Pease, Lancelot

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Dates Active in Dublin: 

1667–1685

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: organ
Details: 

A native of Cambridge, Pease had built a new organ for Canterbury Cathedral in 1663 before coming to Dublin.

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Built

  • Chair organ: Christ Church Cathedral, 1667 (Grindle)
  • Organ: St Patrick's Cathedral, 1679 [engaged to make a 'great organ', but this appears not to have been built] (Grindle)
  • Organ: St Audeon's Church, 1681 (Flood)
  • Organ: Trinity College Dublin, 1684–85 [original case survives in the Public Theatre, Trinity College Dublin] (Boydell, 'The Organ of Trinity College Chapel, Dublin')

    • Maintained

  • Organ: Christ Church Cathedral, ?–1682 (Grindle)
    • Source(s): 

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Irish Organ-Builders from the Eighth to the Close of the Eighteenth Century', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th ser., 40.3 (30 September 1910), 229–34 (p. 232)

    Holmes, John, 'The Trinity College Organ in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', Hermathena, 93 (1972), 40–48 (p. 41)

    Grindle, W.H., Irish Cathedral Music: a History of Music at the Cathedrals of the Church of Ireland (Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1989), pp. 134, 139–40

    Boydell, Barra, 'John Baptiste Cuvillie, Ferdinand Weber, and the Organ of Trinity College Chapel, Dublin', The Organ, 72.283 (1992), 15–27 (pp. 15–16)

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Pease, Launcelot’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 26-09-2013