James Chapman Bishop

James Chapman Bishop (1783 – 2 December 1854) was a notable British organ manufacturer of the 19th century.

History

He was apprenticed to Benjamin Flight and then set up his own business in London in 1807 initially at York buildings in Marylebone and later at 250 Marylebone Road.

On his death in 1854, the business was run by his son, Charles Augustus Bishop (born 1821), John Starr and William Ebenezer Richardson, and was known as Bishop, Starr and Richardson from 1854 to 1857, and then Bishop and Starr from 1857 onwards. From 1873 it became Bishop and Son.

Works

All Saints' Church, Northallerton 1818

St Peter's Church, Dorchester 1823

St Mary Abchurch 1823

St John's Church, Waterloo 1824

St Mary Aldermanbury 1824

All Souls Church, Langham Place 1825

St Mark's Church, North Audley Street 1825

St Paul's Cathedral 1826

Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone 1828

The Revd Dr Philip Wynter, President, St John's College, Oxford 1828

St James's Church, Bermondsey 1829

St Bartholomew's Church, Wednesbury 1830

St James' Church, Clapham 1832

St Edmund, King and Martyr 1833

Norwich Cathedral 1834

St Michael's Church, Coventry 1836

St Peter's Church, Eaton Square 1837

St Giles Church, Willenhall 1837

Port Antonio Church, Jamaica 1838

Shrewsbury Music Hall 1839

St James' Church, Devizes 1841

Catholic Chapel, Dalton Square, Lancaster 1841

Gravesend Literary Institution 1842

Church of St Barnabas, Queen Camel 1842

Roman Catholic Chapel, Stockton-on-Tees 1842

Savoy Chapel 1843

St Giles' Church, Camberwell 1844

St Martin's Church, Liskeard 1844

St Kentigern's Church, Crossthwaite, Cumbria 1844-45

Holy Trinity Church, Clapham 1845

St John's, Notting Hill 1846

Holy Trinity Church, Paddington 1846

St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere 1846

Brighton Town Hall 1847

Jesus College, Cambridge 1847

Catholic Chapel, Lowther Street, Carlisle 1848

Hereford Cathedral 1849

St Mark's Church, Pensnett 1849

St James's Church, Piccadilly 1852

St George's, Bloomsbury 1853

References

Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery

1783 births

1854 deaths

British pipe organ builders