Author: Matt Dixon

  • BIOS Reporter – Volume 1, No.4 – October 1977

    BIOS Reporter – Volume 1, No.4 – October 1977

    This editorial will close our remarks (for the time being) upon the subject of the Church of England diocesan advisory service. Having mentioned some of the problems of the system in our April issue, we went on to consider a striking example of the penalties which those who infringe the faculty jurisdiction in respect of…

  • BIOS Reporter – Volume 1, No.3 – July 1977

    BIOS Reporter – Volume 1, No.3 – July 1977

    In our last issue we commenced a discussion of the working of the Faculty procedure in the Church of England as it affects work on organs. Despite deficiencies in the system (upon some of which we commented) a recent Judgement in the court of the Chancellor of Southwark diocese has encouraged us to hope that…

  • BIOS Reporter – Volume 1, No.2 – April 1977

    BIOS Reporter – Volume 1, No.2 – April 1977

    One of the matters of crucial importance to those of us concerned with the preservation of the best British organs and the promotion of standardsof excellence in modern organ building in this country is the functioning of the faculty procedures within the Church of England. There are significant historic organs in the chapels of the…

  • BIOS Reporter – Volume 1, No.1 – January 1977

    BIOS Reporter – Volume 1, No.1 – January 1977

    If 1976 marked the auspicious beginning of BIOS with the Inaugural Conference at Cambridge, let us hope that 1977 will be the year when BIOS begins to make its influence felt (in a wholly constructive way) in matters connected with the British Organ. There is so much that we could do, too much, really –…