James Chapman Bishop

James Chapman Bishop (1783 – 2 December 1854) was a British organ manufacturer of the 19th century.

History He was apprenticed to Benjamin Flight and then set up his own business in London in 1807 initially at York buildings in Marylebone and later at 250 Marylebone Road.

On his death in 1854, the business was run by his son, Charles Augustus Bishop (born 1821), John Starr and William Ebenezer Richardson, and was known as Bishop, Starr and Richardson from 1854 to 1857, and then Bishop and Starr from 1857 onwards. From 1873 it became Bishop and Son.

Works

All Saints' Church, Northallerton 1818 St Peter's Church, Dorchester 1823 St Mary Abchurch 1823 St John's Church, Waterloo 1824 St Mary Aldermanbury 1824 All Souls Church, Langham Place 1825 St Mark's Church, North Audley Street 1825 St Paul's Cathedral 1826 Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone 1828 The Revd Dr Philip Wynter, President, St John's College, Oxford 1828 St James's Church, Bermondsey 1829 St Bartholomew's Church, Wednesbury 1830 St James' Church, Clapham 1832 St Edmund, King and Martyr 1833 Norwich Cathedral 1834 St Michael's Church, Coventry 1836 St Peter's Church, Eaton Square 1837 St Giles Church, Willenhall 1837 Port Antonio Church, Jamaica 1838 Shrewsbury Music Hall 1839 St James' Church, Devizes 1841 Catholic Chapel, Dalton Square, Lancaster 1841 Gravesend Literary Institution 1842 Church of St Barnabas, Queen Camel 1842 Roman Catholic Chapel, Stockton-on-Tees 1842 Savoy Chapel 1843 St Giles' Church, Camberwell 1844 St Martin's Church, Liskeard 1844 St Kentigern's Church, Crossthwaite, Cumbria 1844-45 Holy Trinity Church, Clapham 1845 St John's, Notting Hill 1846 Holy Trinity Church, Paddington 1846 St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere 1846 Brighton Town Hall 1847 Jesus College, Cambridge 1847 Catholic Chapel, Lowther Street, Carlisle 1848 Hereford Cathedral 1849 St Mark's Church, Pensnett 1849 St James's Church, Piccadilly 1852 St George's, Bloomsbury 1853