the National Pipe Organ Register. The organ case was designed by George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner. List of organists C. J. Read, ????–1847 John Roberts Boulcott, 1847–c. 1851–???? Henry Mathews, c. 1858–1937 James Henry Caseley, 1865–1888–???? (formerly assistant organist of Worcester Cathedral) George Frost Bloomer, ????–1895–1900–1912–???? Dr Williamson John Reynolds, 1920–1922 (formerly organist of St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham) William Wells Hewitt, 1926–1933 then organist of the Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto) John Stuart Brough, 1933–1949 John Cook, 1949–1954 John Strickson, 1954–1979 Peter Summers, 1979–2006 Andrew Jones, 2006–2011 Andrew Henderson, 2012–2012 Clive Letchford, 2012–2013 Benedict Wilson, 2013–2019 Stephen Dodsworth, 2019–2020 Douglas Keilitz, 2020–present List of assistant organists E. A. Sydenham, c. 1864 Henry Bromley Derry, 1903–1908 (later organist of All Saints' Church, Ealing). Stephen Dodsworth, 1991–2019 Darren Oliver, 2009–2013 (jointly with Stephen Dodsworth) Current status The church is open to visitors for much of the year. A small contribution is requested to access the chancel and sanctuary in which Shakespeare is buried. Holy Trinity is a member of the Greater Churches Group. The Royal Shakespeare Company performed Henry VIII in the church in 2006 as part of the Complete Works Festival. It is an active parish church serving a parish of some 17,000 people. Features of interest aside from the Shakespearean include a sandstone obelisk erected in 1858 in memory of the printer and botanist William Cheshire. Shakespeare William Shakespeare, poet and playwright, was baptised in Holy Trinity on 26 April 1564 and was buried there on 25 April 1616. The church still possesses the original Elizabethan register giving details of his baptism and burial, though it is kept by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for safekeeping. He is buried in the beautiful 15th-century chancel built by Thomas Balsall, Dean of the Collegiate Church, who was buried within it in 1491. Shakespeare was eligible to be buried in the chancel owing to his position as a "lay rector" of the church; as Peter Ackroyd explains, this was due to his leasing of tithes from the church. This entitlement was taken either at his behest or on his behalf. Shakespeare's funerary monument is fixed on a wall alongside his burial place. The funerary monument was renovated in 1746 through proceeds from a production of Othello, the first recorded performance of a Shakespeare play in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare would have come to Holy Trinity every week when he was in