Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Westbury

B. c.1880 William Anderson; opened February 1881.
2m., 17 sp.st., 3c., tr.

From the 2002 OHTA Conference handbook:

This large cruciform bluestone church in the Gothic style was begun in 1869 and the building consecrated in 1874.  It was designed by Henry Hunter, Tasmania’s most prolific Victorian architect.  The tower was added early this century [1].

 

The organ was built by Melbourne organbuilder William Anderson (1832-1921) and opened in February 1881;  its cost was 500 pounds [2].  It awaits sympathetic restoration and is one of the few surviving original works of its maker, retaining its pipework, action, console and ornately diapered façade pipes, their decoration based upon designs from Pugin’s The Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume of 1844 [3].

 

GREAT Open Diapason    Stop Diapason [bass]  Clarabella  Dulciana Principal  Flute    Twelfth   Fifteenth      Trumpet Hautboy  blank knob SWELL Double Diapason  Open Diapason  Stop Diapason   Viol di Gamba Gemshorn Piccolo   Cornopean  PEDAL Open pedal pipes

8 8 8 8 4 4 2-2/3 2 8 8 16 8 8 8 4 2 8 16

CC-BB TC TC TC * * * **

3 couplers

5 composition pedals

trigger swell lever

mechanical action

compass:  56/30  [3]

*   prepared-for   
                               

**   on reed slide (Hautboy ?)         
                                            

[1]    Priceless Heritage:  Historic Buildings of Tasmania (Hobart:  Platypus Publications, 1964), pp.120, 131.

 

[2]    Clark & Johnson, op. cit., p.89.

 

[3]    Information kindly supplied by Brian Andrews.  These patterns were later extensively employed by Anderson for organs sited in Catholic churches with their cartouches enclosing the monograms IHS, MR and sometimes the saint’s initials, such as SJ (= St James).

 

[4]    Specification noted J. Maidment 1974.

Cornopean 8 stop knob cut off from top of photo above Piccolo.

Photos: Peter Dowde (Nov. 2007)