Over the weekend of 31 January/1 February Bishop William Kenney, whose area of pastoral oversight includes Coventry, carried out a formal ‘visitation’ of All Souls parish.  An episcopal visitation is carried out about every five years and is an opportunity for the Bishop to get to know everything that is happening in the parishes in a diocese.

Bishop gets a close view of a Viola pipe, and hears it ‘speak’.

Keith showing Bishop William some of the swell pipework

Our new organ is now taking shape and many parts of it which will not be visible when the case is rebuilt can now be clearly seen, and the quality of the workmanship appreciated (not just that of Mike Thompson and the team, but also that of the original builders of the Nelson organ over 100 years ago in the middle of World War I).

Accordingly, the organ has received its own ‘visitation’ – Bishop William, Fr Michael and a number of parishioners went up on the gallery and were given a a bit of a ‘tour’ of the instrument and an explanation of where it originated and how it has been put together.