The new glass in the tracery is well worthy of notice: St. Augustine of Canterbury in the centre, and the first two and the final letters of Jesus Christ in the ancient Greek character I H C X P C, the original and proper form of what was in later times changed into the Latin "I H S," through the Greek capital E resembling the Latin letter H.
St. Augustine landed in England in A. D. 596 to carry forward the conversion of England to Christianity, and was created first Archbishop of Canterbury in 601, the year in which Paulinus came over from Rome to assist him in his work.
The Organ stands in the north-east part of this Aisle, with the case of the Great Organ, richly decorated red and gold, facing west. It was built by Messrs. Wordsworth and Maskell of Leeds, and was used for the first time on the Re-opening Day in 1880. It takes the place of a much smaller one by Gray and Davison, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanhope at Easter, 1872, which is now placed in the Parish Church of Rushford, in Norfolk, as a memorial of Mrs. Stanhope in her own family's Parish Church, where she was married in 1856.
The following specification was given by the builders at the opening:
The organ consists of 3 manuals, viz., Great, Swell, and Choir, each full compass, CC to G, 56 notes, and pedal organ CCC to F, 30 notes. The stops, &c., are:
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GREAT ORGAN
- 1 Open diapason 8 feet tone 56 pipes
- 2 Stopp'd diapason 8 feet tone 56 pipes
- 3 Dulciana (Grooved Bass) 8 feet tone 44 pipes
- 4 Wald flute 4 feet tone 56 pipes
- 5 principal 4 feet tone 56 pipes
- 6 Twelth 2 2/3 feet tone 56 pipes
- 7 Fifteenth 2 feet tone 56 pipes
- 8 Mixture (3 ranks) 2 ,11/3, 2/3 feet tone 168 pipes
