The organ in St Peter’s has an interesting history. The oldest surviving part is the case which faces down the North aisle; this came from an instrument built for Earl of Plymouth in Bromsgrove in 1710 and the carving has been attributed to the school of Grinling Gibbons. It came to St Peter’s in 1782 and stood on a gallery at the west end of the church before being moved to its present northeast position. In 1890 the instrument was combined with another organ bought from All Saints’ in Cheltenham; further work was carried out by Percy Daniel of Clevedon in 1934, in 1954 and again in 1970 when the instrument was turned and mounted on a platform.
The Large Open Diapason was added to the Great in 2002 when the organ was also cleaned. Some pipework survives from the nineteenth century but probably very little from the eighteenth.
The organ speaks quite well into the church and it is possible to play a variety of music effectively. The present specification is as follows:
