St Andrew's Church, Subiaco: exterior from north-east
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (11 April 2012)]
St Andrew's Church, Subiaco: exterior from north-east
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (11 April 2012)]
Historical and Technical Documentation by Patrick Elms and Colin van der Lecq
© OHTA 2012 (last updated May 2012)
Built in 1906, St Andrew's Anglican Church is a double volume red brick building with a tiled, gable roof with a limestone foundation. The building has stucco detail around openings, delineating gables and arched Gothic style windows, and a porch to Barker Road. It has aesthetic value as a representative example of a church in the Federation Gothic style. It has associations with the development of Subiaco.1
Several changes have been made to St Andrew's Church structure and layout over the years including the liturgical orientation of the Church being reversed from east to west in 2006. In 2010, a new entrance with associated portico was created in the east end of the Church, behind the organ.
The first organ was built in 1954 by Paul F. Hufner, his Opus 1, consisting of two-manuals and pedal, and was built on the extension principle using three ranks of pipes; an Open Diapason 8' (85 pipes), Lieblich Flute 16ft' (97 pipes) and Gamba 8' (73 pipes). This formula worked well and formed the basis of all his subsequent smaller instruments, although on several the Gamba rank was omitted. Hufner imported his metal pipes from F.J. Rogers of Leeds and made his own wooden pipes. The action was direct electric.2 The organ at St Andrew's was totally enclosed in a swell box and was sited in a chamber high up in the south eastern corner of the church, with free standing console below.
There were no couplers as Paul Hufner had designed the stop list ala Wurlitzer/Hope Jones, where each rank was available on all manuals and at different pitches. Couplers were only provided on his organs where they had a reed, extended upperwork and unenclosed Great.3 F.J. Larner refurbished the instrument in 1995, installing a new larger bellows and Kimber Allen stop switches, replacing the original hand made Hufner ones.4 This organ was donated to the Latin Rite Church at Belmont5 and was dismantled for storage by Pipe Organs W.A. and is now in storage at Belmont.6
| GREAT Bourdon Open Diapason Lieblich Gedeckt Gamba Octave Diapason Lieblich Flute Fifteenth SWELL Open Diapason Lieblich Gedeckt Gamba Lieblich Flute Gamba Nazard Piccolo PEDAL Bourdon Open Diapason Lieblich Gedeckt Gamba Octave Lieblich Flute Gamba |
16 8 8 8 4 4 2 8 8 8 4 1 2-2/3 2 16 8 8 8 4 4 4 |
A B A C B A B B A C A C A A A B A C B A C |
Compass: 61/307
St Andrew's Church, Subiaco: organ case and console
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (11 April 2012)]
Built in 2006, the present organ is by Orgues Létourneau, Limitée, of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada. Nancy Russell, a long time parishioner of St Andrew's, made a financial bequest to St Andrew's and specified the funds be used to purchase a new organ. With two manuals and pedals and 13 stops, it is located in the eastern end of the church. It incorporates an attractive oak case.
St Andrew's Church, Subiaco: organ console
[Photograph by John Maidment (11 April 2012)]
| GREAT Open Diapason Chimney Flute Principal Fifteenth Mixture Trumpet 8 Tremulant Swell to Great Sub Octave Swell to Great SWELL Salicional Stopped Diapason Spire Flute Flageolet Cornet II Bassoon-Oboe Tremulant PEDAL Subbass Octave Bass Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal |
8 8 4 2 IV 8 8 8 4 2 2-2/3 8 16 8 |
* * # |
Compass: 58/328
* Fifteenth and Mixture operate as a half draw on the same drawstop
# Extension of Subbass
St Andrew's Church, Subiaco: left hand stop jamb
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (11 April 2012)]
St Andrew's Church, Subiaco: right hand stop jamb
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (11 April 2012)]
St Andrew's Church, Subiaco: internal action
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (11 April 2012)]
St Andrew's Church, Subiaco: view of organ from rear of nave
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (11 April 2012)]
1 Heritage Council of W.A. website http://www.heritage.wa.gov.au/ accessed 29 November 2011
2 Email correspondence from John Larner, 2 March 2012
3 Email correspondence from John Larner, 3 March 2012
4 Email correspondence from John Larner, 3 March 2012
5 Email correspondence from John Larner, 2 March 2012
6 Source – Patrick Elms conversation with John Larner 24 November 2011
7 Email correspondence from John Larner, 2 March 2012
8 Orgues Létourneau website http://www.letourneauorgans.com/default.aspx?lang=EN-CA&p=/ accessed 29 November 2011