Lockyer Uniting Church: exterior
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (14 April 2012)]
Lockyer Uniting Church: exterior
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (14 April 2012)]
Historical and Technical Documentation by Patrick Elms and Colin van der Lecq
© OHTA 2012 (last updated May 2012)
This brick church, built in the 1960s, seating 80 people, was built as part of the expanding Albany Methodist Church into the State Housing Commission suburb of Mt Lockyer.
Lockyer Uniting Church: interior looking towards organ
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (14 April 2012)]
The organ was built in 1890 by Alfred Kirkland, London, apparently as a stock instrument for Nicholsons of Sydney.
There is evidence, in the form of Scandinavian script, of the Pedal Bordun being added after manufacture, perhaps by a Scandinavian organbuilder working in Australia at the time.
The organ was obtained and installed in the Albany Methodist Church in 1894. It was enlarged in 1941 by Frederick Hufner, of Perth, and removed to storage in 1966 by Paul Hufner, when his new organ was installed.
It was then obtained by Wesley Church, Albany, in 1993, restored to original specification by Patrick Elms & Co, including a reconstruction of the hand pumping mechanism and reconstruction of the pedal action lost in a factory fire in 1978, and installed in Lockyer church in 1995.
Some of the metal treble pipes of the Stop Diapason have been replaced. The iron weight on the swell mechanism is inscribed K L (= Kirkland). The only other Kirkland organ in Australia is at the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, Carcoar, NSW. LINK
Lockyer Uniting Church: organ
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (14 April 2012)]
| GREAT Open Diapason Stop Diapason Swell to Great SWELL Gamba Principal PEDAL Bordun Great to Pedal |
8 8 8 4 16 |
metal Lieblich Gedact |
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Lockyer Uniting Church: internal pipework
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (14 April 2012)]
Lockyer Uniting Church: interior showing reservoir and action
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (14 April 2012)]
Lockyer Uniting Church: nameplate
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (14 April 2012)]
Lockyer Uniting Church: left-hand stop jamb
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (14 April 2012)]
Lockyer Uniting Church: right-hand stop jamb
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (14 April 2012)]
1 Specification noted by Patrick Elms