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 LAURENCE TINDALL Click on the images for more information

Hampton Wick

Organ case 1973

This was my first job on leaving Kingston School of Art. Mathew Copley  organ builder had moved this organ from a corner in Hampton Wick Parish Church to the gallery and as it was now free standing it required  new panelling. I made the arcading and the carved pinnacles completely by hand in the shed of my grandfathers house in Batersea. It was an enjoyable first project but not without a great many of the organisational problems that confront a novice carrying out their first business contract.  At  art college I had been very interested in harpsichords and clavichords and had written a very basic students dissertation about the construction of clavichords.  So the chance to get involved with  this project was amazing. Mathew is now a leading name in the world of organ building and design and I might have joined his firm at that time if it were not for my ambition to be a stone mason working on one of our great cathedrals.