St John's Lutheran Church
Burelli Street, Wollongong

1882 Hill & Son, London for residence of W.R. Angus, Esq., Sydney
Inst. 1940 Methodist Church, Arncliffe.
Res. & inst. present location 1979 Brown & Arkley.
1m., 6 sp.st., 2c., tr.

Photo: MQ

In January 1882 a chamber organ was ordered from Hill & Son (job no. 1810) by William Angus, a well known amateur organist, of the Sydney carriage and coach building firm, Angus & Son, then in Castlereagh Street, Sydney. The organ was aquired by Arncliffe Uniting (Methodist) Church in 1940 and in 1979 it was moved to St John's Lutheran Church, Wollongong.

The specification is:

Manual Open Diapason Lieblich Gedact Dulciana Harmonic Flute Oboe Pedal Bourdon Manual to Pedal coupler

8 8 8 4 8 16

Mechanical action

Compass 54/25

Dummy front pipes

Photo: Trevor Bunning, April 2007