Roger Yates, Organ Builder

1905 - 1975

   

After an apprenticeship with Henry Willis in London from 1922 to 1928, Roger Yates purchased the organ building business of C. F. Lloyd in Nottingham in 1928. He worked there until 1937 when he moved to Bodmin, Cornwall taking several of his employees with him. During the War, he was an artificer in the Royal Navy. In 1946, he moved to the Old Rectory, Michaelstowe, Cornwall where he worked on his own until 1972. During his work for St Andrew’s Priory Church, Stogursey, Roger Yates suffered a stroke and was unable to continue work.

References to all of the organs listed below can be found at The National Pipe Organ Register  http://www.npor.rcm.ac.uk/

List of Work (Nottingham)

1926 St Andrew, Nottingham 1876 Bishop, 1898 Bishop, 1914 Lloyd & Co.

1930(c.) Front Street Methodist Church, Nottingham

1930 Congregational Church, Nottingham  1885 C. Lloyd & Co.

1930 Methodist Church Wysall, Nottinghamshire, chamber organ from elsewhere installed here with the addition of a pedalboard and a Bourdon

1930 Masonic Hall, 25 Goldsmith Street, Nottingham

1932 Dolmetch Foundation, Haslemere, Surrey  1764 Snetzler

1934 St Mary the Virgin, Ilkeston, Derbyshire 1866 Brindley & Foster 1889 Brindley & Foster 1910 Adkins

1936 St Peter, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, 1908 Brindley & Foster

1936/37 Radcliffe-on-Trent, A.E. Allen Esq., 'Meadowcroft' (private residence)

1937 All Saints, Oakham, Rutland 1872 Brindley & Foster

1937 St Peter, Bridgford East, Nottingham

List of Work (Bodmin)

1937 St Leonard, Glapthorn, Northamptonshire

1939 St Mary, Bozeat, Northamptonshire 1861 Trustam