<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/4406357-Mervyn-Byers|title=Mervyn Byers|website=Discogs|accessdate=23 October 2023}}</ref>
*Peter Seymour 1976–1978
*Anthony Langford 1978–1980<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.organ-biography.info/index.php?id=Langford_Anthony_20|title=Biographical Dictionary of the Organ &#124; Dr Anthony Langford|website=www.organ-biography.info|accessdate=23 October 2023}}</ref>
*[[Mervyn John Byers]] 1980–1987
*Geoffrey Pearce 1987–1994<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2012/7-december/gazette/ordinations/royal-school-of-church-music-guild-of-church-musicians|title=Royal School of Church Music, Guild of Church Musicians|website=Church Times|accessdate=23 October 2023}}</ref>
*Roger Tebbet 1994–2020<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.easingwold-singers.com/history|title=History|website=Easingwold Singers|accessdate=23 October 2023}}</ref>
*James Lowery (Interim Organist) 2020–2021
*Oliver Waterer 2021– <ref>{{cite web|url=https://musicdirectory.ism.org/people/Oliver-Waterer-39624/|title=Independent Society of Musicians Music Directory|website=musicdirectory.ism.org|accessdate=23 October 2023}}</ref>
*Ian Seddon (Assistant Organist) 2023– <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.selbyabbey.org.uk/|title=Selby Abbey – At the heart of the community since 1069|website=Selby Abbey|accessdate=14 November 2023}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=October 2023}}
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