George Pike England (ca.1765 – February 1815) was an English organ builder who was among the most prominent in England during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Life
He was the son of organ builder George England and Mary Blasdale. He married Ann Wilson on 13 October 1789 in St Pancras parish church. He was buried at St Andrew's, Holborn, after his death in February 1815.
Career
He left a list of the organs he built in an extant account book. They are those of: St. George's Chapel; Portsmouth Common, 1788 St James's Church, Clerkenwell, and Fetter Lane Chapel, 1790 Adelphi Chapel, 1791 Gainsborough Church, Lincolnshire, 1793 Newington Church, Surrey, and Blandford Forum Church, 1794 St Peter's, Carmarthen, 1796 St Margaret Lothbury, 1801 Sardinian Embassy Chapel, Lincoln's Inn, London, 1802 (demolished) Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, 1803 Sheffield Parish Church, St. Philip's, Birmingham, and St Martin Outwich, 1805 Hinckley Parish Church, 1808 St Thomas' Church, Stourbridge; Richmond, Yorkshire; Lancaster Priory, 1809 Shiffnall, Salop, and Ulverston, 1811 St Mary's Church, Islington, 1812 The 1809 organ at St Mary the Virgin, Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire is also attributed to him.
England built an organ for Salisbury Cathedral which proved to be insufficiently powerful, and in 1792 was reinstalled in St Denys' Church, Warminster, Wiltshire. Its organ case is described by Pevsner as "a delightful piece".
For a short while before his death, Joseph William Walker (1802–1870) was apprenticed to him.Historic organs of New South Wales. Graeme David Rushworth. 1988 Walker later founded the company of J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd.
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