Corpus Christi College Chapel

Drummond Street, Carlton

Geo.Fincham & Sons Pty Ltd 1978 for Corpus Christ College Chapel, Clayton
Installed 2000 present location Wakeley Pipe Organs Pty Ltd
2 manuals, 12 speaking stops, mechanical action



Photograph: Trevor Bunning (September 2017)

 

 

Historical and Technical Documentation by John Maidment
© OHTA 2017 (last updated September 2017)

 

This building is the former St George's Catholic Church built in 1855 to the design of architects George & Schneider and extended in 1866 through the addition of the transepts.  Used as a church hall for many years, it was adapted for use as the chapel of Corpus Christi College which is a centre for the training of Catholic priests opened in 2000.1  The William Anderson organ built for this building was moved into the adjacent Sacred Heart Church in 1897.

The organ was built in 1978 by Geo.Fincham & Sons Pty Ltd using actions and windchests imported from J.W. Walker & Sons Ltd, Brandon, Suffolk.  It was initially installed in the previous seminary building at Clayton and installed at Carlton in 2000 by Wakeley Pipe Organs Pty Ltd.

GREAT ORGAN
Rohrflöte 
Principal 
Blockflöte 
Mixture  19.22.26
Positive to Great*

POSITIVE ORGAN 
Spitzflöte 
Rohrflöte 
Principal 
Sesquialtera  12.17 

PEDAL ORGAN
Sub Bass 
Gedeckt 
Choral Bass 
Fagott 
Great to Pedal*
Positive to Pedal*

8
4
2
III-IV



8
4
2
II


16
8
4
16







(enclosed)






A
A




  

*By hitchdown pedals

Compass:  56/30
Mechanical key and stop action
Balanced swell pedal2

 




Photographs: Trevor Bunning (September 2017)


1          Victorian Churches, p.49

2          Details of organ noted by John Maidment 2012