St Paul's Presbyterian Church
Armidale
From 1998 OHTA Conference booklet:
The first minister who settled in the northern district was The Revd John Morrison who apparently went to Armidale about the year 1850. On 30 April 1882 a handsome church, still an ornament to the town, was dedicated in Armidale. The devotion and loyalty of the people is well illustrated by the large number of memorial gifts which beautify the church and add to its amenities. T'he church is particularly rich in this respect with no less than 25 of them listed. Outstanding are the pulpit in memory of Mr Kenneth Finlayson, and the pipe organ in memory of Mr Aexander Richardson. Other memorials include stained glass windows and various articles of furniture.[1]
The organ was installed by Whitehouse Bros. in 1929. Apart from the stoplist of the specification that follows, there was provision at the console for five extra stops for which there is neither any internal preparation nor space. [2]
The specification is [3]:
| GREAT Open Diapason I Open Diapason II Stopped Diapason Gamba Dulciana Lieblich Flute SWELL Violin Diapason Lieblich Gedackt Salicional Voix Celeste Gemshorn Horn Oboe tremulant PEDAL Open Diapason Bourdon Bass Flute COUPLERS Swell Sub Octave to Great Swell to Great Swell Octave to Great Swell Sub Octave Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal |
8 8 8 8 8 4 8 8 8 8 4 8 8 16 16 8 |
* * * * * A A |
electro-pneumatic action [?]
balanced swell pedal
* = ranks prepared for
[1] White, The Revd. C.A., The Challenge of the Years: A History of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales, Angus and Robertson, 1951, pp.368-369.
[2] Personal comment from P.D.G. Jewkes, June 1998.
[3] Specification supplied by Robert Wallace to John Maidment 29 January 1971.
Photos: Trevor Bunning (Sept. 2007)