Nelson Place, Williamstown
First organ, possibly imported from England together
with the first iron church; rem c1896; present location unknown.
1 manual, 4 speaking stops;
Present organ, B c1895-96 William Anderson
2 manuals, 14 speaking stops, 3 couplers, tracker action
Gt: 8.8 divided.8.4.4.2-2/3.2.8. Sw: 8.8.4.2.8. Ped: 16.
Holy Trinity Church was designed by the noted architect Leonard Terry and built 1871-74. Built in bluestone with freestone dressings in the Decorated Gothic style, it comprises a tall clerestoried nave of five bays, a raised chancel and organ chamber to the right. Unfortunately the planned tower and spire were not built. The interior includes cedar fittings and a window designed and made by the renowned artist Napier Waller.
The earlier prefabricated iron church, exported from Bristol, had a small organ of four stops placed in the gallery; this instrument may have been sent from Bristol with the church. This was replaced in 1896 with the present organ built by William Anderson which remains one of his largest unaltered instruments. The details of the cedar console stop jambs and scrolled key cheeks appear identical with a larger instrument now at the Old Museum Building, Brisbane and for many years in St Stephen’s Cathedral in that city. The casework, with three flats, is similar to that of the Brisbane instrument, with almost identical terminations to the uprights. George Fincham supplied the following pipework to Mr Anderson on 22 March 1895, and it seems that this may have been for this instrument:
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No 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 |
Gt Open Principal Dulciana 12 th 15th Swl Oboe ten.C Open Gemshorn Piccolo front – |
45 [sic] 56 44 56 56 44 44 56 12 11 pipes |
The instrument remains unaltered from the original apart from the overpainting of the façade pipes (the two lateral flats of five pipes are dummies) and the insertion of an 1898 George Fincham Clarionet on the Great, occupying a spare slide; this stop came from the organ originally in St Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, Ballarat and later in St James’ Anglican Church, Dandenong.
| GREAT Open Diapason Stop Diapason Clarabella Dulciana Principal Flute Twelfth Fifteenth Clarionet Swell to Great SWELL Open Diapason Stop’d Diapason Gemshorn Piccolo Hautboy PEDAL Bourdon Pedals to Great Swell to Pedals |
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Bass CC-BB TC TC gvd bass TC |
Compass: 56/30
3 composition pedals to Great
Internal metal pipework of spotted metal, cone tuned
Trigger swell lever
Mechanical key and stop action
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Photos: JRM (August 2007)