A LIST OF ORGAN BUILT, BY WORDSWORTH & MASKELL  & WORDSWORTH  CO., OF LEEDS 1866-1900
Published by Old Chapel Lane Books, Burgh le Marsh, Lincolnshire, 2021. A5 size, stapled, 52 pages, one illustration, modern reprint.

Joshua Wordsworth  Samuel Wordsworth began their organ building business in 1866 in premises belonging to the Wordsworth family. Mr Wordsworth must have learned his trade with an organ builder as he is listed in the 1861 census returns as an organ builder, aged 17 but there is no indication who he was apprenticed to. In 1872 he built an organ at in the chapel at Temple Newsham House for the Hon. Mrs Meynell  Ingram which had a case designed by Frederick Heathcote Sutton. Through this connection they came into contact with the architect George Frederick Bodley who chiefly designed churches. They then began to build organs for many of his churches, often with fine fine medieval style cases, designed by Bodley or Sutton. In 1888 the Wordsworth  Maskell partnership was dissolved and Wordsworth carried on as Wordsworth  Co. In 1900 the business was sold  to Mr Wood, an employee and the list of organs ends at this time. There are lists of new organs, rebuilt and enlarged ones and a list of testimonials from organists and professors of music and press opinions of their work.

I hope this reprint will be of use to fellow organ enthusiasts  and researchers as the original brochures are hard to find these days.