From The Warminster Parish Magazine And Church Register, March 1868:
On the 5th [February 1868] there was a Special Service at St. John’s Church, at 3 p.m., on the occasion of the opening of the new Organ. There was a large congregation, and among them representatives of most of the principal church families of the neighbourhood. An admirable sermon was preached by a former curate of the parish, the Rev. E. Slater Browne, Incumbent of St. Katharine’s, Savernake. The Rev. J. Pilditch, Curate of Westbury, who also worked among us one winter, and the four clergy of the parish, took some part in the service. The collection amounted to £11 17s. 3d. The Organ, which is by Mr. Voules, of Bristol, is much approved of by musical judges for its rich full tone and sweetness. It was played on this occasion by Mr. Richardson, Organist of Salisbury Cathedral, and the St. John’s Choir did their part excellently. The two youngest members of our choir have lately distinguished themselves by obtaining choristerships after a competitive examination: Maitland Dicker obtaining a choristership at All Saints, Margaret Street, London, and Ernest Ford one at the Cathedral, Salisbury.