St Asaph Parish Church

St Asaph Parish Church was reordered in 2020. What a stunning job. The very small pipe organ was disposed of and the church was given a small Content organ. It was decided that the organ would benefit from some speakers.

Anthony Bogdan Organs were contracted to supply and connect four new speakers hidden just aabove the plaster on the north wall.

The speaker installation was completed December 2020 just before the covid lockdown. Whilst the installation was successful it was thought that the Dutch sound was not quite right for the church. Anthony Bogdan Organs was contacted and a small party came over to our workshop in Leigh to see the new Ensign Compact 35 which uses the new Physis+ technology

The sanctuary and new altar

A Faculty was applied for and in October 2024 the team set about delivering the new organ.

 

The Esign Console

Our engineer set about removing the external amplifier which we had fitted to the Content Organ and transferred it to the Viscount Ensign Organ. A little bit of rerouting of the speaker cable and the organ was ready for test.

The unique Anthony Bogdan voicing had been loaded in at Viscount Bicester and Anthony then produced his computer and preceded to regulate the Organ to the building.

Anthony with Canon Rex Mathias

The organ voicing nearing completion The Reverend Canon Rex Matthias, who is Canon Precentor of the Cathedral and Priest in Charge of the Parish Church, was asked to give it a test drive. 

The Church now resounds to the English tonality of the new Viscount Organ, Rich full swells, silvery mixtures, which do not scream, all underpinned by a solid pedal division.

The new organ has been well received by the congregation who sing the Welsh hymns with gusto.

Father Rex Mathias, Parish Priest, writes