Wesley Uniting Church
Kangaroo Point

B.B. Whitehouse & Co, Brisbane, ca.1902-1903
2 manuals, 13 speaking stops, mechanical action
Restored 1988 W.J. Simon Pierce






 

Wesley Methodist Church was opened in 1903, and the organ was given to the church by Mr Rheuben Nicklin who was himself the organist for many years [1].  The organ was built by B.B. Whitehouse & Co. of Brisbane circa 1902-03, and was restoed by Whitehouse Bros in 1953 [2].  Its restoration in 1988 by W. J. Simon Pierce of Brisbane has included the return of the bellows to the double-rise and the addition of two stops on prepared slides according to the original design, using scalings taken from the 1910 Whitehouse organ at St Mary's R.C. Church, Maryborough, Queensland [3].

The specification is:

Great
Open Diapason
Clarabella
Dulciana
Principal
Wald Flute
Piccolo

Swell
Violin Diapason
Lieblish Gedackt
Salicional
Voix Celeste
Gemshorn
Oboe

Pedal
Bourdon

Couplers
Swell to Great
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
[Swell] Octave coupler

8
8
8
4
4
2


8
8
8
8
4
8


16



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* additions by W. J. Simon Pierce, 1988 [3]


Drawstop console
2 combination pedals to Great organ
2 combination pedals to Swell organ
Compass: 56/30
Trigger swell lever
Mechanical action [4]



[1] R.S.C. Dingle, Annals of Achievement: A Review of Queensland Methodism, 1847-1947 (Brisbane: Queensland Book Depot, 1947), p.223

[2] Whitehouse Bros records

[3]  Organ Society of Queensland Newsletter, xv, No.4 (Feb 1988), 33; xvi, No 1 (Aug 1988), 35; and xvi, No 5 (April 1989), 49; pers. comm. W.J. Simon Pierce to Geoffrey Cox, May 1988.

[4] Spec. notes Geoffrey Cox, 1972