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English: Pipe organ in SS Peter and Mary Magdalene parish church, Barnstaple, Devon. One of the largest organs in Devon. John Crang made it in 1764, paid for by Sir George Aymand, Bart (1720–1766), MP for Barnstaple 1754–66.[1] In 1748 he married Anna Maria Korten (d. 1767), daughter and heiress of John Abraham Korten (1690-1742) a German merchant from Elberfeld who in 1718 had become a naturalised English subject. It is decorated with his armorials: Vert, a chevron between three garbs or with an inescutcheon of pretence Or, on a chief azure a crescent argent (Korten). The current organ case was designed by John Oldrid Scott and made in 1882.
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  1. Per gilded inscription on organ

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