cnr Duke Street & Central Springs Road, Daylesford
First organ, see: Clunes. Wesley College; second organ, see: Clunes. St Paul's Anglican Church.
Present organ, B 1888 William Anderson; ren 1979-80 Leighton Turner.
2 manuals, 14 speaking stops, 3 couplers, tracker action
Gt: 8.8 divided.8.4.4.2-2/3.2. Sw: 8.8.4.2.8. Ped: 16.
Andrew Georg demonstrating the organ
Photo: Trevor Bunning (Oct. 2008)
The present church in the Gothic style was opened in 1865 and was designed by noted Melbourne architects Crouch & Wilson. It is of interest for its brick broach spire, diapered brick façade and spacious interior with aisles separated from the nave by slender columns.
The first pipe organ (possibly by Francis Nicholson, Newcastle, UK) was installed in 1871 from the Mt Erica Methodist Church, Prahran and is now at Wesley College, Clunes. The second pipe organ (by Hamlin & Son, London) was installed in 1881 and is now at St Paul’s Anglican Church, Clunes. The present pipe organ, built by the Melbourne organbuilder William Anderson, dates from 1888. It remains in a remarkable state of originality, retaining is fine casework with painted details and carved impost frieze, ornately stencilled façade pipes, action, console with sloping jambs, wind system and pipework: the metal pipework in spotted metal, apart from the zinc façade, was supplied to Anderson by George Fincham and is still cone tuned:
14 September 1887
| Open Dia Gamba Principal Twelfth Fifteenth (stock) Oboe (black metal) |
CC to A zinc front 19 pipes ten C to A CC to A CC to A CC to A ten C to A |
58 46 58 58 58 46 |
Voiced to 3 inches weight of wind
Minor restoration work was carried out in 1979-80 by Leighton Turner, of Ballarat, who presumably replaced the trigger swell lever with a balanced pedal to the right at this time.
This is one of the finest surviving Anderson organs comparable in quality with those at St John’s Anglican Church, Flinders, Victoria (1874) and Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Westbury, Tasmania (1881).
| GREAT Open Diapason Stopd Diapason Bass Clarabella Gamba Principal Flute Twelfth Fifteenth Swell to Great SWELL Open Diapason Stopd Diapason Keraulophon Gemshorn Piccolo Hautboy PEDAL Bourdon Great to Pedals Swell to Pedals |
8 8 8 8 4 4 3 2 8 8 8 4 2 8 16 |
19 in façade CC-BB TC gvd bass TC gvd bass gvd bass TC |
Compass 58/30
Mechanical key & stop action
Balanced swell pedal to right (originally trigger)
5 composition pedals
Victorian Churches, edited by Miles Lewis. East Melbourne: National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1991, p.116
Notes by John Maidment 21 September 2007
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Photos: JRM (2007)
Rhys Arvidson
Photos: Trevor Bunning (Oct. 2008)