St. Peter and St. Paul, Cudham

The church of Ss. Peter and Paul in Cudham, Greater London, dates back to the 11th Century with the nave being built by the Normans, but a Saxon script reference is made to a church here in AD 982.

The organ was built by William Sweetland in 1894 and seems to be almost completely unaltered other than the addition of an electric blower system. It is a fine example of his work and also of Victorian organ building. The acoustics are short, especially as the organ is now 'boxed in' to the chancel.

The manual action is all mechanical, the pedal division is on pneumatic action. The pedal action needs restoring as almost half the pedal pipes do not speak, likely because of worn-out leather motors. In the sample set, these pipes were replaced with other retuned neighbouring pipes in the same rank.