The church is large for the Yorkshire Dales, has three aisles, a chancel, and a large and beautiful window in the Lady Chapel, rescued from the decayed Jervaulx Abbey.  It dates back to Anglian times, has a tower that was a village refuge from marauding scots, and St Paulinus is known to have preached nearby.  Wooden pews fill the floor, conveying the presence of  the organ well, although the building is acoustically nearly dead (a very tough test for any organ).
    The organ appears to suffuse from a large case spread across the chancel arch, and to have its divisions distributed well back into the chancel.  Even at (the very large) full organ the sound is easy to listen to for long periods without any tiring, with a thrilling throbbing in the pews from the bottom of the 32ft reed and an enveloping warm presence of power, brilliance, fire, and mellow richness--the total effect required of all best organs.

    There are six reed choruses: a large and small in the Swell; a small and unenclosed high power in the Solo, and one on each of the Great and Pedal (both enclosable in the Choir).
    The organ is a three manual with a floating Solo enclosed in the Choir `box', couplable just like a normal department, and transferable onto the Choir for independent use.

    Four sets of Makin 1980s analogue generators (seen in pairs at the left and right bottom, above), with `electronic rotofon' (on the row of four topmost controller boards at bottom left), provide a broad range of `partials' from 16Hz to at least 16kHz.  The departmental voicing boards can be seen opened out at the left.
    At the organist's wise insistence four near identical sets of speakers were installed, providing excellent diffusion and distribution of sound.  A well placed column speaker provides a very solid bottom octave for the pedal 16ft stops.