Forster and Andrews

Forster and Andrews was a British organ building company between 1843 and 1924.

St Mary's Church, Nantwich, 1890

The company was formed by James Alderson Forster (1818–1886) and Joseph King Andrews (1820–1896), who had been employees of the London organ builder J. C. Bishop. They opened the business that bore their name in Hull in 1843. The business developed and became one of the most successful of the North of England organ builders. It was taken over by John Christie in 1924 and finally wound up in 1956. As well as their Hull headquarters, the company had branches in London and York.^[1]

The German builder Edmund Schulze (1823–1878), an influence on Forster and Andrews, used to recommend them to prospective clients when he was unable to accept commissions, the most notable example of the relationship being the large instrument completed at the expense (and insistence) of Sir Edward Akroyd (1810-1877) in 1868 at All Souls' Church, Halifax which included material by Schulze after a long visit by the partners, and funded by Akroyd, to Germany to study the Schulze techniques. ^[2]

List of organs

• Congregational Chapel, Derby 1846
• St Wilfrid's Church, Alford, Lincolnshire
• All Saints' Church, Hessle, Hull 1846, removed to St George's Church, West Grinstead, Sussex 1890,^[3]
• St Andrew's Church, Epworth 1849, now in St John the Baptist's Church, Burringham
• St James' Church, Hill, Birmingham 1853
• St James' Church Glossop 1859
• St George and St Mary's Church, Church Gresley 1860
• Church of St Mary de Castro, Leicester 1860
• St Peter's Church, Lowick 1861
• Methodist Church, Partick, Glasgow 1862
• St John the Baptist's Church, Collingham 1863 (enlargement)
• All Saints' Church, Cambridge 1864
• Castle Gate Congregational Centre, Nottingham 1865,^[3] organ rebuilt in St Salvatorkerk, Harelbeke (Belgium) in 2012^[4]
• St Radegund's Church, Scruton 1865
• St Peter & St Paul's Church, Aylesford 1865, extended F&A 1879
• All Saints' Church, North Street, York 1867
• York Oratory 1867
• All Souls' Church, Halifax 1868
• St Oswald's Church, Askrigg 1869 (restored 1998)^[5]
• Sts Thomas Minster 1870
• Church of St Mary the Virgin and All Souls, Bulwell 1872
• Tondu Wesleyian Methodist Church, Bridgend, South Wales 1872
• St Boniface Church, Antwerp 1873
• St Andrew's Church, Walpole 1873
• St George's Church, Modbury 1873
• Ilkley Congregational Church 1873
• St Peter's Church, Netherseal 1874
• unknown 1875, organ rebuilt in the Regenboogkerk (Rainbowchurch), Leiden (The Netherlands) in 2006
• St Philip and St James Church, Booterstown, Dublin 1876
• St Paul's Church, Glenageary c. 1876; rebuilt and enlarged by Derek Verso & Co. in 1993
• St Margaret's Church, Rochester 1877, subsequently extended by Browns in 1902
• St Mary's Church, Boyton, Wiltshire 1877 – given to the church by Prince Leopold^[6]
• West Bromwich Town Hall 1878
• Parish Church, Hurlford, near Kilmarnock, Ayrshire 1878 (removed from original installation in Hurlford Kirk to the former Reid Memorial Church at the union of the two in 1994.)
• Trinity Methodist Church, Harrogate 1880
• Christ Church, Taney Parish c. 1880 (exact date unknown). Rebuilt and altered by Kenneth Jones & Associates, 1989
• St Brigid's Church, Castleknock c. 1880 (exact date unknown)
• St Matthias' Church, Ballybrack c. 1880 (exact date unknown)
• First Methodist Church, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1882
• All Saints' Anglican Church,^[7] Woollahra, Australia, 1882
• Holy Trinity Church, Stourpaine, 1882
• St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Peru 352 Buenos Aires, April 23rd, 1883. Fully refurbished 2017-2022
• The Church of the Holy Cross, Gilling East, Yorkshire, 1883
• St Patrick's Church, Dalkey 1883
• St John the Evangelist's Church, Truro 1884
• Robertson Street Congregational Church, Hastings 1884^[8]
• Rathfarnham Parish Church, Rathfarnham, Dublin 1885. Rebuilt by R. E. Meates & Son Limited in 1961.
• St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr 1885
• St Peter and St Paul's Church, Water Orton 1885
• St John the Baptist, Potters Bar, 1885 (moved to St Mary the Virgin & All Saints, Potters Bar, in 1915 after St John's was closed)^[9]
• Congregational Church (now shop) in Tunbridge Wells 1885, organ rebuilt in the Reformed Church De Tabernakel,^[10] Vaassen (The Netherlands) in 1992
• St Audoen's Church, Dublin 1885
• St Paul's Church, Clapham 1886,^[11] historically congruent rebuild of the organ was finished in 2019 by Andrew Cooper & Co. Ltd^[12]
• St Margaret's, Horsmonden 1886 (rebuild and enlargement of a William Hill and Son organ, built 1837)
• All Saints' Church, Matlock Bank 1886^[13]
• Saint Joseph's Church, Singapore 1888
• St Mary's Church, Redbourn Hertfordshire 1888
• St Margaret and St Leonard's Church, Edinburgh 1888
• St Peter's Church, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire 1888^[14]
• All Saints Church, Frindsbury, Kent 1889

• Saint-Paul's Church, Rennes, 1889 ^[15]

• St Helen's Church, Ainderby Steeple 1889-1890
• St Mary's Church, Nantwich 1890

• St Martin le Grand, York, 1891, moved to St Thomas à Becket Church, Hampsthwaite in 1948^[16]

• St Wilfrid's Church, Egginton 1892^[17]
• now at The Barn Church, Kew, 1894
• St Peter's Church, Field Broughton 1894^[18]
• St Luke's Church, Shireoaks 1896
• Holy Trinity Church, Rugby, Warwickshire 1896
• St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber 1898; moved to St Mary's, Barton-upon Humber 1972-4
• St James' Church, High Melton 1898
• Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Nieuwer ter Aa, The Netherlands 1898
• St Mary's and St Helen's Church, Neston 1900
• St Andrew's Church, Derby 1902
• United Reformed Church, Llandudno (Wales) 1902, rebuilt and enlarged in the Nazareth-Kirche, Hannover (Germany) in 2018-2019 by Orgelbau Reinhard Hüfken^[19][20]
• Parish Church, Darvel, Ayrshire 1908
• St Augustine of Hippo, Grimsby
• St Wistan's, Wistow, Leicestershire
• St Mary's, White Waltham, 1892
• Pilrig St Paul's Church,^[21] Edinburgh 1903
• Seven Day Adventist Church (Ex Saint Michael A. Church), Iquique, Chile, 1911
• Saint Paul Church, Valparaíso, Chile^[22]