This is a list of Westminster Abbey organists. The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as "Westminster Abbey", is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional site for the Coronation of the British monarch and many former kings and queens are buried there. Organists 1559 John Taylour 1570 Robert White 1574 Henry Leeve 1585 Edmund Hooper 1621 John Parsons 1623 Orlando Gibbons 1625-1644 Richard Portman 1660 Christopher Gibbons 1666 Albertus Bryne 1668 John Blow 1679 Henry Purcell 1695 John Blow (re-appointed) 1708 William Croft 1727 John Robinson 1762 Benjamin Cooke 1793 Samuel Arnold 1803 Robert Cooke 1814 George Ebenezer Williams 1819 Thomas Greatorex 1831 James Turle 1882 Sir Frederick Bridge, CVO 1918 Sir Sydney Nicholson, MVO 1928 Sir Ernest Bullock, CVO 1941-1945 Osborne Harold Peasgood CVO (Acting) 1941 Sir William Neil McKie, MVO 1963 Douglas Guest, CVO 1981 Simon Preston, CBE 1988 Martin Neary, LVO 1998-1999 Martin Baker (Acting) 2000 James O'Donnell 2023 Andrew Nethsingha Sub Organists 1860 Charles Sherwood Jekyll 1875 Sir Frederick Bridge CVO 1881 Henry Davan Wetton 1896 Sir Walter Galpin Alcock MVO 1917 Stanley Roper CVO 1921 Osborne Harold Peasgood CVO 1941 Vacant 1946 Osborne Harold Peasgood CVO 1954 Derek Holman CM 1956 Robert Henry Charles Palmer 1962 Simon Preston CBE 1967 Tim Farrell 1974 Sir Stephen Cleobury CBE 1978 Christopher Herrick 1984 Harry Bicket 1988 1988 Andrew Lumsden 1992 Martin Baker 1998 Philip Scriven (Acting) 2000 Andrew Reid 2004 Robert Quinney 2013 Daniel Cook 2017 Peter Holder Assistant organists Charles Jekyll 1875 W.J. Winter 1886–1895 Walter Alcock 1896–1916 (later knighted, and Organist of Salisbury Cathedral) Hugh Marchant 1947–1950 Hugo Limer 1950–1959 Rilford Trafalgar 1959–1984 David Bruce-Payne 1968–1974 (later Director of Music at Birmingham Cathedral) Christopher Herrick Geoffrey Morgan 1978–1988 (later Sub-Organist at Guildford Cathedral, now Organist of Christchurch Priory) Miles Quick 1989-1991 Stephen Le Prevost 1991–2001 (currently organist and director of music at the Town Church in St-Peter-Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands) Simon Bell 2001–2002 (later assistant director of Music at Winchester Cathedral and subsequently Director of Schola Cantorum of Tewkesbury Abbey) Daniel Cook 2003–2005 (later assistant director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral, Organist and Master of the Choristers at St Davids Cathedral, Sub-Organist of Westminster Abbey, and subsequently Organist and Master of the Choristers at Durham Cathedral) Ashley Grote 2005–2008 (later