It is highly likely that the current organ will fall into decay and disrepair. We are unable to play this magnificent £350,000 instrument and have offered to donate it to any church or organisation willing to remove it. It seems such a shame that North Northants Council are prepared to commit such a momentous act of historical vandalism by apposing this plan.
NNC's opposition to the removal of the organ, despite being well aware that it will never be played and will ultimately end up being consigned to the scrap heap, rather than allow it to be given a new lease of live in a church somewhere in the world, is tantamount to the ISIS destruction of Fallujah. The desecration of such a fabulous organ, when there is a proposal to allow it to be donated, with the caveat that replicas of the pipes (which is the focal point of a church organ, and a point acknowledged and accepted by the Planning Inspectorate) is vandalism on a scale not seen by a local authority before. Only NNC can explain why they are prepared to see hundreds of years of history consigned to the scrap heap in order to further their vindictive personal vendettas.